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> This indicates that existing mechanism in compilers may have difficulties with a block model. So we only require it to be implemented for function bodies and make it implementation-defined if it is also offered for internal blocks.

Can someone explain to me how a feature used for freeing memory, closing file descriptors, releasing locks and all other cleanup scenarios are now possibly entering undefined behavior territory? I get that's not the intent but... Ugh...
Imo part of it could be the proliferation of easy money. When you see people making millions and retiring off doing nothing in crypto (buying pictures of apes) its hard to be motivated to do things. It all becomes bullshit
And then we could have fun looking at the execution plan of our file access. :D

Meant in jest; though I think the idea of a "one true way" to access files is a pipe dream. The hierarchical works better on my computer than whatever scheme we've cooked up for our phones.
I just looked up a video, and you're not kidding!

If I'd just been shown a screenshot, I would've guessed it was SNES!
I think the point was that AngularJS is V1. Version 2 and beyond is just called “Angular”.
ASN.1 is so difficult to defend. ;-)
Sorry to go even more OT, but were you familiar with the "soaking wet" part? Your profile says Australia and I'm curious if that's an idiom there as well.
Negative temperatures are a thing, but you need to reframe temperature from inherent heat to energy flow between systems.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_temperature
I don’t get it.

Why would you build a wooden machine with marbles, just to add numbers together?

Just use an excel spreadsheet, or a $1 calculator. When will this madness end?
Like I said above: if that really was how it happened, I would be totally okay with that, and it's completely understandable. But without a public statement from Github on such a visible and public controversy, we're left to speculate on their motives. Many people here disagree about why and whether Github should have or did suspend Marak. I would say that your view is the maximally charitable view to Github themselves. And frankly it's very likely to be true. But it seems like a lot of people believe that Github should have suspended his account, and I disagree with that.
how would you feel if something like this personally affected you? say you depended on critical prescription drugs to be mailed to you and thieves were robbing the postal service, stealing your medication. what then?
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This sounds like "I responsibly test in production".

If you do test and isolate testing environment then this kind of breaking update is just business as usual.
I don't think anyone is confusing algorithmic bias for evidence that humans are better. It's the other way around -- the argument has always been that algorithms are biased because humans are biased. Having a systemic bias that masquerades as neutral seems worse than having people in the loop.

When submitting my resume and interviewing for jobs, I'd certainly prefer to be subject to: 1) multiple people with different biases, 2) humans that can change their mind and/or recognize their biases, 3) humans that can explain their rationale, and 4) humans that can grasp and weight eccentric and non-conforming experience. I'm not interested in being ranked in a standardized way, because I'm not interested in being a pure cog in wheel.

I also think people who want standardized resumes and automated processing are vastly underestimating the SEO effect it will have on hiring. If resumes are automated, then many people more aggressive than you will game the system to the Nth degree. The same thing that happens to Google and the internet will happen to jobs: the loudest and spammiest will win, and the good content will go mostly unnoticed and unrewarded.
If it’s the same criminals committing the same crime shortly after being released, keeping them in jail will reduce the opportunity they have to commit the crime again, at least for as long as they remain in jail.
For the entropy strategy, the expected number of guesses on the full dictionary (allowing all 12972 words as possible solutions) is 4.233 (54910/12972)* according to my tests.

The best score on https://botfights.io/game/wordle is currently 4.044 (4044/1000).

*Spoiler: The score of the entropy strategy can be improved to 4.086 (53007/12972) by tweaking the entropy formula as follows: Let n be the number of possible solutions and let ki be the size of the i-th partition after the current guess. The usual entropy formula is sum{pi * -log(pi)} where pi = ki / n. The improved formula is sum{pi * -log((ki+1) / n)}. This formula aligns more closely with the expected number of guesses required to solve small partitions.
Thank you for your compliment! It is very encouraging and I appreciate it. I was excited too when I actually got the neural network running on the emulator.
What is the equivalent of a directory, and of a file? From the relation point of view, what would your tables be?

It doesn't map that well, the idea sounds intriguing, but in practice a filesystem seems like a better model for files.
It is a random variable in this setting, as it is a function of the randomly generated password. Given a deterministic sequence, you find the definition of its Kolmogorov complexity in textbooks/Wikipedia/etc. By saying the Kolmogorov complexity will disagree with Shannon entropy, I meant the former, which is a random variable here, does not converge to the latter, contrary to the standard asymptotic setting which probably gives people the idea of using entropy to characterize password (I don't know, don't work in security).

The point of my original post is that the asymptotics break down here, and this phenomenon is not poorly understood, at least in some other communities. It is not meant to provide an alternative that is always well-defined and useful, although as I said in the grandparent comment, there is the useful implication that you can stay safe by sticking to the asymptotic regime.
To provide more perspective - I went from not really coding to an internship offer from a big tech company in about 12 months, and I didn't even work particularly hard. I still have no idea how to code though
On the flip side, I do technical interviews (I am new to it though), and I spend about half an hour preparing for an interview including going through the CV that made it to me (and making notes/preparing questions) and researching the candidate based on what I see in it (e.g following links, etc)
> Some say they don't like it because it it's implicit control flow, i.e. I don't like that my code is being put into the end of the function without it being in the end of the function.

Wait, what? The whole point of defer is to let you do that. People like defer because it's different control flow. If that's why X doesn't like defer, X shouldn't use it. No big deal.
It means that half the DNA is gone after 521 years. After another 521 years, half of the remaining DNA is gone too, leaving 1/4 of the original DNA.

Figure that rate of decay into your "restoration" technique to know for how long an organism can be "restored" after being dead. Does your technique require 100% of the DNA? Better catch them on asphalt. Is 50% good enough? You could probably restore Newton. You could do Paul with 6% give or take.
I'm curious if you have a rotation/audit practice for those? With 600 odd passwords, I'm not even sure how I would keep track of access to the items being protected.
I've absolutely heard this rhetoric about short jail terms before, though, about any number of crimes. Is there data to back this up?
I don't like GitHub much but their handling of this situation actually won points for me.
This seems like whataboutism to me. It's possible to enforce the law against more than one type of crime, actually.
In one of my current web-based projects I decided to experiment with magic links sent via email. They are pretty convenient (and secure enough) but turns out there's a problem with mobile email clients: they tend to open links in isolated embedded browsers and then forget the cookies. For most non-technical people this is a show stopper unfortunately.

I then went with one-time 6-digit sign in codes that are emailed to the user. These are secure enough if done right, but now I'm wondering if they will feel secure to the users.

P.S. I might change it to a one-time alphanumeric code, which should feel more secure.
I know we invaded Canada with six armies in 1812 and all of them got their butts kicked by the British, but I never heard of an invasion during the Revolutionary War.
> Well, I'd suggest you're wrong with that 3% - damn lies and statistics taken out of context. Look at these realworld figures. Yes, there is breakthrough with vaccines but it's a no-brainer to be both fully vaccinated with booster and for those around you to be of the same status. With proper mask protection as well one has a much better chance of either not catching the virus or only getting mild symptoms.

That was a paper from the Lancet.. Have you seen the hospitalization rate by vaccination status from Denmark? That's real world data for you. Similar pictures from Scotland. Vaccine mandates are dead, because there is no scientific basis for them.

If you cannot tolerate the remaining risk, then your best option is to stay at home. You cannot ask society to remove every ever so small risk from life for you. Besides of the fact that all the vaccines will not do that for you. You need to do your own part. Did you get your vitamin D level checked? How is your BMI, could you lose some weight maybe? Do you need to take insulin? If so, please get your levels checked. Did you get enough fresh air today?

Stay healthy.
This is such a bad take I don't even know where to begin. Please, read up on FOSS licenses and check which one colors.js uses. That's just the first of about five flaws with your argument.
Hopefully never. Or at least not in the near future. Almost every other method is going to have privacy implications because they will rely on something you have or something you are. You can't compel passwords in a similar way that you can compel people to give physical tokens or fingerprints or retina scans.
You are right, it's probably not that effective. I should have framed my statement as I am not against fat shaming, rather than being "for" it. Also, "shame" is a catch-all here for being direct in criticism. I don't support bullying and insults. I certainly don't think acceptance of an unhealthy lifestyle is OK either.
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The Olympics are on the line. It's Beijing's 1936 moment, and they aren't going to screw it up, if they can help it. Will be an impressive totalitarian success of they can keep Omicron it for the Olympics.
GFC = Global Financial crisis.

It was actually a dual crisis. Just a few months before the housing market implosion fuel spiked from a little over $2 per gallon to above $4 per gallon setting price records. This crippled the transportation sector of the economy. Just before they could get that pricing under control the housing market imploded and the stock market went into a freefall.

I was working at Travelocity at the time which at that time was owned by travel monolith Sabre. The fuel issue hit the travel industry hard enough for massive layoffs then the economy fell through. 2008 was the first year I started learning programming. I was hired to Travelocity in late 2007 as a designer and after a few months of doing nothing I was involuntarily reclassified to a front-end developer. I had to learn to program.

2008 was a rough year performance wise as I was trying to figure out programming on my own on the fly. My annual evaluation was almost a career killer. Then in early 2009 all the layoffs came. All kinds of talented people and high performers were pushed out the door. My job was safe though. By safe I mean super stellar safe. Nobody could (still can't) hire competent JavaScript developers. Keep in mind this was before jQuery or React was there to do your job for you.

Then I went off on a military deployment to Afghanistan in mid-2009 a few months after all the layoffs. When I came back to Travelocity I set two records in the company. I earned three major separate raises in 2010 which included a promotion and those raises nearly doubled my salary.
What is the alternative though? Societal interventions are a slow, months to years long process to an acute problem. I'm sure most criminals can be reformed through years of education, therapy and trauma healing but you can't deny that lax sentencing and lax enforcement contribute to opportunistic crime sprees like organized retail theft mobs and train robberies. Nobody needs to rob trains to eat, in America, as you put it.
That works for some, for others they get used to the certainty, plus lifestyle inflation is a real risk.

The next RSU vest is always right around the corner.
"I am completely baffled by folks defending Marak, or putting any sort of blame on GitHub."
Github's actions are unwarranted. (Marak should have at least been able to verify his ownership of the account and get it back)

"1,2,3"
Honestly, these ARE better things to do (and probably more effective) than what Marak has done.

"replaced his code with an infinite loop that was a DoS attack"
So far I haven't seen anything about this actually causing harm and denying service.

"The fact that his attack wasn't more severe (like, say, encrypting someone's hard drive) doesn't mean it wasn't an actual attack."
The fact that his attack wasn't more severe shows that he wanted something that would make an impact without hurting anyone.

" guarantee no legal system is going to let an actual malicious act be defended by a license. "
That's the legal system's problem. The license is the license. Somebody's violation of an EULA (because they didn't read it) may be in all ways justified, but that argument probably won't hold up in court.

I wish he did something less controversial while still impactful, but it is incorrect to put it under the same term used to describe real cyberattacks that severely harm and kill innocents.
The Commonwealth isn't a defense organization, so this is BS.
A hot object emits light over a wide range of frequencies.

At the low end of those frequencies, the intensity at each fequency is roughly proportional to the object's temperature multiplied by the frequency squared.

Once an object is hot enough, all of visible light is in the low end of the frequency range. Which means the ratios between all visible frequencies are based on frequency squared and nothing else.

That gives us a specific spectrum, where blue is about twice as intense as red. That spectrum has a specific color, the same color as #94B1FF.

(Note that other RGB values also represent the same color at different brightnesses. That's fine, because we're not worried about brightness in this math. Brightness scales linearly with the temperature of the object.)
I'd want to reduce the crime rate. But hey, maybe a way of doing that is to reduce the price of medication and therefore its resale value, somehow. Maybe that's another topic we don't really want to interrogate here, though. :)
I'm curious how you think these other items work. They ultimately boil down to a shared secret that is beyond what you can remember. Which... isn't the best thing, necessarily.

Consider, if I leave my hardware token at home when I go on vacation, I'm basically locked out of all of my accounts. This is fine, as I typically plan for this to be the case. But it is an attack vector. I can't even audit my protected assets while away.
I buy corporate contacts from farms and I think they get a lot of them from apps that force you to upload all your contacts as the price to use them. Your personal contact information is probably in dozens of your friends and colleague's phones.
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> That tiny team at Nintendo basically invented the modern games industry after it had crashed from Atari.

That’s really only the perspective from North America. The “crash” was mostly limited to North America, with a much smaller impact on Europe, and hardly any impact on Japan. It was mostly a crash of Atari, specifically.

Europe was busy playing games on systems like the ZX Spectrum. The Atari systems were imported and more expensive.

Japan experienced a boom in game console sales during that same time period. Both the Famicom and SG-1000 were released in 1983. It was not a crash, and in Japan it’s simply called the “Atari shock”.
> It doesn’t have to involve security breaches

Then it isn't a Trojan. By definition.

"A malicious security-breaking program that is disguised as something benign"
> Marak's one of us

One of who, exactly? Marak needs professional help. This isn't a "personal army" situation.
Out of curiosity...what background do you have to make such a wonderful highly technical comment in a casual way...I'm so interested in the field of your expertise that you know so much about that this stuff, that something so technical is familiar to you, that you can come up with this brilliant analogy straight away and do it so casually. Do you work in "color technology" for a media company or something? I have no idea. I'm so interested what part of the world people who know these things do work in.

Strangely, I'm struggling to write this comment in a way that doesn't sound trolling...sorry, I don't mean trolling at all. If you could see my facial expression it would be easier...
> Nobody needs to rob trains to eat, in America, as you put it.

They don't? That's not what I've heard.

https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america
Never knew about that, do you have a good aeticle/book about that?
Oh interesting - I expected this to just be a library but it's there and useable in Firefox now.
David Sinclair at Harvard is working on making this molecule safe. Back in the day it was FDA approved it was wildly popular, but the "idiot takes 10x the dosage and cooks their insides" is too much of a risk for a 2020+ general population especially given the extremely slow half time.
I doubt it. I think it's actually opposite. You create something which the market pulls away from you.
Western manufacturers, even if they manufacture their stuff in China.

I don't want stuff made or designed by Chinese companies. They suck at it and most of their stuff is unfinished and barely works.
Except, when you start writing code with defers half your cleanup flags disappear, you end up with fewer branches and it makes it much harder to forget to free temporary allocations. It's really nice to look at only 1 place in code where something was allocated to ensure it also gets deallocated, instead of looking at the curly brace and then thinking: ok, what should be deallocated here, and when should it not be?
I don't think I've seen a single person struggle with this concept. This isn't a "lesson" anyone needs learning, including Marak.
I wonder sometimes about the opportunities and impetuses surrounding different people, thinking that we need a lot of the right things before anything is at all likely to germinate.
Kinda sad, especially after the server cost model in Lichess. DRAM aren't getting cheaper, SSD aren't getting cheaper. There is nothing in the current project of the next 3 years, up to 2025 that suggest anything will change. And nothing in the R&D phase that suggest there will be improvement before 2030.

What that means is that we enter a decade of computing where we finally wont see any unit cost reduction. CPU may still get better pref / dollar but that may be reaching the end soon as well.

The only thing that will get cheaper is Network I/O.
I live with them. I work at home and one of them does too. I see basically everything they eat. I know how much they exercise. They simply use more of the food they eat to make fat. And yes, calories in calories out is complete bullshit. There is no rule or axiom of biology that says you have to utilize 100% of the food energy that you consume. It’s possible for people to put it all away as fat, none of it as fat, all of it for energy or none of it for energy as illustrated in this case and in African sleeping sickness. People who say that it’s a matter of thermodynamics and that physics demands calories in calories out be true is a belligerent and arrogant fool.
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I have seen a few forgiven “extremists” subreddits before and I often have no idea what they are talking about. It’s all obscure debates and references that someone outside of the country wouldn’t understand. Last one I remember was just posts about how good India is and how Pakistan sucks.
Skoda is actually VW. This might happen, as they use and share the same parts.
So, it might happen now and happened before. I heard stories like that in the 90s.

Also, I wouldn't have problems with that.
You’d be amazed how much of our country resembles a third world if you look close enough. This includes virtually any city you can think of.
Prosecuting crime does not eliminate crime; it minimizes crime.

For the criminal justice system to deter crime, there has to be a reasonable chance of getting caught and punished, and the punishment must significantly exceed the benefit that obtained from the crime.
Right in “About the Author” we are told he is paid by the ABA. Is Scientific American really that obtuse?
The way you describe Steemit reminds me 100% of Quora.
That's why they said infrared or high-temperature.

Combined it's: Anywhere the temperature is high relative to the frequencies being analyzed.
Ripping and robbing a freight train is not the same situation at all. Things that aren't found as valuable are being tossed along the tracks.
> 5 misspelled-and-with-random-punctuation words

Why misspell and add random punctuation?
It is forever amazing how artificially heavy everything is.
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> You seem to be misunderstanding what a Trojan is. From Wikipedia...

Wikipedia doesn't define industry terms, especially in one-off throwaway lines without citations.

The Jargon File clearly defines a Trojan as something that (1) breaks your security and (2) is disguised as something benign.

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/Trojan-horse.html

Unless you can show Marak Squires breached these folks security systems, it simply is not a Trojan.

(As a separate point, a claim that something distributed as source code is "disguised" simply cannot be in good faith.)

By claiming it is a Trojan, you are accusing Marak Squires of a potential felony by accessing a computer system without authorization. Making serious accusations like that should require some evidence. I don't see any.
Baez is also a noted category theoretician - I need to get around to reading https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-12821-..., where he claims to find the conceptual framework unifying analogies behind physics, topology, logic, and computation. Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15423027
I thought of it as either a good start or shooting for concision.

Since we're all recommending things for inclusion, I think some nod to the new breed of tiling Window Managers like i3 might be good. By dispensing with the desktop metaphor and de-emphasizing the mouse I think they're a significant departure (to me they are a little like the expert UIs mentioned by Engelbart).

That page you linked for the Mother of All Demos is a nice jumping off point.
that site is full of crap, i live in Miami, and if rents were that high, people couldn't live here, there is not big tech or unicorns paying faang salaries here ma dude.
I remember when I had an AMD 5x86-133 (branded like a AM486-DX5 133) as my computer... these times playing DooM 2 and the demo of Star Fleet Academy at slow motion...