skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every operation in a non-RTOS is blocking by this definition, even local function calls that don’t enter the kernel, because the kernel may switch to another thread at any time. It’s utterly useless as a definition. Much more common is to divide system calls into ones that call depend on some external actor and those that don’t. Eg, recv() on a socket, blocking on a futex held by some other process, or waiting on IO to some disk controller. Getpid() is synchronous but does not block.
No.

Exceptions are a way to ensure that failures are directed immediately to a place designated to deal with such a failure.

They are, in particular, not any sort of "syntax sugar", unlike "?" in certain other languages, or your StatusOr thing. A function that throws an exception does not, in any sense, return to its caller. It does not construct any sort of return value. It does not consult the stack to see where it came from and resume running there.

And, exceptions are totally auditable. There is never any hint of ambiguity or uncertainty about where an exception will take you.

You can be confident that if a function was thrown from, it was because it could not perform the requested action. And, you can be confident that if an exception was not thrown the function called satisfied whatever postconditions it promised.

So, you don't need to know if a function might throw. You may instead assume any function might throw. If it doesn't, then it has satisfied its documented postconditions. Your obligation is only to ensure that destructors clean up any intermediate state on the way out. These identical destructors get exercised every time through the code, so are exercised frequently.

Error-handling code at places where the error cannot actually be dealt with properly, that just tries to propagate the failure up the call chain, is typically not well tested, and often cannot even be triggered in testing.
If you are allowed pets, get a dog and regularly take it for walks in green areas (parks). You will both get physical exercise, companionship and the greenery positively improves your health.
A potential bias for 2021 would be that: In 2021 some people are worried about a vaccine->heart link and for any given event may be more likely to document it online and/or add it to Wikipedia. As such we might not be measuring number of cardiac arrests, and actually may be measuring public attention paid to cardiac arrest.
What percentage of Bitcoin is used for speculation/investment
"Synthetic opioid" is used to describe an opioid not derived from the morphine in the opium poppy (or the codeine in the dried poppy)

I am not a doctor: Of the very powerful "powder" drugs heroin is the safest as it has very little effect on the involuntary respiratory system which is the route that opiates take to kill. "Nodding off" on synthetic opiates leads commonly to death (which is why you always prod a sleeping junky - wake up!!) but not so much on heroin.

But it is much safer to smoke opium, if you wish to have such a habit. Much less chance of death and disease.

So, you cruel, nay, sadistic lawmakers: Legalise opium!

But people popping pills are nearly invisible and die quietly - people smoking opium fill up establishments, make funny smells and do not conveniently die off in the corner.....
The page also shows that vaccinated people are far less likely to be in the ICU, which is an even more important metric.
Steady stream of clients, but it doesn't pay much. Many docs limit the number of medicare patients they'll take because of this.
Both are more or less sugar, obviously. Devil is in the details. No need to polarize things by introducing words such as magic or poison.

Do you have any links to support the notion they are pretty much the same thing? Cause I just did some searching and literally all results (ddg, if that matters) are obviously politically motivated. To me, that means that no, they're not the same thing and there's been a lot of money spent on pushing that "agenda", if you will.

Edit: Thanks for your input, guys. It would seem the problem with sugars is quantity, not quality. I am agreeing to that not so shocking fact.
Let's hope reddit users catch on to this and downvote such posts / comments.
>we definitely aren't designed to consume the quantities of sugar that we on average do consume; and especially not non-stop for years and decades.

That's a poor argument. We're also not "designed" to consume cooked foods, drink filtered tap water, and have access to modern medicine (eg. prescription/OTC drugs).
He recently stated unequivocally that he is not Satoshi Nakamoto. This is just conjecture and conspiracy theory.
Oh, I’d add that my current power runs through the trees to the house, and from the house to the garage in the trees. And the house is nearly 50 years old, and therefor grandfathered in without an electrical shutoff on the side of the house. Part of this project is to fix all that.
Ask HN: Is Reddit Down?
No, the problem is that you're conflating a decision by google to not serve relevant results for moral and business reasona with a failure by google to do what they intend to do. They don't care if you search for far right stuff, they aren't interested in serving it to you. They are interested in serving you infromation about other stuff you're interested in.
> Open protocols should be the default. We have W3C recommendations that make the federated social web possible.

I agree.

> the audience will move if necessary.

If we let that be the plan, then our filter bubble problem will get even worse. Everyone left of a certain point will only be on Twitter, and everyone else will only be on the fediverse. It's a lot less likely that people will follow anyone they disagree with if they'd need another account they couldn't otherwise use.
Of course, he was writing that in the context of denouncing Shay's Rebellion.

Note the part where he says "the remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them," rather than to encourage and justify it on principle.

As often happens with quotes of the founding fathers, the actual argument being made is more nuanced than the quote suggests. While Thomas Jefferson believed in the spirit of rebellion as necessary, he also understood that an ignorant and uneducated populace could be led astray by misinformation, and that such rebellions in practice were more often than not the result of a failure of the civil and cultural systems of trust which should have prevented them.
There’s our labor shortage
RAS: Continuously Optimized Region-Wide Datacenter Resource Allocation
exactly, it’s funny how some people will downvote others for speaking what works for them. i’ll never understand that.

both kratom and coffee are related, kratom gets a bad rap because of headshops but people have been using it for all types of things for over 300 years with little to no issues.

there’s even some journals on it’s use with reducing some covid symptoms. not a cure but definitely seems helpful
> If social media is that important - and that isn't a decision anyone has actually voted on, it's just something people say now - then the government can build its own social media platform and regulate it as a utility.

Why does the government need to built its own social media platform? We regulate other privately-owned utilities all the time. Cell phone companies, power utilities, water services, waste management, etc. This is no different - social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are fundamental services in our modern society and it is unacceptable for users to be unfairly discriminated against or banned based on their viewpoints.

> Having the government take over a private business because it decides the free speech rights of politicians should be more important than the free speech and association rights of everyone else is a bad idea.

We already do this all the time in many different ways - it’s called regulation and it is not the same as “taking over” a business, so spare me the hyperbole. The free speech of individuals is more important that the association rights of Twitter or the cabal of other tech oligopolies that are all immune to competition due to their market capitalization and network effects.

> This isn't like the FCC regulating the airwaves, the internet isn't a limited spectrum, and there's no reason to act as if the capacity to disseminate information over it is actually a scarce resource.

Actually it does bear some similarities. The scarcity is not around a ‘spectrum’ but it does exist because these products rely on network effects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect). These network effects mean that access to users and attention is limited and there is a barrier to entry that prevents market competition from functioning properly. So there absolutely is reason to act as if the capacity to disseminate information is a scarce resource.
I switched from Google to https://kagi.com recently, I've found them a significant improvement in search result quality so far!

Right now they're free with a waiting list, but the long-term plan is to charge for access - I'm personally hopeful that that's a business model far less likely to incentivize results quality, without falling into this ad trap.
Early reporting of any complex issue is likely to be full of falsehoods, usually by accident. This page is referencing when it's done intentionally to mislead.
Why is this not simply illegal?
Can I defend Google here?

What are they supposed to do? The "Internet" as an information resource is dead. All new topical information has moved to walled gardens such as Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, Discord, Reddit etc, and mobile apps. The open websites such as Wikipedia, StackOverflow etc dominate everything else. Websites are legacy objects which no-one visits anymore, and they have therefore raced to the bottom to earn scraps of revenue. This is a structural problem that Google cannot fix. Google itself is doomed on the long-term unless it can index new relevant content.
Here it's reasonable to differentiate between natural opioids, semi-synthetic opioids, and fully synthetic opioids. It's not a perfect measure, but the degree of potency tends to vary with the category and the fully synthetic opioids do not rely upon poppies for precursors.
Do you have a Google, FB, Twitter, snap, YouTube, Reddit, any other social accounts? TikTok is exactly the same
I quit Facebook too. But I was also able to rebalance my Twitter experience to contain more signal and less noise. Github is a great form of social media. And here we both are posting comments on Hacker News. Despite us both being very happy to leave Facebook, we’re also probably both familiar with the frisson of exchanging ideas online and are unwilling to give it up. Giving that up completely is really not as interesting as learning to manage it well.
[hears a European accent]

me: he's Welsh, like from Wales? that's in Europe, right?

brit: he hails from Northern England, West Yorkshire, obviously. the silent h's point to Leeds, though the scarcity of expletives suggest a flat near the Grand Theatre...294 Vicar Lane?

- Someone on twitter (can't remember the exact source)
I actually miss the architecture. Although the centralisation had its problems, the efficiency was fantastic. Everything was compressed, data was pushed instead of pulled, and with BES every device had an automatic always on VPN-like connection, like WireGuard. And now my phone has to deal with hanging TCP connections, IP address changes and ActiveSync just crapping out.
Having been recently converted into a Tcl user, studying this code will definitely help me improve my skill in the language! Thanks for the link
> Our side "provides journalism", their side "spits out propaganda".

See Russell Conjugation.
We are fortunate to have a LINC, and a LINC-8 at the System Source Computer Museum. ( https://museum.syssrc.com ) The museum is in Hunt Valley, MD. The LINC was last operational at Digibarn.com in 2009. We hope to have it working again early in 2022. We are also luck to have a complete set of drawings!
Lead acid batteries self-destruct after they've been left to discharge. Not something you want to keep in a trunk or store at home unplugged. The lithium jump starters have much more dependable passive storage life.
>Do you have any links to support the notion they are pretty much the same thing

"The average ratio was 56% fructose to 44% glucose"

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

>"HFCS 42" and "HFCS 55" refer to dry weight fructose compositions of 42% and 55% respectively, the rest being glucose.[5] HFCS 42 is mainly used for processed foods and breakfast cereals, whereas HFCS 55 is used mostly for production of soft drinks.[5]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-fructose_corn_syrup
Is this about the quack doctor?
FYI: 134TW / 1.21GW = 110,743 missed time travel opportunities.
i listen to a few cryptography podcasts and cryptography is an interest of mine[1]. most security engineers agree that JWT has too much of a surface area and takes a lot of care from the implementer that it can lead to security holes[2].

Another reason i like just generating a securiity token when the user logs in is that i can require a join on the table for any query so that its extra secure.

e.g. if fetching "posts" for a "user" and i have 3 tables (users, posts, and user_tokens) i can do an inner join like this (if the `posts` table has `user_id`):

select p.*
from posts p
inner join user_tokens ut using (user_id)
where p.user_id = $1 and ut.token = $2

-- `users` table wasn't needed for this join since am not selecting from it

with JWTs the security happens once when you verify the JWT signature, but then security is less of a focus when making queries, which would complicate queries anyway since you have to make sure the same user who owns the JWT has access to the data (it handles authentication but not authorization). You still need to hit the database anyway for fetching any data so the headless approach for JWTs isn't really saving me much, so I like to just bake in security for the queries.

[1]: I recommend new book "Real World Cryptography" by David Wong

[2]: (podcast about JWTs from cryptographer, august 2021) https://securitycryptographywhatever.buzzsprout.com/1822302/...

--

EDIT: would probably want a few more predicates in that query to account for token status.

e.g.

where p.user_id = $1 and ut.token = $2
and ut.is_revoked = false and ut.is_expired = false
Is PDF link broken in the blog ?
I think there is more senses being used in driving then just eyes and ears. I am not the best driver in the world, but I use a lot of senses while driving, abnormal vibrations that are felt cause me to be more alert. Constant awareness of hills and road conditions are felt.

Saying it's just cameras and microphones vastly over simplifies what driving involves for a human.
I'm having issues with Google lately too. Every time I look up some piece of code because I want to view documentation related to it, all I get are these example websites that crawl open source pages and index them with SEO optimized queries. Something like hotexamples.com and garbage like that. All of the sudden they're #1 on Google and provide little to no value. It used to be all of the #1 pages were stackoverflow.com or Reddit and the like, which always had really good discussions on these snippets of code.

Edit: in fact, it's gotten so bad that I've stopped using Google for search results and now I go directly to Reddit or Stack Overflow and do my searches there. Which is UNREAL. I don't mind it, but I can't believe how bad it's gotten.
Yes. Just searched for "cholimex soy sauce". 80% of the search results page was covered by an ad for mayonnaise...
I heat my basement with a mining rig. Why should that be illegal?
> I find it very hard to believe that PageRank is still the same PageRank that we understood in 1998.

It's not, because as good as PageRank was, it was vulnerable to being exploited by link farms, which started popping up in its wake. I do remember that by the mid 2000s, about 5% of search results were pages just spamming search keywords and hyperlinks.
"Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is "The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention", a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers."

The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine, Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page. http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
I know, it is a metaphor.

Some of our primate relatives live off fruit, but a) wild fruit is generally way less sugary than whatever we produce now, b) they are fairly far from us in many other regards (lifespan, anatomy, the ability to swing in the trees), so we cannot really derive relevant lessons on human metabolism from them.

Our closest living relatives are chimps, who can eat tree bark and some leaves that we are unable to digest (they do not prefer them, but can eat them without ill consequences). Even at this relatively short evolutionary distance, our food requirements diverged.
I think affiliate links are positive for Amazon, because they crowdsource aggressive sales and marketing, but are negative for Google (and everyone else). I think if Google could somehow ban affiliate links, they would.
I mean this is a known thing in general; the best kitchen supply stuff you can buy is often stuff intended for commercial use, because it quite literally goes through the wringer with near-constant usage over long periods of time.

The problem is finding a place that sells commercial things to individual buyers. That, and sometimes what a commercial kitchen needs is vastly oversized for a regular house; you're probably going to set off your residential fire alarm very often with a massive commercial range designed for woks, for example, unless you also upgrade the ventilation, etc.
Very useful info but that reads like Apple's "you're using it wrong" press releases.

In my experience Natural Language queries return very poor results except when you are doing a largely popular search.

It is also far more verbose to write:
"What is the frequency of the ultrasonic driver in phacoemulsification?"

Instead of:
"Phacoemulsification+resonant"

The second query is shorter and gives me a correct answer in ddg whereas google returns irrelevant results mixed in with a long lists of patents.
On the other hand, TV, radio, the printing press, and rock-and-roll music have all been called a "monumental change", "unlike anything before it", in the past.

An "unprecedented new thing" comes around every generation, and every time, there are fancy arguments touted about why this unprecedented new thing is unlike all the other "unprecedented new things" in the past.

For what it's worth, I'll say this: when I watch TV or a movie, it appears that the producers, writers, and set designers work hard to make sure that my attention is captured during every moment of the theatrical event. Movie studios perform A/B testing to see what kind of cinematic techniques are more engaging to audiences. Music studios use computer software to mathematically model what kind of music the masses will enjoy. Newspapers engage in yellow journalism.

All I am pleading for is a higher standard of proof and some contrarianism when people claim that whatever modern thing nowadays is unprecedented even among all the other unprecedented things of the past.
I'm a classic guy with a classic Perl book so.. Maybe both? hahaha
It's an interesting analysis, but I'm a little skeptical that there is any partical scenario where Linux would be runnable and a 1.2 kB program will significantly underperform a 600B program. The program would have to be small indeed for this difference to be material.
It's not just you:

I'm getting 504s. Which is probably for the best, since I've been trying to use Reddit less.
It’s somewhat ironic that most of these examples are about Russian disinformation, while we hear constantly in American news and on social media sites about Russian disinformation.

The wiki article itself kind of reads like someone has an axe to grind.
The same reason for why you shouldn't be heating your basement with coal.
And you turn it off when you don't actually need the heat, right? Right?
^counselor

:)
Ads are only a part of it. Most news sites push ideological views as the core content. Most social media push memes and consumerism and conspiracies as the core content. Ad blockers do nothing for the deeper rot in the system
I agree, the results are too heavily influenced by domains like reddit, Pinterest, Quora.

The next thing I have realized, if I am looking for something about a topic or a person and there are current events heavily in the media on the person or the issue, it's almost impossible to get something useful or even related.

Stack overflow results are sometimes replaced by less useful GitHub links.

Then , job search results are pretty bad too , same for shopping items.

It seems like media outlets and the big traffic domains get preferential treatment.

And this is just for English, God knows how bad this will be in other languages.
If you get a negative result and then your child is born with the condition, you won’t forget quickly either.
Yeah, I also noticed that for "tiptoi wiki" Google ranks

https://github-wiki-see.page/m/entropia/tip-toi-reveng/wiki/...

higher than the actual GitHub wiki that all of the content was copied from

https://github.com/entropia/tip-toi-reveng/wiki/Languages

BTW, building my own interactive book was a great thing to do over Christmas.
When I do product research I generally search for whatever the enthusiast community lives and usually there are guides there. Blogs are exactly as you describe, either built in ads or useless.

For common items it's kinda difficult, but still possible! (Printers had a pretty active subreddit/community for example.)
Blogspam and SEO folks are essentially adversaries to good ranking strategies on search engines. In 1998 there weren't many adversaries and it was mostly a technical issue. Now the game is much more complicated.
If you haven't switched your default search to duck duck go yet I highly recommend doing so.

As a user of DDG for years now rarely does searching with !g give better results.

At this point its the opposite. The DDG first page results aren’t all ads above the fold.
I don't think mitigating societal cost is source of the government's authority. It seems to be more about defending our inalienable rights.
Note that semi-synthetic is a category too that "synthetic opioid" generally excludes.

Natural opioids: codeine, morphine.

Semi-synthetic opioids: heroin, hydromorphone, hydrocodone, oxycodone, etc.

Synthetic opioids: methadone (though this is usually excluded from the reporting of "synthetic opioid overdose deaths" for various reasons), demerol, fentanyl, lots of -fentanyl analogs, etc.