skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normally, UTF-8 works with C strings no problem, but it's possible that a multi-byte UTF-8 encoded codepoint is only halfway copied when it reaches the capacity and throws the NULL at the end.
I know what you mean, it should store everything but not print it all out. That's kind of on application developers too though, so many programs I've worked on had terrible logging (too much information, the right information not at the right level).
I am an American that loves to read the Global Times sometimes because it often has brilliant pieces. Media like we use to have before the internet.

Chinese leaders might even understand America better than we understand ourselves.

I had just read an op ed the other day how America has no strategic thinkers in positions of power at this point. Someone like Kissinger. I don't even know how to argue with that because we don't. We don't even have the political will to want someone like that. We want a circus. China can see this, we are basically blind to it.
Exactly this.

Whether it's Giles Martin (who IS NOT George Martin, and who did not work with the Beatles) or Steven Wilson remixing every great progressive rock record known to man, all of these are the same.

Replace the vibe, atmosphere and space of whatever the original thing was, with a version in which every little detail is a little bit too close and carefully cut out from its background to be presented, pristine, as if it could be listened to isolated from the music it's in.

Generally if you have a sense of the vibe and space of the original work you'll find the remixing appalling, terrible. It's improved if the goal is to pick out all the details as if you were going to fill out a report or perhaps a postmortem.

It's like being mad old Eno records don't have enough 18k content and blaming the original vinyl and fixing it. Sometimes the artists go along with this nonsense and sometimes they just put up with it, or have passed on and can't be consulted about it.

It is only for the glorification of the remixers: Steven Wilson at least does his own music, though I haven't liked it all that much.
because [WebM is a web standard](https://www.w3.org/TR/mse-byte-stream-format-webm/) so it's natural for developers to expect browsers to support it. If Apple didn't like it they could have pushed back before it was standardized. If people don't like Google dictating so much of web standards, they should be asking Apple to step up and be a bigger player in deciding those standards. It benefits everybody for there to be some amount of cooperation among these big players
Like Amazon's sponsored listings and "Amazon's choice" (highest margins for Amazon) recommendations.
Right, so is phlogiston to fire as our current understanding of what's happening is to reality?
Although I agree with your general idea that asprintf() is the smarter choice, I think it's a stretch to call it trivially safe.

I think most people would call its API safe but not trivially safe, where trivial means "when I see that function called in other people's code, I don't need to pay attention to that call because it can't do anything crazy like cause undefined behaviour."

After all, if you include "as long as you check" in your definition of trivial, it is also trivial to check the parameters to strcpy() if you are using it right. And yet here we are, in a discussion about how that's a risk because it isn't used right.

If asprintf() terminated the program when it failed instead of leading on to undefined behaviour when unchecked, I'd call that trivially safe in a more pragmatic way. If you're going to ship a function for portability anyway, that's what I'd recommend. And in fact, that's what is used in software like GCC, called xasprintf() there. It returns the pointer or exits the program on allocation failure.
…but it totally applies though. I suspect that book and that chapter probably demonstrates how severe trauma can have a similar psychological impact to children as battlefield PTSD does to soldiers. It’s not so much appropriation, but describing a similar impact, appropriately.

I don’t think a fragile individual could effectively demonstrate how merely encountering a paragraph accidentally about an author or book they don’t like would have any psychological impact equivalence to a soldier with battlefield PTSD or a child that has experienced severe psychological trauma. So in a sense they are appropriating the concept, inappropriately.

Perhaps if a parent or teacher beat them about the head senseless with “The Order of the Phoenix”…
I thought we learned from the Cliff Stoll incident that Amazon reviews can be heavily doctored and/or bought. So especially with third-party retailers and cheap import stuff, it's a gamble.
Don't forget bats.
Impeached? He needs to be tried for treason and mass murder, then quickly sentenced, drawn and quartered.
Fire the expert admins and have non-experts waste a large amount of expensive time on things they're bad at - sounds like a plan.

On the other hand, it can be much more satisfying to book your own travel and accommodations vs. having a corporate travel department book the cheapest, most inconvenient, and most unpleasant travel and lodging they can find - which is also generally non-negotiable and impossible to change. (And often designed to reinforce the status hierarchy - management get nice suites and business class while rank and file get stuck with cramped rooms, room-shares, economy class, etc..) The incentives are usually not aligned with employee interests. The administrative overhead of making one's own arrangements sometimes pays off in spades.
Edward Snowden:

"Daniel Hale, one of the great American Whistleblowers, was just moments ago sentenced to four years in prison. His crime was telling this truth: 90% of those killed by US drones are bystanders, not the intended targets.

He should have been given a medal."

https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1420067662823047172
I've used Sorbet a lot in a few projects. Ultimately, I wouldn't use it again. It's too invasive in the codebase and it impacts readability.

For example, having to wrap values in `T.must`, `T.nil`, etc. is a net loss. I read Ruby code full of Sorbet annotations and I wish they were gone.

You're adding useless boilerplate to satisfy the tool, and you have to change your code in unintuitive ways so the tool can understand it.
Minkowski concluded that time and space should be treated equally, and so arose his concept of events taking place in a unified four-dimensional spacetime continuum. Even though Minkowski space treats time differently than space unlike 4D Euclidean space that does not mean that a transformation can not exist that preserves the Minkowski space(time) interval between two events, which is the defining property of a Lorentz transformation. The action of a hyperbolic versor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versor#Hyperbolic_versor) with the further development of special relativity came to be called a Lorentz boost (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorentz_transformation#boost). Boosts are a rotation-free Lorentz transformation; should not be conflated with mere displacements in Minkowski space(time). They describe only the transformations in which the spacetime event at the origin is left fixed; can be considered as a hyperbolic rotation of Minkowski space(time).

Unfortunately, as Einstein was already aware, a quasi-Euclidean four-space that includes time is not valid, because it excludes the phenomenon of gravitation. In the presence of gravity, spacetime is described by a curved 4-dimensional manifold for which the tangent space to any point is a 4-dimensional Minkowski space. Further, the article takeaway describes a different bound on the applicability of Minkowski (physical) space: "the discovery that, in the case of time, only discrete time-translation symmetry may be broken by time crystals puts a new angle on the distinction between time and space."
Lol uh... Sony can. In the same way FB can.

Break TOS => Cancel account => Gimped hardware.

And if you think I'm exaggerating, just try setting up a Playstation without a PS account and signing their TOS.

It's ironic that the Quest gets this laser focus when it's only doing exactly what every other console is doing...
A friend of mine once received four disco balls in a row from Amazon when he ordered a set of speakers. Every time he would send the disco ball back, and every time they would apologise, tell him they would send him the replacement speakers, and then send him another disco ball. It was clearly an incorrect SKU somewhere, but I don’t think there’s any point in the chain where a person looks at whether what is being sent matches the product description.
Maybe he wears Crocs.
The question is whether there will be any interested party. Most of the documents in his library are probably not worth anything. But there is also no harm in trying. Perhaps his celebrity will lend the library worth it would not have had on its own.
What's kinda creepy in the Tunisian situation, is the amount of false information being spread on social media, especially Facebook.

For example, there are several posts of a screenshot of an aljazeera post, next to a not fully loaded screenshot of Blinken's twitter claiming that aljazeera mistranslated the tweet.

The narrative they are trying to push is that aljazeera is biased and therefore the president was justified in ordering its office raided.

Had the tweet's page been allowed to fully load, it would have shown that Blinken's tweet was part of a thread where the second tweet matches what Aljazeera said.

src: https://old.reddit.com/r/Tunisia/comments/out08w/influencers...

Even creepier, I saw that one of my acquaintances had shared one such post. I commented to inform them of the situation and linking the official tweet thread.

My comment got removed for "spam" (I only posted exactly one comment, once) and there was no option to appeal the removal. I contacted her through private channels and she claims she didn't even see the comment. (I presume the automated systems saw that tweet's link was being posted a lot??)

So not only is the false information kept up but attempts
to correct it through discussion are automatically removed.
That’s just monopolist behavior masked as some kind of privacy user benefit. These companies are enjoying too much power and we need new modern anti trust regulations that can deal with companies that are operating in a market with more than one competitor but with reduced competitive elements.
You're mixing up "privacy from Apple" and "privacy from random third-party developers when using 'Login with Apple' specifically".
Man I wish I could find that post where Apple told developers not to complain about app rejections on social media. When in reality it’s often the only way for developers to successfully appeal. Anyway, I hate the App Store (and by extension all adjacent reviews by Apple) and I hope Apple gets regulated to hell. It will also be completely their own fault. The people that are competent enough to make correct decisions in such cases don’t want to do such menial work. I think the whole approach of manual reviews is doomed to fail.
I don't think it's meant to convince them. It's a cost offset for people who have external costs associated with getting vaccinated. I.e. hourly people who are worried they'll have a bad reaction to the second vaccine and need a day off, but will still have to pay rent. Maybe some other people need Ubers to get to their vaccination.

It might also motivate those who are okay with the vaccination, but haven't taken any action yet. I.e. college students who have good natural immunity.

On the TANSTAAFL front, there are second order effects. I would bet it's cheaper to pay someone $100 and reduce their risk of hospitalization than it is to deal with them eventually getting COVID and potential bankruptcy from medical bills. There are also economic effects if we need lockdowns again, and those could reduce tax income.

I get peoples' wariness about a free gift from the government, but not everything is a zero sum game.
What is happening in this thread? "branch covidians"... What the hell is that?!
The CDC article says that the city has a 69%ish vaccination rate. Which is probably the best estimate to this question.
Personally I prefer ISO8601, it's unambiguous and easy to sort in chronological order.
Personally I don't think that really counts. IIUC you can override those names, so they aren't reserved, and you can implement any one of these as a macro so you don't need to remember anything outside of the core language.

(You can't implement them all as macros, but IIRC there are disjoint built-in sets that can give you the full behaviour)
Yes -- and explain how code statically scheduled for the worst-case dependences at compile time can ever beat out-of-order and speculative execution that can see the actual dependences at runtime. For anything other than extremely regular codes, there's an information gap that can't be overcome.
Extract was only so-so.
Have you / your journalist group considered using Outline [1]?

I think you can get by on either the GCP or AWS free tiers for hosting the server (and/or DO at $5/month for unlimited bandwidth). At that point, you’ve got your own, controllable VPN that looks like a major cloud provider. So only if we they decide to really clamp down on “block all GCP/AWS/DO IPs” do you lose access.

[1] https://getoutline.org/
> Users who are concerned about the flaw have no other recourse than to run the entire OS as a properly configured virtual machine.

Looks like OS can mitigate the problem though? All it needs to do is to check if the bits have changed just before context switch, and possibly in other interrupt handlers for a good measure. If they did, the current process is killed and security message is logged.

This is not going to be 100% mitigation, but it should be enough to block most communications methods, especially if there are checks in hard-to-predict interrupts.
I agree with this assessment.

Sure there are things such as 'too much data' and 'trash data'. The problem is discerning what you need and what you don't need.

The answer isn't always obvious, but it is possible and 'easy' to filter data, whereas getting missing data can be impossible/real hard.
Someone Worked on Outer Worlds and Outer Wilds at the Same Time, Somehow
Some of the strongest and clearest constellations are seasonal. I have a particular fondness for Orion, a winter constellation in the northern hemisphere, and look at it often.

The first time I travelled to the southern hemisphere and looked up to the night sky, it was full of unknown structures - but I also found my old friend Orion - upside-down. I turned my head to get the familiar feeling back.

Obviously, it was not the stars but me that were upside-down - the most definite sign of Earth's shape I have ever seen. And yet, it is hard to grasp. The world looks the same, solid, flat and steady beneath me. It is rare to get a glimpse of the world's three-dimensionality. Usually we live in only 2.5d.
Often in the information-theoretic statistical literature these topics are discussed under the umbrella of prequential coding or inference.

E.g., in this text:

https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Minimum_Description...
You could have saved yourself a fair amount of embarrassment with just a little bit of reading. Apple can’t decrypt beacon locations. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/security/sece994d0126/...
One of the reasons I turned to open source is that I did pay for most the After Dark series and they all disappeared when Seirra? bought them out and shelved the company. That really killed any interest in commercial software for me.
Ah, but are you not a fan because of the automatic semicolon insertion or because... well, JavaScript :P
My guess would be that it's hard to get a clean well labeled dataset where case and control datasets are otherwise similar. Particularly, in a pandemic the people doing the data collection are otherwise occupied.

Another problem you have is when you do it right the results look worse than a biased dataset. So there's some incentive to continue working with a biased dataset.
>Virtually all those shows creators credit Bakshi as an influence though.

I'd bet a lot of early punk rockers credit the Beatles as an influence, doesn't mean they invented punk rock.

For comparison a list of pre-edgy 1980's cartoons recommended for adults

https://www.animationforadults.com/2015/05/afas-top-20-carto...

vs a 90's era list of cartoons recommended for adults. I think you'll find a very huge difference in the types of shows being recommended.

https://www.ranker.com/list/90s-adult-cartoons/ranker-tv

>Hell, the asshole co-creator of Ren and Stimpy worked with him on Mighty Mouse.

But it was him not Bakshi that pushed that adult style onto mainstream television. Don't get me wrong. I really enjoy Bakshi's work but he isn't really the one responsible for bringing edgy cartoons to home television.
Full heap scans still happen, just not as often, then you get the alternative 'cringe' of having huge amounts of old data sitting idle for nondeterministic periods of time.
Back in the day, what you had was vinyl records pressed off a signal chain that was a pile of old retro ALL TUBE equipment, and you could listen to it over stereo systems (or indeed mono systems) also built off tubes and made so you could turn the record up REALLY LOUD.

They didn't have transistor mixing consoles until Abbey Road. Geoff Emerick, their best engineer, is on record in his autobiography that they lost a lot of energy and power in that transition, and had to work like hell to make the band still sound good when it sounded that much smaller and weaker than it did back in the days of Pepper and Revolver and the White Album.

I have measured these albums off the original vinyl and know the dynamic energy permitted to that format was substantially greater than anything you get in the 'un-muffled' modern day. You had to turn the record up to get the fullest sound as it was not limited and heavily equalized to compensate for idle, inattentive listening. In particular, peak energy could be 18 dB or more, over the loudest RMS output the records could produce.

They also cut a 15k tone on literally this record, Sgt. Pepper's, so dogs could enjoy the music too. And it worked (as did the later quadraphonic records done using carrier tones of 30 to 50k)

I'm gonna suggest the fault is not in the original record…
I've had my info in my profile for quite some time. I've gotten almost no spam as a result, and have had a handful of pleasant discussions with people from here. Once in a blue moon I get an email that says something like "I saw your comment on FOO and just wanted to say how much I appreciated your take" or something like that. Or one that says "You gave me some advice in the thread on BAR and it was really useful, thanks", etc. Those are the ones I really appreciate.

Haven't gotten many (if any) that lead to much of anything from a career/business standpoint, but you never know what could happen some day.
> It is mostly PR.

>Amazon’s pay is significantly above the $10.28 an hour that the typical retail worker makes, but it’s less than the $15.53 that a median warehouse employee is paid, according to Labor Department data.

It might be tempting to conclude from that amazon is under-paying for that, but it's unknown what the median "warehouse job" at amazon entails compared to the median "warehouse job" elsewhere. If the jobs at amazon is mostly low skill (comparable with retail), then it wouldn't be fair to compare to the median warehouse job that has higher proportion of skilled labor like forklift drivers.
Let's say you're fleeing Tunisia with a liquid net worth of over $10k.

You want some money in cash, certainly. But crossing borders with over $10k is a legal problem. You're also liable to be robbed. It would make sense to convert most of your money to USDC.

If you end up anywhere in Europe, and probably many places in the world, you can find cryptocurrency ATM machines where you can withdraw your crypto without identification for nominal fees. As others have pointed out, there are cryptocurrency debit/atm cards via services that require formal registration (ie, they obey KYC laws). There are services you can transfer crypto to through circuitous routes that will dump currency in a bank account you specify -- you'd have to dig to figure that path out as it is not quite legal. And you can always barter with humans directly -- which shouldn't be too difficult. You'll have to do some creative thinking...

Stablecoins are ideal for this situation. How else would you move $50k when you're illegally ("undocumented") crossing borders, your government is corrupt, and your banks have shut down?
"Quarks are the fundamental building blocks from which matter is constructed."

I sometimes wish would include "In our current model",
"We now think that", or some other qualifier.

Such absolute statements have been made frequently prior to our current understanding.

I have no special knowledge to lead me to believe that quarks are not the end all of parties.

But I was happy with atom being the fundamental thing,
and then electrons, neutrons, protons were the thing as well.

The other day I read about Fractons "quasiparticles or Partial Particles", so now I have to figure those out as well.

I have lost track if the graviton has been found yet.
I dont think it has.

From a purely layman's sense of esthetics the current model for particle physics is messy and a little spooky.

I have an odd hobby.
I collect old paper encyclopedias from pre 1970
For every language that I speak.
It takes up MASSIVE amounts of space.

The oldest I have been able to acquire on a limited budget
Is 1880.

It is always fun to track concepts over time.

They all state what the world is like, and how it works as bombastic facts.

Yet over time, most of it gets replaced or at least highly refined
and things are removed.

Particle physics is an active field with much still to learn or figure out.
Let us keep that in mind.
millions, preferably
I don’t fully understand. Have a link to describe the issue?
This times a million. It irks me to no end that they ship books like they just D.G.A.F. I get them loose in boxes with other things, in soft envelopes, and always, freaking always, with bent or dented corners.

That's your one job. Ship me the thing in new condition, and you can't even do that. How much is that even saving them on packaging? A nickel? It's disrespectful and greedy, and it's a sign of how awful they really are. You can sell things cheap and be efficient without being trashy.