skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Store sinking for example, which is unsafe unless the loop is guaranteed to terminate.

C does not have this guarantee (at least not in all cases). Also rust is compiled with the llvm backend, so my understanding is that in practice rust assumes that loops terminate. See:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28728

There are llvm directives that can be added to prevent the optimization, but they are rejected by the rust maintainers exactly because they would cause performance regressions.
> something must be driving this phenomenon

I’m going to go with a repeated exposure to propaganda designed to convince people that the election “WAS RIGGED” and sow distrust in our system of government. The left certainly has some questionable positions, but the “stop the steal” movement is not rooted in fact.
I'd like to see the evidence of how violent actions by pro-DNC parties like BLM/antifa which occurred after these words are any less tied to them than the actions that happened after Trump's words. For empirical data's sake.
If you or a family member depend on medicines which require refrigeration or devices which need recharging, it may be wise to invest in backup power systems. This can mean anything from a big deep-cycle battery that can run a fridge for 12 hours, to small solar panels that can recharge phones and laptops, to multi-kilowatt whole-home generators.

Helpful site I’ve used to price out solar systems:

https://www.mobile-solarpower.com/

These systems are also useful in natural disaster scenarios.
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Perhaps there's a middle way, something I've been experimenting with myself personally when it comes to digital devices: A digital Sabbath. Don't call it that of course, since it has religious connotation, but instead just... Turn Twitter off 1 day a week. Doesn't even have to be the weekend. Just close up shop on Tuesdays, give everyone a break.

We long ago learned that you can't be 'on' 24/7, yet we let ourselves fall into it with digital media/social networks.
I think it could require government action: I could argue that it was government inaction in allowing a monopoly/oligopoly over the conduits of free speech that is now depriving me of my rights.
These are 4 different companies that compete with each other (Google Cloud vs. AWS and Facebook vs. Twitter, also although you didn't list it Apple vs. Google) in the spaces relevant to this conversation (cloud services, social media, and phone apps).

One can always list all the players in an industry and call that set "a monopoly and should be broken up". Or we can just take this for what it is, which is that some entity is so toxic that none of these companies (which compete with each other otherwise) want to touch it.
Why do I see this claim that private companies refusing Parler service somehow has "silenced Conservative voices"? It's pretty facile on the face of it. No conservatives have been banned from social media for being conservative...
0. Have a good sized, trusted, reachable community/social group. Regardless of whether it's a short term or long term disaster, this is always useful and would become essential in the long term case.

1. Be prepared to leave if it's a true collapse.

2. Otherwise, prepare like you would for any other short-term disaster.

a. Water purification/filtration system

b. Some water to last a few weeks, beyond that use (a)

c. 3-6 months of food stuffs (canned and dried goods)

d. Some method of cooking said food stuffs for up to a month (beyond that you're dealing with a more complete collapse and there's little to do short of having your own small scale farm)

e. Some method of charging/running electronics without a grid (gas generator, solar panels, large batteries)

f. Some method of temporary heating (cooling is irrelevant, open the windows, but in the winter further north you need heat)

g. Stay healthy and fit, not crazy gym rat fit, but if you can't walk 5 miles at a leisurely pace in 2 hours, you're not close to healthy or fit.

h. Keep vehicles fueled (no less than half a tank) and a gas can topped off (use this periodically, fuel spoils)

i. Alternate mode of transportation (bicycle)

j. Basic tools for maintaining all or most of the equipment needed above

k. Have medications stored and ready to last at least a few weeks, longer for more critical conditions (my high cholesterol can be left untreated for extended periods, someone's thyroid or heart condition cannot)

3. If you want to prepare for a total collapse and don't want to leave the country acquire several acres of wooded land with a good sized garden plot and plant stuff. Have a fireplace/wood burning stove for winter heating, possibly for cooking. Look into other techniques of sustainable living. Probably also weapons. Know your neighbors and develop associations that can help post-collapse, because going solo is not going to be much fun.
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This [0] article on prepping got some decent discussion [1] recently. For something a little more "out there" perhaps check out JWR and his books [2].

[0]: https://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/prep/
[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25060418
[2]: https://survivalblog.com/
I agree 100%. The mega-tech corporations enjoy legal protection as a platform vs a publisher. They are clearly taking an opinionated stance re content moderation and should lose their legal protections as a platform and become liable for content like a traditional publisher.
It seems more correct than ever, no?
I've heard of some individuals giving a plain-text ledger to their tax preparer. (Keeping a ledger does not necessarily mean tracking every personal expense.)
This is how Zuckerberg's dream of connecting the entire population of the world comes to an end. Countries that don't want foreign influence (of both good and bad varieties) injected directly through their citizens eyeballs will ban social media first. Then a "nextdoor" style social media company will appear and allow individual countries to control how their social media is used. That or a Docker image with a Generic Social Media App can be bought and loaded onto a regional datacenter controlled by said country, because "cloud" will get a well justified bad label of being associated with foreign influence.

Does a multi-country-specific social media company already exist? In any case, the 2020's will be an interesting decade for this space.
Claiming 75 million people are terrorists without evidence is a bold move.
Falsely and knowingly doesn't enter into it. I've never seen a more fraudulent election in my life and I used to monitor elections in Africa for a living. Seriously, this was a steal that would make Robert Mugabe proud.
The article has a few technical mistakes in it (I've found most publications do that when it comes to a technical subject I'm familiar with...), but in short Handshake is an alternative decentralized DNS root hosted on a blockchain. It aims to replace Certificate Authorities as the root of trust by pinning TLSA keys directly on the blockchain instead of relying on trusted parties for verfication.
He provides some cursory anecdotal evidence to that effect in the article, at least. My only addition is observing the nature of the platform itself as also making it an unlikely venue for that activity. But people have used platforms for entirely unsuitable purposes before...
I also wonder if there is better reporting of the data, so searches are not necessary. For example, I can read my local news online, and get the appropriate daily numbers for both the country and my county.
I prefer the current option to hit the '-' to collapse threads when I'm done with them and not having any more click/touch targets on screen. It seems like the collapsing is remembered while logged in across devices and sessions.
This looks good - seems to be hammered currently?

https://app.amplication.com/ckjuaxw2518112510s6qfb0xi8q shows {"statusCode":500,"message":"Internal server error"} for code download, and has been waiting for a sandbox environment for a while.

But I'll be back to try it again in a few days :)
This seems fair.

> the US absolutely does not have a functioning legislative branch

I'm more concerned by this than anything else. In effect this results in calcified government, which can neither regulate tech companies (or anything) effectively, or serve as a check on executive power. People need to start moving to Wyoming and Alaska, yeah the weather sucks.....but we need to redefine 'civic duty'.
That’s possibly true. It doesn’t follow that all illegal activity is just though.
But will anyone really miss him?
Quit your job. You don't want to feel numb? Stop going to a place where you have to in order to slog through the day.
> I feel like we've all been a bit brainwashed by the government in our notion that "free speech" must have limits

Convince me. I have a side project that's intended to foster free speech, but I disallow advocating harm toward identifiable humans, except through process of law. Should this limit really be removed?
I try to keep my process down to a minimum in general, otherwise I won't follow it, which defeats the purpose of it in the first place.

To that end, I:

Take notes in a shared Google Doc with the person that I'm meeting with. This creates less room for miscommunication, and creates a space where we can both leave async notes or topics for the next 1:1. This is largely the extend of the process I follow - I don't prescribe how verbose I am, the structure, etc. I just make sure the important stuff is written in that document.

I (personally) take notes in the moment in part to stay focused on the conversation and ensure that I'm communicating clearly. I don't pore over my notes after I've taken them, but find that the act of writing them helps me remember and internalize information that's been shared.

Beyond that, what _doesn't_ work, in my opinion, is adding a process-heavy workflow like creating an Issue/PR/Doc for every conversation, or doing anything that's not write it and forget it. Every time I have tried doing something more structured, it's resulted in the process not being followed.

I hope that's helpful, and happy to answer any more questions!
Republicans did have a plan: Obamacare is essentially the conservative-lite version of healthcare. Take a look at some of the differences between obamacare and a Heritage Foundation conservative dream plan: https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/12/the-aca-v-the-h...

While examining the important differences between the plans in the chart towards the middle of the page, it is important to remember that this is the difference democrats bring to the table in terms of actual lived experiences for working people. The table highlights wonky specifics and continuations of the current system that all look the same in the wash. For working Americans, it is very difficult to see any substantial difference between the two parties. However, there are very large culture differences between the two which conveniently keeps the working class divided.
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I'm unsure if you think that I'm supposed to disagree with you. I really don't. YC is incredibly toxic. I let the scales fall off my eyes on that one. When I first graduated university and started reading hacker news, I had a dream to build a business with YC. I no longer have any interest in doing business with them (would rather bootstrap myself), and only remain on here because of the interesting tech articles.

VC as it is today is absolutely toxic.
> but your comments smell like you just want to hate on Linus.

> No, you are hyper-focusing on that strawman

Others I've talked to have hyper-focused on that strawman. It isn't Linus I'm necessarily mad at, its his legion of fanboys who make crappy arguments based off of Linus's words.

Its not just the AVX512 example: people copy/paste his opinion on C++, Geekbench, and a whole slew of other issues constantly. Linus's arguments become memes throughout Reddit and are echo'd without analysis.

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But that's what happens when you put an "Expert" on a pedestal. People take their words, meme them out into new arguments, and then they don't necessarily apply anymore in the new situations.

That's my experience with "experts". The expert themselves are real, but the words they say can become warped through discussion to the point where they're meaningless.
Greenwald isn't doing mental gymnastics, this is just where he's laid his eggs now.

He is full in-bed with this crowd, constantly spreading FUD about criticism of Trump, etc.
Here’s Swartz detailing how Reddit was rewritten in his own Python framework a scant six months after launch: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit
> Letting the compiler assume that a "switch" without a default will never go there is a great optimization too. Why not put that in the standard?

that's actually the case already. A missing default is UB if the switch condition does not match any of the cases. And C compilers already optimize accordingly.
Prosecutions aren't something that should be done by mob demand. In the case of Breona Taylor the police were returning fire. You can question whether they should have served that warrant, but you will never in a million years convict someone of murder when they were returning fire.
I think this makes the third official attempt. I have high visibility into the process, and I think it's likely this one will stick. It'll likely take 2 releases (as Ian stated) to get it done.
"fighting" is often used in a political context, we have people on both sides of congress saying it publicly as recently as 2020. This is constitutionally-protected political speech.

Your case would be much stronger had Trump not explicitly said people should go "peacefully".
You can't get an OnlyFans app in Google or Apple's app stores either, much as I'm sure the company in question would like the exposure of having one, because much of that website's user generated content also falls foul of Google and Apple's content policies. I don't understand what appears to be a commonly held view that it was fine for the appstore duopoly to deem content unsuitable for their store until the content in question was calls to hang the vice president and shitposts about Jews.
They don't have to point to the U.S., they've been doing this for a while now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25711941
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Misinformation also destroys curious conversation.
Likely not at all for Apple.
They made a movie about it : Virus[1] on Amazon Prime.

Unfortunately due to flashbacks, which introduce non-linearity, it may be difficult for those who are not native speakers to follow through the movie. The problem is no obvious visual highlighting indicating that a scene was a flashback (like going black and white). Otherwise a really solid watch.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8941440/
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A sad week for the nsfw art community.
The provider I use is https://voip.ms

The UI takes some getting used to but the service is cheap and works great. Similar to how I did it, you'd need an ATA box to provide analog service to the phone, and it would talk to your provider over SIP/RTP.

Another option would be a self-hosted PBX box. Asterisk [1] is the tried and true open-source option, but it does have some sharp edges. 3CX [2] is another option, but it's proprietary and has some limitations.

Either way, you would need a provider to give you the 'SIP Trunk' (phone number etc). I think Twilio [3] is the best option for this, but I've been using a hosted service for a while so I don't have much recent experience with this and can't vouch for costs/functionality.

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[1] https://www.asterisk.org/

[2] https://www.3cx.com/free-pbx-edition/

[3] https://www.twilio.com/sip-trunking
Thank you. You are not the first to mention Georgism to me, so I think there is something there and I am reading more and more about it, however I think I may be a bit too old for that and that might be even further ahead of my time.

Another person talked to me about some type of new type of currency system, even further ahead of crypto, but again, probably too far ahead of my time. Each generation has their cause.

I'm actually a strong proponent of real property rights. I think a legal assignment of responsibility over atoms is a good engineering solution to the problem of scarcity. My issue is just with "Intellectual Property" laws, which any 10 year old can quickly figure out is a complete oxymoron (You *cannot* have property laws and copyrights/patents—they are completely contradictory).

When I talk to some younger folks about bigger new economic ideas, I do recognize that those things could be much more important, but frankly I'm much better geared at this point to try and tackle the #ImaginaryProperty problem (having worked on this for ~ 2 decades), and hopefully that will make things a bit better for the next generation, and then I'm hopeful the next generation will work on fixing the biggest inequities that are facing them, as countless generations before me have done.
There's been quite a few early proposals and drafts. This is the first one that I'm aware of that Google have agreed to implement.
Ashley Babbitt, the woman who was shot by capitol police, was in a polyamorous relationship. So the notion that people are turning to these tactics to free themselves from a perceived left-wing cultural hegemony doesn’t seem likely.
It's interesting to me how frequently on HN I read about people using their formidable technical expertise to pursue projects with really impractical and anachronistic technology, whether it's this project, or retrofitting some really old laptop with scarcely any processing power, or whatever. I understand the impulse to reject practicality and not let "the market" or merely pragmatic considerations dictate one's creative/intellectual impulses. But there is also something perverse about devoting so much brainpower and energy to these kinds of niche projects, which seem almost like a sort of performance art or a thought experiment made real. I find it kind of appealing, but also kind of odd.
Then add political affiliation as a protected class and prosecute people who break actual laws.

My personal opinion is that this discussion about tech, politics, censorship, etc. is something that needs to happen, and maybe all parties were completely within their rights to act how they did.

There are a lot of people who don't see that as self-evident, and what they are hearing is "if you are pro-Trump, you deserve to be a social pariah." That is a real quick path to radicalization.

Society is based on a set of mutually agreed upon rules. If you convince enough people through your actions that the rules are "Heads I win, Tails you lose", then they'll decide not to play by those rules anymore. And then all hell breaks loose.
That would be the new world narrative yes.

However, the word comes from the Greek σαρκασμός (sarkasmós) which is taken from σαρκάζειν (sarkázein) meaning "to tear flesh, bite the lip in rage, sneer"[0]

Greece being in the EU, I think the EU has a pretty good claim to it!

Alternatively, the English version of the word is definitely coming from the UK. Admittedly, most of the dry wit in the world comes from the perfidious Albion, so they too might have a claim when it comes to common usage (and perfecting the art of it). I'm afraid the Ohio River Valley will be stuck with calling it XXL sparkling wit.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
I haven't heard this. Can you point to examples of this?
I'm a regular user of the CUA guideline's copy/paste shortcuts. Those shortcuts work in pretty much every MS OS from the early 1990s until recently. Linux has been a mess, but KDE has been pretty decent at enforcing global shortcuts.

The past 5 years though have been a nightmare, MS has really messed their UI up, and various applications/toolkits or whatever the problem no longer properly support the CUA guidelines which in the past were the one assured way of doing an operation cross applications and various OSs (windows+linux/kde).

Maybe its time to start going to a few developer conferences and giving talks about how useful system wide shortcuts that work across multiple OSs really are.
I think what they meant is that with decentralized DNS, it is possible to replace certificate authorities by using DNSSEC + DANE RFC6698[0], but I agree the way it's mentioned is confusing.

[0] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698
Why should I alpha test their bleeding edge versions if any issues I report result in a patch that I myself, and others like me, can't access for at least 12 months?

I'd be better off reporting a bug on GitHub to some FOSS fork, because at least when it's fixed I can benefit from it immediately. Likewise any contributions I made would be welcome (Qt Company are now closing patch contributions)

They're already doing the work of cherry picking and testing LTS. They're saving themselves a git merge and a git push because they falsely believe this will drive further sales.

Maybe it will, but they're still throwing the FOSS community using Qt 5 under the bus.

It would have been better to go back to GPL, and had just had timely FOSS releases, since a small business license for the library is only $500/year.
The AWU's actions only seem overly partisan to you because you are standing in your current vantage point of history. Once, the idea of a weekend and a 40hr work week were also seen as too partisan and idealistic. And yet, after decades of the victory being forgotten, the weekend has become a sacred social institution.

History doesn't care about your frustration. If you're a member or affiliate of AWU or CWA and you feel like your membership has been appropriated, contact your representative and start a formal appeal for redress. Otherwise, your place in this discussion isn't to have feelings, but to learn some facts and context.
I'm not sure what a future government can do.

Early on, some crucial things come to mind (Federal mask mandate, directing Federal funds to rapid testing and PPE), but, now, the wildfire rages everywhere. Making vaccines free, including for illegal immigrants (it's incredibly stupid and self-defeating to deny it to them, as some places have purportedly done), and directing a lot of resources toward distribution and education are the only obvious things to me.

Like in an RPG, some countries put points into skill trees that lets them handle this kind of problem very well. If the U.S. has a weakness, culturally, legally, economically, and geographically, a pandemic is it; it's just not the kind of thing it ever specced to handle.
If the primary use and purpose of highways was to commit crimes, and the people running them refused to do anything about it, then yes I'd question them or at least their management.

I think when speech starts to risk real harm to others, we need to start thinking carefully about it. It's not so clear cut, but I think that if someone threatens to harm someone with some degree of seriousness, society should be able to act before that harm occurs.

With Parler (and to be fair, Twitter), I see it creating more radicalization, which very directly creates a risk of harm to others as we saw play out on the 6th. And I don't think we should tolerate it, or we're stuck just treating symptoms rather than causes.
Also to consider/add to your list: certificates authorities.