skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. And I've heard proposals like this going back at least a couple of decades. The theory goes that if you make email expensive (at scale) charging even a trivial fee will make shotgun blasts cost prohibitive. While (very much in theory), a few cents won't deter the casual emailer. Though more likely, as with SMS at one point, people would find ways to route around the expensive pipe because bits are bits at the end of the day.
Self-healing acrylic material? Seems there are some promising materials there https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/226147903.pdf
This isn't going to end until enough competent people are pushed away from existing institutions to form their own structures. Which is likely to take at least a generation, and quite likely is going to happen in a different country (don't ask me which).
Existing institutions can't be saved because with each successful cancellation, cancellers gain power and remaining opposition loses it.
"Everything is securities fraud" - Matt Levine
It is secretly hosted on fb.
Atlan (modern data workspace) announces partnership with Snowflake
Yes.

Bubble sort is the comparison of every pair.

If you compare only adjacent pairs, you eliminate an enormous number of redundant comparisons.

This is bubble sort without the redundancy elimination. It's just that the elimination is so common that many people don't know about it anymore, and think it's a defining part of the algorithm.
Excel1040 has been around for quite some time, long enough to already have long crossed the "short lived" threshold.

It avoids the state problem by not supporting states at all.

It's done by a single retired person. I always donate a few bucks and I suspect he's making enough off the donations for it to be worthwhile for him.

But yes eventually it might be abandoned if he doesn't find some successor, but so far it's very alive.
Not to be confused with Solid the JS framework (https://github.com/solidjs/solid).
but I would take it all with skepticism.

Curiosity is different from smarts. I would be skeptical about any essay trying to say {apples} are better than {oranges}.

If I had to pick one (and maybe you primed my response), I'd say curiosity is motivation sparked by uncertainty. I think curiosity doesn't necessarily have an end goal (gain knowledge, test a hypothesis, etc.) in mind.
I don't have a lot of time to think about this right now, but generally I do agree that the right is learning how to ridicule and using it more.

I'm curious about your association of slavery with conservatism. It's doubly strange since the Republican party is the one that fought the Civil war and supported desegration while many Democrats fought against it. The Democrat party had a former KKK member not that long ago.

I'm not saying that this should be used to invalidate Democrats or dismiss them out of hand or anything like that. I just think it is strange that modern day people aligned with the Democratic Party speak with a great deal of certainty that conservatives are racist.

I've heard and read the arguments for the party switch and I find them to be a bit tortured personally. But, civilized people can disagree about all of this, and I don't want to drag us into a partisan battle either.

Also, my sense of your post is that you are using left and right more along the lines of European usage of left and right. I'm using them more along the lines of American politics. While Europeans might say, "you Americans hardly have any true left at all". I'm more likely to say, "Where are the true conservatives in Europe"
1) Sterilizing immunity meaningless and unscientific: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz...

2) Sterilizing immunity is a pointless distraction. Seatbelts don't provide 100% protection in a car crash, surgeons washing their hands doesn't prevent 100% of infection, and having smoke alarms and two points of egress in a bedroom will not 100% save your life during a disaster. In fact, I can't even think of a mandated public safety feature that is 100% effective.
I'm curious as to how payouts to instructors work when Udemy has 90% off courses every other week?
This weirdly/coincidentally [delete as appropriate] showed up as a StackOverflow "Hot" question today

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69437526/what-is-this-od...
Acrylic is a little easier to scratch than plain glass, but not much. (Polycarbonate, which might be mistaken for acrylic out in the world, is very easy to scratch.)
Yeah in my experience the need to be distracted can always find an expression even after eliminating individual outlets.

Still, there are marginal benefits to reducing the quality of the distraction by banning myself from those I most enjoy.
nice to see phrack back again. I still remember "Smashing the stack for fun and profit", the article that back in the days made me have an epiphany about C, pointers and memory in general.
What is a use case? I am contemplating a more advanced excel-like app with separated flows for data acquisition (i.e. pulls via api), data management (tables, formulas, slicing) and view (graphing, input forms, buttons). I wonder if there would be a market for that and how to validate such idea…
From the paper:

> There is nothing good about this algorithm. It is slow – the algorithm
obviously runs in Θ(n²) time, whether worst-case, average-case or best-case.
It unnecessarily compares all pairs of positions, twice (but see Section 3).
There seems to be no intuition behind it, and its correctness is not entirely
obvious. You certainly do not want to use it as a first example to introduce
students to sorting algorithms. It is not stable, does not work well for
external sorting, cannot sort inputs arriving online, and does not benefit
from partially sorted inputs. Its only appeal may be its simplicity, in terms
of lines of code and the “symmetry” of the two loops.
Hey all, I'm the PM for this launch feel free to ask any questions

We are also collecting feedback in this discussion

https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/5962
Yeah I remember having one of those glasses and it literally blew up lol.
Facebook’s Apps Went Down. The World Saw How Much It Runs on Them
This is merely the European-style toilets helpfully reminding you that a visit to your GP might be in order :)
They counted pull requests merged during a few hours while Facebook was down. I’m guessing the number of PRs merged during any 5-hour window is extremely volatile, so it’s not surprising that they found it different than average when sampled randomly.

This reads like someone wanted to capitalize on the Facebook outage to get some traffic, so they threw their developers under the bus for some clickbait.

I wonder how good their presumably hard-working developers feel about the company blog implying that they’re all using so much Facebook that their productively suffers by a measurable amount every day.
I guess it is a good thing we made automated release notes on GitHub use PRs instead of commits then ; )
I get your point, but this still works because your files are safely on your own machine. Just switch the solution when this happens.
An outage that was only several hours long means that what you're really doing is measuring the productivity of that part of the day

This post makes me doubt anything else haystack says
Selling „broad“ swissknife-like tools is harder than niche ones, so I am unsure here
iCloud or OneDrive. In either case it has to be automated.
Whatever your opinion is about the lockdowns, there is one thing everyone should be able to agree on; they destabilize just about everything. I'm worried about people going hungry or not being able to heat their home this winter from the ripple effects.
I have bad news for toddlers who want to smoke in restaurants...
What would be the appropriate comparison/relation between 2600 and Phrack?
What do you expect from an industry that will sell any bullshit composite metric to indicate YoY growth?
I had 6 identical lab (secondary teaching) sessions per week, each 1 hour long. I handled lecture once a week, for two blocks of 400 students. It’s the equivalent of a decade teaching per school year.
>We're probably already far past the point of "There are more competent Python programmers than competent C programmers."

Maybe this is the point where we need to start thinking about where we went wrong? I know that nobody cares about performance anymore, but if anybody is really thinking about Python as a replacement for C then that makes me sad.
Haha, me so funny!

People are donating the source code to their privacy focused browser and documenting their efforts! Let's belittle their efforts and make fun of them by throwing unfounded claims!

Yay!
Yes, that's illegal.

Move fast and break (the law) things I guess?
> The blog post isn't about self-reported cognitive ability getting stronger (or not declining). It's about the job marketplace.

C'mon! You don't expect someone here to have actually read the story.

He didn't even get the irony of the title (Usually the expression goes the other way, i.e., "50 is the new 40") which means he didn't even read the title too well, either.
Thanks for the throwback to the University memory lane!

Also, glad to know that, according to Wikipedia, Mr. Karnaugh is alive.
Is this a discovery!? I'm 100% sure I wrote when I first started programming and obsessively tried to get the shortest solutions on codewars.
This is how it looks like https://xosh.org/VisualizingSorts/sorting.html#IYZwngdgxgBAZ...

It behaves more like insertion sort.
This is probably operator error. Assuming it's a modern pushbutton style one, make sure you're pressing the right button. Depending on the brokenness of the mechanism, you may have to hold for a second, or even the whole flush.
I had a good rapport with the students; also, the AC was out & it was hot.
Henrietta Lacks' estate sues company saying it used 'stolen' cells for research
I think it's more than just new users - I've gotten larger discounts from logging into the same account through a different browser.
That's an interesting anecdote about Backblaze, with restoring being such a pain. But could you not have continued downloading 25GB chunks remotely, until everything had been transferred? It seems like you'd only give up if you didn't really care about the rest of the files.
I am not particularly well informed on the Hitler Youth. Most of my knowledge on them comes from the excellent but fictional comedy film, Jojo Rabbit. But I'd still reckon the average Hitler Youth counselor was not accountable for the crimes of the Nazi regime. Definitely less so than a facebook database engineer is for facebook being shit.
Yes, we began to work on Hurl three years ago and the file format was "accidentaly" close to IntelliJ's HTTP file format. For the request part, it's not a coincidence since Hurl and IntelliJ's HTTP looks like "bare" HTTP format. They differ drastically on the response tests.

We keep working on Hurl because our main goal is to be able to easily run integration tests on a CI or locally in a terminal, which can be difficult with IntelliJ.

But yes, this shows that is really a need for such a tool.

For reference, IntelliJ format:

GET https://httpbin.org/status/200

> {%
client.test("Request executed successfully", function() {
client.assert(response.status === 200, "Response status is not 200");
});
%}

### Failed test: check response status is 200
GET https://httpbin.org/status/404

> {%
client.test("Request executed successfully", function() {
client.assert(response.status === 200, "Response status is not 200");
});
%}
You're trying to use the workflow outside of the happy path.
Which is rounded down to 0 or up to 1 at random.
The Release Notes are organized by PR and you can use configuration to sort into sections based on labels on those PRs. You can also ignore labels / particular users. So in theory everything you are outlining here is possible

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-o...
but I WANT it to be a voice-based CLI! which, yeah, I recognize that most users don't want.
Yes. Money seems like a distinctly worse metric.
I have insider information on MIT, but not on this specific situation.

In general, I would describe much of cancel culture not as a grassroots movement, so much as an astroturf movement. It gives entrenched powers an extrajudicial process to target people.

Abbot spoke out against legacy / alumni / etc. admissions. I suspect that, or something similar, was the real crime. MIT isn't huge into legacy / alumni admissions, so I suspect the mob got kicked off by somebody else (Harvard, just up the river, is big into legacy / alumni, would find this threatening, and leaderships are joined at the hip).
A dystopia with fewer people in poverty than ever, and the ability to communicate instantly with people around the globe, while we wander to the supermarket and buy plentiful food sourced from all over the world at prices normal people can afford, to go home and sit in climate controlled homes and entertain ourselves with endless games and have our housework eased by machines that wash our clothes and dishes with water that flows freely into our homes and doesn't need to be fetched, and we choose when our next child will be born

Yes what a dystopia we live in
Tesla is worth almost $800B dollars. This award won’t cause a blip in their culture or working conditions.
Did he actually lose his job? There's a big difference between your boss or, since he's an academic, someone on the promotion panel saying that and some internet stranger who has no impact on his career.

Contrast that with the Germans in question where “cancellation” had best case outcomes like economic ruin and fleeing the country. I'm not saying I support calls to have him fired — although I don't see people getting this lathered about about, say, all of the retail workers or service reps who get worse for even pettier reasons — but these are simply not remotely comparable situations.
I suppose it depends on how you count volume. I maybe get 2 or 3 pieces of "junk" mail a day, along with bill/renewal/etc. associated paper (most of which is handled electronically), and few other letters and packages. Certainly I get way, way more than that in email whether outright junk or the loosely-related result of being on countless industry lists, etc.
"And now for something completely different"

It's a Monty Python reference.
1. Agreed. The marginal benefit at this stage must be tiny compared to the costs being incurred. How many extra hospitalisations or deaths will there be if the country was to reopen (say to Level 2) now vs. doing so in 6 - 8 weeks?

2. Agreed. As far as I can tell basically zero extra capacity (facilities or staffing has been built out over the last 18 months). I do understand that extra staffing could be difficult but surly a few hundred million for temporary hospitals wold at least allow for more bed space.

3.I don't entirely agree with this. If a short sharp lockdown could eliminate the virus and buy a couple of months to prepare I think that is a worthwhile endeavour. I don't think repeated lockdowns are worth it though, certainly now 18 months later.

4. Agreed.

5. Agreed.

6. The events of the last couple of weeks are certainly uncovering a staggering amount of incompetence in the government and public service.

7. The delay in starting the vaccine rollout is hard to excuse but uptake seems to be roughly inline with similar developed countries.
Very fun little story.
Thanks for writing it.
My Logging Best Practices (2020)
Assuming GP means General Purpose, yes, everyone who took an intro to algorithms should know that no sorting algorithm that relies on comparisons can do better than O(n*log(n)).

But non-comparison algorithms [0] like radix sort [1] that rely on simplifying assumptions are not a joke and can be used in practice in many real-world cases.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Non-comparis...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort
I feel like in the context of backing up important things paying for the data to be fedexed to you on a drive is a given.
It’s not. The inner loop operates only from i+1 to n in exchange sort and the resulting swaps are very different.
Rules of thumb for a 1x developer (2020)
It behaves more like insertion sort https://xosh.org/VisualizingSorts/sorting.html#IYZwngdgxgBAZ...
All the more reason to offer counter arguments instead to advocating to silence people.

edit: which was precisely the core of the argument from the beginning...
> Some applications may have seen increased load and suffered due to server resourcing constraints, caused by applications like the above failing to fail gracefully, and instead polling more aggressively.

I had Cloudflare's woes in mind when I wrote that.
Here's an example workflow that automates publishing to npm and creating a release with generated notes on the push of a tag

https://github.com/MylesBorins/node-osc/blob/main/.github/wo...
Ryzen CPUs also have the TPM itegrated directly into the CPU.
This one might actually be textbook securities fraud though.... if you lie about MAU metrics by demographics, that literally is how your core business generates revenue
Hey, yeah I saw that. I believe it's only for ec2 related services but it's a good overview.
You make the password a random string, so the victim thinks they've forgotten it, buying you time.
Domino Data Lab Raises $100M from NVIDIA and others
He didn't get to give a talk. Can you summarize in your own words what happened to the German academics he drew a direct comparison to?
The problem with "turn off all lights" is that if I have some third-party devices in HomeKit that are not actually lights but are registered like lights, they go off as well.

Also, it's a studio apartment, so there's not really "rooms" strictly speaking.
...or you could just mark your spam as such and block the sender to reduce future junk mail without ruining a nice system of essentially free global communication for everyone who uses it as such.
I've always thought when I see one of these numbers about how people are collectively dumping millions of hours into Youtube or WoW or whatever else every day, imagine if that'd be spent on something genuinely social instead, learning, creating something, contributing something to the commons, volunteer an hour at the soup kitchen, clean the local park, however trivial. A billion hours of that every day instead of reading garbage on facebook or tiktok and I'd like to think things would look very different

goes well beyond breaking up big tech though, needs an entire reversal of culture at this point
I personally found Syncthing too complex, unpolished and confusing to be worth it, and I am an experienced software engineer in my 30s. And you’re recommending it for people who are “cognitively impaired, less able” etc? Absolutely silly.
Huh ... the example I used (Tay-Sachs) is an example of this. So I stand corrected. Thank you!

Thank god that the tech to sequence genomes was not available in the 1930s/1940s. Imagine what evil could be done with so much information.
What was a "WAS" gate? Google does not seem helpful here.
145F is beyond well-done for fish

Edit: I must refrain myself from changing this comment into a pun about it seeming fishy.
You can use a `.github/release.yml` to organize sections based on labels.

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/releasing-projects-o...

I talked with one of the maintainers of conventional commits and we discussed writing an action to auto-label PRs based on conventional commits as a way to make a bridge between the two ways of working.
GitHub Having Issues
A social movement has to form, one that rejects the faceless internet mob, and recognizes only people who exist here and now, physically in the present.

It needs a name. Movements only catch on when they have the right name that instantly conveys the message.
> He directly equates DEI efforts to Nazi Germany:

Specifically, he equated active racial, gender, etc. inclusion with active racial exclusion. Like the rest of his piece, it is part of a pile of nonobvious (but with a very high affinity for a particular political tribe, despite the author’s claim to be apolitical) conclusions offered without significant justification; the one place this seems to be noted at all os an invitation to the reader to do research and disprove the conclusion that the author has declined to support.
I remember the late 90s a little differently. At least in the USA, it was a time where most people used centralized networks like America Online and Compuserve, and instead of websites, brands would direct you to their AOL keyword. Everyone was concerned about the centralization of power, but there was a lot of hope about the possibility of decentralized information. AOL lost its power in the begenning of the millenium, but it was quickly followed in popularity of other centralized networks like MySpace. Meanwhile, the decentralized networks only continued to grow along with them.

Maybe the mistake was thinking that the Internet would either be centralized or decentralized, that one model would win in the end. The large organizations never gave up, but the small networks didn't either. There's no meaningful end to depth of the current Internet, and the decentralized part is larger than ever. Even Gopher space has continued to slowly grow. Maybe the only thing we lack is curiosity, and that's easy to rediscover.
> once you've decided its very difficult to change.

Can't speak for iCloud, but getting your data out of Google is pretty straightforward - it's well documented at [0]. How often do you want to do this though?

> I'm not sure what happens if you miss a few payments - do you lose your photos?

A quick google answers this question [1], if you stop paying and ignore the messages for 2 years your data _may_ be deleted.

> If you die can anyone else get access?

Again, a quick google says yes, if you set it up [2].

> Incidentally Google Cloud has lost some of my photos.

What do you mean by this? Google cloud or Google Photos? I would love to hear more about google photos losing data, I've _never_ heard of it (yet I have witnessed bit rot on physical media, or flash drives just getting lost).

[0] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3024190

[1] https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2736362

[2] https://support.google.com/accounts/troubleshooter/6357590
Replying to myself here since the edit time expired: this does of course depend on where you live; in the context of the thread and the while fintech popularity in various places around the world and the EU not really having much use for that, this is because you can safely transfer money around without the risk of someone abusing your 'secret bank number'.

In the US and probably other places as well this is more like an SSN where just having the number allows you to do all sorts of (criminal) abusive things.
yea kind of tasteless. although seems to be part of their business offering, making devs more productive....
Yup. This hypothesis revolves around posited "chameleon-screened dark energy" - particles/fields whose mass and coupling with other field fluctuates based on their surrounds. While I guess this isn't impossible, it reeks of Conveniencium - a field with properties that are non-homogeneous and just happen to match your model at both microscopic and cosmic scales? Pull the other one.

Xenon experiments have been undergoing a bit of a crisis of faith as of late. Each iteration is a cycle of of "we predict dark matter in this energy window" -> find nothing out of place -> "well we can't rule out the long tail" -> build a bigger, more sensitive xenon detector.

Grossly oversimplified and it's been a hot minute since undergrad. But the gist is WIMPs are excluded from more and more regimes and they are running out of places to look.