skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A further obfuscation you could also compress it and have the app unpack itself.

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It actually means it doesn't form many minerals worth to mine, they aren't rare on average per volume.
Don't worry, leaders who came from the masses get corrupted by the power all right. Both Stalin and Hitler came from quite unprivileged families.

(Godwin law, yadda yadda, but the examples are directly applicable here.)
My network tab shows that a shows.json file gets downloaded upon site load so it should be able to search within memory.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

This kind of feels like a magic spell :)
Here is a good starting point: https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~pascal.michel/

I read about busy beavers a while ago but have only started digging into the subject. Its really fascinating!
Its really a catch-22 type thing. You increase renewables, destroying the viability of base load. That forces more short term power producers into the market, that then inefficiently burn gas to produce when renewables are off.

The gas plants are profitable because the prices you have to pay them are pretty high.

And this problem is getting worse all the time and its not really a great overall strategy.

I would argue renewables are subsides by how they use the grid. In the US renewables even get subsidies for energy they produce and sell at negative prices.
Until she accidentally bumps into someone she actually enjoys watching movies with! Whoops. Sorry!
Are Element and the Matrix protocol situated in authoritarian countries, how can they disagree

Anyway, no, this doesn’t reflect real usage.
> how the hardware will evolve: several (4-16) heterogeneous(not all with the same performance, some with specialized function unit) CPUs

Isn’t this basically the architecture of the Apple M1 chips? They’ve got efficient cores and high-power cores.
ahh that was distributed.net
Crypto exchange Huobi to cease all mainland China user accounts
so the older civilizations like greeks or romans did not know about the americas? We've come a long way in 500 hundred years!
>Tesla has a safety record that’s not unimpressive compared to the 36k people who die every year even though their failures have been more public and newsworthy. Their stats have been relatively objective.

They haven't released a detailed deep dive on their statistics, other than some definitions of what counts as a crash. This is from the company headed by the "funding secured" guy. Elon is clearly willing to lie if he believes that it will serve his interests or mission.

Even if we accept their safety stats at face value, Tesla is getting ready to launch a new feature - "Full Self Driving" - which behaves substantially different from autopilot and has a much different operating design domain and intended functionality. They've had close to 2k internal testers and O(100) external testers of "Full Self Driving" for about a year - nowhere near enough time and data to get the same level of confidence they have for autopilot. Add on to this that it will operate in environments that are substantially more accident prone than highway driving or clearly marked single lane roads, and you can see why regulators might be worried by a larger rollout.
I still have the source code for a DOS game I wrote around 1990/1991. I still have a few executable files and I've got all the code and the assets but I don't have the toolchain anymore and I don't have the build script neither. I don't remember which compiler I was using. So basically I've got no clue as to how to build it.

But a blog like this surely makes me want to bring it back to life at some point!
You frame this as a binary: patents or trade secrets. But other options include authorized copying (open source) and copying without express permission (Shanzai style)[1]. As I mentioned in my original comment, both of those modes of development played a crucial role in lowering the price of 3D printers as well as increasing volume. By 2008, Stratasys had shipped 16,000 3D printers in the company history. Now Prusa Research ships that many printers in one month. And Prusa is fully open source and always has been. So clearly trade secrets are not the only alternative to patents.

You must understand, when one inventor gets rights over something, now 1000 other inventors working in a similar field cannot easily build on that idea. So one person benefits while 1000 others are restricted. But the market already rewards innovators, so why stop those 1000 would-be innovators because one person filed all the right paperwork?

And because people always mention this: investment would still work. Instead of a $10m investment for a big five year project, the investments would be smaller and more frequent. Improve the product and impress buyers with the next version. Is it a flop? Someone else will clone your failed version with the necessary improvements, and next year they will get the investment. Product development happens faster because no one can rest on their laurels, and cost of living goes down because no one can charge a very high price for something that can be cloned for cheap.

That faster innovation and lower cost of living is obviously a huge benefit to moving away from patents. This is also a fact rarely acknowledged by those who believe in the standard story about the purpose and benefits of patents. There's billions of people on Earth who need the knowledge we have locked up in patent portfolios. We must not be careless with how we consider this policy. There is a lot at stake.

[1] https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=284
Another way I noticed that makes "smart" people believe in bullshit is using very scientific language and vague science concepts.

I noticed one of my friends (college educated and an ex FAANG executive) reading a book about astrology that basically tried to explain it with science. She made me read a chapter to prove that it's not bullshit. And it really didn't "sound" bullshit, and the author used many scientific terms and quoting papers on quantum mechanics and referring to astronomy. But once you actually tried to process the gist of it it was complete nonsense, literally zero information or stated facts. A horoscope dressed in scientific language.
I feel they have a big confounder in their study that I wonder may spoil their results.

They only used two examples of scientific stories, and one of them is an issue around the health effects of GMOs.

Here's the thing: I think you'll likely find more people on the left/liberal (US-meaning of the word liberal) spectrum that will say they trust in science. You'll also find more people on the left being skeptical about GMOs.

In fact, if you'd if there's one issue where you'll have views disagreeing with science on the left, it's probably GMOs. It's simply the classic and most prominent example for that.

So I wonder if that study didn't tell much more than "People tend to believe what they believed before, even if they say they trust in science".
Reconstruct Open API Specifications from real-time workload traffic seamlessly
Just making sure - you're using js source maps, right? The minifaction should be adding significant pain in your debugging process.
You are 100% right
As a software engineer, what is the biggest problem you face to land a job?
The demand for software engineers is ever growing, but many software engineers still face problems to land a job. What is the biggest problem here?
The times I had to use it on HTML , I think I combined xPath with RegEx to close the mismatch.
The Chinese are doing that, too. There it is limited to 70 years.
>Tesla has a safety record that’s not unimpressive compared to the 36k...

But when Tesla cars were then compared to similarly priced cars; that record dropped through the floor.
My parents had cars, and took me to and from school in the car most days.

I hated it.

At primary school, if I visited a friend after school we could walk through the park, or the playground, or the library, which was all much more fun than being in a car and then at home 5 minutes later.

At secondary school all my friends took buses, and had the wonderful freedom to take the next bus, or the one after. The playground didn't have the same appeal, but there were shops, cafés and so on.

> in the UK it is assumed kids will walk to school, or take a free bus (which is provided by the school).

The journey will be free, but in larger urban areas (especially London) it's also common for the children just to be given a pass for the city buses.
>> For example, you want to watch a movie together, but neither of you have the same tastes in movies. What do you do?

>> Because both of you are self-giving, you both say that the other can pick, you're thus in a deadlock.

> That is the mistake: thinking of watching a movie as a personal act.

Another mistake might be conceiving of one's "taste in movies" as fixed and unchanging when it isn't. You might be able to find something to like in your partner's preferences, when you didn't before; or find some new type of movie you both like. Making that effort may be what being "self-giving" is in this case.
I like it when my partner can at least ask intelligent questions about the thing I am enthusiastic about though.

They don’t really have to understand it, just get the general idea.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/04/hidin...

Hide in a mass of noise. *Protip: get your small startup on the list to juice your numbers.
>In my opinion, that article is pretty insubstantial and is mostly just responding to the same 4chan trolling mentioned in this wiki. It's just not a productive line of discussion and doesn't make any sense in the actual context of how open source works.

How on Earth is it "trolling"? Seriously, I want you to explain to me how that article is bad-faith in any way. Yes, it's written in a absurd, ironic way -- that's because the situation it's describing is absurd. When such a massive, obvious usability flaw has gone unfixed for so long, people have the perfect right to joke about it and make fun of GNOME. Sorry if you think that's unfair trolling -- it isn't.

And lol at the goalpost moving

>gnome is underfunded

>okay, how much money to fix the file chooser

>oh well uhh that's now how it works and you couldn't afford it anyway
Great one. Planning to write one such for my own service that I built - https://closetab.email (delivers a weekly digest of bookmarks to my inbox, every monday morning)

Because the biggest problem with bookmarking is forgetting it forever after ;)
> trained test drivers

Are normal people paid minimum wage who become complacent and occasionally fall asleep (e.g. Uber accident), I would argue non-paid Tesla customers are at least as good as "trained drivers". There are 2K drivers using FSD beta for almost a year, w/o any accidents.
In Georgia (a country in Eastern Europe, not a US state) they just dismissed nearly all police officers some time around 2004, without the right to work in police again. The previous police force was corrupt beyond redemption.

Then they hired and trained an entirely new police force, including the top officers. As a result, corruption in the new police force basically does not exist.

I suppose most people in NSA are not renowned cryptographers; it's not they who are most corrupt.
I might be showing my inexperience here, but my understanding of async/await and promises in JS is that they create threads under the hood to solve the problem the author is talking about.

I'm afraid I just don't quite understand why async/await don't solve the problem and instead sweep it under the rug, could someone explain it?
And in a way this is one of the negatives of too much democracy
I'd prefer nuclear, but it's on the way down in popularity - which is a tragedy for the globe.
As has been discussed often the keys to decrypt iCloud data are also stored on iCloud, so it's trivial to unencrypt the data.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/01/apple-reportedly...

https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/21/21075033/apple-icloud-end...
> Rust’s type system is very close to Haskell’s and takes a lot of inspiration from functional programming.

Well… No.

It misses some landmark features like HKTs, and it likely never won't get them.

Inspiration? Sure. But what lang today doesn't take that?

> I’m not sure I’d call Rust mutable-first either.

So what do the affine types track? ;-)

> As for side-effects, I suspect the next leap in PL development will be an efficient algebraic-effects system with a good dev experience (or at least a trade-off so appealing it overcomes the necessary friction).

Let's make "some effect system" out of it and I'm with you.

But it likely won't be Rust getting such features in the near or midterm future (no clue about such a possibility in the far future, though).

Other languages are almost there on the other hand side. Scala for example will get "ability tracking" real soon™ now.

Rust may seem a little bit like a FP lang at frist if you're coming form one. But after writing some code you going to realize that Rust's philosophy is quite different form a FP lang: Rust embraces mutability and side-effects at its core! It "just" tries to make that more safe.
> Does Google care? Ever had a look at their graveyard?

Please, Google graveyard meme here?

Name at least one DEVELOPMENT project that was killed by them. Even the infamous GWT is still alive on life support.

In case you're serious, it seems you don't understand or know the scale of Android project. Android is one of the most important projects of Google, it rivals Chrome and YouTube.

> The rest sound just like the usual marketing yada-yada and doesn't stand reality…

Please, launch your Java application on Node.js or in a browser, or on iOS, on Android for that matter. Or create modern client-side application that runs on all major platforms.

And no, Codename One/Gluon/JavaFX don't count. Even worst of the worst Ionic runs better than those.
But by your own definition none of those billion can be expressing their human nature since all of them have been subject to social conditioning.

What I think the OP is getting at is the concept of universal human traits. There’s a big old list of them compiled by an anthropologist here:
https://condor.depaul.edu/~mfiddler/hyphen/humunivers.htm

The thing to note is that the golden rule could be a universal as much as murder is. Which is to say the golden rule is continuously reinvented by humans but not necessarily followed by them all. What factors in this are innate versus conditioned are opaque.
Tons of sacrifices to pay for that infrastructure plan that is 50% not infrastructure at all. At least call it something else.
I see this criticism every now and then but surely it can't be that simple, that all the professionals are just forgetting methane.

The argument reminds me of "sceptics" who appeal to "the effect of the sun cycles", as I'd climate scientists wouldn't have thought of that.
Those other marketing terms are not trying to mislead people into behaving dangerously in an environment where people can get killed. Perhaps I'm a minority, but I absolutely don't want companies to use marketing weasel words when it comes to self-driving capabilities.

Let's not beat about the bush, it's clear that some drivers are already abusing the current "self-driving but not really-self driving" autopilot features. This steps up the bullshit saying "oh this time it is full self driving (but not the total absolute hands off autonomous driving". So which is it? If it's not fully autonomous, don't bullshit saying it's full self driving.

In other words, if there's no blue in Blue Motion, no count of 4 in a quattro and no mach in Mach-E, that's not likely to get people killed. But if there's no full self driving in something called "Full Self Driving", that can and will get people killed.
I find these stories to be comforting. This chap is an old-school, hardcore, nerd. I can totally relate.

I actually have a scanned PDF of the operator/maintenance manual for my very first professional engineering project[0]. I wrote that in 1986-7 (I also wrote the manual, and a later manual, for the host package[1]).

The company is long dead, and I’m sure my baby has since been melted into slag, but I was very proud of it. It was my first real engineering project. I keep the manual around, to prove that I have been architecting significant software, from the very start of my career.

The manual includes the full listing of an entire firmware operating system, written in Intel 8085 ASM.

The host package was a mix of ASM (MC68000, I think), Pascal, and HP BASIC; designed as a driver system, for integration into programs written for early HP workstations. I don’t have listings for that, but there are a few snippets, sprinkled throughout.

Good luck getting it to run, though…

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/TF30194/TF30194-Manual-1987.pdf (Downloads a PDF).

[1] https://littlegreenviper.com/TF30194/ATE-System-Driver-Manua... (Downloads a PDF).
ARM big little (which the M1 is at least somewhat based on) was announced the year before the prediction.
Interesting. I can definitely relate. As an author of a proprietary application written in web technologies, it's easy to be envious of compiled languages.

This is my recipe for minification:

1. Apply a convention where all class properties and methods have to end with a trailing underscore (it's trivial to make an Eslint rule to enforce it)

2. Use 2 minification tools in following order: Closure Compiler (simple optimizations mode), then Terser for best output.

3. Configure Terser mangle.properties.regex: /_$/

4. If it's a desktop app, use Bytenode for Node.js processes (cannot be used for the renderer)
Sure, some things shouldn’t use the subscription model. In the case of streaming services though, I think the subscription model works particularly well. I would much prefer to make a recurring payment and have new content included in my subscription than pay for each additional piece of content I want to consume.

The same can be said for SaaS products. Subscriptions are common because updates are generally frequent and a one off payment is not going to provide enough money for continual development.

Some people prefer to rent because you get a lot of benefits described above; regular maintenance at an affordable ongoing rate.

Living in a world where everyone can rent seems preferable over a world where owning is the only option, effectively meaning those that cannot afford the upfront payment are left without any option for a home.
The researchers mentioned that they had "controlled
machines located in China". Given the number of requests sent by these machines everyday, how did they avoid being detected? Isn't it very suspicious for a machine to send huge amount of requests to blocked domains every day?
I've recently noticed that pseudoscientific claims are now often accompanied with references to supposedly credentialed and authoritative scientists. Basically the inventors of the fakes are adopting to public's growing literacy. And I don't think this is going to stop or slow down with people getting more "methodologicaly literate". The fakes will just get more sophisticated.
A 4 mile / 6 km radius is a huge. I assumed you lived in the US when you wrote miles, but your profile says Lithuania. A 6km radius covers most of Vilnius, and plenty of pre-schools.
What were the numbers, out of curiosity? Telsa is worse per mile for safety than others similarly priced cars?
Washed your hands lately? There was once a time when secular thinking doctors would have you committed to an asylum if you did that before, say, helping a pregnant woman give birth.
I got a MikroTik router just a few months ago and it does run great, has anything you could want under the sun, and it was even cheap! But like you said, it is very advanced, and as a network noob I probably spent 12 hours configuring it to do everything I wanted despite considering myself pretty tech savy, and don't even know exactly what I did to make it work as I wanted. Although if it is just a single router typical home setup most people could just use a default setup and make it work.

The community also seemed pretty elitist, I went through many forum posts about people with similar setup questions and/or problems as myself and fairly often they got simply berated when they didn't understand what a certain setting actually did or didn't understand exactly what people were having them input through a 30 item terminal command. The wiki has an example of just about everything once but even that was far from comprehensive when there are 20+ different options and you don't know what they mean and the example on the wiki picks just one of them and doesn't explain why they chose that one.

I don't regret the purchase at all, however I don't think I could feel safe in randomly recommending it to anybody except the most tech savy of my tech savy friends.
> That's the best case scenario, that you end up enjoying the movie. But I'm saying in a scenario where you don't. You simply have very different movie tastes.

> So if you want to watch a movie together, I just don't see how you could both enjoy it without any compromise.

It kinda seems like you're setting up the scenario to force a particular result. If both your tastes are so fixed and incompatible that you can't like a movie without your partner disliking it, then maybe decide to do something else besides watch a movie?
No, I didn't give it to you to run. It's explained below if you read the whole thread.
If facebook and pornhub can leak pii, rest assure this will be leaked. Every neighbor and your friends, colleague, employer and gangsters would be eager to find out who has gun at home. What will happen next will be a no-brainer.

But that might just by design, shame and penalize those oppressed. End game will be nobody dare to legally own a gun, just like in mexico today, a gun "free" country. How did that work out?
I do, it's helpful most of the time, mostly because it behaves like intelligent text expander, and couple of times a day I'm consciously aware how it helped me in even more "intelligent" way. There were also situations when it was distracting/confusing, but I can deal with it. I'm working as web dev, with TS, JS and PHP, and in my case there is no place for some great solutions that I wouldn't thought about myself (less than 5 times I've used something generated with comment), it's simply predicting what I want to do next in the line and instead of writing 50 chars to end that, I can hit tab. Honestly, I don't want to work without it anymore.

EDIT. regarding these situations when it doesn't predict what I wanted, I feel that my brain is getting better at not focusing at that and moving on. At first it was distracting, now I subconsciously know that the provided solution might be wrong and I'm deciding faster if it's something I should choose or skip. Your tool is adapting to you and you're adapting to your tool to find the right balance :)
I sometimes wonder what individual decisions are being made now that we'll look back on as important in a few decades. Petrov's role in the incident took 15 years to become publicly-known.
LeetCode – 3Sum Closest
I was going to quote this. Totally insane. Even with a gold breastplate and the diamond, I cannot fathom how this managed to cost 1 million.
there is no “quattro engine”
> You cannot bike your 3 kids to schools and hospitals during rainy autumn days.

Two of the most cycling friendly cities in the world are also cities with a lot of rainy days (Amsterdan and Copenhagen). A lot of people with kids there will disagree with you.

It seems to me the biggest issue people who never cycle think stops people from cycling is weather, while in reality it is unsafe infrastructure. Build the infrastructure, people will cycle and will not bother about the weather.