skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> does a person that has brain cancer really voluntarily pay a neurosurgeon for treatment?

Yes

> does a person that gets paid a wage for menial labor that funnels into a value chain that some executive sells for much more than the wage really work voluntarily?

Yes-ish... one can't really not participate in society in this day and age. One can't just go homestead anymore and subsistence farm. So I understand the argument.

> does someone that's manipulated by social media that buys worthless overpriced brand name items really pay voluntarily?

Yes... get TF off social media.

> does someone that gets arrested on trumped up charges and values their freedom really pay a lawyer voluntarily?

Yes

> do people that live in blighted, neglected neighborhoods really move to higher cost of living neighborhoods voluntarily?

Yes. It's entirely possible to live in a shit area and life a "good life," though there are mental costs associated.

...

It's not black and white as you paint it.
Maybe prestigious from a mass market perspective; but IMO that’s just because both sports feature very young girls in various states of undress (simulated or not).

Both sports trade on the sexualization of young girls. Why do we even have a sport where the main criteria are older men passing judgment on young girls? The scoring system is vague/complex enough that the “victory” game in both sports is highly rigged anyway, so it’s more about politics than skill when deciding between the top few spots.
Bingo! In the US at least, it's the "bad actors" responsibility to keep up with the State in a technological arms race when the State continually pushes closer to "Precogs" as a means of law enforcement.
The question is motive. Apple's business model isn't predicated on having a lot of data on you. They have to keep a list of your purchase history for instance so you can redownload purchases.

Also, why would they risk lying? What's in it for them?
Did we really need a photo of the author holding a prinout of the data?

> It kept a copy of every app and song I'd downloaded, every tune I'd added to my iTunes music library, and every time I needed repair on a multitude of Apple devices going back a decade.

Is this surprising in any way? If you buy something (or "buy" it for free on the App Store) of course the company you buy it from keeps records of that.
Kind of funny how much of their vocabulary consists of various ways of saying "get over here, you sexy beast.."
The logistics of keeping a drone airborne for an extended period make skeptical of many of the claims in this article.

A drone monitoring people who come in and out of a police station would be a monumental task. Take the flight time of a drone, one that is both small enough to not be noticed and yet powerful enough to spot people's faces. These things have flight time measured in minutes. It would take a team of people and a fleet of a dozen drones. This is batman-v-joker stuff.

Same too with the drones used at the boarder. A drone has a limited useful range, perhaps a kilometer at most. So people will still need to hike into the area. And the drones need recharge/refuel. A man standing on a mountain with a telescope can continuously observe a greater area than a hundred drones. I don't see the efficiency.

Perhaps the bad guys have experimented and these experiments have been spotted, but I cannot believe that these are common practices.
One could argue that LinkedIn has everybody on it (at least insofar as you are a working white collar adult), but it's not addictive either.
A Revolving Filing Cabinet or even just a two sided one is a not exactly a 10,000 km long room. But, I think your getting the argument.

If you assume something not explicitly as part of the puzzle it's not necessarily the correct solution.
Unfortunately ~100$ shipping to Germany. :-/
It's been way too long since I've learned C for me to put myself in the shoes of somebody attempting to learn it for the first time but it's a bit steep for a "primer", isn't it? I mean just looking at the examples it goes from introducing structs to a complex examples dealing with malloc, free, enums, pointers, NULL, arrays and for loops.

I also think the section about "the machine" is interesting but it's a bad idea in a C tutorial. When you code C you code for the C abstract machine, not your CPU. It's very important to understand that difference, especially if you want to write portable code. For instance integer overflow is most likely very well defined on your machine, but it's not in the C virtual machine. C is not a macroassembler. Furthermore I really don't think the details in this sections are relevant in the early stages of learning C.

There also are a few technical inaccuracies:

>So bytes (chars) can go from -128 to 127, shorts from -32768 to 32767, and so on. By default all of the types are signed (except pointers) UNLESS you put an “unsigned” in front of them.

That's true on most systems but "char" can be either signed or unsigned (IIRC on ARM they default to unsigned) and the C standard only gives minimum ranges, so 32bit chars and 64bit shorts are theoretically possible (and can occur on systems where the smallest addressable value is larger than 8 bit such as some DSPs). It's pure nitpick of course but why even bother mentioning that in a C intro? Introduce stdint.h instead, that's actually very useful for any C coder.

>You can have a pointer to pointers, so de-reference a pointer to pointers to get the place in memory where the actual data is then de-reference that again to get the data itself

>So keep this in mind as a general rule - your data must be aligned.

>Note that in addition to memory, CPUs will have “temporary local registers” that are directly inside the CPU.

Are we seriously talking about nested pointers, alignment and CPU registers before we've even introduced printf? If a newbie manages to get past that and continue through the examples I congratulate them.

I don't want to sound too harsh, it's definitely very commendable to try and share your knowledge with other people and writing tutorials is very time consuming and not always very rewarding. That being said I definitely wouldn't advise anybody to start learning C using that document, especially since there's already a wealth of resources for learning C, both online and off.
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> Art is aesthetics with elements of intellect
It’s too bad an otherwise well written article on an important topic soiled itself with political statements.

If you think it didn’t, I suggest you have some hidden biases.
> You can do interesting things with products when you remove some of the vast middle-men distributors that sit between you and the customer and reclaim margin.

This is why I'm starting to love Alibaba. I used to buy composite hockey sticks at the local retailer. Over the years, the tech has gotten better, but the pricing and the gimmicks have increased to where now a stick is in the $200-$250 range.

I started contacting carbon fibre manufacturers on Alibaba from China last year. I did my due diligence and found a manufacturer who sold me comparable sticks for around $100. I pick the length, the flex, the blade pattern and they're 400g, the same weight as my high end retail sticks. I wasn't expecting much tbh, but they've held up really well and have had a consistent feel over the past year and have taken quite a bit of abuse without breaking. By comparison, I went through three retail sticks over the same time last year.

Even with the $50-$60 in shipping they charged me, two sticks cost me $196. It made me think about all the markup I just cut out of the equation by working with the manufacturers directly.
Thanks for posting this.

The fact that he cites the CoC as a main reason for leaving but is unwilling to explain why was already a red flag.

I don't see exactly what he finds objectable there ? He wishes he could make violent threats to other attendees ? Or maybe sexually harass them ? Complain that there are too many browns ones ?

LLVM will do fine without him.
I'm not sure why I wouldn't get normal glasses and a good Chums strap for them. I suppose these are theoretically more secure but I've flipped while kayaking and I've never had trouble losing glasses so long as I had a retainer.

The idea is interesting on paper but a good retainer strap seems a lot more versatile.
That smell of warm electronics....
The personal thing is what a person perceives as truth. Everyone has a set of beliefs that they consider true. The set isn’t the same for everyone. Isn’t it the case then that truth, at least some portion of it, is person dependent?
Why did Jason Calacanis sell all his Facebook stock?
What is the general opinion of CMM these days? I always associate it with UML diagrams for some reason. There was a time when the industry really wanted software to be fully specified. Seems like most people gave up on that dream, when agile came around and said "embrace change", along with the tenants.

But, alas, the pendulum swings. I think it's swinging back toward "I sure wish we didn't have to depend on finding skilled people, and our process was so bulletproof we could plug in any old schmuck and we can just continue to print money".

Damn, the business man is greedy.
InnoDB (i.e. MySQL) has been using O_DIRECT for well over a decade. I think it’s fair to conclude it’s reliable by now.
There were no fighters ready to go "intervene". What would be the point? Fighters don't have the range or speed to get there in time to accomplish anything.

The B-2 was specifically designed to penetrate Russian (Soviet) airspace. Hopefully we'll never find out whether it works.
Are implications of insecurity and obliviousness also par for the course in academia? (Wait, I know that one already.)
I was in a similar situation. I put it all in Vanguard. I look at it maybe once or twice a year to only smile and see how well it does consistently over time. The monthly returns is a enough on average so far to pay my rent. That's a nice feeling.
Just by reading the comments, I d really don't need to read the article as a whole. haha
IMHO the Acoustic Design ones look like DYI, the C-Note doesn't.
I don't know the details, but the [flagged] mark is added automatically when enough users flag the post, probably it consider the fags to upvotes ratio, but I'm guessing here. With even more flags the story may be killed.

The mods usually take a look at the stream of post, specialy the flagged ones, but there are too many posts and in case you find something classified too badly you can email them hn@ycombinator.com , they usually reply soon, but it's manual process so use it wisely.

My guess here is that some users flagged it because the incel angle. It looks like a exaggeration, but I'm still not sure. So I'm not hitting any buttons here [no upvote, no flag, no email to the mods].

[My interpretation is that a log time ago OkCupid posted some silly story with some data and dubious analysis as a marketing strategy. Now they have been acquired and they must pose as a serious business, so they delete the old posts that are too polemic or politically incorrect, so ... I'm not sure that there is a connection or not.]
i think you and i have a very different understandings of the word "voluntary"
> In fact they must converge

Are you sure? Is this board not a counter-example if A starts on the right-most column and B starts on the second from the right:

x x x x x x x 8 9
x x x x x x 8 x 9
x x x x x 8 x x 9
x x x x 7 x x x 9
x x 7 x x x x x A
B x x x x x x
> If reading the paper makes you feel insecure

Nice projecting. He said nothing about him feeling insecure. He (rightfully, imho) said that the entire paper was incredibly pretentious.
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Precisely.

Programs that internally use ShiftJIS, for instance, would stop functioning on UTF-16 enforced compatability or normalization. They're currently "broken" (as in, operating incorrectly) but in a way that works.
So sad it has come to this.
Perhaps their target market are those more interested in fashion than utility.
Not a bad summary. Albeit with some odd choices.

[EDIT: Reading a little more I'm revising down as summary. There's quite a bit that's amazingly tortuously explained, or slightly wrong. e.g. '//' doesn't have to be the first 2 chars of a line, it's anywhere to EOL. He refers to both parentheses and braces as braces! Explanation of needing ';' at EOL is not helping any beginner who;d be better off with the traditional "all C statements end with a ';'".]

Couldn't call it a primer though as it takes an express trip through the features from my first program to pointers to functions in a dozen page downs.

I don't think "downside of function pointers is the added mental load to handle the indirection" rates as enough of a warning, at all. How's about letting our beginners trip up on arrays and pointer arithmetic, in a few example programs, before giving keys to all the self inflicted weaponary?

"void	An undefined type, used often to mean no type (no return or no parameters) or if used with pointers, a pointer to “anything”

Undefined? That strikes me as a way for the beginner to get totally the wrong idea.

It's used to indicate no return value or parameters in function definitions. A void pointer is generic - it can be cast implicitly to anything. You can't do pointer operations until it has been cast to a type. It is not undefined.
> You throw a hardened fighter through the air and he'll hit the fence or the canvas and bounce back up.

> This is precisely what you don't want to do, Aikidoka or otherwise.

I'm sorry, but are you joking? I don't think you have even watched 5 minutes of MMA (and I'm certain you've never trained) if you actually believe that.
The idea that Mars is "well studied" doesn't bear out, anymore than the Earth is well studied. We've probably explored less than 1% of the surface of Mars.
#GLitch attack, #Rowhammer attack against #Android smartphones now leverages GPU
Prestige is often fickle... it’s kind of a truism that the most prestigious artists (painters, writers, sculptors, etc) never enjoy success in their lifetimes, but rather find audiences well after they have passed.

In a hundred years, the olympics and the nobel prize could be seen as quaint reminders of an earlier time — entirely without prestige, leaving the observer wondering why we cared so much in the first place.
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I don't think there is only one good solution for this. This is a very complex problem, which, in my opinion, needs diverse approaches and combined co-operations of the governments, museums, and international and intergovernmental institutions (like ICOM, for example) and agencies (like UNESCO) and organizations (like UNIDROIT).

There are already a couple of conventions (some of them I have posted in the comment below), which proved to be ineffective in the face of Iraqi (destroyed sites of Nineveh, looted Mosul museum and Mari temple, etc.) and Syrian(destroyed Palmyra) wars and not only (forever lost Buddhas of Bamiyan in Afghanistan). Those international conventions will never be 100% effective, unless all parties are involved and working on the problem and websites like Ebay and the auction houses have to be part of it.

What would be of a great help in this whole story, is if the cyber security specialists (please correct me if I used the wrong term for it)would co-operate and help track down the black markets.

I'm not a specialist myself and I believe there are far more experienced people working on this problem already. I just think that a combination of 'powers' would bring far more effective results.
Yeah, web standards and the whole Chrome browser is a prime example of embrace, extend, extinguish strategy from Google.
The threading section has a reasonable warning sign before the tiger…

All threads can read and write to all memory within that process. This is extremely dangerous, so avoid threading until you have fairly well mastered C without threads.

If you must use threads, even if you are experienced, sticking to a model where threads share as little data as possible and very carefully hand off data from one thread to another and then never touch it again is far safer.
At their size it's hard to estimate but it's definitely in the 90% range. I've seen estimates of 85-99% of revenue coming from advertising.
To be fair, MB of data is kinda a crummy metric because for Facebook that's primarily photos and videos
Whenever I was trying to learn C (and as ever making small bits of progress), what I always wanted was a great visualisation system for pointers. I've seen various attempts at this online but I've never really found something that felt intuitive. I think a good on-paper means of reasoning about pointers would be a huge help in becoming fluent in C.
It is the rare person who can prevent their hate from leaking out into their day to day interactions and making their coworkers uncomfortable - thus interfering with morale and the company's viability.
Very few of those who would use a pathetic excuse like "don't blame me blame the privileges inherent to the towering position of authoritarian power I have battled to attain" would be comfortable with the obvious rejoinder: let's get rid of that towering position of authoritarian power. So, it's difficult to take that excuse seriously, whether it comes from a CEO or LEO or whatever.
I wonder about that figure of 70% of people not wanting to pay $1/year to block ads.

Everyone who wants to block ads uses an ad blocker. Those who don't care about ads don't bother to install one or ask their friends/family to install one.

Therefore nobody wants to pay to block ads!
I don't know how many reported it to npm, but when I initially saw the post on HN, I took the steps to report the packages.

I don't know who to credit on this, and neither does npm but OP seems to be the source of these findings, although it would baffle me if they didn't report it to npm.
Criminals used a swarm of drones to surveil and disrupt an FBI hostage operation
postmarketOS tries to bring a desktop-style, Alpine-based Linux distro to mobile devices. It has some level of support for relatively recent (~2015) devices, but there's still a lot of work to be done.

Replicant is working on creating a fully free software distribution of Android, rather than trying to provide a desktop-style Linux.

Porting programs isn't generally a huge deal. Most devices on postmarketOS currently use the old downstream kernel, and most things run fine on it.

The main problem is that a lot of peripherals require closed source drivers and firmware. For instance, very few devices have support for hardware-accelerated graphics or wireless connectivity, both of which are necessary on a mobile device.
Maybe they only feel desire to do things?

Our human brains create goals, but there are urges to find food and shelter.

I can only imagine all life is similar to having those urges.

Its the goal setting that makes us different.
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> Olympic gold in most sports are based on excellence measured objectively.

Athletes may value Olympic Gold more so than gold at a smaller, regional competitions, even when posting better results at the smaller venues ...

Society at large has been "tuned" to regard Olympic Gold as the "gold standard" regardless of whether the athlete performed better at other competitions.
I had my C64 hooked up to an old reel-to-reel deck.
And then you have users who always go to the same PF Changs but use navigation in case there is traffic and they should use an alternate route. Your competitor app will learn this and adapt and yours won't. The average customer will have no idea you aren't storing their data and likely doesn't even care while they aren't reading an article about privacy. While I personally wish everyone were to take your approach is also tying one arm behind your back.

Edit: I once worked with an ex-googler who told me to always store all the data you have because you never know what you can use it for, you can't get it back if you change your mind and storage is cheap. Hard to argue with this if it's "just" about competitive advantage and monetization.
You may enjoy learning more about Differential Privacy. https://machinelearning.apple.com/2017/12/06/learning-with-p...
> This is why discrimination any basis is wrong, because the individual's experience, advantages and disadvantages are not dictated by whatever group they belong to. Privilege is a statistical metric, but individual experience is not causally dictated by such metrics.

But this is nonsense. How can any reasonable person believe that one's "group" has absolutely no impact on one's life experiences? You're literally saying "one individual's experience as a member of X group has no impact on one's individual experience." Does that really parse in your head?

Look, there's no there there and you can devise silly rationalizations all day. The only thing that matters are the ends. The end goal is to keep those people away, right? The end goal is to make sure absolutely nothing changes, right? People should just be honest about their aims and end goals and we can skip the endless rationalizations.

I find it all a bit too theatrical. Like internships for Pacific Islanders are absolutely harmless. They literally cause zero harm. There are few things in this world absolutely harmless but this is one of them. But here they are being protested as discrimination! It turns out any attempt to be inclusive is decried as some betrayal of "individual experience," whatever that actually means and we get flamboyant resignations in response.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off.
> But what if there was a way to write algorithms that can't be expressed with a von Neumann architecture?

There almost certainly isn’t, due to the universality of computation (see the Church–Turing hypothesis). At any rate, even if this hypothesis turns out to be false (almost unthinkable), DNA won’t offer anything beyond what classical von Neumann architecture offers.

> Do you think someday that biological computing could perform useful computations?

Potentially: proteins are a good potential starting material to build nanomachines. However, this has got nothing to do with this article. As the initial comment said, the article is completely unrelated to biological computing platforms, the title is pure clickbait.
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There might be logs somewhere that could be used to trace the original user.
I sure hope mail will not end up like chat, e.g. in a number of isolated services.

Having federated e-mail is more important to me than the feature of spam filtering.
When anyone wants to make something "Great Again", I honestly can't tell if they want to make it as shitty as possible.
I'm only suggesting we could consider other awards more prestigious than the Nobel.
Oh nice, that might be enough to put me back on team client certs!
Please, make it stop, link to the actual blog post from OpenAI or the paper instead of some uninformed tech blog writer's horribly half-understanding summary.

"could help judge their intentions". Come on now. Today's "AI systems" don't "intend".
Apple needs to create a dashboard exactly like the Google one.

Their agreement allows them to collect tons of data but there is no transparency on what they have and no ability to remove or download.

The Google one also has all your devices in one place with what apps and permissions you have granted. Exactly what I would like for my Apple devices.
I'm by no means implying any malfeasance. I fully agree with your thesis about Apple's business model.

Depending on your threat model in regards to your privacy the assurances made by Apple may be enough.

To me, it doesn't really matter. As long as I have no proof or control over how my data is being processed, it's better to just assume the worst case and practice data minimisation.
> certain people (who will recognize themselves)

They probably won't.