skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are Bach, we are the orchestra.

…except instead of scoring symphonies, quants algorithmically encode rules for trading Jimmy Choo future default swaps which they think will eke out more picodollars per transaction than the other funds, which are then dutifully executed by the infrastructure teams.
Yes, and it is amusing to see the word "forum" in the quote.
> If you do not have evidence that X works, or the evidence is ambiguous, your conclusion is the null hypothesis (that X doesn't work)

No??? This is what having a prior is for. In this case, the prior was the mechanistic model which told you with reasonable confidence that masks would work in the slices of worlds where the primary mode of transmission was one mitigated by mask-wearing. We do not in fact live in a state of helplessness absent a double-blind peer-reviewed RCT; you will actively come to incorrect conclusions if you refuse to use your existing models & knowledge of the world to draw conclusions about the likelihoods of various outcomes.
I didn't use FreeDOS to make, but there was an MS-DOS game jam a couple of years ago for which i made a 3D platformer/adventure game[0] (it might sound a bit too big for a jam since most are like 2-6 days but that jam lasted for about two months, i made the game in about five weeks spread within those months). Later ported to other platforms too (and made a few minor improvements in terms of fixing bugs and improving performance - though the game itself is basically the same as it was when the jam ended).

But it does run in FreeDOS, in fact there is a video Jim Hall (the author of the article and the FreeDOS maintainer) made where he plays a bit of the game[1]. Note that since that version both performance and some bugs have been improved/fixed (also i'm working on a new update that improves the performance even further (i've actually made a full playthrough on a 133MHz P1 laptop i have here).

The development itself was done on Windows though and i recently ported the editor to Linux[2].

I haven't done anything else since then but the engine was written to be separate from the game and i want to separate it from the source too at some point. I did consider making a game for the dungeon crawler jam last year but i wasn't very motivated as 7 days felt too little for making something interesting (IMO) and only made a small prototype for walking around [3] (that was done before the jam to ensure the engine was usable for making a game like that, but i lost interest before the jam even began :-P). Also it wasn't specifically for DOS or retro machines in general, i just thought of reusing the engine since i had it lying around and was usable enough.

[0] https://bad-sector.itch.io/post-apocalyptic-petra

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxn0Bl9U4A

[2] https://i.imgur.com/xpEjHJE.png

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6uij0lFLQw
A while back SO jobs helped get me and my partner a footing in the industry, so I felt like I owed it back something and begged the new bosses to try it out, as I believed it was where the real good candidates were looking

I stopped using the website after I tried to get our company on there, and they decided that we weren't 'big shot' enough to have listings
It takes two?
Epigenetic clocks have been built for many mammal species, not just chimpanzees, and they seem to work reasonably well for them. But for chimpanzees some human clocks can be used directly, without adjustments - indicating how close relatives we in fact are.
> In case someone has any advice beyond finding a hobby, going to therapy, approaching random strangers, it would be greatly appreciated

Wait wait. What's wrong with approaching random strangers? That's literally the only robust solution to this problem.

> they're all full of lonely developers and other socially awkward people - short guys looking for girlfriends, unattractive/aging women looking for husbands, etc.

You mean, socially awkward like you? You think that short guys and unattractive women aren't good enough for you, but I'm guessing that tall guys and attractive girls impute the same kind of vapid judgement to you that you do to aging women? Essentially, you're just miserable because you're starting to realize you belong to the same low value category you despise so much.
Hm, but wouldn't smart contracts have to be as complex as a non-smart contract, if a smart contract were to replace the dumb contract? If I'm looking at the regular B2B contracts I'm supporting at work, even normal contracts are already testing people. Piling (highly complicated, mind you) software on top of that problem seems nuts and entirely not feasible.
So how many farmers could afford to pay enough to field laborers to provide “lavishly” for their family and still be competitive in the global market?

And the fishing industry is highly subsidized

https://www.lenfestocean.org/~/media/legacy/lenfest/pdfs/sub...
Two more types of small pancakes are poffertjes (Dutch), which sound a lot like your Swedish plättar, and pikelets (English).
I appreciated your comment. Any pointers on where to learn how to dress slightly up for an occasion ? I just don't have an eye for it.
Are there two blank lines between these parts of the code for a reason or did the person who wrote this code make a mistake?

If that part of the code is special for whatever reason, add a comment saying why.
Buy a piece of land in the desert. Paint it green. See what happens.
> Workless societies depend on voluntarism

This presents a workless society as a real thing, rather than a hypothetical. I might be wrong, but I’m not aware of any workless society (apart from hunter gatherer tribes and history). If you have examples of a society that functions fully without work, then please share, I’d be interested to see how you solve volunteering for unpleasant or undesirable tasks that no-one wants.
> Most designers will cringe at the thought of showing users a fallback system font.

Explaining them that web is not paper, helps removing a lot of this childish behaviour.
The Schengen area has existed for about 25 years. The EU for less than 30. There's no common language, but English as the language of businesses is already beginning to dominate.

The USA had many rich local cultures, and to some extent still does - there's a lot of regional differences. But it also has ghettos and isolation, and an awful lot of senseless racial tension.

Is cultural melding inevitable? Maybe, maybe not. But you can't take a mere generation of EU freedom of movement as an indicator of end-state.
> I think this is far less readable than the pipe operator

I agree that pipe is more readable.

I didn't say it was a better alternative, just one that is available.

> Besides that how many times do you need to call three functions without additional parameters?

That...depends on programming style, quite a lot.
> While Vizio's original request to “remove” the case from state court to federal court is, in the general sense, a standard litigation tactic and our response is a relatively standard response

So, nothing happened yet.
They specify Vaccinium corymbosum, so American: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccinium_corymbosum
"Software Repair" is a GPL and copyleft given right though, which is what the Software Freedom Conservancy lawsuit is attempting to prove.

It isn't always better for the maintainers to repair software, since they could refuse to do it, take years to do it, require more money than you have to do it, or require signing unacceptable agreements to do it and also since maintainers are overworked already, so preparing a good patch and sending it back to them helps reduce their workload. I personally have fixed many bugs in open source software I am not maintainer for, including a couple in the Linux kernel. There are many software developers and other technical people who are in this position.

Dual licensing can lead to the downstream customers of the customers taking out the non open source license being stripped of their right to repair the software. Personally I think it would be better to keep all copies of open source software under an open source license. There are many different ways to fund open source other than dual licensing, many of them benefit the maintainers too:

https://github.com/fossjobs/fossjobs/wiki/resources
Not until you kill it and fluids start moving around. (There are a few things you can do to keep the meat from degrading, like immediately draining the blood and the bladder.)

The liver is the target because it's the most calorie dense meat in the shark, if not the entire ocean. At least out of what orcas eat. Plus it's probably delicious.
Security is very hard in companies driven by marketing. Even if "security" is a feature being marketed. Having security by design means moving much slower, having code reviews done by paranoiacs who care not one bit about features, and constantly thinking about reducing attack surfaces.

Paranoiacs will start with "do we need to handle any user messages at all? that's untrusted data!", much less "do we need to support ALL SORTS of image formats, including some handled by obscure, obsolete libraries that noone truly knows how they work?".

The fact that the messaging application allowed untrusted data to escape the sandbox via obscure data processing libraries they didn't write themselves is a proof of lack of internal software risk assessment process. I hope they learned their lesson and code is now reviewed by people not incentivised to rubber stamp everything the moment in lands on their desks.
Bad example. IBAN (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bank_Account_Num... ) for example has a two digit checksum that prevents this and similar simple typos.
Yes. Also this is not the first person to make this mistake. One redditor pointed out the person has done the largest such transaction to this contract, representing 45% of the total amount burned.
Yes, but "in the wild", length of a human generation was much shorter than today. It still is in some developing countries.

People would start reproducing around 17, so around 40-45, you already would be a grandparent with multiple grandkids. This is still early for cancer or heart disease, unless you inherited some unlucky genes.
“Free speech” means that speech competes for support by private parties, not that private parties are obligates to blindly relay it.
Except it doesn't. The usual fallback I've experienced (been told to do) to this is to preload the whole site behind a loading bar instead :)
It's really jaw-dropping to keep reading these childlike, drooling apoplectic accounts full of amazement and adoration for a regime of psychotic cannibal savages who engage in mass LIVE human organ harvesting on a scale that makes Nazi death camps look positively Disneyesque... and have been getting away with it for over 20 years!

But here we are...

So this is what the apocalypse looks like... soylent green... 1984... brave new world... fahrenheit 451... all wrapped into one big spleen enchillada...

SMFH

This is what the entire Western World keeps _not_ talking about...

https://docs.house.gov/meetings/FA/FA16/20160623/105116/HHRG...
The problem with crypto is despite your explanation, I have no idea what any of your post means. Not any of it.
A much better paper, imo:

https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+tilly+war+making

Personally, I like the opinion I read once that it is an inevitable consequence of the existence of power itself, and as a result, the existence of those who seek it and compete for it. The best you can do is stay out of its way.

(Credit goes to a Vietnamese tribal leader named Bear, whose tribe made it through the big war there despite all that happeend.)
In this concrete study (TRIIM and TRIIM-Extended), metformin isn't used for any putative anti-aging effects.

It is used to counteract the effects of HGH on insulin levels. HGH increases insulin levels, which is known to be deleterious to the organism, and metformin serves to reduce them back.
> I know a Korean asylum seeker who has had a pending case for literally years

I’m curious, what do Koreans need to seek asylum from? Doesn’t South Korea have a pretty good human rights record? Presumably those coming from the North have a very easy time in the South?
Why worry about mainstream crypto adoption to the point you want to remove the freedoms that brought you there in the first place?
The supposed solution is proof of presence: let's say you run a dating app, and want to ensure people aren't faking their location, even on platforms like Web or rooted Android.

The value offered by this is probably minimal, but it also doesn't work. You could just pay someone actually in a location and proxy their signals.
I remember seeing his presentation at the Python meetup at Yelp HQ in San Francisco a few years ago. Happy to see it come to reality
My favorite Swedish band was Army of Lovers. Well-done pop-music as well but it also gives the impression, maybe just an illusion of depth. https://youtu.be/cUo0YkLyrjU
Start here, actual journalists and actual "liberals":

https://taibbi.substack.com

My quote was from here: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-folly-of-pandemic-censorsh...

Also:
https://greenwald.substack.com
Do you have a reference for the details?
If GMO opponents stuck with the slogan "the yields are too high" they would be a lot more respectable. At least it's an honest position to hold.
I don't know how they were made tradionally, but today as you say æbleskiver (apple disks) are not flat, they are spherical. That is why you need the special pan. Also, today most people don't put apple pieces inside them, instead eat them with some kind of jam, strawberry or raspberry.

Pancake seems to be reserved for flat things, so yeah æbleskiver would not be considered pancakes.
Our maximum lifespan has probably been the same since the Stone Age, so we are "optimised" to a world that we no longer inhabit.
"It doesn't help that each new generation gets a barrage of propaganda pushed onto them equating military service with heroics, honour, patriotism, and so forth."

I certainly agree. In my opinion, the basic principles are simple but in practice things get complicated very quickly. If I'm not careful here I'll be quoting everyone from pacifists through to Clausewitz and we will all be bogged down in a mire of detail. This is a huge subject, thousands of books have been written about it.

I'll keep it short. The propaganda and heroics are long inbred and they go back a very long way - thousands of years and there's no better place to start than with the famous Latin quote from the Roman poet Horace:

"Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori"

"It is sweet and fitting to die for the homeland (one's country)"

Just about everyone knows these facts but for the few that may not I'll repeat them. During WWI the English poet Wilfred Owen wrote probably the most famous poem of the War and it's a very cynical and poignant reminder of how terrible war is. Therein he lashes out against the wisdom of Horace's quote.

Lttle else need be be said. The poem is short enough to quote here:

.

Dulce et Decorum est

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,

Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,

Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs,

And towards our distant rest began to trudge.

Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots,

But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame, all blind;

Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots

Of gas-shells dropping softly behind.

Gas! GAS! Quick, boys!—An ecstasy of fumbling

Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time,

But someone still was yelling out and stumbling

And flound'ring like a man in fire or lime.—

Dim through the misty panes and thick green light,

As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams before my helpless sight

He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams, you too could pace

Behind the wagon that we flung him in,

And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,

His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin,

If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood

Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,

Obscene as cancer,

Bitter as the cud

Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,–

My friend, you would not tell with such high zest

To children ardent for some desperate glory,

The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est

Pro patria mori.

____

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_et_Decorum_est

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_et_decorum_est_pro_pat...
Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured
Wouldn't this cause lots of out-of-order packets?
Trolling? Some are commenting that keeping the project alive to support old versions of python seems like a weak reason, which is a fair criticism IMO.
Rejuvenation of aged tissues by a single cycle of transient reprogramming [pdf]
Polemic/potentially impactful preprint on the evergreen field of life extension/rejuvenation and cell reprogramming
Assuming dolphin brains are complex bc "folds" isn't a stretch, but assuming animal communication isn't as complex as human language is?
My solution for insomnia is to give up trying to coerce my sleep into a schedule. If I do not want to sleep, I stay up and work (or meditate, or whatever) and wait until I am absolutely exhausted and my eyes are closing shut by themselves. Then, I lay down and sleep like a baby. Exercise helps too.
Then high load will result in some things staying in a stack for arbitrarily long. For generally the same effect without the unfairness, reducing the size of a queue would be equivalent.
Possibly it is different in Europe. Here in the US, when you call in an order your address is also stored in a database forever and tied to your phone number. That is exactly why next time you call they already know your address.
You can approximate this somewhat by watching their blood tests, kidney function, pulmonary function, grip strength, state of their arteries, strength of their immune systems etc.

People start deteriorating in these parameters long before they develop actual life threatening diseases.
But that's very unlikely because IBAN has a checksum precisely to prevent typos.

Plus banks in Europe have a transfer reversal grave period so you just call them and they'll most likely be able to undo the transaction.
In the EU it sounds like the modifications allowed are limited to "within its intended purpose", which could block some modifications, although it would be hard to discover modifications you made locally without sharing them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Programs_Directive

Wikipedia says that software ToS can override the legality of reverse engineering in the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_engineering#Legality

It also sounds like in the US the modifications allowed are only for circumventing DRM, and only for interoperability, not for adding features or fixing bugs.
I’ve been using this mouse on a daily basis since 2017. Mainly for the gestures that work with MacOS.

I totally understand how bad this design is and love making fun of it. That being said, I don’t have to charge it for months at a time and it charges fully in 45 minutes.

It’s really not a big deal.
>Also at least with european banking, if you wringly send money to another account, it is also gone forever.

Not true. The money is still legally yours if you can prove that it's a mistake or you were deceived, and can be recovered via the legal system if the recipient does not refund it voluntarily. Scammers just move the money away via other, less traceable channels before that can happen.
FunctionStomping – A new shellcode injection technique
I know pipe is popular in other languages and on Linux, but all of the examples on that page look contrived, and seem more like a justification after the fact.

If I had to pick, I'd choose the more limited F# style, it's easier to understand and imposes some sane constraints around usage.

No more JS code golf, brevity in itself should be a non-goal
Dont know of any traditional contract that can accidentally make money vanish. Also you can go to a centralised authority e.g. bank or court to do something about the wrong party holding the funds at any given point.

You can even retrospectively apply reasonable person type arguments no?
> I hope they learned their lesson and code is now reviewed by people not incentivised to rubber stamp everything the moment in lands on their desks.

Almost certain they did not learn any lesson. Like you say, they’re marketing security. If they had made investments we would have heard of it (big hires, security rampup etc).

Anecdotal, but It seems like Apple’s DNA is still very hardware focused. People in my friends group have all interviewed there but none of them accepted offers because they would never match other Big Tech.
As long as fallible humans are involved in creating software and hardware we will have bugs, and some of those bugs will be exploitable.

The best we can hope for is using the best tools and practices we have available to make it as hard as possible to make mistakes and therefore as hard as possible for attackers to find exploitable bugs.

In reality tho, that's not really what happens. We still use C (and C++) for example (and other footgun-languages) and/or run billions of lines of badly audited "legacy" code (that wasn't written with the threats we face today in mind) in a lot of places for various reasons[0], and then try to use all kinds of tools as work around to detect past and new mistakes or at least mitigate the severity of outcomes when mistakes happen and are uncovered and exploited by adversaries[1].

And that's not even yet considering supply chain attacks, be it software or hardware ones.

That isn't to say that Apple couldn't still do a lot better...

"Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."

[0] Such as maintaining legacy code bases, "performance", interoperability, development speed, developer availability, business ("cost") considerations, etc.

[1] Starting with code reviews, code coverage, unit tests, static analysis, fuzz testing, etc, and then later at runtime ASLR, canaries, retpoline, sandboxes, etc.
And practically nobody would buy that product, secure or not
> I think dual-licensing is a good solution.

sfconservancy lays out why they don't agree with that in https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...
Honestly even if a device disappears it's probably worth keeping around those pending writes for several seconds. It might come back, and if it comes back fast enough it probably hasn't been altered by any other machine.
Don't you destroy your toilet as well?

I often fast with (nowadays decaffeinated) tea and coffee, but I can't imagine adding beer to the mix.
I practice IF as well, but I suspect it won't regenerate my thymus.