skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Which takes a long pointer to tchar string (LPTSTR) - so this behavior is dependent on the unicode settings of the project at compile time, even today.

The documentation is simply wrong, GetUserProfileDirectoryA which you linked always takes a LPSTR (always "ANSI") while GetUserProfileDirectoryW always takes a LPWSTR (always WTF-16). This is reflected in the function prototype at the top. Only the define GetUserProfileDirectory switches between these two. The define is a compatibility hack and arguably was a mistake, but you can always the W-suffixed function no matter what the project settings are.
It allows for taboo topics which could be the worst if you subscribe society norms.

Remember if everyone was anonymous so would personal traits which forces judging on material and people not taking things personally because their real id isn't attach to this idea
By German standards they're actually doing remarkably well so far. I imagine we'll screw it up very shortly though, one does not simply bypass the central bureaucracy and expect to get away with it.

I give it a 50/50 that they'll have to pull out of Germany, losing all the money they put in so far.
Wouldn't surprise me.

German automakers are well known for their lobbying
Epictetus said something similar almost 2000 years ago: "If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other."
Yes. Uber has radically changed my enjoyment of big cities and traveling. Now whether I step off the plane in London/Chicago/Barcelona I open up Uber, throw in an address and away I go. No bs trying to figure out the local transport tangle or crazy language struggles.

Do all these cities have apps for their local transportation models? Of course! As a weekend visitor (or work traveler) do I have it? Of course not! I just want to go places and not fight with the mode of transportation. I don't give a fig whether its a bus/train/cab/pedal cart I just want to go to the places I want to go without fighting with transport.
> Files, sockets, mutexes are all examples of resources that aren't memory

I know - that's why I explicitly mentioned memory.
It's difficult not get conspiratorial when it comes to incumbents protecting their empires. But Tesla did try to rush the process so this is fairly expected. However you would really think that the environmental ministry could fast-track this considering how much (Net) positive impact it will have.
I guess it depends on the problem you are debugging. I rarely fire up my oscilliscope anymore (maybe once or twice the past year), but it's hard to replace a cheap logic analyzer when writing drivers for new sensors. You really want to see the signals going out, and the response coming in to understand if you have the I2C/SPI/I2S/etc. bus configured properly, or if the polarity is correct, etc.

A logic analyser is cheaper than a scope, and does a much better job displaying this kind of data in volume. I'd say a DMM + some equivalent to a Saleae Logic are the two tools I couldn't live without ... IF you ever have to write drivers. But so much of embedded is about interacting with other devices, and it's a common enough requirement to have to port a driver over to a new chip, etc., that I can't imagine anyone regretting buying one sooner rather than later.

You can get by with printf, clearly ... but an analyzer is worth it's weight in gold for the right problem.
That was his charge. The actual "crime" has been disputed for about two and a half millennia.
> Why is not even an option to work to fix the abuse?

It is difficult for even human judges to clearly define what counts as abuse and what doesn't. Automated algorithms (or manual reviews) will be much worse, most likely.
I've always felt like the belief in a large group of "conspiracy theorists" is probably one of the biggest "conspiracy theories".

A friend of a relative is an apparent flat earther - my relative is always saying things like "oh you wouldn't believe what this guy thinks, he says the world is actually shaped like a UN map, what a goof". In this situation, which of the two is actually the more gullible? From the situations I hear described, it's pretty clear the guy just likes to tease, and enjoys the "intellectual exercise" - for some value of intellectual - of tearing down commonly held truths by providing alternatives, even if they are silly. I've seen the same thing with moon landing and 9/11. People like to use these as strawmen about look at all the nuts out there, we need to control what people can read, but this is just an excuse for shutting down opinions they don't like.
I live in Denmark which is pretty egalitarian. Once a long time ago when I was working for the Danish government and as a consequence earning much less than I do now I was at a party and was having a fun conversation with some guys one of whom was working at a toy store as a shift supervisor, he said yeah it wasn't that great the money but people only make a thousand or two more than him a month and he loved his job (because of the egalitarianism you can be reasonably certain when you are in your mid 20s unmarried and meet someone at a party they earn around what you do - or you could back then as this is about 17 years ago).

So when he asked how much I made I innocently answered because I'm an idiot, it turned out I earned 12000 more than him a month. It was sort of awkward and I wished I hadn't said anything.
Well, lots of languages use Perl compatible regexps now, even MariaDB uses PCRE nowadays.
That wasn't incompetence, a lot of people got really rich building that...
Ah, okay. It's a different suburban Las Vegas house every time too, which is also odd. Same on the regular ddg website. The "parcelid" changes for each search of "\+" on their site.
Pfizer-BioNTech Booster Shot Restores Full Covid Protection in Large Trial
We improve UX/UI all the time, step by step.

A general overhaul sounds too inspecific.
Was COVID a net-positive or net-negative for companies like WeWork?

I imagine it was net-negative since people cancelled their contracts and just WFH.
Yes, I am sure we should be referencing the logic of his proposal, and that we should consider that moot’s implementation of ephemerality on 4chan allowed too much persistence.
No one has ever asked me about my pay, but the lower bound is trivial to guess based on how much my house cost (public information accessible in 2 seconds via Redfin or government websites.

It is also obvious based on the type, length, and frequency of vacations that one takes. Also, how frequently you fly.
The government is a massive organization. Ignoring the cynical interperatation, it is entirely reasonable to think that there are some legitamate areas for the government to spend on; as long as the worker is in one of those areas, there is no dissonance.

Alternativly, someone could think 'I want to work in industry X. I think X should be privatised, but since it is government run, I'll work for the government'.

Further the cynical answer of 'the government shouldn't be spending so much money. But as long as they are, I should get some' isn't that bad of an answer
There are stories of Roman and Asian contact with the America's. Perhaps disease was brought over earlier then we thought.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_trans-oceanic_co...
My understanding of the situation is that German permitting is pretty complicated, so normally companies wait before diving in so everything is cleared up first. You can imagine that kind of restraint isn't Tesla's style, so rather than clearing hurdles from the track ahead of time, they're just running into each one. I'm not familiar enough to know if there are more or worse hurdles in this specific instance, but it definitely makes for a juicier headline when Tesla slams into a hurdle than when another company deals with it before they've broken ground.
I think it's one of the most complex jobs the only thing that helps is that technical expectations generally are low.
With which accents? I teach and always embarrassingly stumble when I need to announce him.

As a musician his work has been immensely important.
Yes, because every low level Apple retail employee wants to have the following conversation with their boss:

"The customer asked for the smallest box so I assumed they knew what they were doing and sold them that."

"No, I didn't ask any further questions, I wouldn't want to assume they were stupid. That would be wrong in this narrative."

"No, I don't know how exactly how much $$ Apple is going to lose on this return."
Personally, I find it more likely that some executives thought they could skirt some regulations because they are creating jobs and local officials will look the other way or make some exception. At least that is the impression one often gets when looking how things get done in the US.
If you fancy a ride in one and you're in, or don't mind a trip to, Finland see: https://www.dc-ry.fi/english/

They only run during the summer (when the nights are short). I flew from Helsinki to Mariehamn in the Aland islands on it and it was a wonderful experience.

This year they had to move from the local GA field that has been closed to the main international airport and it is a lot of fun being on it taxiing around the big commercial Airbuses.
Uber and Lyft are private companies. They have to constantly improve their service, and if they aren't providing value to their customers, they can ultimately fail. They also have tons of headwinds from regulations and hatred from politicians / journalists.

You know what I don't have a choice on? My tax dollars that pay for inefficient, unprofitable, and terrible service from public transportation.

Washington DC spent hundreds of millions of dollars on brand new subway cars that were supposed last 40 years, now they all need to be replaced after 3 years. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/over-half-washington-d-...

Without the market test of profitable / unprofitable, politicians keep shoveling dollars at boondoggles that don't make any sense. I like Uber and Lyft because they respond to the needs of their customers. Government transportation is - at best - decent. It never blows you away, and is usually behind schedule, dirty, broken, and full of employees who don't care.
While this guy is clearly smart, and willingness to ask simple questions is a worthy quality that many people possess, this is an article about what happens when decent intelligence and a good instinct is accompanied by narcissism and delusions of grandeur. Being right about something feels even better if other people thought you were wrong about it.

With his COVID action— people disagreeing with him, at first, wasn't what had serious health consequences. He said he started wearing N95s several days before the initial r0 estimate was even published, and that he based his opinion on SARS-CoV-1 data which many relevant experts didn't think was applicable. There's a reason they didn't jump to the same conclusions he did, and that reason is why they're experts. He essentially won a bet talks about it like he figured out how to beat poker.

And if he recieved a torrent of negative feedback for his penchant for air filtering in 2012, that says a lot more about his friends and family than his very not radical adoption of home air filters less than 10 years ago? The whole sick building/mold aversion/exhaust fumes/smoke/spent cooking fuel/etc realm of AQ concerns has been a publicly accepted health concern waaaaaaaaaaaaaay longer than 2012. Sharper Image was making a mint off of their Ionic Breeze air purifier at least a decade before that.

Like I said, he's obviously a smart guy, but this whole 'they all laughed at me and look at me now!' narrative is just not that impressive.
Imo a very good "alternative" perspective to Thinking: Fast and Slow (very well researched and very well argued, although the basic premise was quite unintuitive - to me at least - it only started to "click" towards the end of the book) on how (evolved, human) reason might work is the book The Enigma of Reason by Hugo Mercier and Dan Sperber. It was suggested to me by an American forensics professor and was probably one of the most important books I read in 2019. I don't want to hype it too much, but I sort of also do. I highly recommend it even (or especially) if you won't agree with everything they have to say. It's quite long, but totally worth the time and effort.
That's very kind of you to offer. I don't think any clock is going to help people who make meetings run over or are always late! I really like your solution, though. It's very neat.
> even when we were there one had a landing mishap where it started to land on the earth strip but then aborted the landing and took off again.

I was in a Delta-operated B767 in the US that did a touch-and-go landing like this because we bounced hard. If the pilots try to push the nose down after a bounce, there’s a chance that they push it too far and the plane crashes. There’s an Air Disasters/Mayday episode about a particular incident of this and why it’s much safer to go around and try to land again instead of salvaging a potentially doomed landing attempt. It’s a weird feeling but far safer than the alternative.
It's a product of your personality and your time. People in olden times also used to be terrified at the thought of eating tomatoes or touching a light switch, but it's only a problem for adults who are generally more ossified in their worldviews. Children and future generations generally regard anything as normal. If I needed a kidney you can bet I'd take a pig, monkey, dog, whatever kidney I could get if it increased my chances at a healthy life.
While Islam permits up to four wives, the vast majority of Muslim men have only one.
the most abuse I am seeing happening on Twitter originates from blue checks journalists and activists targeting political opponents. Targeting by randoms usually matches IRL statistics - Jews get most abuse, followed by women of all races. No other groups get even close. Also, politicians complaining about online abuse should not have become politicians in the first place.
These days, eh? Maybe you just started to notice, but words never had much meaning.
Sigh

*opens spreadsheet titled "things to turn off on a windows system and periodically check that they're still off" and adds another entry
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/18/pm-urged-to-...

>While police are investigating whether there are any links to Islamist extremism and have not connected the killing to the targeting of MPs online, allies of Amess said he had voiced growing concern about threats and toxicity within public discourse as they demanded a crackdown.

>Francois, the MP for Rayleigh and Wickford, which neighbours Amess’s Southend West constituency, added: “I suggest that if we want to ensure that our colleague didn’t die in vain, we collectively all of us pick up the baton, regardless of our party and take the forthcoming online harms bill and toughen it up markedly.

So there is absolutely no link between his murder and seemingly any online activity, but they're still going to use his murder to to justify... harsher punishment for being mean to government employees online? Never let a crisis go to waste I guess.
I try to be less judgmental and reactive than the norm about evaluating others’ actions, too, but I question whether the logic you are using to distance them from wrongdoing is really sound or necessary.

If they did a bunch of unethical stuff that adds up to fraud, as you agree, what does it matter if some individual actions, if you completely take them out of context, look at them through the right lens, and create a distinction between “unethical” and “bad,” aren’t necessarily bad? Maybe the reason no one is saying that is because no one is doing that, because it’s not relevant.

The individual actions are certainly sketchy, IMO. And red flags. Is there a definite semantic difference? It seems like splitting hairs. No single action by itself implies fraud, though significant acts of lying make a case.

Theranos’s level of deception is not the norm. Nor is it legal or ok.

You conclude by sort of saying you just aren’t going to focus on the misconduct aspect of things. But it is still there.
Speed up your data intensive Webapp
Some useful tools and tips to keep in mind when dealing with data intensive web applications written in React via ClojureScript
but it also has a dark side that you can pretend to have deep and meaningful discussion and push your agenda and abuse naive person on the other side of conversation.
Does that also count for the file system? That was the biggest pain point in the past, working with shared folders between container and host. I even needed a tool called docker-sync to even make it usable..
If this is a serious suggestion (I really hope it isn't), you have never met the kind of person setting up the blogs the GP is talking about.
I agree with this and it's why the Uber/Lyft vs The World debate is a tricky one. They really did change how millions of people travel/commute.

But then the problem is: Deregulated taxi industry with smartphones, GPS, and an app can accomplish much of the same thing. So it's hard to argue these two specific companies should still be losing money and valued highly.

Uber and Lyft as entities are not required for this change in transportation to continue because the tech and software has become increasingly commoditized. But they did kickstart the change. Both of those things can be true.
It's a huge start towards Balkanized Internet. You can't have total de-anonymized Internet without blocking foreign user geneerated content.

To ban foreign content, you got to install a China style national firewall.
Wouldn't it be more like running, horse, better horse because of improved diet, better horse because of improved medicine, bike, better bike because of gears, better bike because of better gears, car, better car because of better fuel, better car because of better fuel, better car because of better fuel, better car because of better fuel, better car because of better fuel, better car because of better fuel...
Zero seems like a pipedream at this point.

Counter question, how long are you willing to deal with biannual shots and covid related restrictions?
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p.s. ~related legacy efforts:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taligent#Pink_system
When you get to "reported cases of" anecdotes that the researchers were specifically targeting to find you might want to consider the reduction factors involved. Or even the potential for selecting a biased dataset based on false positives.

Correct interpretation of research is more important than finding this or that paper. Kentucky study was not about antibody response so I'm not sure how you are using that to back up your assertion. Instead it was a theoretically more direct look in to patient outcomes, however follow own studies over larger populations seem to be in tension with the Kentucky result.
I’m trying to imagine how the person who wrote that sentence thinks excessive capital letters are related to viruses and Trojan horses.
Facebook Is Rebuked by Oversight Board over Transparency
I resonate with the author, but there's no chance I'll wear a helmet while sailing.
Anyone got a tldr for a Brit staring at a paywall?
I’ve got a neuroscience degree and did a fair amount of psychology as well. As I read the book I knew that type 1 and 2 were oversimplifications and that some of the studies he cites were weird or suspect, but I also enjoyed the book because the overall message that humans sometimes struggle to think about things logically is largely true about many topics. So I guess if you’re looking to read it, read this article and some other critiques first so you’re not carried away in incorrect info, then enjoy it for what it is.
My two cents anyway. Probably not worth much but there you go.
I'll truthfully answer anyone that asks but I don't volunteer it to non-tech friends, I don't want to come across as bragging or boastful. For things like raises I always talk in percentages since I know I've gotten raises that are more or very close to what some friends make annually. My goal isn't to obscure but rather I don't want to make them feel uncomfortable.

For tech friends/coworkers I make it a point to discuss salary. I've had too many coworkers and good friends making way under what they could be.

Every time, without fail, that I made assumptions about what a friend was making I was extremely wrong and even felt a little guilty that I didn't bring it up sooner since they can and should be making more.
Story of my life. Also, it helps if you can fail up.
You're right— I didn't say what I really meant there. It's not the regex syntax itself, but the syntax surrounding the use of regex's which is more efficient. Compare the number of keystrokes in his examples above (e.g. $string =~ s/search pattern/replacement string/g;) with what you'd have to do using nearly any other language. In Python for example, remember that you'd need to precompile the regex to even approach 8x slower speeds.
> what happens when the Taliban do sign up, or it's flooded with left leaning users?

See section 7.22 of the ToS, under "Prohibited Activities":

"As a user of the site, you agree not to: disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Site."

https://truthsocial.com/terms-of-service/
Huh, interesting how we came up with nearly identical comments at the same time! (Though I somehow managed to get the function name wrong…)
> web VSCode will hook automatically with the vendors development/build/code repo backends. And you could have the appropriate environment (eg. a linux version x, with y libs, and z servers running) per project, available everywhere you go with no setup of your own.

But again, that is codespaces. They have rolled this out months ago, and it does exactly what you are talking about, with vscode in the web and all. And I agree that it makes sense.

Vscode.dev looks like it could have been an early prototype of codespaces, with 10% of the features. So I still don't understand why this is coming out after codespaces is already in production.
Intuit is such an evil company. Now that I've moved to Germany, I know what it feels like not to have to file every year (I still have to for the US but it's trivial now due to FIEC).

There's nobody hounding you here, no stress regarding your taxes unless you're filing for a return or have extenuating circumstances, and even then there's a government-provided online portal for direct communication with the Finanzamt (finance department).

Every American should be upset with Intuit.
Static content is definitively not as accessible to the typical person asking their nephew to put up a WP blog on shared GoDaddy hosting.
https://archive.md/v2lhW
Reader mode works, in Firefox at least.

It's nothing new for a frequent reader of HN. California ran a trial of automatic tax filings in 2005, Intuit persuaded the IRS to adopt no such system, the government mandated a free file system run by the commercial providers for eligible people, the providers used dark patterns to direct free file eligible users to paid options. Current democrats and former california republicans are quoted as being for actual automatic filing, some anecodotes from people who had been pushed by the software companies to paid options.
i don't understand this cannabis-is-safer-than-alcohol myth. for example, i know people that have an extremely low mental tolerance for cannabis while functioning completely normal on a bottle of beer a day. also, i think that it is fairly well known that cannabis has a worrying correlation with schizophrenia [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7442038/
New name:FaceChance ?