skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m always amazed at the precision of space probe operations.

It’s a bummer we don’t have better space propulsion systems, five years meandering about the inner solar system to get the right speed and angle to enter an orbit around mercury.
Your comment could seem like a meaningless sound-bite, but the fact that I can't think of many counter examples makes it hit a bit more.
Problem is that if some companies employ these strategies, their competitors are forced to do the same as otherwise they would not be able to compete.

Not true for Apple of course... but an appeal to ethics won't work either, the laws need to be adapted. Business ethics itself is a funny term anyway.
Everywhere I have worked, code "review" was a cargo cult of people mechanically rubber-stamping each other's changes with zero context or consideration. And these weren't particularly dysfunctional companies!
And this is just one half. The other half is Sophie Zhang's revelations about how facebook is used by corrupt governments as a weapon against their own citizens. At the very least the public should be warned about such weapons of mass manipulation, and the newspapers that used to laud them as bastions of democracy should publicly apologize
The circle compiler has this feature and many more, like CUDA, Vulkan support.
He has a valid point, generating the image on a separate device (heck, you could do that on AWS Lambda for free) and only grabbing the resulting image could vastly improve battery life. Then you could also switch from a power hungry Pi to a simpler choice like an ESP32.
Don't. Just don't.

It's already a clusterfuck in JS land with grunt/gulp/webpack/TSC/rollup/parcel/snowpack/esbuild/rome etc, do not bring that madness to java as well.
But… what about the turtles?
> There is almost no point in buying an ecosystem-dependant device and then trying to cut off the ecosystem dependency

Android works fine without the Google bits. Make sure to get a device which is supported by an AOSP-derived distribution like LineageOS and you're almost there. Install the alternative distribution, do not install any Google services (i.e. skip the 'gapps' or Google apps), install F-droid or Aurora Droid, done - you'll end up with a device running free software (apart from the radio firmware and any driver blobs used in building the distribution). If you need software from the play store there is Aurora Store, an alternative front-end which can be used without a Google account. If some of that software needs access to the Google Services Framework (indicated in the listing as 'gsf-dependent' or something along those lines) you can install microG, an in-progress but remarkably functional free software implementation of such.

I've been doing this for about 10 years now and never had the impression I missed out on anything by not using a stock distribution with a Google account - the opposite is true. Batteries last longer since there is less background activity, devices have a far longer useable life span by virtue of the distribution being kept up to date.
Not saying this is a good idea or a bad idea - but I could see the use in a function that could both error from a bad file or a dropped network function. You don't really want to combine those two into one enum or error class, but maybe your programming language has support for marking the types of errors a function can return and ensuring coverage.
A Comparative Evaluation of Recent State-of-the-Art Black-Box Attacks
"The field of adversarial machine learning has experienced a
near exponential growth in the amount of papers being produced
since 2018. This massive information output has yet to be
properly processed and categorized. In this paper, we seek
to help alleviate this problem by systematizing the recent
advances in adversarial machine learning black-box attacks
since 2019.

Our survey summarizes and categorizes 20 recent black-box attacks.
We also present a new analysis for understanding the attack success
rate with respect to the adversarial model used in each paper.

Overall, our paper surveys a wide body of literature to highlight
recent attack developments and organizes them into four attack
categories: score based attacks, decision based attacks,
transfer attacks and non-traditional attacks. Further,
we provide a new mathematical framework to show exactly
how attack results can fairly be compared."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.15031.pdf
> I don't think we should want good people to stop working for Facebook. That never made sense to me. Facebook isn't going anywhere, and as such it should be improved, and the only way that will happen is if good people keep going to work there and trying to make it better.

I wish I remember the article that explained this to me, but "participate, but try to change it from the inside" pretty much simplifies into just "participate." So all those good people will end up doing (from the inside) is help Facebook achieve Facebook's existing bad goals.

The best thing a "good person" can do to Facebook is leak and hope an external entity takes it down, but most of those good people won't have access to anything that's worth leaking.
So because the name of the social app is different today the OP's point makes no sense?
There’s some sort of conservation of energy that makes me naively assume this can’t be the case.
C# had generics already, they just weren't fully baked for 1.0 release and they decided to postpone them instead of delaying the .NET 1.0 release.

That is one of the reasons why the CLR already had most of the infrastrucure for proper handling of generic code instead of being a compiler only sugar.

"How generics were added to .NET"

https://mattwarren.org/2018/03/02/How-generics-were-added-to...
that's also the reason why facebook's moderation should be considered political manipulation: Facebook's raw material, user posts, cover all sides of the political spectrum, giving facebook the ability to shape the discussion to whichever direction they like
Sorry but nothing she shared is incriminating. It’s just the challenges internally that Facebook has to deal with given their scale and how much content is shared every second. She makes a false choice that somehow Facebook can 100% make it safe but they just choose not to. It doesn’t matter who regulates it, who is in charge, the technology aspect of figuring out what is “dangerous” content and what isn’t is still impossible. Facebook has far more internal discussions and open debates about how to solve this problem than any other company. They are right. They are the best at this but they are still failing in many ways. But it doesn’t mean they aren’t trying and that they haven’t made progress.
In which language are DirectX examples and SDK written on?
Not at all!

It only redistributes work toward what rich people want.

Investing into something actually useful would be much better.

Scenario A: yacht is bought - economy is redirected toward luxurious yacht building, people get paid to work on building a yacht

Scenario B: investment into housing - economy is redirected toward house building, people get paid to build houses

scenario A can be a good one only when this people would be unemployed and seeking a work otherwise. Or if you think that building luxurious yachts is more important than alternatives.
It’s a basic optimisation. Java does it as well, for example, and it’s safe. But it’s not part of the type system and it’s not what people here are talking about.
I don't think there is much room to debate, this is certainly against the spirit of the law. Problem here is that the legislators would be responsible to change the rules they themselves take advantage of.
I agree ^ however I would say the very early days of fb that was basically a chronological update of friends statuses is all I ever wanted, and I can’t see many problems with them operating that.

The issue of course is they couldn’t make huge revenues providing that.. they need all the ads, news, attention grabbing crap… and fb will never make that change.

Would you even trust them if they did?

I honestly think the answer is some transparent service that provides what I describe in the first paragraph.. may be a not for profit or open source solution.
It’s because it’s not lit. It looks natural, and unobtrusive.

I’d love to have this, art, and other “appliances” and slabs with eink. Ex. My todo list. My email etc.
Scott Manley did a great video on the probe and its approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sj9cjwFhQY
Because COM can be called from C, yet no sane people do it, unless they are trying to make a point no matter what.
It's not possible to disable the antivirus on Windows 11. It always resurrects itself. It's annoying AF. I'm staying with Windows 10 because Windows 11 takes away user control over the OS.
> Previously we had tons of incompatible plugs, but if the physical plug fit, you were reasonably assured that it would actually work.

I suspect you never did any work with 9 or 25 pin serial.
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- Since we are using ansible for server management, being able to manage the server and agent configuration via ansible would be great!

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This was a fun weekend project. Thanks!

I will say, however, that getting it running took minutes; getting auth running was nearly a full day. Just HTTP Basic auth had me writing Ruby, then giving up and using a library that hasn't seen a single commit in years.
A quadtree, where every node is first looked up in a hash table before simulating it. Eventually the hash table has enough entries to where most changes aren't even simulated but just looked up. It's a pretty plain CPU/memory tradeoff, but it works surprisingly well for game of life.
It is a bit of a slow burn.

But with these books, Vernor Vinge has now become one of my favorite authors, up there with Douglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, David Drake, Robert Heinlein, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle (although I don’t care for Niven and Pournelle when they work together).

Larry Niven has introduced me to some new authors that I’ve liked, through his “Man-Kzin Wars” series, but I haven’t read enough of their works to put them in my “favorite authors” category, at least not yet.

Piers Anthony is also great, but I’ve only read his fantasy novels, so I can’t speak for where he would rate on the SF scale. I also wouldn’t consider Edgar Rice Burroughs to be SF. Same for Arthur Conan Doyle.

And Orson Scott Card is just plain weird. I love his work, but I find it hard to recommend to others.

James S. A. Corey is a pseudonym of two authors, so I don’t feel like I can include it on the top list above. But I do love what I’ve seen of their work.

Ironically, while I love the Dune movie, I haven’t actually read any of Frank Herbert’s work. I look forward to seeing the new Dune movie as well, and then maybe I’ll go back and read some of the novels.

I absolutely hated, loathed, and despised Aldous Huxley. The closest I ever came to suicide was while I was forced to read his book. The second closest was when I was forced to read “Madame Bovary”. Both were a result of a sophomore level English class I was forced to take in order to get my degree.

I don’t think I’ve actually read any of Roald Dahl’s novels, same with Cory Doctorow, Harlan Ellison, and Neil Gaiman.

And I think I’ll stop there. I’m seeing too many names that I recognize on the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_science-fiction_author... but which I don’t remember reading any of their work. So, I’ve got a few decades of reading to catch up on.
Wouldn't it be extremely dangerous to democracy if malicious actors were to take over fact-checkers? How would you know they already haven't?
there is peer-to-peer decentralisation and federated decentralisation.
Is "guys" gender-neutral in some contexts? Maybe specific to some areas? It seems used by women for designating women at times.
What kind of book are you looking for? The "Springer Handbook of Odor" is a comprehensive reference, although it mainly covers the "input" side of things. If you're more interested in the Neuroscience of smell, you could try Chapter 6 in Liqun Luo's "Principles of Neurobiology".

BTW, anaesthesia is not mediated by olfaction, but by diffusion of anaesthetic agents into the bloodstream.

edit: if you are looking for a more general and accessible introduction, you could look at Charles Sell's "Chemistry and the sense of smell". It goes into reasonable detail but still maintains genral readability, unlike the science textbooks I recommended above.
What you describe is basically Instagram
Is it WAF, is it a web server, is it a reverse proxy server?
Not a big fan of having XSLT in something that is supposed to do security
The media theorist Marshall McLuhan accurately out the dangers of "Peer to peer electronic media" in the 1970s, as thought experiment. His theories on media were pretty good.
> Nearby Wifi MAC addresses

When idle. Google and Apple are basically American and Five Eyes invigilation devices. What cost money and resources in the past - satellites, airplanes, field agents, now people are paying to carry on them at all times.
I am not mistaken.

DirectX is a COM API, and although some masochits can make use of it from C, 99% of the world does not, including the official SDK.

Metal is a mix of Objective-C and C++, with Swift bindings thanks Objective-C interop.

None of them are C based like Khronos darlings.
There's basically two ways I have seen this work. In one case, you have a "IO thing" stored somewhere in a struct.

type example struct {
backend db.DB // Never actually used the database library, so this MAY not be the right type name
...
}

Then your code uses that to call the methods on var.backend, and you can replace it with a test instance. This feels approximately like dependency injection, maybe? Or maybe just encapsulation?

And the other is that you pass your "IO" as a parameter. A pretty typical example would be fmt.Fprintf.

func Fprintf(out io.Writer, format string, args ...interface{}) (n int, e error)

It is of course limited, but all testing is limited. But, most "mocking" I have seen replaces the original type while the test is ongoing, and that specifically is pretty hard in Go. It is trivial to pass in a parameter, or set a struct slot, to something that fulfils a specific interface. And it is often quite useful. And, again, of course something that you may have to write tests for, to ensure that it does what you intend it to (especially if it is complex and needs to hold some state, which unfortunately sometimes happens).
This is not palatable but trivial. Your login tied to your actual ID. Sites that won't participate can't take US funds or do business with entities that also want to do business with the US.

Call for violence or threaten people go to jail. Spread malicious lies you knew are false for political gains go to jail.

Spread others harmful crap unwittingly that would tend to lead to others deaths get a ticket for actual money and a strike. 3 strikes you can't play on social media this year. Get banned 3 years in a row get a 10 year vacation from social media.

The internet and society would be better off within a year. Within 3 most of the real pieces of work would be conspiring with each other via tor unable to reach 90% of the population.
We can indeed filter on filename : "filename:html"
This is a reasonable position to take, except the last paragraph is phrased too carelessly.

Somebody who really cannot do any programming at all without a second person probably really is useless as a programmer, but most people will likely interpret what you wrote differently and take offense because of that.
How to Get Started on Investing?
I am a 23yr old student from India. I want to learn the basics of investments, how to build passive and portfolio income. Any suggestions?
Ruby is one popular example of a language with a truthy zero. This is to allow the use of truthiness to detect the presence of a value (as long as the value isn't false), even if the value is zero. Say I wanted to allow an environment variable to override a value in my code. I could do something like this:

a = ENV['A']&.to_i || 1

and then run the program with A=0 to set a to 0.
I use the Wayback Machine extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wayback-machine/fp...) - if a webpage no longer exists, the Wayback Machine will give me an archived copy of it.
“Guys” in my experience is just as gender-neutral as “teammates”, “people”, “folk”, etc. I’d address a group of all women as “guys”, e.g. “hey guys, you alright?” And if someone else used the word referring only to men I’d probably not clock that unless they clarified after
conservation of energy can be broken if Temporal symmetry can be broken.
I made a few suggestions elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743057

Real deep regulation would mean breaking up the network effect, and forcing a federated system so either people have a choice or people have tools to manage what’s on their social streams.
As if C was imune from such ABI mess called glibc.
Why can't we just fine it 100% of revenue not profit until they can't keep the lights on or pay a lawyer to sue.
It’s unfortunate that Apple isn’t more transparent about their data retention times/policies, so imagination wouldn’t be required.
(Disclaimer: IANAL)

A "whistleblower" in the USA is a legal term of art used to describe someone who reports wrong-doing to the government. The conduct being disclosed doesn't necessarily have to be explicitly illegal, but in order to be considered a whistleblower under the law, the information has to be disclosed to the appropriate government agency (i.e., reporting wrong-doing to a private organization or going public in the media wouldn't legally be considered protected whistleblowing).

More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_protection_in_th...

The OP's article says that Frances Haugen reported Facebook's actions to the SEC, so that may make her a whistleblower legally, but it's not clear if the SEC is the appropriate agency to handle social media regulation. That seems more like something the FTC or the FCC would be responsible for.
Here's a great overview of BepiColombo's journey:
https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/BepiCo...
It's a very old idea rephrased in modern terms. It's certainly not a theory for it's not falsifiable and doesn't predict anything.
UK Supply crisis: Soldiers to begin delivering fuel to petrol stations
I don’t know. Google search is an engineered system, but the economy is an emergent system.
Yeah, don't do that.
Quick update on this. While getting fiat into crypto is easy. I failed now for 2 weeks in a row to do the reverse.
Binance should be avoided at all cost.
"the smartest" spend weeks and months studying to even be considered by these companies' recruitment.
Could you provide examples of better solutions for other platforms?
I've been doing software dev professionally in 5+ languages for the past 20 years and speaking from experience java has one of the best build/dep management systems to choose from.
<dream> There is a very fast Gunicorn replacement in Rust that accepts an wsgi/asgi module and a static dir and starts serving both. It breaks performance barriers for pure Python servers. It can automagically create systemd service and nginx site or just exist as a Docker entry point.
Ask HN: Best ELI5 Resources for Elastic Stack
Hello all. As title suggests. I'm having to learn this platform. Specifically I'd like a gentle introduction into each part of the platform.

I'm aware the platform website has loads of stuff but it's pretty overwhelming and I need a place to start.

Any help would be appreciated, books, websites, particular parts of the platforms site.

Thanks.
It's fiction, not a science book. I'm responding to the claim that an author can't depict something akin to transcendence or very advanced technology. Both of which are fictional, at least as far as we know. Arthur C Clarke has also written stuff along those lines.
On Risk and Imagining the Future
From the same author in collaboration with others on Row Hammer. Current thesis is an evolution on lessons learned
out of previous work on Row Hammer.

"Flipping Bits in Memory Without Accessing Them:
An Experimental Study of DRAM Disturbance Errors"

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~yoonguk/papers/kim-isca14.pdf

"RowHammer: A Retrospective"

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332946042_RowHammer...
> Also, sometimes there just isn't a story to a fact-check. The reader just wants to see a check of all the facts in a political speech or a debate. A series of 100 bullet points is not a compelling article, but it might be a perfectly fine fact-check.

Why? What's the difference? Analysis of a political speech or debate is definitely the kind of thing I expect from newspapers or equivalent, and it's not like changing the name makes it easier to read.
pay the users
That would be one example of such a function, yes. Libraries like IGL or OpenSubdiv can help you to implement more, too.
No, the way social apps engage today is different to how facebook does.
Not sure if I understand what you mean?
Here is how i think of it:

Put people in an fMRI machine while reading and interacting with the facebook feed of a celebrity, or person that they dont have personal connection with

Then show people the feed of their friends or family

Then force facebook to change its algorithms until the two fMRI readings show similar level of activation of key areas in limbic system

The real power of facebook is that it exploits the stronger emotional relationship that people have with close friends/family , as opposed to the shallow relationship they have with other public figures, which is what the TV/radio/news exploited in the past
The article deviates enough from the usual tone of The Guardian for one to suspect that the latter is indeed the case, and the title change corroborates this suspicion. Finally, "not being able to piss of the sponsor too much" is already fishy journalism.
Hopelessly - Rick Astley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1hN4mwmW0c
Since recording laws are illegal in most places without mutual consent..
My company has some pretty unique global shutter 360 camera footage, both indoors and out with precision GPS. Going back about 7 years. In all sorts of environments. It's quite a unique dataset and might be interesting to use for your project.
> Antifa calls for murdering AfD politicians, but that doesn't merit deplatforming? Please.

Yeah. Somehow these extremists are protected from consequences while others are perfectly acceptable targets for online lynch mobs.

I remember keeping tabs on some drama I witnessed on GitHub years ago. Some developer posted wrongthink on Twitter and people wanted him removed from the project because of it. People who tweeted things like "kill all men" with a straight face. And they laugh at you when you point it out and denounce them for it. They know nothing's gonna happen to them.