skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I interned at Texas Instruments in Germany. Mostly engineers working there, mostly big expansive cars in the parking lot, so go figure our salary.. On each floor there was a coffee vending machine, a regular cup of coffee was 0,20€. On day, management sent an email to every employee "Free coffee during 1pm and 2pm". Guess what happened?

Everybody left their desks at 12:45 to stand in the queue, waiting for their coffee worth a few seconds of their time. At 2:15 everybody finished their coffee and went back to their chair.

I can't help but think management paid more in wasted salaries in these 1.5h than if they'd just made caffeine freely available all the time.
One issue is that FILE can't be extended in standard C, although there non portable extensions (like fopencookie).
For what it's worth, I agree. Still, you did ask for an elaboration. :)
I actually did use this for unit testing once at an old job.

I can't for the life of me remember why, or even what I was testing. I honestly think it was more to amuse myself than for an actual practical reason.
Doens't Java runs pretty much everywhere, including smartcards?
The CPU / SoC appears to be a 'Kendryte K210' which looks like you can simply download the SDK from github - which seems pretty impressive to me :) https://github.com/kendryte/kendryte-freertos-sdk
He became the villain when he became highly selective with the material he releases, which turned him from being a provider for whistle-blowers to a propagandist.
Yeah, BE is mostly about POWER these days (even though Linux distros are adding ppc64le now).

But both POWER and ARM have unsigned chars by default :)
The root cause is the destruction of unions and worker's rights. It has nothing to do with legal or illegal immigration.
Re functions pointers, how does Emscripten gurantee the POSIX behavior that you can roundtrip function pointers to void*?
>(aka. Seth Rich/his family)

That's Russian fake narrative there.
I do bare metal C on modern ARM chips and nowadays it is near identical to anything you'd do on a desktop. We don't have to write portable code to compile most of the same libraries on real computers for proper unit testing.

It is hilarious to think about the possibility of having to make your code portable to a 9 bit big endian system too.
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Some media coverage from 2014, Myanmar: https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/06/facebook-...

But yes, 2016 is when it hit home.
This advert was banned for the same reason as ALL political lobbying adverts are banned from UK TV. Political lobbying is not allow on UK TV.
That's my understanding too. But USA authorities have a history of trying to expand their reach as much as possible and there are several interpretations that they could resort to.

As an example, they could say that Assange was an accomplice of Manning, that was convicted of a crime commited in the USA.

Remember when Evo Morales' plane was stopped and searched in Spain (sigh) to catch Snowden? And that's a head of state violation! Or the CIA flights, etc. You can complain as much as you want but that's a fait accompli situation.
A russian newspaper was given access to the Russia dump in 2010 and there's no evidence they have conservative info, unless you're able to post a source
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/us/politics/guccifer-russ...
This law is only true for companies that poorly understand the value of perks.
I work in startup where one of the main perk is that we have free lunch. This has been the case since I joined the startup, back then there were 10 people. We are now 75. Every time I tell my friends that my lunches are paid by the company, I get the same reaction which essentially is: "Man, that's so cool!"
Well, you don't know what my salary is. What if I have free lunches, but I'm paid 20% less than the industry average ?

The lesson I've learned through this, is that from the company POV, money spent in perks is worth more than money spent in salary, i.e. employees implicitly would rather have 300$ of free lunches paid by the company every month than +300$ on their salary.

It is in the interest of the company to provide good perks, as the overall perceived employee benefits will be higher than the equivalent in 100% salary.
I have exactly the opposite experience. Whereas with Xorg, transitions would be choppy, not so with Wayland.
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Evolutionary algorithms are just a variation of pseudo-random search.
It isn't a small city paying remote workers. I remember when Patrick objected to teachers being paid 60k a year.
How 'miniature suns' could provide cheap, clean energy
There's loads.

Trump standing up on a podium and asking Russia for help and then retweeting the leaks.

It had such an impact one lunatic entered a pizza parlour with a gun and another posted pipe bombs to the clintons , Obama , Soros etc.
Actually, the real danger is two countries pointing three thousand nuclear weapons at eachother, on hair-trigger alert, while the rest of the world watches, and shakes its head.

I'd worry about that, long before I'll worry about some magical unicorn particle gun being discovered.
Implementing a solution where bad strings are not allowed is always fun. Had to create a gig long list of warranty registration codes a while back where it wasn't just the swear words that were naughty. There were also a few product specific words as you can't have 'FAIL' or 'SNAP' as part of a warranty registration code.

Other words that had to go included 'Jew'. Nothing 'naughty' about the word it just didn't look good in the codes so that had to be added to the big, long list of mostly 'naughty' words.

We also used a reduced dictionary so that codes could be given out over the phone without people getting it wrong, so no '1, l, L' problem or '0, o, O' problem.

I didn't find a handy library for our exact requirements and, as a consequence, I would advise people to roll their own code for such applications.

The fun part was making my non-technical manager in charge of the big, long list of rude words. I think that his additions were the only contribution to 'code' that he ever made.
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> ...and at the very least to make the debate easier to walk away from...

I find simply reminding myself that duty doesn't actually call[0] to be a very easy way to walk away from any debate that isn't going anywhere productive

[0] https://xkcd.com/386/
A clbuttic example.
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"Being a biased journalist wasn't illegal last time i checked."

Certainly, all the journalist should be in jail then.
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I don't know much about this topic but I've heard that Hindley-Milner's type inference has also drawbacks as it doesn't work well with partial compilation and subtyping.

So does the benefits outweight the drawbacks?
>In Brussels, WL volunteers where threatened by US agents with silenced pistols in a parking lot.

I live in Belgium, but never heard about this, when did this happen, do you have any references?
Microsoft opens the door to better Windows on ARM apps
Or using a phased array that can generate practically any shape of the signal.
The Judge Rotenberg Center has been shocking young people with special needs
A couple notes:

"The basic legal requirements for sanitation and won't if there is a profit based incentive not to."

As I mentioned, there is not really just a 'basic legal requirement for sanitation'. There are significant financial penalties in the form of both uncompensated expenses and genuine cuts to reimbursement rates based on outcomes.

"Free market solutions where the consumer has strong rights usually leads to superior solutions and their result lines up with the hospital adopting free market methods."

This is not necessarily self-evident. For example, for many quality measures, despite their bad press, the VA outperforms private hospitals. Furthermore, many hospitals like the one mentioned in your original post are able to pick and choose their cases, which very frequently leads to lower rates.

I think it's worth studying as well, because it's my career. I am however also noting that you're making a couple false assumptions, and even measuring things like "Does Hospital A have more infections than Hospital B" are deceptively challenging if you actually want the correct answer.
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> Developers are largely undercompensated for the utility they provide for firms

I disagree, we just have a favourable job market. We're a privileged slice of the population, my salary is way higher than anyone in my family, than my partner or most of my school mates. Am I smarter than them? Am I working harder than them? I don't think so.

It's sheer luck. It's not to dismiss any of the effort/creativity/perseverance it takes to get into that class of work, but devs are anything but "undercompensated". There's just not enough of us around.

Now the bay area might be a special case where the reliance on our industry completely distorted everything else.

Regarding your point about blaming students working for Facebook, I agree, I don't think they should be blamed. Everyone has their own situation to deal with.
There are more egregious cases. Kim Dotcom has never been to the US, yet is somehow facing extradition to the US. None of these cases are about justice, it's more like bullying.
>I really doubt WikiLeaks publishing stealing information falls under the definition of US constitution of free speech.

It actually is legal to publish stolen information, and there is a lot of legal precedent in the US saying it is.
And that's a good thing as it is sometimes the only way to hold those in power accountable for their actions they'd otherwise hide. See e.g. Pentagon Papers, Iran-Contra, US torture program, Snowden, Panama papers, just to name a few, all of which were at least in part based on leaked (read: stolen) information.
Also the Trump administration is leaking like a sieve these days. Do you consider the journalists who publish such information criminals too?

This is legally different to stealing the information yourself and/or instructing somebody else on how to steal information. I'd wager they'll at least try to pin the latter on Assange if they ever get him in a court.
> and unsigned overflow is not because that feature is not present.

you can compile in a way that unsigned overflow traps with gcc / clang's -fsanitize=undefined.

It has solved countless bugs of mine
Check out any news article posted here on obesity and health. It's full of smart people that have embraced psuedoscience.
Ask HN: Superhuman Invitation
Hi everyone! When I first heard about superhuman.com was a while ago, I requested access and forgot about it. Last week I watched a This Week in Startups episode featuring their founder. I loved the product and would like to start using it.
Could someone get me invitation/recommendation for Superhuman? I would really appreciate it!
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The same goes for Putin. I like the scheme drawn in this blog post. Simply denying the facts, for example, the annexation of Crimea, spark an outrage in opposition, which fuels more media coverage and more lies from Vladimir. Then the organized support campaign adds their part and both "truths" are lost in an ocean of information. Even hard facts can't stand against the flashing news headlines, and suddenly it becomes a fight of opinions, a performative action.
Or maybe they thought people were in their cubicles too much and coffee lines were good to get people chatting and mingling.
Have you tried SoliCall Pro (http://solicall.com/solicall-pro/)? Once installed using virtual audio device technology it will improve the audio with multiple options like NR, PNR, RNR, and more.
I think it's a great ad, and that it's an issue that will benefit from wider awareness (although it's got that anyway in spades during this whole thing), but I'm 100% with the decision to disallow this ad from being broadcast on TV. It is a Greenpeace ad, and Greenpeace is a political organisation.
there is a video posted in the comments that compares latencies to cables. spacex advertises latencies from 50-80 , but cable is in all cases fasters (rather obvious i think).
Could this be the cure for fake news?
Oracle? With their approach to IP? No, I don’t think so. I don’t think they care about anything but money in the least.
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Ask HN: Best resources for first time campers?
I am trying to understand "...they accidentally added smear to wikipedia that did not happen yet."

The way I understand it they added something to wikipedia before it happened? How did they know it would happen?

On wikipedia articles you can view the history of pages, it would be interesting to locate the exact edit...
I was a student member, but cancelled after I graduated. For $200, I somehow expected that I'd have complete access to their publications, but it turns out that you don't get that. You've to pay extra for access to their digital library (which you can't get without a membership), and even then, the access is limited - something like 25 articles a month (which don't carry over) for $44/month, with a minimum commitment of 6 months. The only reason to keep their membership is access to their journals (especially those published in the '70s and '80s), and since I already had access via my workplace, I didn't think it worthwhile. You're basically looking at $733/year for limited access to their publications.

Another option is to join a society within IEEE (in addition to membership). This gives you a substantial discount on subscriptions to publications sponsored by that society. However, I found that I needed to join multiple societies to span the publications I was interested in, and it was just not worth it.
I agree with you 100%.

I also think that we should just ban palm oil in general. I'm not sure that it has any applications worth the damage to rainforests.
I'm trying it out, and am pretty excited. Nice work! This should help a lot with out-of-HSK vocabulary for me (I'm studying for the HSK using traditional materials/anki).

It'd be helpful for me to see the character in a much larger font somehow, perhaps even with stroke order, because I don't know how to write every radical correctly yet and at that font size can't necessarily recognize them all. For example, 蟹 was a new one I got and if I increase the font size, I can figure out there's 角， 刀， 牛， 虫, but not at the font size currently in the app. I also like to practice writing the characters to reinforce (which I'll do on paper, but still need to see what it's made up of).
the only way to not have the technical capacity is if you don't upload pictures to them.
An absence of statistical training is dangerous.
A little statistical training remains dangerous, but gets annoying as well
That reminds me of when I got a bug report that my C library crashed on SPARC. It was a library related to audio. I said, that's ok let's try to fix it, but it seems this requires changing our memory layout which is a big thing to ask since the memory layout is based on the data format we are processing, and I can't reproduce the error because it doesn't crash on any machine I have access to. Are you really using this library on SPARC? And it turns out no, he was just adamant about portability and testing lots of libraries on various architectures. I said, do you have a use case for doing audio on SPARC, is _anyone_ doing audio on SPARC? And he wouldn't let it go even though he couldn't cite a single reason I should care about this platform so I had to just ignore it. He eventually suggested a fix but it was a huge change to the code that wasn't backwards compatible, so I had to reject. I'm sad my library won't work on SPARC.. but.. Portability is a virtuous goal but one has to be pragmatic.
Just imagine a Lazarus but for Python. It would be the worlds most popular application.
Having tracked opens on these my experience is almost all click thru, a large portion responds. Just keep it short and clear and they'll take a look.
I tried to explain this in my first post.. I must have been unclear as it seems you didn't grab the concept..
Maybe you should forget everything I said and focus more on official resources.. and less on being that diminutive of a legit project.. A well-staffed one too https://ost.com/team

"The OpenST protocol enables the creation of utility tokens on a utility blockchain while the value of those tokens is backed by staked crypto-assets on a value blockchain."

https://help.ost.com/support/solutions/articles/35000054307-...

"What is Simple Token (OST)? An Overview With CEO Jason Goldberg"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yreYVlV-f2s
It could be, but it’s more expensive.

We killed the local datacenter a decade ago when we started renting iron to house our own cloud. The majority of our systems still operate on VMs in that setup, but even that is more expensive than going full Azure/aws. We don’t, because a lot of our legacy systems wouldn’t run in the full cloud and if we need a SQL cluster on our own internal network anyway, then we might as well use it. Though, we’re nearing the point where a DB cluster in Azure will be considered our own network.

Then there’s the stuff we can’t do, like spin up 5000 servers on demand. Say we train some ML to find something specific missing from millions and documents. With Azure we can call Microsoft and plan to execute this, and they’ll give us exactly the resources we need for exactly how long we need it, and you just can’t beat that.

So it’s a cost-benefit thing. By going Azure and AWS, we get to spend more money on our primary function, which isn’t IT.
> "Now it’s like, just because it does what you want doesn’t mean it’s doing good."

I'm actually impressed that an 18 year old has this attitude and hasn't been swayed by the free-market fundamentalism so prevalent among the HN crowd.

Too many people treat as a truism the idea that if people are buying or using something provided by a company then that thing is obviously of great positive value to society and should be nurtured and grown.

It's an incredibly naive, irresponsible and socially and ecologically destructive viewpoint in my opinion.
I don't know the first thing about schools of thought in statistics (frequentist? Bayesian?) but something feels fishy about extrapolating a probability based on sample size (or number of trials) alone. 20 pages, no typos, <15% chance of flawless spelling? What if the manuscript is 2×10⁴¹ pages long?

Would someone care to explain why the math says it shouldn't matter (for reasonably small values of p)?
Ask HN: Alternative/Abandoned methods for AI?
We have come a long way by Statistical methods. Last night, I went into a rabbit hole of Cognitive Architectures like ACT-R[http://act-r.psy.cmu.edu/] and OpenCog[https://wiki.opencog.org/w/The_Open_Cognition_Project]. The intro ofcourse was not as documentation friendly as the width of excellent docs on Deep Learning.

Are the Symbolic methods abandoned because they are proven to not work? Also, are any new researchers working on this?
This brings to my mind the suspicuous dating site approced by UN that was used to attack Assange and UN declaration that defended Assange:

https://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/electio...
And the problem is that the membership doesn't give you access to their publications. You've to pay separately for that.
BlackBerry is buying Cylance for $1.4b to continue its push into cybersecurity
Review of home theatre Epson TW650
Epson’s LCD projectors are known for their affordability, design and projection quality. Link: https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/specials/technophile/epson-tw650-projector-review-home-theatre-experience-in-india/article24281131.ece
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There are plenty of ethical places to work. You just need to not look only at the richest companies with the most generous compensation, because they tend to be the ones that aren't.

It's a simple question you have to ask yourself. Do you value money more than your principles?
Was as a student, and then one year as a professional. But I didn’t really seem to get anything out of it, so cancelled it...

I’d love access to the journal, but I don’t think that was included.
Can we load them up with magic mushrooms and see if they become capable of abstract thought? [1].

For those that don't want to click on my link, there's a (not very scientific) hypothesis that human consciousness evolved from our ancestors eating magic mushrooms.

[1] https://www.inverse.com/article/34186-stoned-ape-hypothesis
It seems like that doesn't it, but space is MASSIVE. Imagine if there were only 7000 people spread out on the face of the earth, would you be worried you'd accidentally run into one of them? These things are up another few hundred miles so are even more spaced out than that.
I already struggle to keep up with the politically correct term of the day. I don't want to offend anyone so I do do my best but our language is changing too fast to keep up.
"Essentially, the term is used when someone is upset that someone else has gotten the better or them or beaten them or bested them in some way. That is to say, they dominated them. You know, like when someone is raped."

Your source is the blog entry of some self-professed 'angry feminist' making up an etymology and then trying to police everyone's language on that basis. People like this are such insufferable know-it-alls.
Hubble was built on an existing EOS bus, JWST on the other hand wasn’t.

Kepler was a dedicated design also while Swift was built on top of a generic LEO sattlite bus.
Good points, and I'm no expert. I do think the VA outperforming private hospitals could be in line with it having different incentives, like fixed pricing and not being run as a profit mill. Different incentives due to a different non-free market structure could explain some of the other problems they have too.
Apparently it's not quite as smooth as a billiard ball. More like very fine sandpaper.

https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/10763/is-earth-...
The data is kept in Europe, Microsoft is especially accommodating in that regard, but with both AWS and Azure there are special plans that open up when your sector spend billions.

So not only is the data kept in Europe, it’s also kept on instances that are separated from the rest of AWS and Azure and we can physically visit our specific hardware in their data enters. Hardware which only runs our stuff.

This is one of the reasons we don’t use google, because they don’t offer this. I’d love to use firebase for instance, but not if I can’t be sure citizen data is absolutely safe.
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That actually something I find interesting. I kind of assumed you were supposed to sleep on the back and felt bad about just not being able to. It's just so uncomfortable. Makes me happy to know there isn't anything wrong with me? I hope!
> The revelation has infuriated liberals who admire Soros and consider criticism of him to be anti semitic.

Criticism of the actions of a jew is not antisemitism. Also, there is hardly a more biased group than the ADL.

edit: So this was flagged, okay :D
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> Facebook has billions of users and you don't get billions of users by being evil.

You might want to talk to Pablo Escobar about that.
It is a terrible thing for a government to do, but not surprising for Trump. The message is: values don't matter as much as interests, and anyone can be bought or sold if the price is right.

Just burn the Constitution's preamble and piss on the ashes.