skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is missing the important reference to the prior work by Edelkamp and Weiss, on branchless quicksort [1].

I've long since implemented that in pdqsort [2], along with other techniques described by me in [3] which is a drop-in replacement for std::sort that's ~twice as fast as std::sort for small data with branchless comparisons. It's also available in Boost.sort [4].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.06697
[2] https://github.com/orlp/pdqsort
[3] https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05123
[4] https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_76_0/libs/sort/doc/html/sor...
Would you say the same thing about abortions? Just because a child was taught that contraception is evil, we shouldn't have to pay for her abortion?
Somewhat surprising (disappointing?) for me to find India, Mexico and Hungary on the list: "at least 10 governments believed to be NSO customers who were entering numbers into a system: Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Morocco, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, India, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)."
I feel like the climate is falling apart orders of magnitude faster than we thought it would. Heat waves, greek-lettered hurricanes, floods, and other extreme weather events were supposed to be decades out.

Are we really going to get ahead of this thing?
I’m doing the opposite and deploy all my services (go), postgresql and nginx in docker with docker compose. The isolation and easy deployment with some scripts works for me.

I hosted my own registry to have as many images as needed in docker too.
Which is why I included it first and did not bury it and did not ignore it on my search. But I will give you brownie and taco points for actually reading the references

I have read many scientific, peer-reviewed papers on this subject. There is too much 'insufficient' data and too much correlation/causation issues. I am a hardware engineer, so am driven, delimited, and succeed or fail on the veracity of my data. I can generally depend on good data provided by suppliers and its efficacy because it is based on Physics. I have read may MS and PhD papers in botany and cellular biology, and a few CDC/NIH/FDA papers on the OT. I will conjecture that there are too many life scientists on these research teams and not enough physical scientists and engineers.
I too have realized the value of Apple Watch and voice interfaces (Siri, Google, Alexa) when your hands are constantly full.

I remember seeing someone had created a way to code using voice commands in dragon dictate and I’m wondering if it could be valuable to new parents
I have fixed some very broken code at work, and person who had originally added the code to the project just commented to the PR "I copied it from StackOverflow so it must be right". That person had architect title and I don't, so he must have been doing something right.
It's not possible or necessary. You can regulate them by controlling the entry/exit into fiat.

Right now, no crypto has value outside of: A) dollar backing, B) speculation/Ponzi schemes, or C) crime.
NSO is clearly in the business of selling surveillance to foreign entities, and saying they vet people is nothing but smoke as there is zero actual evidence other than their blanket statements. If some government or other customer tells them they only attack terrorists, it's clearly easy to target anyone; how would NSO even know.

Also rather stupid was Apple's statement about their phones being secure, when its obvious there are zero days being sold to NSO instead of telling Apple. Everything is insecure these days, at some level.

If NSO paid people $1M for a zero day (I bet they don't say), and Apple/Google/etc paid $10K, who do you think gets the info.
Land without drilling is a tar pit. Gasoline is free in countries that drill. Solar costs are down because they count replacements as something new, big government subsidies, and slave labor. You still need to mine for rare earths.
More specific details on Pegasus here:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/jul/18/what-is-pegasus...
Because this generation of parents are easily terrified and easily manipulated by fear.
I'm not sure what's really "missed", if you call a library other than the stdlib of course you're going to need to provide the appropriate headers/libraries for that as that's got nothing to do with a C compiler.
It doesn't take an explicit argument, but time is definitely an implicit argument of your function; how else do you think the function is implemented?
1. Complexity. Docker is harder than starting a process.

2. Scaling vertically first. I’m not even joking. Don’t like build things so you can’t scale horizontally but scale vertically first... this also means you will like be able to count your servers using your digits. Everything about Docker will be more difficult to maintain for such a small number of servers. Systemd unit files and some disk images are a lot easier to manage than k8s.

3. I think you have this backwards. Ask yourself, what are the reasons you have to use docker? Because I honestly can’t think of one unless you’re getting into the business of like supporting or running other folks containers.
Depends. Classes certified under 23(b)(3) can generally be opted out of, but those under (b)(1) or (b)(2) generally can’t.
Life will go on, the earth will continue to orbit the sun. Even if the earth was flung away from the sun, life would go on, in the form of subterranean bacteria.

The thing we're concerned about is that humans are apex predators and depend on a functioning food chain to survive. Filter feeders eat algae. Unconstrained algal growth is toxic to fish (salmon) that we eat. Oyster and mussel farms were devastated and some won't see a rebound for at least 3 years if we don't have another event like this. Bears eat salmon, and when they can't find it, they seek other food sources like humans.

This story is a single datum. We've got freak cold snaps on the east coast and Texas. Flooding in Europe. The world is rapidly becoming more hostile to human life.

But yeah, a hot, acidic ocean will still support life -- maybe nothing we can eat for a few hundred generations, but life goes on with or without us. Hotter climes will spread tropical bugs and diseases; life goes on.

But we're still looking for intelligent life that's survived the "hold my beer" great filter. Haven't found such extraterrestrials; jury's still out on terrestrials.
From an employer’s perspective, I’d be super interested in hearing about the experience of applying for this visa too!
Does the UK government make it easy to apply? What are the interviews like? Anything your employer did that made the whole process easier for you?
I recently changed my opinion on todo list type projects. I previously thought it was a crowded place and a solved problem, not worth building yet another. But a todo list is such a powerful tool and has so many different use cases that each new variation can focus on a different niche and brings new value.

Great work!
Ah, sorry, I falsely assumed it’s a very recent article and didn’t check its date.
No, I'm thinking about well meaning security people who focused a bit too much on E2E-encryption and forgot that WhatsApp sent metadata in bulk to Facebook and uploaded backups unencrypted to Google and/or iCloud.
The new business model for magazines like Scientific American seems to be subscription confirmation bias. I’m a former subscriber.
Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have been, it's time flexibility that I'm after more than anything. I'd prefer my day-to-day schedule to be in my hands rather than my boss's because that way I can much better optimise my work stack for what fits my current neurological status. I'm rarely completely out for the count, but there's periods where I find one category of task much easier than another and I'd prefer to work in a way that optimises for this. I'd also like to have more flexibility in the kinds of projects I can take on, because some are much worse affected than others.

I'd also be able to reduce almost all of the stress that comes from the presenteeism and having to act more emotionally invested in someone else's dreams than I am in reality. It's not that I want to do less work overall, it's that I want to transition to short bursts of intense work on a more flexible schedule rather than a Sisyphean grind of moderate work, with longer breaks in between because I believe that can be better scheduled around my circumstances.
All I know is that if I was black, I’d have be damn distrustful considering the history of experimentation—especially when news came out last year that some folks at the CDC were advocating prioritizing the delivery of the “non-fda approved, experimental and rapidly developed” vaccine on people of color because “anti-racism.”

Not saying that the sentiment wasn’t genuine, but damn that is some poor optics considering the history.
> How do you make use of all the 48 cores and the RAM available to you?

The point I take from gp’s comment is, there’s a lot of room to scale within a single instance when the nano-sized VM you started with is overwhelmed. Focus on the things that cause growth first, then add complexities of distributed computing when it is actually needed.
And yet no country in the world, rich or poor, Western or non-Western, managed to reduce its obesity levels to, say, three quarters of the maximal value or less.

So it seems to be, in practice, a more complicated problem than reduction of smoking, which has been rather successful in many countries.
Docker is incredibly easy to get started with. I know this sounds harsh but if you can’t deal with learning docker, you’re going to have a really hard time with tech in general.
Wow, Number Munchers and Oregon Trail, spot on. Tack on Mavis Beacon 5, Carmen San Diego and Jump Start and we're home.
I have one friend with an allergy. Their doctor said to not get the vaccine. They’re high risk. I hope this is a rare combo but some people have something to worry about as they get sent back to work
Deploying via IPFS might also work? Though it'd require having a trustworthy backend storing state ... or I suppose auditing to ensure backend can't inject anything malicious into client layer.

From what I understand, some cryptocurrency DApps like Uniswap[0] are using this route.

[0] https://github.com/Uniswap/uniswap-interface
If you can qualify for that, you might also qualify for O1/EB1 visas in the US which gives a fast track to green card.

From what I've heard London has similar high cost of living to Silicon Valley but much lower software engineering compensation, so seems a less desirable place for engineers to work.
Point to point transport is bs... there are so so many problems with that idea. I don't get why spacex even brought up somthing so dumb.
Have others listened to Bret Weinstein on this subject? Thoughts? He by all accounts is credible and provides plenty of nuance for reasons to be skeptical
Overall I agree with your comments.

> Switch strains - tends to be more common in Indicas with a higher than normal CBD

There is no scientific evidence backing up any claims about the effects of indica vs sativa, and no way to know which strain you're actually getting, even from dispensaries. They tend to be labeled according to the subjective experience of the person deciding how to label them. It's as meaningless as any other marketing label.

> If you have a Drs note, there isn't much they can do.

There's no federal protection, and state protections vary. Some states explicitly prohibit firing employees for off-duty medical marijuana use, but not all states with medical marijuana regulations have formal employee use regulations, and I don't think any have protections for recreational use. Additionally, even where medical use protections exist, they don't cover you being intoxicated on the job. There will be court cases that clarify all of this; meanwhile there's no definitive answer.
An addendum to this excellent article:

Perhaps when they say this to you, you should have a little perspective and laugh at yourself. It's emotionally healthy.

"I had to fire my cleaning lady today!" OK, remind yourself to be grateful you're able to hire a cleaning lady.
Does this study actually conclude that vaccination is better at preventing being infected with variants? It looked to me that the study only proves that specifically the spike protein antibodies from the vaccine bind more generally than spike protein antibodies generated by a natural infection.

However during the course of a natural infection, antibodies would be generated for more targets on the virus than just the spike protein, wouldn’t it? Meanwhile the vaccine exclusively produces spike protein antibodies. This study doesn’t make any statements about how much effect those additional antibodies would have against variants.
London cost of living is nowhere near Silicon Valley. London can be expensive, but it can also be quite affordable.
Feminism’s Last Battle
right now - my understanding is once the self-hosted compiler is done, LLVM will be optional.
Most likely answer: the application is small and there's no need, and no useful way, to extract value many cores or a lot of memory. So don't waste effort on something that isn't needed.

Boring answer: use a pool of threads (or subprocesses, like Apache) to deal with web requests. Without stupid locking, many concurrent requests can be handled for each core. If you don't know your QoS targets, how many threads you need to meet them, and how much memory each thread requires it's a serious red flag.

Pragmatic answer: do you want to invest in fault tolerance and being able to upgrade your application? Then you need a load balancer to route traffic to multiple instances and switch them on and off properly, and a good load balancer is going to be outside your VM and probably a specific piece of hardware, irrespective of clever techniques in your application.
They have no reason to believe that isn't going to happen again

I sympathize with that statement, and maybe this is just semantics, but did we ask Black people to receive the vaccine first?

Everybody has equal access.
Well, I installed it in a Samsung S10, but here is a guide for your phone:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/sunfish/
The reason my team uses it is because our application has tons of complex system-level and python-level requirements, and docker has proven to be the easiest cross-platform isolation option.

If our app was web-only we would go with a simple VM or web host.

Docker has some handy build tools, but those also exist for VMs (e.g. vagrant).
> How relevant and accessible to the public were general purpose computers in the past?

There were no alternatives in the past. Now that locked down alternatives have been invented, general purpose computers will slowly but surely fall out of use
> Obligatory notice in Telegram comment threads:

Sadly, obligatory notice in Telegram threads:

Telegram is encrypted by default and has always been unlike a certain big competitor that has been pushed here.

The issue isn't if it is encrypted but if it is end to end encrypted and also the quality of the encryption.

Saying it is not encrypted is directly misleading.

Your point that they can read your messages if they want still stands.

This however is also true for mail, banking and about everything else except the most secure instant messaging networks.
Canada got lucky. A bad bet on a Chinese partnership delayed things. The govt was late to the game in terms of securing doses - insiders even admit this. They then rushed to order as much as possible in the Spring. Deliveries were ahead of schedule luckily.
Bash scripts are very capable these days… and for many years.
It's not swapping words, it's swapping message ordering. To swap words, each word would need to be sent in a separate message.
Splendid. Since these are early days, is there a mailing list I can subscribe to for feature change logs so I know when I can start using it?

Secondarily, is there a reason I can’t just buy this app? I don’t like this buy and then unlock business. The App Store manages the fact that the app is bought. This unlock thing makes it feel fragile.
Is this like a fancy new modern version REE (Ruby Enterprise Edition)? It’s got that vibe.

Edit: yep, exactly that.
That's a great point, let me try it!

> You do not create a long list of parameters.

I have done much worse by trying to insert a really long string of 100K params
To a degree, yes. Not literally, because obesity isn't caused by a bug. But kids born and raised by fat parents have a high probability of ending up fat too. In this case, obesity is transmitted to other people through internalization of bad eating habits.
Unfortunately this breathless reporting makes it impossible to determine the actual risk. On average, how much of my lifespan am I losing by drinking? If it's several years, I might decide it's not worth it. If it's several days, I'm not sure I care that much. Is the data available to calculate this?
The idea that blocking ads is unethical because it harms content creators would have a lot more weight if YouTube didn't pay content creators such a pittance.

YouTube is a middle-man that has inserted itself between content creators and content consumers so they can collect rent, and they've happily fucked over content creators every single time it has served their bottom line to do so. Viewing YouTube ads supports YouTube more than it does content creators--you can make some argument that maybe the opaque monetization somehow benefits creators more than YouTube, but there can be no question that the power is firmly in YouTube's hands. It's bad for content creators, who have to constantly worry about frivolous copyright claims, demonetization, and the mysterious algorithm causing them to lose views and subscribers. And it's bad for consumers, who end up with a watered down and censored version of content, with the ubiquitious "like and subscribe!" and "this episode sponsored by" constantly being rammed down their throat even when using an adblocker.

If you want to support content creators, support content creators, not YouTube. I make recurring donations to a few different YouTube artists and they get more money from me than they would if I didn't use an adblocker.
I use a Virtual Private Server, a comodity you can find in Digital Ocean, Linode, Hetzner, OVH...

Currently I use Capistrano for deploying my Rails app. It takes a few minutes and It's been quite consistent and reliable so far.
Maybe.

Freelancing can mean 'two years with no work' and then 'two years of work in two months'. That is, the flexibility might all go to your clients and not to you.

In the case of a real employer you might be able to get accommodation for a disability.
Can't answer for parent, but my personal biggest gripes are:

1) No graphical acceleration yet

2) No application sandboxing mechanism (yet?)

3) A package manager that doesn't seem to have a reason to exist.

To expand on 3: Native Haiku software really has no need for a package manager because it has no need for dependency management. It appears the only real reason to have it is so Qt can be installed as a dependency for the ports that need it. Why not just provide Qt in the base system? According to the developer I talked to, its because they want to encourage people to write against the native API. Ok, so why support this use case at all? Because ported software is better than no software. Either I am still misunderstanding something or this is an incredibly strange decision.

Which isn't to say I don't like Haiku, indeed it understand Desktop as a usecase far better than any Linux distro that ever existed, I just have those particular gripes.

As far as reasons others might not like it:

1) I hear that porting some POSIX software is a bit jank

2) There are no user accounts

3) Hardware support
At what point are western governments going to crack down on companies such as NSO Group?
Yup, fully agreed Zig stands above others here. Cross compiling C/C++ is just a special kind of hell. Each target always has some sort of bespoke toolchain and build environment constraint that add so much unneeded complexity.
Here's the DIA publication[0] that briefly goes over space and ground based laser threats on pages 9 and 10. Here's the non-proliferation association also warning about ground based ASAT from RU and CN[1]. If they're doing it it's safe to assume US is also doing it.

I think you're probably thinking of the lasers on ships and planes, which would have limited power. Stationary ground based systems don't have the same constraints and are more of a threat for asat.

[0] https://www.dia.mil/Portals/27/Documents/News/Military%20Pow...

[1] https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/administrative/l...
Crafting might not be necessary. You might find a vulnerability in a commonly copiloted piece of code, and now you can exploit it in many projects. Better yet, those snippets cannot be updated even if Copilot improves, and there is nothing to file a CVE against either.
Nice job ! It would be cool to have presets / shared checklists.

I found that items are difficult to check using only right hand. Maybe allow to check from the entire item and make them bigger ?

However, I found it to be simple & nice.
It’s ‘visa’ not ‘VISA’. Why do so many people think it’s an acronym? It’s just a normal word.
At some point everyone will be vegan ascetics forever apparently. Including all of our descendants, who will recognize and appreciate how enlightened we are. Curiosity and discussion about other solutions cannot be tolerated lest it jeopardize the coming worldwide ascetic veganism forever awakening.
Was a joint investigation. Here's Washington Post writeup:

Private spy software sold by NSO group found on cellphones worldwide - Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...
I am on the (since discontinued) Entrepreneur Visa. The Home Office have very odd, bureaucratic rules around things and it can be incredibly difficult to meet the specific requirements as they will accept them. This means bringing in an immigration lawyer to handle the process and these run into the mid single digit thousands per application.
Yeah, for me the US and Canadian media completely ignoring or dismissing anti-lockdown protests in Europe were pretty clear evidence of bias. If the event got any coverage at all they were dismissed as far-right (read: Neo-Nazis) and nothing even worth discussing.
Looks really nice - would definitely usean Android version

Also note that it is not just ADHD that needs checklists. Anything that has more than a few steps and/or is critical, or is done when tired. One of the major steps towards making flying safe was instituting pre-flight checklists. Surgery teams now keep lists of every item used to avoid leaving something in the patient. The US Army did studies on what kind of mental facilities degrade with lack of sleep, and they found that strategic judgment was quite intact, but failures happened due to forgetting the little things, like filling canteens or fuel before going into the field - total checklist items. Heck, last night leaving the shop late, I remembered to reset the HVAC system, but forgot to grab my water container on the way home.

So, if you can keep it streamlined, I think you are onto something.
Learning words: How children integrate information – Max-Planck-Gesellschaft