skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it is relying on undocumented behavior that is not part of the contract Go provides and could randomly break later

Sort of. A change in the undocumented behavior might cause you to lose your fine-tuning at some point in the future, but I wouldn't say it'll ever cause it to break. You're just telling Go how much memory you want to pre-allocate. It'll continue doing that; if that stops getting you the same GC benefits you wanted, then at worst you'll be back in the same boat you were originally.

Writing your own GC routine, on the other hand, gives you a ton of new opportunities for introducing very real breakage via your own code.
Nope. If the government fooled the magistrate, it is disallowed. However if the magistrate has failed to decode the law correctly and issued an unlawful or unconstitutional warrant, the evidence obtained by the warrant can be used in court.
As far as I know, you "hook a blog into it" by telling it which RSS feed(s) to copy from your site, so pretty much any blog engine will work.

It also supports a few more advanced things like Webmentions, there support is thinner, but possibly can be added.
Bail has proven to be negative over and over and the only ones who benefit are the people who loan money to bailees. Just look at countries that don't use collateral for bail and see their outcomes are -better- than in the USA (we're talking western 1st world countries here)
Because there's more to participating in society than hyper-specialization. You may be the world's greatest herpetologists, but you still need to maintain your finances, do your taxes, and vote in a way that requires historical and contextual knowledge.
Isn't Twitter properly chronological with 'Latest Tweets' turned on? For a while that setting would frequently reset to the non-chronological default, but at the moment it seems to be sticky. (I mostly use Twitter in a web browser, but I think the Android app is working the same way.)
If your meetings are non productive blame yourself and start proposing topics thay result in actionable innovations.
GC is an inherent part of many higher level languages/runtimes. Including Go, which is the main reference here, but also in .Net and Java runtimes. Yes, you could use a lower level language like C/C++, D, Rust etc to work around the issue in other ways, but that leaves a lot of productivity benefit higher level languages bring to the table.

I can't read the referenced twitch article from work so cannot comment. I'm also not sure of the practical loads and implementation details and am surprised that the Go GC was generally an issue to begin with.

I know I've purposely called GC for languages that use it for ETL jobs that run on shared servers to minimize memory usage before.
I've been trialing src.ht off-and-on for the past year and it's been a joy to see its steady progress from "git hosting I don't hate" towards something more full-featured. Sometimes I feel like a curmudgeon for liking simple orthogonal tools, since they are often unpolished and user-hostile, but sourcehut is doing a lot to make something more polished and user-friendly without losing the essence of what I like about these tools.
Outside of maybe the ICE cooling tower I suspect that all of these heatsink/fan solutions are woefully under specified if you happen to load the system or overclock.

I grabbed one of my little 20mmx20mm heatsinks which are generally good enough for devices of that size that come passively cooled. In the RPi's case that thing got hot enough to burn me even with a small fan. So I repeated this process a few times with stuff from my junk box trying to find a passive solution eventually I ended up with a 40x40x30mm heatsink (looks sorta like this https://www.amazon.com/Karcy-Aluminum-Heatsink-Cooling-Raspb... only that one says its 11mm) and a small fan.

The thing is huge, but the temps stay under control and it over-clocks @2Ghz now, but I wouldn't run it like that for long even with that heatsink. I've got mine pinned at 1.75).
There's a lot of interesting research focused on this problem space, training algorithms toward a more flexible problem-solving ability. Here are a couple:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1902.09725.pdf
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Skc-Fo4Yg

I do think the DeepMind team is pretty aware of how well their algorithms adapt to new problems. That has been a theme since the Atari paper.
I don't think it's a desire for physical F keys. It's a desire to not accidentally increase/decrease volume (in my case), a thousand times a day. The function keys are located (I switched to a 2016 Macbook Air recently due to the keyboard issue) well above the number keys on the Macbook Air that I never accidentally press a F key.
That's one possible explanation. It's not the only possibility though.
Farm Bankruptcies Are Way Up This Year
> Instead they charge the asset itself.

It's a ludicrous assertion, to be sure. Imagine: "we're not holding you, but only the iron in your blood".
Framing isn't dishonest if it's true ;) helps if you believe it yourself.
I wanted to edit this comment to fix the "Epstein" misspelling I made while on my phone, but I can't edit it (and the delete option is also gone), but I can still edit my top-level comment if I want. I checked back on my phone, and it showed the edit, but clicking it just acted as if I had used the comment anchor link. I haven't seen that before.
Business model has nothing to with anti-competitive behavior, it’s about being in the same industry / providing the same service.
If the ballast works and they can "afford" it within whatever parameters they are using to define "afford", I'm all for that method.
Heh sounds like you've maybe run across something quantified in the Hofstede leadership studies, commissioned by IBM when they first wanted to become an international globocorp.

What you're feeling is the difference between a collectivist leadership culture and an individualist leadership culture. Collectivist cultures value leaders who generate power through _maintaining relationships_, whereas individualist leaders prioritise leadership via _authority_. Think of it as accruing power in the edges vs the nodes of the social graph.

Fun fact: countries whose leader cultures are more individualist (e.g. America) are MUCH more likely to have whole populations who agree highly with "economic growth is important above all else", whereas collectivist leader nations (e.g., Taiwan, Finland) have a general populace who agree less highly with that phrase, but MORE highly with "ecological sustainability and environmental stewardship are important".

So while correlation doesn't prove causation, it may be the case that American-style individualist leadership culture is in opposition to our shared goals of non extinction :) but that's maybe a leap.

The whole study is really rad. Oh, and more bonus: collectivist leadership style correlates highly with feminine leadership style (another axes of Hofstede study)

EDIT: a-ha! Found the source:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/40836056?seq=1#page_scan_tab_co...
> too jaded to believe the government is capable to doing anything.

Disclosure both my parents worked for the government. I think that jadedness is due to relentless gas lighting by the over class.
In a way those statements all would have been inspiring when the company set out and the world didn't have those things. Is it possible that those companies have achieved those missions to such an extent that it's no longer inspiring? That would be the mark of an epic success. The question is what comes next?
TLDR: The short answer is "yes". (They claim a fuel economy of 13L/100km too, apparently, which is...mildly terrible, but I guess better than being completely stuck).
At least my compiler (LLVM 10) is smart enough to know that "data" isn't modified, and thus fold the addresses of the two vector loads inside the main loop into single instructions:

1a0: c5 fe 6f 6c 31 ff vmovdqu ymm5,YMMWORD PTR [rcx+rsi*1-0x1]
1a6: c5 fe 6f 24 31 vmovdqu ymm4,YMMWORD PTR [rcx+rsi*1]

I'd expect most modern compilers to get this right with optimizations on, but if somebody finds one that doesn't, I'd like to know. In general, I read through the disassembly a decent amount when developing this. That's how I noticed the "req += (vmask2_t)set << n;" (instead of |=) trick, which gets compiled to one lea instruction. The disassembly got a little bit hairy when I added the code to handle trailing bytes, though...

Thanks for the kind words, though! It warms my heart :)
Suppressing sites that display advertising seems like it is anticompetitive behavior against other ad networks, no?
Please provide citations of him lying, or misogynist Twitter tirades.
cis white male...

whats the term for a white male that wasnt born a male?
in contracting this is not uncommon. one employer I worked for bid on a contract that was later revised down by 75 percent. meetings were curtailed to save money precisely because of the cost to the customer. budget sensitivity is a valuable tool to fight time wastagement.
CooperVision brands under like 50 different names for every store they sell in. I think Wal-Mart calls them Ultraflex or something.

If it's not Acuvue for soft contacts it's almost always going to be one of the CooperVision chain brands.
Allocating and drawing down a meeting budget pool might assist with this.

As a positive incentive, a countering "attending" pool, also budgetable. Meetings with strong appeal would be compensated from that.

Not sure what to do with the Imaginary Meeting Points at the end of the year, though possibly use it as the basis of some sort of merit award or bonus.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21528854
Eyes don't "tune". Eye issues are strictly genetic unless there is some traumatic damage done to the eye (impact, chemical, staring at the sun too long, etc)
I hate to say it, but I’m not optimistic about Google’s case here. From a purely technical point of view, APIs being free to reuse is an awesome thing that makes for a more vibrant and competitive software ecosystem.

At the same time, Oracle’s characterization of their API as “original software” is not entirely off base, as anyone who has spent time and energy creating and API would know. The amount of design and work required to create an elegant and useful API is huge, and while it would irreparably harm software as a field to call it copyrightable, calling it anything other than an “original” work is a weak position.

Personally, I’m dreading the outcome of this case.
off topic: It's annoying how the Twitch blog linked in the article doesn't have an RSS feed. How do people read these blogs without one?

https://blog.twitch.tv/en/tags/engineering
Medium hosted articles in general tend to have both low quality and value. It's a very shiny platform which hosts a massive amount of really poorly reasoned articles.
Honestly? Give clang-format a try. There's tons of options available. Futz with them until you get a set that is to your liking, and then write them down in your repo's `.clang-format` file.

After that, the answer to "does this pull request comply with my formatting guidelines?" gets reduced to "does clang-format change this file?"
> No level of hard work or organization will substitute for talent and opportunity

You need look no further than a literal lottery to learn that obvious truth. Could anyone with enough hard work and organization make $100M?

That said, it's not a very useful statement; you can't control what you can't control.
Top State Department official’s testimony outlining Trump’s Ukraine quid pro quo
Just as a curious point, where were all of these complaints about the terms 'fascism', 'nazi' etc when people accused feminists of being feminazis or the left of being fascists? Both of these terms had their origins tied to the radio ideologues such as Rush Limbaugh and I find it rather odd that only now has it seen more effluent criticism now that it is being employed at the right instead of by the right.

It seems like it was acceptable when it was used by one side and not the other. Because I distinctly remember having to deal with people slinging those terms around for far less.
It is possible to solve it by either:

1) Federated machine learning. Basically you let google train their model on your private data, with the understanding that some of it would be used for the public goods. But this separate your data from the weights.

2) Train your own models, and ask google to open Gmail such that they will call your models.
I would like to quote Aaron Swartz here on the subject of unschooling:

But won't my child become a unsocial hermit?!
Interestingly, I've heard people dislike unschooling not because they are afraid that their children will not learn anything, but because they are afraid they will not develop "healthy social relationships with their peers". Nothing could be farther from the truth.

First, school is not a place to develop social relationships. In fact, it seems designed to stifle them. There is hardly little time for socialization provided, and it is discouraged for the majority of the school day. Any student who does develop a true relationship with someone does it outside of school: at a local meeting place (like a park or mall); when going over to a friend's house; or after school. An unschooler can still do all of these things.

Second, who decided that meaningful relationships could only be had with other people who happen to be in roughly the same physical area at roughly the same age? If anything, this is a severely restrained peer group. I have developed my most meaningful relationships online. None of them live within driving distance. None of them are about my own age. Even among those who I would not count as "friends", I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do. Through the Internet, I've developed a strong social network -- something I could never do if I had to keep my choice of peers within school grounds.

https://web.archive.org/web/20101219193753/http://www.aarons...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21526982

I seem to recall another big thread about this too, but can't find it.
I've definitely been deep into some topology proofs where I suddenly proved a true fact couldn't possibly be true and then I realized I'd forgotten that not open doesn't imply not closed or something. It's funny the tricks that plays on your brain even when you know better.
> Do you have astigmatism? Every time I've tried contacts, this has been the achilles heel, because the contacts inevitable rotate a bit and then my vision is intolerably blurry until they get back into place.

I have astigmatism. I had the same problems with older-generation contacts.

I switched to Alcon's top of the line daily disposable contacts and now my contacts almost always line up correctly. The new contact lens technology is amazing.
Twitter Emoji Race
Yep, quite simply they demand both the presence of politics in the workplace and their own monopoly on the politics displayed.
Exactly and the point I was going to make, and pointed at in the article (toward the end).

Uncosted inputs will be used to the limits of tolerance of costed inputs.

Time is a near-universal uncosted input, at least in internal allocation.
It is distracting to read this article and see Go code not ran through gofmt.
All the ideas regarding $1-2/mo social networks seem to forget the enormous cost of moderating content on these social networks. Let's say your social network is $3/mo and people can upload unlimited photos. How long does it take for child porn to start getting shared on your service? Probably not long. That's not even getting into users harassing other users, and stuff like that. Volunteer moderators do the work on reddit for free because they get to feel ownership of their subreddits (until they try to delete them if they're popular, then the admins step in), but on a "normal" social network no one is going to moderate the content for free, especially not the horrible stuff people will post.
And the FDA had already decided to ban them until there was a public outcry that drove Congress to override the FDA. That's in the article too.
Sure, but the DA doesn't prosecute infractions so the law the DA is talking about must have the crime be something prosecutable, when it could just be something punishable.
Is Neuromarketing Ethical?
Le Pétomane
Every few years we all say there needs to be a new reddit but the reddit alternatives out there always devolve into places no regular person wants to join. I think there’s a balance between centralized moderation and allowing creativity and free speech that makes reddit work. We don’t give them enough credit for it.

Even HN has just the right balance that makes this place have some of the best threads on the internet.
I used to be the same - 10+ years of waring contacts, I could pop them in and out of an eye without thinking about it in seconds.

But then when I got older I started getting more eye infections and each time you can’t really use contacts as it irritates the eye, so back to glasses.

And then I started reading a bit more about how you can get resistant bacteria infections from contacts (basically guaranteed blindness) I realized I was risking my eyes each and every day anyway, better to bite the bullet and go for a surgery. Risk once and be done with it.

I think the feeling of freedom and one less thing to worry about that I got after the successful LASIK was akin to when I first switched from glasses to contacts. I think its totally worth it.

(https://medium.com/@ivankerin/a-humble-mans-account-of-the-l... a bit more in depth account if anyone’s interested)
>Now, judges weigh whether to lock somebody up, slap an ankle bracelet on them or release them without conditions with the help of a public safety assessment.

This seems very reasonable. Either somebody is too dangerous to let out, or is safe but might flee in which case ankle monitor seems like a better bet, both because it keeps people from rotting in jail for being too poor to make bail and because bail isn’t as good a deterrent to flight as an ankle monitor. And if someone is safe and isn’t a flight risk, just let them out without bail.
Wow.....super disappointed to say the least. I actually bought the audiobook the other month and was looking to listening to it. I really enjoyed his episode on Joe Rogan and was the only one I've ever listened to twice. I don't understand why he would make up facts like fabricating statements from WHO? These are amateur mistakes a smart man doesn't make, which I'm sure Walker is (?). I haven't even finished reading this article but this part stood out:

"Walker’s book has likely wasted thousands of hours of life and worsened the health of people who read it and took its recommendations at face value."

First part is dubious but second part, seriously? How can extra of sleep "worsen" the health of people?
Getting Started in the Computer Security Field
Could you point to something specific about the "1/3 of all content is edited and moderated by one dude"? Not sure where to look.
I’m not sure I understand what you are saying, but I stand by my assertion that it is a waste of the state’s limited time and budget to prosecute someone over stealing a penny. I’m honestly surprised that this seems to be a massively unpopular opinion here.
States attorney or class action? Going after Amazon for structuring a system enabling fraud on purchases they get a commission on sounds like a good position for anyone able to represent consumers in bulk.
If by "outlive" you mean "continue to exist"... the Voyagers have a finite useful lifespan defined by the output of their RTGs, and that's expected to drop below useable levels sometime around 2025 (for both craft). But they'll still be out there, barring a random encounter with an asteroid or something.
Not OP, but if you inspect the overlay, just right next to it there's a <script> with a closeOverlay function. OP probably tried to inspect/delete DOM element and found that function.
I've seen a few of this guy's videos but what the eff is SIGBOVIK??
If a person has $10 in savings, what level of bail would you posit both prevents them from fleeing and allows them to make bail?
A Subtle Mistake About How to Acquire Useful Career Skills
To get the up to $60 refund you have to quit the executive program. You dont get the difference every year, AND get to keep making 2%.
Important that they're aiming to _raise_ $100MM, not going public at a $100MM valuation as I first thought. Funny how IPOing to raise capital has become secondary to IPOing to provide liquidity in this late stage of the tech credit cycle.
This is possibly the most poignant thing I've read since Cormac McCarthy.
Peer group evaluation bubble is a thing.
Peer group ipo evaluation bubble is also a thing.
Do you remember other "uncomfortable" or probing questions that were asked? Just out of curiosity.

I work for a company that holds similar "town halls" where employees are able to ask anonymous questions of management and they can get pretty brutal sometimes ("why is turnover so high?", "why is upper management's compensation so much higher than others?", etc).
Because that "ad company" is one of the highest valued companies in the world, and Google's TGIF is something even many people outside of Google are familiar with.
Is this kind of bulk really much cheaper than walmart?
Google's argument is that it falls under fair use to do a clean room implementation of the APIs. District Judge Alsup agreed with this legal idea:

"So long as the specific code used to implement a method is different, anyone is free under the Copyright Act to write his or her own code to carry out exactly the same function or specification of any methods used in the Java API. It does not matter that the declaration or method header lines are identical."
"It costs $12.99 a month or $100 a year in the US, or €12 a month or €90 a year in Europe"
I would subscribe just for the outlandish concept of not ripping off Europeans.
Chevrolet has built the last front-engine Corvette
...while most things on earth will be burnt up when the sun swells in 5 billion years or so...
"Yet to suppose that President Hoover was engaged only in organizing further reassurance is to do him a serious injustice. he was also conducting one of the oldest, most important --- and, unhappily, one of the least understood --- rites in American life. This is the rite of the meeting which is called not to do business but to do no business. It is a rite which is still much practiced in our time. It is worth examinging for a moment.

Men meet together for many reasons in the course of business. They need to instruct or persuade each other. They must agree on a course of action. They find thinking in public more productive or less painful than thinking in private. But there are at least as many reasons for meetings to transact no business. Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides of meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because there is business to be done, but because it is necessary to create the impression that business is being done. Such meetings are more than a substitute for action. They are widely regarded as action.

-- John Kenneth Galbraith, The Great Crash, 1929, pp 138-139.
Interviewed at Etsy about a year or two ago and the interviewer was asking me about politically charged topics. How I would handle workplace gender complaints. How they should handle racial diversity in the work place, etc.

It was really clear I was giving wrong answers. I told them flat out that I think people should be judged by the quality of their character, not the color of their skin and that the company should just try to be fair and hire the best people.

I mean I get that companies want to do the right thing but you can only really do ONE thing well.