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>I am relatively confident that there is good evidence to support the claim that an individual being increasingly surrounded by media espousing a radical or fringe belief is correlated with that individual becoming increasingly radical.

I get where you're coming from but I have some issues with that perspective. Would you agree that a conspiracy theorist who uses physical violence and/or threats of physical violence is strong indicator of a dangerously radicalized person? Then how can we explain the large number of people exposed to radical media but only a small handful performing radical violence? Are conspiracies and radical beliefs always some kind of treadmill where you take a nibble and then inevitably go deeper and deeper until you become so delusional that you feel the need to take violent action? To me that feels too much like a just-so narrative.

Also, I think we should be concerned about what some people consider "radicalization." Everyone is against radical violence and media that contributes to that end. But what about media that makes someone a Trump voter? Rhetorically some argue that they are just as dangerous as any shooter because they create a social environment that precipitates violence, even though the causation isn't direct.

It's difficult to talk about these things without coming up with false dichotomies or bad generalizations. Really what I'm trying to get at is a "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" understanding. It's easy to get rid of the baby when it's not your baby or the baby is casually stereotyped in an appealing way.
I doubt someone literally said "you have to ask me first". One thing I've noticed in every thread on Wikipedia on HN is that no one has the faintest clue about what admins do [0], and what's going on when they're trying to edit a page. It's more likely that they changed something that was against consensus, and likely had past discussion. They were also probably told something to that effect in the edit summary. And for some reason whenever people share their grievances, they never provide more context like the page it occurred on or their specific edit. Just because it's the encyclopedia that anyone can edit, doesn't mean it's obligated to take each and every edit regardless of content, quality, or conformance to guidelines and consensus. Wikipedia is also extensively documented, [1] so there's even less reason for a forum that prides itself on being programmer/engineer types to stay so ignorant.

[0]: Wikipedia doesn't have "moderators". Anyone can revert edits and just because they opposed your edit, it doesn't automatically mean they're an admin, of which there are only around a thousand.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents
"Former mac user, now Dell XPS user - my first impressions were great, second not so much."

Yeah, I definitely should have qualified that I probably would not get an XPS, because there seem to be consistent issues with that line. That's why I'm pleased to see that Dell have expanded the number of ranges that they offer Linux support on: hopefully there will be some good models at the time that I need to buy a new machine. Or I could buy an unsupported model: none of the ThinkPads that I used had Linux support from the vendor.
what you have is companies powered by complex financial systems and artificial intelligence help while consumers are not able to get a discount right

Yeah agreed. Perhaps products (chatbots, voice?) that simply tell people what to do can partially solve for this.

In many cases however, people have self-interests based on vastly different values (think relationship or hobby), and their instincts are good enough at approximating what they want. And while personal finance is tricky for many folks, not every decision is like personal finance which has a easily defined value function like calculating compound interest or choosing discounts. So my view is people are usually right!
A zero-length array can't ever be a valid cstring at all since they have to be null terminated. I don't think that is actually relevant to the claim you are replying to, which is about arrays and pointers and not strings.
I still think Wolfenstein 3D / Doom was what put the final nail in Amiga's coffin.

Not so much Amiga wasn't as fast as PC at the time, but rather something with the bitplane based graphics system not being suited for the psuedo 3D kind of games.
As the process of bottling top brand water is the same as that for bottling pretty much any drink it seems likely that all drinks in plastic bottles must be contaminated in this way. Furthermore it has probably always been like this.

So what other unseen problems do we have?
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What about them? What you describe just sounds like normal supply and demand to me. These 'whales' need to convert bitcoin to traditional currency to buy houses, cars, etc. The question is whether there's an unending supply of people who will buy into cryptocurrencies to support the demand side of the equation. And bitcoin isn't really on my radar anyways since nobody uses GPUs to mine it anymore.
Are you sure. They do seem to be pretty close

https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/intelligence-histor...
The defaults are set because of availability. Most systems will have a vim, not Sublime Text.
Quite ironic to link to Wikipedia as your source for Wikipedia's reliability. I do think that Wikipedia is quite reliable, so I don't have a problem with that, but I think the article doesn't quite support your point.

While multiple studies comparing several encyclopedias are mentioned, they tend to have small sample sizes (only a few articles) and being on par with other encyclopedias doesn't necessarily make Wikipedia reliable, it could just as well be that the other options are similarly unreliable (it seems like all studies found something to criticize).

Additionally, I interpret "Wikipedia's information about pharmacology was 99.7% accurate when compared to a pharmacology textbook" to mean that the pharmacology textbook was taken as the gold standard and Wikipedia got pretty close. But 3 errors per 1000 (whatever their unit of measurement was) might not be reliable enough to be used by pharmacologists.
There's no "correct" route. The logical way into tackling a subject to you might be different to someone else.

The "see it in action and delve into more details later" approach might not be the way you see the best practitioners developing their skillset, and starting at the theoretical basics and building from there might be the more academically rigorous approach, but it can be effective approach to directing learning.

If I was learning Java, I'd want to get cracking on developing a "Hello World" application before trying to understand the JVM.
I find this concerning. When is the next time the sun will do this? are spiral arms a great filter, or effective semi-regular eliminator of advanced galactic life?
Oh, I agree. Don't use it myself.

Got downvotes, but it seems to me Google has the superior product. True for me and how I use it anyway.

Add in a little personification, and it's nothing but win, IMHO.

So far, I've seen people like the bit of theatre related to Siri. Whether we do or not isn't necessarily the point.
Any suggestions for alternatives? I tried Inoreader, Feedly, Old reader - didn't like any of them! :(
Been using Digg for several years now and would like something similar to this!
Ryan Dahl wanted to replicate the nginx "async" model for normal web development. Since javascript was single-threaded, it pretty much forced an asynchronous programming model and many of the libraries were already built that way, so it proved to be a fertile ground for experimentation.

In other words, we have node.js and not node.xxx because other languages at that time did not provide a suitable ecosystem for building asynchronous programs. Today most languages have much better async support, or they have features (like goroutines in golang) which achieve the same objective in a different way.
What about the infamous XPS coil whine, the 2018 model doesn't have this problem anymore? Otherwise it's looks like a top notch piece or hardware.
The others are suggesting Bill Bryson, Brian Greene, Lee Smolin and Leonard Susskind books but they came quite a bit later. Good suggestions though.

What stands out that I could read in the 1980s? I mentioned George Gamow's little book: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.

Many Carl Sagan books were available by then. Ask Google.

Isaac Asimov wrote about everything, but his monthly essays in the Fantasy & Science Fiction (magazine) often covered some physics topic. I love how he tells the story: Always about the person, the time, the ideas, the meanings of the words, good analogies. He made it all seem so simple, but I know now that he was a master and loved it (and bragged about it too). Those essays were often collected into paperback collections, and my high school library got them.

Asimov also wrote a History of Physics book. Really thick and long. I read it for a book report for English class, because I was a total nerd and it seemed like a fun project. Most others read a comic book because those passed as "non-fiction" (for real).

One of the better textbooks is Introduction to Electrodynamics by David J. Griffiths. That one stands out in my mind.
Lead pipes are only a problem if the water is acidic and leeches the lead. If you're concerned you should get the water quality report from your water provider and/or have your water tested.

There are filters you can purchase for under $100 to filter lead. The EPA has a lot of information on Filtration Systems and the NSF certifies filters for Lead Removal.
That's an interesting interpretation. But in that logic, how come she never sold any of her shares?

> Holmes has never sold any of her Theranos stock.

https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2018/comp-pr2018-4...
Those 3,5" floppies seems to be almost immortal.

Packed up my Amiga 500+ after 20 years in different cellars and attics, most disks seems fine, and my kids are fascinated by the late 80s / early 90s games :)
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Reddit has actually been slowly lurching towards revealing a redesign for the last couple of months. To be honest they seem almost too paranoid about not messing things up to the point where it feels like progress has been at a standstill for years. They’re doing a lot of previews [1], and getting a lot of feedback from users, but I still feel that the sort of power users who engage with a process like this might end up helping them design a Homer that blindsides a lot of people.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/7ul5k9/hey_were_here_...
I've heard good things about that one. I should get it. It came much later than the 1980s, of course.
I don't know, but suggesting that Marissa Mayer or Elizabeth Holmes are not among the most intelligent people ever roaming this planet quickly labels you as an insufferable misogynist here.
The draw, as in the attraction to Amiga? TL;DR: it was a technologically superior product for a while, but never became mainstream. This allowed it to garner a decent, very faithful following. Kind of like if the iPhone had failed, but you still had people swearing it's greatest thing since sliced bread.

I can't comment too much regarding the development side of things, as I was quite young at the time. While I dabbled in coding and have heard many comments about various ahead of its time ideas even on the dev side of things, I suspect what set it aside was in large part the hardware.

For its price, it came surprisingly well equipped. For context, we're talking 1985, so most PCs you ran into would have had CGA (EGA only having come out in '84). On the Amiga, the lower / standard resolutions you could have 32 or 64 colours at a time, picked from a 12-bit (4096) palette. For static images, there was a special hack which allowed all 4096 colours on screen at the same time, which made for breathtaking visuals. There were a set of co-processors (Copper and Blitter), which allowed for specialised, primarily graphical programming. Kind of alike a 2D GPU, but in 1985.

The OS itself had a fairly well implemented true pre-emptive multitasking, which allowed for a number of apps to be run simultaneously. Again, this is 2 years before Windows 2.0, and probably 10 years before Windows had anything better than switch-tasking. Apps could run as a window, or get their own fullscreen mode, but surprisingly the fullscreen mode was stable (sometimes games still crash on Windows when you drop do desktop), and you could even drag the full screen window down, and see half the desktop, half the game, etc. Along with the various co-processors offloading work from the CPU, this meant that the entire experience was very fluid. I still remember playing various simple games by setting them to high priority on the CPU, while a 3D render was merrily taking 100% of the CPU in the background. There was literally no noticeable lag in the game. For various architectural reasons, this just doesn't seem to work on modern machines.

Couple that with very decent audio (again, I suspect it would be many years before PCs routinely outperformed the Amiga), and you have a very decent product. It's very difficult to explain the degree to which this technical lead existed, the market is much more competitive now, and everything is much closer together. But, as an example, it's as if someone came out with a console with full VR capabilities at a 500$ price point. It simply shouldn't be feasible.

Since it was quite different, a lot of in-house technologies sprung up. An example is the AmigaGuide format, which was a kind of hyperlinked text document (kind of like man pages?). I suspect a bunch of these esoteric and quirky aspects gave the Amiga a lot of its flavour and soul.

For various reasons, possible mismanagement by Commodore, possibly the PC's open platform simply being economically superior, the Amiga never became mainstream. But therein lies it's draw - the people who knew it and loved it simply couldn't believe this, and became rather fanatical followers.
Spec said "make things spin" and so they did. After all, this isn't a rogue-like game with random procedurally generated content and permadeath,
But git doesn't actually require you to know these internals.

You don't need to know the format of git pack files or the network protocol in order to use git.

You do need to understand the concepts of commits and branches.
That there aren't remote tracking tags is a bug, the reason to have remote tracking isn't purely to watch modifications, but to see where a ref came from.

The git version that's about to be released has a fetch.pruneTags feature I wrote which has more caveats than it should have because of missing remote tracking for tags.

There was a patch series to implement remote tracking for tags a while ago, but it's a lot of work to get right so it stalled. Hopefully it'll be re-visited.
While we enjoy the fruits of capitalism we should also accept its Dark Side. There will always be people who abuse a Goodwill system. I'm not completely satisfied with the outcome, but I hope this serves as a warning to the abusers of capitalism.

Thank you SEC and the Justice Department.
Every statement in that particular section has sources linked, which means you can see for yourself whether it's true or not. Are you saying studies published in Nature or New England Journal of Medicine can't be trusted?

I do think that Wikipedia is quite reliable, so I don't have a problem with that, but I think the article doesn't quite support your point.

Compared to alternatives, Wikipedia is perhaps the best at combining high reliability, "freshness" and breadth of content. What's your benchmark for measuring reliability? I can't think of many others.
By downloading question papers that have worked solutions. If you get something wrong, check your solution against the worked solution and then error in your understanding should become apparent. This works well up to about college level, after which it's harder to find resources.
You posted a ton of nationalistic swipes to HN after we asked you not to. That counts as arson here. It reliably leads to flamewars. We've banned the account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Given the parent comment :

>>> fit the the same niche (high performance, real time, and very important software

I don't see any community emerging from the web any time soon :-) To me this niche means "avionics, military, nuclear, medical, spatial". Not your week-end project.
The fact that commits are organized in a DAG is absolutely not an implementation detail. It's one of the core concepts of distributed version control.

It's also kind of silly to call git's terminology "non-standard". Git was the first truly widely used DVCS, so if anything, git's terminology is the standard terminology by definition.
The underlying question is strong: why did Redmond not write a native viable supported ANSI colour terminal?
The first is nice, but I think you should make sure that ubyte really has that many bits for it to make sense, no? And doesn't your compiler emit a warning if it takes advantage of that undefined behaviour? (e.g. using the upper part of the register where that byte is stored).

The second, why do you cast as uintptr_t? It makes no sense to me at all. Yep, it might be a little bit advanced, but it's well known that you should only have correctly typed pointers, or void pointers, or char pointers, to any object.
It's not a totally obscure thing, just as most people understand the need for "restrict". I'd say the code looks bad to me at first sight, and even a beginner is unlikely to write it because it's a complicated construction.

You have your point, but anyway the pointer-type rule makes sense and I don't know a better version of the rule that could prevent many unnecessary reloads.
I agree with you that what youtube is doing now is not censorship by any standard definition and I don't think it's a bad thing. You might be able to argue that it's a form of "positive censorship" in the sense that a wiki on a video would be a scarlet letter but even that seems like very weak censorship.

I included the example of copycat attacks to show good faith that I'm not ignoring examples I know of that counter my own argument. What I'm trying to understand is the role of radicalization and conspiracy in violent acts. We know there are large communities of radical conspiracy theorists and yet physical violence or violent harassment is only a small subset of that community. How safely can we presume that "radical media" is the main cause of the latter violent groups? It's definitely an appealing narrative to imagine these people groom and reinforce their own beliefs until they "boil over" into violence but is that really how it works? We act as though people can be almost brainwashed into doing terrible things just by mere exposure. I'm arguing that at the very least it's more complicated than that and we should inject a little bit of nuance into the rhetoric of what conspiracy theories mean for society.
And the difference between those whose confidence was justified and those whose plans were 'a bridge too far' is... upwards of $900 Billion.

Every building is a blueprint at some point. Some jabroni pointing at the sky and describing what will be is part of the dilemma of innovation and construction.
It's more than that, it's a manipulative comment, designed to put others on the defensive about their own skills and muddle the issue.

Any real-world project will be developed unter specific time constraints and have a certain budget. There will be a mix of developers and other roles in the team, with varying skills. There will be politics involved and the project will probably be in use for decades, ensuring that all of the above will significantly change during its lifetime.

Under such conditions, C is an abject failure at supporting robust, quality code, because it neither benefits from a culture of safety (like Ada or even Rust) nor does it have any enforceable safety switches or indeed safety-by-default.

Anything that can be screwed up, will be screwed up over the years by someone, some configuration option, procedure or project management decision. Java is on average significantly safer than C or C++, because no matter what happens, the language won't allow certain errors to happen.

C can be assumed to be a hopeless case, but a purely theoretical way of avoiding these kinds of issues is to have a sufficient supply of bsenftner clones which will supervise a project through its development and operation until it's retired from production (assuming bsenftner is as awesome as they say).
"For the attacks to work, an attacker must first obtain administrator access to a targeted network, Guido said." what does that even mean?
I agree this is probably what happened. From the estimation object I see around a total of 3500 training samples with around 90 predictors. 3-fold cross-validation was done so at each iteration only around 2150 samples were used for training... And it seems none of the samples were used for out-of-sample checking.
Is this a limitation of the antenna, or the hardware itself?
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Do you feel the same way about Adderall? I've been on Ritalin for months and haven't felt any negative effects.
They feel anxiety about basic math because they've lost touch with the basics, and this is a massive problem. They could and should go back and review the basics; otherwise they will not make great teachers.
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Anything to help legacy C code base is welcome. Hard part is knowing whether touching decades-old, tested code is worth the risk.
It's not "constant" though, it's "cosmologically constant". Cosmologists would routinely assert that 1 == 1000 holds true.
This needs to be factored into models of China's future generation demand from coal and nuclear. The evidence from the large Tesla battery in South Australia is that it can supply frequency correction (FCAS) service and may be able to bid into a five minute price model (Australian energy market is currently a 30min model it can't commit inside)

A large deployment of lipo batteries would alter the dynamics of generation significantly. It would alter the profitable window for generation.
BSTR size field is at positive offset, IIRC.
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Not a lawyer but my understanding is that finding something legitimately wrong with a company, shorting the stock, publicizing it, and profiting is okay if you're right? The problem was they got it wrong.
This doesn't help at all with deep refactoring. The "git way" of producing small, self-contained changes covers all possible changes, not just feature additions.
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Well no, not inside the arctic circle, not as much for most of the year.
The thing is Wikipedia is out there for anyone to link to, without paying a dime, and there are no legal requirements for compensation.

Now, you and others may think they have some ethical responsibility (I'm not sure I agree with that) but if YouTube had to parse all the ethical requirements their users thought they had to abide by, they'd never get anything done.

B2B interactions are never bound by the same ethical constraints that human-to-human interactions are. Corporations are not people - they can be bound by laws but not arbitrary social conventions.

Near as I can tell, Wikipedia is SOL unless YouTube wants to help them out. YT is certainly not obligated to.
Just use a language where types automatically know their size? I thought the point was to make existing code safer by exploiting information that's already there (e.g. the allocator knowing the size of things on the heap).