skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've just improvised my way through a netBSD install on an old thinkpad X60 with 1Gb ram and a mechanical hard drive, whole disk, defaults mostly. Seems generally quite similar to OpenBSD (which makes sense given OpenBSD is a fork from netBSD).

$PKG_PATH is set up but commented out in the .profile for root. I'm going for a light window manager and Seamonkey and a few bits and pieces to see how the land lies.
> The question is do you acknowledge that or not, do you design for that or do you let it spring up adhoc?

If you don't plan for it you're going to nurture paranoia in employees.

> If you take a look at any biological system [..]

No, no, no. You can justify any systems by trying to extract analogy from `nature`.
I really have to second this one. It's still a rough point against C, but if padding isn't treaded as "semantically unreachable" idiomatically that IS the real gotcha.

The idiom here is to take the address of the struct and read the width of it's whole footprint in memory not just the field data. It's a weak idiom breaking under a common use case.
Well, like so many large Victorian piles the occupants didn't necessarily keep to the architectural vision. It was hugely redeveloped by successive generations. Most houses would suffer if you "added an extra floor, two new wings and towers" in a different style and demolished the central clock tower.

The woodcut illustration, presumably of the original house, at least has some coherence to it though not to my taste.
Optimizely claim to have since fixed this. The paper where they introduce the method is here: http://www.kdd.org/kdd2017/papers/view/peeking-at-ab-tests-w...
So many houses like this in suburban Atlanta.
… ouch. So if you’re operating by locale, [a-z] and [A-Z] may do the wrong thing completely, including all but the first or last letter of the wrong case.

Putting lowercase before uppercase also surprises me; if asked to sort them, I’d definitely put uppercases before lowercases: AaBbCc…
Except that languages even older than C made those issues easier to track down.
Study 329 anyone?

https://study329.org
Working well for whom? I was under the impression that alcohol consumption in the UK hasn’t really taken a turn for the better in the past 20 years.
> it seems likely that the driver is simply an unethical person

See also the Conjunction fallacy / Linda Problem: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-superhuman-mind/...
And also by the sugar (possibly the HFCS) industry to shift blame to fats
I classify your description as "Subdivision Hell" rather than McMansion Hell, but I've definitely seen some doozies in Subdivision Hell, too.
Fallingwater also fits beautifully into its plot and environment in both aesthetic and scale. Very much unlike McMansions and most current house building.

It is one of very few examples of modern architecture that I really like.
Book: The Machine That Changed the World

It was the result of a study by several car companies and several governments to learn what made the Toyota Production System different from the Mass Production systems used in the US.
How about a requirement that all participating researchers provide the relevant financial disclosures as part of the published research?
It's neither novel nor interesting, and other countries have already regulated this.

For example, in England you're allowed to use CCTV but you need to register with ICO and you can only use that video for law enforcement purposes - eg if someone vomits in your car you could use the video when you sue that person.
I don't believe this, although it's definitely a common opinion.

There's many medications that never lose effectiveness so they don't limit future options. For instance synthetic insulin clearly never stops working, otherwise all type 1 diabetics would quickly die off.

I also have no problem taking medication every day for the rest of my life. A sizable part of the population is only alive because they take medication regularly. I've been taking allergy medicine and anti imflammitories along with finasteride for many years with no I'll effect
I've got my i9 mbpro on order. I've got a couple of ideas for cooling for getting around thermal throttling when doing something super intensive (like compiling or exporting RAW video).

1) Freeze board under the bottom https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermos-Reuseable-Freeze-Board-800

2) Running this in reverse to help with airflow https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07C7X25NR

Will measure temps and blog on it
In C++, it depends from which tribe you came from.

The safe programming tribe, which I include myself, usually refugees from Wirth languages, makes use of C++ abstractions and type safety to deal with unsafety, including type driven development.

Meaning heavy use of templates, type wrappers, STL (or standard library if you prefer) data types, pre-processor only for #include and yes some meta-programming as well.

Then there is the tribe of C refugees, whose C++ compiler was forced on them due to a platform SDK, usually eschew anything standard. Might write some C++ like code due to interop with the SDK APIs and that's it.

Naturally there are a few tribes in-between, but these are the two major groups.
Show HN: Rasa Talk – An open source Watson conversation clone
Hello everyone!

After a recent work project which required an on-premise / open source virtual assistant platform we discovered there was not any open source dialog management tools which suited our needs so we built one! We use Rasa for the NLU however that can be swapped out with any NLU you require!

https://github.com/jackdh/RasaTalk/

There is a demo setup as well which will let you play with it a little bit under a demo account: http://talk.jackdh.com (demo@jackdh.com / demo1234)

Some of the main highlights include

- Generate Rasa NLU training data easily and quickly.

- Highlight and select entities within expressions

- Manage chatbot dialogs with varied responses / slots / webhooks + more.

- Fine grain permission control for users.

- In app chatbot tester / NLU parser

- Hookup to Facebook / Skype / Third party!

We're Looking to get some feedback good or bad so let us know!
To put a number on that tremendous demand: 540 people found the idea worth discussing with like-minded people.
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That's because of a lack of named methods to perform common operations. It has nothing to do with the fact that slices are fat pointers.

Also, nobody I know constantly looks at a cheat sheet. The concepts motivating the various slice transformations get ingrained pretty quickly.
How I turned a passion into a 20M Dollar business – CryptoPotato
Clang has -Wpadded to catch these kinds of bugs, FWIW. (and at least on my system it inits locals' padding with zero)
Not an expert but I'd suspect it's your timber choice. The specific tree is also important as you want a clean and straight trunk.

I'm Australia based so usual timber for this is; iron bark, jarrah, blackbutt and red gum. We have pine but I've never seen it used as split posts. Only round posts that have been treated.
> But why?

> Mainly because if we make Rockstar a real (and completely pointless) programming language, then recruiters and hiring managers won't be able to talk about 'rockstar developers' any more.

> Also 'cos it's kinda fun and any language based on the idea of compiling Meatloaf lyrics has to be worth a look, right?

> Also we can make stickers. Who doesn't want a sticker on their laptop saying 'CERTIFIED ROCKSTAR DEVELOPER'?

They had me at the recruiters point. And honestly I've heard a lot worse reasons for more serious languages.
This is pure genious!
> No, it's not, those ideas were implemented in practice in D and Rust, and there are no real issues with those.

Even older than that, those features already existed in NEWP, Mesa and Modula-2, just to pick some examples back when C was being designed still.
> proper plywood

Plywood in an actual mansion?! No, thanks.
> "Greebo" was banned the next day. I consider this my greatest failure, learn from my mistake.

LOL
... and they always go for 2 sinks in the bathroom. What's up with that?

I mean, the last thing my wife would want is me in the bathroom with her in the morning, brushing my teeth at the exact same time-- as if it's totally normal for folks to use the bathroom together.

These places have so much wasted space, they feel the need to fill it up unnecessary stuff.

If there was actually a valid purpose for dual sinks in the bathroom other than filling space, there would also be two toilets, for competition?
In my opinion your perceptions are correct. Microservices aren't a cure-all to be applied indiscriminately. They're a design pattern that's useful in some contexts and less so in others.

In order to really benefit from the use of microservices your organizational structure has to be non-monolithic as well (Conway's law), i.e. ideally you'd have cross-functional teams that take end-to-end responsibility for single microservices.
I think there are plenty of people who are sufficiently unconcerned about privacy data to sell it for $xx per month. I also think this set of people has literally no overlap with the set of people who care about whether the data broker is centralised or not or whether it's possible to obtain cryptographic proof of which entities have received the data
The book relies on Erlang's unique features. In Sher's words: "Erlang was created to develop distributed, process based, message passing paradigm oriented, robust, fault tolerant, concurrent systems. All of these features are exactly what a programming language created specifically for developing neural network based systems would have."

If another language can do that (Go, perhaps?), I suppose the code can be made to work adequately.
Yes, because typing ptr =&array[0] vs ptr = array is so hard.
At highschool went through a phase of naming them after fish. It started as a joke but quickly because an obsession. But after a few months even I found it impossible to maintain and this was just personal highschool projects. I can't imagine trying to maintain larger and more complex code bases which have been developed by a team of people.
Note: I'm not a professional quantum scientist so if any real ones come along please tell me if I'm getting this right, and please correct any mistakes that you see in my logic.

From my understanding so far:

One benefit of using qubits is that you can map multiple of them to one traditional bit.

Let's say we use light for our quantum computer. I like to see a wave of light as a continuous stream of photons, and photons as "an order". I'm assuming all waves and photons in the rest of this comment are of the same frequency.

If you have a vertically polarised wave of light, it orders you this:

"at time 1: jump up. at time 2: jump down. at time 3: jump up, ..."

If you have a horizontally polarised photon, it orders you this:

"at time 1: move left. at time 2: move right. at time 3: move left, ..."

We can start by saying "horizontal polarization is 0" and "vertical polarization is 1".

H = 0
V = 1

If we define XOR using only H and V:

H ^ H = H (0)
H ^ V = V (1)
V ^ H = V (1)
V ^ V = H (0)

Let's now add phase to the qubits to enhance them. Phase can be seen as adding a time delay (or "shift") to all of the photons.

Let's see the vertically polarized photon again:

"at time 1: jump up. at time 2: jump down. at time 3: jump up, ..."

And at 180 degree phase, you shift all orders by 1 time unit:

"at time 1: jump down. at time 2: jump up. at time 3: jump down, ..."

One fun and useful property of phase is that if you have two photons of the same polarization but they are at phases 180 degrees apart from each other, they will cancel each other out because you cannot move up and down at the same time.

Getting back to qubits and XOR:

Let's say H at 180 phase is I, and V at 180 phase is W.

Note that I is still horizontally polarized, and W is still vertically polarized. Let's bring them together, where we have 4 types of qubits mapped to 2 types of bits:

H = 0
I = 0
V = 1
W = 1

Let's add a step to the XOR operation:

- if the right input is V, phase shift the output by 180 degrees

The outputs of our "XOR 2.0: quantum edition":

H ^ H = H, no shift = H (0)
H ^ V = V, shift it = W (1)
V ^ H = V, no shift = V (1)
V ^ V = H, shift it = I (0)

Now we have output that still matches the original definition of XOR when mapped to traditional bits, but with the bonus of reversibility.

H => 0,0
W => 0,1
V => 1,0
I => 1,1
I think that may be the ugliest house I have ever seen, inside and out. With such a ridiculously small garden.
Which is the reason why I consider the C11 security annex, anything but safe.
> It's like a Rosetta Stone for a whole family of naive political ideas. From ancap and the more extreme forms of libertarian thinking on the right, thru "flat organization" in the startup world, to explicitly leaderless leftist groups like Occupy Wall Street.

You just earned enemies and downvotes from the entire political spectrum. I'm onboard, let the martyrdom commence.
Auto, oil, and tech industries too.

Tech industry currently has the most pervasive and convincing propaganda. Probably 30% of what makes it to HN front page is industry shills. I'll never forget when I dumped on one of the big 5 in a thread here and got a thinly veiled legal threat from it. That's why I use throwaways now (although I keep them around for a long while to avoid ire of the mods)
Paved the way for what? Mainstream security exploits?

There were OSes being written in better languages outside Bell Labs, had it been allowed to sell UNIX instead of giving it away for a symbolic price to universities, and the historical outcome would have been completely different.
This is probably quite common. Cough syrup being a typical example where the the taste seems to be largely down to how they think they can make it taste enough like what people expect cough syrup to taste like, given the long list of completely awful but completely different tasting syrups.

It's a pet hate of mine, as it's getting hard to get some of the typical ingredients separately as pills - e.g. guaifenesin (expectorant) used to be commonly available separately in the UK, but is now usually combined with paracatemol (acetaminophen) and phenylephrine hydrochloride if you want it in pill form, sometimes additional things too, like caffeine - it seems like the market basically is split in a "must suffer for this to be real medicine" segment and a "I just want everything possibly related in one pill whether or not any individual one of them will do anything" segment.

If you prefer to actually choose specifically what active ingredients you consume, then you're stuck with the mostly foul syrups (I've found one that isn't actively offensive to my tastebuds)
"Mainly because if we make Rockstar a real (and completely pointless) programming language, then recruiters and hiring managers won't be able to talk about 'rockstar developers' any more"

Hahahahaha I love you for this.

Easiest path to becoming a certified Rockstar developer.

This is so we'll thought out and hilarious. You've earned my number one spot for best esoteric programming language. It used to be Chef where the programs make recipes and someone made a program that output hello world but actually was real instructions for baking a cake. They then baked the cake. But this? Oh the sky is the limit with this !
Acknowledging race is not being hypersensitive about race. The problem is in what you said "pushes a worldview that directs people's attention to the fault lines of race rather than the things which unite us in spite of racial differences". You have the luxury to not think about it because it doesn't affect you directly. When you're a minority its something that you have to think about either consciously or subconsciously. Because you run into it frequently. Depending on where you live and who you deal with it can be something you deal with on a daily basis or something you deal with every now and then. But it will be something you deal with.
Seems like you were missing the three most important parts of a safe psychedelic experience: Set, setting and a trip sitter.
Wiki on subj:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_string_handling#Replacements
Your reasons are totally ad hominem and dictated by your political views and have nothing to do with the topic.
It seems pretty delusional to make conclusions when you don't even know if they really took LSD or something sold as LSD, but actually dangerous, and are missing basically all other important data other than "they took something and then became crazy", while the then in the sentence means "after that", as in time, not "because of that".
Because it is clear to us, advocates of safer systems programming languages, that no one is going to rewrite POSIX based platforms in something else.

So we would like to improve our foundations, to move UNIX derived OSes to some kind of safer C, instead of having it be the backdoor of the whole security infrastructure.
What Is Ng-Template in Angular?
Well, i'm referring more to building ordinary suburban tract houses that don't meet the definition of "mansion", and reasonably sized wood framed single family houses. If you can afford to build an actual mansion I'm sure there will be very little plywood anywhere.
Has been tried a couple of times, the problem is mostly human not technical.
Dammit I thought this was serious.
This is epic. Time to write a hello world and update LinkedIn. "Genuine Rockstar Developer, 2018-". Please make and sell the laptop stickers. I'll buy a dozen.
That was already sorted out in early 80's Pascal dialects, even ISO Extended Pascal included support for it.
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It seems possible that 1980s power ballads were programs all along. I'm going to run "Mr. Crowley" as soon as these guys release a compiler.

Pretty sure a hot AI hologram will pop out of my IBM Compatible's antenna.
In a Houston climate that thing probably costs $750/month in electrical bills for the central air conditioning.
This is just to give you an idea of how corrupt to the core the system is before you get your hopes up.
Why wait? You should be able to simulate one by hand in fairly short order.
I don't have a huge amount of time to dig into this right now but the impression I get from the ONS is that the numbers are trending in the right direction - sort of. Will explore more later

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
That implies that Hacker News will be around in 20 years. Newsweek will be (in some format or another).
The phrase "white-collar neo-feudalism" is probably the best characterization I've heard - thanks for that.

The metaphor makes me wonder: who is the church - those who convince the masses that there's a bigger meaning to sitting around an obeying orders?
Most worker ants are slackers
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You’re totally right. If it’s an argument then maybe one of the replies convinced the original poster. But some other person may reply to the most authoritative reply and claim superiority and falsehood of that posts authority. And there’s no way to correct it automatically. So all the smart comments wind up fighting the incorrect and an honest third party will likely have gained nothing.
The more one studies the history of the Mughal empire, it's obvious how the Persian language of the court influenced things in the region for a long, long time. The relatively brief Sikh empire also made extensive use of Persian.

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=per...
so the pad will be before the 'weight' member in memory?
Although most of what he said has been easily addressed in the last 20 years, one thing lingers. And it’s not because we can’t solve it, but the VC model has prioritized ads instead, and for whatever reason, social networking hasn’t had any good OPEN SOURCE platforms. My guess is because they would have to work across websites, and very few standards too off.

What's missing from this electronic wonderland? Human contact. Discount the fawning techno-burble about virtual communities. Computers and networks isolate us from one another. A network chat line is a limp substitute for meeting friends over coffee. No interactive multimedia display comes close to the excitement of a live concert. And who'd prefer cybersex to the real thing? While the Internet beckons brightly, seductively flashing an icon of knowledge-as-power, this nonplace lures us to surrender our time on earth. A poor substitute it is, this virtual reality where frustration is legion and where—in the holy names of Education and Progress—important aspects of human interactions are relentlessly devalued.

I have spent the last 7 years and nearly $1 million dollars building such a platform. It’s free and open source but we have yet to make the marketing for it. It needs to be clear how to get started with it, and a community needs to grow. Going to release it later this year. Maybe Nov 5th?

https://qbix.com
What company was it?
How Afrika tweets during elections
A threat emailed, or commented?
> The payment mechanism is to a very large extent bonus-based. So the contracts usually have a minimum pay segment in it, which is more or less established by tradition. And then the interesting part in this contract is how much is left to the peer review process, which is very complicated. It involves various layers of mutual assessment.

Triggered. Are they trying to create an office politics cluster-fuck on purpose?

"various layers of mutual assessment" sounds like the ultimate tit-for-tat game where compensation has no longer any relation to the real-world and is strictly determined by internal politics, especially in the face of a limited total bonus fund.
To be clear, this was a genuine question. I have colleagues who generally develop software using log statements exclusively and I was curious about whether or not this was the parent's experience.
Personalized AI agents seem promising. They could data-mine user choices and make suggestions for new issues to vote on, along with predicted user vote. If the mining is done before submission to the database the user has a chance to review the implications of the vote before committing.

This could for example suggest research papers for scientists to read, and not suffer from tunnel vision.
It never happened. These comments pop up every so often, indicating conspiracy but naming no names, or giving no details.
Drink driving offenses have gone down hugely, as have drink related crime.
Seems to be a great idea!
I didn't know this was new. Most of the neat NN experiments you find on YouTube the past several years use genetic algorithms. Good ol' MarIO, for example. The rigged 3d human models "learning" how to walk and run. The various "navigate the maze" ones. Etc.
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If I saw thins in a movie I'd this "Oh come on!". And yet here it is, in real life. A story that beats any movie...