skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once counted the number of 4 KiB blocks that has at least one relocation. I used Chrome as a sample. It turned out that almost all 4 KiB blocks have at least one relocation. They mutate everywhere.
Yeah this is like people telling me my sleep apnoea will get better if I lose weight. Nevermind that I was underweight when I was diagnosed because my sleep issues had ruined my appetite.

I get that it will help a lot of people whose issues are caused or worsened by weight but those people will have doctors who can tell them, you don't need to make assumptions about my lifestlye, and even if you do it seems weird to assume I wouldn't have already been told that by my sleep specialist
I’m pretty sure they are referencing an article published by a science journalism company owned by Northrop - it was discussing the possibility of alien biospheres. That is waaaay different than what op is suggesting. A bit clickbaity in the title- sure. Ad driven propaganda campaign? Lol no

https://now.northropgrumman.com/hiding-in-plain-sight-the-ar...
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If it comes that close it's a hostile irrespective of origin.
It's interesting that Windows CE of the time was offered as an SDK option. I actually wonder if the Katana SDK option had any multi-tasking capabilities? Presumably for communicating with the memory card maybe? I never had a Dreamcast but the memory card always seemed cool.

It's interesting to see how consoles have evolved, this era has no builtin storage, very little I/O to speak of (consoles in this generation did start getting internet connectivity), and I wonder just how much multitasking consoles in this generation (or before it) could do in terms of running anything other than the game in the background. The Xbox was a big leap towards current consoles in that it had a x86 CPU and built-in hard drive storage, the PS2 had a USB port and HDD. After this generation everyone had hard drive storage, functional USB ports/expandable storage, and things like background downloads.
That's a very interesting approach! Is this available publicly?
It is actually a decent justification for antinatalism. Even a low probability of such torture occurring is enough to undo all the good aspects of human life there might be
Tell that to the people on the plane that was shot down above Ukrainian airspace.
You may find the Mueller report enlightening, then. [1] The claims are hardly nonsense: it’s a bipartisan fact that Russians made a big effort to influence at least the 2016 election, and succeeded. [2] Rather than taking a hard stance against Russia because of this, Trump officials have been convicted related to their lies about the situation. [3] Alleging or assuming that trump knew about this and/or encouraged it is not a huge stretch given his history. [4]

You seem to be saying the entire thing is conspiracy nonsense, but the reality is that some very deeply concerning things happened. Things not just rumored about, but proven in a court of law [5], or investigated by even Republican committees [2]. Even if you assume that Trump did not specifically ask Russia to do anything (see [4] again), his response to the situation was extremely damning.

1. https://www.justice.gov/storage/report.pdf

2. https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

3. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associat...

4. Trump welcomes Russia to hack Hilary at 13:30 in this video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?413263-1/donald-trump-urges-ru...

5. https://apnews.com/article/ad355d2c983e4a7c85bc17e86d8c563f
This looks overtly malicious. There's really no excuse for people to be seeing over 30TB of writes to their drives if they only use their system for browsing the web or dev work.

My main NVMe drive's stats, after almost a year of ownership, after 3 OS installs (windows and linux, though I moved windows to a smaller less used sata ssd a few months ago) and frequently moving big files on/off network storage, installing games, and dev work for small personal projects etc:

Available Spare: 100%
Available Spare Threshold: 10%
Percentage Used: 0%
Data Units Read: 200,214,119 [102 TB]
Data Units Written: 27,304,663 [13.9 TB]
Host Read Commands: 616,298,176
Host Write Commands: 387,970,043
You’ll be hard pressed to find a media organization that actually bothered to investigate things instead of immediately claiming Trump’s allegations were false.

Personally, I think that’s the primary reason the riot happened.
Also, Jesus might show up and tell us he's satoshi nakamoto; this article is crap.
Are you sure about that? I signed up in early Feb with a Feb 25th date, and ended up getting my account just a few days later.

Edit: Oh, I see from their site that it's dependent on your location. In my location, it was quite quick.
Did you notice any performance hit after disabling swap? Even 16 Gb RAM doesn't seem enough ...
But in the current climate of big tech oligopoly, they don't have to take you to court to make your life miserable. They can simply ban you from their services and make your professional life much more difficult for the rest of your natural life.

When the pandemic hit, flights were cancelled, and refund requests were unanswered here in Canada, many were afraid of requesting a charge back through their credit card company. In a country with only two major airline companies and a size that is too vast to travel by land all the time, getting banned from one, if they choose to do it, would make one's life so much more difficult. Tech is not far from that in terms of oligopoly power.
I don't think YAML is perfect, but it is better than every one of these pretty formats.

Pretty JSON is inevitably for either logging or config files, and YAML is better at both of those.
In the West we have reasonably decent government. In other countries, not so much. You are a law-abiding citizen today, and tomorrow you are a criminal whose assets should be seized. Just ask my family that fled communism!
Same as covid response. Which is unbelievable.
You'd think that, but the effort does not always yield the expected results: https://www.npr.org/2019/04/03/709432311/texas-prosecutor-dr...
Or have some deep trauma with dogs.

But either way, one should not go around accusing people at random.
I'm sure there's some parts that can be scaled. I loved that Toptal handles the tough technical filter, as well as removing anyone who has been troublesome from their pool.

Looking at the link you just shared, she says there's a 45 min recruiter screen, 1 hr technical phone screen, 6 hr engineering onsite, 1 hr recruiter onsite.

That's four different parts that can be outsourced and specialized in. Codility probably replaces the technical phone screen. Onsite doesn't necessarily need to be in-house; both sides dread technical interviews.

I'd rather do a 15 hour interview with a middle man like Triplebyte who can forward my details to multiple startups, rather than do two 6 hour interviews with different companies with a 20% chance of getting accepted. As a hiring startup, we also dread doing those interviews, because we could be filtering out a perfectly good person and it's already hard enough to convince people to join a startup.
Hopefully the Vector Unit assembly didn't require more than 16,384 lines of code if they were using Excel 95.
Even the 70% backing number is too high. According to the findings of the NYAG:

"Because of Tether’s inability to conduct significant banking activity during this
time, it could not itself hold dollars sufficient to back the hundreds of millions of new tethers that
had entered the market. Until September 15, 2017, the only U.S. dollars held by Tether
ostensibly backing the approximately 442 million tethers in circulation was the approximately
$61 million on deposit at the Bank of Montreal."

https://ag.ny.gov/sites/default/files/2021.02.17_-_settlemen...
i'm only on discord now and i know none of the people i interact with on there in person so don't consider it a form of "keeping in touch"
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Ban is a male name, is it not? Perhaps this might be a start. What's with that?

> It’s that cultural norms around marriage make it harder to keep track of them.

A strange segue explaining marriage to us. Yes, it's common for people to keep their original published name in academia and the arts and anything else. I guess video game designers might have taken a while to realise they were being published. That might be an interesting point if it lead there.
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Ooh, I didn't know that x86 had such feature. But is this virtualization only?
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Ah, that's a bug. Thank you for finding it!
Isn’t it funny the day after Biden was inaugurated the Covid death toll on all CNN shows in the bottom bar disappeared and all the “left” news outlets started talking less and less about the deaths and problems with Covid? Like it magically went away.

News outlets have their political alignments. All of them do. They’re all pushing a narrative.

How about we just get rid of cable news altogether? There are six companies that own all the media we consume so we should probably do something about it: https://fortune.com/longform/media-company-ownership-consoli...
shh, those were aliens too, at least according to Russia.
> I tell you I need a different name. You tell me that knowing why will help you come up with solutions. That's how teamwork goes.

I totally agree with that. And if this was happening quite often, I would somehow propose a better process for these kind of naming changes. Communication is always key, especially when it comes to written text.

> I guess if I were to turn your argument back around on you I would say "you could have expressed your need from the start."

That's kind of my point, if you had clarified your stance in your original comment, then we wouldn't have to go through this and instead could've focused on coming up with an appropriate name. In that sense I can agree with the OP on why this could be considered nitpicking.
When I used to ride all my problems with other motorists came from people approaching me from behind or to the side, not from me coming up behind people (perhaps because I was not in the habit of lane splitting at every opportunity). I suggest a horn serves the same function without annoying everyone nearby and eventually deafening the rider.
I'm not a fan of the hackery used to skip an initial count or trailing 0/NULL.

If you are going to use macro hacks to accomplish this, why not do this:
`#define print(...) _print( 50, __VA_ARGS__, NULL )` then have _print look for the trailing NULL? It's much cleaner.

Nevermind; trailing NULL method would require the size of the NULL to be the largest item you could push onto the stack.

I was picturing it would work, and it would, until you pass in a "format string" which happens to have a single byte 0 in it's address in memory. So it would seem to work until it randomly explodes.

In the case of this particular example, the pattern of args is [ [ format_str1, arg1, arg2 ] x N ]. On a 64-bit platform, the format string would be a 8 byte pointer. So long as one can live with a trailing 8 byte NULL pointer, it would work ok.
My go-to for that has been Vega these days. Just love the conceptual model and I've actually been able to hold the key parta in my head, compared to most such tools.
If it happens, it will be quick. And there are vast numbers of very valuable Taiwanese people.

Setting aside the moral difference that the UK fundamentally had no reason to be governing part of China (except the legacy of their empire), whereas Taiwan arguably has every right to govern itself, I don’t think this would provide much relief if China decides to pounce.
> December’s Covid-19 relief bill included a directive to the Pentagon and intelligence agencies to share what they know about UFOs within 6 months.

Seems like that Covid-19 relief bill was about everything but the Covid-19 relief, lol
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They released their files, it hasn't been six months yet. I haven't looked at them, but the lack of hype makes me assume they're nothing huge.

https://www.theblackvault.com/documentarchive/ufos-the-centr...
Hidden in all that math and technique are some very strong ideological assumptions. That poor people are lazy, that wages equal the marginal product of labour, that there’s an efficiency/equality tradeoff. Even just the common assumption that markets clear or that Pareto optimality has any kind of ethical basis are hugely ideological.
To some extent this is handled via GPL/AGPL, which gets in the way of companies building a fence around your work and locking you outside. If you use them.

But the general idea that you need a monopoly is wrong. You don't need a monopoly, only scarcity. Monopoly is extreme scarcity but you don't actually need that. Just enough to turn a profit and stay in business.

Redhat makes plenty of money and has a monopoly on nothing. They're just not in the consumer products business. Somebody needs to be the Redhat to Apple's Microsoft.

Realistically Google's business model isn't completely useless here, i.e. make free software to sell services to the users. Or make free software to sell hardware to the users. The problem with Google is that they became too much of a publicly-traded conglomerate and then they get bad incentives to betray the community -- having a monopoly actually makes it worse because it enables abusive behavior.
Don't Macs have 1 button?
48% of Square's revenue came from Bitcoin in 2020 [pdf]
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One of the projects I've been working on is sookiestack.com for managing take-home challenges- if there's any biz-dev types who think they'd be good at marketing it I'd be open to a partnership (email in profile).
As long as the commits compile, it's a great coding practice. Unfortunately most development teams haven't caught up to what git actually helps with (and doesn't help with) yet and will block you from doing this, but if you can find a team that's open to actually testing out different practices and seeing what works better then it will serve you very well.
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I find the current process quite strange. My wife works in civil engineering and they don't do technical interviews. If you have a degree, you're technically certified. If you need professional experience, there's a professional engineer certification that works too.

For some reason, degrees and certifications in software are not reliable. You could have a PhD in math and they'll still make you do algorithms on whiteboards. It sounds like the proper solution isn't to improve the interviewing process, but to improve education, or rather have a better certification process that makes these things unnecessary.
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Since you said: "The statement that it had not been determined that blunt force trauma specifically caused Officer Sicknick's death doesn't make the attack BS - there's video footage of him being hit with one."

"him" must unambiguously mean Officer Sicknick according to you.

From your source.

"It’s unclear if the cop who was plunked was Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, 42."

Oh, comprehension.

Also, the article you cite is over a month old and much newer information is now available. Including the statement that:

"Authorities have reviewed video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging with rioters amid the siege but have yet to identify a moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries, law enforcement officials familiar with the matter said."

But who knows. Maybe investigators have never heard of the NY Post. Make sure you send them a link to that article and video ASAP! You really cracked the case!
Speaking of freedom of speech, I just saw this list of "questions" some members of Congress sent to media companies:

https://eshoo.house.gov/sites/eshoo.house.gov/files/Eshoo-Mc...

Yikes. I wonder what happens to those companies if they have the "wrong" answers. Antitrust, make the executives testify, deny regulatory approval of random stuff... so many options.
I was going to comment, "That's a stupid thing to say" but then realised who we are talking about ...
You're not understanding what I'm saying. I'm talking about what I see in the debugger when I'm debugging. When you see 0xCC in a variable in the debugger you know you probably had an out of bounds read. Because in debug mode the compiler and runtime leave these markers in uninitialized memory. For that to be helpful you need to swap until the max of the initialized sizes of both arrays, so that you preserve these markers. You defeat that helpful feature if you copy the uninitialized portion of the buffer instead of swapping.
He has the false self-confidence with a language he has not get in contact with yet. A frequent bias of a programmer.

In a sense, studying Ancient Greek in depth is impossible as many ideas are lost in the modern cultural decline.
Of course. There are many. Any binary format. Any ASN.1 format. DEF and LEF for hardware descriptions. The output of mysqldump.

Here's another example:

https://github.com/rongarret/tweetnacl/blob/master/ratchet.l...

starting at line 82. (That's one that I designed.)
M1 hardware can obviously swap to SSD without involving the OS much, and not at all on the prefetch/swapin path. That’s impressive.
btc is backed by the same thing as usd and gold: the collective belief it is worth something.

You can try to gussy it up with arguments like “faith and credit” or “the military” or “you can pay taxes with it” or “has industrial applications”, but that’s not the basement level of determining value.
Wait, wait, wait...you're saying that because a missile has shot down a plane before in another country during a conflict, the United States military is firing cruise missiles without clearing civilian airspace?
The UFO pilots are figuring out whether they need to wipe us out (again), or let us join the community of space faring species. Challenge is, we need to demonstrate that our cultures can arrive at a specific and necessary ethical conclusion ourselves, so that there could be some shared moral basis on which to engage other species. If we don't get there ourselves before developing advanced propulsion, we're too much of a risk and they press reset.
Well no. They are flying into the ADIF zone and being driven off. If they crossed into the the 12 mile limit of the main island they would be shot down. China knows that. The fact is the military is really good at doing the same thing over and over again everyday. Any really escalation would result in the US actively placing support in Taiwan. China is playing a dangerous game. Their action all over the world and at home are going to drive the world into supporting more contact not less with Taiwan. Xi Jinping is not playing a very Chinese game. He is pushing too hard on every front because he is impatient. Long term this is going to break.
No one has more time off than teachers, who don't work all Summer. The teachers I know personally all state that as a major reason for their career choice.
Holding a person accountable is a good lesson. But an incident involving superstitions and witch-hunts is not a good example for it.
I sometimes wonder whether the world would actually be better off being run by a secret Jewish Cabal.
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It would have been far better if the article had expressed this as a tradeoff: it's entirely valid to choose more time and less frustration over digital sovereignty. You can't assume what other people's situations are, or what a smart choice would be in their situation!
I think the overwhelming majority of people who bought Bitcoin have paper gains only, not realised value.
Why isn't everything that the pilot can be seen recorded in some black box?

If the pilot can see it, certainly a cam from inside the cockpit can see it.

I understand that planes aren't cars but... We have cars doing just that: recording absolutely everything in case something unexpected happen.

It's 2021: I'm sure airliners could have it at some point. It doesn't look like a feature too much out of a science-fiction movie.

And this would settle quite some of the UFO sightings.
Typically richer and flakier than a soda bread, though.
There's a few websites that try to track what Kirkland rebadges.

Walmart may be soul-sucking to shop at, but their Dr. Thunder and clone colas are really good and 67 cents a 2 liter.

Their yogurt is basically as good as yoplait (orange is great), and their generic salt and vinegar kettle chips and life cereal are all great.

Supermarket clones are still pretty bad, which is surprising given what Walmart and Costco have been able to do with their market strength.
A little D3 war story: I wrote a solver for the Schrödinger equation, which would render a wavefunction with D3 and SVG - cool right.

It was very slow to render. Eventually I found out why: D3 was round-tripping the SVG through text! The render time was dominated by the browser parsing the thousands of 15+ digit floating point numbers.

I added a call to round the floats to two decimal places, so they would be textually shorter, and it was a huge speedup. What a strange optimization.

I later rewrote it using WebGL; here it is should you care: https://ridiculousfish.com/wavefiz/
There's not only the issue of incomplete information, there's the issue of salience. There are an infinite number of true statements. Which ones do you focus on? Which ones are the right ones to focus on? You can detect bias in reporting not only based on what is said, but about what is not even mentioned.

The new york times won't run a story sympathetic to liberal individuals pushing back against the excesses of critical race theory. Fox news won't report on how even though there were anomalies in the election, none justified stopping the transfer of power to the Biden administration. Both are bullshit.
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was shot down with a surface-to-air missile, a weapon intended specifically for targeting aircraft. A "cruise missile" by comparison is intended for terrestrial targets and has a minimum range of a few hundred miles. Should the missile come in contact with an aircraft during its initial launch phase, your warhead would basically come right back down on top of you - which is why they close the airspace.
I'd like the underpinnings to stop changing so much too! I want my OS to be (1) stable, and (2) performant, and macOS has gone backwards on both counts. The M1 is speedy for sure, but that's hardware.

I just want Apple to stop making changes. Microsoft too. Push security updates, fix bugs, and back off. We've been making desktop OS's for 30 years, and we've pretty much figured them out at this point. There's no reason to switch things out from under me every 12 months, all it seems to do is make everything less stable.
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Yes, the term now is UAP, unidentified aerial phenomenon. There is an official UAP Task Force in the Pentagon. Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid uses it, Hilary Clinton uses it.
Yeah I’m the guy that has no tech skills but decided to build a tech business
I get every notification double.
And they took away the snooze options on calendar notifications but they are still there for reminder notifications.
I believe it's not proven that it can work, not that it's proven not to work at all. I suspect there is a strong motivation to discourage research into its effectiveness and discredit that research which has been done, and for understandable reasons, like not wanting people who are homosexuals to see their orientation as a psychopathology.

In any case, I suspect that sexual orientation develops and crystalizes long before conversion therapy is generally resorted to.

I also wouldn't be surprised if conversion therapy has the opposite effect of that intended, of re-inforcing homosexual orientations, by presenting it as central to the subject's identity.