skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi! Article author here. I have long, long since waxed poetic about how many bugs and problems this can solve (even just a poor man's library version):

https://twitter.com/__phantomderp/status/1381314735174524928

And, very recently, I have begun to scheme and agitate for a feature similar to what your article proposes:

https://twitter.com/__phantomderp/status/1424466518797135876

I am not sure people will go for `..`, and I would also like to find a way to enable composition and multi-dimensionality in an easier fashion (nesting arrays, for example, does not require that all of the memory is laid out perfectly flat. This is the case in both C and C++, and is taken advantage of by e.g. ASan and other memory-shadowing runtimes that add shadowing cushion around each array member).

As a Standards Committee person, I can't really just demand "and this will go into the standard"; our charter requires 2 existing C compilers/stdlibs to implement the thing (unless the thing is so dead-simple we can just shake hands and implement it because it's not contentious) and then, after that, requires consensus (which is its own roadblock to getting things done when someone doesn't like the syntax/way-you-are-doing-it/gets-in-the-way-of-their-implementation).

So, for example, if the C parser in D were to support this syntax, and someone else were to support some kind of syntax for this, and they all got together and wrote a paper for this idea, that would count as two implementations..........

Hint hint. Wink wink. Nudge nudge? 0:D
It's lukewarm because what less could you do besides not support Tor?

Tor is mentioned on their homepage in the bottom menu under "Onion Site". However, this menu link redirects to their Tor placeholder page, rather than directly to the Tor service: https://protonmail.com/tor

There's one blog post from 2017 that still promotes their old v2 onion address: https://protonmail.com/blog/tor-encrypted-email/

Protonmail's Tor service is located at: https://protonmailrmez3lotccipshtkleegetolb73fuirgj7r4o4vfu7...
I was also not in YT (was in Search from 09-14), but a bunch of my coworkers went over to work there around '10-11. I read the paper before joining Google; I think it came out in 07 or 08.

There might also be a lot of confusion over "backend" vs. "frontend" terminology. Like the other poster mentioned, "frontend" at Google usually means the webserver and sometimes extends back to various application-level services. Basically everything that involves user interaction. Experiment infrastructure has been part of the frontend in every system I've worked with at Google (which now includes Search, Google+, GFiber, Doodles, AndroidTV, and Assistant), though the flags often get plumbed back to backends to alter behavior there.

By "backend" I mean the storage & offline processing areas. BigTable, Colossus, MapReduce, various blob stores, training machine-learning models, etc. This is the part of YT that (in my understanding) was rewritten to use Google technologies.
Yeah, it's explicitly not a goal to make the two versions the same (despite being incredibly similar), and bedrock is (un)affectionately known as 'bugrock' in the community due to its tendency to glitch out even more so than the java edition, often in extremely frustrating ways like randomly applying fatal fall damage. AFAICT there's not a huge performance win from bedrock anyway (especially compared to the various performance mods for java).
CAP theorem. Choose two, it's a fundamental limitation of scaling a database.
Interestingly, the clock is essentially a robot, using cams instead of electronics for control.

With the right cams, I am sure it could trace some of its parts instead of drawing numbers.
I don’t know if I agree that the audience needs to care about the MacGuffin for it to be a well written story though. I think in some circumstances it can help, but it’s not necessary (or sufficient) for a good story.

I mean, I read that Lucas thought of R2D2 as the MacGuffin of “A New Hope”, and thought that it was important for the audience to care deeply about him. And it worked. However, as a film device, I think it’s more important that the audience cares that the protagonist cares about the MacGuffin. I still don’t know why I should care about the Maltese Falcon, but I know that Bogart certainly cared. And for me, that was enough to make the story compelling.

I do agree though about Pulp Fiction. The briefcase was a very meta reference where the audience is assumed to know what is going on. And in that case it helped to provide a common thread through the different plot lines. But from a higher level, it was done with a wink and a nod to the audience. It was basically using the MacGuffin as a foil to use as the “typical linear storyline” when what Tarantino was really doing was playing with time lines and points of view.
Imagine this clock at your bedside.
I just found out that the variant "arse antlers" actually seems to be used in Britain (source: https://deen.dict.cc/?s=Arschgeweih).
So then when your upstream repo diverges would you just rebase and manually add in anything you want from the forked development tree on the upstream side?

Not sure what's best practice so... just curious how people have handled this - I usually leave my forks of stuff pretty stale and focus on my own little sub-pieces to achieve what I want but not too much else.
Theoretically yes but if your ISP assigns your home a /64 you can use 2^64 different addresses to access the internet.

This still doesn’t protect your privacy because your ISP knows what prefix they gave you and will likely provide that to the authorities if you broke the law while using that address. Just like they would even if you used NAT and ipv4 so I don’t get where the parent comment thinks that is protecting their privacy at all.
> China is investing heavily in SSP and plans to have the first operating SSP plant in orbit by the end of the decade

The worlds longest high-voltage subsea cable is only 765 km, the €2 billion Viking Link project

SSP is a easy 40,000km, 100km through the atmosphere.

So why would the Chinese invest in something so stupid... they are not. What they are looking at is stratospheric power. Balloons at the 10km - 50km mark. It's still possibly to complex, but it's not as childish as space power. Their facility also has the military there.

It's a shame people suck, else we could work on real problems like extending power grids over the 765 km mark. A world wide grid would also nullify the bad weather issue. We do it with fibre-optic, and we were doing it in the 90's - https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ (Neal Stephenson)

A bit of a tech talk on what China is doing here with SSP - https://spacewatch.global/2021/07/spacewatchgl-column-dongfa...
"What makes Tor different from the usual thesaurus-full of government projects is that Tor is essentially a very elaborate math trick, using layers of math puzzles to create a network-within-the-network. That math is being implemented in front of a global audience of millions of sophisticated watchers. It is likely the most examined codebase in the world. It has been subjected to multiple public audits. The math, well known and widely standardized, will work for everyone, or it will not, whoever pays the bills."

from https://pando.com/2014/12/09/clearing-the-air-around-tor/
(Minor contributor, perhaps major issue-opener-commenter speaking)

I have a lot of respect for the team personally (as in myself), though I do recognise what you say completely too. I just think there's a lot of focus on trying to do things right, and long-term-maintainably, that it often presents with a poor outlook or like there's a lack of interest.

@apparentlymart from OP in particular - I have no idea who he is in Hashicorp hierarchy, I just recognise him from GitHub - in particular is really excellent in responding to good issues and adding information along the lines of 'yes we want this but unfortunately XYZ so we're hoping PQR is going to make this easier but first we need to ABC so yes but sorry not a priority right now' sort of thing.
I'm looking forward to the day where email is not mistakenly used for clandestine communication.

Why hasn't there been made a Tor-only, store-and-forward, text-only communication app? You'd think this would be a no-brainer for communities that need real private communications.
Yeah, as much as really like Ruby, there is just too much Magic going on.

I'm a programmer, not a wizard!
Not saying you should but it is possible to gain a pretty respectable level of knowledge in almost any area within just a couple of years. Take online classes or even complete a fully online MS program. There are many examples of engineers and entrepreneurs who started in CS and then transitioned to more personally meaningful areas. (that’s my plan anyway!)
Wages and prices are relative and there is always going to be groups of people at the bottom that are not going to have capital to invest.

So what? What is your point? There is no way around this fact. Of course this does not apply to them but so what? You must think this can somehow not be the case to even mention it.

Of course you are not going to get to financial freedom making the lowest wage possible? So what?
Postgres was more modern when it used QUEL. SQL was a big a step backwards technically (although beneficial from a marketing standpoint).
It's virtually impossible to move the other way right now due to covid. So there can be a genuine shortage as it is not possible to pay to pull people from other countries.
"What would you say you do here?"
I wonder how long the 'Swiss privacy' brand, which seems to be fairly valuable will hold if these things keep happening, I had to immediately think of Crypto AG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG
Do people actually write detailed commit messages? After years of buying into writing good commit messages, nowadays I usually just write "save" or "lol" and not once have I regretted it. If I'm looking through old commits I always search by the content of the commit, not the message. If I'm looking at someone else's code I just go ask them about it.
Isn't a good review at least as hard as a good PR?
It's "useless" in the sense that you can go to IKEA and buy a small, easy-to-read, reliable, accurate clock for $2.

Even though wooden clocks were once useful, this was not designed to accurately keep time but more to just be beautiful.
Do yourself a favor and wear wrist guards when you skate or snowboard. A fall on an outstretched hand (FOOSH) can easily rupture your scapholunate ligament. This is an injury that often cannot be repaired, and eventually leads to arthritic degeneration called scapholunate advanced collapse (SLAC). The standard of care for SLAC currently involves fusing the wrist bones, which of course means you can't no longer move your wrist. So wear your wrist guards!
I wonder how many TOR nodes are run by the NSA?
“anti-poverty programs” are a scam. What will really reduce poverty (at least in the Western world) is a total rethink of the housing policies. Unfortunately the middle classes are against that, because most of their wealth consists of real-estate. Or a real de-segregation of the school-system (which is both race-based and especially social-based). The middle classes are against that, cue their desperate search for property in “good school districts”. Or an abolition of all the regressive taxes, the cigarettes smoked by the poor are taxed to high-hell while the middle-classes pay almost no taxes for the money put aside for their pensions or to purchase their (first) house. The middle classes will vote out of power any politician who will dare to touch these tax privileges of theirs. When all these circumstances will change I’ll be the first to say that “the middle classes really want to help the poor”, otherwise I just can’t.
I think Letterboxd is becoming a viable alternative to IMDb, so I don't see why one can't come along for Goodreads too.
I imagine the first thing we would use programmable time dilation for would be to skip build times. Sure, it doesn't make you any more productive in non-dilated time, but just think how much you could extend your life by :-)
If they order to collect someone's data, can't ProtonMail just say "we've been ordered to collect data for a user" on the front page?
Not sure if this is what you looking for but look here https://killedbygoogle.com/
Top comment is kind of true, the one you are replying to I don't really agree as well.

Top comment for me is saying about that it is putting blame on poor people for being poor like "you want to afford apartment, just stop drinking Starbucks lattes every day".

We know world does not work like that and a lot of dirt poor immigrants are not hitting jackpot or getting super rich by being frugal. Lots of people are not getting into being financially independent by simply being frugal. They mostly get by and that is it, some get better of course.

On the other hand the comment you reply to is advocating that, well people have shitty jobs, they go back home and they don't have enough energy to do anything with their life but just smoke/watch tv, whatever. Which is advocating for wrong things.

I totally understand if someone tried at lest something to make his life better, quitting smoking, not drinking lattes every day, even if he failed we cannot say he is just a lazy bum - at least there was some effort.

Who I don't sympathize with are people who will nag day in and out how bad their life is, but they would blame whatever is out there and who never would attempt to do something but would just indulge in smokink/drinking/tv series.
I... have to disagree. Either view is too simple.

You're looking for balance of "saving the world" (i.e. our responsibility with civilization and all lifeforms) and "enjoy your life". Clearly if everyone is concerned exclusively with enjoying their lives (i.e. hyper-hedonism), society collapses; that's deeply irresponsible. If everyone is also hyper-focused on self-propagation of our species with zero regard to our actual experience as conscious beings with rich inner lives, then clearly there's the risk of indeed making our inner lives much worse than they could be.

A system I've seen recommended here to think about it is (I've seen it related to Ikigai, a Japanese concept): you need to find a balance between your needs and experience, your skills and potential, and what's good for society at large (in a soft max-min).

I think overall, however, if we give it a little thought it's easy to find something aligned with our interests and potential that can really make a good impact. If you're interested I recommend the Effective Altruism community for a take on this (they're largely focused on more tangible things like Earning to Give) and 80000 hours. In all likelihood, just by being a functional member of our society (and giving what you can), if you don't work for some obviously evil enterprise (idk, making hyper-addictive things, oil field discovery, or something like that), you're probably helping society.

I encourage a different path as well: if you can program (or develop technology) and you're entrepreneurial (many people around here?) you can most likely make something that will make a good impact on society and even civilization at large. Furthering education with online tools, making educational games (or otherwise that promote growth and reflection), making tools more accessible, ... , improving the robustness and reliability of our systems, ..., the list goes on -- why not fulfill your potential to the best you can? Invent the future, Hack the planet.
> Officials decided instead to open the door, and retrieve the men by raft and helicopter (see picture at the top of this article). While they wore biocontamination suits and entered the quarantine facility on the ship, as soon as the capsule was opened at sea, the air inside flooded out. ... that decision to prioritise the short-term comfort of the men could have released it into the ocean during that brief window.

Thinking about this, I am curious what the original procedure would've been. How did they plan on retrieving the astronauts, in a capsule on the ocean, without allowing the air inside to escape?
Oh I have that app on my phone!
Makes NIST's responses towards DJB in the PQ crypto process have been ... interesting.

https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/pqc-forum/c/3mVe...
It’s fair because these databases made trade offs for older ideas presumably for good reasons. The question isn’t what could the have done differently up to now, but rather what new ideas might designers have included if they existed back then.
My first reading of "by default" here is that I can optionally enable it through my account.

Really, it's a phrase that means 3 things: I can enable it, ProtonMail can enable it[0], or the authorities can compel ProtonMail to enable it.

Saying any of that, or at least linking to a page that does, would be a smart move.

[0] https://protonmail.com/privacy-policy - "IP logs may be kept temporarily to combat abuse and fraud, and your IP address may be retained permanently if you are engaged in activities that breach our terms and conditions"
Tell users you are being logged on website.

Put alert warning that account has logging enabled

Change the service so collecting logs is not possible

Stop adding captcha to tor users login because you want to identify users
How Israel Fell into a Trance
It's too bad Soekris is gone. For home and small-corp networks they made an awesome router and you could put your favorite Linux on there. Trustable devices are hard to find.

Also, if anyone knows of a Soekris like alternative I'm all ears, what to do if my 6501 and my spare 6501 die.

Edit: this http://www.soekris.com/products/net6501-1.html
The point being made agrees with you, and is just saying that since protonmail can't help but obey sometimes, they should make the effort to educate their customers about that fact and whatever their customers can personally do to mitigate the risks of that fact.
Agreed, and let's not lose sight of the fact that...this was a successful landing. Everyone walked away from it and the passengers likely never knew anything went wrong.

Four hopefully independent things went wrong here: three computer failures plus less-than-documented braking performance. Additionally, there were at least two aggravating circumstances: wet conditions and a tailwind landing. Part of the investigation is to find out if there was a fourth or fifth system failure (poor pilot reaction time? Rubber level on the runway unacceptable? Either is plausible, but far from indicated by the report so far).

One extra thing going wrong here, in the wrong direction (anything that impaired braking or pilot reaction time) would likely have led to loss of life. Investigating near misses like this, and not only being exercised once five things go wrong and a hundred people die, is a sign of a healthy safety culture.
I don't see why it would be a controversial bill in Congress to simply exempt scientific publications (broadly construed) from all copyright law. Springer and Elsevier (the latter not even an American company) would be losers, but I doubt they spend more than a couple $mil on lobbying per year between the two of them. The benefit to humanity seems pretty clear.

This seems entirely within the scope of Congress's power under the Copyright Clause, and need not be tied up with other more controversial aspects of intellectual property law. There was a time when one could have made a case that permitting copyrights on scientific publications would "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (e.g. because only journal publishers were in a position to efficiently provide copy editing, nice formatting, and distribution). None of that has been relevant for decades, so it seems to me that one could even make a case that the status quo violates the Copyright Clause, since enforcing journal copyrights pretty clearly diminishes rather than promotes the progress of science.
I use ledger for my transactions , daily
I found it simpler than the other applications , considering i spend most of my time in text editor or cli .
Moreover having to deal with multiple currencies in ledger is just so simple.
Its command line parameters make it very similar to me like other tools , grep , awk , xsv , etc.

Over the years, I’ve kept extending it to calculate and generate invoices for my clients and email it to them with a payment link automatically.
Also combined with gnuplot its a very minimal and excellent tool for visualising my finances in any way I want to.
My plan is overtime to combine it with streamlit.io to make interact-able projection tools for myself to tinker with my finances.

And its community is super fun too !
Ledger and Hledger are some of my favourite tools.
I’ve made quite a bit of money on cryptocurrency. For some of us, perhaps many of us, it’s been a net positive.

How much did you lose?
Archer is also known for this sort of thing.

https://www.engadget.com/2015-03-21-massive-archer-easter-eg...
Gosh, well-considered analysis of each of the major contributors to efficiency -- if you are at all interested in this kind of stuff, it's worth it to just page though the 77 pages.

Besides being able to scavenge alternators from junked cars, potentially lowering the cost-per-watt, there must be economies of scale that are pushing toward absolute garagutan wind power converters (there is nothing 'generated' here, that's a bad term. Power is converted.) https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.... GE Haliade-X 13MW Wind Turbine, 722 ft diameter, 853 ft high. (The 86th floor observatory on the Empire State Building is at 1,050 ft)
What kind of customer service do you get from a game store? Most of the time your gripes are with nintendo, sony, etc. directly.
Experiment is surely not the only way to acquire knowledge, but it’s one of the easiest ways to reduce the frequency of tricking yourself into reinforcing what you wanted to believe to begin with. As you say, the system of knowledge production is imperfect, so let’s try to use rigorous tools more often, not less.

I think we all agree that financial literacy is probably, on average, good. But, as the parent post said, the magnitude is unknown. Is it the “passport to financial freedom”, in which case it’s probably reasonable to spend a lot of class time in school on it? Or is it just nice to have, and outcomes are mostly dependent on other factors, in which case we could just as well use those classroom hours for something else. This is a hard thing to disentangle from good survey data, and nearly impossible from the kind of anecdotal reporting in most of the article.

Personally, I think some of the article cuts against its own thesis. “ Leanne Fielden fits the bill for the disadvantaged. She is an unemployed woman living in the deprived Middlesbrough region. […]
Her profile belies her own financial expertise. “I’m fortunate that I’ve worked for Barclaycard and Visa. I often help family and friends with money issues,” she says. So she herself has no fear of finance.” If financial literacy were a magic bullet, why is she disadvantaged? Let’s not motte and Bailey this argument from the title (“financial literacy is a passport to financial freedom”) to the more defensible position of “financial literacy is helpful, in most situations”.
Wind Catching Systems designs giant floating wind farm with 117 turbines
People are perfectly happy to come and drop hundreds of millions on developing apartment complexes in the CBD for some reason, so why not shopping centers? The good jobs bit I agree with, I am about to leave Tulane with a PhD and barring some remote offers from Houston I can't find a means, motive or opportunity to stay here as much as I enjoy it.
Exactly. It was not something that happened automatically (not would it in almost any architecture). Instead the game would either cease to function properly or players would get disconnected or the server would crash, usually all of those in roughly that order. With TiDi at least things can happen, albeit at a frustratingly glacial pace.