skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean there are 4 different concepts at play here:

Unaligned memory access, types generally have an alignment which is the same as their length and structs have the alignment of their largest member because many architectures get quite cross with unaligned access e.g. trying to load a 32b integer from memory to register while it's not aligned to 32b, this is where compilers will pad structures to ensure everything is aligned properly by default, and where (in C/C++ anyway) you want to take care of your struct layout to avoid unnecessary padding. That doesn't prevent "these three should be shorts and these 10 can fit in chars." at all, but if you intersperse them the structure will increase in size due to padding.

Then there's C being specified in terms of lowest capabilities so while "char" and "short" are at least 8 and at least 16 bits… they can also be larger (POSIX does specify that char must be exactly 8 bits but non-POSIX platforms don't require that). That matches everything being 32b. It's a somewhat common occurrences for DSPs to have char of 16 or 32 bits, it really has nothing to do with the compiler (except insofar as the compiler does what the architecture description specifies).

Then there's the preferred data size, which is probably a function of the architectural ALUs than the native registers e.g. if an architecture only works on 32b datum then computations on 8 bit data will require loading 8 bits, zeroing the upper 24, performing the computation in 32b, copying whichever bit is concerned to the overflow flag, then zeroing that. Whereas performing the computation on a 32b-native type would require loading 32b, performing the computation, done (that was never a concern on x86/64 but IIRC older revisions of ARM could only natively work in 32b, and not all possible arithmetic operations got expanded to 8/16b at the same time).

And finally there's the cache line alignment. There are actually two opposite issues with cacheline alignments: you usually want your structure to not span cachelines (as that gets more expensive) but sometimes you want your structures be always start at the start of a cacheline (and possibly take the entirety of the cacheline) to avoid false sharing issues: if two unrelated structures are on the same cache line and they're used from different cores, the cores will need a lot more synchronisation than if they were on different cache lines.
Was the collapse of WTC 7 due to getting hit by another building?
But if they're not americans, can they still be considered innocent? ;o
My biggest issue with the language. I make use of typespecs where possible but it's a far cry from anything enforced.
To be clear I was not advocating banning all of those things, I was saying that mandating vaccines is as counterproductive as trying to revive prohibition or enforce weight loss.
We're not excusing Google. It should totally be fined too. It's whole existence is a violation of privacy.
That definition sounds broken, since energy is still conserved if I move something into or out of the bounds.

It stops being conserved if there's suddenly more or less energy inside the volume without the same amount crossing the boundary
> Addendum: I don't understand why you said 45° instead of 90°. I thought objects traveling at the speed of light would experience infinite time dilation, and thus be observed as having 0 passage of time.

Think about what the diagram shows: Every (s[pace], t[ime]) coordinate pair on the spacetime diagram shows an observation of a particle. So in natural units, a photon's wordline is given by s=t or s=-t (traveling in one or the other direction). If you draw that, it's a 45° line. It also gives you the light cone of the observer at (0, 0).

A horizontal wordline would be something moving at infinite speed, not the speed of light, as it is observed at every place at the same time.
And the reason for this, as we all know, is because the universe runs on distributed computers with no global state, where each computer simulates its own local physics and connects only to other nearby computers, and thus the so-called speed of light is simply the emergent rate that data may travel across the network.
Is being an H1B worker now an accusation? This was me pointing out that our VISA system forces a huge chunk of our workforce to not have a strong ability to stand up to their employer.
It seems more likely that describing it as such is just good marketing, and the main reason is that it's PR control against associating unsavory things with GPT3 and their brand name.
In 2006 Larry Page had a keynote at CES where he announced the launch of licensed video purchases (movies, NBA games, etc) on Google Video. I was working on payments infrastructure at the time and we had a mandate to support X amount of spike traffic for that launch. Code Yellow, Jeff Dean in design meetings, all hands on deck, that kind of thing. As I recall that estimate for X was 2-3 orders of magnitude too high.
Isn't the article's primary claim exactly that?
Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit 1.0
Hi. Yes, you've got it.

Cloudintosh is a bit of an UX experiment in how to generalize the theming process to allow the UI to be skinnable enough to emulate (and perhaps extend) the environment that you feel comfortable with. Sharedigm's theming system can also roughly emulate WindowsXP, Windows10, and Windows11, Ubuntu etc.

The core idea, though is to be able to have a "personal cloud" where the user is able to make those decisions.
I met a guy like this. Incredibly combative and assaultive. And weirdly irrational. For a while we actually thought he might be a bot. Now we think he's just some wealthy fellow (always on reddit), with a chemical imbalance, raised on religious doctrine apologetics debate stuff. Ewk.
NB: The plural of anecdote is not “data”.
> they actually only tested 31 cannabis users against a controll group of 40

This is exactly like I said. In fact nothing you say contradicts anything I've said, so I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.

Adding more participants would measure the same subtle difference with increasing precision, but it's unclear what the point of that would be.*

The next logical step is to look further into voice effects, since the voice effect (along with the similar motor effects) are just easily measurable proxies for other changes going on in the brain.

Generally, if one's criticism of a study uses only concepts you learn about in the first day of intro to statistics (e.g. "correlation does not imply causation" or "there are only N participants"), then chances are pretty low that one has discovered a serious flaw that was missed by the authors and reviewers.

*We can get into a wider discussion about power here, but that tends to be pretty subtle and nothing at all about the power of the study merits it being called absurd.
Would the people who were infected even want to press charges? Assuming they were vaccinated, they would probably have an extremely mild case, if they were unvaccinated then they would essentially be arguing a case against themselves.
they are experts at that which they are influencing

Someone who does YouTube comedy for a living is probably an expert at both comedy and youtube.
By "work[ing] well", what is the metric you see as success?

A broad society that has rendered itself completely nonthreatening to its ruling class?

A place where certain forms free expression can result in imprisonment, torture, or execution? [1]

Mass surveillance serving as the infrastructure of religious, ethnic, and political persecution, including genocide? [2]

[1] https://organharvestinvestigation.net/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uyghur_genocide#Use_of_biometr...
As far as I've seen, Elixir job market for Europe is almost nonexistent, sadly.
Let me guess, you've standardized on Electron apps?
The legislation should have been that sites honor DNT (or something similar) better, and you're promoted by your browser. Doing it site-by-site is a headache for both users and companies.

> Almost nobody wants tracking cookies.

It's complicated because a lot of people do want to stay logged into certain websites. Even if that's not "tracking," what about recommendations? Youtube does recommendations for logged-out users, and I suspect a lot of people find some value in that.
It may also be a sign of how much national governments care about privacy, compared to the EU parliament which voted for the e-Privacy Directive.

I suppose the counter-argument would be that passing legislation is cheap, but enforcing it costs money, and governments have other priorities, but, for example, in the UK there can be fines of up to £500,000 for breaches of the e-Privacy Directive[0], which should be more than enough to cover the cost of the investigation.

[0] https://www.pinsentmasons.com/out-law/news/gdpr-e-privacy-br...
Yeah, I'd be into that.
Why do you feel the need to say somebody is a troll?

Here: https://phys.org/news/2017-01-violations-energy-early-univer...

Here: https://phys.org/news/2015-02-space-faster.html - we are trying hard to reconcile this and categorize universe expanding as something else (e.g. not a movement that has speed because time itself is a dimension or something). But this is still up for debate, tbh.

Another example was one where we said CP symmetry was true (it was a law like a lot of things in physics) until it was violated by a weak nuclear force experiment.

And now we are holding the fort at CPT symmetry as the law.

In Physics, the evidence of anything is kinda light. A lot of reasonable extrapolations has been made. Still they are extrapolations (e.g. intelligent guess).

Even the big bang itself is just an extrapolation from the "theory" that the universe expanding.

To be fair, it is difficult to find good evidence because we can't dial back time, can't go observe things on Neptune, can't measure gravity at the subatomic scale, and etc. So, we have to work with what we can experimentally observe.

Our tools are getting better, and this is where the physics paradigm shift will come from.

You say like these are 100%. It is just a theory that we currently hold according to the little evidence that we have.

Failing to recognize that is straight up unscientific.
I like that haha. Will use.
One percent? Make it something significant like 50%. Better yet, figure out how much money they made with their surveillance capitalism, including any investments and profits derived from such capital. Fine them exactly that and then some for good measure.
Thanks. Fun to know that the speed of light prevents the universe from splitting up. Cool. Also I was not aware that movement create magnetism.
Also don't hospitalise people who refuse to take care of their own health. They're a terrible and disproportionate burden on health care. We'll set a body fat % cutoff for care.
Play services / store isn't needed to run Signal (try it on AOSP, works just fine) and none of the iOS devices that run Signal have the play store installed.
Use size_t to declare anything that will be used as an index.
> Your medical history is not a "protected right."

What are you talking about? It is under the 5h and 14th amendments and under similar rights in other jurisdictions.

https://healthcare.uslegal.com/records/sources-of-protection...
In the 70s, I remember reading "The Quincunx of Time", which made great use of a key distinction (for the purposes of some classic 70s scifi):

It's not that nothing can move faster than the speed of light, it's that nothing can accelerate to a speed faster than the speed of light.

If you could bring particles into being that already moved faster than light, they would not violate our understanding of relativity or the rest of physics. Hence ... the tachyon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyon
Your original submission and title were fine. It's the addition of (2020) I dislike which I presume was added by the mods.

https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/
Yeah, I'm at least on the edge of that camp. I want people to get vaccinated. I consider the arguments against to mostly be ridiculous. But I don't want the Federal government to tear up the Constitution to force people to get the vaccine.
> There's much more but assuming usual explosives, this has to be considered...

True, but it is possible to apply the same strict epistemology to the consensus narrative as well, like how is it that "many things happened" resulting in an orderly freefall that appeared magically homogeneous across the entire structure, resulting in a descent that is (afaik) largely indistinguishable from a controlled demolition.

> but no footage had such sounds, nor did witnesses report such sounds, and any nearby seismology equipment would detect irregularities

A strict epistemological examination wouldn't let such premises be deployed without scrutiny.
It does sound like the post is talking about anecdata, but there have been some studies looking at prescription drug usage in students:
2018: https://cssl.osu.edu/documents/cpds-key-findings-2018.pdf
2015: https://cssl.osu.edu/posts/632320bc-704d-4eef-8bcb-87c83019f...

Sure, there is still some issues with the methodology since it's a self-reported internet survey. Data I'll report below is formatted as 2015/2018.

18.6% / 15.9% of respondents admitted to misusing stimulants for non-medical reasons, 84.9% / 79.2% of stimulant users reported using it to study or improve grades. Consequence of use: 63% / 60% of stimulant users reported "Experienced a positive impact on your academics as a result of your use"

What follows was only reported in 2018:
When are you most likely to misuse prescription drugs to study?
76% answered during finals or exams, 53% Before a test or project, 38% When I feel behind, 17% When I want to get ahead, 6% When I need a competitive edge, 8% Continuously throughout the term.

When did you start misusing prescription drugs to study?
Undergrads n = 1,399:
29% Before college, 38% first year, 21% second year, 10% third year, 3% fourth year or later.

Grads / professional students n = 381:
10% Before college, 73% during college, 3% between grad college and grad school, 8% first year of grad / prof, 6% second year of grad/prof or later.

The 2015 study reports: Actual versus Perceived Use Among CPDS Student Respondents - Stimulants
Undergrads
Actual: 18.6%
Perceived: 33.6%

Grads
Actual: 6.8%
Perceived: 24.2%

We can use that to potentially assess the reported anecdata.

> Probably not much to see here other than some outrage for attention.

I think it depends. If the research quoted in [1] is correct, then taking these drugs either has no effect, or it only benefits low-performers. So, if it's only benefiting low-performers, then it needs to be determined if these low-performers are turned into high-performers, and, if so, does this mean typical high-performers without additional enhancements are losing out to those who are enhanced?

I suppose it's more an ethical / moral value judgement than anything else.

As they say in American sports: if you're not cheating, you're not competing.

[1] https://www.altamirarecovery.com/blog/adderall-addiction-amo...
The Fermi Paradox – Where Are All the Aliens?
While what you say is true, I'm surprised that you think it is the most relevant and useful thing to say given the content. I've read the article and it has lots of useful things to say.

It may have been written because they themselves caught the virus, but the article is not just their story.
If SpaceX ever IPOs it will be huge. I bet it could be a non previously publicized IPO and still break the bank
We get stuck opening the socket
Fetishizing RCTs is a source of much harm in medical policy.

A correctly-designed RCT can give more confidence in a result, particularly to non-statisticians, but very large effect and cohort sizes should not be ignored. We could tell just from the topical statistics that smoking was a major cause of lung cancer and other harms, despite the tobacco industry insisting nothing was proven.

Typical RCTs with only a few hundred patients deliver much less resolution than this result. We do still need trials to home in on the molecular agent, but Tdap is already proven safe, and wise to stay current on, so it would be foolish to "wait and see". If it turns out Tdap (e.g.) protects only some patients from dementia, you are anyway safe from tetanus infection.

It is similar to the case where arginine supplements appear to cut epithelial tissue side effects of SARS-2 vaccines. It needs more study, but arginine is cheap and perfectly safe, so starting immediately to administer arginine supplements alongside vaccination is the prudent course.

Some RCTs even yield spurious results, as a consequence of poor design or execution, such as those lately promoted as showing that anti-depressants have no effect.

Fetishism should have no place in medicine.
I still don't get this. I simply can not accept that the speed of light is that same for all observers, irrespective of their respective speeds vs the light source. It is obviously a cornerstone of Einsteins theory (I forget which; either the special or general relativity), but to me this is simply not logical. To state that the speed of light is the same only because the relative time is variable for respective observers is unconvincing, which requires that things like blueshift/redshift to be explained by logical gymnastics, and not the straightforward reason that the speed of light for all observers is a direct function of the relative speed vs the light source. But what do I know.
You are one of today's ten thousand:

https://xkcd.com/1053/
It turns out the opposite is also true:

COVID poses higher risk of myocarditis than (Pfizer) vaccine in male teens – US study

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/10/boys-more-at-r...

Healthy boys may be more likely to be admitted to hospital with a rare side-effect of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid vaccine that causes inflammation of the heart than with Covid itself, US researchers claim.
I also saw it for free back in the day.
> It is also not clear what part of the law a simple delay would violate.

People must not be punished for choosing to have their privacy respected. This is coercion.
I find we often project or minimize opinions and positions that don't account for our pet emphases. I agree with your take.

Take an example of someone who posts solely facts in a controversial topic. Folks that disagree with the direction the facts point will ascribe all manner of negative projection to said poster. But does that reflect on the facts-poster, or on the interpreters?

Online communication is such an odd thing.
No one is really looking for food in the trash cans in the Bay Area. They are looking for recyclables that they can turn in for cash. Or other things that have some value that they can turn in for cash.

In the Bay Area there are plenty of ways to get fed. Happy to be shown I'm wrong, but I don't think it's common to be lacking for food.
Yup yup yup. During the civil rights movement people would do sit ins at businesses that segregated, blocking that businesses ability to make money. They marched in the streets, blocking traffic. Humans hate to change anything unless it becomes necessary, so to bring about meaningful change, you have to be a thorn in the side.
Stupid and lazy naming. Why bother looking at it further?!
Story how IE bought motivated traffic in the wild Internet times of 2011
The founder of the CPA network just told me this story so I am writing while hot.

There was a time when in Russia they did not know and did not understand anything about motivated traffic, but the States and Europe were already using it. For reference - motivated traffic is when your services are sold through an intermediary who promises the buyer some kind of benefit, for example, a cool in-game sword or in-game currency

In Russia, as it happens, a couple of students launched a CPA network to work with just such traffic. The guys were so successful that they were quickly bought by the CPA network company from Europe. But, the story is not about that.

For browsers, 2011 is notable for the fact that the share of Internet Explorer was 4 times more than Google Chrome. In Russia, in order to retain IE's share, Microsoft hired a marketing agency that realized by the end of the year that it was not meeting its KPIs. Well, it's understandable why - who needed IE? Remember how it was 10 years ago? Better not to remember, and even now it is lagging behind. People from the advertising agency found out about our guys and their CPA net. They bought blue browser installations through them and was shocked by the result - they fulfilled 90% of their KPIs in a very short time

The very next year Google became the market leader, and IE lost the market irrevocably.

This story reminded me of Uber, which in 2017 spent $ 100M on ad networks that, as it turned out, were not working. As a result, Uber was able to cut $ 100 million in annual advertising costs - and did not find a drop in downloads.

Well, what are we? We carefully monitor our marketing and do not allow such situations.
To be clear, I am not opposed to vaccines. I think the current vaccine is the best option for people at high risk of negative outcomes due to COVID. What I am opposed to is coercion by the state on something that is a personal choice. Calling this argument “antivaxx” is another example of the disingenuous way people are behaving. It’s a smear campaign that is being parroted without any critical thought.
People get sick. It happens. I am well-aware that by resuming my pre-pandemic lifestyle, and only wearing a mask in the spaces where they're mandatory, I am increasing my risk of getting ill.

But I'm not going to change my behavior, because I'd rather be sick for a week than sit at home 24/7 for the next year, or wear a mask every time I step outside, and constantly monitor my physical distance from other people. My life is passing me by right now, and I want to enjoy it while I can.
Text-only version:

https://text.npr.org/1036356773
What's the torrent?
Is this worth the $15?
If you feel like you might be getting it, boils some water and breath the hot steam through your nose for at least 30 minutes -- longer the better. The infection generally starts in the nasal cavities, so if you catch it early you have a good chance of stopping it.
Genuine question: what’s the constitutional difference between the mandate for children to be vaccinated in order to attend school (which I presume has continued even with a shift to far more remote schooling), and the new presidential mandate?
How many countries don't have high level officials reporting to Israel?
Or when it was clearly their own fault. Lets say sports like skiing, games or swimming. Maybe poisonings too if it was due neglience.
This seems like a weird argument, since any time I've encountered a UUID or some other randomized identifier in practice, I care about things beyond set containment, like "what order did I see them in" or "the database row attached to the identifier".
> Where did I get it? Who knows. Like so many Americans, I had loosened up with wearing masks and social distancing, after getting fully vaccinated

I’m not a fan of this vaguely hamartiological style of reasoning. The narrative structure is like a biblical cautionary tale. The author had something bad happen to him, and so he’s searching for a transgression he committed that he can use to construct a punishment narrative.
The shades are almost always too much, especially the cat.
This is really interesting; if we hook this up with hasura we can still get some nice graphql endpoints
One thing that I noticed that we tend to not like in OpenBSD ports is that -Werror was in every compiler invocation line. That had to go.

Googling “openbsd werror” doesn’t show anything, why is this?