skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes absolutely. The turning point for me was when I visited r/all one day and the first page was almost entirely screenshots from Twitter
Maybe in the greater context of our universe cosmic pluralism is a design pattern, which would make MWI a more preferred interpretation.
This is complete fluff, but I saw this webcomic years and years ago and still can't stop laughing at it:

https://i.imgur.com/wEo36.gif
It is very wide, those rotors protrude out dangerously, so it would not be able to land anywhere other than a specialised enclosure. Struggling to see the point, other than another attempt at realising some childish geekboy fantasy.
This made me search around about unsorted B-tree-like collections. Turns out Clojure[1] and the im immutable-collections crates in Rust[2] use a structure called an RRB-tree, and searching 'blist' (because why not) turned up a Python module[3]. So, yes, a thing!

Tricky bit is trying to work well when used like a plain vector too. Clojure's RRB-tree special-cased repeated small appends to the end to help with this, and the Rust page mentions a clever chunking technique for append/prepend. And I imagine largeish leaf pages might help with average prepend/append/iteration overhead, at some cost when inserting in the middle?

Anyway, just neat that it's been taken further than I realized!

[1] https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/213452/files/rrbvector.pd...

[2] https://docs.rs/im/15.0.0/im/struct.Vector.html

[3] https://pypi.org/project/blist/
Throw in some legitimate random data to really mess with them. Everybody needs some good entropy seed material.
The guy is missing several critical points, but raises another good one everybody else forgets.

Missing: The Novichok family consists of 3 used and 9 known two-component agents, which are scientifically known since an Iranian paper published the formulas. They are quite trivial to produce, even for a lay student.

The good point: potence.
Since the Novichoks are so potent, they usually kill within minutes or at least the patient will not awake from the coma.
Which renders the whole Skripal and Nawalny affairs moot. Since Novichok was designed for military use, it needs to be very potent to be able to deliver it effectively over enemy territory.
In the secret services, i.e. criminal usecase it doesn't not need to be that potent. You don't need to kill tens of thousands soldiers, only one. Just the use of a two-component agent will not kill the killer, it is much safer to use. So the new usecase for these agents changed. Military abandoned it, because it was ineffective. Secret services still like to use it, because it is effective.

Now to the blame game. Russia developed it, because they heard that americans and british developed such a new, secret two component nerve agent. So they came up with their own variants. We don't know the formula of the US and UK agents, not even their names. We just know that they exist because the designer of the Russian variant deflected to the US and wrote a book about it. Most likely they are the very same, Russians just found the same.

So the Skripal attacks could have been done by everybody, and it certainly wasn't Novichok. Looks more like fish poisoning. As assumed by the doctor who treated them. You don't awake after two weeks from Novichok poisoning and need to shield them from the public. You only need to shield them if you are having something to hide.

The Nawalny attack now looks like a GRU attack with a very low dosis, but this doesn't fit the description with the tea cup.
So it could be a weak Novichok variant with an extremely low potency so that the patient will survive. As similar GRU attacks before. Just fry their brains a little bit. It's still safer to use.
Wow, a .18 is pretty solidly drunk. In Australia you're fined for being over 0.05 and automatic 6 month loss of license for 0.08.
That's awesome!

Would love to see a comparison to hyped cryptos on /biz/
What attacks on men?
Adding a bit of context - as Clj data structures are immutable, changing something that is deeply nested cannot be done in-place (like in a Java set of nested objects - navigate until you find the one you need, call setFoo() on it, you're done). So it gets painful real quick.
Specter is like search-and-replace - first you find all the elments you need, then you can replace / change them at the touch of a fn.
Do any of you ever think the spooks are engaged in a slow deliberate release of information to employ the concept discussed here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Kii-P7vwQ
How easy is it for an intelligence service to inject packets and extract packets from their telecom network to do the real hacking whilst simultaneously trying to find a Patsy?

I really do wonder how many Patsy's have had their ego's exploited and got tricked into doing things so the spooks can control, manipulate, & exploit their targets for their own means.

Think about it, there are so many ways to control people and its been going on for tens of thousands of years when looking at religions putting the fear of god into people who dared to step out of line.
Theme Park was one of my favorite games as a child.

I enjoyed it immensely building out a theme park at first, for a long time. I constantly didn't do well though and always end up pretty much bankrupting on my first park, let alone expanding to other cities.

One day I read some sort of cheat/guide that to have a profitable park, you build Duck Shoots, and make the prizes worth less than the cost for each play, and make the winning percentages 100%. I put the Duck Shoot right at the entrance of the park and build the rest of the park around it. Every guest who comes in plays the Duck Shoot first and is happy they won, and I make a profit from every guest, and everyone is happy with a balloon prize.

This was my first lesson about its immorality. Strangely, the game became less fun after that. I was able to make profitable parks and expand to other cities. Then I stopped playing; and over the years, every time I tried to pick back up the game again, I find myself going through the motions of setting up that Duck Shoot trick because it was the only way I know to make money running a park, and then I quickly lose interest after that because all the researches and stuff were just a lot of work and it was boring having the same 4 rides until researches complete. It was a little bit like real life...
> His terminology is all over the map and typically inaccurate, if not plainly wrong.

> Expressions “return a value.”

> “A pointer is a special variable that returns the address of a memory location.”

I don't see how these are clearly wrong? I guess the 'returning' is problematic?

Somehow I feel this was written with an air of superiority, the author doesn't expand on anything. I get that feeling a lot with articles about c.
The question is why is a charity organization devoted to education using DRM for protectionism rather than taking an approach where knowledge is more freely shared.
Cool theory!
It's even worse then that. The parties aren't even majority rule: everyone compromises on some issues, and is forced to select based on availability (which is determined by financials not democracy) and fear of the other side rather then positive belief, so I would argue that 26% is likely closer to 10% or less for many issues.

And then of course there is the large chunk of people who find the views of both parties so uninspiring or outright disgusting to not want to vote at all.

Its really surprising when any popular legislation is passed in any form, even watered down, in this mess of a system. Obviously though that is by design.
Google's Quantum Computer Achieves Chemistry Milestone
Twitch definitely cracked down on Restream usage among partners at some point in the past, because I used to watch some streams on YT and that stopped happening suddenly, with some of them citing their Twitch contracts.
That the US has gotten TSMC to boycot Huawei is quite recent. The deal for this was probably done before the latest sanctions.

TSMC has massive economies of scale and are just very hard for alternatives to compete with.
Oxford Dictionary: free market - economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses.

I like your description of a “free market transaction,” (one that does not include force or fraud), but this is distinct from a “free market.”

At the tier at which free market transactions are possible; that is, at the layer that eg two groups have equal negotiating power with no outside influence, the more their internal economies will tend towards unfree over time, and vice versa. This is necessarily so.

Laws that protect the individual hamper the freedoms of the collective entity. Not saying that’s a bad thing at all. I feel like the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swill_milk_scandal is a good exploratory case for a lot of these kinds of discussions.

A free market does not grant any special freedom for individuals, not life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness. These are necessary for a healthy market, but a free market permits any number of behaviors. To the extent that behaviors are not permitted in the economic system, the market is not free.

That a government cannot infringe on these “inalienable rights” does not in itself guarantee that any of the economic actors within do not yield power that yanks these rights from its individuals.

If you want to add the qualifier of “competitive free market”, “free market with healthy dynamism,” or even “efficient free market” to meet your definition, then I would agree on quite a few different levels that slavery is antithetical to these.
I don't mean the reason is one aspect of his work is 'better' than the other, just that the difficulty translating his short stories makes them much less accessible to English readers than the plays.

I think the reverse is the case for Russian - Жалобная книга (The Complaints Book) is part of Russian idiom, the famous play Чайка (The Seagull) is not. Chekhov just occupies a different part of the English-speaking cultural taxonomy.

A (maybe more than a little over the top) way to put it is, it's like if in Russia, Newton was primarily known as a great theologian and alchemist.
You have an impressive attitude that conveys strength even in the face of the uncertainty you are dealing with. Thanks for creating and sharing this, it looks awesome!
A Second Chance
I wonder if there could be an open source support option for some of these. Sell small lots for 1000% of fab cost, provide only a datasheet and host a forum. A reseller willing to take on some inventory risk could easily do this.
The spiritual successor to Fairey Rotodyne[1] and other tip jet helicopters and autogyros[2].

Hope this one takes off!

One of the reasons Rotodyne was not adopted was because it was too loud. Hope this technology solves this shortcoming.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Rotodyne
> If hiding something is a way of declaring it a form of power, then hiding the male genitals is a way of declaring masculinity itself a form of power.

This really was the high of the article for me. Exactly what combination would be needed for the author to declare that male clothing is neutral on masculine power?

Genitals exposed -> Aggressive declaration of masculine power.
Genitals hidden -> Passive aggressive declaration of masculine power.

I'm going to guess that genitals hinted-at-but-in-a-careful-balanced-way is going to be calculatedly aggressive declaration of male power. The author makes some excellent points about status and clothing, but the throwaway lines on the patriarchy are wonderfully monomaniacal.
The question is, why doesn't C make

char* a, b;

apply the char* type to both? (That is, why didn't they design it that way?)

I assume there was some reason originally, but it's made everything a bit more confusing ever since for a lot of people. :/

Edit: Apparently it's so declaration mirrors use. Not a good enough reason IMO. But plenty of languages have warts and bad choices that get brought forth. I'm a Perl dev, so I speak from experience (even if I think it's not nearly as bad as most people make out).
I do not understand why market makers "have" to buy for OTM option volumes.

Sorry I am a stocks noob but losing blood these past two days. Any help is appreciated.
I actually like the Reddit app, but its search engine is so awful that I almost always start on Google/DDG and refine my results through there. If they could improve their search experience I would be all in on the app.
On the PC, you got QBasic out of the box. That actually lets you push things already a bit. The main things really missing were soundcard sound and mouse input.

But if you got to that stage, you had enough of a clue to go shopping about for other compilers / assemblers.
Surprised to see Shake Shack on this list. I don't mind paying their higher prices if the money is going towards popularizing shorter work weeks.
Wondering for almost two years after this news we haven't seen a single flying car demo from these companies. Of course Larry Page's money is a good financial support but Elon Musk has repeatedly rejected the VTOL idea, it can pummel populated areas.
"Say, that's a nice business you have there. It'd be a shame if anything happened to it."

And it's the organised crime that is associated with mafia tactics...
I actually switched from a Leatherman to a Victorinox because the pliers were more comfortable to use.

https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/Products/Swiss-Army-Knives/S...
Or where their fancy SPA custom animated UX means your password manager can't auto insert a password.
Federalism was about ensuring a very specific type of majority minority balance was kept, and is weak in most cases, and checks and balances in the USA broke down the moment ideologically coherent parties became a thing, exactly as had always been feared.
I’d imagine they’re not completely immune, eg if you can demonstrate criminal intent the immunity probably doesn’t apply.
I'd argue it's bad API design. You can't make an API that's easy to use wrong and insecurely and then be surprised that people use it wrong and insecurely.
Facebook and Instagram killed it!
Don't reward raw metrics. Goodhart's law is too real in this context.
Right now we habe regressive privacy, where people with more power have more privacy. We should have progressive privacy. Power over others is power to hurt others, and for a democracy to work, such power must be tempered by transparency and oversight, while the default for the masses should be strict privacy protections.
"one-CPU-one-vote" comes from Satoshi contrasting the alternative of "one-IP-address-one-vote".

It's not about equality but fairness. Anyone can invest and purchase CPUs whereas the allocation of IPs is political. Satoshi never stated or expected one CPU should map to one individual person.

Satoshi said "At first, most users would run network nodes, but as the network grows beyond a certain point, it would be left more and more to specialists with server farms of specialized hardware.” – https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/emails/cryptography/2/

“The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don’t generate." – https://satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcointalk/287/
Process Server One – Serving your legal papers quickly/cost-effectively
Ctrl+F, "power". Yeah... power, power, power, power, power... Everythings is about power.
> Germany spearheaded the decline in emissions in the European Union.

I'm not sure why this is relevant. France has constantly been one of the best in Europe and Germany has been one of the worst (revisiting my link[0]). I'm not sure what you're trying to argue here. That everyone can improve? Of course. That Germany cares more than France? Well probably. It is a much larger problem then them for France. France left their hose and all their faucets on over night. Germany busted a water main and their house is sinking. Makes sense that they are more concerned. Or maybe you're suggesting that German had a larger reduction in emissions? Congrats, they are almost at the peak of France's output. Either way, I don't get what you are suggesting here.

More importantly, why are you still thinking I'm anti-renewables? Have I not been clear on this matter? I'm also not convinced you're reading what I write anyways because we've addressed several of your concerns already and you're pushing claims on me that I don't hold and have already reiterated that I do not hold. I might as well quote the Jabberwocky.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-emissions-per-capita?t...
Is this a marketing stunt to create community?
That sound you hear is millions of actual engineers, ones with qualifications/certifications/professional obligations/legal liability (think “civil”, “mechanical”, “electrical”, et al.) all rolling their eyes yet again at the code monkeys who call themselves “Engineers”, yet aren’t prepared to tell their boss that the decisions they’re trying to make, with inadequate training and experience, are dangerous...

Do you think the guy signing off on a bridge or power station design gets pushed around by “product managers” demanding shitty or cheapskate design or construction?
This is not a helpful comment, and the person you're replying to didn't mention anything about pricing.
Roenxi has already made a better point of it than I could elsewhere in this thread [0]. So please see his comment.

But here’s another little snipe:

> ...some idea that women produce naturally (they bear children) and that men produce culturally (they create society). Stated outright, this is an obvious lie—pretty much everywhere you go you can find women doing most of the work of producing society too.

It’s a small thing, that makes me feel petulant to make a scene about, once it’s isolated; but there are a few of them, along with Roenxi’s point, that add up to inform the view of the article as a whole.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24381674
Show HN: Talk – A free group video call app with screen sharing
The mathematical construct was developed/discovered to explain observations. Normally when we do that we consider the mathematical explanation to be “real” in that it is describing reality.
Right but we’re not talking about children. We’re talking about recently hired software engineers? And if you’re saying “pretty much every adult”, doesn’t that include those engineers?
Never say never. Pirates of the Caribbean “brand” is on the wane - it’s pretty much driven by Johnny Depp whose stock is plummeting.
You're currently right, but the world is changing

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-12/russia-di...
I mean, I understand where they are coming from — minio is an s3 object store that integrates remarkably well into the whole containerized ecosystem, but there’s definitely something to be said for “old” tech.

Just to give an example, having been bitten more than just a few times in the past, I personally am hesitant to use minio and the likes because the landscape changes so fast. I don’t really understand minio’s business model, but do know they’re heavily VC funded and are likely not making a profit right now. This begs the question whether it is a safe bet.

On the other hand, we could buy some storage appliance from a reputable brand and have an s3 compatible API there. I know that when I’m buying Dell or whatever the company isn’t going away any time soon, and if something’s wrong, I can get a Dell engineer to our datacenter in a few hours of time.

Lastly, I don’t really want to containerize my storage. I always consider storage and other state something I want to keep out of kubernetes, and treat it as an external service to kubernetes. There are quite a few things that can go wrong when running these services inside kubernetes, and in my experience things just stay a lot simpler if you just stick to VMs for this type of stuff. YMMV.
They missed a few, or example, "dvd".
PDF of the same :
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0140-6736%2820...
The first one is a bit odd, and in C expressions specifically don’t always return values: void functions.

The second one reads really strange to me, and variables don’t return things.
I liked a lot about Dungeon Keeper but there was just zero strategy or challenge to it. The combat ruined it for me - if someone invaded your dungeon, all you had to do was pick up 20 odd high-level monsters and drop them on top of the invader. All the monster stats, spells, special abilities etc. became meaningless.

Not sure how it would work with RTS style movement or even turn based combat but being able to instantly teleport your units to where you needed them didn't make any sense to me in terms of game design.
I once has to rewrite legacy firmware where the original author didn’t believe in .c files. You can still compile with only header files (but only if it’s all headers, no mixing what he did with normal structure), but I still wonder why he thought that was a good idea. He works for Facebook now.
Yeah, but I don't want you to waste electricity. Just send me the money instead of the utility company.
Modern cosmology by definition doesn’t make different predictions than saying “cosmological models mention things like stars and galaxies, and those models fit our observations, but those stars and galaxies aren’t technically real.”
It sounds like a scam ad that tries to make it sound like they are revealing a well guarded secret.

"Professional C programmers hate him! A BASIC programmer discovers a clever way to use pointers..."
Is there really no chance we can find technical solutions to these problems?
Great work I've seen while doing my regular github foss browsing (by most recently updated), and thank you for putting CC4 on it. I also want to say I like the general format at least on github (not a reddit fan these days).

Constructive criticism: to me, this is a bit too barebones. There are quite a few extremely similar ones out there with essentially the same content but not as nice a format. You might consider doing the next tier course for those who aren't completely green but are trying to get past that initial hurdle which what many of them are trying to do.

As for what exactly, I would say an extensive focus on the entire systemd ecosystem would be a great starting point for example. Go ahead and go into nf/iptables, etc.

One other thing, I think a proper table of contents would be a good simple addition.
Ok, it's still disingenuous to claim that it is an outlet for state level actors.
What's New in TypeScript 4.0
You’re welcome to disagree about calling them software engineers, but I’m not seeing how that is relevant or constructive to the whole point of this post and comment chain?
Another problem with email is that it's your responsibility to keep your contacts list up-to-date when people change their email address. By comparison Facebook doesn't have that problem - for example organising a high school reunion is much more likely to succeed if you contact people via Facebook than via email. I really hope email (or its successor) can copy more of the benefits that currently draw users into those walled gardens.
I also prefer the small ones.
I have several(some new if I lose one) of the small Midnight Manger. Thats the perfect one for me as it has a philips screwdriver and bottle opener as well.
If one uses bcrypt for hashing passwords, as currently the best practice recommends, building basically a salted rainbow table becomes rather expensive, too. Not impossible, since the amortized cost for many common passwords is relatively low, but still sort of expensive.

Ideally a machine that generates and checks the hashes should be a box without a NIC, connected to the rest of the servers via a bunch of RS-232 ports. This would make extracting the salt much harder, down to effectively impossible. Few orgs can afford such a setup, though, due to the hassle of administering it.