skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it's correct modern C. I'm not sure what that paragraph is supposed ot mean. AFAICT there is no difference between old and modern C in how the cases can appear in the body of the switch. Here is the first edition of The C Programming Language on switch:

> switch (expression) statement

>The usual arithmetic conversion is performed on the expression, but the result must be int. The statement is typically compound. Any statement within the statement may be labeled with one or more case prefixes as follows

> case constant_expression :

https://archive.org/details/TheCProgrammingLanguageFirstEdit...
I honestly believe that the public profile fiasco was caused by pressure from his investors/board.

VC money makes you do stupid things. Your next round of funding is your number one priority, customers are second. I've been there (raised $17M for my last startup).

I run a company[1] that is a competitor to Triplebyte. Yes, hiring has slowed, and we will miss all our sales targets this year by miles, but we will be just fine because we are bootstrapped and profitable. So we'll only double our revenue instead of triple. For a VC backed startup that could kill you. But we'll just hire a bit slower and have a huge party at the end of the year.

When you are venture backed, you watch your bank account balance decrease every week. Having a "burn rate" is awful. It messes with you.

With a bootstrapped company you watch your bank account balance increase every week. It's a great feeling.

So many venture backed startups are being really hurt by the current environment. I really hope that it makes more people reconsider raising money.

1: www.facetdev.com
I'm tempted to reply it's because MS are spiteful tossers but actually (despite that being true) there's a bigger problem. MS used to be pretty good at interfaces - true, they really did - but on & after win8 they just forgot that UIs are not there to look 'cool' and 'awesome' but to simply to help users get shit done.
Didn't Twitter shut down apps like this in the past? I wonder how long this will last.
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I've just updated it so each section prompts you with the commands its about to run and whether or not to run them.
Yes. You might have to deal with the hassle and expense of being sued.

There's all downside and no upside to playing this particular stupid game.
IOS-XR at least used to be QNX based, with somewhat distributed architecture (line cards running separate OS instances etc.)
That would be true if resistance were non-zero.
If you actually caused say, reputational damage, you could be stuck with a lawsuit for more than just turning over the domain.
Thank you for being on top of this.
There's a terrible enterprise security product that can be configured by IT to quasi-MITM your company web traffic. Instead of relying on enterprises pushing their own trusted root certs and MITMing the whole session this terrible product redirects all traffic to (and I'm not kidding here) urls like "www.terriblesecuritycompanyname.com/www.originalurl.com" when the user accesses www.originalurl.com.

So this "enterprise security" company encourages end users to put information such as passwords into www.terriblesecuritycompanyname.com/owa.office365.com for example. Of course everyone has SSO enabled for Office 365 but everyone is also used to SSO sometimes breaking and falling back to forms based auth so people have no issue typing their passwords into any page that looks somewhat legit as long as the URL is close to what they expect and has a little lock next to it.

Anyway www.turriblesecuritycompanyname.com is available and I'm waiting for someone nefarious to purchase it and start sending phishing emails with links to www.turriblesecuritycompany.com/owa.office365.com embedded in them.
It comes from 'reduce' - I think it's spelt 'irreducible', but maybe you're American and I'm British.
The lack of replies seems like it would break tweet-threads entirely?

Honestly I like reading normal-person replies, but at a bare minimum, I would think you need to include self-replies to get most meaningful content through (at least on clickthrough).
Small thing about multiple screens on a laptop: Sidecar in the latest macOS Catalina is pretty amazing. It is very high speed, it feels just like a wired external monitor, even when it’s extending wirelessly from my MacBook Pro.

If you have an iPad and MacBook that support it, I highly recommend it. I used it in a library while traveling, and it was a serious improvement in productivity.
So if I'm reading correctly, the 207-nm ultraviolet light simply doesn't make it past the outer (dead) layer of skin.
I see a story about man who deliberately made a series of selfish high risk decisions and continued to do so with no regard for his future or his role in society.

I've done the same, to an extent - but if I ended up homeless at any point I would not have expected society to pay for my continued foolishness.

There's no doubt that welfare in some form is ideal for a modern society, but people should recognize that willingness to work is tied to desire for survival/comfort and willingness to work for most people decreases as the welfare floor increases.

Forcing someone to work for those who do not contribute to society is theft. There is no reason to believe that the average person will commit to pursuits beneficial for the collective if his needs are guaranteed to be met regardless of his willingness or ability to participate.
Progapanda.org
IOS-XE is essentially IOS Classic running as an application on top of Linux, communicating with the actual forwarding hardware. NX-OS is similar but without legacy of having been a standalone OS. Linux generally stays away from all networking work and just provides a nicer deployment target with nicer APIs than bare bones MIPS/PPC/x86
I can second that, it really turned me off to Dell's I switched from a high end Dell to a Sager for this exact issue.
It would be great if the PowerPC-specific changes to Swift could be upstreamed so that Switft can be built on Debian's (and other BSD and Linux distributions) powerpc port.
> 500 tons seems WAY low.

Yes, it sees "460,000 tons of materials were moved from the US and southern Canada to the Arctic by air, land, and sea" at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distant_Early_Warning_Line#Con...
Liquid resource types for verification and synthesis – Nadia Polikarpova
SpaceX Dragon ISS docking autopilot using Go and WebAssembly
I was under the impression that this effort has been stalled for 5+ years.

Is that incorrect?
In high school we had to dissect fetal pigs. We were told the reason is that the fetal pig is nearly indistinguishable from fetal humans.
Would a Long Journey Through the Universe Bring Us Back to Our Starting Point?
The current position is "sorry for breaking your trust, please trust us". It's hard to find it compelling.

> Given the prevalence of comments like this, I wonder why any company would ever bother offering an apology or retraction.

To project my own opinion onto others: these comments are warranted because an apology has no actual value. The fact remains that Triplebytes can still do this if they wish to, and they are constrained only by what they can manage to slip past their users.

There's a stark asymmetry in the digital space, where service providers are protected by the legal language in their TOS or EULA, but the users have to trust that the service provider will not act outside their interests, and with no recourse. By contrast, in a normal contract negotiation, there will be an opportunity for both sides to ammend the contract to better serve their interests.

If Triplebytes wanted to show that they will not attempt to do this again, they could break this asymmetry and constrain themselves in their user contract, accepting all resulting liability or specifying concrete penalties if they do persue this route in the future. An apology is just a meaningless PR exercise.
I think the Wikipedia article's final sentence is probably the easiest way to visualize the question if you want to stick to electrical terms. If there's just one capacitor and you short it out by closing the switch, it's not hard to see how all of the energy vanishes, rather than complicating the question by referring to half of it.
ICANN doesn't allow A records on the DNS root on gTLDs. If they did, we already would've.
It's weird because Win8 looks like quite the opposite of "cool", at least in my view. And their interface is actually somewhat helpful on touch-based devices, but other OS's do a way better job of having a unified interface for 'touch' and 'keyboard+mouse' input.
You can "look around everywhere" and see a lot of evidence that the world is better than it ever has been. That doesn't mean "perfect," but choose whatever indicator you like—life expectancy, average wealth—and it looks better than the past. People are quick to forget that for most of history, the vast majority of people lived as either hunter-gatherers or indentured servants to kings and emperors. Russia had laws at one point that literally bound its serfs to the land they were born on. They lived and died in the same place and were legally prevented from going anywhere. There are plenty of targets for reform, but it's hard to imagine anyone with the slightest knowledge of history looking around and going "this is all horrible, how did we let it get so bad?!"
> What shape is the Universe? Or, to put it another way, If you get into a starship, set off in one direction, and keep going, will you eventually return to your starting point, as you would if you set off around the Earth? The jury is still out, apparently, pending further and better information about the curvature of space. “It's a fascinating question to explore. Even though all signs seem to point towards ‘probably not’, there are actually two ways that the answer might turn out to be yes, after all”
> The problem arises when all leechers request the beginning of an old and/or obscure torrent from one or few leechers.

If the sending client prioritizes data to clients requesting rare blocks, that problem is solved. It will also give clients an incentive to download the rarest blocks first to keep the swarm healthy.
Having NVidia anywhere near my Linux machine is the deal-breaker for me.
I have no idea what this is, but I'm a huge fan. The reign of Linkedin as de-facto standard has to end. It's unacceptable recruiters expect me to have a profile on some proprietary website. Luckily not everyone is a moron and it's not a blocker in getting a job, but I still hate people asking me about it.
It is in some people's best interest if some continue to try to understand them, especially if what they are thinking (or signaling they are thinking) is highly irrational.

It is in the far right's interests to continue to get press and traction of their irrational ideas. They are a cult of grifters (working the con) in that respect.
Almost more interesting than Pelorus Jack, and is currently observable is French Pass, the hazard he helped them navigate through...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Te_Aumiti_/_French_Pass

> The pass is 500 metres (1,600 ft) across, but the main navigation channel (the "throat" or "narrows") contracts down to only 100 metres (330 ft) with a 20-metre (66 ft) deep shoaling region. Most of the rest of the pass is broken reef.[8]

> On one side is Cook Strait with a tidal range up to 2 metres (6.6 ft), and on the other side is Tasman Bay with a tidal range up to 4 metres (13 ft).[9] This can result in substantial pressure gradients across the pass, complicated by a phase or time difference of about 25 minutes between the high tides on either side. Peak flow in the throat of the pass is around 4 metres per second (13 ft/s).[10]

> Near to the pass are deep holes where strong vertical flows can occur.[11] In 2000, student divers taking part in a drift dive during the local ebb flow were separated from their surface float and caught in a whirlpool. This dragged them into "Jacob's Hole", a 68-metre (223 ft)[12] deep depression south west of the pass. The depth of this descent resulted in multiple fatalities. The group appears to have been drawn deep into the hole and then returned to the surface again. A dive computer record of one of the survivors show a depth of up to 89-metre (292 ft). According to the coroner's report, the accident occurred on a falling tide, so the current was flowing from the south west to the north east.[13][14]
Sorry, but you can't use trollish usernames on HN (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tikthot) - it ends up trolling every thread the account posts to. https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

I've banned this one for now but if you email hn@ycombinator.com with a better username we'll be happy to change it for you and unban the account.
I wonder did this somehow inspire The Amtrak Wars[0]?

(Probably not, but I'm loving the `strange(truth) > strange(fiction)`)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amtrak_Wars
I don't have an account there, and didn't even know about them a week ago, but based on what people posted I don't understand the drama.

They want to make profiles pubic, like LinkedIn. The public profiles only contain subset of information from actual profile. Their FAQ page says that you can enable/disable sharing of your profile. They sent email to their users announcing the change and giving plenty of time to change settings.

I don't see how could they do better than that.
If you see any difference between those two, I suggest you read mistermann's comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23301679 and think about it really hard. If you are willing to confront your bias, that is.
I think a system that willingly renders something scarce for profit, profit that doesn't reach the actual creator, more morally reprehensible than the people forced out of legal avenues to scarce goods. Just my personal thoughts.
That would only work if the Hebrew keyboard layout they were using had this mapping of letters. Most language layouts for non-Roman scripts don't optimize for phonetically approximating the corresponding English letters (presumably on a QWERTY layout).

It appears that they don't match to the TLD letters here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_keyboard
> maybe the machines of war are a hedge that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't

This is very likely. An example of a war investment that panned out over time was the Manhattan project.
One that did not would be something like the Maginot line.
At some point, it's just an investment with no guarantee on return.
There is a bit of "folklore" here but most of this post is program functionality that should be documented. Really only the details about the window class name and being fully resizeable without flicker are "folkore" details that go beyond the scope of good documentation.
Similar issue about 2 months ago. When plugging the power in, it seems I introduced the cable at an angle and the pins inside the port caused a short. Fortunately, nothing was irreparably damaged. Had to dissasemble the port, unbend the pins into their correct position, and plugged them in again. Didn't realize that was the problem until I had dissasembled the port and thoroughly checked it, so those were quite a few minutes of panic!
:facepalm: thanks for the heads up. Fixed!
A former client of mine had a Linode box running the app another of his connsultants hosted on some random Ubuntu Linux box. It ran for ten years with the occasional (once every couple months) restart. The ancient Python 2.x version the app used finally started causing problems because it didn't support TLS version one-point-whatever. A month ago I re-wrote the part of the app he actually needed and put it on a Linode box using the latest Debian. I suspect it will run with the occasional restart for another decade.

Get someone to host (and backup) your PostgreSQL database for you and don't sweat literally everything else. 99.999% uptime is for Walmart.
...in the alt reality you readily passed the interview and accepted the offer. MS tanked, DIGITAL pivoted into PC market and dominated it. At some point alt-you made this post on alt-HN.

We just hope to be
certain about the present moment.
> Error establishing a database connection

Know database connections to get promoted quickly in Big Tech!
Remote-first companies seem to have an edge here since they can handle these situations as they come without a whole structure in the way that assumes everyone works in an office.
He is just stating it matter-of-fact, since they could use USD to purchase things at a (free) market price.
Google does not do the same.
Surprisingly I found Scheme support in Emacs underwhelming (disclaimer: I'm a Windows user). The best package for Scheme in Emacs seems to be Geiser [1], but it seems pretty basic when compared with Slime [2]. Perhaps Geiser+Guile is a different story if running on Unix, but Slime on Windows just works, so that's a plus for Common Lisp :-).

1: https://www.nongnu.org/geiser/

2: https://common-lisp.net/project/slime/
What advantages do you envision for the db-per-account approach?

Depending on that answer, you may be interested in using row-level security: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-rowsecurity.html
Once you know it, it's not really an overhead anymore, you do the same tasks as fast as without it.

But you also have an easy way to scale, in a lucky chance you have to.
Considering the retaliation over the panama papers, and how nothing was done about that, I would be very reluctant to get involved.
Likewise! Hope you are well too.
Just in the US, there's also org, gov, and edu, not to mention the countless trustworthy ccTLDs in other countries.
He dropped it on the Friday before the biggest holiday weekend of the year. He knows what he's doing. He's done it before, and he's still doing it. Just pulling power moves. Move fast and fuck shit up.

The dude has personally tried to pull fast ones on me. This is a fucked company since day one. I brushed it off, but when you keep up these patterns for years...jog on.
Indian review-bombs.
Vintageapple.org: Books, manuals, and magazines about legacy Apples and Macs
do you know what socialism means? also what he/she claims isn't in fact true. one of the two chains did allow normal people to shop there

>One chain belonged to the Vneshposyltorg (Foreign Mail Order Trade) and was intended for Soviet citizens who received some income in foreign currency. Some of them were forced to sell their currency for ruble-denominated Vneshposyltorg checks, while others never laid their hands on foreign currency, receiving their pay from Western sources in Vneshposyltorg checks via Soviet intermediaries (which, again, allowed the foreign currency to stay in Soviet government hands). The checks were to be used to purchase goods in the Vneshposyltorg Beriozkas.

but like i said feel free to keep perpetuating these bad faith interpretations
If given private rooms, and not cubicles, i bet many programmers won't mind going into the office that much.
Analysis of the captured Zero forced the US to uprate the engines on their marine aircraft.

I think of the Soviet Aircraft industry as having won the Most Improvement Award between 1939 and 1945. Started with aircraft that were hopeless outmatched and by 1945 were producing aircraft that would take a skilled German pilot to defeat. Of which the Germans had fewer and fewer.

Also the US was shipping the Soviets a lot of aircraft grade aluminum during the war.
Because its an irrelavent inflamatory political dig. How true it is is beside the point.

As an example with a different context, if someone was talking about the efforts of the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to eliminate malaria, and then in the middle randomly added a dig about how MS had mean bussiness practises in the 90s, i would also downvote them, regardless of how true that might be.
Does anyone have good recommendations for general office laptops? My company bought about 10 Dell laptops and about half of them have a problem in which they randomly shut off due to some thermal issue. Dell has given us a hard time with the problem and have replaced some of the laptops with new laptops that have had the same problem.
I love how certain you are of being right about everything!
I suppose it's more of a general line of thought, not a hard "total ordering". "Property rights" is also a broad term, and perhaps equally important are "property norms".

Also I find this theoretical stuff hard to explain in detail. I am a full time engineer, but I'd like to spend more time reading theory so I could easily and concisely explain all of this stuff in my own writing and when I talk with others.

My explanation is not super important though, because I do not believe I should impose my beliefs on you. There are however places where our beliefs (and the law) intersect. For example if you start a company that makes something really useful, but you include a little software lock or a hardware ID circuit that locks down the products ability, do I have the "right" to bypass your lock? Do you have the right to send police in to my town and stop me from using the item I unlocked?

That is the domain where our ideas intersect. Where you and I have reason to care about each other's beliefs. In that case I should get better at explaining my side, and I may want to fight to reduce the laws that give you this control over me.

But I am an anarcho communist. I am also a left-libertarian. I think property rights are useful, but I think it is wrong for a huge store of grain to sit full behind a barb wire fence while people starve outside.
> a number of reasons why it was round

Except that question in particular is a fairly silly one. A satirical rendition exists that illustrates why, and happens to have been discussed long ago on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=569897) but apparently the original article has moved (https://sellsbrothers.com/12395).
I wrote about my experience working on a beach https://ivylee.github.io/content/journal/vim-theme-for-the-b...
I’m a VIM user and I had to spend some time to find an appropriate color theme before I could see clearly under the sun. And remember to reapply sunscreen once in a while!
Some people seem invested in the idea that animals are not intelligent, do not have feelings, are not persons etc, despite so much evidence to the contrary. Why is that?
Wkentaro/gdown: Download a large file from Google Drive
It is not a question of whether or not you should be able to own a home. It's a question of whether or not a large store of food should be guarded behind a barb wire fence while people outside starve. I think we can run a functioning economy without denying people the right to life.
Would love to hear more about your experience if you've ever done a write-up.
I think that's just a need to introduce conciseness to the situation. It's less about comprehension and more about "despite an express general request, the device (in this case, a dog) responds differently in this specific situation, unless receiving a countermanding specific command".

i.e. it's not about cognition, it's about the tool (in this case, the dog) having certain behaviour.

For instance, consider a hypothetical system with pop up dialog boxes requesting confirmation (yes undo is better, etc.). A user hits Del signaling they wish to delete an entry from a list, and a popup is displayed requesting confirmation. The user hits Enter within 10 ms of the appearance of the popup but the system ignores the input. One might describe this as "The program understands that the user did not actually confirm since they did not have sufficient time to do so" and not actually mean "The program acquired sapience within 10 ms and proceeded to overrule the human".