skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"How can I tap in to that virtuous do gooder cache from open source software without giving up the cash from proprietary software?"
I have used it on NixOS for over a year on my main desktop and NAS box. The experience is .. flaky .. sometimes Kent does not have a new enough kernel version available that NixOS needs, there have been several major breakages where some background tasks spin at 100% cpu forever and the file system slows down to a crawl, sometimes you need a to run fsck from a compat branch to get your fs back into shape. At the moment my desktop is broken because the NixOS config forgot how to unlock my root volume. But when it works, it mostly stays out of my way. I think I will move to ZFS for my desktop, there has been just too much faff with my setup. The claim about there not being any on-disk data loss, IDK, I have read from disk some large media files that have been broken .. when they had been written during a slow crawl while the fs processes were spinning 100%. So jury is still out there.

I totally agree with some parent commenter here that it needs a team to work with Kent. Documentation is almost nonexistent (tho ArchWiki saves the day a little).
You can burn cash for heating
Seconding this as a great time to use/try TDD! Every problem comes with a small sample input and output, so you get a test case for free
> Free as in beer, maybe. Not free as in speech.

That is true, but the choice of words is correct: Open Source software is not necessarily Free Software.
I use Plex to stream my local music library. The "Plexamp" client player is, well, buggy as hell, but it mostly works, and will transcode on the fly if it needs to.

As a bonus it works for videos too.
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Where I work everyone gets Dec 24 - Jan 2nd off, "for free." You can also take PTO along with it if you want a longer break.
You have correctly deduced why AI research is just a paper factory.
Here some of the sites that have gotten traction in my SERPs lately that I can't stand

https://pretagteam.com/

https://www.codegrepper.com/

https://issueexplorer.com/

They are all scraping Stack Overflow / Github in some fashion
Computer-designed organisms
Using ChatOps to help Actions on-call engineers
Ex googler.

Project zero is amazing and well respected. I don't get why the hate.
Introduction to Artficial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence gain in popularity these days, let's learn the basic about this excting branch of the Computer Science
What? Not at all. Arbery attempted to gain control of the gun and was killed, and the defense attempted to claim self-defense. I was responding to the claim that self-defense is some kind of automatic not-guilty verdict. It evidently is not.
I would urge you to reconsider your work/life balance. Trading 10 months for 2 seems like a poor trade. A 4 day work week automatically gets you 52 extra days a year. If you have flexibility in the day of the week, it's very compelling.
This is baseless. As per the article Google Chrome used NSS by default for years during which this vulnerability existed, so they're admitting their own product was affected. The article goes into detail about how Google's oss-fuzz project neglected to find this bug.

The author was even so kind as to boldface the first sentence here saying "the vendor did everything right":

> This wasn’t a process failure, the vendor did everything right. Mozilla has a mature, world-class security team. They pioneered bug bounties, invest in memory safety, fuzzing and test coverage.

I don't know how anyone could find a more gracious way to find and publish a vulnerability.
Why do you need to be insecure to brag?

If you're awesome, and you're aware of the fact, which you presumably are if you're genuinely as intelligent as you think you are, why not have fun with it?

I'm not in the camp that thinks Wolfram deserves his success, but if I did think he did, I'd celebrate his bragging.

As it is, though, I find the Wolfram's Wolfram Wolfram less than appealing.
Anybody interested in getting a just-for-fun HN user leaderboard going? Here's my code: 194284-90c48b41

In the last couple years I usually stopped up after a few days when I didn't find the time to do one of the puzzles or got stuck with the Rust borow checker. Maybe having a leaderboard helps with the motivation to keep on going! :)
We could just have 8 weeks of paid vacation by law and not also work 6-day weeks. That's not so far from what other countries do as to be obviously crazy or unreasonable.
Strange that the downvote button was hidden on this post. I had to manually submit the GET request.
Bitcoins ;)
Plague Legends
Your google drive link is not working for me!
GitHub Availability November 2021
To claim the right to abortion, infanticide and euthanasia, and to recognize that right in law, means to attribute to human freedom a perverse and evil significance: that of an absolute power over others and against others. This is the death of true freedom.

— Karol Wojtyła, 25 March 1995
MH370 Gdtaaa Analysis
My problem has been that I sometimes lose indentation, by accident, and this can break or, worse, alter the behavior. It is also a nuisance when I want to copy-paste code from somewhere else, and it doesn't go smoothly.

Once I needed to incorporate code from a colleague who used 2 spaces for indentation. That was a nightmare.
There are tons of SBCs out there, but none of them scare Raspberry Foundation because none of them have the wide distribution, brand recognition, and large community that goes with it. It's very much a popularity feeds popularity market.
The first U.S. case of the omicron variant has been reported
I mean, it was a ton of unexpected rain, and as far as I know, the only danger was caused by the flooding itself rather than any sort of supply shortages. I suspect that rather than serve as a warning of our inability to solve problems, it will turn out to have been such a non-problem (relative to the amount of damage that happened) that it will be completely forgotten in 10 years.
iTunes won't even play FLAC files, so it's rather inconvenient for people with existing libraries. Yes I know I could convert it all to some proprietary Apple format, but it's easier to just not buy an iPhone.
Must have missed this. Was there a requirement to specify this in the post?
> Either it doesn't say or I don't follow the medicalese well enough to interpret it.

You can't interpret it because our current leaders don't want you to understand it.

- Fauci has refused to cooperate with Senate oversight questions. Since he has a conflict of interest in funding 26 Chinese virology labs, including WIV, he should resign.

- OSHA is forbidden from releasing workplace covid stats

- after 18 months, the CDC has not released any data on the effectiveness of paper/cloth masks. Other countries have either found none, or 5% to 10%.

- the CDC has not provided a clear message on whether it is spread via droplets or aerosols, so nobody knows how to improve building ventilation.

People are calling this the biggest coverup of all time.
No, most places do not have Global Intelligence, Workplace Security positions. Business Continuity is most often a IT business function ...
> Another problem is that the input set is always small enough to make a brute force solution the most favorable one. So what they are really judging is the speed at which someone can read/parse the input file and write some loops.

That's only true for, well, ok maybe 1/2-2/3rds of the days. The rest require something more complicated, either with more complicated algorithms or more clever algorithms to get performance to a reasonable level. See the other discussion here about 2020 Day 13. The naive solution worked on the samples, but would not have worked on the actual input.
Why does Amz write it as "Arm" when it is an abbreviation?
Censorship can be conducted by private or public entities.

https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
I don't know about all that - I can easily look back at my music library and browse through what I listened to 2 years ago. That is nearly impossible on Spotify (I assume on purpose).
> Until 2015, Google Chrome used NSS, and maintained their own testsuite and fuzzing infrastructure independent of Mozilla. Today, Chrome platforms use BoringSSL, but the NSS port is still maintained...

> Did Mozilla/chrome/oss-fuzz have relevant inputs in their fuzz corpus? YES.
What's special here is the bug is a memory corruption, and memory corruption bugs in such libraries are usually instantly security bugs.

Otherwise, the same story could be told as a generic software testing joke: "unit-tests are short-sighted and coverage lies", i.e. an "extremely well-maintained codebase, with extensive unittest, >98% test coverage and constantly scanned by all-static-analyzers-you-may-come-up" can have fatal, trivial bugs.
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It varies by company. Accrued PTO is carried on the balance sheet as a liability, since it's owned to employees and would generally have to be paid out in cash if the employee is terminated. Reducing that liability makes several financial metrics look better. Some companies shut down for a week and require employees to use up their accrued PTO (or take unpaid leave). Other companies give it "free" essentially as company holidays. There's no right or wrong here, it's just one of many factors you have to consider when deciding where to work.
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Cool, where are you from in NM?
Okeano – The search engine that cleans the ocean and respects your privacy
MaxMind is a Latacora client -- anyone in that prodsec position will end up working closely with us to help secure MaxMind :)

If you're like me, you probably know MaxMind from the GeoIP database. That's important, but only half the picture: MaxMind has also transmuted a lot of that knowledge into MinFraud, which is one of the easiest to integrate APIs for fraud detection around. I mean it: I'd guesstimate that the median MinFraud customer is already preventing fraudulent transactions by the time ML science project attempters have their conda install working. (There's room in the world for the fancy ML stuff, of course! But man, talk about a premature optimization rabbit hole.)

Contact details in bio as usual.
The current average company lifespan is 21 years (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-...). It has slowly decreased over time.

Given that Wolfram Research is tightly held, what happens when the company ends?
Does it "punch a hole" in computational mathematics? Does all of your code stop working?

This isn't idle speculation. I used to use a Symbolics machine. Symbolics Inc. failed. The Symbolics software still exists but you can only buy a copy that runs on DOS. I used Common Lisp on Symbolics. Common Lisp is a standard. There are open source implementations so all of my code survived.

Will your code survive when Wolfram Research dies?

(Full Disclosure, I'm the lead developer on open source Axiom)
Debian's default distribution has no binary blobs, and every BSD's problem is its terrible license.
> No, what it does is it causes prices to go up, which are amortized across all of society

It does both of these things. Some jobs are lost and some prices go up.

Some tasks are better off outsourced, automated, or not even done at all as the floor price on labor increases. Raising minimum wages here hurts. Shortening the work week helps.

The demand for some tasks is inelastic but easily performed by many different people. The price of these tasks increases in proportion to minimum wage. Raising minimum wages here helps the employees, and shortening the work week is a small hurt.

Some tasks already have an equilibrium price well above minimum wage due to a supply limitation of the capable labor. Raising minimum wages here is relatively neutral. Shortening the work week should increase compensation here and increase the motivation for employers to find ways to bring more lower skill people into the field.

Most things are somewhere between these extremes.
AoC 2021 Day 1 using Ivy [video]
If the goal is developing grantee self-efficacy, the funding should require pairing with a mentor. Finding a mentor that is willing to guide a grantee to bring an idea to fruition is also validation of that individual's ability to accomplish the task.
Likely this came about from a reader of a recent post also on the front page [1] where image scaling is mentioned for website loading performance.

> There's a million ways to skin the cat of image resizing, whether you're using photoshop, gimp or a command line utility. We like to use imagemagick when ever possible.

I notice this pattern. Someone posts, readers look at the article / content and the comments, then find something else interesting, and that thing then becomes another submission to HN (either because it is indeed interesting on its own, or to gain points due to relevancy of surrounding material on the front page, or both).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29405159
Do you know how they make money? Qt also started being free and open-source, and that, of course, changed over the years.
If you need engineers to respond to server issues at 5am you can and should be paying them to be on call, and then paying them on top of that when an incident occurs. I don't think anything in this law (which doesn't seem to even resemble the headline of this article tbh) would prevent that.
It's slightly more complicated now that we also have Blazor Hybrid: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/hybrid-blazor-apps-in-....

Blazor is two things at the moment:

- Blazor Webassembly: C# + .Net runtime + Razor components, all of this compiled to web assembly, running on the browser as a Single Page Application

- Blazor Server: C# + .Net runtime on the server, + a SignalR (i.e: socket.io alternative) connection between the server, + Razor components (rendered server-side, diff are sent to the client to update the DOM)

But that's not all! To make it even more complicated, Blazor Hybrid (or .Net MAUI BLazor? Names I've seen aren't consistent) has been announced: a .Net MAUI application + an embedded web view + a local interop channel!
I've been on the same journey. My plan is to self host plex. Cache the music I want, VPN/stream when I want to add more to the cache.
Choose your own path in life: panic or confidence. There is a scientific basis for whichever path you choose [0].

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[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7095397/
change your definitions of success & take off the pre-judgement blinders?
The OA story is a great illustration why we should never put aside common decency. Break down indecent behavior dampening barriers at the risk of fickle mobs looking for the next target to shame. No one is safe. Even the most self-interested person has plenty to gain from a society that highly values common decency.

* Meet other people? The settled science is that you are putting others at risk of infectious disease.

* Drive a car? The settled science is that you are putting others at risk of blunt force trauma.

* Have a barbecue party? The settled science is that you are putting others at risk of food poisoning.
I've seen programming newsgroups, those things from the 90's, with what can best be described as MITM attacks having taken place when coders have been looking for solutions to problems and the solutions have not been correct. Most newsgroups were never secure so vulnerable to MITM from day 1 and what is being reported today is just the latest variation in that attack process.

I've also seen Bing & Google citing StackOverFlow and the replies in SO awarding or agreeing on a solution comes straight from this "text book" "The Gentleman's Guide To Forum Spies" https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm

Perhaps it would be useful to dig into a posters history on a site and then decide who you trust instead of just trusting a random on the internet?

How many people have download code from SO into VS and found it doesnt even do what its purported to do? I've seen plenty of that.

Resource Burning the population, in this case programmers, is a perfectly valid technique for a variety of reasons, but the main one being, you are stuck in front of computer and that means you cant get into mischief away from work. Religions have been using that technique for hundreds of years and colloquially its know as "The devil makes work for idle hands to do" or something to that effect.

Choose carefully what you want to believe and trust.
> Moth Minds is a platform that makes it extremely easy for anyone to start their own grants program.

Where is it? More like will be.
From the article:
> Uploading your music to the cloud and streaming them as any other song

You can purchase music from Bandcamp and upload it to your apple collection. I bought an album from Bandcamp today.
> But negative interest rates would help the heavily indebted countries to ease their debt service burden.

By penalizing their creditors, sure. That should teach them (and anyone else paying attention) not to lend to such countries in the future.
Which millennia?

Lets take the Siege of Leningrad / St. Petersberg, well accepted by historians to be an attempted Genocide against the Slavs. Hitler's plan was to kill everyone in the city, and Hitler's methodology was starvation (cut off the food supply, and watch everyone die inside the city).

No matter how you look at it, Leningrad was an atrocity on a massive scale. With over 3-million dead in this singular siege alone, I think we can safely declare the Siege of Leningrad to be the biggest loss-of-life in a __singular__ military operation ever... albeit spread over multiple years (it was a big campaign), but a singular operation nonetheless.

Nothing else in history compares. Not the atomic bombs in Nagasaki or Hiroshima. Not the Toyko firebomings. Not even Holocaust (because the "Operation Barbarossa" was ~20-million dead, far dwarfing the Holocaust. Leningrad was just one piece of the overall plan).

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That's what I mean by total war. War on a scale and scope so massive, it makes the rest of history look puny in comparison.

Arguably the attacks on say, Nanking or Manila, are more akin to historical (with soldiers raping and pillaging as they see fit). I can find historical examples similar to Nanking / Manila for certain (Mongols or whatever). But not even the Mongols starved 3+ million to death in an explicit campaign of genocide in a singular military operation (The Mongols, as "evil" as they were, sought conquest and not genocide on this scale)

And we've got all sorts of bad examples to choose from WW2. Tokyo, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Dresden, Berlin, Leningrad, Stalingrad.

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You won't see Joan of Arc destroying cities on this scale... nor William , nor King Henry. Some of the Crusades were known to be bloody... but even the Siege of Jerusalem (1st Crusade) resulted in "only" 70,000 deaths, a number that is far smaller than the total-warfare of the WW2 era.

Well... maybe William the Conqueror did destroy a few towns actually, if I recall. But not on anything approaching WW2 scales.
Soon, 1 out of every 15 points of light in the sky will be a satellite
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Who does that maintenance?
Pfizer Cumulative Analysis of Post-Authorization Adverse Event Reports [pdf]
> since you believe that it grants the government the right to mandate vaccines

Specifically avoided saying that. Stated simply, my point is there is positive precedent to the precursors to vaccine mandates, and reasonable ambiguity to the question per se. There is clear negative precedent for abortion. As such, comparing them is misleading. (Better analogy may be found in gun rights.)
I hope we can still get data out of the black boxes if they can be found. It's important to know if this was a technical issue or some other cause. Although I don't know if Boeing could handle another technical fault if it turns out it was another "known" issue.
Dude, you just submitted this 5 days ago with a decent amount of comments.
Not to be confused with https://ferretdb.com/
They have a daily mega thread for solutions over on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/

https://www.reddit.com/r/adventofcode/comments/r66vow/2021_d...

It's interesting to see the various solutions, especially when you realize, "Oh, duh, I did more work than necessary." and can go back and improve your own with the new knowledge.
> far, far easier to build than all of these C programs

One of my friends who work on AIX machines without direct Internet access does not share the same view, though.
Thank you! So many hindsight fortune tellers here.