skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Those that want to keep full control over their system can easily do with a federated system: they just run their own instances.

Is running your own instance hard? Then at best you’ll inevitably have some users who lack the know-how or time to set up their own instance. At worst, federated systems often link identity to home instance, so you can’t switch to a new instance without giving up your profile. Or they may even require other instances to have a human agree to federate with you, which is a big ask for a one-person instance.

Or is running your own instance easy? So easy that anyone can do it? Then there should be no disadvantage in bundle that into the client app so that everyone does do it. But now you have a decentralized system.
"Why Does The World Exist?" is a fun book-length tour of the various ways people try to answer this question.
Ask HN: How does one have the mindset to study for coding interviews?
I'm considering starting a new job hunt, but I'm out of practice. Unlike most folks, I still haven't gotten into competitive companies after doing ~250 or so problems (perhaps because of my aforementioned IQ leading to an inability to problem solve), and I'm not interested in companies that do alternatives to coding interviews as they generally pay significantly worse than what I'm expecting, but whenever I do Leetcode problems I frequently dive into the depths of depression and self-harm because I often can't do Medium problems. I've done CTCI, but that isn't as effective in the market now.

I'm genuinely concerned I might harm myself further if I attempt more study, but at the same time, I need to fix my compensation trajectory or else I'll be in the same boat later. What do you use to avoid this?
What's the user friendly, normie friendly open source social media service that rivals Twitter and Facebook in usability?
I don't really have anything to add, other than pointing out how weird it is seeing a lecturer I've interacted with over the course of my studies (Gerth Brodal) casually mentioned in a "random" git repo.
I think I see where this is going: Twitter will be the new CNN and Parler will be the new Fox News, and both will be insufferable politicized dumpster fires just like the old media companies they're replacing.
I dunno; I'm tempted to turn on Fox News to analyze which companies advertise on there. I suspect advertisers' squeamishness only runs skin deep and they really don't want to give up ad reach to 40+% of the country.

[EDIT] Interesting. According to this link (https://www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/these-are-fox-news-lea...), very prominent national brands advertise on Fox News, including Verizon, who recently garnered mention for boycotting Facebook ads. Kind of reinforces my hypothesis.
Go to the front page of HN, and view the top post today. That is just one example of software that uses open web standards published by the W3C.

There is a healthy ecosystem of software being designed to conform with these specifications.
Internationally? No.

Domestically in the US? I would generally say yes. It's hard to argue that Trump hasn't entirely co-opted what's left of the Republican party and conservatives for the most part. How much of that is self-serving is hard to say. I wouldn't be surprised that 5-10 years down the line you have a lot of people on the GOP side who change their tune on Trump once he no longer has power because as it currently stands, going against Trump on the right side of the aisle is generally political suicide.

Currently loyalty is rewarded above all else in the Trump era of the conservationism, and so if you want to stay in the game, you generally tow the line.

Personally I find it pretty gross. but in a lot of ways it's also laid bare the extreme level of cronyism in politics. When someone who was harshly and openly critical (rightly so, even) of you before you held power is now your public mouthpiece and saying the exact opposite of what they said before that was the case it's hard not see that in action.

I find it hugely depressing that the GOP has become the party of Trump, not just because I think Trump is terrible, but because it's just served to increase the divide between the population in general.
JScheme: Scheme Implemented in Java
Sounds like there's some really interesting ideas here.

> Two people with two different mod lists for the same community can see drastically different communities

Reminds me of the 'sharding' idea in World of Warcraft. I'm really curious if you'll end up with issues of 'social dissonance' where your perception of a community differs drastically from someone else's because you literally see different content, and if that affects how people engage with the community.

Also, it seems like with user sovereignty and decentralization, that there will be various objectionable or even vile communities is inevitable, right? Is there a plan for how to deal with that, should Aether ever become popular enough to get more mainstream news attention? I imagine responding to tech blogs with, "yes, there are white supremacist sub-communities, but you don't have to see them if you don't want to" won't come across as a very satisfying answer from their perspective.
Sure, if there's serious interest in you, there might well be high tech listening devices, lasers watching vibrations on glass windows, bugs, etc. But that's expensive, equipment, people in white vans, etc.

But what if the government can listen to every whisper in every ear? Dragnet surveillance could serious damage society. If this was available decades ago it might well be used to criminalize things like being gay.
Ask HN: What lists or platforms help match black-owned businesses and investors?
I’d did, by giving up all soft drinks. Especially Coke.
> What if the default is everything?

said slightly differently, maybe the default is "anything"

if there is no reason for there to be "something" then there is also no reason for there to be "nothing"

and (please correct me if i am wrong) it seems that according to quantum physics, the default state of space is just random noise

so i would aslo concur, its a flawed question starting from an unproven premise (default = nil)
I think free speech should be qualified as speech that you wouldn't get called out on in a setting with super open minded people who always give you the benefit of the doubt.

Impersonating others seems like it's probably always done in bad faith.
Those can be hard to find, but very valuable. When there's little activity in a space, it usually means that entrepreneurs and investors don't think it's going to work. They could be right. But if they're wrong, you can have the field to yourself until they figure it out.

You have to analyze markets in much higher resolution than "drugs" and "solar". There is a lot of money chasing some drugs, but others are overlooked. And with solar, it used to be that the cost of the cells was so high that nobody worked much on bringing down the cost of the rest of the system (sun tracking mounts, wiring, cleaning, ...) Now that cells are so cheap, there is plenty of opportunity there.
This other comment in the thread sounds like it's what you're looking for, if you haven't heard of it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23664901
So you were ... offering compensation for reviews. I can see them having a problem with that.
These are the guidelines of this "free speech social network": https://legal.parler.com/documents/guidelines.pdf

Apart from the clear US-centric worldview of acceptable and unacceptable speech (e.g., using the US list of foreign terrorist organizations - for instance, many countries would not consider Hezbollah a terrorist organization), I don't understand the "fighting words" portion. It references a US Supreme Court case, Terminiello v. Chicago, in which the speaker was ruled to have not been a "clear and present danger" or have used "fighting words" - so it's not clear what "fighting words" are. The term was defined in an earlier case, Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire, where it was ruled that calling someone "a damned fascist" was not protected by the First Amendment - is that the point of view that Parler takes?

Meanwhile, in US jurisprudence, the "clear and present danger" test was replaced by the "imminent lawless action" one in 1969 (Brandenburg v. Ohio), which specifically constitutionally guarantees quite a bit more free speech, including non-imminent advocacy of breaking laws. Does Parler follow the "clear and present danger" standard or the "imminent lawless action" one?

Also, the network bans "pornography," "obscenity," and "indecency" (which goes farther than the FCC, which permits "indecent" content on TV or the radio between 10 pm and 6 am, and doesn't regulate them in print etc.) and adds the suggestion, "Make sure everyone in your photos has clothes." Are shirtless men acceptable? Shirtless women (permitted in public in at least six US states)? Are medical diagrams acceptable? (Content is merely indecent and not obscene if it has "serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value".)
I once helped an engineer to bring up a custom board running an AMD 286 ... it had a strip of LED's which our boot loader would trigger at various points while it initialized the various bits.

No LED meant it was time to bring out the oscilloscope.
This works ok and is the best option at the moment, but as more systems upgrade to newer versions I think the Fido/U2F support is probably going to take over. It's nice to not have anything key specific, any initialization steps, and so on.
Not sure about other platforms, but I like the way macOS/iOS uses the accessibility metadata to look up UI elements for testing. So in order to "access" a button in a test, you have to do the accessibility work.

You need it to take automated screenshots too.
> "For all the technical/AI/ML prowess"

Turns out the paperclip maximiser isn't a runaway Star Trek replicator, but a positive feedback rage loop.
Nginx bad gateway when I visit. Reassuring I guess that I’ll face the same down issues I do now with or without funding.
There is definitely an aspect of that but some of the stuff doesn't make any sense. The Irish were colonised and slaves themselves for example.
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I have the same problem as you do, not being able to keep same energy levels throughout the day. I realized my diet was too carb heavy (white rice, 2x a day usually) and I was able to somewhat counter that by high protein snacks (handful of almonds) between meals.

I got the idea from a book called "Why isn't my brain working?" by Dr. Datis Kharrazian. There is a chapter in the book detailing some dietary changes that a person should make depending on their blood sugar levels and other factors. I suggest you take a look at this book for some ideas on approaching this problem via diet.
Clang with default settings seems to get it right:

https://imgur.com/a/d3LBlLK
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This has ActivityPub (AP) support on its roadmap. I wrote a well-received[0] argument that AP could be the future: https://kyefox.com/2020/04/09/activitypub-could-be-the-futur...

I softened on it a little over the years since, but I think that was just the dearth of new things coming out that ran on it. Now I'm starting to think that was just a reflection of the fact that the obvious, low-hanging fruit was handled (write.as/Pixelfed/PeerTube/Mastodon) and the next round will take a while as people who got on later get ideas and develop them into something like, for example, Lemmy.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22864029
Merely providing value to others is not necessarily making society better. That’s the point. Otherwise we’d celebrate slavery as selling one person to another is just telling them “I like what you do” and providing value. So there is clearly a whole different set of criteria where it’s possible to take a moral stance and not provide value in terms of acquiring money but sacrifice potential profit for social good. That this is hard for people to understand sometimes is why they get described as morally bankrupt.
There are number of conflated regulatory problems in this piece:

1) FDA needs to move its data ingestion into the 21st century (note: large industry can be as resistant to changing current process as bureaucracy). In no rational universe should we have to mail data in 2020

2) In vitro diagnostic regulation is a mess and needs to be revamped top to bottom. Either exempt all Lab Developed Tests, rewrite the law to make them all subject to oversight, or come up with a 3rd path.

3) Emergency Use Authorization needs to be rethought with the ability for either political leadership or FDA to have broad capability to expand the category of what gets covered
The choice between better power efficiency, better clock rates, or some combination of the two.

Additionally, in the Zen+ case, it was a shrink from TSMC 14nm to TSMC 12nm, which you'd be excused for thinking about as TSMC 14nm+++++. Not a lot of design rules changed.
I'm Canadian and most of our conservatives are just milquetoast Trumpists.
I believe the issue is that some of this ends up evaluated at compile-time, and the compiler really has no idea how to do rounding correctly at that point. When implementing floating point tests for an x86 emulator, we had to create a macro that would ensure that the calculation was done at runtime rather than at compile time for this exact reason: https://github.com/ish-app/ish/blob/18176b6931d69bdabe48f137.... If anyone knows how to control floating point rounding in C reliably, I'd be interesting in hearing it :)
> They were also terribly inefficient.

"They" -- we would have to nail down what you are referring to as I doubt that you or I know about all the previous economic systems or if it is even fair to lump them all together.

And we'd have to figure out what "inefficient" means here and if it is even a bad thing. I'd love some "inefficiency" in todays chasing after god money -- clear-cutting old growth forests, fracking massive expanses of untouched land, fast fast fast FAST. Better get out of the way or we'll call in TigerSwan and the like because you're getting in the way of "efficiency".

Your story about the apples is nice, but it is a story that probably has little resemblance to some of these systems. Many of the systems did not operate like the mythical barter system that is told to young aspiring economists. At all.

Tribal gift economies.

Not chasing after shirts for days, but playing your role in the small society and having all of your needs met.
If you're in the tail, then give the user warning. It's a really easy thing to do. They just don't want to.
zawinski's law? Though not seeing how it is relevant to their point though.
I used Anki before and that is definitely useful for vocabularies or studying for exams.

To give a context, I read about 10 articles every day. Some users do for 40 a day. At that point, Kaffae becomes more useful as a general reflection. Either way, there's nothing stopping people from using both as it fits their need.
I've used Lemmy for a while, and I haven't had this issue with it. Either it's an HN hug of death, a DDOS, or something else.
This submission seems to have been censored; it has fallen off the front page of HN.

I signed up for Parler. It seems refreshingly welcoming to me. That might be problematic for those currently censoring existing spaces.
> Even worse is their unrelenting amplification of divisive issues, especially on race and gender, always favoring the same side.

well, controversy is where the news makes its biggest bucks isnt it?

we would probably all be better off if we just password-blocked the "news" channels all-together
Perhaps the title should mention that this is 32-bit x86, which is rather obsolete. This should work okay on x86_64.
This! I'm not sure why we are discussing the runtime cost of a function with modern compilers.

Could this pattern result in code so slow the game won't work in development w/o high optimization flags, thus increasing compile time?
Yeah, I know. That's hat I see in any discussion about SI with Americans, along with "a table spoon makes more sense as a unit because I've got one in my kitchen drawer".

But why does it matter? Why do you need 1/3 of a metre, and in which context would the 0.333...cm difference with 33 cm matter? This is smaller than the measurement error with common instruments we are likely to use in our daily lives. And there's nothing special about 1/3 m as a physical length, there's no reason why 1/3 m would be more useful than 0.30 m. I am not trying to be flippant, but I never got an answer to that question.

Also, the conversion factor matters only when you actually convert values, not when you measure them. Again, there is nothing stopping anyone from using 1/3 m, or 1/42 m, or 1/π m as units, or even giving them fancy names. As a matter of fact, this is exactly what you do when you use an inch: by definition 1 in = 127/5 m.

In practice the number of dividers is utterly insignificant, because using all the multiples of a centimetre (and millimetres if you're pushing it) is trivial. So getting a feeling for the difference between 32cm, 33cm and 34cm is very easy, and you end up with much better accuracy than if you limit yourself to eights, sixths and quarters.

It's also the same scale down from sub-atomic scales all the way to the whole planet (I understand the use of AU, light-years and parsecs, as the SI prefixes tend to become ridiculous at these scales).
I've seen that series as well, and what it fails to portray is that for all intents and purposes, the social conservatives define the Republican party. To be a social liberal and still vote Republican is to be manipulated.

The Republican party hasn't been about responsible small government in decades.
He fooled them for many many years, over 16 years according to Wikipedia. If the financial crisis didn't happen, it would probably still be going on.
Not at all. Trump's actual governing has been conservative. Not that there haven't been some awful bits, but it extends beyond judges to cabinet appointees, military posture (no new wars), stances on open borders, and miscellaneous stuff, like federal hiring based on skills, not degrees.

He's governed more conservatively than the last two Republican presidents.
Disappeared from the front page after just a few minutes.
OK thanks for the clarifications. I responded to BurntSushi and others here:

https://lobste.rs/s/fq8uil/aho_corasick

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23665341

I don't have experience with captures in re2c, but it's entirely automata-based, and they apparently implement something "fast" for captures and published it in this 2017 paper, so it's pretty new:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.08837

I'm sort of interested in benchmarking some Sublime-ish workloads with it, but I'm not sure I'll have time.

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And the other claim from that comment is that while regular languages aren't powerful enough by themselves for syntax highlighting, you can add a trivial state machine on top of them (perhaps Vim-like), and get something more powerful and faster than Sublime's model.

I'd have to look at the captures vs. lookahead issue more closely, but the general claim is that I think Sublime has a bad parsing model based on a sloppy application of Perl-style regexes (e.g. if you are really forced to read every byte multiple times, that seems dumb, and can be avoided with regular languages)
Biodegradable plastic has been a thing since the late 70's.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodegradable_plastic

My dad once showed me transparent cellulose-based plastic envelopes you could eat. They didn't taste like anything but were totally non-toxic. That was in the 80's.
If you add '-ffast-math' to the compiler parameters in his godbolt link you get the 'right' answer. Doing that means the division is done with the 'divsd' instruction, which clang uses even without the 'fast-math' flag.

That doesn't mean it's necessarily the right thing to do though.

Clang can be made generate the same code as the 'broken' gcc output by declaring the variables as 'long double' instead of 'double'.
So I think this is where the issue lies?

Edit: godbolt link requiring large monitor:
https://godbolt.org/z/tFiZwW
> the interface is still mostly parallel

Really? That's crazy! I thought DDR was serial connections. In fact, I thought parallel connections had mostly gone the way of the dodo. Serial is just so much less complicated.
Re fighting words, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplinsky_v._New_Hampshire :

> The complaint against Chaplinsky stated that he shouted: "You are a God-damned racketeer" and "a damned Fascist". Chaplinsky admitted that he said the words charged in the complaint, with the exception of the name of the deity.

It wouldn't surprise me if public sentiment in the US in 1940 was that such terms were not constitutionally protected, but First Amendment jurisprudence has changed a lot since then - see e.g. https://www.popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-ha... and https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim... for some background. Is this site actually taking the position that calling someone "a damned Fascist" is a) not constitutionally protected, as we understand the constitution today b) worth banning?

Re pornography, it is very much legal and constitutionally protected in the US. Obscenity (which "appeals to the prurient interest ... depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct ... and ... lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value") isn't constitutionally protected, but this site bans pornography, obscenity, and non-obscene indecency.
Pro-Trump voices seem to have taken over the discussion in most "conservative" spaces on the internet that I've found, so I don't think the implied equivalence here is a bad generalization to make in the context.

Since they're so poorly behaved, they have to seek out alternative spaces that will tolerate their misbehavior. r/T_D didn't get quarantined on Reddit because Reddit has it out for Trump supporters—it got quarantined because it's a hate-filled shithole where bizarre and paranoid ignorance, racism, misogyny, and rampant glorification of hypothetical violence against their political enemies form the baseline for discussion.
Probably not relevant to OP, but FWIW bruxism is often associated with sleep apnea. If you grind at night and are tired during the day, get a sleep study.
We are trying to answer this question with our minds, so how we think about the question and if it can be answered will depend on how we think about our minds.

If you take the scientific position that are mental processes are the produce of material brains produced through natural forces, you will believe our thinking is limited in power, like anything material. And that being the case, at some point the mind will run into questions it cannot answer, and the question of why there is something rather than nothing would seem to be that sort of question. And if you think of the problem that way then you will just accept the mystery and go on to thinking about matters where your mind might make some useful progress.

If you think our minds are the product of a God that understands everything, but made human minds limited, then you will also accept the mystery.

On the other hand, if you hold, as in Platonism or Hindu mysticism, that the mind is non-material and one with the Infinite, then you will likely believe that humans who grow spiritually enough can at some point come to understand why reality exists.

I think the waitbutwhy guy is philosophically in the first position but hasn't thought it out logically yet.
An example where this matters -- a new Mario 64 trick on the Virtual Console version because summing round-towards-zero numbers over a sine wave cycle produces a small delta which builds up over a couple of days to make a jump possible

https://www.kotaku.com.au/2018/06/the-mario-64-trick-that-ta...
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