skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of line-extension fraud is pretty common. Pyrex used to be a brand name for borosilicate glass, the kind you can safely heat to red heat on a Bunsen burner, and became popular for home baking dishes as well. At some point Corning started selling tempered soda-lime glass in the US as "Pyrex" as well, which can explode if subjected to thermal shock, a decision that causes several cooks per year to end up covered in turkey grease and glass shards. Saran was Dow's trademark for polyvinylidene chloride, a superior chemical protective layer, which became popular as a plastic wrap as a way to preserve food against evaporation and rancidification through oxygen ingress; now Dow sells Saran Wrap that contains no Saran, instead consisting of polyethylene, which permits literally a thousand times as much oxygen through. Similarly there are lines of Sudafed that contain no pseudoephedrine, Kaopectate that no longer contains kaolin or pectin (only in the US), and so on.

In electronics, substituting inferior components after the initial launch of a product has become routine, and it isn't even always intentional fraud; the manufacturer may honestly believe the new, cheaper parts are equivalent to the original parts.

I think you will see organized crime prosecutions against executives for this behavior, but only in PRC.
> But the results may change depending on:

> - programming language

As I mentioned in my comment, this is part of the myth. most programming languages have the exact same semantics regarding floating point and if you port an algorithm between them you will get identically deterministic results. this is true for at least c/c++, java, c#, python, javascript, and many more.

- libraries used and their versions

As I mentioned in my comment, this is the only true part of the myth. sqrt should be safe, but trig functions will be different. for games, a lot of them use there own "fast" versions anyway, so not a problem.

- underlying silicon

nothing to worry about here. All modern CPUs have identical IEE754 semantics (except intel 32 bit which I addressed in my original comment)

- whether SIMD is used

Again, nothing to worry about here, whether it is hand coded SIMD assembly, or compiler generated, you will always get identical and portable results. the compiler is obligated to ensure this for autogenerated SIMD.

- FPU flags

not relevant on any system from the last 10 years

- compiler flags (example: ffast-math affects many things behind the scenes, as does /fp:fast, including things that dramatically affect accuracy like the use of approximate reciprocal instructions)

ffast-math by definition introduces imprecise semantics so simply don't use it

- bugs affecting all of the above

compilers (and CPUs!) may have been buggy decades ago but in the modern age floating point is extensively tested. I would be very surprised to see a floating point related bug in a compiler or programming language from the last 10 years
Yeah I had the same confusion when the Launch thread was posted. Choosing company names is hard.
16,777,216 keys ought to be enough for anyone.
It is or it is not for the exact same reason why a picture of the moon is, or is not, a picture of the moon lander that's still there.
Basically every large corporation in existence has deep government ties, but CCP bad
I played a bit with Newspeak, in their legacy Squeak-based IDE, but after they migrated to the new webapp IDE, I was kinda lost, in this new environment. I didn't find much documentation about the new IDE. Any recommendations?
At a previous job we used beaker tests as part of our pipeline to test puppet modules & environments before we would merge to prod. One of the things this tests is that the module applies and doesn't try to change anything / error out on subsequent runs.

The documentation sucks though imo, every different guide you find will show a completely different way of doing it
Weird way to phrase the headline. Someone manually controlling the vehicle with a joystick hit the person.
I make it clear that things aren't working as soon as I can without giving ultimatums. If that isn't enough to trigger a response, then a desperate counter-offer is doing it for the wrong reasons.
SoftBank is Japanese, 安谋科技 is Chinese. Taiwan isn't at issue here.
This is difficult to parse in my Western mind.

I've grown up with a constant understanding of implicit liberties, so much so that I have the freedom to openly _discuss_ my general distrust of the government. The events that float by in HN are outliers: threats of more risk, but statistically unusual enough that they're stories of interest.

This means that living and acting in a country where your very _thoughts_ are monitored is practically an alien concept for me. How do you live and decide with a government over you that can grab control at any time they wish?
Ask HN: Have you ever left your software development career as immigrant?
I thought I understood briefly...I don't anymore. I think the part that is confusing is the 50% part...50% of what? But I am right in saying that the drop in assets has to be at least 90%?
I'll take a look if you want, op. Native speaker, been writing proofreading and translating for a long time. Leave a comment here and I can get in touch.
Can statistics help crack the mysterious Voynich manuscript?
There is also Aegis[1]. It's FOSS and available in F Droid and Play Store. Authy is pretty good, but doesn't support export of the secrets used for TOTP, whereas Aegis supports export to json and GPG encrypted json.

I've been using Authy for a few years, but switched to Aegis about three years ago and couldn't be happier. Since Authy doesn't support direct export of the secrets, I've had to use a workaround [2].

[1] https://getaegis.app/
[2] https://gist.github.com/JacobJohansen/5f688d45049be440b8ee87...
How do you aggregate the data and query among all those databases? Doesn't it incur huge costs? Does sqlite support this natively or are you basically treating it as text files of data per user and don't need complex queries in the first place?
What’s wrong with Dart? (Don’t know anything about the language, just curious.)
It’s not about speed (throughout) but about latency. If the GC takes (say) several minutes during a period of downtime so that it doesn’t have to run at all during uptime, then it’s worth it.
Correct, this is often common practice with any cross platform app (usually IOS/Android). I imagine for platform policy reasons they can't just let you move over premium currency that was bought on one platform.
No, we can use SM 5.0. It's all DX11. It's not that the framework the game is written in doesn't support such features, we just have no way to bind UAVs for example. What you can do on the CPU is very very limited, while GPU code is completely unrestricted, so we are at the mercy of whatever Unity lets you do on GPU with minimal setup.
Hard to argue when it's making non-trivial revenue. I was surprised people would pay a subscription for a meme tool too, but...
I don’t think anyone suggested moving, certainly not me. I’m not from the US and have no idea how these annual hurricanes affect the south west, hence my question.
Putting over 1bn people under general suspicion?
I fail to see how this will solve anything.

I agree with most of the rest you said... This is about markets and it is about the protection of IP.

Edit: Spelling
> Gacha games are named after the onomatopoeia describing vending machines in Japanese malls and arcades which dispense toys and trinkets for, typically, 100 to 200 yen (about $1-$2). The pool of trinkets is displayed prominently on the machine; which trinket you get is effectively randomized. If you had your heart set on a particular one, you might spend much more than $1 on getting it, and some children (and adults!) very much do. Many very successful games have a monetization strategy which descends from a variant of this.

I am sorry to say this as someone who usually agrees with 'patio11 on everything, but both gacha and the "monetization strategies" inspired by it (be they hawking in-game currency or trying to mine email addresses) sound like a terrible idea.

I don't want gacha, or any of these monetization strategies in my ideal consumption model. I want to look at a toy in the store and buy it while knowing what I am getting. This gacha model sounds like it's incentivizing gambling from a very young age.

Am I too close-minded? Idealistic? Missing some crucial part of the article? I'd like to hear, because nothing seems good about this at the moment.
so far ~socially Dart has failed but the language is actually way more interesting than I thought it would ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoBestFriendsPlay/comments/j2c8ra/...
That's a very interesting point about WoW. I was not a hardcore WoW player but I did play on and off in my high school years (Vanilla + Burning Crusade).

I remember selling 1000g for $50 USD at some point. Then a month later the average price for 1000g dropped to $15. It seemed like the price would eventually match the absolute lowest of 3rd world labor cost (until WoW tokens were introduced). So that pretty much aligns with your point of management finally giving in to the new model.

> the curated app store model has shown business people how you can let third parties make stuff and then give them a platform to sell it and skim the profits.

After being involved in both kinds of work fields (content vs platform), I can say that it's really a grass-is-always-greener-on-the-other-side thing. When we were making in-house contents we would think how nice being a platform is (no creativity involved, just skim off other people's success). But when we made our own platform, we often felt the insecurity of not having our own contents and people jumping ships. Plus, licensing headaches and dealing with lawyers became a norm.

The only kind of platform that doesn't have this issue is one that is a near monopoly (cough App Store). Netflix, after realizing the rise of their competitors, went to town with in-house productions and declared "Content is King".
You might need to learn Chinese if you're interested in following Chinese business drama.
Same in Python 3 and Rust too.

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0515/

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/primitives/literal...
I was going to make a similar comment, after having drawn the association above.

What the study does show is that the Sturgis variant was epidemiologically detectable throughout Minnesota following the rally. Note that the total number of samples was drawn from identified interviewed patients only, though this appears to have covered all reported cases in MN during the period (August 1 -- August 31, 2021). My understanding is that the survey was as comprehensive as could be achieved, and not a limited sampling.

During the same period, the 7-day average new-daily-case rate in Minnesota was 699--795 (rising slightly over the course of the month, observed from Worldometers). The Sturgis-linked cases were 0.4% or less of total confirmed cases.

(I'm assuming the CDC tracing was comprehensive, the paper is less than clear on this, though that appears to be the case.)

We could make numerous arguments that the study was flawed, missed cases, was incomplete, etc. All of that would be an argumment from ignorance. And though I feel there's some case to be made for suggesting the CDC undercounted, that leaves us with a weak basis for any further conclusions. Sometimes, though, in epidemiology, that's the best that can be done, and the precautionary principle kicks in: what course of action would provide the maximum benefit and least harm.

Minnesota's Winter Wave really started spiking in October of 2020. It peaked on 20 November at 7,023 NDC (7-day average). Whether or not those cases are linked to Sturgis would require sequencing of a sample and drawing inferences.

That said ...

... other evidence comes from looking at the spread of Covid-19 hot-spots throughout the US from August -- January of 2020--2021. And that did show the radiating pattern I described. I'm not certain it's associated with Sturgis, but it very much walks like a duck.
If you like playing with ridiculous amounts of hardware, definitely try out TPU VMs with TFRC: https://blog.gpt4.org/jaxtpu

You can create up to 5 TPU v3-8's in europe-west4-a. Each core is roughly equivalent to a V100, so it's sort of like having 5 p3.16xlarge's. (The TPU has 96 CPUs and 330GB of system RAM, whereas a p3.16xlarge has 64 CPUs and 488GB of system RAM according to https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p3/).

The best part IMO is that you don't have to figure out how to link the cores together. JAX does that for you automatically. You get 100GigE from TPU to TPU too, which you can also leverage: https://twitter.com/theshawwn/status/1406171487988498433
This is what the Sophists were accused of by the Stoics and others.

Source: https://literatureandhistory.com/index.php/episode-032-trees...
In Japan seals/stamps (hanko) are still widely used as signatures.
... And now it seems Samsung are on a similar path with parts switching.

https://hexus.net/tech/news/storage/148295-samsung-latest-ss...
the french mooc platform FUN made a Pharo MOOC and it was beyond great

the smalltalk universe is pretty special, the live graphical environment is thrilling and their idioms/culture is also very interesting
Good public transport does really help. I live in a big city with lots of it and I really love not needing a car anymore. Gone is the worry about damage, accidents, fines for missing a speed sign, whether I topped up the parking meter in time, costly repairs and insurance bills. Not to mention the stress of driving and all the wasted hours.

I never thought of it as providing me with freedom, instead it felt like a necessary ball and chain. Now I can go where I please for peanuts with no worries and no constraints (eg always having to go back to where I parked).

But public transport needs to be excellent and affordable for this to work.
Louisiana as a whole has not.

And however good Orleans Parish has been, that efficacy is likely to get a whole lot worse come Sunday.
Imagine if Gore had been more electable.

It wasn't the Green party's fault Gore stunk. It was his fault and his wishy washy attitude towards Clinton. Is he pariah or can I ride his coattails? He could not decide. So we got cocaine Busch.
China blasts '996' excessive work culture
Some places used to offer price match plus an additional 10% off so it was beneficial to search for a cheaper price.

I once did this at Lowe's by finding the item at home Depot for just a few cents cheaper and after buying 100 bundles saved a bunch of money.

They recently stopped doing the extra 10% off.
There is always going to be some timing strategy which beats holding.

If we flip this and imagine that everyone knew with certainty what the underlying values (earnings, dividends, etc.) should be then the return on stocks would always just be the return on the underlying values (it is a bit more complex than this, in reality the cost of capital differs between individuals so you are always going to get volatility...but the point is that because people are trade their portfolios faster than fundamentals change, then there is always going to be a timing strategy that works...that is how HFTs make money most days over decades).
That's about platforms where memes are posted to though, not a meme generator that creates templates (i.e. other people's pictures etc) for you to post and takes money specifically for providing that service.
I am loving this, thanks for sharing. My only request would be for a publicly hosted image so I can easily selfhost for my own little campfire community.
A fourth group: vaccinated with (potential) breakthrough infections. Non-trivial numbers, as the vaccine is only 66% effective in preventing covid infections. According to the manichean logic of the media, this group of people is an immediate public health danger, therefore must be subjected to the same draconian measures as the unvaccinated.
Most of the ansible roles I come across written by my team are not idempotent either, its a huge lie that Ansible is idempotent. Its idempotent if you put the effort into make it be but if I see tons of shell or command module invocations without prerequisite checks to see if the work should be done. Most devs I see using Ansible treat it like a shell script written in YAML and to that purpose it sucks.
As long as there's a chance to eek out some more money, companies will continue to do it. This isn't remotely a new thing.

There's a pretty reasonable chance part of the downfall of Nortel was a lot of their data being extracted by the government and provided to Huawei.

After Nortel shut down, the Canadian Department of National Defense picked up their headquarters to move into, but the move was delayed for years because the building was chock full of listening devices.

This started almost 20 years ago. But here we are still willing to gamble that they'll respect our IP because maybe we can make a few bucks.
> one of the best arguments against anarcho-capitalism is that without a goverment, there would be no market to speak of.

> why exchange in trade if no one can guarantee it will be beneficial for you? Why would the other party trade instead of just stealing your stuff? You could ofcourse defend against by carrying a bigger stick then the next guy or cooperating with others.

> Which starts to look an awful lot like the organised structure of a state..

Anarcho-capitalism is like one of those high atomic number elements with a half-life of microsecond. The society it describes is so unbelievably unstable, due to its own internal contradictions, that it practically cannot exist. A stable version of it is a literal fantasy.
My favorite is Android Token because it's only 67 kb and it has everything including qrcode scanning :) check it on fdroid
> caches are great and we should rely on them

Caches hang or crash my browser. Please don't. (Amazon Kindle Paperwhite – yes, this has been my only web browser several times – no, I will not replace it with another Kindle when it breaks)
So they just don’t know. It’s better to say that rather than say that there is no way the Taliban could take over Afganistán in a few days.
What if I'm trying to model every atom in a multi-cellular being?
Ability to check refrigerator temperature sounds really cool, but with great functionality comes great complexity. And with great complexity comes increased risk of failure and restricted ability to self-repair the device. Note that I am clumping not only refrigerator stopped working because wifi is out class of risk but also privacy implications due to increased PII exposure surface.

Compared to a smart refrigerator without an internet connection the only killer feature of this setup is notification that the door is open, even that is only relevant to people who have forgot to close the fridge problem.

The future is bright with fridge, oven, tv, toaster, phone, echo, thermostat, et. al. happily sending data about your usage habits which companies will resell until it gets combined into a gigantic database. Then someone will analyze that info and figure out how to make money by sending you personalized ads.
Ayahuasca is usually tied to a complex ritual involving fasting and guidance by a shaman. Taking the drug is only part of it.

It is not like with recreative drugs where is is more like "take a dose and see what happens".

I think it is the real difference, there is a lot of conditioning happening, both when sober and under influence. In the same way, dropping mescaline and participating in a Native American ritual involving Peyote can be a totally difference experience even though the chemical is the same, and in psychedelic therapies the therapy is the important part, the drug is just an assistance.
> It's absolutely imperative that the US Govt, and the govts of all democracies, recognize and combat this, and take active measures to protect their Chinese citizens.

Agree.

> Democratic governments should probably also look into providing an expedited immigration path for their Chinese citizens' relatives still in China.

Just want to point out that, Chinese spies tried to exploit expedited immigration paths in UK intended for Hong Kongers [1]. I don’t have an easy solution.

[1]: https://www.businessinsider.com/chinese-spies-try-uk-visa-pe...
There's also a lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Rust: http://pfpmd7dd5ijt4add2sfi4djsaij4u3ebvnwvyvuj6aeipe2f5llpt...

(You have to install Tor Browser to open these onion links https://www.torproject.org/download/)

The source code is open - GPLv3 License.
The general mistreatment and neglect of whistleblowers makes me think such a policy is unlikely to work.
Can you try working remotely from the MCOL city for a while? That way you could find out what it's like to really live (not just visit) there.
Also note, It's not forever decision. It can change at any time in future. Trust your gut and have fun.
Weight loss via exercise harder for obese people, data suggests
> So the question becomes, what's the difference?

It's mostly luck most of the time, and that includes the amount of motivation you have to go beyond in that venture.

This is mostly my opinion, but the evidence I've seen over the years lead me to conclude this too.

How motivated you are at one thing, and how exclusively focused your motivation is, from what I've read, is mostly luck. But beyond that, there's a lot of factor purely driven by luck, your genetics, your environment, the time and place of your efforts, etc.
> >bash and python

> Neither of those of idempotent.

There is nothing magical about Ansible that makes it idempotent by default either.

The simple stuff like having specific versions of a package installed that you might be thinking of is just using Python under the hood. If you get into more complicated stuff, especially around custom infrastructure abstractions you use internally, guess what, you will have to write a bunch of Python and effectively call it from Ansible. And you will have to put in extra effort to make sure it's idempotent.

At which point you start thinking...why not just write a Python script instead? At least that gives you all of the flexibility.
I went to the Green Vault a year before the robbery and I remember telling myself how easy it would be to rob this place.
It is located on the ground floor with a road passing by. The windows looked like normal windows, the only protection I could see were some old metals bars put outside of the window.
The way it was secured was already an invitation for a robbery.
The forum will get a response from Gilad or others: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/newspeaklanguage

A simple example of Newspeak and literate programming:
https://newspeaklanguage.org/samples/Literate/Literate.html

The IDE works in a similar way to the Squeak-based IDE, but there is no image and being hosted in a browser has other limitations. This isn't a language you are going to use to make a quick and dirty CRUD app (although I have) but it is an interesting example of how Smalltalk concepts can be used in a web-based world.
Critical Vulnerability Discovered in Azure's DynamoDB
And Airbus. An incredible number of people working at Airbus Tianjin factory went to work at Comac.
Smaller towns in North Greece can be cheap nowadays. Especially the ones that don't have universities. About the infrastructure, might good or awful, depends on where you live.
I know dual citizen US folk with secret clearances. DoD is pickier with Top Secret.