skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The root thing here is the author said "C is a compiled programming language". According to the objection, C is also, an, interpreted programming language so its not the correct classification. That's the complaint I read...

I just don't see this complaint as valid. From the discussion garnered here, C be both a compiled and interpreted language. This is a book about C in the context of the compiled variant, and has references to gcc and clang. The level of detail and nuance when using terminology here is used to match the context the terminology appears in. Excess verbiage for terminology isn't a panacea to confusion, in fact it can increase it. Can't "C is a compiled language" and "C is a interpreted language" both be true independently?

Don't get me wrong, I like reading perspectives like yours, because I just discovered a bunch about C interpreters.

But I feel like you are asking for a "spec" level document on modern C, when you are reading a more practical work on it.
Why do you think they jail Uighur and not Akha ?
You take the tobacco from a butt, loosen it up, and air dry it. Then you roll it into another cigarette. Maybe mix with some fresh tobacco, for a milder taste. People don't typically smoke cigarettes down to a roach. Except for those Russian ones, with the paper tubes.
Why is it better than Adyen?
You could say the same about Vulkan vs Metal, or Chrome vs the world, or Windows vs the world. The bulk of developers are going to target the subset of technologies that let them do what they want to do in the easiest way possible while targeting the largest userbase. I assume this isn't going to change the playing field in a significant way.
Not an academic question.

Ignore the titlegore.

https://www.delcotimes.com/news/uber-driver-from-upper-darby...
I torrented every season except the last when I used HBONow. The torrent experience was much better. Their app is bloated, shows ads, and is tough to navigate.

Their app is worse than a folder where files show up and disappear when watched. That’s their competition and they failed.
Why I was keen on the wileyfox Swift when it came out - cynogen as standard, lots of nice features, just alas cynogen ceased/transitioned and the swift2 went AOSP and that's nearly 3 years old phone wise.

So people try, just that the core consumer market don't care/or aware of what such choices actualy mean for them still - hence, many do fail.

But some nice more open phones comming and getting better on prices. Until then, a good old supported phone for alternative OS that you can root and the likes of old samsungs, moto and pixel phones just seem to be the safer bets.

But doable today, just effort above what you would really want to be doing still.
I've been playing with WebFlow a lot lately after using WP for years. I'm not a designer but the sheer amount of control that I can have directly on WP is really incredible.

I know there are a million visual designer plugins/themes for WP - but I've tried them all and WebFlow makes them look like kid's toys.

There's some limitations with WebFlow, but I'm making it my 1a option going forward.
Why do subsidies have to be an active policy decision?

You’re right, when people talk about fossil fuel subsidies, that’s thinking of government gifts and tax breaks. My point is that this is a deeply inadequate way to think about it. If you only look at these, and compare fossil fuels to renewables, you’ll come away thinking that fossil fuels are far cheaper than they actually are.
Note that this is an old paper. They are using Neo4j 1.8.2 for this (and the community version at that), which was released in February of 2013.

Neo4j is at 3.5.9 currently, with 4.0 on the horizon, so there have been 2 major releases, nearly 3, since the paper, and dozens of minor releases and patch releases.

I'm sure Oracle has been making improvements as well (all of the authors are from Oracle), so in any case the paper itself is too outdated to be useful.
It was just a joke, but note that an analogy can die by a thousand cuts. Fat Tony's argument is extremely weak at every step (family => "large family", bread => cigarettes, give => sell).
For starters I've never heard of Adyen until just now. So, perhaps better marketing?
How would one calculate that score?
tipping point, indeed... and not in a good way:

let's take 100,000 vehicles with (I'm conservatively guessing) a 100 kWh battery each, that's a 100,000,000 kWh load each night!
100,000 Mega watt-hours is roughly the output of about 10 nuclear power plants in a 24H period.

Unless a lot of new capacity comes online, it could easily overwhelm the existing electrical grid's capacity.

Let's hope this is a gradual transition.
NetlifyCMS :-)
I was just looking and could not find anything concrete but did see it was expected to use a non-removable battery. That is not a huge problem as long as they designed it to be fairly easily changed and if that is the case then I would gladly trade battery life for fast charging. I guess time will tell on this one but good question.
It was created by the UN which represents just about every country on earth, and which 150 countries have signed. And it dates back to 1949, so even if it was an expansion then, it is by no means one now, nearly a century later.
from Nature, " Results highlight a net increase in land area in Tuvalu of 73.5 ha (2.9%), despite sea-level rise, and land area increase in eight of nine atolls."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-02954-1
A couple thoughts on why this isn’t a fair comparison:

- Goldman is profitable but the employees extract most of it via compensation.

- Goldman has to rewin their business every year. Very little recurring revenue and they are one recession from imploding.

- You can’t really compute valuation on a very small investment. It’s not like the entire float is trading, and the small investment (relative to valuation) can have all kinds of liquidity preferences and special rights.
Those two bloggers will only criticize Apple products in comparison to other Apple products. They will never say a competitor's product is better even if most other reviewers say so.
What if an entity doesn’t possess those resources, but gives them anyway by taking them from someone else because they’re powerful enough to do it, does that count?
I use tempermonkey for simple stuff like this, takes 2-5 minutes to write something without deploying full extension.
AI Ethics and the Limits of Code(s)
Then it's a gift in kind and a subsidy.

When I litter, I get fined, but those companies are not when they litter e.g. carbon all over. When I dump chemicals into nature, I get fined for polluting the environment or even imprisoned outright, those companies do not e.g. when it's in the form of "emissions". Cars in my country get taxed directly or indirectly (through fuel) based in part on emissions, while a lot of commercial vehicles and fuels for these vehikles get a reduced rate or even excluded from taxation. But cars here are taxed far less so than in other European countries. etc.

The governments are clearly aware that pollution and dumping your garbage are things you should not do or at least minimize. They made laws against it, but actively decided to exclude certain business sectors and/or certain types of pollution, or actively decided not to regulate or tax certain types of pollution while regulating/taxing others.
Just a quick update, I've fixed a lot of small issues and also added support for XDG configuration/data storage and support for importing OPML XML files to feed list.
That's the most disingenuous BS I've seen in a long time. My God. Have some dignity.
Photographers "like" cameras. The Government likes tracking citizens. Slight difference, but semantically different
I had forgotten how bad it was back then, and why it was such a relief to leave windows for Linux and mac.
I've had clients tell me to hit certain known vulnerabilities specifically.

I can see a situation where the decision to stay or swap off a system is being debated. If one party can send in testers and call out some vulns that might play to their hand.
sure, but what i'm saying, is were all the actual unique positions listed, not were each individual position for each job listed .... make sense?
Hi @hkolk,

Thanks for your feedback! Not sure when you tried yugabyteDB, but our serializable isolation level and YSQL API (which is needed to exercise serializability) were in beta till a couple of days ago. That said, if you can share some feedback, that would help us out immensely. All kinds of feedback welcome - be it about the product or why you feel we are not transparent. Absolute transparency has always been our goal, your feedback will definitely help us improve.

(cto/co-founder)
Safari 13 Is Out
Isn't there some newish varieties of nuclear plant designs that consume nuclear waste from other older designs?

I heard about it on the radio, so I may be remembering it wrong, but it was something to the effect of the new nuclear plants using 'nuclear waste' from old plants currently sitting in caskets since we don't know what to do with them and gleaning more energy out of them for XYZ thousand years in ideal conditions.
For ICE vehicles production and disposal are about 15% of the total carbon footprint, the rest is fuel and servicing. Lat time I saw the figure the total impact of producing an EV was more, but the lifetime impact was about 30-40% of an ICE.

EVs really are a lot more efficient. When I worked it out for an EV charging from 'average' UK electricity, it was about 25% of my (already small and efficient) ICE car.
Does the existence of other financial firms make Goldman Sachs worth any less? I don't think it does.

We're used to winner-take-all when it comes to these unicorns, but I'm not convinced it will stay that way. With many of these service niches, there's a ton of money to be made and enough needs / feature differentiation for competition.
Good question - we make money by selling Bitcoin for slightly higher than we buy it from a few sources. We aim to have very competitive prices (lower than many places you can buy Bitcoin today), but we don't have a set fee rate that we publish.
Not really. Some people infer value without any investment -- only based on P&L and year-over-year growth. (Stripe is consistently making money, after all)
My brother runs a repair company for these vans. From my understanding that is not true only because he has set guidelines with them which he must make sure the align with.
I'm not sure what Stripe's policy is on selling shares on secondary markets, but another reason is that at some point employees need liquidity too.
DHH on building Basecamp 3 like a Porsche 911
Learn How to Build Your Own JavaScript Module Bundler
What are the negative externalities?
Investigative journalism.
I believe Amazon is working towards building its own shipping empire [1] [2].

[1] https://www.npr.org/2019/08/07/749163966/fedex-is-breaking-u...
[2] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/15/amazon-will-compete-with-fed...
Darpa’s New Project Is Investing Millions in Brain-Machine Interface Tech
Is Quantico considered a civilian area? Can I visit?
A newer camera will only help if you were actually limited by the previous camera. If you consider photography to be art, then to an extent the camera is just a tool to express your creativity. Different cameras/tools have different limitations, and certain things are impossible without the right tool - you can't get the oil painting look using watercolor, etc.
> "he" is not an absolute position that global warming doesn't exist; it's a broad spectrum of opinions ranging from climate deniers to those concerned with the painful impact of treatment that may be widely ineffective.

No, you can't simply shift the ideological division line. Someone who is convinced that climate is changing doesn't believe "CO2 is not a pollutant", regardless of how concern they are with the impact of the treatment, and it's disrespectful to put them in the same bag.
Also, Amazon gets to pay fewer taxes due to accrual...
He doesn't even compare it to non-Apple phone cameras. Only to previous generation Apple cameras. That's one tipoff that the article is a submarine.
It wasn't NETFLIX then, it just shared the name with the netflix we know now.

Somewhat unrelated but, Honestly, I feel the main job of investing media now a days is to tout survivorship bias.
It's replacing one thing with something else, but the management overhead on GKE is significantly less.

I've also managed a built-from-ground-up Kubernetes cluster. It's not rocket science. That said, I wouldn't do it in a company without a dedicated ops person.
> "I didn't like it, it worked out badly for me, so it should be illegal for everyone"? That seems like a bit of an over-reaction.

It actually didn't work out that badly for me, I thought I made that clear. It worked out badly for most of the people I know, though.

I think it should be illegal because it's broadly unhealthy for society. It's part of a broader belief that the way to fix a suboptimal public education system is to make sure all parents have big incentives to invest time and resources to improve it, rather than for the wealthy to flee and create a system that works only for themselves and leave the public system and the remaining people it serves to wither on the vine.

> > There are always exceptions.
> And yet you believe it should be illegal. It's going to be hard to make it illegal and still allow the exceptions, though.

Yes, despite the fact that some kids (such as myself) did OK under homeschooling, it should still be illegal. I also knew a kid who learned to drive a stick at age ten with no license, and he didn't die. He was an exception. Still a bad idea that should not be legal.
Sure, it probably does.

That's why I never use Tor, except through nested VPN chains. And I use the same VPN setup for torrenting, rate limited, in the background. So to the ISP, I just look like someone who torrents. It's not until you'd trace out the chain that you'd see connections to Tor entry guards.
Fun story... VX nerve agent was discovered and originally introduced as a pesticide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/VX_(nerve_agent)
I think the main reason the gloves don't get off the ground is that most people won't be willing to put up with a set of gloves, or at least the industry is waiting for a purely hand-based solution.

It shouldn't actually be too difficult to get the hand pose with gloves. I've been out of this space for four years though.
When I read the headline, I thought "that's not too bad, she just thinks they are a bad cultural fit with the company".

Then I read the article and went "ohh, she means THAT kind of energy".
If everyone thinks there's going to be a recession, wouldn't that mean that would be priced into the IPO price? ie. if you think that there's going to be a recession in 3 months, you wouldn't plow a boatload of money into an IPO.
WP Security issues come from many things, including:

* non-validated user input from ad-hoc code
* not being up to date
* plugins not being up to date
* plugins not being understood, malicious code (eval, header manipulation and so on)
* unsanitized output (wp offers sanitization for common types but you have to use it explicitly)
* code being accessible that shouldn't be
* users (clients) having too many capabilities
RustConf 2019 Videos
Sony has some phones in their developer program that can be unlocked officially. The small SW vendor Jolla supports that to install their SailfishOS.

It's a reasonable phone for me, but I don't have especially high requirements.
I have no idea what actually happened to the former administrator, but I'm told that this hyperbole is method for forcing Special Executive Service employees to resign. There are many hoops to jump through if the intent is to fire them, but part of being an SES includes not having much leeway when it comes to where you are assigned. So by forcing the person to work in some unwanted location, they tend to almost always submit their resignation instead. Where they were reassigned to I don't know for certain, but that's the tactic I'm told was used.

I suppose "forced to resign" might have been a more belivable way to end the story, but supposedly the mechanism by which that happens involves reassignment to some unwanted location.
Are virtual particles constantly popping in and out of existence?[2006]
We do want to optimize for those simple needs. Which parts do you think are bloated? Would love to hear how we can de-bloat. (Feel free to email me at edwin@stripe.com too.)
Rust has in fact had almost 10 years.
Olympus also makes great weather sealed bodies. My iphone overheated a few times this summer when I was traveling in utah. My dslr just kept ticking along. People who are new to cameras, don't actually know what hidden features real cameras provide...
Wow can’t imagine leaving kids aged 2-11 at WeGrow the “entrepreneurial school” she runs. Hate for my kids to be punished or expelled for bad energy. What a wackjob.
Also, an easy way to 'hire' your kids, pay them, and give them a near tax free income.
Confirmed UFO Footage Shows Evidence of Advanced Technology, Disclosure
So, Netflix shows are good because of the corporatocracy..

And it's not okay to like Netflix shows if you wish the US wasn't a corporatocracy...
"It is in action alone that you have a claim, never at any time to the fruits of such action. Never let the fruits of action be your motive; never let your attachment be to inaction." Bhagavad Gita 2:47

"Besides, considering your duty as a warrior, you should not waver. Indeed, for a warrior, there is nothing but a battle fought according to dharma." - 2.31

Further, the reason for action is held up later. This is also the quote that Oppenheimer used to describe setting off the Atomic Bomb.

"Time I am, the mighty destroyer of worlds, and I come to vanquish all living beings. Even without your participation, all the warriors on the opposite side of the battlefield will be killed.

Therefore, arise and achieve glory! Conquer your foes and enjoy a prosperous empire! O best amongst archers, all your enemies have already been killed by Me – you are but an instrument.

Drona. Bhisma, Jayadratha, Karna and other heroic soldiers have already been killed by Me. Fear not – fight! You will certainly conquer your enemy in this battle." - 11.32-11.35

Not to simplify the complexity of the Gita but what I take from it is: We can only take action and in the long run everyone is dead so why not take righteous action along the lines of what you are good at and thus fulfill your duty to society and God.

Furthermore, the rigidity of the caste system is a modern invention. It occurred during British Rule (https://press.princeton.edu/titles/7191.html).
> implying that we can address climate change by Consuming More Stuff

We certainly can address climate change by consuming more stuff. We could spend $100 - $200 per ton of carbon to sequester all of our carbon emissions. And it wouldn't wreck our economy to do so, the costs are similar to that of the Apollo missions or the war in Iraq, not the level of commitment that WW2 was. It would approximately double the price of gas if we paid for it the rational way.

Sequestration doesn't have all the secondary benefits that reduction has, like improvements in air quality, but it could be done.
It’s worth noting that ‘established technologies’ have not been eligible since CfD round 2 in 2017. This includes onshore wind, solar PV, energy from waste with CHP, hydro (>5MW and <50MW), landfill gas and sewage gas technologies. [1]

From phase 1, roughly 670MW of onshore wind and about 75MW of solar were supported. [2]

[1] - https://www.ashurst.com/en/news-and-insights/legal-updates/u...

[2] - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/contracts-for-dif...
Color me cynical, but the surveillance is really just for the post-mortem and to justify additional future spending on surveillance.
We had a Wordpress site at work, and ended up working around the staging issue by paying Pantheon for hosting. You can actually use git to manage code changes, and propagate changes to an intermediate staging environment before pushing to production; they also offer pretty simple tools to copy the database into staging from production as well.

All in all, it downgraded the Wordpress development experience from a hell to a heck. It was still unpleasant, and we still had a lot of pain points, but it did solve problem #3. (Although, I do have some other issues with Pantheon as well, but they're largely orthogonal to Wordpress proper.)
This pull yourself up by the bootstraps meme has been powering the American Dream for a long time.
The sooner Amazon helps get all of the oil and gas out of the ground, the sooner we'll be forced to adopt electric cars.
I'm hesitant to post it because I know how people judge this stuff, but I'll share anyhow since the other commenter did.

My husband was driving on a remote part of i-10 in Mississippi very late at night, and were the only ones on the road for a long time and it was pitch black - no overhead lights at all, no cars in either direction. We were traveling in the right lane when we both saw a car's tail lights ahead of us, starting to merge into our lane (it appeared to be driving forward, but slower than we were). I'm kinda a side seat driver subconsciously, so I did a little lean away from it, and my husband put his blinker on and got left to avoid an accident. We figured it had been stopped on the side for some reason, and was just merging back in. But as we drove past it, we realized we couldn't see the rest of the car. There was no reflection of our head lights against the body, no headlights or any light at all in our rear view mirror. There was no sound as we passed it. It just wasn't there. We even slowed down in the left lane for a bit, thinking it could catch up, but we didn't see any other cars until we exited to Biloxi. And besides, there was no way anyone could drive on that road with no headlights on a night like that.

I made note of the mile marker from where it happened (near Vancleave fwiw) and looked it up on google maps later. There wasn't a good margin or side road or something that would have made sense for someone to stop at.

We've driven across the country 4 times now, but nothing like that had happened before or since. I don't know whether to call it a ghost car, a multi-verse artifact, a shared delusion or what. But whatever it was, it was hard to reckon with.
Well, I'm not sure how to answer the "how," but I was certainly about to read it and not think it's an advertisement. Unless of course by "advertisement" you mean any review written by someone who is experienced with Apple products and has done other paid work for Apple in the past.
Specifically this section I suppose:

> The symptoms experienced by the victims — headaches, hearing loss, cognitive problems, loss of balance, etc. — are frequently found in the general population, these scientists argued, and can be attributed to many causes.
Keep mind these are trucks with tires that are more than twice as tall as you or I. They were shipped there, oversized, by semi and assembled on-site. The semi that moved it paid its fuel/road/use tax, so taxing the truck being shipped as well amounts to double taxation. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that in this case. In California, any vehicle that travels on, or over (as in, shipped on a truck) must legally be registered with the DMV, regardless of if it will be run on public roads, or not. California's car culture has resulted in large race tracks on private land which may be the only place some motorcycles and other racing vehicles will be used. Still have to pay the car tax on it though.
For the record, I don't think the NYT "is the 'good guy'". I just think it would have been worse if they had refused to run the piece.
Daimler Ends Gas Engine Development: Full Focus on Electric Cars
Wasn't high capacity wireless charging the project Apple gave up on just a year ago? (Apple AirPower)

None the less; this seems like a very impressive piece of hardware.