skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first half was a surprisingly ok intro to unicode and utf encodings in C. Super clearly illustrated a handful of pitfalls of trying to roll your own utf8 handling code in C.

But it irks me when rust blogs misrepresent C to show that Rust is better:

How nice. We even use const in all
the right places! I think! Except
maybe argv! Who knows? The compiler
sure doesn't seem to care much. I
guess casting non-const to const is
pretty harmless. Fair enough, GCC,
fair enough.

Lucky toupper has no way to return
an error and just returns 0 for 0,
right? Or maybe 0 is what it returns
on error? Who knows! It's a C API!
Anything is possible.

Both of these have defined answers written into the C standard itself.

Also you can have const memory in C that will crash if you cast it to non-const and write to it. You can call out to the OS to mark a chunk of memory it as read only. The reason it's not as built into C as it is for Rust is that C was in part designed for and currently runs on hardware where there isn't read-only-memory outside of a physical ROM chip.

So the problem here is that… we
allocate enough room for “DOG\0”,
but we end up converting “doggo
override\0” to uppercase, so we end
up writing past the area that malloc
allocated for us. I believe the
technical term is a fucky wucky
buffer overflow.

Something about this sentence screams Rust programmer but I can't put my finger on why.
>Am I missing something or this is total madness?

You're not missing anything. This is madness.

Renewables will never be competitive in a market that they dominate because they are intermittent and you can't just turn a city off because it's cloudy and calm.

Nuclear power is the only solution but decades of delusion have made it impossible to build anywhere. In short industrial civilization will be non-viable in the tropics by the 2050s and world wide by the 2100s.
Annoyingly, there doesn't seem to be any information about why this is happening. It's somewhat hard to believe that people are actually drinking a lot more than they did 10/20/30/40 years ago.

One life tip to be aware of: Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is horribly toxic when combined with alcohol. Don't do it.
Flash loans – Now anyone can become a whale, in a single transaction
Software is not typically depreciated though. DO is writing code now that will last for decades but they have to take the accounting hit for it in one year.
It's a cash grab for many people. On the other hand it feels like a kodak moment. Digital currency just feels like a natural progression for the world. It doesn't have a military backing it though. This makes me think that the most "revolutionary" crypto currency will be tied to a social media where people pressure elections in it's favor... sort of like reddit karma where there is no buying power but there is a lot of social power.
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The problem might lie in that our laws are very precisely worded with words that could be translated as equity or other of these words as well, along with a dozen of other options. Translating these text is hugely painful to me (and other people as well, imho). While I am ok in conversational English, my level of more formal/financial English is not that good.

I've just started attending a professional English course. :-)
> The reason being is they were nearly a year older than other kids they were paired with.

I’m amused that the kids who did worse are absolutely necessary for the kids who do better. They end up getting wasted by the process, demotivated, but they are a necessary brick to step upon.

It’s the same consideration when talking about male suicide. Are they necessary for others to feel good? We could solve a good part of it as a society, but at the expense of providing an environment where males fail less, have a better social net, receive more love, and are less pushed to succeed in their career to be recognized. So we could solve it, but it may cost our economic growth. Is that why male suicide isn’t getting solved? It’s getting less funding than even dog shelters, and less attention than much smaller problems.
How about the US killing like 10 “Al Qaeda No 2”s in a row for a while in Iraq
This posting and Larry's obit take me back to the math applications class we took at Bronx Science our senior year. Writing a program for the IBM 640 (yes, the 640), coding the IBN cards ourselves and then the fateful experience of loading the program cards into the reader for the 640 was a scary experience. Larry's program apparently did primes while mine did the Fibonacci series. Then the 640, the size of a modern SUV, chugged away all night and the next day it generated voluminous print-out's, lots and lots of paper. What fun!

After graduation he went off to Stamford to continue math - and programming - and I went elsewhere for liberal arts. But no matter, I couldn't have done what Larry did or create what he created.

I remember him as a great guy, very mellow, and if memory serves he was on the track team as well. Perfect for Stanford. Apparently he affected those he worked with the same way he affected me - an easy-going guy, friendly, positive, ready to smile. I know he'll be missed greatly.
You know what would quickly increase happiness and quality of life for a whole bunch of people? If you would just donate your entire life savings to charity tomorrow. Your not doing that is clearly detrimental to all those people you would have helped. Please consider happiness, quality of life, ethics, etc, and stop chasing profit.
Something something mine bitcoin?
Because Barr is literally a fascist with a long history of violating civil rights. He wants to rule unquestioned, unopposed, and unaccountable. He doesn't care so long as he can torture into compliance.
> If capitalists evade taxes, we will claw back their profits. We will contain the costs of public goods using technology, transparency, and sound governance.

We will, will we? No, at best you will try to do so. I seriously doubt your ability to do so, though. Especially that "sound governance" part. Everybody says they're going to do that, but delivering it turns out to be harder than people seem to expect...
> "As an outsider to the US, I expected a job for the NSA to be seen as respectable."

Why should we respect those that spy on us? Would you expect Germans respect the Stasi?
Thanks! I'll add that one onto my reading queue.

I actually didn't have too much trouble following Dealers, because it (more or less) mostly followed each project separately, which while creating an interspersed timeline in the book, was mostly coherent within each section.

I did read at least part of Fumbling, but I found it a hard book to thread the needle on, and it was in such stark factual disagreement with what else I'd read that I don't recall finishing it.

I know too many who draw the same conclusions from the Alto and related technologies that fumbling does, so I try to get people to read more about PARC, because I'll hope that once they know more they'll draw much the same conclusions I have - My frustration with much of the traditional criticism of Xerox in failing to commercialize the PARC innovations is it completely ignores both the high cost of the technology (it was literally the technology of the future) and the sales culture of technology at the time.

I don't think any large technology company (which Xerox was broadly) could have made something wondrous out of the innovations PARC created because the people who could recognize the value (and use) of this kind of technology were not the people being sold to, or for that matter doing the buying - nor did they have the budgets to buy a Alto, as was later seen with the Star when it came out.

It took direct to consumer sales (allowing department managers to buy stuff), and lower cost products to allow personal computing to penetrate into the home and corporate america - also the traditional criticism completely ignores that the 9700 (and follow on products) paid for the money spent at PARC several times over.

(incidentally, I believe that this sales culture issue is a prime reason why DEC no longer exists as a company because they failed to see that their market was shifting and could no longer be sold thru the same mechanisms they always had been)

In the end, basic research and the undirected applied science that flows from it is important, even if it has no direct tie to your line of business, because it's the innovation that drives a company forward, and frankly drives humanity forward. I wish more people knew that modern interconnected the world we live in was built on billions spent with no firm idea of what would result from them, and how much of a debt we owe to PARC, Bell Labs and others.

Also, thank you for taking the time to respond to my question!
Because this is pure greenwashing.
There are two bars though, because there's a double standard. If the robot car hits the boy, it's national news. The lower bar of surpassing human safety performance is, in almost all regards, not even relevant to the discussion. Maybe it should be but it's definitely not.
The closest I know of to a true "map" you can search for things in, put all of space into any scale, move around in, is SpaceEngine. The VR support is a bit unwieldy but still impressive. You might want to turn off the procedurally generated stars and planets if you want a strict map. The procedurally generated stars are interesting because you can get a sense of density at various scales.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/314650/SpaceEngine/

Titans of Space Plus is probably the most educational space VR program I've used. It takes you on a guided tour of our solar system and puts everything into perspective at various scales, including some other stars. But it's not a map of the stars very much. It does the best job of conveying the relative sizes of things.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/468820/Titans_of_Space_PL...

Universe Sandbox isn't a map either, but it's worth mentioning as as a VR astronomy program.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/230290/Universe_Sandbox/

I have not tried this one: https://store.steampowered.com/app/751110/OVERVIEW_A_Walk_Th...
Adding A* pathing for the zombies would probably solve the "walking through colliders" issue to some extent, and would also add some additional challenge. It is pretty easy right now to just get all the zombies stuck around a corner from you.
Don't know who they are but there's some speculation that Yubico is Crypto AG like.
> Edit: also why don’t they just mine some coins?

Nobody is going to pay for mining rigs that are idle 99% of the time.

If it happened enough you'd have people set up cheap resistor banks to eat all the excess, so that provides a natural cap on how much negative pricing there can be.
> Child porn is the most obvious example of an exception to both. We can all agree that we don't want to see that and don't want to host it on our platforms.

I wouldn't be surprised if some site like 8chan was happy to completely remove moderation/filtering if the federal penalties for unknowingly distributing CP were removed.

Basically, "look at 8chan! Even they restrict CP, so everyone supports moderation!" doesn't actually follow, since 8chan is legally required to restrict CP under federal law, unknowing or not.
To anyone who believes in unskilled work
SoloKeys appear to use open source firmware, whereas Yubico's firmware is closed source since the Yubikey 4 I believe. Other than that, they seem about the same. SoloKeys is a lot younger and missing a couple of Yubikey Neo's bigger features (like PGP support).
Why is it depressing? Biologically this must be tuned to the best age for having kids, and men's age hardly matters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/technology/nsa-is-mining-...

"In partnership with the British agency known as Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, the N.S.A. has apparently taken advantage of the vast amounts of data stored in and traveling among global data centers, which run all modern online computing, according to a report Wednesday by The Washington Post. N.S.A. collection activities abroad face fewer legal restrictions and less oversight than its actions in the United States."

Note there's a fair amount of speculation on the specific details of how and what data is collected and shared.
you guys are cynical but lets take this one step further. the real reason the OPs plan wasn't implemented was because some cto or ceo had stock or got a kick back from some surveillance company ;-)
If they didn't say anything, on what grounds would you sue?
The households are not heating with electricity, because electricity for household consumers is expensive and not free.

The share of electricity for renewable energy is currently at 42%. There is not a large surplus of electricity from renewable energy for heating.
Are you trying to say that tax payers are subsidizing the entire retail industry? No, that is definitely not the case.

Different amounts of value are added at different stages of the product pipeline. These different amounts of value are reflected in different profit margins. Forcing uniformity here via the tax code would be massively distortionary.
I think Alan Kay is referring to Charles Simonyi. According to Forbes, his net worth is $4.3 billion: https://www.forbes.com/profile/charles-simonyi/
Nine miles in LA is like ninety in any other city.
The haptics on CAVE were pretty clumsy, but boy howdy! I was pretty damn impressed when I got to interact with it at SIGGRAPH that following year.

I've got to say that the NC (Chapel Hill) pixel machine may have been a more supreme technical achievement, but it was harder to "get a feel for". As a young semiconductor geek at Motorola (Tokyo Design Ops) at the time, I did push for getting 1~4 bit CPUs on every column of 128-~192- bit deep framebuffers for a time. I almost got Sega to sponsor the project, but then something distracted me (I don't know what - but I suspect it was the Motorola 96K and a bank of AMD bit-slicer chips)) and I wandered off to do something else.
"Deciding what the treaty means is literally the job of the ECJ."

And there you have laid the foundation for the obliteration of liberal institutions.

This purview has taken hold in the last 50-ish years around the world, leading to Judicial Supremacy.

I would use a polite term like 'absurd', but I think 'stupid' is a better term for the powers that courts have evolved to have, to the point wherein they de-facto make the law, which is not correct.

If the EU legislators, with 1000's of the nation's top lawyers, cannot enact legislation that is lawful, then something is very deeply wrong. How is it that a handful of other lawyers, sitting in a different institution can have a fundamentally different reading of the same thing?

Any ruling by the court that overturns relatively recent legislation should cause calamity and consternation.

At very least there should be a means to translate legislation into law that facilitates the participation of some officials to make sure that it's legal.
They don't care though. School was never about learning, but discipline. Through that lens, the fact its uncomfortable without purpose is by design.
My collection of 20+ year old T-shirts does not support this hypothesis. my experience has been the agitator in the washer is what causes the most damage.
i mean, it's the cops, what do you expect exactly
It is a political tool - they aren't even considering the actual monopolies. I thought it was obvious by now with their very flexible standards.
Society, of course.

Some people may disagree with it, but the society at large is doing this things, either led by or approved by our political leaders, whom most of the citizens elect.
Oops, I does appear I accidentally part of the sentence.
Can an Economy Feel Joy?
Corporate fluff article on Forbes.

Should just be renamed Big-Brotherbase, or Banned-for-Life-and-Won't-Tell-You-Whybase. Coinbase is famous for suddenly disabling accounts and refusing to give an explanation. At least a traditional bank will normally explain the circumstances.

Got one of their arbitrary sucks-for-you letters last year. No way would I ever recommend them to anyone.

In my case I'm a mining developer, so I have a huge digital currency profile. Coinbase is horrifically opaque and impossible to deal with if they flag you unlike most other organizations.

E: I'll just lump some more examples of their corporate ineptitude.

1. Recently I asked them for a dump of trades and fees executed on their exchange for audit and record keeping purposes. All they had were records of deposits and withdrawls but none of the actual trades. So no cost-basis data and now a huge accounting headache.

2. When my personal account got locked, we separately had an application out for an institutional account. 4 months go by and suddenly I get emails saying "we're ready to proceed with your institutional account". Excuse me? Told them to fix my personal account first. Never heard back.
"Unskilled" is not the same as easy. Digging ditches all day would be very difficult, but I can learn how to do the digging in almost no time.
I guess I just assumed the reason was for sunlight, which is why they can't just have morning practices (also dark, unless they school starts really late). Regardless, reason I've been given (by people who'd asked, and had this reason given to them by folks working in school admin) is that early-start high school is sacred to the athletic department, for whatever reason.
The question is: what foods are rich in L-Dopa? Should we therefore avoid them, eat them in moderation, or bulk up on them?
YOLO and Darknet author stops CV research
This is a lovely post and good general demonstration on this phenomenon. The drug charging graph is particularly stark.

I think the most interesting graph is the final one, for marathon finishing times. The idea that people will fudge numbers to meet (or avoid) official definitions is commonly believed (and shown repeatedly here). It's more interesting to observe that it's not just people using motivated reasoning, but also that people will alter their performance to hit highly visible targets.
Source/Disclaimer: Am graduate student in Boston area who works in Computer Engineering. I am certain I am overlooking some important info that others should add.

You're right in Saying that Stanford, UCB, UW, and other schools have had a much stronger track record producing deep learning models that have revolutionized certain fields (img classification, segmentation, nlp, etc.). I think MIT has hired some seriously talented researchers who have chosen to invest their time into different avenues of research that align more closely with the "engineering" side of deep learning.

For example, Eyeriss[1] kickstarted the AI accelerator race. Halide[2] is a DSL+runtime used as the basis in a lot of deep learning compilation tools, like Tensor Comprehensions[3]. I don't think you're grossly misinformed, I just think that while other schools have invested in the theory, MIT is betting on a level of abstraction that's a bit lower.

1 = http://eyeriss.mit.edu/
2 = https://halide-lang.org/
3 = https://research.fb.com/blog/2018/02/announcing-tensor-compr...
4 = https://openai.com/blog/ai-and-compute/
“ An Air Source Heat Pump (ASHP) will typically produce around 3kW thermal energy for every 1kW of electrical energy consumed” i.e. modern electric heating might cost you 4¢ per kWh of heating.

Comparing kWh for natural gas (some loss up flue) with a heat pump in your case it seems they cost roughly the same marginally (although you might have grossly different installation costs, risks of outages, and CO2 impact depending on your individual circumstances).
Nuclear is and never was a solution for Germany:

there is a nice read on it here: https://www.reddit.com/r/de/comments/emc2ne/quelle_surprise_...

Here is one for the base load myth: https://skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=374

Many reasons for the slow fall are based in politics (coal industry is a job machine especially in the troubled eastern parts) and nimbys (hindering wind development) and politicians helping them out (ridiculous policies governing the distance to "settlements").
Huh, that's interesting. I wonder what effect this has on the gut and what advantage this confers to the bacterium. AFAIK, dopamine doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier, so it can't (directly) have an effect on the brain's dopaminergic pathways, but who knows what it does to the gut, or follow-on effects on the brain.
Technically the law only applies to data after you are physically in the EU, not before it, although most companies will store a user's data together so it's likely that once you change your address that it will be treated differently. Most companies have also applied GDPR data access rules globally instead of maintaining separate databases.
If you order your hit list right, you can kill a continuous streak of #2s, until there's only one person left.
Does that make Deadpool the spiritual successor?
Congratulations, that's the first time I've ever seen anyone ask 'what about interaction with the slits?'. Nor have I ever seen the results of a triple-slit experiment!
You are totally right in that there needs to be some prior knowledge of the person to work better remotely. I think it can be done up to a point by a first one or two day of meeting physically and getting to know where and how the person will work, to get a frame of reference.

I also hear that full remote teams usualy do in person meetings at least once or twice a year to ”recalibrate”, on top of there daily or bi-weekly vidro team meetings.

Perhaps the message here would be that making remote work well is not trivial and takes time, money and people knowing how to manage these teams. It shouldn’t be seen as the “lazy” option.
An obvious problem is that the linear score doesn't represent the value I feel I get from the attribute.

For instance, I live in a 2000 sq ft. space, I will have to store things if I move into a 1500 sq ft. space, and have to sell them or throw them out if I move to a 500 sq ft. space.

A 3000 sq ft space would feel spacious to me but I would not get 10x the utility if I had a 30,000 sq ft space because I don't have enough stuff to fill it.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility
Probably a willingness to do the right thing for the nation when it’s not the most profitable for the company or the self?
‘It feels like an extra limb’ – musicians on the bond with their instruments
Can you link to a source for that?
I can't not ask. Why do you have 3 cars?
Upvoting because this was my mistake. My comment was copied verbatim from and older discussion on the same topic (it's a common cause for confusion), including a URL that I didn't check was still valid. I subsequently changed it to another one with the same info, but didn't call out the edit. Apologies scarejunba for the collateral damage!
Why are we supposed to respect secrecy in this moment?

Who is it?
This source doesn't remotely support what you said, in fact it explicitly contradicts it;

> "pushed back against the notion that it was collecting abroad to “get around” legal limits imposed by domestic surveillance laws"
What did they do with your crypto, sell it and pay you out?
I'm surprised this isn't a part of the official HN guidelines, it would be good to adopt it from Reddiquitte:

> (Do not...) Downvote an otherwise acceptable post because you don't personally like it. Think before you downvote and take a moment to ensure you're downvoting someone because they are not contributing to the community dialogue or discussion. If you simply take a moment to stop, think and examine your reasons for downvoting, rather than doing so out of an emotional reaction, you will ensure that your downvotes are given for good reasons.

Downvotes should not be used as an "I disagree" button, that is what the reply button is for.
Urgent care pricing can vary as much as 3 times without insurance
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