skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's also trivially easy to regulate. Mandate that all cameras recording public spaces record to encrypted storage. The key is in possession of the judicial system. It can only be decrypted and examined with a warrant, with probable cause, as you would need for wiretapping or raiding a home or searching someone's computer.
I don't think the email verification is working. I've tried to sign up twice and not received anything
> Note that GC makes explicit the costs associated with memory allocation and freeing; languages that use manual memory management (or semi automated memory management as in Swift/Rust) simply un-amortise the cost and distribute it all over the program

This is generally an interesting feature of garbage collected languages, and it's often more efficient than manual memory management - but it does come with downsides.

> Even in a “predictable” language like Rust, a data entry containing a map like structure is going to have a different destruction time if the map is empty vs if it is full.

"Predictable" does not mean "always the same". It means that given a map with the same size and fill level, destroying it will take the same time. What's more important is that the point in the program where the destruction happens can be controlled - and, if necessary, moved out of the critical path of something that requires response within a certain bound. This may introduces an overall inefficiency in the program, but if you have software that needs to fulfill certain time bounds, that's the tradeoff you choose. Doing so in a garbage collected language is much harder.

And rust targets environments where (near)-realtime behavior and predictable performance is important, or where garbage collection is not truly possible since allocation isn't even possible (think embedded systems).

> Anyway, the point is that when programmers talk about “predictable” behaviour in a program, what they generally mean is “invisible performance problems” and so it gets swept under the carpet.

I don't see how this is a counterpoint to what I said - programmers blaming other things for performance problem has been a thing like forever.
Quality of the product media is a huge influence on customer trust. AirBnb is a great case on that, as their effort to take professional photos of the listed properties had a huge positive impact on trust and conversion.
On real estate and the Roman Empire. If i listened to a math or cs lecture at 1.5-2x id be finished
It's probably a combination of the two. Letting the monkey instincts run wild while covering them with modern fanciful words :-)
Nice meme, but many haskellers are interested in other programming languages, such as Idris.
Check our Fireball Tool. Just about anybody who does that kind of work (metal fabrication) would prefer that shop over whatever they customized to their idiosyncrasies.

That's the kind of thing that a collaborative space can aspire to.
Cloudstore[1] can do something similar automatically.

[1] https://github.com/infor-cloud/cloud-store
> I've always treated SO more like a knowledgeable coworker to help when I get stuck.

Not too knowledgeable though, in my experience if you are the knowledgeable colleague in a domain, SO will not help you unless you're in one of the domains with a legendary SO contributor (e.g. C# because of Jon Skeet if you manage to get their attention), and unlike a knowledgeable colleague it won't assist you in looking for a clarification or solution either.
Germany’s Energy Surrender
I see, but in case I think this is less about finding an optimal solution and more about the general best practice of not having any unbounded queues in your application. Having to wait would have been annoying, definitely, but it would have surely been preferrable to the outage.
> working as a consultant I've seen all kinds of interesting things.

You shouldn't compare consulting vs tech support. Especially when your billing rate is noticeably higher.
Use Sodium Bicarbonate or Potassium Bicarbonate instead, it helps as antiacid as well
"Do with them"? That's a truly chilling way to speak of people.
It still seems wild to me that, after discovering most of the judges who voted for Qatar to host the World Cup were bribed, everything proceeded as planned. Sepp Blatter was objectively corrupt, and Infantino is no better.
Turn off 10% of your generation and you'll be importing.
Another thing: what were the scores? If the 2x watchers got a 70 instead of a 50 does that really help? In college I was trying to get As not Cs
>I would rather just read instead of wasting time watching a video. I take in far more,

But sometimes the more efficient reading text instead of listening to a video is negated by not being able to multitask. E.g. The "dead" time of driving, walking a treadmill, raking leaves in the yard, etc can be filled by listening to text. Can't do that with a book.

That's why productivity can be helped with both complementary technologies:

- audio-to-text: auto-generated transcripts from video for max speed and random seeking

- text-to-audio: auto-generated TTS (text-to-speech) from text to multitask while performing a mindless physical activity. This helps get through backlog of books and articles without having to block out dedicated reading time while nothing else is getting done.
Ask HN: "Know Your Hardware”: best books/resources to learn?
This insightful thread [1] today suggests importance for developer to "know its hardware".

Any materials (books, videos, courses, tutorials, example codebases) you'd suggest to learn this?

I like the "Write Great Code" series [2], esp. "Understanding the Machine" and "Thinking Low-Level, Writing High-Level". Though I think they miss depth.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29660117

[2] https://nostarch.com/search/Write%20Great%20Code
> I have never heard complaints about forced labor.

So does this mean they don't exist?

> These bans will only make the living conditions of minorities worse, because they may lose their jobs because of the ban.

but they are slave labour, so whether they have a job or not doesn't really matter? or would you say thats not the case? If so they could move and get a job somewhere else?
You're wrong, there is a very strong consensus. The first few entries are highly up voted. Take the first 2 as a basic definition or idea of the concept and the 3rd one as an example.
According to a graphic in the OP article there are different types of mobile alerts depending on the earthquake strength, only the strongest ones triggering an actual Wireless Emergency Alert.
All that seems trivial to type but less than trivial to implement.
I don't find your blanket statement accurate.

It is suitable for both applications, painting and photo editing.
I have used it strictly for photo editing professionally and privately and it works flawlessly. Highly recommended.
I use the knowledge I have from my Photoshop days and apply them in Krita, no issues there. For me it is a Photoshop drop-in replacement.
Sharing would be _preferable_ by choice, since you could make one-way trips, but given the coordination problem...
For the same reason food isn't?
The worse part, at least to me, is that that these shallow gestures presumably work, that somehow empty posturing on progressive-cause-du-jour actually does buy them goodwill in the western world.

It's either that, or this entire thing as a corporate strategy is run by some HR echo chamber with minimal forethought, and any downside is farmed out to external PR crisis management teams.

I'm starting to think it's the latter, given the amount of backpedalling and policy changes as of late (think google employee walkouts, publishers dealing with wrongthink books, netflix employees trying to scuttle the company's IP etc)
"The researchers do also add a few caveats. While 2x viewing was fine for learning about the material in their studies — real estate appraisals and the Roman Empire — perhaps it might not work for more complex subject matter; again, only more research will tell."
He didn't say when
Sigh. Yes Epstein is a vile scumbag, but he was also a rich asshole who liked networking, I don't think it's fair to associate everyone who met with him as a part of his rapey ventures.

Opened your link, scrolled to the conclusions. Hah, reads like a Q-Anon writing...
The annoying part is that there's no opt out. And when there is, it's obscure (you can express that to the staff), and makes you look hella suspicious.
A couple of months ago I was walking through a park late at night thinking I was alone. So it was a rather surreal experience to see phones light up everywhere around me with that woman's voice speaking in almost perfect unison.

In this particular case there was a 2-3 second warning. Was one of the more violent ones Tokyo has had recently and I was rather glad to not have been inside.
Right up there with other techie superstitions such as "editor x makes me a better programmer, because typing faster".
Economist here.

To defend conventional GDP calculations for a moment, it’s worth keeping in mind that when GDP measures were first invented the data necessary to compute something like what is proposed in the article wasn’t even a pipe dream. (The original ideas predate the 20th century.)

The data simply did not exist and was not even foreseen in anyone’s wildest imagination. Even computing conventional GDP measures 75 years ago took a lot of work, a lot of it on paper. (In fact one of the earlier innovators in GDP calculations warned about treating it as a welfare measure way back in the 1930’s! The critique here is not new.)

You can sell a measure with a lot of individual heterogeneity like the one proposed in this note to economists. (You don’t need to dress it up in superfluous mathematical machinery like a geometric Brownian motion either.) But this is stuff that has become possible only recently thanks to advances in data availability and computing power. It’s also worth noting that the data itself is only available to a tiny fraction of researchers.

If you are the IRS and have a good picture of everyone’s income at a very precise level, you can compute this measure. (It is not easy once you get into the details!) If you are the Bureau of Economic Analysis, which computes GDP, you probably need permission from Congress to access that data for that purpose.
> The key is in possession of the judicial system. It can only be decrypted and examined with a warrant, with probable cause, as you would need for wiretapping

That's how you end up with the NSA and CIA being inside every single camera in the country :)
Isn't the client side scanning done only on stuff that is about to be uploaded to the cloud, and thus stuff that would be scanned server-side anyway as it has been the case for most cloud stuff for years?

In that case, yeah, a bit sneaky to offload their electricity usage to me and save on hardware by using mine. but it is not "The End of Privacy as We Know It".
Agreed. That’s why I thought I’d give a shout out to the fact that these are all generalizations:

“I’m mindful that there are some contexts where a visual is necessary or particularly helpful, and that some folks resonate with visual/spoken word more than written.“

Strangely, I was never a reader as a child, but took to it as an adult.
Only if you treat language as a religion :)

I suspect this is more a question of experience than of language. Getting too carried away with the idioms and properties of a specific language will be mitigated by learning about different computation models / type systems and the languages that implement them. Sooner or later you learn that software development is about trade-offs and you choose the right tool for the job.
FWIW I think the goal has been to put security in some other layer that's more appropriate. You can add those type of APIs to Wayland but you'd have to also implement a security mechanism, which is non-trivial. D-Bus can be the most secure option for some things but not here, there might have been a plan to put the clipboard in D-Bus but I believe that got scrapped because it was found to be less secure; Wayland implementations are supposed to validate access to the clipboard based on the most recent input event, to prevent background applications from snooping on the clipboard.

Personally for me I do find D-Bus to be easier to program than Wayland though, the libraries for it are a lot more mature. You might want to try something like pydbus or systemd's sd_bus, or the Rust library zbus. Those are some of the better implementations I've seen.

X11's security mechanisms were never really complete, I don't know of any distribution that actually uses those Mandatory Access Control schemes. Distributions that focus around X security (e.g. Qubes) all seem to use X sandboxing now which should work better than MAC-based security but is quite complicated to set up and still not practical for most other distributions to use. I remember seeing some MAC-based proposals for Wayland but they never caught on because the focus there has also moved to sandboxing.

>There's also the forgotten (by most) part of the protocol for secure entry that one is supposed to use when accepting passwords and the like.

AFAIK there is no special part of the protocol for this and this was never really a good solution. It's just done using an ordinary keyboard grab, which are mostly considered an insecure API that does nothing in practice because all the other X security schemes will try to disable or restrict grabs for security reasons.
It's not there

https://imgur.com/LgUmHGJ

What are you on about with A100? The UK road numbering system was a post-war thing
yes, having one CCTV is exactly the same situation as covering every square meter like in London. /s
Its not as bad as Argentina 1976.
And people are not ignorant. They never are.
But the show must go on.
Ketamine therapy swiftly reduces depression and suicidal thoughts
Because those things have decided to use dependencies that are not provided by the base system, and because Microsoft has made some questionable decisions regarding C runtimes, DirectX, and the like.

The point is, I can always depend on user32.dll, kernel32.dll, and a bunch of other Windows API to be there and to still be compatible with how I'm calling it[0] 20 years from now. Linux is too fragmented and user space libraries break compatibility too often for that.

[0] in the vast majority of cases
That's 25Hz, isn't it? Better stay of the eggnog until Christmas Day.
2 Killed in Driverless Tesla Car Crash
And Colombia's league basically runs all year (Jan/Feb to Dec). MLS in the USA runs March-Oct.
I was talking about technology. There are tons of side by side comparisions on YouTube showing the distance between Google and others.

Privacy is a completely different subject and whatever we feel about these companies it is very hard to quantify.
Goes beyond this one small discipline, too. The entire "medical system" has never shed the shadow of Human Eugenics, and has been all too eager to adopt the mantles and authority of a Mystery Priesthood.

When I go to a doctor anymore, I do not expect them to have "help me solve my health issue" as their highest priority. Evidence from the last two decades suggests that goal may not even make their list. I dunno what goals they're being told to pursue, but I bet its not what they dreamed of doing when they decided to go to Medical School.
Interesting study. It makes sense since pretty much all other popular forms of burning things are linked with cancerous substances. I wonder if beeswax candles are less carcinogenic.
AWS uses envelope encryption. Data encryption (for example bucket-level) keys are generated and managed outside KMS for some time/services to minimize calls to KMS that can be expensive.

Thus, I imagine with AWS-managed KMS keys, in some cases permission to KMS service is not needed to access data.

KMS-CMKs are better in this respect, can be controlled and audited.
Funny, this is exactly what I've been doing lately and it did help a lot actually. I felt kind of guilty or stupid for not having figured it out earlier.
> Not to mention that there aren't many stable democracies left willing to host World Cups, there's a reason why Qatar and Russia ended up hosting 2018/2022.

Nah, stable places are totally willing to host, if it was offered to them. They are just not willing to bid as high as Qatar and Russia were. (Where bidding is informal, basically how much bribery you were willing to do.)

> Every world cup assignment of the last decades was loaded with corruption charges - including, to my shame as German, the 2006 World Cup.

I can believe that. But the amount of money in bribes is still relatively trivial compared to the total amount they make from the World Cup.

(In general, what's so infuriating about bribes and corruption is how low the stakes are. If someone is willing to sell out their country for a few billion Euros, I wouldn't be mad. But have a look at eg the paltry sums that changed hands in the CDU-Spendenaffäre. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDU-Spendenaff%C3%A4re They are talking about mere millions.

Compare also https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/09/18/too-much-dark-money-in... )
That's great. It is heart-warming to hear some businesses are taking this threat seriously.

We built are service in similar vain. Nothing can reside under authority on non-EU entity, and nothing can be hosted on servers owned by non-EU entity. This effectively removed AWS, Azure, GCP and Alibaba.

And still, we had plenty of choice.

We specifically picked “boring” cloud provider. No thrills cloud vendor which has core business in building infrastructure rather than snooping on customers.
The cause of the earthquake has been identified as all the phones simultaneously vibrating from a stress test of the alerting system.
Yeah, I'm far more concerned about the apparent slavery of migrant workers in Qatar than about how it affects some schedules.
Make an LLC
I have a polo for 49 eur and the under shirts were 6 for 60 eur last weeks (now back to 30 for 2). For things that last years it's ok for me. Ok, it's certainly not cheap.
"We need to live with surveillance"
> Usually, you don't start learning a new language with multithreaded operations..

Why not? I mean, maybe not your first ever programming language, but - why should you not get used to doling out work to all available threads to begin with?
When I studied Physics as an undergraduate, I would regularly spend 3 hours just to really understand the content of the notes I had taken in a 1.5 hour lecture.

The speed of consuming the content was never the limiting factor.

When I listen to an interesting podcast, I often pause the track to think about implications of what was just said or to formulate a rebuttal in my head.

I guess there are different kinds of learning and different levels of understanding something.
In fashion: Nike, Versace, Coach, Givenchy, Calvin Klein, Asics, Swarovski, Dior

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/fashion-beauty/article/303950...
Are Americans less likely to reply to emails from Black people?
Is it due to repetition ?
This is great. It’s rare to find a well organized brain dump of a beginner struggling with a simple problem.

There is very little record in general of the intermediate states people pass through on their trajectory from novice to expert. I suspect one could build an entirely new framework for education around such data.
Off topic — does anyone know more about what happened to the Kestrel project? It sounds from the note in the archived GitHub project[0] like the maintainer shut it down because a company released a similar product with the same name. Seems odd (and sad).

[0] https://github.com/KestrelComputer/kestrel
Great idea and I can relate to that.
However, I still prefer text and reading. I'm always missing CTRL+F / CMD+F with video bookmarks.
Obviously, a government has more power and more means than an individual.

But when it comes to databases, individuals have access to ridiculously large databases too. With Facebook and Google you can peek into the private life of most people, even the police does it because there is more data there than in their own files. And I am just talking about ordinary access. Not what Facebook and Google can do as a company.

Add a bit of social engineering and crowdsourcing and no one is safe if enough people want to find them. There have been some pretty impressive "doxing" in the past.

And staying off social media is pretty hard if you want to live a normal life. You may not have a Facebook account but your friends do, you may find your picture on your company website, maybe even in a local newspaper. And officials are no different, if they want to live normally, they are going to be exposed.
This is one of those "damned if you, and damned if you don't" type situations.

I'm sure all they really want is to maintain their margins, which makes turning the other cheek to potential human rights abuses that much more sinister... but making a commitment to higher ethical standards risks putting them out of business (Intel has been poorly managed for years already), which would make this a futile effort.
I wonder if khan academy noticed this too.
Amnesty isn't a good source for anything. I've been on the other side of an "amnesty digital protest" and boy, they aren't very good with facts.
Absolutely! There's a great online course out there called "Learning to learn". I recommend you to start with this one ASAP.
I really found Divvy for Window Management to be great. A lot of the other window managers seemed really fixed in what they could set where Divvy let you build your own grid and boxes.

https://mizage.com/divvy/
How is closing an embassy an "action against" someone?
Does everything in life need to be calculated in terms of monetary value?
“The United States women's national soccer team […] is the most successful in international women's soccer, winning four Women's World Cup titles (1991, 1999, 2015, and 2019), four Olympic gold medals (1996, 2004, 2008, and 2012), and eight CONCACAF Gold Cups.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_women%27s_nati...
Well, there are people who would refuse to learn if not for the videos. What then? Are we going to sit in an increasingly sparsely-populated ivory tower and complain how nobody wants to learn, or are we going to try capturing the attention of such people in any way that works?

To be honest, I agree with you. I like to read. I learn better when I read. Text is much more convenient in so many ways that I honestly don't understand why would anyone opt for a video instead. But the reality is that the average attention span and the kinds of concentration people are capable of changes with time, and recently started changing a lot in relatively short amounts of time (1 generation). That's reality, and we have to learn to cope with it - even if it's painful - or we won't be able to teach anyone anything!
Heads up for anyone thinking about trying out a homeserver or two. To my knowledge there is no way of moving from one piece of homeserver software to another. So for example if you start with conduit you're stuck with it. I think there are a bunch of plans all over the place to mitigate this, but I don't think they're there yet.
> I mean are they being forced to do it and not being paid for it

Slavery is forced labor, which is orthogonal to being paid. If you are forced to work but are also paid (perhaps rare, but not unheard of), you are still a slave regardless of the pay. If you aren't being paid but aren't being forced to work, you aren't a slave (that's called volunteering.)
Do people actually drink distilled water? If you want to increase your water consumption, I believe unadulterated tap water will contain sufficient electrolytes. No need to complicate your life by supplementing with additional salt. Obviously, drinking too much tap water will deplete the electrolytes in your blood but it's probably still wise for more people to drink a little more water than they already do even if it doesn't have the perfect salt balance.