skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The more CPU-bound your program, the more benefit you'll see from the optimization flags. If your program is constantly waiting around for input on a network channel, then it may not help as much.

My currently used optimization flags are: -O3 -fno-math-errno -fno-signed-zeros -march=native -flto

Only use -march=native if the program is only intended to run on your own machine. It carries out architecture-specific optimizations that make the program non-portable.

Also look into profile-guided optimization, where you compile and run your program, automatically generate a statistical report, then recompile using that generated information. It can result in some dramatic speedups.

https://ddmler.github.io/compiler/2018/06/29/profile-guided-...
I agree that tobacco access will drip down over to the younger generations, however, should a decent percentage of stores or users comply with this:

1. Market will shrink, making tobacco more difficult to obtain for current users and suppliers

2. Population will age, and it will become harder and harder for new generations to obtain access.

3. At some point, the policy might be considered excessive and abolished. However, there is no time frame for that. 5 years? 50 years? Will it have accomplished anything?

4. (same as your last point) As legalization of other drugs seems to gain traction, this seems like a weird position to take. Would illegal trafficking of tobacco increase, with the usual downsides?

Instead of a blanket ban, would a huge tax increase work better? Keeping the same age restrictions. I can imagine most people preferring a legal, though more expensive, procurement source. Of course, that discriminates against a growing part of the population, but so does a ban. And in both cases, it helps you not to take up the habit in the fist place.
I had a good relantionship with Segdewick's books, before being turned off by Cormen a few times. They are less math focused, and overall have a beginner friendliness to them. They won't take you by the hand an explain things like you are 5, but nevertheless they are more easy to digest.

Also as a non-popular opinion in this current age, I recommend you to learn how to implement your algorithms in C, rather than an easier to grasp programming language. Even if you are probably not not going to program in C in your future career, understanding how memory management works will give you an edge later.

Also given C's loose style, you will also get some skills in organizing your code in a language that doesn't impose a lot of obvious constraints to the way you write your code. You will be able to build your own conventions, and evolve them once you get more skilled. Seeing what others are doing is also important.

Good luck!

PS: Don't fall into the macro trap, you will never get out. (inside joke).
The amount of support for drug prohibition in this thread really surprises me. Why shouldn’t an adult have the freedom to smoke and put themselves at high risk of lung cancer?

If it’s “for their own good”, what makes the government the best entity to decide what’s good for one’s self?

I hope lives are saved, but dang, it just hurts me a little bit to see personal liberty curbed.

There’s no way this will result in an illegal drug market for cigarettes, right?
Tips about building a chatbot with GPT-3 or GPT-J
It does not sound as good with an alternative title, "EU proposals could forbid millions to work as independent contractors".

"In California, Protecting Workers Means Outlawing Their Jobs"
https://reason.com/video/2020/02/05/in-california-protecting...
That kind of exhaustive integrated/system-level testing is precisely the kind of thing we're trying to enable at Auxon, FWIW. A really rough sketch, for sake of brevity, of the approach is cribbing from property-based testing, mutation testing, and model checking and applying them to system & software interactions instead of programs, functions, and source code. Our users are often Systems Engineers by title or more often by circumstance.
> They would have to essentially take down Teams on android.

Yes, and Google product managers can always choose to not act immediately, continue to allow the disruption of emergency calls on Android devices until the next app and scheduled OS update, and become felons.
Well if I was a New Zealand smoker I would sleep at peace knowing that I will have a profitable side-career with a government granted monopoly in my retirement.
“Hey kid, do you want your cigarettes? Pass the money and get out of my lawn!”
I loved the chrono trigger rom hack, and Pokémon crystal rom hack (Pokémon prism).
> It would be cool to decide on a framework where FSD is tested/approved to be not perfect but better than the average human

Just watch the YouTube videos from beta drivers (which are cherrypicked to be most flattering to Tesla). The number of disengagements in 20 minutes of continuous driving is disheartening.
I was out to dinner with an uncle of mine sometime in the aughts, and there were 2 US Marines eating at another table; because of the national situation at the time, we knew they were about to ship out. My uncle bought their dinner, and they came over and seemed very grateful at the appreciation shown them.

But what really struck me was what my uncle said after they went back to their table. "We're asking them to go over there and kill people." Not "... and risk their lives", but "... and kill people".
When the private org has a monopoly on online video. I think it falls under free speech. Also don't play that free resource line. YouTube makes money off of every video from ads.
> Everyone knows Twitter is a private company, that is besides the point.

Except all of the people who think Twitter is violating first amendment rights?[0] The idea of private vs government is pretty core the first amendment debate.

[0] - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=twitter%20violating%20...
> If we take Bernstein at his word (and there's no reason not to), basically all the US media has secretly cooperated with the CIA. Is there any reason to think this isn't going on right now? I mean, google "ken dilanian cia" for a good time. Then think: Dilanian is still a working journalist.

Look at the number of former CIA, NSA and FBI directors / agents working as journalists or as advisors or make regular appearance to CNN alone.

There's a whole rabbit hole you can go down. I recommend "The Plot Against the President" if you want a good insight as to how the news / government collaborate.

https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-President-Devin-Nunes/dp...

The portrayal is highly believed by the right, almost entirely ignored on the left, so it's worth a watch -- if only to understand gap in knowledge.
I use this technique of DOM filtering with uBlock to defeat "engagement" features and improve site experience a lot. My problem comes with pages where the HTML element classes are not semantic, but compiled by a tool like tailwind, e.g.

<div class="erslblw0"> ... </div>

For example, if you go to nytimes.com and use uBlock's 'zapper' to select an element to hide, you'll get a query selector like this:

.erslblw0.css-163q563 > .css-13dv6mc

These are dependent on the build, and can change day to day. Has any one come up with a solution for this situation, beyond painstakingly manually constructing positional CSS selectors (nth-of-type, etc..)?
My thesis is simple and has remained unchanged since early 2020 when the printing began. Creation of additional currency without the creation of additional demand reduces its value relative to other goods. To your point, a global economic shutdown would to my mind reduce demand for currency, therefore the creation of money in the past few years will cause inflation particularly as velocity picks back up[0].

I could be wrong, but that's a conspiracy theory? Like bigfoot or the moon landing? Come on. Your ideas can't be that fragile to have to resort to name calling like that.

[0]https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2V
Is this a "tax" on rooftop solar, or the removal of a subsidy?
"Journalism" was a temporary artifact of the transition from industrial to technological economy. There was a brief time when communicating broadly was hard and required capital. Now, anyone can do it.

It's important to remember how vulgar early (and pre) 20th century journalism was. Largely opinion, hearsay and sensationalism.

Later, journalism consolidated and developed standards to sell itself. Once technology put it in everyone's hands, it became so cheap that standards could no longer be a moat. We're back to vulgarity. I don't think there is any significant difference in the market between someone who went to the Columbia School of Journalism and a blogger.
Patio
> The counter is that if there is too strict a definition of journalism - you put to many controls on the group.

How so? I don't think 'journalist' is any kind of privileged or protected group - so you don't lose anything by not being a journalist do you?
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Android 13 "ED-209" edition

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzlt7IbTp6M
This is a great list. The person who made it runs a school for CS fundamentals, and I've been taking classes there for about a year. I strongly recommend it: https://bradfieldcs.com
Here’s the problem with tobacco. It becomes a public expense when the community has to pay the health bill. The same arguments that people who refuse COVID vaccines should be cut off from the community (jobs, commerce, etc) applies to tobacco. Tobacco costs lives and can inflict damage on those not personally using.
Don't know anything about the specific guy, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were 3-letter involvement in higher ed at some level.

But the broader answer to your point is to consider the stakes and possible outcomes of clandestine influence of US media and of the Duke math department. It would probably very often come in handy to get favorable coverage, spike stories, influence hiring, etc. at major outlets, and not so often to do the same in the Duke math department.

It's the difference between believing that the CIA is the one who knocked my mailbox over last night and believing that they were involved in the JFK assassination. Before considering evidence, we can provide many plausible reasons that the CIA may have wanted to assassinate JFK and few that they wanted to knock over my mailbox.
> Gated experiences, communities, in-game items, in-game art, etc is the driving force. And for digitally-native art, there's never been a better way to sell/trade it while preserving provenance.

It's a bunch of unnecessary synthetic scarcity. What the fuck is good about that? Why do you want to sign on to a model where you're going to be nickel and dimed for everything you see?

As a consumer why do you want to pay for things that have zero marginal cost? What value do you get for buying an NFT to an image or virtual item that costs nothing to reproduce? You're not buying the copyright or any exclusive license to the things.

Why would anyone ever buy an "experience" NFT for something they didn't experience? So they can be known to be a poser and a sucker so long as the blockchain exists?

NFTs are just a way to enforce a class system in a virtual environment where there's no inherent system of haves and have-nots. Not only that but it's a system where an infinitude of intermediaries can extract payment out of any secondary market. It's sad that you're excited to participate in such needless rent seeking.
California wrote an idiotic tax credit that gave +tax credits to vehicles that demonstrated a capacity to charge in under X minutes. Elon Musk shows off a battery swap demo on stage to "prove" it, and then grabbed the tax credit.

Then he threw away the battery swap demo and never talked about it again.

Its a combination of idiotic governance + a conman / liar at work. The government tax credit is a decent idea to spur innovation, but only if the government actually rewards money correctly. If it gives out money too freely, then the companies will just eat the government's face... they'll take the money but never actually develop the technology.
Everyone under the limit is having their access to buy cigarettes taken away.

I think the view that the government grants rights rather than takes away natural freedoms is a dangerous view.
Aurora offers to use some built-in account, which sometimes doesn't work, or to use your own. I guess OP used their own and got banned. Similar can happen to NewPipe etc users, Google doesn't like third party clients - allegedly.

Hacker news discussion of the NewPipe account ban incident: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759
Good thing there are alternative app stores, and that you can straight up download and install an APK.

I never go on the play store, and no one should.
You had me till "A-10", which has become completely useless except against adversaries like ISIS that none of the modern military powers like.
I can't even pair a new Bluetooth device while my car is in motion, even if it's a passenger doing it.
Yes. Careful selection of compilation flags can greatly improve performance.

My employer spends many millions of dollars annually running numerical simulations using double precision floating point numbers. Some years ago when we retired the last machines that didn't support SSE2, adding a flag to allow the compiler to generate SSE2 instructions had a big time and cost savings for our simulations.
There is a huge amount of documented history of FOIA games a google search away.

I have zero patience for public employees treating the public with contempt. I know it is a hassle, but dealing with the nutters is part of the job. Public employees that treat the public with contempt need to find a different way to feed themselves.
I have seen this opinion presented multiple times without any supporting facts.
When did deflation in history lead to collapse of society?
Japan is in deflation for a long time and the life goes on.
On the other hand, the inflation in Germany lead to WW2, inflation was also at least partly responsible for the hunderd year war in Europe and the fall of the Roman Empire.
It’s not young but it’s not extreme. The average lifespan for a man in Japan, where he lived, is 81.5 years

Many more people are living into their 90’s, and even over 100.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/18826/number-of-hundred-y...

Hopefully what we consider to be old changes over time. Dr Fauci is a few days from 81, for example.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fauci

“Old age” is likely one of those things we simply accepted and never made much of an effort to address the issues that make us old.
Yeah, till the day the concept of being addicted to read the wrong books arise.
It sure scales, I am yet to work in organisations where everything goes.

There are a set of sanctioned languages and that is about it.
You fully support criminal penalties for people who voluntarily consume tobacco? The repeated catastrophic failures of prohibition laws makes it impossible for me to support a move like this.
If I understand correctly, Chainlink are selling "blockchain magic" to enterprise customers. Not exactly the same thing as the ponzi lending stuff
Check out https://cs.github.com/about/syntax -- indeed, by default terms are searched in both content and paths. You can restrict to one or the other with `content:` or `path:`.
”Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software” by Charles Petzold.

It will take you on a journey from a lightbulb to assembly language. It’s extremely well written and I wish there were more books like it.
People can choose to do business with whomever they want.
Wii U was a marketing disaster.

It was a very fun console. It is unfortunate that asymmetrical game play wasn't explored more.

It really was the first step towards what the Switch is now. Being able to remotely play games anywhere in my house, or have someone else watch TV while I played on the Wii U, was super cool.
US NCCoE Releases Draft Project Description for IPv6 Transition
You should checkout https://teachyourselfcs.com/
And Obama has killed and droned US citizens who were journalists and even his US citizen children with a great Orwellian response by the White House spokesman.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-tea...
Exactly I have seen this first hand.
The article's framing of the problem (increased authoritarianism, decreased tolerance for reporting) leaves a lot to be desired without more evidence. The evidence is:

- A small increase in total jailed journalists (roughly matching world population growth, and the delta is a small discrete count which would yield large error bounds)

- Specific examples of horrific events (matching atrocities that governments have been more than willing to commit in 2020, 2019, 2018, ...)

Without looking at longer time scales (e.g., over the last 10-20 years journalist jailings significantly outpace population growth) or providing some justification for why circumstances have changed and we would expect journalist jailings to not pace population growth (e.g., if there are significantly fewer journalists per capita (not sure if that's true, just hypothetically)), a story that matches the evidence better is that lots of countries were horrible to journalists in years past and they're repeating that bad behavior now.

To be clear, that's not saying that the overall problem shouldn't be fixed or even that their framing isn't correct, but...it's not exactly hard to provide evidence that _actually_ backs up their claim; why wouldn't they?
I think your experience is much more common that many people here admit (or maybe know) and you should not feel "unlucky." It may even be most normal outcome outside of Silicon Valley or FAANG.

In my area (middle eastern United States), once you hit the local salary average for software engineers, opportunities to take the next step up seem extremely rare. There is a never-ending set of jobs for people with 0-3 years of experience at below-average salaries. These aren't interesting at all - mostly legacy software support or quirky data analysis roles.

My last two job interview experiences were unproductive. I interviewed with a local but larger company. Very good experience with 3 of 4 interviewers but the hiring manager gave off negative vibes. I got an offer for 20% less than the minimum salary figure I gave them before starting the interview process. Declined. The other interview process was for a remote-only company. I made it through all their interviews and successfully handled their programming challenges. No offer - I had a friend there who told me I made it further than anybody who didn't get an offer but they were concerned I hadn't been building more complex software at my current job despite my performance during interviews. I was quite bummed about that.

I'm debating just doing leetcode for the next 3-4 months and taking a shot at FAANG. On the one hand, I have great work/life balance and probably job security for the next 10-15 years. But I make a below average salary and have started wondering if I'll regret not experiencing the FAANG interview gauntlet. Ego-driven if I'm honest with myself.

Alternatively, I may work for another 3-5 years and then go teach math and programming in a local middle school. I taught programming as an adjunct at the undergraduate level and mostly enjoyed that. Heck, I could even take a teaching assistant gig in the local school system and consider myself retired. I am a little worried about bureaucracy in that environment though.
New Zealand to ban young people from ever being able to buy cigarettes
I found the user experience of an older 4th gen-ish dual socket server much more pleasant than that of a more modern 10th gen desktop. Expandability is also good, with plenty of space and power for storage.

Energy consumption and fan noise, otoh, aren’t exactly great. Older PCIe is also a letdown.
What a great legacy. We wouldn't have video gaming in any real capacity without the NES.

I've largely built my career from gaming , thank you for the gifts.
I developed a node editor that generates state machines in rust to simplify/prune abstract syntax trees.

It greatly improved my productivity. I can't imagine creating a complex state machine in a non-visual way. Code (functions in a source code file) is organized linearly, whereas a state machine is a graph.
Adn that's ok.

911/112/etc. calls should just not be screenable or blockable by apps or susceptible to third party app crashes. They should be short-circuited to just happen on the default phone app, with little possibility for any interference from apps on the system.
So now and again you'll hear a story about an anonymous source at some national security agency says this or that. That's actually a planted story authorized by said agency. You can tell because any time there is an unauthorized leak, you get a reaction like you did with Assange, Winner or Snowden.
Tell them what you're going to tell them.

Tell them.

Tell them what you told them.

The first and last parts are missing from this article. You have to take a gestalt approach and scan the whole thing to get an idea of what it's about.
This has also happened to multiple news orgs such as Progressive Soapbox, The Convo Couch, Franc Analysis, and Hannah Reloaded.
https://www.projectcensored.org/17-new-wave-of-independent-n...
I think this is not just about the people in these organizations who are creating the harm, but more specifically how these organizations are propped up by the people (constituents) that support them.

In my view, when a organization has failed because of the people that run them are running them for the wrong reasons, then they only are able to do so by the people that support them. This systemic corruption is only a reflection of the society we create every day by or choices and actions. It will only stop when people change their life styles to be more supportive of others, and less about self-gratification.
3 weeks to flatten the curve certainly turned into totalitarianism pretty quickly
"Here’s the problem with tobacco."

Funny how that is the exact same problem as with exercise, diet, driving, and just generally existing in a society.
My hot take is that is actually a good thing, not because I want to see journalists in jail but because it means that journalists are actually doing things that upset the established order enough for them to be thrown in jail. It’s a huge improvement from the typical corporate journalist writing listicles and rewording press releases off newswires.

Investigative journalism isn’t a legally protected activity and the nature of the job involves running afoul of the law if you want to uncover anything worthwhile.
Given the game is right next to your speedometer, I can very easily see someone getting distracted by the moving flashy game next to it.
You can, so they're more similar to Jam as far as software. On the licensing, not so much. Teamspeak requires a recurring payment.
Independent of historical precedent - it's such a pat and facile line of reasoning.

But if you want to live your life on the basis of such, that's your call.