skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was specifically responding to the comment above, which had clearly conflated the standard not specifying the representation of a pointer with “anything anyone says about pointers isn’t actually correct”. Keeping the standard in mind the definition of “variable” generally extends to “any typed memory regardless of whether it has a name or not”, and the pointers K&R are talking about are fairly clear to mean this in the sense of the pointer being dereferenceable to a specific type. That being said, you are correct that there are other pointers not mentioned in that statement that are an entirely separate class from normal data pointers: untyped buffers, usually specified by void * but (for legacy reasons) often char * as well. And of course, there’s also function pointers that you dereference only to call them.
Deep Diamond: Deep Learning in Clojure Is Fast, and Simpler Than Keras
Exactly what I was going to quote, with a big fat 'wot?' to follow.

Edit: I think we're being trolled by a text generator, see my other comment.
The same amount is reasonable as the requirement to wear clothes.
The answer is yes.

I'll never understand why so many people believe that if something isn't perfect, it's broken.

All one has to do is read a single article discussing law enforcement finding and preventing a bomb or a shooter to know that our laws are, in fact, preventing these scenarios. They're just not preventing all of the them.

And you know what? That's good. Freedom has inherent risk. I don't want to live in a society where we're so unfree that our laws are able to prevent all crime.
> People who work in tech and choose to have babies are doing it as a luxury, not to push society forward.

So now having babies is a luxury. Jesus christ this is so wrong on so many levels.
Tell HN: Simple coffee hack to improve your productivity
I'm a fan of the power nap as a way to improve productivity. Basically, when I feel tired in the afternoon I drink a cup of coffee, set my alarm-clock for 20 minutes and take a nap. After 20 minutes I wake up refresh because of the nap and the coffee has kicked in. Notice that I set the alarm for 20 minutes. If you sleep longer you might fall into a stage of sleep that might have the opposite effect. You'll feel groggy when you wake-up. So it's important that it is about 20 minutes. OK, so that's a power nap.

Like many of you, I find it very hard to wake up in the morning. It takes hours before I feel ready for the day after I wake up. So I decided to try the power nap idea in the morning. My alarm wakes me up at 6:00 am, I immediately drink a cup of coffee, hit the snooze button for 20 minutes and go back to sleep. When the second alarm rings I am able to get up with no problem. It's changed how my day starts.

One advantage is that I love coffee. I love the taste and the ritual of making it and drinking it every morning. So what I do is make the coffee for my next morning. I make it, put it in a bottle to cool and once I'm ready to get to work I place it in the freezer. At night, right before i go to sleep, I get it out and put the frozen bottle on my night stand. When I reach for it in morning, it's ready for me. It's basically cold brew, ready to drink.

This has made a huge impact on my day. You might want to try it for a few days and let us know your results.
I think that was only FaceTime
Can’t you actually sandbox any app you want with chroot and cgroups yourself?
Linux kernel security fixes spotted before release by mailing list data mining
That was FaceTime.
Admittedly I haven’t followed this much at all, but it seems like a fundamentally bad idea for the US government to rely on any one single for provider for critical cloud computing infrastructure.
> I was raised to believe in anarchism, and I still do at heart. But if it were ever to work we'd need strict and global regulations on centralized power that would need to be upheld by a coalition which would itself become a centralized power.

Murray Bookchin argued for this in what he called Democratic Confederalism, which would create a series of federated communes with the administrative tasks being undertaken collectively by the confederal network whilst policy would be dictated by the communes themselves. The confederal network would have the right to break up centralized power as it develops in one or several of the communes as well as protect human rights and prevent ecological destruction.
True but also not true.

Anarchism isn’t devoid of understanding of reality.

Anarchisms goal as a broad social meme is to not allow an official body that coerces the public towards further erecting of tent pole power structures within society. Like we have a Constitution and abdicate legislative work to a mythical free market, where an Amazon size entity can manipulate the labor and retail markets on a whim.

It seeks to establish a tent pole hierarchy based, at least the sources I agree with offer it something like this, and then within that it’s local communal rules. No influencers from DC enforcing proper life in collusion with their moneyed brethren on this coast, regardless of how the masses would spend their time.

But yes at the top it’s a tent pole like any other.

Trying to set aside physics itself isn’t the goal of anarchism. Don’t be ridiculous.

Pre-Columbus America’s are often mythologized as all hippie, but they were probably the purest anarchist society we can study.

Those who lived by the water fished and maintained the coast. Those inland made tools for doing that.

And we’re talking communities that could rival them contemporary Europe.

How complex we all think it is to change when really it’s just doing away with European notion of proper social hierarchy always leading back to a council of especially wise men whose wisdom was point guns first.

It’s an emotional attitude like capitalism. Neither are laws of physics. Just a personal attitude that one will not be a social control freak nor kowtow to them.

We have none of the old problems of logistical distribution. Why do we their old tenets and rules?
This is actually an interesting question. I think it comes down to two things:

1) Frequency of use

2) Overall power requirement

Calculators are kind of an ideal use for solar panels because people generally only use them for a minute or two at a time and often won't touch them for days. And on top of that, modern calculators use so little power it's frankly ridiculous. We're talking a couple hundred microwatts during use. In comparison, I have trouble thinking of devices with equivalent usage and power characteristics - most devices we use intermittently have pretty high power requirements while in use, especially when you consider that indoor lighting is awful for generating solar energy.
Don't be surprised when all the mainstream distros switch to sandboxed app model as the preferred one. Distro-based packaging of the entire world is hiting the not enough manpower problem today and eventually will be eventually relegated to super fans distro only, with similar status as Amiga has today.
Surely helping prop up iMessage is a terrible idea? Especially if it still has that "feature" where if you switch from an iPhone to an Android phone the messages aren't sent to your phone for a while?
> What you see less often though, is people that want to have 4 or 5 kids, which I think is stigmatized

That might vary by culture, but I can't think of a time when I've seen it be stigmatized. I imagine that current generations chose to have less than 4 kids for economic and quality of life reasons, not because they see having many kids as somehow wrong.
Yeah and the iMessage lock-in seems limited to the US. Most of the world is on WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger instead (or local apps like LINE, WeChat, KakaoTalk)
He states it in the previous sentence:

> If you think experience is simulatable, [and] you buy computational or “patternist” theories of identity…

Basically, the inner experience of any sapient computation (aka "person") is subjective.
They’re not variables until they’ve been specified a type, which is at the point you first assign to the memory in a typed fashion I believe. It’s significantly more pedantic than the first line in an introductory text will go into, though ;)
But as I said, it's possible to transition to anarchy. You don't need to do it in one bit push. The issue is when the underlying code base is so bad that there is nothing else, but we can certainly try incrementalism.

In theory, there's no reason you couldn't go towards and anarchic society via a million small reforms, but in practice you get executed for using your already existing rights if you state that your goal is to do such reforms.
>>> Clause 11 prohibits GNOME or its affiliates from pursuing any further invalidity challenges to any Rothschild patents leaving Rothschild free to pursue any non open source targets.

Is that valid in US law?

For the the places I am aware of, it's not possible to give up rights to defend in court when one has been wronged. Otherwise that would allow a party to subdue others and ignore the law entirely.
> Let’s consider what this simulation really is: a program, which generates a series of (very long) numbers. Each number represents the state of the computer’s memory at that point in the simulation.

A projection like that seems very likely to break consciousness. Writing down the state of a computer onto a paper does not allow the paper to continue the computation.
The point of using Debian or Ubuntu lts is the reverse of getting bleeding edge software. Sure you want your browser and a couple of other software to be up to date but the reset should stay the same and only have critical/minor updates.
You don't have to know the why to appreciate lime plasters stay clean/grow less mold in dank environments through experience.
I really liked: The REST API Design Handbook by George Reese.

It is everything you need to know and thinks about the angle of the people who need to consume your API. Quick read too.

https://www.amazon.com/REST-API-Design-Handbook-ebook/dp/B00...
You can't prevent bad guys from forming their own power structure without some form of power structure.
Yeah I've used it for a while with no issues. on my "living on the edge" machine. I still stick with ubuntu for my daily drivers. I don't understand the rant though. I understand why they moved chromium to snap.
There is no reason to have such a small authorities. Anarchic societies managed to maintain armies strong enough to deter state actors. It comes with some small sacrifices, but it's still much better than otherwise.

In practice, your village can come to an agreement with other small villages and do military exercises together while still maintaining autonomy, and you can then maintain complex weapon systems and large armies.
Voluntary association, not voluntary donations. People need roads, when this problem is brought up they will be willing to pay for roads. If you are unwilling, you aren't part of the society anymore.
Copyright Does Not Exist [pdf]
Sure, if you get global shutter and resolution equivalent to about 5 MP bayer sensor or 2 MP monochrome sensor, and get output with an intra-only codec, that's fine.

Those black magic cameras are severely bandwidth bound, compare to e.g. the Pocket Cinema 4k (USB 3 and able to fully load a USB-C SSD), which unfortunately only offers a rolling shutter.

The lens is only slightly relevant, in that an extremely long focal length will cause issues in estimating said focal length, and typically also in depth-of-field if that's relevant for your scene. I suggest no ultra-wide-angle lens and no more than 500 mm (35mm-equivalent). 30-150 mm focal length (35mm-eu) would be the range you want to look at.
I think it would be possible to think of this in terms of complexity theory, for N case statements to you would possibly have to check 2N locations for assignment. I wonder if you could do parallel assignment: var1 = case = var2
Might be because the entire thing is nonsense. Entropy shoots a hole in the entire thing as far as I can tell. The problem is that the information can never be retrieved, so if it exists or not is really pointless.
Shotwell: Personal Photo Manager
Here is my argument against anarchism as some alternative to what we have.

We ARE living in the end state of anarchism. We know how people will organize when there is no existing coercive power structure; they will form themselves into groups with rules and laws and enforcement. How do we know this? Because it is what people have done, over and over and over, when in that situation.

If all of the government were to suddenly disappear, groups would start to form, power would collect and disperse and reorganize, and certain people who are very good at that game (or have the right allies) will rise to leadership. The end result will be some sort of stable-ish arrangement of groups who control different areas and... here we are.
It is based on Chromium. From the support article: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4501095/download-th...
Looking at other stuff ISTM this is generated by one of them newfangled GPT3 things or whatever:

"Nonetheless, It is because of my faith in science and its processes that I have always been of the opinion that the state pension, though grisly from a naive “one-worlder” perspective is actually a remarkably humane, efficient and (dare I say) generous social program."

(https://cephalopods.blog/)

and if you look at the home link https://cephalopods.blog/about/ anyone else think that looks like a generated face?
> Going into wild-ass speculation mode, if this board really is affordable, I wonder if it's being subsidized by the Chinese gov't to encourage RISC-V adoption.

You might find this[1] meeting with Steven Zhao interesting. Steven Zhao is the guy behind Orange Pi, raspberry pi alternative. Interesting part translated:

Steven announces that Orange Pi can buy a good quality WiFi component for $1, that his cards will have a good WiFi connection for that price.

- Uh, if the purchase of the component is $1, inevitably the exit price will be a little higher for the end customer, Mr. Zhao? - If you tell me the price, I will know your margin ... -

- No, because today all Orange Pi cards are sold at the BOM (Bills Of Material) price.

- Does that mean that the cost of engineers, premises, development hardware, design and all that ... isn't impacted in the price of a card?

- That's right.

- But how is that possible?

- We benefit from government grants.

And here's a statement that takes your breath away. Orange Pi is a private company in a state dumping system. This can be said from a Western point of view, of the international agreements and of all the conceptual set-up intended to protect the big established industrialists.

1: https://www.minimachines.net/a-la-une/orange-pi-steven-zhao-...
Teenagers were specifically mentioned in the comment. Good sex education helps because reproduction is now not some mysterious process. They will then be able to make good choices when they decide to sex. Having access to abortion services helps because having sex shouldn't ruin someones life.
the pandemic is not over. information is limited. it is not possible to definitively draw this conclusion yet. it is possible it is significant.
Actually it does, just better training required. I believe the police in Germany is pretty good, but you need at least 3 years (not month) of training.
have you tried chromium on Ubuntu? It takes several seconds, maybe 10 on my machine whereas firefox loads in under a second.
I'd like to see more of this. Egan's work got more mathematical and harder to understand as the years went by.

Not that I'd want him to dumb it down, but explanations are appreciated.
>We could stop issuing invalid patents //

This is akin to "we could stop making software with bugs" in a situation where some programmers are actively seeking programmes with bugs. In theory, maybe, in practice you need to lower your standards below perfect.
Somalia really isn't a good example of anarchy, there was still tons of hierarchies. Anarchists aren't libertarians, they're not content to just topple the state, you still need to form anarchist governments and institutions. Otherwise that's just anomie
Jailbreaking an iDevice could not be simpler.

If you pick up a used iPhone X, it is impossible for Apple to prevent you from sideloading whatever you like on the device.
I've been using Linux for over 14 years exclusively. Build several linux hosting companies. I know Linux rather well. I've built a simple font manager for gnome in the past. I know the weirdness of gnome font thingies.

I've had this glyph issue for over a year. In chromium, Signal, some ebook app, and several other snaps.

I've tried many things. But gave up. Snap is not 'one layer of indirection' too much. It's hundreds of them. There's chroot, some VM, a virtual gnome, containerisation, weird user and permissions. And so on.

This complexity made me conclude that snap is a bad solution (to a real problem). Not the glyph issue, but the fact that I cannot fix it, is, for me, the reason to conclude it has, or will fail.
Depends on your definition of "significant". That's a tremendous amount of lifelong morbidity that will affect those children around the world. They may need heart transplants, multiple surgeries, hospitalizations, etc. Just because it won't affect a lot of people doesn't suddenly make it insignificant.
You don't think wealthy professionals choosing to have 1 or 2 kids is a luxury? Saying FB employees need to have babies to keep society going makes as much sense as saying the family shih tzu is necessary as a guard dog.

Sure, maybe technically in some way, but absolutely not in any meaningful sense.
The system is stacked against fundamental change. Its why for going on 200 years there has always been a movement to "fix" society through government that never actually seems to get much of anywhere.

The only time, in the US at least, anything has led to long term appreciable change in society for the betterment of the working class was when capitalism was in legitimate fear for survival in the face of communist revolutions the world over aside the great depression. The FDR generation didn't go from effectively total labor exploitation unbounded to 40 hour work weeks, unions, paid vacation, and safety regulations because the collective bourgeois woke up one day thinking their time had come by happenstance. Concessions were made to preserve the power structures that gave immense power to few at the cost of the many.

The civil rights movement was comparable where the most popular speaker in the country was espousing socialism and class consciousness and had to be assassinated to stop his movement adjourning organized aggression by the Black Panthers who also were mass murdered. But all that blood only managed to move the dial a hairs breadth toward liberty.

We will all be good citizens voting for one of the two choices presented us by our rulers this November, many of us going into the polls knowing the structural organization of said process means our vote is totally meaningless - first past the post, winner take all races down a scorecard of positions 90% of which you know nothing about but the letters aside the names, names you probably only heard in TV or radio ads inundating you for two months prior. Its a mockery of actual democracy and largely always has been - there is a reason the US was founded to have an electorate of white, land owning men.
Nobody seems to mention Product Manager culture e.g. the cult of A/B and their rewards for often dubious engagement metrics. Admittedly this is somewhat of a second order effect of the VC model, but I'll argue it's now the universal standard for success regardless of the initial motivator.
This is closer to an ideal solution.

However, it still demonstrates an unsurprising failure to properly empathize with childfree people.

Implicit in this solution is the assumption that childfree people need to justify their value for equal access to personal time off to people with entirely different (and more orthodox) personal values.

The best solution would be to give everyone the option to take extra time off with partial pay redistributed to active team members.

Childfree people aren't a hegemony with the same values and problem as people with children. They have more diverse values, or lack of values, and more diverse problems intensified by a pandemic which shouldn't need to be justified to coworkers with different personal priorities.

Have you considered, for example, the daily impact of a pandemic on people who derived meaning in life from time with friends and activities they can no longer see and enjoy? You might not think these are important as children (and if those people had children they might agree). But the fact is that they don't have children and these are the most meaningful things in their life. For them, their children may as well have died in the pandemic.

You won't hear them express this because it's terribly unorthodox. But it's true. Equal access to equal benefits matters.
The other flaw with that example is that there is obvious social pressure. If you try to cut the line, people will likely confront you. Situations where there’s no social pressure are different.

During University, I was a believer in co-ops as a form of organization. I lived in and was actively involved in student housing co-ops. During grad school, I lived in a large house with 12 other people. I was the house organizer, and arranged for and paid for our internet service. Everyone else in the house gave me ~$5/mo.

Except one person, who opted out. This person was a self-described anarchist activist, and extremely active from what I could see (lots of anarchist events, protests, marches, etc.). Halfway through the year, I discovered they had just “borrowed” the password from someone else in the house almost straight away, and used the connection as much as anyone.

So the anarchist activist (who would happily give you an unsolicited lecture on how “self-organizing” works), couldn’t even self-organize with his 12 house mates, and instead let a bunch of broke students cover them. (And this person wasn’t under-privileged or anything. I’m pretty sure their education wasn’t self-funded.)

So, yeah — even if you limit an anarchist society to just the true believers, I don’t think it’s gonna work.
Because they called themselves Communist? Calling yourself something doesn't make it true.
My biggest problem is that, something like a third party browser can't be more than a re-skin of Safari. Apple's App Store guildelines require something like Firefox for iOS to use WebKit, and doesn't allow add-ons period. In this instance, I would argue the default browser can only be skinned and not changed outright.

It's the same gripe I have with iOS keyboards, unless something has changed there. The feel and layout of every third party keyboard is the same as the default keyboard. During my short period with an iPhone I gave Gboard for iOS a try, tweaking it as much as I could to get a similar experience to what I was used to on Android. In the end it still felt like the system keyboard more than anything.
> People need roads, when this problem is brought up they will be willing to pay for roads. If you are unwilling, you aren't part of the society anymore.

Sounds like taxes to me.
Not if it slows down things as much as it does, especially launching. What are you doing on your machine that things like apparmor and selinux (for app isolation) aren't enough? Just use a VM. Not everything needs to be sandboxed if it ruins the zen of interacting with your machine