skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feyerabend/
My kids play with the neighbor kids. They run up and down a whole bunch of contiguous backyards and ride bikes in the front. Everybody plays with everybody else's stuff. I wish I could share the secret to making that happen, but it just happened on its own. The kids decided to play with each other.
I don't believe the entire load is anywhere near there, then. Also, for a lot of these things, once you have the procedures in place, maintaining compliance does not take much effort.
> - Involves huge Mechs and giant city-sized bugs (the word mech is literally written on the screenshot)

>- Is turn-based

>- You have a number of units.

>- These bugs are doing something bad to the cities and tanks.

>- Things are exciting and literally on fire

>- The kind of tile you are standing on has a tactical effect (advance wars-style)

>- It's science fiction and involves TIME PODS (also literally written on the screen, these guys are geniuses)

I get none of this from the screenshot, it looks like a huge mess
I'm not sure what un-obvious implications are there? That if you write something on the Internet in public service, people could read it? Isn't that the whole point of publishing it?
But the % of former blue collar workers who have the interest and can go though the academic requirements is small (and most of that cohort today go to Uni).

For example the requirements to go on my technician course in the UK back in the day required 6 O levels (exams taken at 16) for the Bank only 4. Ok it was a specialized for the local industry themo fluids one.
About a decade ago I found this out the hard way... Damn dog missed over a hundred pounds of HE under its nose.
The formatting of that text is actually making me dizzy. Weird
My curiosity about nootropics was the only reason I bought Bitcoin in 2014 so I could buy them online.
Seriously.

The article is titled in such a way to incite negative opinions of Uber drivers. Replace "uber driver" with any other job title and you could imply that any profession has a high rate of sexual abusers.
In TXR Lisp's FFI, I developed detailed support for bitfields, alignment and packing. You can comply with any kind of struct type no matter how it's declared.

In the reference manual, I added a section on what I believe are the bitfield allocation rules used by GCC, as I empirically reverse engineered them.

https://www.nongnu.org/txr/txr-manpage.html#N-027D075C

Hope someone finds it useful.

Endian considerations are not covered in that section because that topic is documented elsewhere in the document.

In a nutshell, on big endian, bitfields are packed from the most significant end of the storage word, and on little endian, from the least significant end of the storage word. Thus the lowest addressed byte of the storage unit is filled first, and so on.
If true, and still a big if, since the journalist seems to be conjecturing -- this might have implications for Facebook's future acquisitions.

Acquiring social networks that get to scale is an integral part of Zuck's strategy. It is a fairly smart strategy since one company cannot successfully lead or copy all the innovation - and social networks are very "taste-dependent" products. Zuck understands that Facebook is a big incumbent, and as with any incumbent there would be 'anti-incumbent' products. He was just willing to buy these products without too much fuss.

His willingness to overpay for these companies has been a part of a long-term dominance strategy. Maybe he has one or two misses like Snap; but by and large, his sense for "pricing" these companies and a no-nonsense "Corp Dev" approach could be thought of as a competitive advantage (plus he has proven that he can do it repeatably). The lawyers don't get involved until much later - he "leads" from the front when doing these deals. It is not very common in large-company-land.

If Jan Koum, who is very highly respected (he is truly a no-bullshit product/management person) leaves for the "wrong" reasons, it might have long-term implications for other companies that Zuck wants to buy in the future. Thus leaving an opening in the market for an 'anti-incumbent' offering to thrive.
50 years ago the WWW didn't exist and there was no such thing as a servlet.

The system ran on a mainframe not 50 but 60 years ago. The only high level language at the time was FORTRAN, but this system was apparently written in assembly language.

Does anyone know the type of computer it ran on? The article it linked to says IBM mainframe but which model?
Yes but not good for your testicles.
"I have social connections and support structures in California" sounds like a pretty good reason to me. Starting a business, paying extra taxes, and being willing to stick with it for the long term sounds better than being lonely and giving up 6 months in or deciding not to start it at all.
> but have probably been trained not to care.

I'm of the opinion that this is definitely something that has occurred and it has been done very, very deliberately. The media and ad industry and companies like fb work(ed) very hard to encourage people that:

* they should give up privacy in return for (carefully metered out dopamine hits) shiny things.

* they should give up more data and privacy because they've given up x much already

* They've given up all this stuff, fb/et etc already knows everything so they don't have any privacy so why bother protecting stuff _now_

* They gave up all this stuff and look, nothing bad has happened, so if you want privacy, you must be hiding something/a terrorist/a paedophile/etc.

And thus we arrive where we are now. Trying to convince people to take back some privacy and control to un-fuck the whole situation is an uphill battle, because those whose interests are in retaining control and lack of privacy are very well resourced and have gone to great effort to hide negative effects from the users and convince them of their non-existence.
Testing is invasive and expensive, and any part of your body could become cancerous. Would you like a colonoscopy twice a year? All your moles biopsied twice a year? Mammograms and MRI twice a year?
It does not entirely beat the purpose of a salt, because still the existence of a rainbow table for that particular combination of algorithm and salt is a lot less likely than for the algorithm unsalted.

As for your question, a solution could be to allow the account at first and perform regular checks in the background. It won't make a big difference if the account is never created or deleted within 10 minutes. In fact, the latter could be better, because it will be harder to check for any outsider (including the offender) whether an address is blocked, which is good for privacy and helps keep the offender busy, because they can't use a different address right way—they first spend some time in vain.
I understand how this can be frustrating, but it is not true that you didn't do anything to deserve this. You published several comments with high noise-to-content ration (and yes, complaining about downvotes is also noise). You got downvotes for that. Take them, move on and do better next time. It's just bits on some server, and they mean nothing except showing you how to improve your participation on the site.
Or it could go the other way. No one is sure what happens if the major currents change. Northern Europe should probably get ready for a cold spell.
My understanding is that bike-share companies in China (unlike how they operate in the US) require a deposit when you sign up for an account. Everybody dumped 100 RMB or what have you into their accounts at the outset

Meaning that starting a company like this is essentially a scheme for scamming a massive infusion of liquidity: you raise funds, collect deposits, and then you either decamp for the Bahamas, or you invest your cash in the stock market and let the bikes rot.

We were surprised, upon moving back to the US, that the bike-share companies here don't charge a deposit.
Did you forget to include field width specifiers?
"I just gave you examples of voluntary interactions that are now illegal under the GDPR programme, and you respond that none of the examples reduce the range of voluntary interactions. It's bizarre."

No, you didn't. You gave a list of one-sided transactions where the user has no freedom or really consent at all in the matter.

"My problem is the many limitations on the range of voluntary interactions that two parties can enter into that are found in the GDPR, a few of which I listed, and which you totally ignored."

No, you didn't. All you did was post a list of "transactions" where the company has all the say, and the user really has no input whatsoever. No one is going to miss those transactions.

If you truly, honestly are concerned with "consent", then you should be applauding this law, as it does require actual, informed, affirmative consent. Not the "Here's a great wall of text, agree to give us every little bit of data with no recourse whatsoever for you or don't get any access to the service at all" form of "consent".

I'm sorry, but I cannot take seriously the idea that "if you can't sell yourself into slavery, you aren't free".
Well, to have a good chance of avoiding the landmines, you need to:

* Pack the bitfields in a struct all by themselves. Don't mix bitfields and non-bitfields in the same struct. (This means that you limit the scope of insanity to other bitfields, not potentially expanding it to other regular fields).

* Make sure that the underlying type of all the bitfields within the struct have the same type. And make it be unsigned.

* Pad the bitfields to the appropriate size of the type.

* Only access the bitfields by copying them to/from the appropriate local variable (you don't want to trip code up on the bitfields-aren't-quite-the-type-they-say-they-are logic).
This is .000018 inches off of the lake each day.

Per year, it is .0066 inches. That is about 1/6 of a millimeter.

At that rate, the lake contains 508198 years worth of water. Thinking in terms of human evolution here... that is a decent chunk of time.

This supposed problem is all FUD, based on big scary numbers. Somebody has a motive to spread this. For example, a country that wants the industry might encourage opposition in the USA.
I think one of the challenges with using CD in the real world is the "unclean" input that need to be mapped to the various primitives and structures of CD, or stuff in the same vein that came after. Without a way to do that automatically, in a scalable fashion and with minimal human assistance, its utility is limited. Which is why I feel that if we had a way to leverage the current breed of ML techniques to automatically (or even semi-automatically) define this mapping, it would be a big step forward.
Having not worked on large scale systems like what I imagine they must be working with, is this really true? I would have thought that a modern framework would make things easier. I've certainly had life made easier by modern web frameworks like React and Angular, although the support timeline is more on the order of 2-3 years, rather than 20-30.
"Connecting the world" to our lucrative public manipulation platform. I'm sick of the phrase.
Make sure you're including all the lines, including those in libraries/frameworks you reference. Because they all count towards your MTBF.
Some crystal balling: A lot of these alt-proteins are going to encounter distribution issues.

Why? People aren't going to just go out and say "hey, give me some tofurkey, I watched a PETA documentary last night" and becoming hooked regular alt-protein consumers.

Also, given that in many other parts of the world (South America, Africa, India, China, Middle East) people just eat vegetables and don't need to pretend it's meat to enjoy them - lentils, chickpeas, soybeans/tofu, nuts, seeds, etc. - in terms of health, production cost, familiarity, appearance and overall consumer acceptance, alt-protein faces an uphill battle outside of the new, growing, and high margin western meat replacement market ... but that market is capped, and the real profits for this industry lie in mass consumer acceptance, which will basically be defined by solid inroads in to megacities (most of which are in Asia). These markets could be exceptionally hard to win.
ABI-specific means you can count on the behavior as long as you know the target hardware and OS. If you’re twiddling registers, it’s highly likely you know the target.
That's actually pretty interesting, I didn't know people could lack stereo vision, and even more I didn't know the same people could get it with therapy. Kind of reminds me of that one camera connected to a blind person's tongue experiment, where the brain sort of noticed optical signals and re-routed them to the vision parts of the brain. (Not a neuroscientist, I'm sure I said that wrong :P)
> If a process has many threads, their stacks are all located within a single virtual address space corresponding to the user process?

Yep!

> If one thread grows down and is about to overwrite the top of another thread's stack, does the OS detect this automatically and do some sort of reallocation procedure?

The kernel reserves a 8MB region for each stack and that's it (even the initial stack). So you wouldn't get overlapping stacks per se; the regions are preallocated. The kernel does try to detect stack overflow/underflow with guard pages, but that's just a best attempt kind of thing, and of you underflow by more than page you can just end up just corrupting memory.

And all of this is for C's sort of standard model. 'Split stacks' is a scheme closer to your second question, but there's a lot of overhead of that model, and not a lot of runtimes use it.

I've also even more rarely seen a model that allocates stack frames on the heap and links them together in a linked list.

But like I said, these schemes are very in practice.
This article is based on a study dating back to April 2017. https://itwire.com/outsourcing/78004-only-36-of-indian-engin...
I don't know if Simone is a citizen or Permanent Resident in the US (if not, she should seek government support from her home nation), but anyone who is a citizen or Permanent Resident in the US is eligible for >1yr of temporary Unemployment insurance, as well as Medicare (age 65), Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP.
Ha, "cheap". Have you looked at the AMD+Intel hybrid CPU prices? I don't think either AMD or Intel is particularly interested in that being a price/perf leader. Especially from the AMD side who already sells zen CPUs with AMD GPUs inside.
If the hardware is unsupported and no longer maintainable you could run the software on an emulator. That way you don't need to know how the software works. The hardware's instruction set would be a lot less complex and almost certainly better documented.
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> pay speeding tickets to the state instead of personally to each person living on the street you sped on

Roads are usually state-owned property, whereas your personal information is your property, right? If Alice mishandles Bob's property, why is Charlie getting paid for it?

> There's no concept in the GDPR that the violation only exists between the site and the users whose privacy it violated

Why not? The site-customer relationship is the only relevant one here. What prevents a profitable, large-scale data mining company from simply accepting the Max(4%,$20m) = 4% tax for mishandling data?

A $20m dollar fine would surely deter smaller actors, but the 4% fine doesn't seem like a deterrent for large-scale data-mining operations, which can be incredibly lucrative. For example, if Facebook had the choice between not using the data and making $60b per year, versus using the data and making $90b - .04 x $30b, wouldn't they accept the tax and continue using the data? If this is the case, I don't see GDPR making a big difference if the highest-market-share companies can "get away" with paying the fee.

This would increase the gap of viable profit models between smaller and larger companies, at the sole benefit of the state, with little, if any, benefit for the victims (the users). Of course, I am assuming that there is no criminal penalty for noncompliance. The government might think: why impose a criminal penalty if the state can simply tax large corporations for the mountains of profit they are making off of insights from personal data?
I have never heard of this. And judging by other responses, nobody else has, either.

Are you sure you're not confusing that with rerouting you based on traffic? And that the extra driving was done to get around a traffic jam?

EDIT: Are you tapping the map while driving?
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/maps/LqK7zqz6...

Also, why are people using Google Maps instead of Waze for navigation?
It seems to me that Newton did frame hypotheses. The inverse square law is a hypothesis - a proposed explanation of phenomena (the orbits of the planets). It's just that Newton stopped there - he didn't propose a hypothesis for why gravity follows an inverse square law.
That this attracted police attention and became news of this magnitude is depressing.
Really confusing title with "Facebooks" missing an apostrophe
I wish the authors — or any authors — studied which courses actually deliver results as opposed to what they ought to deliver.

For instance, immediate feedback ought to deliver learning. So they looked at which courses give immediate feedback.

But it would be even better if somone looked at which learners actually learned. You took the course now build xyz. Or pass a test or something.

There might be a difference in the sorts of “immediate feedback” that are effective. It’s an indirect proxy of what you are after.
not sure - I have an external Ubiquiti AP I use, plugged into the APU2's ethernet port. You want wifi as part of the APU2 or separate?
I've only used bitfields for register access. I get the first 3 points you make. (I use uint32_t for all fields) What is the danger in #4 if you've followed #1-3?

You seem overly paranoid. Is there something from your experience that makes you nervous about bitfields?
>>“no one wakes up excited to see more advertising; no one goes to sleep thinking about the ads they’ll see tomorrow.”

Fair, but where did that $19 BILLION came from? $19B for a company making $20m a year
And according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microlife , the first 20 minutes of moderate exercise is worth 2 microlifes (or -2 micromorts).

At 15 miles/hour, the means the first 5 miles of biking costs you about 0.25-0.5 micromorts of accident risk and gives you +2 microlifes of fitness.

Riding in a car, on the other hand, incurs accident risk AND has effects on fitness.
Being charitable, I think the parent wasn't saying it should be. But even in some fantasy ideal-government world, the budget is finite and zero-sum. By giving money to some fishing expedition with no clear expectation of any result, we are taking it from some other use.
In IntelliJ you can refactor from UML views.
I used pine from 1997-2004 or so. By the end, emails were getting pretty unreadable because everyone else's client was sending HTML. I wasn't savvy enough at the time to use lynx as a viewer.
And beta-blockers lower blood pressure, that doesn't mean you should take them because someone on youtube tells you to. You should take drugs or supplements when a physician tells you that something is wrong that needs fixing.
Can we instead just have the original title: A Look at MyRocks Performance
I've been thinking about that too. In Virginia we had a long-time sheriff who was a homosexual and for most of his office, homosexual acts were serious felonies. He'd also been brought up on charges of kidnapping and some kind of attempted sodomy - while in office - but to deal with this they moved the trial to a rural town with an all white jury who would see the nonwhite victim in a predictable way. So much for equally applicable protection of and liability to the laws. Political patronage trumped the rule of law here.
It might be an awful place to work. Or it might just be, if I'm going to work at a place that has made several people billions of dollars, if I don't get paid pretty well, I'm going to resent it. They might have to pay well to keep morale up, not because it's an awful place, but because it's easy to envy others who also work there.
>They're comparing them to the performance of a person who is a native speaker of both of the languages in question.

Which is synonymous with the best translators in the world. Those people are relatively few and far between honestly - I've traveled a lot and I'd argue that native bi-lingual people are quite rare.
I've seen this a lot in Texas Instruments' bare-metal BSPs for their processors that are generated using HalCoGen. Their own proprietary compiler handles them as you'd expect. Other BSPs typically follow the coding style for their operating system. I've never seen QNX BSP drivers use bitfields. I've also never seen them in Linux drivers. QNX and Linux typically use variants of GCC to compile their drivers unless you pay for another toolchain.
It was a general trend of the industry recently to put trash keyboards in all their laptops. I returned two laptops over it a few years ago, then got a lenovo because they were the only consistent choice at the time. That being said, they've gotten a little better, but I tried the apple keyboard recently and its atrocious in my opinion. Can't possibly be good for your fingers. I've never been a fan of Apple, but a few years ago if you asked me whether or not they were solid quality I would have said definitely. Not so much any more.
This exactly. "Efficiency" -- especially the way you measure it if you come from a small-company perspective -- is only one of many metrics. It feels like a really important one, but there's some perspective distortion at work, in my personal experience as a small-company person who has interacted a lot with big company product teams, executives, and contracting departments.

Continuity matters much more than output-per-input-hour at large companies.

Here's one way to look at it: big companies are large because they have big revenue streams to protect. Startups don't. So the risk/reward calculations look completely different. There's lots of "overhead" in a big company that can fairly be characterized as "systems that have evolved to protect the existing lines of business." For example, the political infighting at a Fortune 500 company over allocating $1M to new a new product R&D project (as opposed to marketing, or maintenance of existing products, or internal IT spend) is shocking to a startup founder in Silicon Valley who is able to raise a $1M seed round to try out a "good idea" relatively quickly, these days. Why are VCs with $25M funds so much more willing to underwrite product development than Fortune 500 executives with billion-dollar P&Ls? Because the VC's downside is limited to $25M.

Here's another way to look at it: you could define "efficiency" as "how often does a company of a given size" go out of business. By that measure, big companies are massively more efficient than small companies. Even factoring in the depredations of private equity investors. :-)

(This written by one of the above-mentioned startup founders who has struggled to get funding for new products from big company executives.)
I had the same realization in 2015 and doubled down.

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What’s a meaningful conversation look like to you?

Where do you find these conversations?