jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I've always dreamed of building a programmable calculator that runs a lightweight Python (or Haskell) interpreter to replace all that obsolete TI crap that most schools use. I would have loved that kind of thing as a kid.
They could use North Korea "attack" to justify more local measures, you know, banning encryption, tighter regulations, more penalties... more or less what has been happening last weeks.
Doesn't the US have its own weirdness of this sort too? I seem to remember being charged a tax during checkout that was not part of the advertised price of an item in a retailer.
From various discussions on Hn, I think the consensus is most people really like k&r as a technical book (it's concise, clear and a fun read) - but everyone working with C says its a terrible book for learning modern C.

I tried to refresh my memory from previous threads, and I think the general trend has been to recommend (as seen in sibling comments):

https://modernc.gforge.inria.fr/

https://nostarch.com/Effective_C

I've also seen the older:

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/21st-century-c/97814493...

Mentioned.

There's also Architecture of Open Source Applications, which can help with starting to read some larger code bases, some of which are in C:
http://aosabook.org/en/index.html

And there's a general recommendation to go read the source code of the Redis cache/db.

Finally i came across a mention of this short article on gdb (nb: mention of TUI text ui should probably have been in the top, not a foot note):

https://www.recurse.com/blog/5-learning-c-with-gdb

I feel I'm missing a book that has come up often, but can't think of which one.

I did like zed Shaws learn c the hard way, but I'm afraid it's getting a bit long in the tooth: https://learncodethehardway.org/c/
This followup issue seems to have a more clear writeup, especially for someone like me who is a bit out of the loop when it comes to the PSL:

https://github.com/privacycg/private-click-measurement/issue...
Are there any considerations using signal as an identity verification platform for other services?
People like to bash on the complexity of Kubernetes, but this is exactly what it's for.

Use a cloud provider or your own automation to create a cluster, then apply a set of configs to bring your services up.
I wasn't in any way trying to say Elastic must be a great place to work, only that the type of places I'm talking about normally have web sites that look like the opposite of theirs.
Readers have been disregarding the advice of authors for millennia now, for better or worse.
If you do this for your own personal consumption you aren't violating the GPL, and if you do this for other people all you have to do is give out the source code when asked.
> the bulk of users is either too stupid or unwilling to invest even the tiniest amount of effort into their privacy.

Those of us who have worked in security have known this for years. There are countless examples of massive security gains through minor inconvenience, and users rejecting them. Two factor auth is a big one. Yeah, it's a slight hassle. It gives major security improvements. Even security people don't like to use it. Even people who have been scammed multiple times, and told if they just turned on 2FA it help, would rather deal with being scammed again than use 2FA (I saw this at eBay and PayPal a few times, where the user rejected a free security token despite having been scammed multiple times).

Users hate friction. If it's not as easy as "download app, put in contacts" they aren't interested.
Can someone provide more context here? How does being added to the PSL affect tracking? Why are businesses adding themselves to the PSL en masse?
I know Australia is relatively remote, but it's a bit uncharitable to say we're untouched by civilisation!
This event will be a good mine in refining and implementing models for pollution control and reduction.

Never have we had events as large as this to observe.
Do intermittent fasting - no need to eat for 3-5 days at a time.
> “powerful languages don’t scale”.

The "scale" he's talking about doesn't seem to be "of traffic" or "of data" but rather "of programmers required to work on it".

> it’s hard for other people to work with you. They don’t share your mental model, and they don’t come in with all your initial assumptions. This is somewhat addressable if you all start working on the project together but falls apart when people join on later. The expressivity doesn’t scale.

So that's a failure of documentation, eh?
It does understand Norwegian (even dialect) just fine at least if the car is set to Norwegian UI.
Personally unemployment insurance does not cover my rent. It’s enough to stretch out savings dramatically, but saving on food budget would then be even more important. Especially if you’re considering cashing in some 401k stocks in a down market.
I saw one ad for hand sanitizer where 1 bottle was regular price, 2 bottles was 100x price. I support that kind of "price gouging."
> It’s quite likely that in all the scenarios a mask may have a useful effect, N95 or better is the only time it works.

You’re saying you think anything less than an N95 has 0 effectiveness. Why do you believe this is likely? Are you aware of the data that says otherwise?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22655436

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258525804_Testing_t...
Additionally, here is a list of what browsers will be able to do:

https://goo.gle/fugu-api-tracker
Apple is better? it's either Android or Apple then, isn't it?
Also note that the way he fixed it, strlen only caches the last call and returns quickly on an immediate second call with the same string.

Another reason why C styled null terminated strings suck. Use a class or structure and store both the string pointer and its length.

I have seen other programs where strlen was gobbling up 95% of execution time.
That brings back nice memories, I designed some of the early Serato scratch hardware. I didn't work for them directly though, so never did manage to find out how the vinyl timecode worked.
Dokku has been a workhorse for me. For all the fears of “but what about redundancy?” I have run a fairly successfully service on it for five or so years on a single Vultr VPS and made more money from that than any other side project or all of them combined. Glad I directed my attention to the product and not the devops like I had in the past. 10/10 would recommend.
The non-existence of Free Software in iOS or Android (though F-droid has made it more accessible, but still at the cost of being to actually use your device to it's max without going out of your way to Root) is all because of the friction of development to facilitate a monetizability first model.

Monetizability scales inversely with usability. The more usable something is by the end user, the less control a manufacturer has over what eventually gets done with it.

Manufacturers have come to realize this, and are pushing hard to sell people on them knowing what is best for people so they can perpetuate user hostile design paradigms. It's sickening, and practically ensures the creation of a larger rift between those who eventilually learn to use computers to their max potential and those who don't. The mechanisms required to constrain the overall programming space to enable gatekeeping mechanisms necessarily set the barrier to entry higher than it would otherwise need to be set.
Great work! I love FancyZones but this is a bit more configurable (a friend on Twitter calls FZ “lighter touch,” which I think is a perfect descriptor, whereas this is more flexible and more of a traditional tiling manager) and it’s such a good start!

I’m primarily a macOS user, but projects like this really make me wish there were more options (yes, I’m aware of Amethyst, Yabai, Spectacle (now Rectangle), Hammerspoon, and so on. Those options all have their own deficits and trade-offs) in the Apple world.
I find it absolutely believable that a for-profit company does not prioritize fixing a game that is already a cash cow anyway.
Yeah, the creators of the Pilsner must not drink that much.
I will look into this algorithm. Thanks for the suggestion. I have some basic explanations of the optimization techniques and their parameters in a separate repository: https://github.com/SimonBlanke/optimization-tutorial

But there is still a lot of work to be done.
That might make sense if bitcoin were a commodity, but it's not. Speculation helps in markets where there are cross-market arbitrages available -- the stat-arb speculators can front-run the true arbitrageurs and keep markets in line with one another -- but that's not really the case with bitcoin.
"CEO pay is getting larger because the companies are getting larger"

Like Borders? The increase in pay doesn't appear to be based on anything sane.
I cannot believe it either, especially when he did a side-by-side of pictures which were (supposedly) before and after taking one of his supplements. Instead of looking stronger, healthier or even just generally better in any way he just seemed slightly ... redder: https://www.reddit.com/r/facepalm/comments/6dhtbb/never_forg...
It’s such a great idea for a book!

I quite like Python but really I want a version all written in NodeJS, so it’s javascript all the way down :)
Related https://irmin.org/ (and in development since 2013)

> A distributed database built on the same principles as Git (and which can use git as a backend)
> Double-blind RCTs are the gold standard.

They are also extremely slow. Appropriate for efficacy testing of new treatments, not as much for public health messaging at the onset of a crisis.

It’s important to have a methodological basis for decision making in those early hours where information is sparse and of dubious quality. Without that, people panic and make short-sighted decisions that may undermine the legitimacy of their organization for years to come.
Exactly. That's why it would be good to have a system which is prepared for scaling in the future.
I remember one design I reviewed that wanted to use XML as something to be queried using simple text comparison (this was before some databases adding explicit support for XML).
We should move toward phasing out all income taxes, and shifting the burden to taxes on natural resource usage. The latter are:

* efficiently collected

* dissuade waste of scarce resources

* are impossible to evade

* don't necessitate global mass-surveillance

* don't violate private property rights

* and don't disincentivize productivity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
It's just a simple contract. They don't have to invoice you unless your accountant demands it. Yes, let your accountant handle it :)
I’m comfortable, reading his comment history, that a blunt request to explain how the the comments are relevant to the OP (and the failure to articulate them when bluntly requested to do so) I indicates that what seems “insightful” is in fact, not falsifiable and therefore nothing more than armchair philosophy.

I’m not into that, so if it terminates the discussion then so be it.

There was nothing meaningful to discuss.
this particular kind of interaction would not be transmissible. Some other mechanisms, such as DNA methylation or miRNA may be though.
It's not strange at all. Linus has earned his credibility. Some people in this community have too (pg, joshu, patio11, it's a long list). But people are downvoted when they act like they've earned credibility when they haven't.
'Why wait 3 months to listen to an album if you can get it today?'

Well, I know I'm in an ever-decreasing minority here, but: because that's the legal thing to do?

I've always had a hard time understanding the argument 'I'm forced to steal this because I'm unable to buy it.' To me, items like CDs or computer games are luxury goods, not a right. Maybe it goes back to my teens when I'd eagerly save up my pocket money to buy the latest 12" single and be excited when something was released from one of my favourite bands...

Would I like all DVDs to be region-free? For every bit of consumable content to be available world-wide at the same time? For the price of things I enjoy to be lowered? Absolutely! But, for better or worse, that's not how the world is at the moment. I guess I'm just one of those crazies who accepts that and tries to live within the current rules.
Complexity - The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos by M. Mitchell Waldrop
That seems to be incorrect. We have problem children in us-east-1b, -1c, and -1d.
http://www.nic.io/
I was wondering about working in Japan - I'd love to know how the scene/pay/hours/good parts/bad parts/visa acquisition is compared to other countries.
For me, playback of new songs often just doesn't happen on iOS. The app doesn't start playing the song at all. I need to like the song which I think makes the song available offline. This usually helps.
What are you talking about? The walkman was the first portable tape player commercially available.

Also what Google brought that Altavista didn't have was that it actually returned relevant results, not pages of spam where webmaster cranked as many keywords as they could (including "Pamela Anderson", always).
I'm pretty sure he didn't say that the HPU was processing it either. He said something along the lines of "when we look around a room our brains process terabytes of data".
As one who lives amongst Australians let me assure you that nothing, not even vigorous beatings on the cranium with a heavy stick, will have any measurable effect on the brain activity of the average Australian.
In my experience that button does nothing to prevent the spam of images and videos of a certain topic.
I use something very similar. I have managed to remove any need for todo list apps (any.do etc) by using checkbox lists in Evernote. It's nice to see a list of check off items at the end of your work day!
NASA is reverse engineering an old staged combustion engine. It is good of course, building a computer model, test firing the turbo-pump ... fun learning exercise ... leading nowhere (cheese shop?) While Musk has produced a new from scratch staged combustion engine and is working on full flow stage combustion. Because Musk's enterprise has specific goal, like actually flying to space where is NASA doesn't have such (NASA produced F1 when they did have real goal :).
It's a double-edged sword, though : your compact, clever solution is great when your write it but becomes unreadable when you (or worse, someone else) tries to maintain it. And then you have to understand both the hard problem and the way it was solved in the first time.
Point 1 is not a given. I think it's actually the heart of the case. Ford is arguing that their list of parts is copyrightable and their case is plausible even if I don't agree with it.
omitting lexical scope, closures, pass by reference, and GC

None of those decisions were made for performance reasons, but because the creator of newLisp had no idea how to do them (lexical scope and call by reference were initially performance hacks, and actually make programs faster and/or smaller.)

A better name for the language would have been newBASIC, but even Basic is garbage collected. People who intend to use newLisp really need not suffer the parentheses. The language exists in familiar form as QBasic.
They should have googled their own name. The only results are for Zorin OS, which is actually a real OS. Could be confusing
You can filter the entire stock by size on Amazon https://i.imgur.com/3QGQVZI.png
We did essentially that at my employer. I think the rationale is good, biasing toward a secure random function makes sense because the downside (as I understand it) is performance, but defaulting to insecure random has worse downsides. And if there ends up being a hot path where secure random is too inefficient, you can change it in that case. (This is in a context where a secure random function is readily at hand, when that's not the case, it could be trickier.)
Credit to Jason Fung (author of The Obesity Code) for the tips!

And I can very much relate to not being able to stop once I start eating something. I find this especially hard with processed/refined carbs, which I believe play some tricks on our hunger related hormones so our body can't detect when we've had enough food. If I stick to mostly more protein/fat and unprocessed carbs I find it much easier to control how much I eat.

It's interesting to hear your success with an extended fast. I haven't ventured beyond the 16:8 but am intrigued to experiment with something a bit longer this year.
How is this Rust not being open and inclusive? Someone who has access to those old architectures can contribute support for them.
> For a monetary asset, being “managed” is a liability.

I'm not so sure of that. For instance: Bitcoin isn't money, but something that people hoard and speculate on. If it was more actively managed, its parameters could perhaps have been tweaked until it started actually acting more like money.
without investment there would be no jobs or taxes to collect in the first place. With this single move, texas gov will be able to collect more taxes from thousands of people making 100k+ and downstream suppliers also hiring and making more money.

Samsung can easily find other cities to produce in at lower cost outside America. Why is being competitive for once such a big issue here? Without the tax benefit Texans won't have thousands of high paying high skill jobs.

The tax break adds up to about $40 million a year which pales in comparison to the benefits Texans will receive.
there are issues with input type="number".

https://technology.blog.gov.uk/2020/02/24/why-the-gov-uk-des...
You don't need it nearly as much. Most of the things I used to use AutoHotKey for on Windows are better dealt with by changing a config file somewhere. For the odd case where GUI automation is really needed, you have xdotool, which is not nearly as nice as AutoHotKey, but does the job. In short, I was a heavy user on Windows but don't miss it at all on Linux.
Love what you are building! I'm a huge fan of meditation but haven't found one I can keep with. I've tried all the apps but fall off after a couple of sessions or weeks. I'm going to sign up for the free trial. Do you recommend any classes, preferably shorter ones, that I should start with?
If Czechoslovakia is like most other countries where people pay taxes for public education regardless of whether or not they have school-age children, then your suggestion makes no sense.
When will I get a guide on how to learn complex ways to learn things quickly?
Herd immunity doesn't mean "nobody will ever get it." It means "we can be reasonably assured that enough people are vaccinated that we won't have widespread outbreaks."

People who think that herd immunity thinks that they can wander around without a vaccine and be complete fine are beclowning themselves, especially with a virus that is more like a cold for most of the population.
We love Greplin! I think we're using similar technologies and facing similar challenges as well. Greplin guys, if you see this, please drop me a message at me AT alexdong DOT com. I'd love to talk to you and see whether we can do something together.
I'm in to chip in a domain. i've got http://banan.as and a few others
NB: .hk is TLD for Hong Kong SAR (Special Administrative Region). While .cn is TLD for mainland China.
I have witnessed the future.
This game has a similar code mechanic to CargoBot: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cargo-bot/id519690804?mt=8

CargoBot has given me hours of having to really think about how to structure my "code" to get the recursive calls just right. I haven't gotten deep into Lightbot yet, but it should be a fun puzzle if later levels have similar types of recursive challenges.
>A tiny group benefits (and lobbies for this to continue) but the cost to the rest of society is individually quite small, for example in Europe around EUR 5-10/person/week.

and your individual power to affect things is even smaller than that.

Add to that that corrupting a multi-billion project results in the huge payoff to the participants where is successfully defending a project against corruption results in no payoff to the ones fighting against the corruption. Thus money and power is on the side of the former.
This is great! Glad to see more Clojure adoption in the corporate world. It's definitely well deserved!

I used it only once at work to develop a stress test for a Java based game server. It was great fun to build, worked like a charm and ended up taking less than a thousand lines of code to implement the communications, bots and their execution scripts.

Furthermore, the company just bought a copy of The Joy of Clojure and there's already a bunch of my coworkers interested in reading it. Good times!
Ive always maintained to have servers in countries that do not get along with my government (USA).

I also have servers in locations that abide by privacy laws (EU), although I know many of them serve as puppets for the US.
Abusive work practices and tax avoidance are complementary pillars of the model. What a world we live in.

http://www.motherjones.com/print/161491

See also

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/01/week-amazo...
Thank you. Submitted.
Can use Sonic Pi or Overtone to generate Midi output? I'm playing around with Ableton and I'd love to be able to generate some note sequences programmatically and then pipe it in to Ableton as a midi source.
The obvious solution to Britain's squirrel woes is therefore to introduce hawks, eagles and coyotes, no?

(My services as a wildlife consultant are available to HR Environment Agency at any time for a nominal fee.)
I have to mention it works on Linux and OSX too, I'm using it on my laptop when I go off the grid :)
That sounds like an excuse to me. He can post his paper on his website or on Arxiv.

If the content of the paper is like his design drawings for his fusion reactor, though, "premature" is not an unfair word. I'd guess the submission contains a lot of informally-described material that is not rigorous, and does not meet the reader's expectations of a scientific paper.

Take a look at his material on fusion, and in particular his design diagram for a fusion reactor: http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/WEFiles/Image/WEImage/... (from http://www.paresspacewarpresearch.org/Future/Fusion.htm). Here are some comments from another garage experimenter and physicist: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815059

Perhaps he has discovered something interesting. Not all scientists in history have known what they discovered, or known how to explain what they found. I will reserve final judgment until I see more details, but preliminary judgment does not look good.
Will that be enough? AFAIK, every country's government (or some warlord) has a monopoly on violence and the law. If they wanted to, they could easily just draft a law mandating crypto to be stored in particular forms else can't be used/traded. Or they could simply invade your home on some bullshit pretext and seize all of your crypto. Both instances have happened before
(and have been posted on HN too) and I've seen both of them in both autocracies and Western democracies.

Imo, there's nothing better to secure your assets better than some form of monopoly on the law, or a monopoly on violence, or even better a combination of the two. This is also why billionaire classes simply consider crypto a wealth store asset and not a secure store of assets.
Rick Beato made an awesome tribute video https://youtu.be/4LHuv0I-qbA
That’s funny, because it feels like every HN thread contains a sizeable portion of people who comment on the headline without reading the article. This is a running joke on Reddit too.

How much revenue did Reuters miss out on because people in this thread just commented without clicking through? Do dang and pg owe money to Reuters now for foregone revenue?