skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the NSA strategy for 'securing' the nation against technology threats in their 'unique' way was going strong back in 1995.
> Most other modern governments just aren’t willing and able to use and abuse their citizens to quite the same degree that the CCP is.

Oh, really? Let's look at one metric: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_United_States_....

overall incarceration rate in the US is 639 per 100,000

The incarceration rate of the People's Republic of China varies depending on sources and measures. According to the World Prison Brief, the rate for only sentenced prisoners is 118 per 100,000 (as of 2015)

WTH is going on here?
Yep.

The steam tunnels were somewhat notorious for awhile there, played a role in the Dungeons and Dragons chapter of the satanic panic of the 80s.

Still, there were always a couple ways to get in. Fond memories.
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Thanks so much for the kind words.
The article explains all of this.
Drinking any amount of alcohol causes damage to the brain
Another thing is that the wording around some of the UB issues is just plain bad. The most extreme probably is the rules around strict aliasing. That there, for quite a while, was uncertainty whether the rules allow type punning by reading a union member when the last write was to another member of a good example of not taking reality into account. Yes memcpy exists - but it is even less type safe!
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China bets on open-source technologies to boost domestic innovation
You're right, it wasn't a very clear article. Kinda fluffy actually. But it did have one good point: that native English speakers often are not required to learn a second language to facilitate business, and so are less aware of the intricacies of intercultural communications (whereas everyone else had to learn English as a second language, so they're on more or less equal footing with each other).

Even in the English-speaking world, we run into similar issues communicating across borders, whether that's cultural differences across states, urban/rural divides, regional accents, or across countries (US/UK/Australia/South Africa/India, etc.)

I don't think the article presented enough evidence to support the headline that "native English speakers are the worst communicators". It's less about English vs any mother tongue being worse or better; rather, bilingualism has numerous benefits (intercultural communications being one of them), but many in the Anglosphere are not bilingual (because they're not forced to be, unlike people who have to learn English as a second language): https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428634-000-oh-to-be...

TLDR: Fluffy article, interesting underlying point
I think a start is getting to a point where your well-being isn't primarily based on social status and comforts. Stoicism and Buddhism have a lot to say on this but much of it is counter to American cultural norms.
I actually use Microsoft 365. I pay 100 euros per year for 6 people. It is very good. It is just that I wanted to see how good Fastmail is, as many people here love it, but the price for us is crazy high.
Perhaps worth mentioning that the fact that someone has a hidden agenda doesn't automatically make everything they say incorrect. In this case, the article tells its story through various statistics that seem to not be cherry-picked.
I have embedded a 0nm chip in this comment
NAPI-RS: build pre-compiled Node.js addons in Rust
Because those are the countries in question.
And the logo is "arm"! WTF!
'loot', 'dacoit', 'blighty', 'juggernaut', 'punch', 'chappals', 'verandah', 'bunglow' and too many to count all have Indian origins.

'blighty' is a misheard vilaiti(foreigner). It's a tango, that's how the sausage is made and there are no wrong answers.

You make a mess of yoga and Indian cuisine. We add liberal modifications to english. It's all good.

Interesting thing is, if there is a time when are a lot more Indians speaking English and all making the same 'mistakes' than other people, how long till the mistakes are part of the language.
Google is making finding Wear OS apps suck less
I think that's what I wrote?
For me? An old Sprinter van: Tall enough for a standing desk. Work anywhere, sleep anywhere, chill anywhere!
In case you are curious what the exact reason might be:

"It seems to me" is most likely coming from the much less fancy sounding, and more casual "мне кажется" (mnye kazhetsya).

"Mnye" would be "to me", and "kazhetsya" could be represented as "it seems". I say "could be" because there is no direct translation for "kazhetsya" as far as I'm aware.

The closest (and most direct) translation of "kazhetsya" that I can think of, and retains the meaning would be "it seems likely that <...>".

What she was trying to communicate was "I think", I think. (pun intended)
> Just say "use"! It sounds far less pretentious and means the exact same thing.

It's a pet peeve as well, but they don't mean the exact same thing; you "use" a doorstop to hold a door open, you "utilize" a shoe as a doorstop. "util - ize", to turn something into a utility, in a way that it wasn't before. Use an umbrella, utilize a leaf as an umbrella. Use email, utilize email as file transfer system.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-utilize-a-w...
I am 24 and I think she would not be happy to date me. I am attractive and have a nice FAANG SWE job, but I am not really looking for a relationship or even casual sex. I think there are a few reasons for this.

One is that I am totally fine with my life as it is - I have some friends, some hobbies, and unlimited entertainment via computers. I don't really get bored much, and so I don't really need to leave my comfort zone to have a good time. The pandemic has really intensified this because there is far less "fear of missing out" on a fun event when nobody is going outside.

Another reason (and probably more important) is that I can't seem to get aroused when I am actually hooking up with a girl. I had quite a few hookups during HS and college but have never really had a "successful" one so to speak. I am not sure why this is the case, I think it must be something to do with watching porn throughout the years, starting at an early age. It's like my sex drive has burned out, I just never really feel horny when with a real person. I used to be really depressed about this but at this point I have pretty much accepted it, and I just make zero effort to find a hookup. There is something really humiliating and terrible about hooking up with a girl and not being able to perform, and it is an experience I am not anxious to repeat.

Not sure why I felt the need to post this, but it's my situation. People who have known me for a while know I don't make any effort with women, but if you just met me, it will probably take a while for you to realize due to my highly practiced "mask".
Service, a Therapist. Great investment
At the end of the day they're both good e-readers but for me the larger size Forma was actually the big reason I switched. Portability isn't a factor for me but if it was I'd go for their smaller Libra model. I find the Forma lighting considerably better and more even and the font rendering better as well. I'm also not a big fan of the Oasis cold metallic feel... much prefer the Formo plastic / rubbery feel. I think for most it's a preference thing.
Are ships more polluting than Germany? (2018)
Awesome to see progress on this front making it into tools devs use day-to-day.

Babel compilation is, by far, the slowest part of our full-stack build. That includes turning java source into jvm bytecode.
"Even at levels of low-risk drinking, there
is evidence that alcohol consumption plays
a larger role in damage to the brain than
previously thought. The Oxford study found
that this role was greater than many other
modifiable risk factors, such as smoking."
The Arab with 3000 Cars the Real Life Tarzan in Jungle
So is this another independent JS compiler implementation comparable to ES Build?
The author suggests that the text following the definition of "undefined behavior", listing the permitted or possible range of undefined behavior, should be read to restrict the consequences.

But the first possibility listed is "ignoring the situation completely with unpredictable results". Surely that covers any possible consequences.

The author also says:

> Returning a pointer to indeterminate value data, surely a “use”, is not undefined behavior because the standard mandates that malloc will do that.

Returning a pointer to data is not a use of that data. The fact that its value is indeterminate isn't relevant until you attempt to read it (without first writing it).

It may be worthwhile to reduce the number of constructs whose behavior is undefined, making them implementation-defined or unspecified instead. For example, if signed integer overflow yielded an unspecified result rather than causing undefined behavior, I wonder if any implementations would be adversely affected. (But it would remove the possibility of aborting a program that computes INT_MAX+1.)

I don't think reinterpreting "undefined behavior" as anything other than "the Standard imposes no requirements" is practical. If a program writes through a dangling pointer and, for example, clobbers a function's return address, what constraints could be imposed on what the program might do next?
I have been interested in the Moonlander keyboard. What were some of the edge cases for you that made it more difficult to use than a traditional keyboard, and how long did it take you to get up to speed typing?
If my mom buys an iPhone and then finds out two years later that it was a mistake, at that point she probably has a bunch of apps she'll have to re-buy on Android (Apple gives developers no way to offer cross-buy like this), and she may need to switch providers for things like e-mail or messaging if she was relying on Apple's email service or iMessage. This creates a lock-in effect because not everyone can afford to drop a bunch of money to leave the walled garden.

I think in general people like you or me are savvy enough to not get harmed by these Apple policies, but court cases like this are about protecting everyone.
This story would be many times more interesting with more technical details and less "human drama".
reMarkable 2. I was looking for a sketching and note taking tool and got a decent eBook reader as a bonus. The UX is very nice and distraction-free. It works surprisingly well for drawing as well.

My only complaint is the lack of Linux support for the app that allows mirroring the screen to a computer. Would be really cool for sketching stuff during online meetings.
I believe he’s arguing that they were more sane/pragmatic compilers — they would be inherently less comfortable exploiting UB to do anything other than what people expected or were used to, because there is more real possibility of retribution (GCC could get away with making demons fly out your nose and just lose marketshare [that it doesn’t directly depend on anyways] where a commercial compiler would go out of business)
TSMC and Partners Develop Key Feature for Sub 1nm Process Technology
I'll take the downvote. people need to start speaking out about the apartheid in Palestine
I'm not a young man but I told my son who is now a young adult two things.

A pregnant partner will change your entire path and options forever.

Also, one in five people in America have herpes, and one in five of those people don't know it. If it's not "one in five," it's "some number" significant enough to pay heed.

Those would seem enough to at least slow your roll.
So the heat pumps can also do cooling during the summer? What was the ballpark range for three of those, installed?
I welcome our new Chinese overlords [1]. China is buying the white-man token on the dip, ignoring Western "diversity" premiums.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-jobs-breakingvi...
I don’t think the opposite of ”idiot” is ”well-educated”.

And I also didn’t like the quoted person in the article that said they had to (my words) “dumb down” their technical conversation whenever an American entered the conversation or they wouldn’t understand the terms they were using. That is just arrogance and borderline xenophobism in my opinion. Neither the implication that speaking perfect grammar and knowing more words is almost equivalent to moral superiority.

Anyway, that represents the diversity in non-native speakers perceptions somehow I guess. I enjoyed a lot the insights of the professor from New Delhi — I loved the word prepone - and I think the concern about prejudice over not being “native” or “mother tongue” very valid.
Hey, I've resolved this issue. Try again :) There was something wrong with the way I posted the link.
"you "use" a doorstop to hold a door open, you "utilize" a shoe as a doorstop."

Really?

Because I'd use a shoe as a doorstop.

I'd never "utilize" anything.

Update: Well, on doing a bit of research in to this instead of just using my intuition, I found that you're absolutely right about the special meaning of the word "utilize", according to a number of sources like [1].

I guess I must have been too hard on those people who were properly using the word.

Still, a survey of articles on these terms shows I'm far from the only one for whom the word "utilize" sounds pretentious, so in ordinary, non-specialist language I'd still err on the side of caution and use the word "use", which can in fact be used correctly everywhere "utilize" is used.

There's a good discussion of various points of view on this issue in [2].

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/is-utilize-a-w...

[2] - https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/19811/using-util...
https://github.com/klinker-apps/talon-for-twitter-android/is...

Twitter's thread/reply API has been changed a lot. It definitely works better now.

I will also be honest, Talon basically isn't really updated any more.

I remembered the last time I used it, it has a bug that it will always re-save/re-compress the image when you download, which is very easy to fix, but the author didn't do anything about it. I just checked, the bug is still there..

https://github.com/klinker-apps/talon-for-twitter-android/is... and https://github.com/klinker-apps/talon-for-twitter-android/is...
"This Little Maneuver's Gonna Cost Us 51 Years" :D
I'd like to recommend "The Bread Baker's Apprentice" as a next-level bread book. Full of recipes, techniques, photos, and history.
See e.g. https://github.com/postgres/postgres/blob/8bdd6f563aa2456de6...
Also dialects spoken by yiddish speakers, most frequently found in east coast cities like New York.
TikTok’s recommendation algorithm promoting homophobia and anti-trans violence
The stereotype I heard was that security is under appreciated, so you get less respect at work while simultaneously getting paid less. I don’t know first hand, is this true?
> At either side of the twin juncture, the molecular networks abruptly transformed their handedness.

this seems rather intuitive to me, and unsurprising.

for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction.

a spinning cue ball changes directions when it bounces off a rail.

it's the same reason circular polarizers let you see through reflections in glass.
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55 inch 4K TV to use as my computer screen. I can sit further away (I'm pretty sure it's less eye strain for the screen to be further away), fit more windows comfortably (great for dev work), and when I'm done with work I can sit back further on the couch and watch anime and movies with my wife.

Addressable (programmable) LED strip - you can use an Arduino or Raspberry Pi to play with it - going to have fun playing with it.
You're right, it should be automatic storage duration instead of static storage duration.
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For sure - at least with the parts in their current form. A simple flip-flop takes up a minimum space of about 30 cm x 30 cm. But I wonder how small these parts could get. Like, what if spintronics was invented in the 19th century instead of the 21st century? Would Moore's law have applied to mechanical transistors?
Olympus BH-2 microscope for taking pictures of silicon dies. Really fascinating hobby I've just gotten into.

Proper setup for audio/video: Sony a6000, Yamaha MG10X, Rode NT-1A, etc. etc.

Mini revamp of the kitchen to add more storage cabinets.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17454467 made very much the same argument.
> These are monocultures with their own logic and behavior.

America is a monoculture too, to non-racialists. The differences between Americans can be attributed to sub-region and class/income - not race
10 foot charging cables for my phone and devices and a Roomba vacuum cleaner. Cables let me plug in where ever as I am generally within 8 feet of a plug and the roomba does a pretty good job of keeping the house clean of hair from the dog.
I came here with the same pedantic idea about arctic ice- in the summer wouldn't it be detached from any land?
The difference is that, once decided and written, no party (both old and new) can’t chime in with a new interpretation.
It looks to be 60Hz. I think 144Hz is nice even if you only write code. Everything is more smooth, like scrolling code or documents.
No, that is not the purpose of a market at all.

And no, competition doesn’t mean participants are forced to deliver better value for money.

And no, industry won’t regulate itself.

We need regulation to force market participants to participate in a way that even remotely resembles “fair”. The default mode of operation for suppliers in a market is “extract maximum value.”
2nd on the EXIT games
You should take a look at companies like https://lightmatter.co/

Photonic chips for analog matrix processing are already being commercialized.

The underlying platform, CMOS Silicon Photonics is commercial already (in every data center) and produced in high volume.

Heavyhash can be constructed such that the Keccak hashes comprise a minimal amount of the work.

Quoting from the BIP:

"Below is a conceptual representation of a 3D-packaged oPoW mining chip. Note that the majority of the real estate and cost comes from the photonic die and the laser, with only a small digital SHA3 die needed (as opposed to a conventional miner of the same cost, which would have many copies of this die running in parallel)."
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New opportunities in the Red Hat Desktop team
I was in Glasgow years ago for a conference. Wonderfully friendly locals, I didn't understand a word they said.
Nah you're gonna be supporting a creature for 10 years plus, get what you want. It's no one else's business. Adopted dogs aren't automatically more deserving of a home than pure bred bought dogs. I've done both and each has pros/cons.

You don't know what you're getting if you get an adopted dog a lot of the time. It can be unpredictable. It still costs a decent amount of money to adopt from a good shelter.

Whereas, if you buy a breed you generally know what its personality is going to be and what health problems it'll encounter. You just have to make sure it's from a legit breeder.
You probably can do it, but should you? You can build a house using only cardboard, or write a book using only words shorter than six letters. The result is not simplicity, though. The result is an idiosyncratic oddity that will have you swimming upstream, something no one else can understand, with huge usability and interoperability problems.

You can’t get around the unfortunate fact that web browsers only render HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Yes, the front-end landscape is a complicated mess, and it takes time to learn. Many frameworks and libraries exist to abstract and hide a lot of the mess — take your pick. Eventually you either understand and can work with HTML, CSS, and JS or you don’t. If you don’t you will limit what you can accomplish, and your job prospects.
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Do you know of a way to take notes _on_ a ePub book? I’d love to buy a new iPad just for this if there was a way to do it. As far as I have tried, Apple Books, or Kindle don’t allow markup on ePub books.
Dyson Fan/Heater/Purifier. Bought this on a whim refurbished when we had wildfires last year.

So much better than a space heater - has a real thermostat instead of the low/high + knob. Don't have to worry about burn hazard or damaging my hardwood floors (causing gaps). Also able to get rid of my box fan + filter.
Becoming a Generalist: The Long Road to Unlimited Options
> It wasn't that long ago when magazines like Wired cared a great deal about the page

Do you remember the super-early Wired print editions, because those colors made it barely readable.
> The C standard is a product of an era where you would pay for your tools and so would demand a refund from any compiler vendor that would treat undefined behavior in an absurd manner.

Since current compilers aren’t out to do anything malicious with UB, but instead simply treat it as “assume this can’t happen and proceed accordingly”, it’s not clear at all to me what you think paid compilers would do here instead: refuse to compile vast swaths of code that currently compiles? Or compile it very pessimistically, forgoing any optimization opportunities by instead assuming it can happen and inserting a bunch of runtime checks in order to catch it then?

In either case, I doubt there’s any real market for “pay money for this compiler and it either won’t build your code, or it will run more slowly”. I’m just old enough to remember the paid C compiler market and the thing that was driving everybody to pay for the latest and greatest upgrade was “how much better is it at optimization than before?”
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Could be an error by the definition of these variables ?
Since the gym closed down during the lockdown, I bought a pedal assisted ebike to go around. It really helps on those hills and the extra push going through those tough spots.

TOTO bidet. The bidet from Costco failed after 3 years. TOTO is another class.
Surly Bridge Club. Go anywhere, do anything bike.
The Most Important Criteria for Choosing a Programming Language
Mozilla making money? LOL. Google just sends them spare change, pretending to pay for placement, to have an alt browser to show to antitrust authorities. Third-party use of Gecko satisfies that too.
I noticed dove/pigeon on there:

I was taking an Arabic class and the professor was Egyptian. At one point she mentioned 'Pigeons of peace', which sounded ridiculous to my ears since 'doves' are a peace symbol and not pigeons, even though they are the same animal.
Depends on the type of defect. Dislocations can move around quite a bit and they do affect the structural integrity of the material.

This is why if you bend a fork, you will never be able to fully unbend it (without heat treatment), there will always be a S-shaped bend it it.
That's "Rev. Malthus". He was an ordained curate of the Church of England.
Ever since Mojang was sold to MS in 2014, I'd say his notoriety has dropped quite a bit. Most people that would have been familiar with him are now in their mid teens at the youngest.
You need to maintain an EV, just a bit less.
Mechanical Turing machines can be small, such as: https://hackaday.com/2018/03/08/mechanical-wooden-turing-mac...

They will take a long time to compute something like SHA2
I do, if you do something like type(x) == SomeClass then you won't catch any subclasses of SomeClass
Educating others is hard work too. Most edutainment stuff was lazy, poorly designed shovelware. Usually a flash card program with some extra graphics and sounds. Some, on the other hand were excellent.

I remember being fascinated with a lot of the games back in the 90s. Gazillionaire, Oregon Trail, Amazon Trail, Africa Trail, Simcity, Carmen Sandiego, and all the Learning Company games were amazingly educational and entertaining. They just weren't profitable.