skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Samsung is in the market of selling cheap hardware

I'm not sure about this. There are people who pay >1000€ for their flagship phones and believe them to be premium products, but they are just as buggy as the cheap ones. Huge amount of CPU power and impressive camera specs, though.
Using goto for error handling in C
Why not be both?
Great site! Is the assumption that “remote” play occur on TableTop Simulator? (Or some other cool thing I don’t know about?) Perhaps you could add a field to identify which platform will be used?

Also, I can’t help but peruse the TOS & Privacy Policy of just about every site I visit. It looks like you used a policy generator (and I didn’t read your documents too closely) but I didn’t notice any language about user interactions that occur off-platform and I doubt that situation would be contemplated by most terms/policy generators.

Again, I didn’t read anything thoroughly so it might be addressed by your policy and I just missed it. (Obligatory, this isn’t legal advice and I’m not your lawyer.) As a website that facilitates in-person meetings you might consider including some language. If you take a look at the TOS for Tinder or MeetUp I would imagine they might have some helpful example language.
Why not try for data engineering? I'm looking for data scientist and data analyst jobs and it's been rough, you'll get over 100 apps for most positions because so many scientists like myself pivot out of the ridiculousness of academics. It's very hard to stand out, even with multiple publications, employers are flooded with great applicants.

Maybe a data engineer can chime in, but the market certainly seems better for that skillset than for us python, R, sql, stats people who are a dime a dozen.
A pediatric HIV outbreak in a remote Pakistan city
So what's the alternative? We just accept that Paypal & friends get to be the final, unaccountable arbiters of who gets to transact online?

That's wholly unacceptable.
They probably have enough processes in place and enough longevity to be able to get government contracts, big corp contracts, etc.
From my experience the Android Bluetooth experience is much better than the Linux Bluetooth experience. Even my ancient Samsung S3 work better than a recently bought Bluetooth dongle for my desktop and I only bought the new dongle, because the experience with the onboard Bluetooth was so horrible.

Sometimes I wonder how a technology that is so common on modern devices is still so unreliable.
Huh, an American company. The majority of the employees of which are from eastern Europe or India.
I agree, but with the option to keep whatever version you had when you stop paying the subscription.

Maybe applying only after a N consecutive months with an active subscription, to prevent paying for a single month behaving as a lifetime purchase.
Isn't this the problem that Kickstarter was designed to solve?
I worked for a Hitachi Factory building raid storage systems in Oklahoma in a previous life.
Ewww, ugly tabs with no space/delimiter between them.
As the universe expands, so too must our money supply.
I think some merchandise or some other memento would've maybe worked? A t-shirt or a hat
> It would not be available in my country (Germany) right away

You could use a VPN to make it look like you are in a supported country.
I'm sorry that you see scientific facts as "nationalistic".
This really hits home for me. I'm a full time, all-in "Cloud Engineer" that uses AWS almost exclusively and it's the first time I've ever had a serious doubt about my future with this technology. I really like @QuinnyPig's writing and think he's pretty on point with most things, this story is no exception.

Further down in the article he mentions people seriously asking, for the first time, how to move away from AWS. That same thought has crossed my mind for the first time. I'm not naive enough to think that Amazon (or any large corporate entity) really cares about me but I thought AWS was at least honest. Not any more. Maybe the new AWS head honcho can help turn this around. Maybe.
None of those things are required for a class. I'll admit they are all useful at time, but all are abused.
Because deflation means less jobs and less jobs means less people being able to buy food, and starving people are dangerous.

Deflation seems good if you're sitting on wealth. You'd be happy to wait things out just buying the basics and let the economy kind of reset from necessities upwards. But lots of other people are starving by that point.
Gwern is great. One of a small number of people I support on patreon. Really high quality authorship on a huge range of topics, from drugs to cartoons to AI research.
Also many hardware vendors use their stack to differentiate themselves from other competitors as at the end they tend to 'do' the same things. That stack keeps at bay people just copying their design wholesale and then undercutting their margin and using their drivers. Then even if they are willing, they many times included some lib they bought from someone else. They may even have the full code to use and have changed it as needed. But that 3rd party is usually some consulting group and guess what one of the very few things they sell is. It is a huge mess.
The Sunday Solver: LRU Cache
> But yeah: I once heard Go described as "a C fan-fiction".

It's more of an alt-java than a C fan-fiction.

Most of the stuff people are interested in in C, Go dropped. However while Go clearly disagreed with Java on the specific means and most important bits the core goals and aesthetics are extremely strongly reminiscent of Java's.
No, it's because of this:

> And we all know: Anyone who critcizes the left-wing sphere of Berlin is nothing but a racist. So there comes the rug.

which distracts from the valuable rest of your comment.

I do this myself sometimes and have noticed that it usually steers the discussion away from the subject matter.
> They literally bring nothing to the table except their brand name.

Isn't it the most important thing for a VPN provider? You want a company that is privacy-conscious, not one that logs your traffic and sells it or open it to the various TLAs of the world.
Supporters like OSI, a rival organization?

No one cares about Stallman beside people who are already involved in open-source movements.
> Nobody will stop me from trading my GOOG share for a goat, or a baseball card, if I so choose.

Nitpick, but the SEC would object to that. That said, American securities regulation has a unique philosophy, i.e. every securities trade must be registered and follow a narrow book of rules unless specifically exempted.

Your broader point, of financial and real assets being proven hedges against inflation, stands.
It’s been banished from non religious parts of academia because it’s not falsifiable or testable, so it belongs in the theology department.
This is super cool. There's so much good stuff in there I'm gonna have to come back a few times just to digest it all! Also looking forward to some of the links at the bottom.

Do you have a standard template you use for your scripts? You kind of touch on this in section 4.20.1 but don't go too deep.

Also have you done any work with writing zsh (or bash) completions? I feel like having good completions would make my scripts magnitudes more handy, but I've had trouble finding good starter resources.
I also just read people are reporting them on the test swabs. I literally just got a test lmao.

I'm sure this has a reasonable explanation though, right?
> Apple said the project will store 240 megawatt-hours of energy, or enough to power more than 7,000 homes for one day.

By my reckoning this would make it the largest grid connected battery in existence. 50MW larger than the Hornsdale Power Reserve.

Edit: My reckoning was wrong.
If you have to have a PhD this isn't a bootcamp, it's just a pay for play networking funnel. It's literally the thinnest wedge you can fit a business in in this space. Convince people they won't find a job without you and then charge then for the privilege of being a part of it. And charge companies a finders fee.

A PhD could walk into a job without this 7 week whatever. Vulgar and predatory.
> But (serious question), why does it matter that systemd has an ntp daemon or that it subsumed udev?

> You say, disparagingly, that it is tightly-coupled and opaque (binary).

> Why is loosely coupled better in these cases specifically?

It creates extra work for others.

udev is far older than systemd; maintainership of the former was eventually inherited by one the latter's lead maintainers, who decided to move the latter into the former, at first promising that the former, which has applications reaching far outside systemd, could still be built and used independently.

That promise weakened after about two years and it became increasingly difficult to build and use udev without systemd; — some embedded systems that use udev can't even fit systemd into memory and thus using it is not an option.

So, udev in response was forked to eudev by other developers who now have to spend time and money on maintaining this fork and porting udev changes to it.

Loosely coupled is better because it allows one to be use without the other if there be such a need; tight coupling is essentially a form of product tying.

Why is it better that one can use an iPhone on any computer? rather than only computers designed by Apple?

> Everyone seems to hate journald. I'll go ahead and join in the chorus and say that it sounds really bad. But do we have to throw the baby out with the bath water? What else about systemd is actually worse than what we had before?

Many call for logind to replace acpid; — I strongly object to this and the difference in functionality between both highlights well the difference in philosophy between traditional Unix design and Lennart's brand.

acpid responds to acpi events by calling an executable file with a specific path; for instance `/etc/acpi/actions/powerbtn.sh` is called with arguments that describe the nature of the event when the power button is pressed. logind on the other hand simply allows for a limited list of I believe seven options in a configuration file of what to do when the power button is pressed, not an arbitrary file to be executed.

The possibilities of acpid are obviously limitless, and I use them as such. My machine is configured such that when I close my notebook's lid, the machine does not suspend, but rather disables the screen and goes into power-safe mode, but otherwise continues to operate, I can override this behavior by simply creating the file `/run/lid.disable`.

I cannot configure my machine to be so flexible with logind which highlights the difference in culture: Traditional Unix design was always about removing restrictions, and this is about providing features, but when the feature one seeks not be provided, then one is out of luck.
A variation on userland is the next project I'm trying to work on, though there are... distractions. In a random case that some benevolent millionaire wants to sponsor me to work full time on things like that, I'm certainly open to being contacted, my email is in the commits ;)

As to another huge and absolutely awesome emerging contender in this space, see https://luna-lang.org
More than 90 million people have been administered the vaccines.

You are using the wrong denominator.

Deaths reported as adverse events aren't necessarily due to the vaccine (they may be reported simply because they happen after administration of the vaccine).

The vaccines do not gene edit (this is what 'gene therapy' implies).

Like I said, you are confused in multiple ways and should stop.
I have been collecting a huge to-do list of resources to study it myself. Apologies if this list is too large or difficult to navigate. It includes both "keywords to research" and actual links or books.

Edit: I just put the full list here: https://justpaste.it/4x4ga
Golang comes to mind. Gobs of C boilerplate could have been avoided. Docker is written in Go after all and was first released in 2013
> have you considered the costs of what people buy in their day to day?

Yes. It's not relevant to this discussion. The author did not need to mint an NFT and there was clearly no real demand for one.

Creating an NBA NFT and then managing the ongoing bids will produce orders of magnitude more CO2 than selling a souvenir ball.

Quartz recently published a good breakdown comparing selling and shipping a print vs selling an NFT https://qz.com/1987590/the-carbon-footprint-of-creating-and-...
Why does this page have an "opacity: 0" in the CSS? I mean, why would you ever do that?
Similar experience with my browser extension. A kind of weird mal-incentive.
If you buy the case, which I do in part, then the solution isn't to prohibit it. It's to tax it.
I like digging for cheap hosts for hobby projects and will try to help from that experience. I never used DreamHost specifically but tried a lot of the ones on MetaDedi[1]. There you will find best dollar-ram, dollar-cpu and unlimited bandwidth.

For bandwidth, I would be careful to read their Acceptable Use Policy and check if it is really unmetered or "fair usage". For completely unmetered and free usage, look for seedboxes (things people host torrent on). Outside of this, I can recommend Hetzner from my experience.
Other options are providers from the Tor wiki, used for exit nodes, and so on. Note that the network quality will vary a lot as you go to cheap free unmetered vs restrictive metered. Some of the restricitve metered will also sell plans with 100TB+ monthly, making them great for hosting too.

[1] https://en.metadedi.net/
Wait, is NordVPN something an educated VPN consumer should not use? I switched from PIA after their acquisition, so now I'm wondering what I missed.
"a ratio of 1.8 kWh per GB of data transferred"

This seems wildly high, even counting all the hops. For reference, 1.8 kWh is enough to move my car 7 miles and my e-bike over 100 miles.
My personal AWS CloudFormation best practice is „use Terraform“.

But I may be ignorant and would love to hear if and how CF beats TF.
The concert ticket thing is perhaps one use I hadn't thought of. But that seems like a niche solution to a problem that doesn't really exist, and doesn't really solve it anyway? People often buy tickets often in order to resell them outside the venue. That just means the touter handing over the unique private key they used to buy the ticket along with the ticket itself, surely. They same goes for forum access, or anything else.
If you just use "em" scale for everything, you simply add another factor into the size calculation. It's the same as just using "px" directly, except it's now also larger/smaller depending on the font-scale, on top of the UI scale. Most of the time, on most devices, you won't notice that, but on some devices it will make everything unexpectedly larger or smaller, usually due to some vendor setting not matching well with devicePixelRatio.

> You're commenting this underneath an article that explicitly complains that the pixel approach doesn't work today because OSes define fonts in points, because users can override your choices for font sizes, and because these units are not a uniform size across different operating systems.

If you specify font size in "px" (instead of "pt"), font size will roughly match pixels/devicePixelRatio, which is as consistent as it gets across platforms. Using "em" instead would be less consistent.

> Unless you're advocating that Gnome/iOS/Android/Mac should get rid of their current text scaling accessibility options, which... good luck. Pixels won't save you from that stuff, container widths based on current font size will, because for very good reasons you increasingly don't get the option on modern computers to force font to be a specific size.

The intended behavior of changing the font size is to not scale the whole UI, just the fonts. If you use "em" for everything, you just defeat that feature. You might as well use "px" directly, it's more predictable and easier to think about.
More like proof of concept of a buffer overflow vulnerability. It's smart but we have no idea what do all these transistors do
This is the same problem with pub/priv keys for email. How do I prove I am who I say I am?

The best defense is just to use a hardware wallet to not get in the situation in the first place. After that all you can do is post to your various social media accounts that you've been hacked and here's your new wallet.

Assuming NFTs become more mainstream and integrated with banks for land deeds and the BMV for car titles, something more official would likely be put in place (this is the best case long term scenario for NFTs).
I still think Bitcoin is very much flawed. As far as I can tell, it's basically a bubble-like commodity which people buy to enrich themselves through speculation right now. That's not really sustainable. It probably will continue to climb for a good while, since there are still many people who haven't heard of it. But then what?

Another question arises: what is it good for? It certainly isn't empancipating or empowering ordinary people.
My life is so boring I'd literally would have no other option but to invent a story.

But please do keep imagining things, it's a powerful tool to progress!
Hitachi originally made their own design hard drives, I have a 100MB ESDI one, more recently they bought IBM's disk business before selling the lot to WD.
Enormous spec crafted by committee. It's anything and everything to everyone, which means implementing the entire thing is a _serious_ undertaking. Add to that it's the kind of feature that's a cost center--people expect wireless stuff like headphones, etc. to just work and be there, it's not a glitzy feature that sells products. So there's zero incentive to innovate or spend time and money making it better. Hardware makers want cheaper chips, skimping on the implementation and software side helps make that happen.
"Detected" doesn't mean we should care enough to read the article. It could still be harmeless, or unlikely to be harmful.
Right, but those would be different editions, and would be separate from the original edition.

Even if the artist creates millions of tokens, there's probably prestige from having the first to be issued.
Yes, that sounds like a flame war invitation. Issues with nil plays no role in practice.
I've switched from ST to VSCode 5 years ago and never looked back.
>Why not just run the file?

It's faster. That's the point of using a REPL.

>To be more specific, I get a lot of value out of Ruby, Elixir, and JavaScript REPLs because I can type right into them to try stuff out in one long, ridiculous command.

You can type long, ridiculous commands in a file too. Just clean it up as you go along.

I like to use my editor to send inputs to the REPL instead of typing directly into the REPL because different REPLs provide different editing experiences. Using my editor means all the editing features I like to use are always available.
> Meanwhile movies with terrible writing rake in huge numbers at the box office just because they have big name actors and top-of-the-line production quality (ex: the Avengers)

You sure it's just that? All the DC superhero movies also have big name actors, top-of-the-line production quality, heavy marketing and merchandise tie-ins. Yet those movies have been largely duds. They don't have the same resonance in contemporary popular culture as the Marvel movies. Or ratings by moviegoers and film critics. They're generally considered dour, stodgy, weirdly paced, illogical, or lacking soul.

The scripts for the MCU movies won't win any film awards with the "ivory tower film snob"-type of moviegoer. But they're outstanding examples of the craft of screenwriting for their genre. And I'm speaking as someone who generally finds superhero movies and comic books, including the Marvel ones, kinda tedious. I don't listen to pop music either.

The MCU movies have wit, humor, sentiment, perfect pacing, and a tone appropriate to the characters (Guardians of the Galaxy movies are silly and playful, Captain America movies are more serious, Thor movies have an epic/Shakespearean feel). They do a good job of staying faithful to the source material while still being comprehensible to casual watchers. You think elves do all that? It takes serious writing skill, and every screenwriter isn't capable of it.

> A movie filmed by amateur videographers with no editing experience, no acting talent, and no marketing is not going to achieve mainstream success no matter how good the writing is.

"Professional movie-making requires multiple specialists" is not breaking news to anyone. The topic of discussion here is one of the specialists don't want to share credit with people who weren't involved in their work. Would it be OK if an actor demanded a makeup artist credit because they ran a comb through their own hair on set once?
I'm sure these songwriters put those big names on their CVs too
> Null made since in the early days of C, an option type back then would have been prohibitively expensive.

Of course not. Option types are as old as C, and they don't cost anything more at runtime than a regular pointer, or a union tag, costs.
I mean, if you'd like to see some academic research backing up that it is indeed the case, see here: https://academic.oup.com/rfs/article-abstract/32/5/1798/5427...

"We find that approximately one-quarter of bitcoin users are involved in illegal activity. We estimate that around $76 billion of illegal activity per year involve bitcoin (46% of bitcoin transactions), which is close to the scale of the U.S. and European markets for illegal drugs."

I would love if you could point me towards a current use of Bitcoin that isn't as a currency for illegal goods, or as an investment vehicle -- I'm genuinely curious why you think what I said isn't the case.
Amazon plans to ‘return to an office-centric culture as our baseline’
It's not underappreicated; it's facile. Everything you do in society is backed by the state's monopoly on violence. What are you going to do when I storm into your house with guns, kill your family, and demand access to your wallet? Appeal to math?
Building radio ASICs is a world rife with patents. Pretty much nobody new can enter the market.
What math prevents a big enough group of miners and users rolling back the blockchain?
Not at all. I don't think most people really grasp what CloudFormation is.
It certainly makes sense to use struct and class to indicate what the type's role is. It's just good to keep in mind to avoid the confusion when you find the struct that has only pure virtual functions as members.
My aunt growing up in Korea (just after WWII when it wasn't nearly as rich as today) used carrots that had two legs for her dolls. Kids can make anything work.
know what’s even better? plain old soap.
So grey goo version 0.01?
"Actually, we're called the CA Franchise Tax Boa- ahh fuck"
Google's involvement in any kind of hardware is already a distraction from their core product line. Making their own chips is a distraction on a distraction.

Distraction might not be the right word but I can't conjure up the right one.

Hardware is one of the end goals for Apple, for example. For Google, Android hardware is not. It's just there to serve their goal of selling ads.