skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's such a good example for teaching purposes, because it manages to combine the lack of understanding surrounding the remainder operator (i.e. unlike python % in c is not modulus) with the lack of understanding surrounding 0x80000000 (two's complement bane) into a single example. However it still makes my point that in this circumstance, the compiler's strategy still is to do nothing, because it can prove that the check could only be true under undefined behavior circumstances, so doing nothing means not compiling the check. I'm fine with that. Would anyone prefer that the compiler's internal definition of logic assume that absolute values can be negative? Must we throw out centuries of math because we've optimized integers to be 32-bits?

The only thing that's problematic is we need better tools to bring logic assumptions to our attention. Currently, UBSAN can only warn us about that when two's bane actually gets passed to the function at runtime. So the only way to spot faulty logic we failed to consider is to both enable UBSAN and be super methodical about unit testing.

Well, another thing I like to do is just read the assembly output. Constantly. Whenever I write something like a parser I've got a keyboard mapping that shows me the assembly output in Emacs with UBSAN enabled. If I turn off the noisy ones like pointer overflow then I can avoid these issues altogether by writing my code so that no UBSAN assembly gets generated. Since the compiler won't show that as a warning. You literally have to read the -S assembly output to get the compiler warnings that are actually meaningful.
GHB is kind of similar to alcohol, but I'm not sure that the long term effects on the brain are any better.
Along similar lines, does anyone know of any good way to turn images into 'hedcut' WSJ style art? I've seen a few attempts but they don't tend to be very good, but it feels like something that's solvable, even if with a GAN or something.
An earlier idea I had for this was to put two tweets side by side and ask the user to say which tweet was more offensive. Then, I figured I could use the ELO rating system to come up with an "Offensive score" for each tweet. e.g. "This tweet has an offensiveness of 2200" or something like that. I could then compare the average offensiveness of tweets that Twitter considered offensive versus not.

I wound up not going with that approach because many times you just have two completely innocuous tweets and picking which of the two of them is "more offensive" is just arbitrary. I could have curated the tweets so that only ones that were kind of offensive were in the quiz, but then I might be putting my thumb on the scales to get the answer I already believed in. I'd also need to get lots of ratings for each Tweet to have a stable score.

I think your idea is pretty interesting. It would allow a conclusion like "The average tweet Twitter marks as offensive is X% likely to offend a rater." I was coming at it more from a "Twitter's offensive identification is like random chance" perspective rather than just trying to assess quality. If I had considered this idea while creating the quiz I might have gone with it!
Dude, that's basically what we have now. Bond, fines, court fees, lawyer fees, prison labor, etc. Even if you win, you still lose financially.

Edit: I forgot a big one. The early intervention or accelerated rehabilitation programs cost tons of money, paid both to the system and to the vendors of ignition interlocks, ankle bracelets, etc. You really are paying to stay out of prison.
I (and I think many others in crypto) have always assumed that any money/crypto transactions at any exchanges in the US is reported to the government or will be reported sooner or later. So not that big of a news imo.
I love how gerrymandered these proposals are. Make sure that the Bay Area is split across two states, so that both stay blue.
Some interesting parallels to us. Sounds like the infected ants could be described as their colony's "job creators".
The ever-expanding state of ad filters these days makes honest webpage development way too hard. I found out the other day that another web "annoyances" filter was erasing _buttons_ generated by streamlit.io (a python data visualization library for web). Like someone out there is doing something hostile and now I can't trust that an interface for showing a k-means plot of some data will work for people anymore.
I actually purposefully try not to use sesquipedalian language much anymore ( ;) ) because I'm always afraid it's going to come off as pompous, and moreover nothing is worse than someone who learned a new fancy word but is using it incorrectly. Well, one thing is worse: when you're that person.
OK, it's 2021 already, sometimes I forget, so we are probably already north of 30 years. Anyway as I said they have been refurbished and they are OK, at least on the comfort side (AC and heating, sits quality). I hope they are the same on the safety and mechanical side...
> I don't think $

You're right, although cycling instead of erroring out was surprising to me. Another verb I had trouble with is roll/deal: https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Vocabulary/query

> it shouldn't be too illogical.

I'm not saying it's illogical. I'm pretty sure there are good reasons behind the design of each word, especially since there are so few. As I mentioned, I suspect it's just a matter of me not getting enough exposure to the various use-cases of many standard words.
It is ridiculous that they refuse to publish and just reject. Even Orwell in 1948 knew that words can be cut out and substituted with an industrial scale staff. These days Apple could simply hire a KI to rewrite the offending passages.
For some, that .8% will never be enough.
The important difference is having a choice of who you deal with.
Another noob question I've never heard explained in a way I can understand:

How does gravity escape from a black hole? It, like light, travels at the speed of light. So if light cannot escape, how does gravity?
Ideally, support from society would stop them from going feral. There's no reason we have to be insecure in housing (there are more vacant homes than homeless people), no reason we couldn't have universal healthcare in the USA (plenty of other countries have it), no reason the economy has to have a ceiling on unskilled labor (during my parent's generation a factory worker could support a family).

Instead, we prefer to live in a ruthless society where losing your job puts your very survival in jeopardy. The problem is capitalism, not the biology of men.
In the study they say that 27% of the variance is explained by age. So the effect of alcohol consumption certainly is insignificant compared to the effect of age.

However, the authors think the effect of alcohol is notable because that 0.8% was still larger than any other factor they tested, like smoking.
I’m sure all the crypto fans are lining up around the block to tell us that their pet technology doesn’t waste valuable resources, it just uses storage that would otherwise have gone unused, as they do with Bitcoin and electricity.
From a week of usage my outstanding missing piece is yubikey support. Really can't complain tho: it's still early, open-source, and a great product.
> 1 billion pending verifications

> to be processed by 1000 customer support agents

Good luck with that
Even if microscopic, wormholes that allow information to be transmitted through them would still be interesting if the ends can be moved independently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wormhole#Time_travel
There is a very large population of non-drinkers. Some surveys say that upwards of 50% of North America has less than a handful of drinks a year (ie only holidays/weddings and such). While that doesn't qualify as total abstinence, from a medical/safety perspective such people are dry. What has happened in recent decades is that those who do drink regularly tend to drink more.

https://www.alcohol.org/guides/volume-of-non-drinkers-by-us-...
Before the iPhone existed, there were feature phones, and Carmack wrote games for feature phones.
> in how many contexts is INT_MAX + 1 overflowing to INT_MIN actually sane semantics? Unless you're immediately attempting to check the result to see if it overflowed (which is extremely rare in the code I see)

It's not that rare - I know that postgres got bit by particularly that issue, and several other other projects as well. Particularly painful because that obviously can cause security issues.
Is it really hard to extract data? That would appear to be an unnecessary friction and not in the interest of any serious vendor.

I imagine the lockin is all the custom code you wrote for the platform. The data is portable, even the schema can be reproduced in a fairly straightforward way. But all your bespoke automation code is not portable.
In order to create 2 new Senate seats.
I think this means that after the iPhone appeared, j2me phones went extinct.
I have some experience with academic policy and stuff like that.

While I don't philosophically agree with the sentiment what someone making actual policy will tell you is that scientists are, in average, already being payed way more than the "value" they add to "the economy" in their lifetime. There doesn't seem to be a supply crunch for people wanting to pursue a career as a biomedical researcher and the field is highly competitive, as most people on it can tell you.

To change that, being completely blunt and with no nuance, I think three things can help:

- As a society scientists get "moved out of the market". They kinda already are "out of the market" if you think that most of the money they make comes from strategic government grants backed by monetary emission or by discretionary allocation by "illuminated" boards that are sitting on a stash of money that patents from a very small percentage of previous "science" makes.

- We low the barrier for someone to be able to do the "science" we need. Like with music production. A lot of people will be able to self-finance. This is happening with lab equipment but it will likely never happen with research trials and human experimentation.

- More money is thrown to whatever "science" we want in general. Like what happened with space exploration or AI.

I hope a little bit of the three keep on slowly happening and maybe eventually we will reach a breaking point where everyone has access to personalized cutting edge medicine/diet/exercise plans. I don't find it likely but I hope we make progress torwards that in my lifetime.
Likely in the same vein as "please do the needful", just a common translation / usage quirk.
I was actually just thinking of buying a fancy Tesla being an end node for laundered money - it's fancy and flashy so I'd imagine that if you've got a fair amount of cash sitting around snapping up one of those is attractive.

Also, I do agree that it seems like a stretch, that claim is entirely baseless and speculative - hence the tin foil hat prefix.
Thanks, fixed the mobile link
Especially for us old-timers; gotta love that long-term capital gains tax rate! Set aside some of the gains into a high-yield savings account for making estimated tax payments, pay off some small debts, buy a couple nice things, and put the rest into a brokerage account to buy Vanguard ETFs.
Maybe - ETH staking was specifically setup with incentives to encourage self hosting as much as possible (downtime penalties are tiny, especially if they only comprise a small portion of the network). There are some "decentralized" staking options that don't give over custody of your funds (the node operator only has enough control to run the node, doesn't actually have the ability to take your funds).

And even with centralized exchanges, at least this system gives people a choice. I can choose to run my own Ethereum staking node. I can't choose to operate a bank / participate in the fed's central banking system.
For reference, this is about 100K people of 4.2M in Oregon (1). The rural counties of Southern Oregon and Northern California have been proposing the state of Jefferson for a while now (2). From my experience living there for a few years, it's the most libertarian place I've ever seen. It's like Texas without the Christianity. People there generally support gay marriage, abortion, and cannabis legalization but also low taxes, no gun restrictions and limited government.

(1) https://www.oregon-demographics.com/counties_by_population

(2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_(proposed_Pacific_st...
Worked for me and there was one requirement that was a bit strange that I didn't see documented anywhere; you have to add a 'Hashtag URL', which is "The URL of a Twitter search for a specific and notable hashtag that you created or is about you." See: https://twitter.com/geerlingguy/status/1395463184681771016
Separating UX and "security" from a cryptosystem is impossible. Poor UX leads directly to security vulnerabilities.

Heck, we've seen that in library code: your AES implementation may be sound, but if the library interfaces make it easy to reuse an IV, or use a null IV[1], you have a broken cryptosystem.

[1]: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5408
Hetzner has forbidden Chia yesterday too because the disk are used a lot when chia farming.
No way. There are plenty of dumb phones. I never heard the term feature phone before but when I google it I see it described as dumb phones.

I have a great Alcatel dumb phone with dual sims and NO OTHER FEATURES. :D That's exactly what you want from a dumb phone. It works just fine on any mobile network today in Sweden. It cost the equivalent of 24 USD.
Indian Government Gives 7-Days to WhatsApp for Privacy Policy Roll Back
Road is dangerous - so it has some bends ???.
He should see some of the roads I had to drive this morning - all downhill/potholes/uneven road camber in heavy rain.
> he cop became immensely excited when she thought she'd get me for a DUI

That alone is pretty messed up. A cop should be annoyed and disappointed to be in that situation. Arresting and booking someone should be a big hassle that they shouldn't want. And let's say you had been drinking alcohol; who knows how long you might have been drinking before you got pulled over... who knows who you might have killed. And a cop is reacting with happiness that they might have gotten you on a DUI? Gross.
>platform that tries to address most of animal-human bond related topics

I've never had a pet, so I would not know where to start. Would the platform provide guidance for a first time pet owner, something like a Duolingo experience with achievements that takes me from making sure the pet does not die due to something that is obvious for experienced pet owners but completely alien to me?

Would the platform be open for third party experts to publish their courses for specific breeds? Say I want to have a Dobermann; this breed requires experience which I lack. Would it be possible to follow a course for exactly that breed?

Again, I'm not a user of the application and don't intend to adopt a pet so my feedback is not worth that much, but I'm curious.
That isn't really relevant to the article. The article is only comparing native English speakers to non-native English speakers, not other languages.
That is so ridiculous. You can be born into this world without your decision or input. Your parents made that choice. Your parents can also choose to kick you out right at 18, after fulfilling their legal obligation.

Then, down the line, you can be held responsible for potentially even more than 18 years of more expensive care? Absolutely unfair.
Wait: Can you always test for divisibility by $n$ in base $n+1$ like that?
Hey, we are constantly improving our landing page so any feedback on it very constructive. Thanks for the affirmation there.
In the UK, there is a campaigning organisation called the 'Plain English Campaign' which promotes clear, easy-to-understand written English suitable for any industry or profession.

Although, the organisation is based in the UK, their advice is relevant for anyone who writes or reads English.

Here is their clear, simple and short guide on How to write in plain English [PDF]:

http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/files/howto.pdf
Is this a serious comment that 1.99 is overpriced for unlimited content?
It's just amazing how satisfying these little incremental observations are, and equally amazing how much work goes into it.

What I found similarly fascinating was this interactive of our neighborhood - 33 light-year field, green are detected planets: https://gruze.org/fly_10pc/ (mouse wheel, click n drag, right click and drag)
Supernatural is my favorite and the one that I use most consistently.
Eh, Tesla was advertising "MSRPs" including thousands in gas savings

Or well, I guess they still are.
Unless the people around them behave like the uninfected ants and just worship them 24/7.
Left pad with zeros
You can see what remains of their cheap STORE servers: https://www.scaleway.com/en/dedibox/pricing/?family=STORE
The Military Is Creating a ‘Gig Eagle’ App to Uber-Ize Its Workforce
Is there any crypto currency actually being used as currency in day to day transactions or is it just a vehicle for speculation now?
Aerogarden. I've always got a fresh supply of basil and chives and dill now.
Ditto. Also, FBAR reporting of any account with 10k+ in it. Like seriously, the IRS/US is concerned about 10k in a bank account? Gotta get those tax evaders!
Is this another case of worse is better? Dammit.

(also funny that the title is native speakers are hard to understand in an honest language situation, I would say it's natural)
What's the issue with the API?
> but then if it didn't suck I'd probably like it

"I don't like it so it sucks"
> Can you provide even one real-world example where this makes a difference, i.e. not some microbenchmark

Sure. I don't even have to leave this thread to find one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27223954 reports a measurable speed impact to PostgreSQL when compiled with -fwrapv, which rules out the exact optimization in question.

This shouldn't be surprising; loops are extremely common and superscalar processors benefit enormously from almost anything other than a naïve translation of them.

Here's -fwrapv cutting performance of a function in half in Cython vs the non-fwrapv compilation: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46496295/poor-performanc...
The study doesn't infer causality. It could just be that people who drink happen to belong to the same class of people who lose 0.8% of grey matter.
Although it's true that BTC's energy consumption is bonkers, with this definition, nearly every computation is useless. Hacker New's cryptographically verifying your account's password hash so that you can post this opinion was Proof of Useless Work. Why not spend those CPU cycles on curing cancer?

Because that's simply not how the world works. Not everything needs some grand purpose.
> An Apartment - A house that is my own, not my parent's place, but mine.

Are you renting or owning?
I remember using infraport tethering from my Sony Ericsson 68i to my Palm Tungten T and it worked fine - good enough for ICQ, telnet and IIRC some lightweight webbrowsing. Also you could feel finally living the future. :)

Even though I never did get a Sharp Zaurus in the end, I migrated directly from Palm TX Neoo FreeRunner and to Nokia N900 and the rest is history. And I'm running Sailfis OS on my Xperia X now. :)
Right. Eating shrooms might fix your brain, and enslave you to think about forests and shrooms with some affection for the rest of your life. It is a tragic outcome for those who prefer to be isolated from nature.
ether-a-go-go-related ... LOL
Does anyone know of any attempts at writing new web engines? Or at least one built off of WebKit to diverge from Chromium?
I'm curious what OS and version of GCC she used for this writeup - I tried to follow along, but I got a seg fault when I tried to overflow the stack on Debian Buster using GCC 8.3.
Why would you care if "all of IRC" went down when you and your colleagues depend on one particular server?
> Alcohol consumption was linearly and negatively associated with indices of brain health across most of the brain.

> Detrimental effects of drinking appear to be greater than other modifiable factors. Current ‘low risk’ drinking guidelines should be revisited to take account of brain effects.

The authors are pretty clear. You are, of course, free to draw your own conclusions.
Definitely not. The compliance obligations for Tesla would be identical to someone purchasing a vehicle with cash which, AFAIK, is still an acceptable form of payment.
Doesn't Eastern Washington also have a similar demographic? Maybe combine them too.
I'm not sure why this is downvotes. Many platform - dating apps, whatsapp, Facebook etc - use verification for verification.

Only Instagram and Twitter use it for notability.

Why not allow anyone to verify, and mark notability separately?

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I'm pretty bad about alcohol, I still abuse it very often (I'm getting better at cutting back though).

Back when I went on week long benders, nothing was worse than the lack of REM sleep. Worse than blackouts, injuries from bumping into stuff, doing regretful things, etc. Waking up tired and needing to go to work is the worst feeling.
This parody is so accurate it hurts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni8CpIJpmqw ('how twitter verification works' by Gus Johnson)
If you think that’s transitory, have you seen FaceBook? Twitter? If it’s not from like this week or newer, it’s effectively gone forever, impossible to find again.
Misused English words and expressions in EU publications [0]

> Over the years, the European institutions have developed a vocabulary that differs from that of any recognised form of English. It includes words that do not exist or are relatively unknown to native English speakers outside the EU institutions and often even to standard spellcheckers/grammar checkers (‘planification’, ‘to precise’ or ‘telematics’ for example) and words that are used with a meaning, often derived from other languages, that is not usually found in English dictionaries (‘coherent’ being a case in point).

[0] https://www.eca.europa.eu/Other%20publications/EN_TERMINOLOG...
Because voting is easy and moving is hard.
No it is not. As a maths guy I can tell you two things. One: math does not make it true. Two: You need to be able to build a disprovable model against this. No. No wormhole. Its not even needed to explain behavior. this is pure science fiction.
Dwarf Fortress?
I didn't knew about that, thanks. In Europe you don't have such thing, so you end up w/ a mountain of NDAs (or just don't care and cross your fingers).
This made me wonder if inflation is enough to account for price increases. For instance, it could be the case - I don't know since I'm not an acquainted with the field/data - that the costs of important goods such as homes, cars, education, health care, etc. has increased more or less that what that 10k approx. 70k figure tells you. For instance, maybe its the case that for a generic 10k its worth 70k distributed over all goods and services, but for those that matter most maybe its 250k or 20k, I don't know. Does anyone know more about this topic?

I think they use a basket of goods to calculate inflation, but how has that basket changed / been updated over time? Can any economist weigh in here?
That's sort of what I inferred. Given that, I feel uncomfortable with their recommendation that we should start telling people there is no safe level of drinking. It is true in a literal sense, but I don't think there's sufficient evidence to suggest that people who genuinely drink very moderately need to change their habits radically in order to live healthier or happier lives.
I was pleasantly surprised to see Alison Pill (played Kim Pine in Scott Pilgrim vs the World) in Devs.

I guess she was in at least one episode of ST:PIC but I haven't followed up on that.