skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Blipverts

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

From the Max Headroom episode 1 synopsis: Investigative TV news reporter Edison Carter uncovers the disturbing secret of a new TV advert technology in use by his own employers, Network 23, called "Blipverts", high-intensity high-speed commercials with the ability to overload people's nervous systems, causing them to short circuit or explode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Headroom_(TV_series)#Seaso...
Many businesses have done this intentionally, especially large chains like Walmart and Walgreens, to make it easy for shoppers to enter, find exactly what they're looking for, and complete a transaction quickly and with low friction, so that even when travelling, they are compelled to use them over alternatives.
I enjoyed reading this quoteinvestigator article, but the conclusion it reaches credits Arleen Lorrance:

> In conclusion, Mohandas Gandhi did write a pertinent passage in 1913 that expressed a similar idea, but the popular modern saying is considerably more concise and forceful. QI believes Arleen Lorrance should receive credit for the expression she wrote in 1974.
It'd be interesting to have an eventually-consistent monospaced font that adjusts the widths of characters like `w` and `i` such that when they're within a few characters of eachother they become more proportional. Obviously adjacent characters can be done with ligatures so `wi` is still 2 char-widths wide, but aren't modern font-rendering systems smart enough to do more than ligatures with alternatives? I wonder what it'd feel like to watch these characters adjust width as you type.
The Associated bit of GAT I guess.
The next era will be of Offline Apps because of stuff like this
People do some of that, but Java 8 is in that weird state where it is Java for so many things that moving off of it can be incredibly hard. It took Mojang/Microsoft how many years to get Minecraft working on something that wasn't Java 8?

And that doesn't even cover the changes in the versions of Java 8 itself that break things - one even had to be reverted IIRC.
Not sending messages encrypted is a failure state…
Be careful. You will summon acemarke with this comment.
My least favorite corporate tech buzzword: democratizing something
Cannot open binaries with spaces in their name
LitCom – a servicing social network about books
OT: Please post an archived link in comments, especially for small blogs

Edit: https://web.archive.org/web/20221107114522/https://blog.adac...
In our companies slides we have tons of confidential slides containing info that could be misused for insider trading by MS engineers?
The end of so-called agile scrum. And what comes next
That kind of sounds like you should surround yourself with different people that are more supportive of you.
How about Grammarly? Or G-suite? They have access to most of the companies out there. I find it terrifying people use Grammarly and it has access to every piece of confidential word written.
I always assumed they built these features by scraping publicly available powerpoint presentations using their index from Bing.
It's not about atomicity.

Co-Array Fortran is for multiple copies of the same program running on different data -- SPMD. Think MPI but much easier to write for.

You start a CAF program with mpirun. Multiple copies on the same machine or multiple machines in a cluster, your choice.

Embedded directives to process arrays concurrently is a different topic, and confusingly called OpenMP with no "I". Thus your multi-core CPU can process a numeric code more quickly.

You start a program using OpenMPI with it's own name --- ./a.out for example. You can control the number of threads used. Etc.
And failed to even depend on bitcoin’s double-spend protections. He deposited and was able to withdraw those deposits within seconds: before any block was confirmed on the blockchain.
Six Coding Interview Formats to Replace LeetCode Bullshit
LeetCode-style interviews are bad, but are they also falling out of fashion? Based on my recent job market experience, this article describes six other, better coding interview formats.
The potential value-density of crypto is unmatched, but I'm not sure it is "easy" to store in a manner like that.

If another resident of Zhong's household had discarded the popcorn tin, he could have been out $1B. It's is difficult, but not impossible (see fat-finger transactions) to do that with other asset classes.
Swedish amateur archivist “Rosa Mannen” shut down from YouTube again
I can't tell from the logs that I can see. But the site is all or almost all text from Render with images on AWS, and bandwidth topped out at "220MB" (per hour? Not sure) from Render this morning. It came back up as soon as I enabled scaling, and it only scaled to 3 nodes.

It's also a Python 3 instance running Django/Wagtail/Puput, and all blame goes to me for poor coding. If anyone reading this happens to be a Wagtail & Render expert and wants some short contract work fixing my code, please reach out (arussell@shawkeller.com)!
So you agree that Microsoft sends the content of your Powerpoint slides (and, by extension, all DoD powerpoint slides, since they're notorious users of the application) to Microsoft?
CKEditor also gives that option – where you can type in Markdown if you prefer that over the rich-text UI. So both sides can be happy.
The TypeScript Cookbook
Because it's an awesome and easy way to create iterables.

class FreakyCollection {
[Symbol.iterator]() {
return function*() {
for //...
// iterate over your freaky collection however you please yielding one element by one
}();
}
And yet no thought is given to broadcasting a thought to thousands or millions of people simultaneously. You're right, by the way, nobody should be put on trial for minor transgressions like this, but in a humane world, they wouldn't happen either.

also, FTA, it appears they did ask for an apology, which they apparently didn't get. Another thing interactions on the internet make very hard, is that owning your transgressions when you're wrong has very little utility as the other person is easy to objectify.
I use them to iterate over structs in WASM memory that are neatly packaged as an "object", but are just getters into the current offsets.
With all the deepfake demos, I would think this is immediately realizable.

The facial tracking demos for Quest Pro on a deepfake of yourself would certainly be possible and compelling.
Doing things with my kids (could be lots of things from watching tv/films, hiking, swimming, reading, playing sport)

Getting outside to do STUFF, canoeing, surfing, cycling

Seeing people in the real life and chatting

Listening to and playing music, especially with other humans
Shitposting began with the printing press!

https://www.mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/1033/printing-o...
This is the case for every range, gas or electric. Every time I've moved I'd had to "recalibrate" my expectations and use of the stove to account for different temperatures and quirks.
Right; when I saw title I assumed Designer was going to be the context. I've also observed that Designer only works when I'm online, so I figured out that it uses external servers to generate suggestions.

I suppose it could/should be more obvious/explicit on the Designer pane itself, something like "This is an online feature that uses Microsoft's servers to generate recommendations", or a more user-friendly language.

Note however that the article is light on details; does it send a full content of slides? Some hash of text and images? A non-identifiable abstraction of layers involved? This could be done well or poorly.

(I don't think the submission should be flagged FWIW, but I agree that it's not of good enough quality to deserve great ranking; but that's of course subjective:)
We won't have any raw coal. All raw coal is hundreds of meters below ground because everything that was easily accessible was already dug.

In my country hundreds of years ago people were gathering coal lying on the ground or picking it with a shovel in small holes. When oil was first found it was basically pooling on the surface or required a very shallow hole, nothing more than a deep water well, to reach.

Not only those, but a lot of other easily available sources have already been completely used up. There might be some that are overlooked in very sparsely populated, hard to reach places like Russia, Brazil or Antarctica. But the same reason why they have not been found and exploited would be why a new attempt at civilisation will also have hard time trying to find it.
What? These 8-10 speed transmissions absolutely make a huge difference. Just one example I'm familiar with is the Dodge charger. The 2014 model had a 5 speed automatic, and the 2015 had an 8 speed. Otherwise they are exactly the same car. The 8 speed transmission resulted in a 3MPG improvement on the highway from 27MPG to 30MPG. That is a huge improvement for only changing literally one component on the car.

https://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/Find.do?action=sbs&id=34210&...
The article mentions that their utility can be installed using this:
bash <(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/pry0cc/axiom/master/intera...)

This is the Github page for the source code.
https://github.com/pry0cc/axiom/blob/master/interact/axiom-c...

They also recommend only installing it in an "VPS environment"(Virtual Private Serer) because it overwrites your .bashrc or .zshrc files depending on your preferred Shell.
To be fair, it'd also help if it didn't cost money for concerned citizens to submit the proof required to demonstrate prior art. Because even if you give examiners twice the time, that's only twice the work getting done, instead of orders of magnitude more with the help of people who are already experts in a field and can't believe a patent was granted because of [fill in prior art here].
All you did was turn 15 lines of reasonably readable functional code (that, as another comment pointed out, can be done in 8) into 31 lines that were much harder to read.
I'm sorry, but in my decade of JavaScript I never read anything more cryptic than this. What is this supposed to mean?
The Rise of Rust, the ‘Viral’ Secure Programming Language
We'd have 30 years of engineering time to properly utilize those things.
Yep, I have friends who think the price at the pump is due to companies like Exxon and their "ability to price gouge". Like what? Yea dude Exxon is so powerful they let their stock freefall for 6 straight years post-2014
I don't really care that it has a feature that's the reason they're sending data off to Microsoft, I care that they're sending data off to Microsoft and it's not blatantly obvious to the user.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humankind:_A_Hopeful_History#R... suggests that many experts think that his convincing evidence is lacking from a scientific point of view.

Solzhenitsyn demonstrated that the Soviet Union was built on the lies of the ordinary people. It wasn't just some rotten apples at the top of the ruling class. It was rotten to the core. The vast majority of people were lying. To others and to themselves.

I think it's really scary to ignore this, and pat ourselves on our back, and say that we're pretty kind after all. Of course I agree that in a peaceful civilization, a lot of people are pretty kind on the surface. But there's stuff lurking underneath the surface. And once we start preaching that this isn't really there, a lot of bad stuff can happen.

There's war going on right now. And it's not just Putin that is evil. There are thousands of people actively participating in this war. Shooting others. The could decide to do something else, yet they don't.
I think that one of the theses in Tolstoy's War and Peace is that these big wars aren't just the products of some bad apples at the top. He presents Napoleon as something like a puppet, driven by deeper forces that we barely understand.

We should have more respect for these deeper chaotic forces, that we barely understand.
Almost all people in politics use it. It's mostly 1 way traffic, but yes, politicians outside US use Twitter a lot.
Chief Justice(of the United States) John Roberts suggested that he doesn't read them.

Trying to call people out for not doing so or not understanding the technological reason why data is sent doesn't seem productive.
Agreed, the risks here are pretty high. Even just some catastrophic disk failure.
We can regulate TikTok too. For them to sell ads in the US, they are under US jurisdiction.
It's implied that he does not agree since he claims that the claim is misrepresentation.
A crash dummy aimed at protecting women drivers
What's the misrepresentation? They pointed out that Microsoft is sending your data and you're not disputing that.
> Modern readers are taught from childhood that gender isn't binary

Is that a fact? Repeating another comment I made on this thread: If we take "gender" as meaning "biological sex," then it IS binary;* I can no more declare, "I have no gender" than "I have no eye color" or "I can fly by willing myself to defy gravity."

* Modulo those exceedingly-rare people who are born hermaphrodites

> Finally, your use of "Ms." seems to conflate pronouns and titles

Um, no — in my education, I learned about the use of analogies, comparisons, and precedents to illustrate a point. Here, the precedent is the coinage of a new title; there's no reason similar coinage shouldn't happen for a gender-neutral singular pronoun (which I'd be fine with using, BTW).

> you're effectively demanding people create a new singular pronoun because you refuse to adapt to a usage you personally disagree with -- regardless of it being grammatically and historically correct.

I'm only partly surprised that — in a forum where so many people complain about subpar software UIs, hard-to-read code, and the like — there are those who think it's perfectly fine to demand that the rest of us accede to "nonbinary" people's confusing language preferences for written communication.
It would not be insider trading if done by people outside your company.

Edit: Nvm, I think I am wrong.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/092616/how-i...

>Another way that insider trading can occur is if non-company employees—such as those from government regulators or accounting firms, law firms, or brokerages—gain material nonpublic information from their clients and use that information for their personal gain.
When I was a junior dev I applied for a position at a London based investment bank. I was more of a DBA dev and was trying to get a start in application dev.

Some mega-nerd spent an hour asking me 100 things I knew nothing about. What were the different networking layers involved in connecting to an external HTTP endpoint? What is the eden space in Java? How do you optimise memory allocation? What is big O notation?

The guy was basically getting a kick out of knowledge shaming and it went on for a good hour. I've no idea why he'd waste both of our time on it. I think he was eating in the background, maybe having a laugh with buddies.

There are complete sociopaths/bullys out there. Expect and avoid these losers.
This is a one paragraph claim that doesn't provide resources to show that their claim has basis. It could very well be entirely accurate, but there's no information contained here to know one way or the other.

For example there have been numerous claims made previously that link ANY network traffic to a supposed invasion of privacy, but once you delve into the underlying traffic it isn't nearly as nefarious as it initially seemed.

This article is telling you to "open up the network monitor of your choice" but network traffic and CONTENT are apples Vs. oranges, and yet we're meant to draw conclusions from that? We're meant to know Microsoft are taking your slide's content whole-hog? Isn't that yet to be determined?
This shouldn't be software behavior by default. Why should it be flagged?
We need a light switch for static hosting
You can kinda define generators with an arrow function, kinda:

const foo = (function*() {
yield 1;
})();
console.log(foo.next().value);

I've only written one generator in "real life" and ended up replacing it anyway:

// A generator function that returns a rotating vector
function* circlePath(stepsPerRotation = 60, theta = 0) {
while (true) {
theta += 2 * Math.PI / stepsPerRotation;
yield [Math.cos(theta), Math.sin(theta)];
}
}
Yes, written by someone who has never inherited a code-base hundreds of juniors patched over 12 years. At that point, you launch a separate division, slowly transfer functional support, and jettison the old structure after a year.

;)
The way different countries deal with Eminent Domain is a big reason here. Imagine all the subways that have to snuck into existing commercial and residential spaces in a way that doesn't disturb the existing tenants?

https://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-dom...

In China they just move everyone

https://owlcation.com/humanities/Nail-Houses
Rust really is a great replacement for C++, despite how oversold it is by the more enthusiastic elements of the community. I'd recommend trying it out with an open mind.
Im already on gemini and gopher, thanks. A browser renders all types of things from PDFs to MIDI, markdown doesn't present a hurdle.
The ratings drop-off is interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westworld_(TV_series)#Ratings

Seasons 3 and 4 had basically steady viewership through their whole runs, but each had way fewer viewers than the preceding season. So a lot of people who watched S2 until the end didn't even start S3, and many who finished S3 didn't bother with S4.

I wonder why this is? If viewership dropped through the season it'd be more obvious - people just didn't like the season. But to me this indicates that it lost mindshare between seasons. Was it interesting enough to watch as it was going, but not interesting enough to wonder what would happen next? I've definitely had that happen, where I binge watched a season of a show, but didn't bother (or dropped off quickly) when a new season started, just because I had sort of lost interest during the break and didn't get pulled back in the same way.
This doesn't bother me too much (but it would if I worked at a different company - I'd have concerns over company secrets). It's the browsing history which is by default sent to GOOG/MSFT which bugs me. On by default, and I'd swear I've seen it get reset on Chrome.

Chrome:

Settings > Sync and Google Services > Make searches and browsing better

Edge:

Settings > Privacy, Search and services > Personalize your web experience
> How's "protecting your colleagues from a toxic space is a recipe for more toxicity"? And there should be no "trying" there. I fail to see a line that you drawn.

You almost certainly don't have the power to "protect your colleagues from a toxic workplace," especially by the mere act of not quitting. So all you can do is try and fail.

If you leave, you have a better chances of actually making things better for yourself, and that may cause the dominoes to fall and get others do the same.
Of course it's wasted. If you paid for a service and received no service in return you typically call that fraud. Why would it be different in this case, because someone received "profit" for doing nothing it's all ok?
I installed TikTok last year when the company I worked for switched all of their ad spend from FB to TikTok. I found it addictive in the sense that it was a time waster, yet fun…

I have now installed TikTok 3 times. Each time for a week I find it fun, then after about another week I uninstall it because I value my time to create my own stuff (writing and open source).

I find YouTube Short to be different. Somewhat fun, but not enough to pull me away from the YT material I watch, like philosophy ‘think’ content, Playing For Change music videos, and minimal political stuff.

Using https://Freedom.to tools to monitor and limit viewing times is almost always a good idea. Latest macOS/iPadOS/iOS also has very good support for limiting app and specific web site use. These are great tools, at least for my digital life.
None of this explains how using 10% of total human energy production (at a bare minimum, using technology that doesn't exist) isn't a "BFD", or how in the world lime burning - a process that emits CO2 - is in any way a solution.

I have absolutely "read the research", spent months in training and worked in the industry, which is why I found your claim that you've solved it and that it's not a big deal to be so ridiculous.
C is like asbestos. It was fine at what it did, good performance, but the safety problems outweigh them. The difference is that we _stopped using asbestos_ because it was unsafe. It’s still around but being replaced during renovations, and no new installations use it.

For whatever reason with C there’s this huge emotional component to it. Safer alternatives exist. You’d rightfully laugh at a contractor who suggested asbestos is fine, if you make sure to use only highly-skilled installers who patch up the drywall so that no fibers can escape. But with C we say that all the time, and the CVEs keep piling up.
20/20 hindsight. In a less miserable timeline, the absence of hostilities with Russia makes gas storage a non-issue, and any government putting money into gas tanks rather than renewable energy would have been (rightly) lambasted. I'm willing to tear chunks out of our inept leaders over many things, but this isn't one of them.
There is a simple but fundamental observation that many experienced software engineers discover sooner or later: Reading/understanding code is much more difficult than writing it.

Because of that, programming languages should be designed to make the reading part as easy as possible.

What is the point of those high-level abstract features if they make reading/understanding the code too difficult?
Grammarly and Hola VPN are the two browser extensions that any IT Admin should be ban straight away in corporate machines.
FOSS and offline-first is the future.
This kind of ignores that CGI porn has replaced sex for a huge portion of the population.

If you keep your blinders on an focus on what you predict automation will look like, you will miss the world reshaping itself around you.
Why would that be surprising? You can't murder them, either.
It's a funny aphorism at best but I don't think software would work nearly as well if there were more than a grain of truth to it.

Think of all the layers of abstraction that have led to this moment, you reading this comment, me writing it: the hardware, the operating systems, libraries, run-times, the network... it's immense. And it's a wonder that it works so well let alone at all.

I like this quote but I think it applies to weak abstractions; ie: not abstractions at all but, as they say, indirection and obfuscation. Using the word "abstraction" has done a lot of harm to efforts to convey the importance and utility of various formal methods from property testing to proof automation. A solid abstraction has fundamental laws and properties. It aids in mastering complexity rather than hinders.
I’ve seen this concept being talked about for a couple of days now. I even read the Reddit thread this morning.

But until now I didn’t know what the letters stand for. Thank you.

Death to abbreviations!
Does the author really know if Musk is "overloaded?"

Of course not. There is no way to know this.

The author can infer and conclude based on their own experience juggling projects, however assumptions made in a vacuum are rarely accurate.

Juggling is almost always a function of effective time management, which successful people are known to be quite good at.