skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tribalism is stupid and it annoys me a bit. I understand it though in an operating system landscape space, let me explain why.

When it comes to developers time, it is zero sum. People who work on our non-preferred platform take time and energy away from our preferred platform. Nowhere is this more evident than video games which essentially require one (paid/opaque/proprietary) operating system.

It’s also zero sum in our own minds. If we are expected to understand our tools (which is a fair ask) is it better to have 2 tools or 50 tools? Those 50 tools all attempting to be the same thing but in only slightly different ways and the main differentiator being what is developed on the platform.

FWIW I would consider myself a bit of a Linux zealot, but I use a Mac at work and I Parsec into a windows machine purely for visual studio. For me computers (And operating systems) are a tool, but I cannot deny the overhead when switching, the change in hot keys, in basic commands and available features always causes more friction than if I was working with _just_ Linux or _just_ macos and so on.
It's plausible to run a lot of webservices in a single machine.

It's hard to engineer right and doesn't scale, so people rarely do it...
Obviously the example is extreme, but it still applies in other scenarios since polls often predict outcomes.

Take Brazil for example. Presidential elections are about as high stakes as they come, they have been electronic for decades and election results pretty much always align with polls.

There are no known cases of tampering despite the high amount of chronic political corruption. Failure modes in the system are much more mundane: buying votes, manipulation of lower classes (so called "voto de cabresto"), smear campaigns and the like.
Oh what I would give for Xcode on Windows.
I develop crossplatform apps using Flutter, and I am 99% of my time using Android Studio on Windows, and if I want to publish on iOS I have to use a Mac just to sign my app.. Nothing else pretty much, since it is all one codebase for 2 platforms.

It does become pretty irritating trying to adapt to these "closed" platforms, especially when I fail to see how benefical is a move like that for consumers, except for monetary purposes for Apple.

I want Apple to convince devs to use Macs for development purely because of the features and experience it provides, not because it closes it's platform and says "You cannot develop for iOS unless you cash out $2000 for our laptop".
I am not conflating them. “Several of them are probably more promising than ITER”. Keyword: probably. There are no magic bullets. Would I be happier to see an optimized stellarator with a 10 meter major radius? Yes. A lot of the physics goals of ITER will apply to all MCF reactor designs. If you’re touting the benefits of non-MCF fusion: vaporware. I think many designs should be funded and explored, but it’s not like people haven’t tried clever ways to put particles together before.
How many people do you employ, out of curiosity? And how has your experience been with labor compliance in your region?
> Mathematical truths are defined to be true

Perhaps a nitpick, but: axioms are defined to be true. Mathematics, roughly speaking, is the business of exploring the consequences of chosen sets of axioms. Sometimes published mathematical theorems turn out to be wrong.
I didn't mean compound literals, I do not really see how they change things here, I meant that there are a few cases where arrays don't decay to pointers, and supporting those requires compilers to make arrays a part of the type system. Example: given "int a[3];", how else would you compute (&a+1) ?
Interview with Thierry Volpiatto, Maintainer of Emacs Helm (2018)
Are you telling candidates in advance what type of code to expect or surprising them?

Do you know what I do when I see a problem for the first time that I don't immediately know the answer to? I Google it. Because A) it's faster B) many minds greater than mine might have already come up with an optimal solution that I'm unlikely to self-produce in 2 hours.

What if a developer hasn't been deep in debugging production code for a while? Those edge cases might not be top of mind.

Maybe they're doing documentation or planning or writing Jira tickets and remembering all the ways to nullcheck a JavaScript variable isn't their current life goal. Instead they might try running the code locally or write some tests for it or research to see what others have done in similar patterns.

Dreaming up magical solutions while under the stressful glare of people judging your life's work may sound reasonable to you because presumably it matches up to some internal signals you value in each other, but every workplace is different -- different codebases, different problems, edge cases prevalent in one may not be prevalent in another.

You're better off doing a traditional Q&A about their experience and a take home mini-project (or asking them about theirs). If they don't want to spend time on that, then and only them give them some timed test you feel is applicable.
The lack of cultural unity thing is a curtain to hide behind. There's no reason Europe can't have a powerful federal government, other than it would result in transfers from the "export based economies" to the others.
Schmidt has the typical perspective of someone who knows nothing about China.

For ease, I've singled out this one point:

> For example, Chinese telecoms infrastructure giant Huawei spends as much as $20bn (£15.6bn) on research and development - one of the highest budgets in the world.

Any member of Chinese society knows that budgets like this are announced to look impressive, and that the money itself goes through so many layers that siphon off 20% that when the project(s) are finally delivered, it was done on a shoestring and the deliverable looks like a rough approximation of what was in the scope. Just don't look under the hood.

Then there are all the other grand initiatives where the money is quietly put into the stock market and again the deliverable is a "driverless car" etc. that in reality doesn't work.

Obviously, there's a lot more nuance than this, but if I went around refuting all these "China experts", I'd have no time for anything else. The point is: don't believe the hype. Just because a lot of low-hanging tech fruit is highly visible and China has a lack of ethical and legal oversight does not mean the country is innovative.

The US I can't comment on.
I know. I work at the first MHD optimized stellarator :)

That doesn’t mean backing out of ITER 15 years ago would have been a good idea. It would be an even worse idea to back out of it now.
Shouldn't someone provide some evidence first that they were written by racists with racist intent?
Hey Dinakar, thanks for the feedback!

> Is there a free version

Yes, the plan is to give away the first 1GB of storage for free so that users can try out the product before making a commitment.

> unfortunate event of a shut down

My "shut down strategy" was the one of the first questions every prospective user I spoke to asked about, so I felt the need to clarify. I'll figure out a less intrusive way to get this information across. Thanks again for the comment. :)
A Collection of Imaginary Software
None of them are particularly promising. They may be better than ITER, but that's damning with faint praise.

Fusion is a technology that's being pursued because it was being pursued, not because it's particularly attractive from a practical point of view.
Does it interfere with your possibility to anonymously report someone?

Yes, people are afraid, they don't want to go to a Gulag like Solschenizyn.

No, people posting this are often not conservatives at all, they are non-conformists.
> Chrome destroyed them and I think it was mostly on technical merit

That most certainly had nothing to do with the large advertisement on the Google-owned most visited web page in the world and the way Google artificially limited their products on competing browser.

Please, look away regulators. Nothing to see here.

Edit: I have even forgotten to mention his they forced manufacturers to preinstall Chrome on every Android phones, an action for which they were fined 4.4 billions by the EU. Clearly the idea that Chrome won on technical merits need to die. Chrome market share was made through aggressive marketing and leveraging position in adjacent markets where Google is dominant.
That's a weak argument, it's like saying North Korea is ran by its people because it's called People's Republic of Korea and Congo was always democratic because it's called Democratic Republic of Congo etc...
Neither ITER, nor fusion in general, are our best shots for clean sustainable energy. They are at best very long shots, and at worst complete wastes of effort.
I think the terms used in Mathematics are a tad more precise than those in natural language e.g. 1 is fairly clear, "moral" is not as clear.

The reason Maths works is because it is based on intuitions (counting, space) that are presumably shadows of the physical world cast on the evolving brain via coarse perception. The effectiveness of Mathematics in Physics is probably not unreasonable at all.
You literally misunderstand fundamentally what I wrote. Unsafe workplaces would not be able to get insurance, therefore wouldn’t exist, hence very safe workplaces.

Again, my example is UL ratings of building materials.

Your response is over the top, and I am quite worried about you talking to me this way, it feels like a threat.
Maybe, but it's also been totally spineless for the last 30 years.
Who cares about a bunch of digital sensors stitched together. What's more interesting is the optical assembly: https://www.llnl.gov/news/world’s-largest-optical-lens-shipp...

Anybody got real technical information about that?

Edit found it: https://www.lsst.org/scientists/keynumbers
That obsession with plastic recycling is not right. Saving one plastic bottle on a 450gbp phone which is meant to be used for a couple years is nothing.

I mean recycling is good, but if it is a major selling point, bad for them.
Weinre made building apps using PhoneGap/Cordova just that tiny little bit less painful in the early days. Really great tool.
i don't even have to research this to know it is false. germany just doesn't make decisions on a whim like other countries
Zig has a LOT of good stuff going for it but one of my pet peeves is how arsey the linter gets about formatting. No tabs (They might begrudgingly fix that one), no multiline comment/string support (and before anyone tries to correct me on the strings front, you look at that syntax and tell me it isn't an intentional joke), you must use these specific line endings (That one was actually fixed in master recently iirc)

The syntax is also currently REALLY unstable. As in: The hello world has changed almost every major version. Hopefully that too will be squashed with 1.0

To be fair though, Zig is probably the lest egregious and most flexible of the modern "C killers". I can see it's really trying to innovate low level programming. I really like it's flexible malloc systems and support for dynamic linking at runtime. It's compile time code execution is excellent too.
The fact that they're actually trying to support obscure platforms like the z80 is a good indicator that they're staying true to C's "code anywhere" mantra. That's why I'm mostly focusing on linting issues of all things.
Yeah this could be titled “Ex-CEO of D-o-D incubated monopoly, that actively stifled innovation through products they later cancelled and anti-competitive search practices complains about lack of innovation”

Not saying that’s the whole picture but there’s certainly some “pot calling the kettle” going on here.

Edit: Perhaps a real issue would be looking at how big-tech lobbies government and its impact on innovation
You got downvoted for this question but it’s such a great question in this context because like the UNIX epoch, the answer is arbitrary :)

Incidentally, I guess the windows/NT epoch started in 1601.
Exploiting CSRF on JSON endpoints with Flash and redirects (2018)
For a long time, I resisted switching to Chrome just because of Firebug. IMO it was superior for quite a while. Eventually, Chrome got better, and I made the jump.

Nowadays, I'm back on Firefox.
Surface Duo review: Microsoft didn't make a phone. It made the future
I particularly like how it can predict hair styles. Not only how a barber would do dreads but also how they would color it and how they happened to brush their hair on a given day. Very impressive!
Here is my take:

All knowledge is ultimately based on assumptions, and those assumptions ultimately hang in thin air. We rely on our senses to observe the world around us, and we rely on our mental faculties to interpenetrate what we observe. But we have no way of knowing if our senses, and our mental faculties, can be trusted, if they are accurate to some objective reality.

It might very well be that what we take in from our surroundings and environment isn't an "objective reality", but an incredibly twisted and mangled version which is has more falsehoods, inaccuracies and errors, than any truths. To say that the sky is blue is an incredibly "human" observation, which relies on our eyes having divided the light spectrum into arbitrary ranges we call colors. There is no grounding to distinct colors, other than what our eyes and brain arbitrarily imposes to make sense of what it's taking in. It's a clever, but arbitrary, way to look at the light spectrum.

But we do the best with what we have, there is no point in wallowing in pity, we simply work with the tools we are given. Now, even if we cannot justify it, it does appear to us that murder is morally wrong. We are repulsed by it, we wish to avoid it, we want to minimize it, we label those who do it as being flawed and broken, and we have all sorts of theories and ideas about how murder doesn't fit in with how human life operates.

Even though I cannot point you to any objective anchoring as to why murder is wrong, I can neither point you to any objective anchoring for anything. I cannot prove that what I see, touch, feel, smell and hear is really there, nor that what I am observing is in any way accurate. Even the most basic mathematical facts are suspect, if you can't verify the mental faculties behind it.

So why reject the moral facts I cannot verify, but accept the observable, evidential, mathematical facts that I cannot verify? Who gets to choose which ones gets a pass? I think murder is wrong for the same reason I think the sky is blue: because that's what my senses, body and mind tells me.
With no contact and lots of space, Getaway’s tiny houses are ahead of their time
gRPC Back End Playground
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I think GP is arguing that public companies, which are often blamed for "shortcomings of capitalism" are in fact not capitalistic at all. "Collective ownership of means of production" was postulated by Karl Marx as one of the pillars of communism.

Publicly traded companies allow shareholders to limit their risk - when things start to go wrong you sell your shares to a bigger fool, and it's not your problem anymore. Also, as shareholders are not personally responsible for wrongdoings of their companies it also limits the risk to the buyer.

In short: publicly traded companies are enablers for moral hazard that we constantly observe in financial markets.
> Brexit risks the whole thing collapsing

I know it's off topic, but could you clarify how you could see this happening?

I mean the only issue I can see is that the EU will end up with multiple, smaller finanical centres, hindering scale. But other than that, I can't see the problems of EU with respect to Brexit.

Now, the euro without transfers, that's a bloody problem, but that's been a real problem for 20 years, and no amount of ECB bandaging will fix it.
> But they do, many working class communities communicate distrust of middle class white collars

Most white collars are working class. Working class are people who work for a wage or salary.
Even then, some of the timing accuracy required still mystifies me. E.g., if I got it right then, for the RNG manipulation to work, you have to press "A" on the menu screen in one particular frame, counted from when the console was switched on. At the standard PAL framerate of 50 FPS, this gives you 1/50th of a second to react, with no visual indicator that the frame you're looking for is about to come up. I have no idea how to even begin training this.
Right off the bat it fails epicly in its comparison of Gandhi to Epstein as bastions of good and evil, as apparently the author is completely unaware of Gandhi’s sleeping with children? What a horrible choice for the side of good, given Epstein’s horrendous misdeeds.

What a horribly written horribly reasoned article. Very frustrating to read.

> But if Reality is itself a very general form of consciousness, and my consciousness is a specific form of that general form of consciousness, it follows that Reality is present within my consciousness.

No it doesn’t follow. You are fully capable of experiencing things that are not reality. That’s just poor reasoning.

I work hard to keep my tone online positive but this article is simply religion presenting itself as science, and it enrages me.
> Who's going to pay for me to upsize my apartment so I can make a home office?

Your company. Offices are pretty expensive, if the company goes remote they have extra capital to distribute during yearly review or whatever policy your company has.
> I was on reddit (back when the mobile website worked)

Those were the days, i.reddit.com is still sort of ok on mobile devices
Wikipedia is supposed to be a reliably sourced and verifiable encyclopedia, not a blog or advertisement, not full of random non-notable or unverifiable information. In other words, it is supposed to be useful.
It makes the government officials and a certain percentage of ignorant public see how much busywork is done to stop the terrorists and feel good about it.

I bet a lot of malevolent transactions do slip through the cracks because of how laughably naive this system is.
If the only companies that can realistically harness the value of academic research are the top 5 tech companies, then Schmidt is essentially advocating billions of dollars of government-backed R&D for them. Would Siri, Alexa, or Google Assistant be where they are today without prior work? Who else has benefitted?

Maybe companies such as OpenAI are the answer to this problem?
Yes, this is where he finally lost me.
Maybe all these light dips we detect as planets transiting their stars are an elaborate "Hello!" in the form of retired Dyson spheres repurposed as shutters.
You are referring to the impacts of the Tax Reform Act of 1986 which removed save harbor provisions for companies employing engineers as contractors. It has nothing to do with CA.

In the 1960's we used to have a income tax that would tax 100% of your income if it were too high to act as a way to stop fat cats from taking all the company profits. The response was to provide them with perks and highly paid employee's with things like health insurance. Fast forward 30 years, we removed the cap and the benefits stuck. Fast foward another 20, and now the fat cats are getting bailed out while people are going homeless, losing pensions, losing 401k, losing everything. Fast foward another 10, and you now have people in the streets being radicalized by foreign socialist psyops shooting up tandom people while spraying "We can never loot as much as you stole" on monuments ready to throw the whole governmental system out the door because the economy crashed and they do not believe they have a future.

Bitchy emotional article about how the legal system is dealing with unprecidented employment fraud attracts bitchy emotional person who tries to phrase their writing in a way to make it sound legit like a cogent argument. Stop doing that. Joseph Stack already did it on this subject specifically. Get your facts straight before you post something bitchy and emotional please. Nobody wants to read that shit.
No, because that moral argument still matters. Just because it hadn’t been adhered to in a purist sense doesn’t mean we’ve all agreed to, for example, a centrally managed economy, which would be the extreme on the other end.

This California law is by my estimation very invasive and bad. I come to that conclusion in part based on how much it violates the moral right to engage in commerce.
Nobody is going to be able to fix that hang unless they know the steps to reproduce. Can you record pulseaudio with rr and capture it happening? Then debugging it should be pretty easy.
it's a choice you made. There are some inherent physical laws and human behaviors that you can't 'guideline' it away
Do you plan to introduce family plans? Also, in the case of shared albums, who will bear the cost of storage?
The one at the bottom for the Dell? That is an older SVALT stand ... the one up with the Mac is just one of these arms, you can get cheaply on amazon...
System scale is a crucial component of a cost competitive energy system. I lay out the argument for this in the early part of my section - Airborne Wind Turbine Performance - of the released documentation.

A 100 kW system may prove useful to some niche, but I don't think can be competitive with the utility energy market at large, even if you give away the system for free.

At the larger scales, these electronics are not meaningful cost drivers at all.
iOS devs: fixing the could not mount developer tools error
"(...) consciousness pervades the universe and is a fundamental feature of it (...)". I'm not sure if it means much. It's like saying that spheres prevade universe. Great, now what? Is cat hunting little bird good or bad? Depends who you ask. Consciousness and forms of life in general are recursions where emergent memory and prediction qualifies it on the wide spectrum of sophistication. Natural selection creates unhappy "recursions" from the moment when one eats the other and discovers it gives great energy boost. Feeling pain/pleasure is emergent feature shaped by natural selection. But there is nothing fundamental about it that says good predictors must have it. Evaluating options on more global scale move you closer to more global rights/wrongs, that's all.
So what the improvements between C89 and C18 in regards to UB and security, for any ISO C compliant compiler?
The Unacknowledged Convergence of Open Source, Open Access, Open Science (2005)
I'm german and I often wait there too.

As long as I can remember thinking about this, I've seen it as habitual practice of self-control, i.e. practising self-control by not giving in to the urge to cross the street early - and automatically on top of that because it became a habit long ago.
To me, the question is what is actually "the type system" and what is "the allocation system" or whatever else aspect of implementing a compiler.

So determining the type of "&a" is not an issue, it's just one case in determining the type of a C expression (look up the object "a", is it an array? The type of the expression is a pointer to the array element type).

This is not a special case, at least not more special than how to determine the type of the expression "a", or "1".

No array type needed.
It is time to levy a one-time pandemic wealth tax on billionaires windfall gains
Yeah, there's no way the public should spend anything trying to save the house pictured in TFA. The owner who can afford that house can certainly afford to cut some trees. The trees weren't cut, so the house must not be very valuable to anyone.

https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-re...
How Microsoft Built Its Folding Android Phone
> Seriously, I feel the US has a big education problem, with part of it being cultural I think.

Could be true but it’s far less important than the brute fact that advanced study is a loser, monetarily. A very big loser. If you can get a doctorate you can get an MBA or a JD in less time and earn a lot more money. Less likely to damage your mental health, far less likely to end in failure and drop out, job market is either better or much, much better.