skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They call it "seasoned beef", because it's seasoned. As a taco should be.

https://www.tacobell.com/ingredients

> Seasoned Beef: Beef, water, seasoning [cellulose, chili pepper, maltodextrin, salt, oats (contains wheat), soy lecithin, spices, tomato powder, sugar, onion powder, citric acid, natural flavors (including smoke flavor), torula yeast, cocoa, disodium inosinate & guanylate, dextrose, lactic acid, modified corn starch], salt, sodium phosphates. Contains: Soy, Wheat
10 years ago, I was a religious Techcrunch reader. I read every article. Eventually, I noticed something peculiar: I'd have an idea for a startup, and six months or so later (about the time it would've taken me to do it) someone would come out with that idea! It happened enough times that it pushed me to stop reading the same tech news as everyone else, because I didn't want to succumb to group think.

I've since extended that policy to most of my news...especially social platforms like Facebook and Twitter long before fake news became a thing. The irony is that I've been oft criticized by friends and family for being ill-informed by not reading CNN.

I do wonder how much speculation, opinion and general exposure to ways of thinking shape our thoughts in subtle ways. I'm generally afraid of a future where this phenomenon becomes better understood and weaponized.
In theory the standards committee could decide to add _array_ref to the language (or some variation on pointer+length). &myArray[10] could create an _array_ref where sizeof works against it and attempts to take a slice past the end of the array abort. I can even imagine compatibility shims like __attribute__((array_ref(1,2))) similar to printf-style format decorators that tell the compiler how to map function parameters of pointer+length to _array_ref.

There are many technical details to be worked out and choices to be made but there is no fundamental intractable problem preventing it. We'd have incremental adoption over many years. Maybe some legacy code would never be updated.

The primary blocker is getting the committee members to admit this is a problem that should be solved. That is difficult enough here on HN, where some people are still arguing that C is fine as-is and we just need to invent better programmers / better tools.

Ultimately C's lack of better string support comes from its lack of better array support. That comes from a certain subset of the programmer community that believes the status-quo is fine and isn't interested in such changes.
For those who don't know various feed conversion ratios offhand:

{Type of meat} - {FCR, Edible Weight} - {Conversion efficiency %, caloric} - {Conversion efficiency %, protein}

Beef - 36 - 2.9% - 2.5%

Pork - 6 - 9% - 9%

Chicken - 4.2 - 13% - 21%

(specifics vary according to method, but cross species comparisons remain similar)

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/11/10/1...
>Parmesan (cheese byproduct and sawdust)

Nitpicky, but this is itself misleading. Canned parm is mostly actual cheese, it's just... not very good. "Sawdust" is there in small amounts for anti-caking purposes, not bulking.
Sorry I misspoke, dual socket Epycs compared to four socket Xeons; Intel may following AMD and abandoning >2 socket, as well.
Tie-dye: why it’s back in 2019
There might be incidental location disclosure, but even with 2/3/4G the network operator has pretty good location information, typical precision being 10s of meters or even less.
Yeah. I bet part of why there's so much L3 per core group is that it's really expensive to go further away.

Seems like there're at least two approaches for future gens: widen the scope across which you can share L3 without a slow trip across the I/O die, or speed up the hop through the I/O die. Unsure what's actually a cost-effective change vs. just a pipe dream, though.
It seems like a pretty broadly defeatist attitude towards current actions having agency over the future:

> We need to start remembering that everybody who said that Y2K wasn’t a real problem was either shouted down, or kept off the air.

> But my point is, for pending legislation as with everything else, nobody knows the future.

> What will be the effect of electing a certain president, or a supreme court justice? Nobody knows.

If his focus was purely towards the charlatans who make predictions and keep getting it wrong with no accountability, I would agree. But he takes it a step further by seemingly emphasizing the futility of the very act of trying to foresee and head off potentially bad situations be it technical, legislative or political.
I read this book shortly after its publication...I haven't thought much about it since I read it, but I'm curious how well its aged, given what I remember about the contents. It doesn't take much imagination to figure out what parts made you uncomfortable, though.
Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003) was an American television personality, musician, puppeteer, writer, producer, and Presbyterian minister.

His work in children's television has been widely lauded, and he received over 40 honorary degrees and several awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2002 and a Lifetime Achievement Emmy in 1997. He was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 1999. Rogers influenced many writers and producers of children's television shows, and served as a source of comfort during tragic events, even decades after his death.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Rogers

For a long time, I didn't know he was a minister. I think most people probably didn't know. He's an example of a sincere Christian who "prayed in his closet" and walked the walk. He poured his values into his life's work.

I've never heard of any scandal attached to his name.
The ARM that is following US sanctions against Huawei due to its large presence in the US and reliance on what it says is "U.S.-origin technology"?
I sort of agree with this. Having been around hospitals a bit, I have watched quite a few people going through one procedure after another for years and years with no improvement in quality of life. Most of them just want to checkout, but either the family or the medical establishment drag it out just because the capability exists. It's sad to watch.
A Baker makes bread but a boulanger is required to make a baguette !

I always find industrial baguettes under cooked, but you raise an important point : it all come back to personnal preferences and that's for me the special thing about the baguette, so few ingredients and so many variations in taste ...
There are many indications that another recession is upon us. The US Stock Market volatility is just one example!
I don't think anyone appreciates how goddamned difficult it is to run an organization, especially a volunteer one, well.

If you belong to a group, especially one that hosts events at least once a year, and you feel like it's run "adequately well", it's probably run better than 95% of the organizations out there. Head and shoulders above. You should take the time to thank the organizers for doing as well as they do. It's like being a member of the City Council, only you get paid even less (dollars or influence).
This is really well put, so much so that I searched to see if it was actually a quote. Didn't find it, but did find an interesting one from Bernard Shaw [0]: "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

I am not well read on him so don't know the context or his intention, but after a quick scan of his wikipedia page I saw that he admired Hitler and Stalin, professed a belief in dictatorship and criticized the Nuremburg trials [1]. Would love to hear more from someone knowledgable on him.

In any case, I want to print your comment on stickers or tshirts or something. Spot on!

[0]: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/george_bernard_shaw_38692...

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw#1930s
Does it? Their first arm doc was extremely open.

It is often used by academics for researching really low level stuff.
Looks great, but I have been bitten badly before by vendor lock-in using a SaaS and they either go out of business or jack up their prices exponentially. The only mitigation I know of is to make Base open source, so if needed users can host their own instance. What are your thoughts on this?
Maryland already largely does this.
> What's funny to me though is that they consider this cost prohibitive despite the expected theoretically longer life without replacement or maintenance.

Unless almost all maintenance and replacement needs are due to cracks that don't rapidly become more than 0.8mm wide, this reduces maintenance costs but doesn't let it go an extended time without normal maintenance and replacement. At double manufacturing cost, that could well be a losing trade-off for most applications.
There are definitely a few! It’s just not the norm.
If you mean string as in text string, it's not done and I doubt it could ever be achieved in C++. It's too complicated because of unicode and string encoding aspects.

The new type wouldn't be usable either, because it would have to be converted down to another representation all the time when calling functions and libraries that are not aware of it. Think of C string to C++ string to boost string to whatever.

I think the closest usable thing is QString if you are using Qt.
All right, but it was a post written in the 21st century. If you're going to use a 19th century formulation that "doesn't mean what it sounds like in today's context", then that's not very good communication.

If people like claudiawerner really want to communicate, they ought to rewrite Marx's concepts in today's language. Most of us aren't going to learn Marx's terms in order to examine his ideas.
Don't let the wordplay confuse you. There can definitely be nationalism without a nation. One of many examples being Kurdistan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdistan
Please don't use powerline broadband noise sources.
Blockchain is used in cryptocurrencies to have a shared registry modified and verified by independent nodes who don't trust each other. Using it, you can prove to anyone that you have X bitcoins, and anyone who received them from you can prove this too.

In case of voting, there are no independent nodes, all modifications to the registry are done by the election committee (or authorised by them) and users can only verify the transaction list. So it would be easier to just present election events as a Merkle tree (voter X has submitted an encrypted ballot Y, and the hash of the registry before this was Z).

But in this case there would be no "blockchain" and no feeling of reliability and security.

If I made a mistake here, I would be happy if someone would point at it.
I also have a terrible palate, do you think that's part of it for us? Beef is a fairly "guaranteed" taste that, depending on the cut, will give you what you're looking for regardless, I'd expect.
This article made me think a lot about the habit of trying new things: https://www.raptitude.com/2017/12/go-deeper-not-wider/
I think that Belyaev's "Eternal Bread" (1928) is much more relevant because it's about actual biotechnology and the scientist had good intentions.
> and the general US appetite for "dark meat" chicken is so low

Which is sad, IMO.

"All white meat chicken breast" is a bug, not a feature, IMO. Leg and thigh meat has so much more flavor and is much more juicy than breast meat.
Honestly, I don't know: I trust that the glibc people know what they are doing. However, in an attempt answer some of your questions: there is an SSE2 implementation available that might be used on computers that support it: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/sysdeps/x86_64/s... . Perhaps this version is for platforms that don't have a hand-optimized implementation? I'm not sure if the compiler is smart enough to auto-vectorize an arbitrary strlen implementation (or delegate it to a library call).
So you predict if they have a general mild preference for the Democrats, then mine if they once reacted strongly on certain triggers: gun control, weak leadership, immigrants, drug addiction, patriotism, racism, elitism, religion & conspiracy. Then you personalize the message for them: Hillary will take away all guns, Hillary is ill and frail, The Democrats let copkillers enter the USA, China ships fentanyl to American youth, and wants to steal your steel workers' money, look at these violent BLM protesters and one snippet of Clinton talking about superpredators, there is a deep state which let Obama play pingpong in the basement of a pizza place, we have a non-crooked Christian Vice President and Hillary smells of sulfur.
If you are referring to urban areas - what about the crippled subway system and insane traffic congestion in NYC?
I've found thriftbooks to generally have usable copies in their good/very good category and they don't use paper bar codes so they are easier to clean up than some other high volume sellers.
> It’s interesting that the modern baguette is such a symbol, as it’s a product of the Industrial Age

As many things that people consider iconically French (Eiffel tower, "Haussmann-style" architecture...)
You can calculate the value of each screen pixel without knowing the value of the others. To calculate the n value of a fibonnaci sequence you have to calculate the n-1 and n-2 values first, so it doesn't matter how many cores do you have. Gpus are for the former and CPUs for the latest.
Very Bad Wizards is a nice mix of psychology, philosophy, and crudeness.
Sure and waving a banana to a black soccer player is “just showing a fruit”.

Communication is about the message the receiver gets independent of your intention. So if you use a swatsika in your online work and you are not a (ignorant, given the context) buddhist, you probably:

- suck at communicating

- are a troll

- are a nazi

The last two are often indistinguishable, as real neo nazis nowadays hide behind ironic jokes and statements they follow up with “just kidding”, as part of a deliberate strategy to normalize their messages and wear off their shock value.

Or you are an idiot who thinks you are so very cleverly defending the freedom of speech of neo nazis by reminding everybody that the holocaust has in fact happend.

In any case we can all congratulate the bright mind who thought that all through.
> The buck stops with the president, so which president do you blame considering they all played a part in this as well?

Why are you so eager to pin it on one person, in this case, GW Bush?

I think it goes well beyond a single person, and in many cases, the group of people behind the scenes who benefitted from the conditions that caused the 2008 recession did not suffer, but instead are around to create the 2019/2020 recession (but bigger this time!) Like clockwork.
>I think our present trajectory is obviously unsustainable

Curious what makes you think that, with some real hard numbers, etc.

I think we've become very good as a culture at brainwashing ourselves into a doomsday attitude when it comes to planetary resources...yet we've actually done quite well at getting rid of or minimizing bad practices as we learn they are damaging. Nukes, CFCs, noxious smokestacks...sure not 100%, but getting better over decades.

Yes I'm an optimist...I think the Earth is all we need, and based on scientific advancements and slow learning over decades (we barely even use the [deserts|seas|tundra]!), we could easily live well and without abject poverty at 100 BN+ in centuries to come.

What will kill us off...I think it more likely to be external [asteroid|aliens|supernova] or inescapable [Yellowstone|Krakatoa|Earthquakes|virus|new apex species]
Hammers and axes tend not to go off unintentionally in confined spaces and/or at altitude.
the actual computation was left as an exercise for the reader, but the issue is not the length of the scales, it is how they can be combined. take 10 notes and combine them in 16 ways. two small numbers, but how long to count to all 10^16 possiblities? or rephrased: how many days in 10 quadrillion seconds?
Ask HN: Resources to learn Stochastic Processes?
Hi, I am an undergradute student of Applied Mathematics in Brazil. This semester, I will do a Stochastic Processes course and I am keen on learning this subject!

I love HackerNews. This is a great community with awesome people sharing a marvelous content. It would be nice to receive some advice from you guys.

The professor is using some lecture notes (in English) that himself wrote it: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwDJjYFvJgwNZFk1dmFKeExKblU/view.

It is somewhat pretty extensive, however, I am not feeling really comfortable with this material. It feels somewhat "dry" and direct.

I am looking forward to supplementary material that will help me absorb this and gain some intuition/instinct.

1 - Is there a YouTube content particularly good for this topic?

2 - Is there some specific good strategy to study Stochastic Processes?

I really like to study doing exercises and, then, check the answer. Not just the final answer but the whole answer.

This is not always available. Slader is a great website for that. Maybe there is an even better resource than Slader.

Thanks in advance!
Worth reading this response by James Hansen:

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200604/viewpoint.cf...
Note: the financial positioning of SolarCity was obvious to anyone who could read a 10k. SolarCity never made a profit, and it spent tons of money chasing imaginary products (similar to a lot of other Musk-based properties). 10k documents exist for a reason. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1408356/000156459017...

In 2016, SolarCity lost a full, solid, $Billion. The Tesla investors who voted for SolarCity / Tesla merger has no excuse on this part: all information was public, and no fraud has been detected in any of these numbers (yet).

> and that they were releasing a revolutionary solar shingle product

That one... I'll blame Musk for for sure. But investors really should have done their own proper leg-work and analyzed SolarCity's financial position on their own.
> Well, yeah I'm talking about "nations" but you can't have nationalism without a nation.

Correct, basically.

> And you can't have a nation without the idea of citizenship or borders right?

Wrong: citizenship and, especially, borders are features of the association with and territorial limits of the jurisdiction of a state.

A nation is an identity group which may or may not have a state, a state is a political unit which may or may not be tightly associated with a nation. The modern nation-state system is one in which there is a norm that states tend to be coextensive with nations, and where that isn't the case either nations try to carve out states or states try to create new national identities.
> what is the economic justification for claiming that Mars is valuable?

In all likelihood, it will be intellectual property. Putting people who have taken a risk to go to a new world (literally) in tight proximity with a shared goal is a proven path for innovation. The lack of many Earth-based restrictions boosts that tendency.
If you have the source code[0], you can compile your own version without fuzzification, and any attacks you find will work just as well on the fuzzified executable. This is not true of eg ASLR. If you don't have the source code, it's security through obscurity.

0: Note that obfuscator output is not source code.
The world’s richest countries came up with just $22M to fight the Amazon fires
The simple fact that most countries put tight spending regulations on election campaigns should tell you they work and why this level of advertising focus is something we should all be concerned about.
Average baguette price in France is 88 cents. Not sure you could find a 35c one anywhere. Unless it was it really long while ago :-)
> Many factors can influence an outcome. But it's reasonable to focus on the illegal (or just shady) ones.

I disagree, let me illustrate with examples. The electoral college is a very legal and established process, but it has costed the US two out of the three latest presidential elections (not counting reelections), where the popular vote hasn't matched the result. As a foreigner it's crazy to think the fate of the country is essentially dependent on some random states.

This also applies to other problems. Climate change— there's scandals like the Volkswagen emissions fiasco, but legal pollution far outweighs any other type of pollution. Drugs— cocaine and heroin are probably a big problem, but cigarettes and opioids cause more net deaths. Etc, etc.

Sketchy issues will make flashier headlines, anger people more, and in general be more straightforward to digest as a problem. It is often the institutionalized factors that have broader impact although unfortunately they will also escape the public eye, precisely because everyone is just "used" to them.

Back to this— if the electoral college didn't exist, the US wouldn't even be having this conversation! Trump did lose the popular vote! All of his tactics, misinformation, fear-mongering, etc. did not work in convincing most people in the US that he was a good option for president. He failed. Yet, it's crazy that that doesn't matter, and he could get the presidency even if he lost.

Isn't it crazy that that hasn't yet been brought up? That we are here, trying to figure out if this micro-targeting could be to blame for influencing 80k people in 3 random states because these crazy rules say these people's vote matters disproportionally more than the majority vote in the country, instead of talking about the fact these are even the rules in the first place?
Less than 24 hours after Paris’s Notre-Dame caught fire in April, €850 million ($945 million) had already been pledged for the cathedral’s restoration.
Steven Levy's 1992 book "Artificial Life" is well worth a read.
Could you expand more on this point? With your background in the space, would be interesting to hear your insights on what proportion of SaaS businesses fall into the secretive vs. “any press or leads are good” categories. And when to go with one strategy or the other.
But you would need a long queue of cement trucks :)
Why will democratization lead to demagogues?

The most popular ideas should win, not the most popular people. We have no real need to require representation anymore, we should have a fully auditable, direct democracy.
> I had so many “whoa!” and “wow!” and “this is amazing!” moments while checking it out that I didn't get out of my chair until almost midnight. I didn't even notice the house had grown dark around me.

I had pretty much the same experience, but the medium was Duolingo. I studied Lernu later. Don't agree with Chinese, as you would probably be just starting in 6 months, whereas you can reach near fluency in Esperanto in that timeframe.
> Not really relevant as to whether a small company can beat an incumbent in their own game today.

Except I've heard that argument for my entire life (I'm old). And it never pans out. Then there's a new crop of companies with "this time it's different". You can go back through a couple centuries of US companies and you'll find endless examples.
I don't believe so - those expansion joints exist IIRC to account for the fact that cement is quite temperature volume stable... but it isn't temperature inert. The seasonal temperature swings cause expansion and shrinking of cement and, especially on the scale of a bridge, those slight volume changes add up.

I imagine this tech would allow shrinkage during the winter to be automatically repaired if it manifested as hairline gaps - but when summer rolled around you'd get a severe amount of buckling the cement expanded... then those buckles might partially repair - be reinforced when gaping occurred in winter - then buckle even more come next summer.
At least 2 of the presenters have direct experience doing exactly this, they appreciate how hard it is and they also offered to help.
The Bottom Feeder: I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games
The organizers canceled the event. The presenters just canceled their talks.
I want to hear more.