skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which are the best examples of (private) SO clones? I've just heard of a few "if we build it they will come" stillborn deployments.
Interesting in particular in the conclusion talking about jobs and automation, a familiar concern now as then.
By WASI alone you mean just do something a lot like cloudabi with the home directory emulation baked in?

The idea is the interface, and that is very nice and simple, so sure. But I think the ability to catch on must be in the implementation. I suppose parts of the WASI libc could be reused, but those parts could equally well be taken from the original Musl, right?
Does the money people are 'living off' not get spent with companies in your world? Doesn't that mean the company owner gets an income, the bankers get an income and the workers in that company get an income. The company owner and bankers only get an income to the extent that there is a productive use of workers above 1-1 - delivering sufficient surplus of real goods and services to feed and house the rest of us.

Isn't that what we want?

Always remember that money doesn't stop at its first use.
Java is not being rewritten to C though. It is being rewritten to assembly (by a C++ program).

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Also, by the same argument you're using, git should be faster if written in assembly; since assembly can do more than C can.

The tradeoff between performance and easiness to write the program has already been made by writing git in C. The only difference in using Java is a different point in that tradeoff.

I'd also contend that Java gives you much more bang for the buck in that tradeoff than C. Java is stupidly easy to write, especially if you want to do multithreading. With C you'd have to start writing some form of primitive GC, or have the disciplined paranoia of Rust's borrow checker yourself.
RAII is a kind of garbage collection, too.

Longer-lived objects still need (trickier) manual deallocation.
> No, you can't do it because the seller of the game does not allow you to do it.

What are you talking about? The game doesn't have the ability to allow or disallow anything. It's just data on an information medium. You can bypass any protections put in place by the developers unless you need to violate the laws of physics in order to do that. Last time I checked, there was no such thing as an uncrackable game.

There is instead a law requiring me not to do that. There are laws, which are enforced by the entity with a monopoly on violence (-- the government). The game developer can only point the government at the people breaking the law. Whichever way you look at it, the government is still involved. ANYTHING related to property has the government involved. Because the concept of property is something guaranteed by.. you guessed it.. the government.
It also makes it worse for people with checked bags. In the past, you got to decide what you wanted to do with your time - taking a long hike around the terminal was always an option. Nowadays everyone is forced to partake in the jetlagged death march
> Looking at the US healthcare system, it's obvious that many doctors' and nurses' talents are wasted doing bureaucratic paperwork.

This is incorrect. Most of the paperwork is done by administrative staff. Paying for that giant staff + the actual medical professionals is why things are so expensive.

Hospitals are not stupid, they won’t waste their most valuable resource (healthcare time) on bureaucratic paperwork.
Holy smokes. It looks like a legit house and it was built in 12 hours? This is really cool.

> Stringfield's home also includes a personal 3D printer that will allow her to reprint anything she may need, "everything from electrical outlet to trim to cabinet knobs," Green told CNN.

So what I'm hearing is, she probably can't print up another storey to her house without some effort. I wonder if they'll ever change that...
It seems most vulnerabilities published by shadow brokers are on Windows. What percentage of vulnerabilities are focused on Linux or macOS?

What can ordinary users do to protect themselves other than patching?
> How did you get "high reward" from "only marginally reduce the risks"?

Don't you believe that reducing or outright eliminating the chance that a single person you come across to not experience hospitalization or death due to covid constitutes a worthy reward given the tradeoff?

> Also, do you wear glasses?

Why do you feel this is relevant?
You set up a server and allow any wallet with the license in it to sign a valid request to download and launch the game.

> Even with licensing, you couldn't play offline?

That’s a good point. The GOG DRM-free model wouldn’t work here. Someone smarter than me could likely give you an answer.
> Don't you believe that reducing or outright eliminating the chance that a single person you come across to not experience hospitalization or death due to covid constitutes a worthy reward given the tradeoff?

I agree that reducing the risk constitutes a reward. I don't agree it constitutes a high reward, since the reduction is only marginal.

> > Also, do you wear glasses?

> Why do you feel this is relevant?

Based on this response, I assume that you don't wear glasses, or you'd know exactly why it's relevant: masks make them fog up all the time.
Not saying this happened to you, but I once lost half an hour to figuring out wth I lost all my Audible books when getting a new device (phone). Turned out the app happily logged me in to audible UK without saying anything (silently creating a new account), which, of course was empty.

Once I figured out how to point the app to Audible US, all my content was back.
I don't think that is entirely true. For example, if a cheating happens in an online game you don't wait a court decision to ban the player - taking the justice on your hands and expect to not be punished. Or killing a person is illegal but you can use your self-defence rights if the other person is trying to kill you. You can use interfaces from copyrighted language (Oracle v. Google) for fair use purposes without getting a court decision first.

If the thing that you are trying to do is legal by universal laws, international laws and national laws (in order). You don't really need to worry.

In that stealing example let's assume someone stole something and you "stole" it back. Good luck for the first stealer to initiate a court case - which probably the stealer will not initiate because he will lose it plus with the expenses for the court. No court case meaning no complains therefore no crime.
Why would the news say that app store is full of porn when you search it on Tumblr but not when you search it on Reddit? If they let at least one company do it it does seem kind of dumb.
Do they always instantly cave in to strikes? Do strikers permanently stay on strike on a barely subsistence wage?

Or do they finally come together to share the spoils of mutually beneficial activity? Which is what a market is supposed to be about.
IIRC you even have to send back the used flow cells to buy new ones so they can keep prices down.
It's a similar story though, that could be covered by another capability - one to access the Java classloader, or run executables on the filesystem, for example.
> RAII is a kind of garbage collection, too.

No it isn't. With RAII, you can look where an object gets constructed and know exactly where it will be destructed. With garbage collection, you can't, and in fact there's no guarantee that it ever will be. Also, with garbage collection, you can save references to whatever you like, wherever you like, for as long as you like. With RAII, you need to make sure you don't create any dangling references or use any dangling pointers.
Incorrect. If you take a look at the 2018 PISA rankings [1] the top is dominated by Asian and East European countries. Is it a coincidence that ex-Soviet countries which had a strong state focus on STEM are top ranked? Or that the top 10 contains basically every 1st world Asian country (Japan, South Korea, and the Asian city states)?

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programme_for_International_St...
I like to cook; I bought a carbon-steel chef's knife 25 years ago, made by Richardson Steel of Sheffield. Regrettably they don't make steel in Sheffield any more, and that brand was sold to some Chinese company. The knife rusts if you let it; I call the result a 'patina'. It takes a wicked edge. It's still my go-to kitchen knife.

Just now I'm a beardie-wierdie; but I usually shave through the summer, using straight razors. These are also carbon steel, although I think one of my razors at least must have some chromium in it - it seems to resist tarnishing.

So: I wonder how this material compares to that Sheffield carbon steel for hardness and toughness. And I wonder how it compares with the Solingen steel my two daily razors are made of. As far as I'm concerned, a straight razor is the pinnacle of blade-making (I might take a different view if I was into swords).

One of my razors belonged to my father, and is Sheffield carbon steel. It was made in the 1930s, and I can't get it nearly as sharp as the modern Solingen steel razors (I tried shaving with it once, but it wasn't 'smooth').

I didn't get what hardening, tempering and annealing processes he applied; that makes a huge difference to the kind of steel you end up with.

I'm just a blade user, not a metallurgist or cutler. I'm just interested in high-performance blades. I wonder if this metal makes nice razors?
>A downloader can only be sued for the retail value of what they downloaded

Is this the actual law?

I remember hearing about people being sued for $100k+ just for downloading a few albums back in the Limewire days.
Pick a few random executables from your OS, check how many .dll or .so libraries do they dynamically link to.

For Python, JavaScript, Ruby, etc it's not even a question.
I'm not so sure that package management is really a well solved problem. Sure, there are some solutions, but as far as I know all leave some things to be desired.
Right, as your link details, I experienced a marriage bonus due to my partner earning a lot less than I did. So I suppose I was in the happy/lucky camp but I didn't realize it's a penalty for 2 high earners.

TIL, thanks.
> The company’s support page also cites the General Data Protection Regulation compliance and freeing database space as the main reason why they delete unused accounts.

Oh wow. That 1k of database data must really be dragging down their system.

/s

Seriously, what kind of child's-first-attempt-to-use-a-database system are they using where this is even a consideration? :(
Or they could have generational wealth. This whole thing reminds me of the ugliness that was the anti-welfare propaganda of the 70's
Right, I actually was in the exact situation you describe in the middle, moving to a new country with a non-working spouse, so marriage was a requirement and there was no way she would have come with me if I asked her to divorce after. That's ludicrous.

I see your overarching point though.
> The exact cause doesn't really matter in this context.

It does when you're doing risk and cost analysis

> The point is that more than that have died compared to a normal year.

Deaths do not exist in a vacuum. They are caused by something.
Rootkits/exploits appear on any operating system.

Wipe and reinstall often, rotate passwords at same time, also teaches good backups.

ad blocker by default and always up to date system.

Use VMs or other machines for dubious websites and wipe those often (like a raspberry?)

Careful what you execute on your machine

Then if you're really paranoid:

Some external firewall running suricata for alerting

Logging to an external system so you can review things in case of issues.
The Cue testing devices are interesting. The Bluetooth, battery, and most of the interesting bits are all in a reusable device with a slot for single-use cartridges. The cartridges are fairly dumb (other than the chemical stuff I think there's just an i2c chip)
You're right, that's where I got confused. Since I was married, everything was considered community property, so it's good to know California doesn't enforce community property on non-married couples, since it doesn't recognize common law marriages.
I mean, I really doubt this story actually happened the way it did, if only because at most major airports gate capacity is so constrained that there is no such thing as a separate gate for arrivals that you can just move planes to. (Planes arrive and leave from the same gate; any more moving around and they'd be wasting precious taxiing capacity and man hours, so if an airplane is getting moved it's usually for maintenance or to standby somewhere else.)
That's really cool. I can't say I've tried it, but I remember how cool it was to try the trackball (thumb version) for RSI. It really helped my wrist, but also I could place it just about anywhere, like in front of the keyboard, which was often a very natural feeling.

I'll have to give the other-handed mouse a try, see how it goes. Thanks.
Fine! Now we have a way to write guaranteed safe C code.

It requires quite a lot of qualification from the development team, though.
Which IRC channels would you recommend?
Ahh thanks - their comment below the video 'explains' their pathetic decision:

"""
This is optional for creators today! But we’ve seen that when creators choose to turn off likes/dislikes on their videos, they can be bullied and harassed for their decision. Ultimately, because it’s YouTube’s responsibility to protect its community and create an inclusive environment where creators (like yourself!) feel safe to express themselves, we’ve decided to make the dislike count private across all videos, so that creators aren’t pressured to make this decision themselves.
"""

^^ Loosley translated >> We can't let our paying advertisers get review bombed and we have to ensure we provide them with the most value possible. We also want to phase the use of dislikes out of our algorithm for reccomendations and turn to an exclusively paid promotion model in the future but can't do that surreptitiously without removing the dislike button in advance. #ifeveryreccomendationisanadvertweonlyhavetotellyouonceintheT&C's
Links to external sites have a tendency to rot.

I've stumbled upon a number of scientific papers from 2000s that include links to sourceforge for code listings. Most of those are dead now.

Github will not be there for ever.
The token would have to be fungible such that an individual license can only be authenticated and not identified (“this is a real copy of the game” vs. “this is the copy we individually banned”)
Most likely they were also distributing (uploading), not just downloading.
Sign up for preferred.
You might feel differently about it after a while. I did CS and programming, but the first few years I had impostor syndrome and didn't enjoy it and thought I wouldn't hack it in the industry. The job search process used to really stress me out and make me question my worth. After a few years when I gained some confidence in my abilities (that helped more than experience) I enjoyed it a bit more and realized I liked it again. I just see programming as a job (not as a passion), but it still seems interesting and the most lucrative thing I could do that would stay interesting over decades.
Where are these high resolution displays from?

I'd imagine Facebook or any other big company would've been able to get their hands on them.

Or are they waiting for the next generation of headsets to use them?

By specs, those seem great. Resolution is one of the most important things in VR goggles.
You can, but they made it more difficult in that you need to add funds over the web or through a PS4/5 or gift card. Also that the prices now tend to be the original list prices which never go on sale but do for PS4/5.
There are many hospital patients who are admitted for other conditions and diagnosed with asymptomatic COVID-19 during routine admission screening. This is particularly common among pediatric patients.
You haven't explained where the game is stored, though. Where would the game be downloaded from? How much would it cost to do this. If you setup a server that's centralized the defeats the entire purpose of this.
That C allows developers to play fast and loose is actually one of the reasons why C is slower than Fortran in many cases. Aliasing does not exist in Fortran, and array dimensions are well-defined, and this alone allows for much more aggressive optimizations, impossible to do safely in C.

(Is Fortran still relevant? Try compiling Tensorflow, to say nothing of serious numerical modeling stuff. And yes, I know about __restrict; it's more of a band-aid.)
This is what I used to think about JIT as well. That JIT would have more information than a static compiler to optimise the code better. However, it seems to me that most of the performance depends on how well we can exploit the cache lines and how many fewer instructions the cpu has to execute to get the job done. JIT could perhaps improve on the latter but in many cases it seems to me that it's generally very hard to be cache aware when programming in Java not to mention every user-defined type is allocated on heap. So, I feel like it's quite unlikely that there can be Java programs that outperform C and even then that it can't in principle be done better in C.
Someone who can apply and perform a remote job will most likely be able to get access to a computer for the purpose of an interview. The problem is more acute for someone so poor they do not have access to a computer in a first place to acquire the necessary skills needed later to lift them out of poverty.
Ah glad you wrote up the idea. If I get around to trying to have that same conversation with other kernels, would be good thing to point to!
I say we are all still in the experimental ... we are trying to figure things out phase but really we aren't totally sure. Learning as we go... OMG!!

I mean the CDC recommended the J&J shot earlier this year now many months later they recommend against. Scary..along with this research here ... yikes!
Java can run C/C++: https://github.com/oracle/graal/tree/master/sulong

What's your point?
Considering it if almost impossible to purchase a manual in America...
There are many old games that runs some kind DRM system that is using deprecated Operating System API's - some of them are undocumented and mostly operated in ring 0.

Just because you pirated a game that you own a copy, in order to play it on newer version of operating system does not make you criminal. You may need a court decision only if you are not able to private or fix it without the company help but that's all.
I really wish FRAND search APIs were mandated. This would enable new companies to compete on privacy and UX, and even make partly-FOSS solutions viable.

Probably won’t happen unless/until Google angers enough legislators, so for now I’m trying Neeva. The iOS browser is still very much Beta quality, but the search experience has been pretty good.

Not seeing ads has been refreshing, but I wish there was a way to say “don’t show this website in search results” and sync that across devices. Even better, let users vote on what’s relevant and high-quality, rather than let websites play the SEO game.
That's not true for every test, the one I just used begins with no line and then a line appears. So you don't need color vision. You do still need vision, but it's hard to use a COVID test otherwise.
One particular thing that was kinda nice was a separate MIME type attribute for all files, fully distinct from filename (and specifically extension), and used consistently throughout the OS to determine available actions etc. Although the real magic here is the latter - providing storage for an extra attribute in the filesystem is easy enough.
I meant tracing garbage collection. I'd say that something like 95% of allocations in real-world code can be done straightforwardly with RAII, or could be if the language supported it (and indeed gain maintainability benefits from being forced into an RAII-centric paradigm). But the remaining 5% is a real pain, and distributed over a wide variety of problems in a wide variety of domains. So tracing GC really does make life a lot easier, if you can afford it.
Another loose translation: Because if uploaders got to choose whether or not to show dislikes, they'd end up hidden on videos with a lot of dislikes and shown on videos with hardly any. Our goal is for us to have all the influence over what videos you watch, not the other peons who watch videos on our platform, so we need to make sure that signal isn't available to you.
I don't know about tumblr, but reddit doesn't allow nsfw subs out of the box on mobile, and for logged in users, you have to explicitly enable it.

Obviously you can still find nsfw content on reddit that isn't labeled as such, so beyond that, it's probably up to the developer's soft skills. reddit probably has some people who are good at framing the app in communication with review, escalating review decisions, and communicating content policies in a way that makes them seem consistent and trustworthy.

I don't know about tumblr, but unfortunately, I don't think many indie apps with user-generated content would have the bandwidth to develop the same relationship with app stores. So there is some de facto gatekeeping happening that benefits the largest and most well-spoken social networks.
TL, must be run out of an embassy or Transnistria lol
I am working on a capability-safe language!

I fully agree with this article, and the great thing about object capabilities is that they are just plain values, and require nothing special from the type system.

This also means that object capabilities aren't "colored" like async/await, monads, or other effect systems.
That's honestly pretty weird to me. If as a government you're going to be requiring vaccination proofs, why not go all the way and get cryptographically secure certificates encoded into a QR code?
I don't buy games in a broken state hoping they'll be good later. Either I wait until they're done or don't buy them at all.
That's what we do at our company FWIW. Lots of people queue up comms to be sent during the start of the other person's business day. It helps a lot especially for folks in other time zones.
But not all languages emit the same machine code. And I think performance is more sensitive to memory access than machine instructions, so I don't think this point is true.
How does the pickup work with car sharing? Do I have to the owners house?

I also have to admit that probably 90% of my annoyances comes from a mental issue I have where it really, really bothers me when I think something could be more efficient than it is, when I'm not impacted.
Doesn't OpenBSD have a decent track record?
I have a friend who also tracks his life: https://www.denizcemonduygu.com/portfolio/vital-signs/

> What you see is some of the daily data I’ve collected during the last 7 years of my life (2,498 days between 01/03/2014 and 01/01/2021) charted as basically as possible in order to allow global readings and comparisons. (A nice method is just to scroll up and down with the mouse cursor pointing to the time of interest.) I update it every January. I started to log some topics later on, and there is a period where I did not log mood for some technical reasons in mid-2015. I have a lot more data on medical issues, food, people, and daily activities, which I chose not to show here.