skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Every single C program is potentially in that "minority". Nobody can tell when the compiler writers are going to change up behavior on you.

This is ridiculously hyperbolic, and bringing unthinking emotional responses like "psycho" and "irresponsible" only obscures the fact that there are very serious engineering tradeoffs involved in trying to balance "not surprising people whose code contains an assumption that some case is going to behave a certain way when by-the-standard-as-written that case can be ignored" and "not making everything with a hot loop 8x slower because we can't assume anything about loop bounds any more", and that compilers that do the latter are unlikely to prove popular with a lot of people either.
That's just one of the jets. In fact, I think only one side is observable as it pointed close to our direction, making the other side very difficult to observe.
The way I see it is that it doesn't have to be "impressive", as long as it's interesting and fosters debate. Science is a debate- not a circus with acrobats and trained horses. We can discuss problems and how to solve them without having to overhype everything all the time. In fact, for me that's the best way to do it. Even more so in machine learning where hype is over-abundant.
The concept of "U English" vs. "non-U English" was written about in the '50s. Don't say "pardon?", say "what?" or you'll be marked as a commoner ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U_and_non-U_English
Check out the Dygma Raise. I was considering a Moonlander too but I went with the Raise instead because it had a more traditional key layout (non-ortholinear) and I really like how it has 8 thumb keys - they're insanely useful.
Tips for preventing credentials and sensitive data from exposure in GitHub
Title needs fixing. This is chrome only.
Sleep Headphones. Much more comfortable than the in-ear ones I used to use: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sleep-Headphones-Bluetooth-Ultra-Th...
I could see some one who learnt formal English in a school setting in another country might struggle with Geordie, a strong scots English or full "Yam Yam"
Definitely. A huge chunk of Python and Ruby packages are written as "C extensions", and if those C extensions are going to get compiled on some platform the developers haven't tested them on, it will make for fun surprise bugs.

I know Java has C extensions for some things too. I'm curious how much code is actually "pure Java", but I've actually rarely seen Java used at any of the places I worked at.
As an Italian-American who rarely gets to speak Italian, my visits to my family in Italy are full of these kinds of things, but in the other direction, naturally.

I end up using less common, typically larger words mostly because they have direct equivalents in English, including a whole bunch that end in -ation, which in Italian typically end in -azione.

My relatives joke with me that I'm a weird, overeducated dummy who "knows" these big words but doesn't know basic idioms.
Slack was experiencing an outage
I legit thought that's what the article was going to argue.
Apple wants users to trust iOS, but it doesn’t trust iOS users
Those middle management jobs tend to be the first to go in a downturn.
Thank you. In light of the fact that George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" essay was just recently posted here, I want to acknowledge that you make a better case than I do. One should aim to make one's meaning plain, as opposed to resorting to inflated (and often vague) language.
Yes, I expected an "about" in between. Maybe you're right and it's the future.
The cameras tracking everything everywhere in UK would say that it's long been an authoritarian country.

Authoritarianism is a sliding scale. From what I can gather, lots of humans that have any political pull at all tend to be authoritarian (against the kinds of people they don't like, of course).
Building at the molecular scale you can achieve extremely low friction coefficients in the moving parts. Inertia also gets extremely low, and material strengths tend toward their theoretical values.

Of course electronics aren't standing still, but resistance tends to get harder to deal with as feature sizes decrease.
I wanted something more minimal than conventional boots but I knew I didn't want to go as far as Vivos. I settled on these Solomons[0], and they're possibly the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned. Not waterproof, no real ankle support/bracing, but very light with plenty of shock absorption and sole stability. I do have minimalist sandals from Xero[1], which are great for camp shoes.

0. https://www.rei.com/product/122170/salomon-x-ultra-3-low-aer...

1. https://xeroshoes.com/shop/gender/mens/ztrek-men/
I think a lot of the usage you reference is blindly picked up in corporate environments, and has little to do with trying to 'sound smart'. My wife laughs at my vocabulary on my Zoom calls. After listening to myself, I have to agree.
:) I really don't care that Google knows what I'm doing. What I do find amazing is that people are usually afraid of telcos for tracking, when it's more like you have to be afraid of Google and apps like Candy Crush...
GDPR, or CCPA, isn't all that costly as long as you stop thinking of user data as something for you to harvest, mine, resell and profit from. If you instead treat user data like a security liability, system designs and trade-offs will flow from there. They'll help ensure you design systems that minimise collection and anonymise things early, remove data promptly when no longer needed, and make it easy to audit what data you do hold which in turns makes supporting GDPR requests easy.

The largest cost of GDPR is making that shift for existing companies. If GDPR ends up killing a few companies because of that, I personally don't mind. And if a startup doesn't end up seeing the light of day because it's not possible for them to operate under the conditions that GDPR imposes, then from my point of view the GDPR is doing what I'd like it to do.
> So the heat pumps can also do cooling during the summer?

Here's a pair of really great videos about heat pumps and what they can (and could, in the future) do:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J52mDjZzto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zrx-b2sLUs
It's using a custom npm client we've built called Turbo. You can read more about the v1 version of Turbo here: https://medium.com/stackblitz-blog/introducing-turbo-5x-fast...

We haven't released any more info on Turbo v2 yet but will soon.
Great news, but that PR just got merged a few hours ago!

https://github.com/swc-project/swc/pull/1302
mukesh610 had the same thought. [0] I think papercrane's response is correct: it makes more sense to disable explicit GC. Running a full GC cycle every frame is going to severely undermine a modern generational garbage collector. Disabling explicit GC, and using a modern low-pause GC, seems like the way to go.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27222631
The Bill is arguably the biggest threat to global online freedoms that exists.

I'm surprised it has not been covered more here. It is amazingly badly written and will have huge negative consequences.
Ah, right. Dammit. I'm starting to forget my Greek...
It was getting there.

I remember Bitcoin was getting a wider adoption for payment back in 2013ish. I paid for my domain from namecheap in Bitcoin back then.

But it then blew up and everyone treated it more as a store of value and it made all the shops stop accepting it as payment due to its volatility.
4. Most places you'll work will treat you as a cost center. Nobody wants to pay for security.

5. A lot of the "Cybersecurity" folks are closer to the sysadmin-cert-associate degree than the Engineering CS side of things.
Don't know about the person or his work/fame, but Brendan Greene is PlayerUnknown(PU) in PUBG.
Absolutely, and having 30+ years of troubleshooting experience on a wide range of hardware and software platforms also help :)

It's very inspiring to read about a problem and having the solution explained as matter-of-factly as here.
We shouldn't extend IP protections to general knowledge gleaned is my point. If we start overreaching into that for AI there would be little stopping overreaching into that for humans.
hi I live in a modest apartment in an actual city, and bicycle everywhere, and I think cryptocurrency's absurd energy usage is a problem too
I would like to throw in a strong rec for carbon steel.

I was (and to a degree still am) a big cast iron guy, but I find that these days I use my carbon steel pans much, much more frequently. They share many of the benefits of cast iron in terms of durability, oven safety, high temp cooking, natural non-stick, etc. However they can be much, much lighter and their heating properties make them superior for many, and I would argue most (but not all!), applications.

These days if someone said they needed 1 quiver killer pan, I would unquestionably recommend a carbon steel skillet over a cast iron one.

If you're someone who likes using cast iron, I think you are doing yourself a major disservice by not trying carbon steel.
Scanning these recommendations, the plurality -- perhaps even the majority -- are ergonomic. You would think everyone is constantly in pain: keyboards, desks, monitors, chairs, shoes, that relieve pain.

Even the air filters, robot vacuums, and noise reduction devices reduce some kind of pain.

The only non-pain recommendation that comes close is coffee and the apple M1.

One strange thing is the contrary recommendations: there are recommendations for barefoot shoes as well as arch support slippers. Not sure if this means that different feet need different things, or if one side of the debate was marketed to.
For my was Rust. I done like 12(?) Langs before, including F# that also was a change of mind, but the first 2 or 3 months of Rust I fell like an idiot looking intensely to a wall. I start to think my 20 years programming were a big fat lie.

I can't believe why it feels so hard? !I already know pascal and obj-c and F#!, kind of similar, no?

Now I feel rust so easy (as python easy!) that is weeeeeeird. (btw: I think is months now where I never think I have meet an error or situation that truly confuse me).
Sorry I'm late to see this.

It's a reference to focus. Sometimes those quick coffee conversations are part of the focus and make a lot of sense and are big help. Sometimes a fresh mind can really do wonders.

They also can be a major league distraction, and or a source of anti Focus. I wasn't really clear on that and should have been. Hopefully this helps.
Silicone earplugs will increase the volume of the Aftershokz.
A friend of my wife's in B-school once relayed the story about his time in the entrepreneur club there, and how it was just a bunch of people standing around talking about starting businesses.

He found it much more educational to start a business, and learn as he went.

So if you want to learn about startups, the fastest way is probably to start one.

My opinion on the second fastest way is to work at one; that's what I did/am doing as employee #1.
I bought a second hand Tuareg which is pretty similar under the covers. Nicest car I've ever owned and it makes me happy to be in it.
> So it's not the voters per se

The voters voted for it, so it is the voters per se imposing this, even though particukar politicians proposed it.

> What's the point of this, other than to provide proof of servile Trump worship?

It’s almost pure Trump cultism, but that’s a fairly (though not always unquestioned, see the internal GOP controversies about the Arizona election “audit” farce) dominant force within the GOP tribe right now.
For now. It works in Firefox today (minor issues keeping it feature flagged for now) and Safari is close to shipping WASM Threads, so this will likely work on all major browsers by EOY.
Also, people are kinda assholes. If you've ever had to deal with open source project issues and bugs, it sucks. For totally unpaid side-projects I'm thinking of going to open-source-closed-contribution model with no public PRs or issue submission because its just 98% toxic.
Name a feature of C that makes it inherently "faster" than another compiles-to-machine-code language. I can name plenty that make it slower.
Generalization much ? I live in 38 m^2 apartment and commute to office on cycle. Except for trip abroad always used Train and since Feb 2020 have not gone on any vacation due to Covid.

Can I critize bit coin ?
When Bitcoin goes up it's the future. When it goes down it's failure. Yawn.
It depends if you are a protected class, but race and gender are protected. As said by another you would need to prove that it was discrimination and have hard evidence to prove it. Once such example: https://www.texasemployerhandbook.com/2012/09/believe-it-or-...

However, companies that have diversity goals have not been found to be discriminatory as it’s been argued that the diversity goals create a multicultural environment that benefits the business. A company cannot and would not list a candidate as being rejected because of their race or because the company needed to meet a quota. As you said it’s a gray area.
I was kinda hoping it was something crazy like nodejs with v8 engine compiled to wasm lol
I am definitely going to try this first thing tomorrow
CircuitPython is my "go to" for teaching people how to program. I have had so many friends that want to learn how to program, and they always want to learn something "useful" like React first, because that's what people are using at work. But, you have to crawl before you can walk, and the simplicity of a computer without an OS or complicated libraries is a great place to start. Make a light blink. If button is pressed, turn a light on. And before you know it, you can press buttons and have music play, or send a tweet to Twitter, etc. The success rate of getting something working in the first hour is 100%. Meanwhile, everyone that has ignored my advice and jumped right into learning CSS, Javascript, HTML, and React has given up after a month. It's just too much all at once. Microcontrollers are simple, but powerful, and CircuitPython makes it even easier.

Adafruit's tutorials are great. If you know someone who is serious about learning to program, get them all the parts for one of those tutorials. They'll make something cool, and if they need your help, it's just executable pseudocode. Even if you don't know Python, you'll be able to help them with only a tiny bit of reading.
America Offline
Would that task keep you interested for many years? A lot of the people I know in Aerospace end up working on a single component of a larger system for so long that they lose interest and burn out. It's a very high paying job for mostly very boring work. There are always exceptions though.
The UK was already heading down that route with the public surveillance cameras, IMHO.
Bitcoin is not an inflation hedge
Just an FYI here for those unaware, but Sennheiser recently sold off their consumer headphone division [0], so the future of Senn's great headphones is very much a mystery at the moment

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/7/22424367/sonova-buys-sennh...
I don't mind Slack outages at all.
There is no provision in international law to claim an iceberg. It belongs to the country on which territorial waters it floats or to nobody if it is in international waters.

It would be fun if it decided to cross boundary between territorial waters and countries tried to literally drag it onto their territory each tugging by the piece on their side.
Further - paired electrons can collectively form the spin-zero singlet state, or spin-one triplet state. In either case the two electrons, which are fermions independently, together act like a boson (eg, Cooper Pairs in a Superconductor).

Addition of quantum angular momentum is really weird.
From talking with my PhD and MS friends, it's mainly about time. PhDs work around 40-60 hours a week. Full time MS students are juggling courses, research, and part time work, also around 40 hours a week. That usually leaves little time and energy to apply for jobs and practice interviewing.

As a terminal MS student, most of the interviews and offers I've gotten were from professor recommendations to their industry colleagues. I researched computational linguistics and dynamical systems in my undergrad, and in grad school I researched HPC and distributed systems. I still interview poorly because I don't invest enough time practicing/applying compared to reading papers or doing grad student grunt work. On paper, having an MS can also be a negative signal.
I gather OP means best because it's understandable and easier to implement. Paxos has a tough reputation and even Google fucked it up in the beginning according to their Chubby distributed lock paper.
Your comment is completely wrong. There is a cottage industry of emulation developers funding their development through Patreon. There is a huge number of emulation enthusiasts who are adults with high levels of disposable income willing to fund the development of emulators they enjoy using. Some of the larger emulators get tens thousands of dollars per month on Patreon.

Checkout the following links:

https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam

https://www.patreon.com/cemu
Flax seed oil works great for seasoning. http://sherylcanter.com/wordpress/2010/01/a-science-based-te...
While I agree with their position overall, particularly with the ambiguity of "harmfulness", I think this is not the right tack to take here:

> fails to acknowledge how actually harmful it would be for certain groups of the population to have their real life identity associated with their online identity

No nanny-state-style government is going to buy this argument for a moment, because it requires a certain level of distrust of authority that certainly won't be present in the authorities themselves. Even among the population at large, there are undeniable trends in many countries towards authoritarianism on both the left and the right that are ignored or embraced by a majority (or a large minority) of their respective bases of support.

Combined with prevailing trends against web-based anonymity and concerns over "fake news" and other amplification mechanisms for information warfare, I suspect we will see a further bifurcation into regulated, KYC-style services and unregulated, anonymous communities. Even here on HN, posters and commenters are regularly chastised for failing to adequately disclose their identities when they have a vested interest in the topic under discussion.

Rather, the privacy angle which has been so conveniently mooted by Apple lately is (in my opinion) more palatable to the general public. By giving more responsibility to the service providers, the government is also implicitly giving them more power as well (as censors, if nothing else). But in practice, most people have personally observed that when more power/information is provided to private companies, it leads to a slippery slope of monetization, advertising, and lock-in.

An appeal to this sense of unfairness and power imbalance with companies seems more "sellable" to me than convincing people their governments have nefarious/censorious motives. As a supporting argument, consider the general global consensus on gun control -- if people were willing to believe that their governments were ready to turn on them (in terms of physical oppression) at any moment, there would be more global concern about the physical power disparity between police/military and the civilian populace.

Currently (with some exceptions, e.g. the U.S.), the global consensus is that people are much more willing to trust their police/military with weaponry than their fellow citizens, based on the implicit notion that the likelihood of experiencing harm from the latter is disproportionately more likely than the former.

In contrast, as partially evidenced by the relative growth of Signal as a response to the changes in WhatsApp and the public support for app-tracking changes in iOS, people are demonstrably concerned about privacy in the commercial space.

Thus, I theorize that an appeal to privacy would be more effective: "Under the proposed changes, we would have the ability to do ____, which would exploit your personal, private information for profit. If we can do it, that means ____, ____, and ____ can do it too. Do you want your government giving even more power to private companies to profit off you?"
The actual article this story is about:
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/12/e2018977118

(the link was there but buried at the bottom of the page)
i take lesson once a week from a teacher and the primary focus is technique and learning pieces. I'm also in a facebook group where there are some music scholars who like to study the history, culture and systems related to this instrument. After ~8 months of learning I feel more comfortable with the basic techniques now so I've ventured into reconstructing ancient scores and the group has been helpful in helping me understanding certain notations.
I always thought of it as Bitcoin being MySpace and we’re waiting for Facebook, then maybe Instagram and WhatsApp (pre-acquire).

Etherium seems like it could be one of those if POS or something else can make transactions a reasonable price
The model I have is the PXC 450. It does look like recent ones have gotten better.
ski-doo summit X 850: it is the freedom machine. A challenging new hobby that provides access to amazing remote places and an escape from busy corporately owned commerical ski areas. there is nobody around to tell you what to do or not do and where to go or not. plus it is your personal ski lift for powder skiing. Riding side-by-side with a friend hammering up a bowl is the most exciting thing I've done in years.
Kind of curiosity. I wanted to give it a shot because the keys in the bottom corner of the keyboard were, I felt, kind of wasted since they are kind of hard to reach. But I don't always keep my feet in the same place so moving my whole foot back into position to hit shift was a little ridiculous. And I ended up with redundant command keys elsewhere on the keyboard that I used way more often. So it wasn't a huge win for me tbqh.

All of that was on a Let's Split[0] which is a split keyboard where each side is a 4x6 grid. I liked it pretty well but I knew I wanted to try a vertical stagger so I changed to an Iris[1]. Since the two halves are connected over I2C I thought I could maybe add a "third half" with a bunch of pedals connected, but I kind of lost interest when I found that just using my hands was so much more pleasant with this keyboard.

[0] https://keeb.io/products/levinson-lets-split-w-led-backlight

[1] https://keeb.io/collections/frontpage/products/iris-keyboard...
Snap reaches 500M monthly users
~1.68 Saarlands
The US has had a long history of anti-intellctualism[1], and in the 1950's "egghead" was popularized as a term of abuse against intellectuals.[2]

It's possible that the popular disdain towards the use of long words in the US is related to this anti-intellectual attitude.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-intellectualism_in_Americ...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egghead
"Hey guys, remember when _all of IRC_ went down?"

Obviously this sucks and I feel bad for all of those affected, especially the people fixing this or who depended on Slack for their workflow.

But it's hard to overstate the dangers of over-centralisation like this, and I say it as a person who uses Slack professionally.

Maybe running your own Zulip instance isn't as sexy or has the same integrations, but at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it and get status updates, and ultimately: as much as Ops is a dirty word; being able to plan your downtimes can help a _lot_.
I think in this exact usage it's a euphemism for some kind of specific London accent that I don't actually know the name for.
It's in some mailing list archives somewhere to the best of my recollection. Check around for his final mailing list and IRC messages

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/what-happened-when-bit...

This article seems to get into it if you want to read it all, let me know if you do so and find anything out, I only wish I had the time