skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this a serious proposal for a new C language feature? Or is this just an experiment from someone's masters thesis or something? The paper is titled "Proposal for C2x", but this can't possibly be seriously considered. I have so many questions.

In section 1.1, the linearization it gives with goto statements is barely longer than the defer example. They claim defer is better just because of the proximity of the cleanup code? Why not just move the "resources acquired" code to a separate function? You wouldn't even need goto in that case, you could just nest if statements to do the cleanup.

The spec claims defer allocates memory. Why? As far as I know __attribute__((cleanup(fn))) doesn't allocate memory. This defer may exhaust memory, and if so, it will immediately terminate execution of the enclosing guard block with a panic() and DEFER_ENOMEM. So like an exception?

This says exit() or panic() will clean up all guarded blocks across all function calls of the same thread. So basically stack unwinding? Apparently you can recover somewhere with a call to recover()? This is just exceptions by another name. This stack unwinding can't possibly interoperate with existing code that expects error return values.

This claims it's robust because any deferred statement is guaranteed to be executed eventually, and it describes in great detail how it runs defer statements on signals. What if I write an infinite loop, or get a SIGKILL, or yank the power cord? Obviously deferred statements won't be executed.

This says defer is implemented with longjmp. Isn't setjmp/longjmp way too slow for exception handling? C++ compilers haven't done exceptions that way for decades. What happens if I longjmp or goto past a defer statement? This says it just doesn't invoke the defer mechanism and may result in memory leaks or other damage. Does that mean it's undefined behaviour? C++ won't compile a goto past constructors for good reason.

All POSIX error and signal codes have an equivalent prefixed with DEFER_, e.g. DEFER_ENOMEM, DEFER_HUP. This is just in case the system doesn't already have ENOMEM? Doesn't the standard already require that ENOMEM exist? If not, why not just make this feature require that ENOMEM exist? Why depend so much on errno for new core language features when it's basically an ugly artifact of ancient C library functions?

> If C will be extended with lamdas (hopefully in a nearer future)

I wouldn't hold my breath.
Infrastructure gets more expensive as density lowers. Most of the US (and France, for example) built after the 1960s decided to build stupid detached single family houses.

There is no incentive to upzone there given that homeowners who bought for cheap want their property values to go up, with no downsides for them (thanks prop 13)
SF prices may have raised. We had a 48 node cluster in AWS, which wasn’t cheap obviously and our license was also seven figures a year. And we got a good deal from Snowflake because we were an early large customer. One big advantage for us was that we could auto scale snowflake based on our load to save more money.
> most users are going to interact with the warehouses via object storage for import and export of data.

No, most are going to be using SQL IDE's to query and export data.
> A substantial fraction of "serious" OSS is now developed by paid, fulltime contributors paid by big vendors

I disagree.
Spectre + Roku + Pi-hole is a really nice experience
I once thought about making a script that automated git actions which would show you as active, but not actually do anything. Turns out theres too much real work to do to make it!
Multi Agent Flock RL with Shared Experience
Contact me using my temple dot edu address - it's on my website. Hacker News doesn't appear to have a messaging feature.
I used to do ivr software. There really is that many people calling in. At least, ten years ago there were, I’m sure there’s been some shift but I don’t think it’s nefarious
Which is presumably why the exit package is being offered, to solve this problem.
Isn't price competition good?

Having a lower price than a competitor is not always the same thing as price competition. Ie: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predatory_pricing
The problem with Matrix is their focus on Electron-based client. Official native client would have been better .
I think everyone would have to admit that homeschooling can produce healthy well functioning adults, there are plenty of examples to point to. I think you'd also have to admit that it can produce antisocial weirdos.
Sony does this big time.
> going to be pretty easy to port between Redshift, BigQuery, Snowflake, or whatever comes next.

This isn't even remotely true. Each has unique SQL syntax, and once you have few hundred or thousand queries written using vendor-specific SQL (be it date functions or JSON), it is non-trivial to migrate.
I also find schools a good place to meet different people. However ask your parents if your teachers (even if not pro-DDR) were able to speak freely? Would you like to have teachers who speak through a mental/political filter?
No, it means you are saying that the solution depends on changing people's minds rather than tinkering with the tax code for no benefit.
I wouldn't be surprised if their 'incomplete' coverage were limited to areas within range of large metros. Even if the PR is around underserved areas, the money is in suburbs.
It comes from the Latin res. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_property#Historical_backg...
> As for funding religious schools, that's part of civil life.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

My tax dollars pay for a Church I am no part of is what was meant by Establishment.

This is not true in every civil society, but it has always literally been Rule #1 in this civil society.
It is a full 32 bit ISA though, even if the 68000 and 68010 cores had 16 bit buses. They're about twice as fast as a 286 at the same frequency.
That is a meta study, the example with 74 homeschoolers was just one of the studies. Next time don't just read until you find a line you can attack and instantly stop there. Here is a more comprehensive excerpt:

> Frost and Morris (1988) found in a study of 74 Illinois homeschoolers that, controlling for family background variables, homeschoolers scored above average in all subjects but math. Wartes, similarly, found that homeschoolers in Washington state scored well above average in reading and vocabulary but slightly below average in math computation (Ray & Wartes, 1991). The HSLDA-sponsored studies also found that homeschoolers do comparatively less well in math than in language-based subjects (Ray, 1997a; Rudner, 1999). Likewise Belfield (2005), in a well-designed study that controlled for family background variables, found that homeschooled seniors taking the SAT scored slightly better than predicted on the SAT verbal and slightly worse on the SAT math. A similar study of ACT mathematics scores likewise found a slight mathematical disadvantage for homeschoolers (Quaqish, 2007). Given this persistent corroboration across two decades we might conclude, tentatively, that there may be at least a modest homeschooling effect on academic achievement—namely that it tends to improve students’ verbal and weaken their math capacities.

Most notably, look at the last sentence:

> Given this persistent corroboration across two decades we might conclude, tentatively, that there may be at least a modest homeschooling effect on academic achievement—namely that it tends to improve students’ verbal and weaken their math capacities.
All those other countries that have way better educational outcomes than the USA also have teacher's unions, and their teacher's unions are at least as strong.

If unions were really the fundamental problem it would be hard to explain why those other educational systems can be so much better than the USA's.
You’re not going to build tunnels under the bay for 1m$ a mile with a train on it.
> As I’m sure you can infer from my username

For the record, I've seen you reference your username before and I still don't entirely understand what the word means, though I did look it up at one point.
Developers didn't build stupid detached homes because no one would want them, they built them because that's what most people prefer. People don't prefer dealing with noisy neighbors, etc. Almost anywhere where there is land available and it's affordable you'll have a large group of people who prefer single family homes --even favelas have single family homes. As societies become more affluent they want more independence --and your own house is part of that.
He wouldn't own anything to his name. He would put his assets in an offshore trust.
https://www.educationdive.com/news/several-baltimore-schools...
This is what's becoming worrisome to me. It would be horrible to lose so many of our elders. But is that as bad as wrecking our young? Someone from LessWrong needs to step in and run the cold-hearted utilitarian calculus on this.
It cost less since they are not paying for the hold duration if they call you back when an agent is available.

I often wait 2-3 hours for a 5-10 minutes call.
Did your friend search for Autocad, and are you linked by any social networks? I'm suggesting your experience may be related to other potential avenues of data convergence, much as it may have appeared on the surface exposed to your awareness to have been directly sourced from this email.
> What do they want to sell the people here?

Know all of those small tract homes built during the 50s, 60s, and 70s that few want to live in now? That's a good approximation of what I think they're selling.

The postwar housing was designed to handle the baby boom. It was cheap to build due to uniformity and it largely succeeded at its purpose. We had a huge middle class as a result.

You can have speed, volume, or quality, just pick two. In the postwar period we picked speed and volume. It wasn't a bad choice given the circumstances.
Well, those components are too small. I'd probably like to go full-sears and just have to attach the front and back half of my house together on a foundation.
You have it almost completely backwards when it comes to the relationship between density and cost. For a fixed number of residents, nothing is more expensive per capita in terms of long-term infrastructure costs than low-density (especially single-family residential) housing[0]. The skyrocketing you speak of may occur when you look at the cost per area, but certainly not per capita, and definitely not per dollar of property tax revenue.

Basically the staggering long-term costs of maintaining suburbia infrastructure are so much larger than the property tax revenue from suburbia residents that many cities are doomed to either abandon the efforts to fend off the slow infrastructure decay, or go bankrupt.

[0] https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
That's indeed mathematically very exciting and reason enough to study IG.

But does IG allow us to reason about Neural Nets in new ways that could move the needle on open questions about information representation in ANNs or, even better, BNNs?
There's more to communities than Facebook goat groups
I think that attitude is completely bizarre.
I vote both hands for AP programs in poor schools.

I'm just saying that if we can only retain one of "special needs" and "advanced", I'd pick advanced in a blink of an eye due to the reason explained above.

Disclaimer: my kids don't qualify for either.
Fifty shades of QE; Research in the bubble
And then watch Comcast or the gym send your bill to collections.
Well thats assuming the quality is good. News is so biased I don't feel like paying for it. Usually they tell you what they want me to think. The only publication I like (that has no noticible bias) is al jazeera which is free. The WP sucks and it's the only one off the top of my head that asked me to pay.
It’s U shaped. NYC could build a new highway by knocking down skyscrapers or building massive tunnels like the big dig etc. At the other end, a new highway in Iowa needs to be extremely long to connect to anything useful. The sweet spot depends on a host of factors and the Bay Area ticks off several of them by having the ocean, bay, and parks, forcing a long narrow strip of development. Add in earthquakes and it’s really a terrible location for building infrastructure even ignoring NIMBY issues.
If you’ve read my posts here I am not a bleeding heart lefty, but hear me out.

Ban private schools (or pay-for schools) while also banning teachers unions. It sounds horrible and is probably unconstitutional. But I believe it would make for a better future.

If the affluent were forced to use the public school system you could be damn sure it would have unbelievable funding either through taxes or really successful brownie sales. By forcing society to learn together we cut the bullshit and actually create this so called “equity” by ensuring schools are truly funded and more importantly looked after by the people that care. And either see the value in or have the time/resources to see to it the schools are successful.

By banning the unions we remove the politics from it all. Teachers become well paid on a performance basis. Independent, local, citizen committees are in charge of evaluating curriculum and ensuring teachers are not incompetent or activists.

In essence, largely remove government oversight from schools. Let the community make the curriculum. Everyone has to use it.

There’s probably a million problems here. But I think it’s a massive improvement over the current situation.

Palo Alto, one of the wealthiest (and liberal!) places in America is shutting its high school down because everyone is rich enough to send their kids to private school. Insane.
Along with the comments about ULIDs and KSUIDs, some people might want to check out C4 IDs. Webpage at http://www.cccc.io/, which has a link to its Github page.
KSUIDs are slightly longer, base62 encoded, have a different epoch, have second precision in the timestamp component, have a different length random component, and omitted the bizarre attempt in the ULID spec to enforce strict monotonicity.

Functionally, they're similar, but I think a lot more work has gone into KSUIDs in terms of usability and ensuring they solve the intended problem. The only advantage ULIDs have is they are the same length as vanilla UUIDs, if such is useful to you.
I came across exactly this the other day: https://github.com/aranair/go-kiasu
> without beating kids

There's a pretty wide spectrum between: "Can't discipline kids that act up" and "Beating kids"

Kids need boundaries. It's literally what they spend a good portion of their time testing for. If you aren't allowed to provide boundaries for them, then they will flounder, which turns into a self-reinforcing cycle.
Everyone is promoting adding more density but I see no posts discussing quality of life with those changes. Adding a 20 story building to a neighborhood of historically single family homes impacts infrastructure, traffic, noise, etc. Adding to the fact that there are people that don't want to live in attached homes, apartments, etc.
Building your own online service is more expensive than just using the phone line that they already have.
I actually understood that -- I just wanted to point out that large tread pattern is not just a "cool look".
The Photos icon on macOS Catalina and iOS (I haven't taken a look at the Big Sur redesign yet) looks like literal candy—it's a great example of this phenomenon, in my opinion. I love how the colors blend together and overlap with partial transparency.
Both names are terrible!
They need to be made out of something unless you like a very open plan. In the past they might have been made from wattle and daub, or you could use studs, paper, whatever you want since they're not structural.
That's not my experience. Many private schools are proud of their discipline and ability to squeeze all the sweat out of kids.
Evolution of Covid-19 cases in selected countries: past the herd immunity peak?
While I think the gp post is a bit fanciful, edge cities are a great way to handle the high land costs associated with density.
And here's an archive of what appears to be all issues of "Forth Dimensions": http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/fd/contents.html

Enjoy.
I really appreciate the time and thought you've put into this.

There's so many consideration. If I want my kids to get STEM degrees and go to one of the FAANGs, they may eventually need to learn how to deal with

> the homework, the cramming, the well-roundedness, the being-forced-to-do-shit

Perhaps that's not exactly what's best for them, but it's a pretty good outcome for me so I don't know how else to look at it.
It’s an arms race, and Google is providing technology to both sides of the arms race. Seems like a good business strategy! Eventually, when Google is providing voice assistants to both the consumer and the business, the bots can simply deal with each other directly, and skip voice entirely.
4 kW continuous is 48 kWh per day. 4 kW * 24 h.
(Timescale person) You can backfill or update data that lives in a compressed chunk by first decompressing that chunk. [0]

But we are working on making it easier. :-)

[0] https://docs.timescale.com/latest/using-timescaledb/compress...
720p is High Definition by definition.
Now imagine how much worse it would be if some company decided to "help" infosec by giving away a free t-shirt for filing 4 "security reports" whether or not they were valid.
White supremacists often claim not to be for white supremacy, because it's not a good "look" in the mainstream.

But the Proud Boys absolutely are at the very least adjacent. With a decent dash of misogyny thrown in.

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/grou...
TransPerfect is crowdsourcing image/video research for Bluebonnet
Have no idea as it was years ago. Probably one of the usual suspects: a cable or phone monopoly.
Just press 0 until an operator comes. That's what I do. You don't need AI for that. This is too high tech for no reason. Might as well use an AI on your toothbrush that tells you where you need to brush more with an accelerometer and camera in the brush. Overkill.
Tech users tend to have an issue putting tech into everything. They will insist/injecting on strange changes like moving with a drone for short distances instead of vehicles or other changes that have little benefit.
The Ethics of Consent
Worth a read just for the clearest description of differential geometry I’ve ever read (first ten pages). I don’t think you could learn it from the intro, but you can learn why you might want to know it if you have a “basic mathematical sophistication”.

The only thing I remember about Information Geometry in a practical sense was it was related to EM (Expectation-Maximization) algorithms in some way. Most of the associated information geometry research was done in Japan, so logical that Sony would have an interest.

Information geometry sounds like a “theory of everything” sort of abstraction that either should lead to breakthrough insights, or just be a forensic sort of postgame wrap-up explaining what’s really going on in that most practical yet ugliest of all mathematical disciplines, statistics. What I remember seemed to me to be a lot of “Adventures in Dualities”, so your mind has to be comfortable with that.

Then again, who needs recreational drugs when you have pure math? Wonder if DEA has considered that motto.
Mouth Dreams
It really was not what was meant. Religious expression was more prevalent at the time that was ratified, if anything (such as prayers lead by officials).

In this case, legislative bodies would be establishing a funding solution. No particular choice about religion (or lack thereof!) is made there. That would be up to household responsible for the relevant children.
You can already buy a double wide mobile home and attach the halves together if that's what you want.
> If we're talking about biology in general, though, I think we have made enormous progress in the last 10-20 years.

And, funnily enough, this corresponds with PCR becoming commonplace.

I would argue that the lack of progress in biology was almost solely due to the fact that before PCR biology was effectively "alchemy" and that after PCR biology became "science". PCR and sequencing blew away entire subfields of biology as being testably untrue.

I still remember high school biology and feeling that whole tranches of it were complete bullshit. It wasn't until I had a molecular biology course (fairly new in 1986!) that I went "Oh, okay, biology can have a solid scientific basis and actually make sense."
This is unfortunate. An employer deciding what projects you can contribute to on your own time and with your own resources seems like an overstep to me.
Association of German National Jews
Of course only time will tell. I'm simply predicting that it was a wise move.

Also the company is not claiming to be apolitical. They are saying they don't want employees individually engaging in politics while acting on behalf of the company.

I'm sure coinbase has plenty of political objectives. On some level business is politics. Especially a crypto company, which makes it even more important not to have your employees politically organizing in a way that could appear represents your companies politics with out any executive oversight.
>input elements such as calendar controls are rewritten

Popular browsers such as Firefox and Safari don't have native date controls: https://caniuse.com/input-datetime
Dissenting opinion: Element UI/Matrix UX is not good. It's as unwieldy/hostile/frustrating as IRC, maybe more.

Gitter, on the other hand, is fairly straightforward. The biggest issues with it are that they chose to go with the "has a GitLab/GitHub/Twitter account and must use it to sign in" antipattern as the barrier to entry, and that the web client's layout at half-width 1080p is unfathomably bad. Like, clearly-no-one-has-ever-tested-their-responsive-layout-rules bad.
There is a cost per minute while you are on hold. They definitely don’t want you on hold unless you are calling to cancel.
What a Suprise.

An another "American" Anti White corporation that supports Diversity+Quotas and Censorship

Is against opensource , Free speech and Merit

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* https://digitaloceancode.com/diversity-is-not-only-about-eth...

* https://www.digitalocean.com/careers/

* https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Photos/DigitalOcean-Office-Phot...

- Hatch Storytellers' Series: Diversity & Entrepreneurship Summit: DigitalOcean + 500 Startups

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXxuAH2wHIg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uf6lfZWWDG8
It was recently set to 0 in the US yes, but many other countries have the same 0% (for example, Canada, the UK, Australia, Sweden and others have all had a 0% requirement for many years).
What being an Army Ranger taught me about being a Project Manager
I’d argue getting a shirt for some PRs is better than the status quo, where you get nothing for a PR.

Which just goes to show how bad the status quo is.
1) What is Snowflake?

2) What is their stack?
Yeah, but if I had the kind of money he had, I would build a money bin on a hill and put 3 cubic acres of cash in it. Offshore accounts are just boring in comparison.
So this is like Bootstrap, for buildings.

Neat. Has its place.

Hope it's not my neighborhood.
Conspiracy theory time: Microsoft intentionally leaked this code so they can gear up to fully open sourcing all of Windows and crowd sourcing its development and bug fixing.

It makes sense, I don't think MS cares about Windows anymore in the azure/O365 era.