skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know who you think said wchar_t is Unicode, but it wasn't me.

In a given locale, you can almost certainly regard wchar_t as being a continuation of the range of unsigned char. If you want to know whether the value UCHAR_MAX + 1 is alpha-numeric, you can't pass that to isalnum, but if that value is in the range of wint_t, you can pass it to iswalnum.

For values 0 to UCHAR_MAX, it would be surprising if isalnum and iswalnum produced different results.
Been SEOing for 12 years.

High on-site score optimization for exact match phrases still moves the needle more than anything, and is STILL the most overlooked technique by most startups.
"Humans really make a mess when they interfere with nature"

Nature is red tooth and claw, it has zero concern for our survival. If we wait around for Nature to fix things, we will join the dodo and Wolly Mamoth.

Nature has been through glaciation, heavy bombardment, supervolcanoes, Sahara was a lush forest 'revently'. There were 6 mass extinction events. Climate change is not a threat to Nature, it's a threat to us.

Even if we start global nuclear war tomorrow, poison and pollute all rivers and oceans, in a couple million years Nature' will be back you wouldn't know humans ever existed.
It's even more worthwhile to collect rent on it for 10 years. How much rent can you accrue in 10 years on a posh $5m house?

A price doubling in 10 years is only a 7% rate of return, which is below what the stock market in the US averages.

(Prices may double, but you've got inflation, taxes, insurance, vandalism, theft, maintenance expenses, and non-trivial amounts of your time in the meantime. None of this is free.)
Yet another similar story.

Will your next startup also rely on Google?
The fact that they chose not to fix it does not mean it’s not a bug. It’s obvious to even a first grader that this is not how items on a circular belt should behave.
snarky and oversimplified, but basically true.
I worked for ford many years ago and I remember a really funny conversation between young engineers and MBA types. The issue was the Lincoln Towncar was designed to have extremely low pedal pressure because that is what the old buyers liked. Combine old people with limited hearing, no pedal pressure, and a quiet cabin it was a perfect recipe for old people to shift and send the car through the garage wall. Lol. The classic issue of when customers want something stupid, do you build it?
They are all good examples too.
from the brand storefront?

been wondering why people buy from random sellers and yet have a high expectation of them. or to put it another way: would the situation be the same when buying on ebay?

when i buy from a random seller on amazon, i have a low expectation of them. and i return items when not satisfied.
It's okay to go protest on the street.

It's not okay to clone yourself thousands of times and generate constant new protest speeches.

Misinformation works faster and different online vs the real world. I'm not against all opinions and viewpoints being taken away, that's obviously a scary route. But clear misinformation has dangerous impacts at the speed it's produced, shared, and consumed.
To be clear, the root problem here is that Google gives their own app store an unfair advantage. Third-party app stores can't auto-update their apps, among other things, without the phone being rooted, which carries serious consequences for functionality (e.g., can't use the camera anymore on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, can't use Snapchat, Netflix, or Android Pay anymore on any phone, and on some phones you just can't root at all, period). If third-party app stores could fairly compete with the Play Store, then there'd be no issue at all with it having draconian and arbitrarily-enforced policies.
Using an affiliate link without disclosing it is just a scummy practice. To me, that's similar to not quoting a source. Like, come on, just put (affiliate) after the link or something.
the flat hierarchy is kind of weird but not completely unheard of. W. L. Gore & Associates (makers of Gore-tex) is well known for pursuing this sort of org structure and they're not in any danger of going out of business.
For reference (because if you’re like me you have no scale for this), this is about 10% of what Toyota does, which is way closer than I’d expected.
"You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one"

:-)
Its been a marvelous time not having hundreds of news outlets flooding my feeds with his inane tweets.
I did business in PDX for a number of years... while I love the city, the startup / tech scene there was absolute fubar. It was fake it until you make it taken to an extreme. Weirdly insular, cliquish...so many snake oil salespeople. Couldn't find any actual hirable talent at any price. Some of the weirdest encounters of my career, where you looked at all of these "companies," Treehouse included, and knew they just didn't pass the smell test. Everything in that whole town was like a cult of personality.
Ad fraud = ban, it’s not much more complicated than that.

It’s trivial to make a new developer account and release similar products, so as an App Store you can do things like looking for similarities between new apps and banned apps to root out simple “change of ownership” schemes like this.

Google can’t afford to take this lightly, games with fraudulent ad clicks can generate (i.e. steal) millions of dollars in ad spend from businesses who think they are getting legitimate impressions.
That is like saying.. we got our email blocked because we were sending spam, but we decided to stop sending spam and they still blocked our email.
Link to live demo: https://moxx-i.herokuapp.com/
I don’t want to click on it myself to find out but a friend to whom I shared the link to the page the HN post link landed on said it took him through a whole bunch of redirects and landed on a shopping page of some kind. Was the page perhaps compromised?
Fair? It's a corporation. CEOs get paid significantly more than employees. It is a fact of life. You do not have to continue employement at a company if you think the pay scale is not fair. Good luck finding a job where you think things are fair. When you do find that job, please, make a Show HN so that others might be able to leave their unfair situations.
Lower amperage.
Blockstream made a technical decision into a polital one when they hijacked the GitHub repo.
So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do? Aren't your only choices to put all of your eggs in Google/Apple's baskets?
This is some "mission to Planet Earth" stuff!
Thanks a lot, always enjoy your posts on here and r/hardware! Do you have a hardcore introduction with even more detail / perhaps even with examples of implementations? :)

I find white papers quite good (although I admit there are many things I don't understand yet and constantly have to look up), but even these sometimes feel a bit general.
I'm similar to the author -- I have several Alexa devices inside the house (one is a video device, I only enable the camera when I'm using it for a video call). I have several Ring cameras outside the house. But I have no desire to have cameras (not even a cute, dog like roving one) inside the house while I'm here, even if I told Amazon not to record anything while I'm home.

When I go on vacation, I do plug in an inside camera that covers the two entry doors, but it's unplugged when I'm home.
More people have been gaining awareness about the lines along which inequality occurs, and race is one of them, so that must be why you’re seeing the phrase more often lately.

As for the employee who was asking for a safe space to gather with other employees who are being fired on such short notice and without severance, that’s a reasonable request.
> if most of their co-workers meander into the office one day a week, if that.

An innovative mix office/remote work ought to be able to address such challenges. I prefer remote work myself, but I am fully empathic with people who prefer office work. I know people with families who don't have the space or quiet to work from people. People living in tiny apartments that just want to be elsewhere. People with roommates.

Stating the choice as "either go back to the office or work from home" is a false dichotomy.
That's a pretty huge number, considering that my country doesn't even have 2M inhabitants.

That said, it appears that globally there have been around 235 million cases in total, so the mortality rate is somewhere around 2%: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

I'm not sure how humanity would deal with something that has higher mortality, because in my country a lot of non-lifesaving procedures in hospitals have been halted due to there simply not being enough capacity to treat everyone.

Even more so, i doubt that we fully understand the implications of a part of those who survive COVID having certain long term complications and the impact of this on the workforce, as well as their quality of life.

It feels like a complicated issue, even when we don't look at how certain elements of society have expressed their disregard for getting vaccinated.

On the bright side, coming out of this situation, we'll know that certain jobs can be done without commuting for countless hours (which works at least for some individuals), to hopefully at least slightly decrease traffic accident statistics and road congestion, as well as increase the quality of life for those more introverted, or with life circumstances in which being at home is preferable.
"Competitors using our ad ids and publisher codes inside their policy incompliant apps and violates policy knowingly to trigger associate accounts!"

Scary. So it sounds like they were attacked by a competitor and Google is not willing to support.
Two things that always seem apparent to me when reading missives like this:

1. It's just my opinion, by I find things like this always reflect incredibly poorly on the author, especially since the author appears somewhat clueless as to why someone would think it would show them in a bad light. It would be one thing if there were some egregiously bad behavior (e.g. stories of Adam Neumann come to mind, as do the recent articles about Ozy Media leadership). But this basically just comes off as a bitch session: the CEO is rich, he did a bad job announcing the layoffs, we got no severance, etc. etc. When that happens, you say "fuck that guy" and move on. Nobody really cares about your laundry list of slights.

2. Now, all that said, I normally only see missives like this where leadership tries to build a false emotional bond with employees: "We're a mission-driven company, we're changing the world, we treat each other like family, yada yada." So some (usually less experienced, less jaded employees) take this message to heart and truly do form an emotional bond with the company, so when business conditions change and there are layoffs, they take it incredibly personally. Thus, my point is really that leadership only has themselves to blame when they cultivate a "we're a big family" vibe and then are surprised when people are extra pissed that their "family members" are kicking them to the curb.

Just a bit of advice: treat your employment like business, because that's what it is. You can work hard and take pride in your work, but also understand that you might get cut if the business need arises. Getting laid off always sucks, but I think it's easier to do if you have a healthy detachment from work.
The patent and the chemistry you are trying to link to — by the way, Scribd is a scam, here is a link to the PDF[1] — is university research funded in part by Tesla.

1: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1149/2.0341813jes/pdf

Undoubtedly good chemistry research but doesn't have anything to do with the batteries that are actually in cars you can actually buy.
I'm not the OP nor an electrical engineer, but I believe that you can get higher DC power with less resistance losses using higher voltage and lower amperage. Additionally, this allows the use of thinner wire (lighter, cheaper, easier to package in tight locations).
In case someone wonders, they have a similar page at [1] (also contains affiliate links).

[1] https://abakcus.com/48-beautiful-books-in-oxfords-very-short...
I thought this was a recent effort, so I'm sorry if I was too harsh.
No, adding support for new protocols is far from trivial. There are so many factors that can make this non trivial such as encryption, channel hopping, DSS, hardware required, etc.
He controls them. He doesn’t own them.

https://www.reuters.com/article/idUS275871279920151202

> At Facebook, Zuckerberg’s stake, worth some $45 billion, comes with more than 53 percent of the votes in any shareholder poll, according to company filings. That rises to nearly 60 percent including stock owned by co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, which Zuckerberg usually gets to vote.

Note that there have been share sales since the time of this article (2015), so I would assume that the majority has become even more dependent on others voting his way (I wouldn’t know what the board has granted since then, which is a whole other topic...)
GM only sold 470k this quarter in the US. Not sure what GM's global sales are, but Tesla is getting closer to being comparable.

https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/general-motors/2021/1...
>That one might well be 100 times less.

It might be, but it isn't.

Turn to page 170 of your copy of The Future of Fusion Energy. It goes through typical efficiencies of each subsystem then concludes:

>"Multiplying these conversion factors (i.e. eta h&cd = 0.4 from the heating/current drive systems, eta steam = 0.4 from the steam cycle, and f blanket = 1.3 from the blanket), we see that Qeng is roughly a factor of 5 smaller than Q of the plasma."

What's more is that due to self-heating, increases in Q becomes exponential. The distance (in terms of machine performance) from Q=1 to Q=infinity is much smaller than the distance from Q=0.001 to Q=1.

So why are scientists lying to the public? The answer appears that they are not, but they simply are not being asked to explain the entire history and projected designs of fusion reactors. You need more than a TED talk or an audience who at least knows anything about physical sciences in order to even start that.
> I’m amused no one has posted that comment yet.

It s probaly because it has become impossible not to put your eggs in the same 2 baskets. How else are people going to make an app / how are they going to launch a startup without an app? (I know it s possible to go web only, but they 'll probably not be taken seriously by investors)
A plea to Silicon Valley: Write the plan for the next GOP candidate
Do you have a source saying his $1.8m mansion (his purchase price) was from the value created by his employees? $1.8m homes are certainly expensive, but clearly the board approved his salary and they were the ones primarily funding it, not the employees.

The boat may of been bought from the appreciation of the home.
After reading all these stories it feels like Google has a policy of "sunsetting" a certain amount of projects per year. When the company is out of them, it's gonna be yours
To what extend could one use a website instead of an app?
You motte and bailey pretty hard, and accuse me of hand waving while leaning really hard on “buzzwords” and “absurd” - you hand wave away trust and equity of all things. People respond heavily to $150 referral bonuses, we know because every company uses them. So to claim getting a stake worth $150 of equity isn’t 10x more incentivizing is wrong. And people definitely understand that, it’s why there’s so many people in crypto. In fact, it’s often the first critique of crypto that it’s all early adopters trying to make money. And I’m claiming that’s a feature not a bug, it’s a tool to kickstart platforms, and damn good at that. Too good maybe, which is why there’s so much noise. But you can’t argue that people don’t get that, as it’s been shows by about 1000 chains at this point that people “get” it and want it. The question then moves to more interesting things.

You asked for why, and I gave reasons why. When I answered the why you fled back to “examples” of specific implementations, which is a different conversation but not necessary to show why. I’m not even a web3 person or whatever you seem to be making this tribal, I’m just not a blanket denialist and can acknowledge it has interesting upsides.

Finally, crypto is already huge despite its current massive hurdles. Those hurdles will only go down. You talk like it’s failing but it’s actually been winning for over a decade. In fact it’s crazy how many non technical people have adopted a very technical thing. The claim that it isn’t catching on is quite literally perfectly backwards, it has caught on to a huge degree despite huge barriers.

Cdixon just did a nice thread on this: https://mobile.twitter.com/cdixon/status/1444072365822857219
> I wonder if there are grounds for a (reasonable) legal suit here. Anyone in the know that can fill us in?

If this was this company's only revenue stream, chances are they can't survive until such a lawsuit has dragged out to the end.
Clubhouse has many problems, including English-speaking hallways being taken over by rooms full of disinformation (particularly around COVID). Many of the doctors who try to correct this have been chased off the app via harassment, and Clubhouse seem to have no interest in fixing the issues.[1]

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ypm5/doctors-are-being-for...

Disclaimer: I've been helping a group of doctors to counter the disinformation rooms and clubs on Clubhouse and I'm quoted in the VICE article.
> GTX version of Turing architecture (1660, 1650) has no Tensor cores, instead
> it has freely available FP16 units!

It's always a bad sign when an author's exclamation has all the surprise
factor of a tax code. As a previous poster said, "gentle" is relative.
"Voluntary" doesn't count for much within in a system in which the individual is held responsible for choices constrained by that system. Absolving literally everything except one person is blaming the victim.
Private couriers have no obligations to provide service to anyone. One of the important things about the USPS is that they have an obligation to support the continued operation of basic public services, and they’re organizationally held accountable through their governance structure.

Public services that our government provides are done so without regards to people’s ability to use email, electronic banking, or drive to the nearest FedEx/UPS store in the closest city.
> Also, one of our manager’s PCs was compromised so we have wiped entire hard drives to be sure that there is no virus in the network!
I thought it was DeFi, Crypto and Web3...
I worked in aerospace for six years before changing into automotive. The difference could not be bigger.

In aerospace cost didn't matter a lot and many things are custom built, even down to custom alloys and materials. Also the amount of planning, numerical analysis, simulation, preparation and especially testing is insane. Project timelines are sometimes more than a decade.

In automotive 'cost down' is the mantra and is often enough measured in fractions of cents. Almost nothing is customized and parts reused for different product lines whenever possible.
Issues with Trump aside, this lawsuit can be a great thing. Having a judge declare that Twitter, and other social media are public space and have to follow US free speech laws instead of their own vague "Terms and Conditions" would be a huge improvement.
> it was her actions

Actions within a system in which better choices were not available. There's no reason to lay the blame at the feet of the victim in that system.
The problem is not quite Google's behavior. It's legal for the same reason it's legal for you to not allow someone inside your house for bad reasons or no reasons at all.

The problem is that we've allowed digital marketplaces to achieve the kind of market power that would make a robber baron blush -- and we're not talking enough about how breaking up FAANG companies into multiple competing companies helps prevent the kinds of harms discussed in the blog above (as well as others).

I purchase software from no less than 5 different digital marketplaces on my computer, but I am all but prevented from downloading software on my phone that does not originate from the Play store. Monopolies are not good for markets.
>The argument this video makes at the end about "needing to spend research dollars wisely" is the exact thing the fusion researchers fear when overselling the state of the art to the public.

Intentionally deceiving the public about the state of your research in order to procure funding might work in the short term. But in the long term it is bad for science. Why should the public fund people who lie?
My house is like that. I say "mine" - I'm just the temporary steward.

I have seen insects that I've never seen before.

The tree diversity is not that great - we have stands of plantation Douglas Fir, and "wilder" stands of birch/beech/oak/chestnut. I fully appreciate the diversity that oak supports, though.

My suspicion is that the untamed meadow is a major factor in supporting the diversity. I have more tiny wildflower species than I can keep count of. I mowed a lot of it in this, my first, summer, but I will not be mowing as much of it going forward. I want a little lawn and some walkable paths - the rest I will refrain from taking from nature.

Unfortunately I need to manage the land very intensively or it'll be all bracken in three years. My view on wilderness, in this place, is that it takes a lot of work to make something look like no work has been done.
How every medical authority failed to realise Covid was airborne
"Social media are public space and have to follow US free speech laws" is legal nonsense and there is a 0% chance that this lawsuit will succeed.
> So if you want to write a mobile app, what are you supposed to do?

Not hire someone who had been banned before due to ad fraud.
Fascinating. This builds on previous work in this area. There seems to be a hierarchy of distinction. Every language distinguishes black/white. Nearly every culture had bright red as a distinct colour term. yellow/blue/green usually too. Some distinguish blue/green clearly others have a default aquamarine and specifying "blue" or "green" is kind of like when we specify "navy blue" or "sky blue". (Light and dark blue are distinct basic colours for Russians.)

The article mentions this being around for a couple decades, but it's much further back than that. The groundwork was laid in the 1960s and even earlier: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_Color_Terms:_Their_Unive... No single hypothesis on why. Is it innate to our cognition and our vision system? Or is it just a cultural trait, practically arising out of things like that red fruit are tasty so we talk about them a lot?
Right, but most don't. Maybe try and understand what I'm saying.
When did I say I disagree?
What alternatives would you suggest? F-droid is the only one that comes to mind for me, and I'm not sure that this would be suitable for this company
Just wait a couple of months:

http://www.aerith.net/comet/catalog/2021A1/2021A1.html
My Samsung phone came preinstalled with an unremovable third party app store. No root necessary. Maybe device manufacturers aren't considered third party?
"Guilt by association" is a bad way to run companies - especially when you don't even know who and how someone is guilty. They also do not apply rules fairly. Bigger companies like Facebook, Uber etc get to have more of a "human" connection to sort out issues while the small developer doesn't even get told what exactly they did wrong.
The seed from the PRNG would come from e.g. a few thousand samples of the radioactive decay. Isn't radioactive decay true random because it's a quantum effect? How could you have biased/correlated Geiger blips?
Check out https://coalton-lang.github.io/ !