skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> integer constant folding

int a = 10;
int var1;
int b = 20;

foo(&var1);

int c = a + b;

You'd like to constant fold c? Better assume no UB:

void foo(int* x) { *(x-1) = 0; }

> unused load removal

Same idea as above.

> Assuming overflow won't happen is not a sane assumption

If the alternative is loops being much slower when you request optimizations, then maybe it is. Consult your compiler manuals if this default irks you.
If Africa can manage it, we probably can.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2017/11/08/in-much-...
In the states I've lived in, licenses and ids required proof of residency. If you can't prove you live in the state, you're not getting one.
does the body not have protections against prions like heat shock protein?
do_some_thing if ready_to_go(variables_needed_for_conditionals...)
Do you have customers? $10k (or anything more than $50) for a domain pre-revenue is a waste of money.

Spending 5 figures on something useless tells me you're focused way too closely on developing something. Spend your remaining cash on validating the product and selling it, not on building something else that maybe no one wants.
Activision Workers Forming a Union
It always blows my mind when business owners complain “oh labour is too expensive, oh I can’t stay in business”

Yes, that’s how capitalism, markets and commerce work. It has good parts and bad parts. If you don’t want the government to get involved when it’s going well, why get them involved when it isn’t? Greed and hypocrisy, that’s why.
> I don't understand why people apply this logic to CBD but not experimental mRNA vaccines, and subsenquently why the FDA is fighting a FOIA request to release it's data claiming it will take 75 years to release.

mRNA technology is not new, it's been worked on for years and years. We were slated to get it around 2030 or 2040, we're just getting the advancement a bit earlier than the normal timeline. Sometimes discoveries happen earlier than they "ought" to, my fav example before mRNA was the video camera and TV. Invented before stereo radio, IIRC, in the late 20s.

DARPA started injecting money into the field in 2013, and that's after it had been studied as "the next big thing in medicine" for some time. I worked as a programmer in a lab 10 years ago and "mRNA tech" was talked about the way us computer people talk about photonics, for example. The only reason the vaccine was ready so darn fast was because of the years of prior work on mRNA technology generally, combined with the fact that The Science Community (tm) had already spent years, money, and hundreds of graduate students (I imagine) specifically on stabilizing the spike protein following the SARS outbreak in 2003.

When the new one came along, I think we'd be in a different situation (dead. I think we'd be much more dead.) if there hadn't been prior research into how to stabilize that protein in just the right shape, or if there wasn't a decade of for-profit startup research behind it and even more public university research, for decades (plural).

Oh, and also, I think your criticism of the FDA is spot on, I think and hope they lose the case in court. I just think it has nothing to do with anything else, it's just government bureaucracy being stupid, sometimes they need a FOIA request and a lawsuit to stop that crap.
Quiz: who said, “all politics is, at bottom, theological?” St. John Henry Newman, or Proudhon? Trick question! Both! This is radically different from the Marxian/Nietzschian maxim, that all theology is, at bottom, politics. I don’t think anarchism is actually a complete, proper atheism; it tends to propose itself to a kind of negative theology (no false gods). Therefore dialogue is possible, unlike the Marxist, Nietzschian case, where atheism is complete and postulatory.

One area of commonality is that we both believe that society is natural. I’ve already mentioned Book II of Suarez’ Against the Errors of the Anglican Sect in this thread. Anarchists who read it will find it, in turns, dazzlingly profound and infuriating, yet astonishingly satisfying as a whole (just as I do with Graeber).

A second area of commonality is that we both believe in a horizon beyond politics. Graeber is especially good about this. For him, anarchism is an interior disposition — a mode of being — prior to any political program. He therefore avoids the infallible symptom of political atheism, the absolutization of politics. His books are about human life, and in particular about how politics can take place within life, rather than life taking place within politics. The intellectually fearless anarchist can read Andrew Willard Jones’ Before Church and State, and see the commonalities.

As for substantive content of dialogue, the anarchist can help the Catholic to see instances where the Church has, in practice, confused the eternal, Divine order for a particular, temporal order (see Pope Benedict XVI’s discourse on the temptations of Christ and the Kingdom of God in Jesus of Nazareth, Volune I for how to approach this with orthodoxy and openness). This will help the Church more authentically pursue its mission.

In turn, the Catholic can help the anarchist to resolve the power-authority distinction, which lies at the heart of the anarchists’ inability to sustain any positive ideal (see various 19th Century failures, Occupy Wall Street, and the more recent corporate co-optation of radical culture). From there, it is not hard to offer the highest authority, the Lord who stands in judgement of all Lords; sin as the universal oppressor, and oneness in the body of Christ as true freedom.

Some other texts I think we would all like:

St Cyprian of Carthage: On Almsgiving

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Universal Destination of Goods (Summa Theologica)

St. Thomas Aquinas on Distributive Justice (Summa Theologica)

Pope Francis’ Laudito Si

Anything by or about Bl. Oscar Romero

St. Augustine’s City of God

Most of Pope Benedict XVI’s scholarly work, Jesus of Nazareth already mentioned as a highlight.
Tongan Man Swept Away by Tsunami Survived After 26 Hours Afloat
New Albany has a lot of corporate headquarters relative to the size of the city, even when you exclude the Les Wexner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner) companies. Big Lots, Red Roof Inn and Bob Evans are the most prominent, but there are lots of other major companies with measurable presence (one of the two AWS US-EAST-2 DCs & a FB DC), too. From looking at the town's operating plan, The New Albany Company (a planned community, where Wexner & friends have/can buy up all of the swampy farmland they want and grow the city limits as necessary) already have lots of land (both for C&I and residential) and can offer tax breaks/rebates that can't be matched for corporations, instead relying more on the taxes from the residential developments of $500k+ homes (probably 1.5-2x MSA median) in the area (if you want to see a gerrymandered map, look up New Albany-- it is very deliberate in excluding multi-family developments from the city limits).
This is a bit of a weird take to me. I don't know anything about Ohio (maybe it's a shit hole) but large investment will raise the living standards. California is beautiful, diverse and whatnot, but it's not like there is something in the air that makes it that way. The influx of people and capital is what makes it special. Same for NY and most higher density areas.
Water in AZ is some of the cheapest in the country. At least until Lake Powell runs dry. Not a bad idea to spread the risks around however.
This is also how viruses work.
Are video games entertaining? Yes. Thus they aren't pointless.

Can the metaverse be entertaining? Apparently it can be, thus it isn't pointless by the same train of thought.

I tried Second Life twice in about 2006. No interest in revisiting the concept, but obviously it is novel to someone out there. I'll stick to games.
It can be brutal to use rubocop in an old project. Here is how we did it.

We only lint the files that changed after the date we integrated rubocop : `git -c log.showRoot=false log --no-merges --pretty=format: --name-only --since="2022-01-01"`

Then we heavily customized `.rubocop.yml` to avoid the rules that were not auto-correctable.

It was still brutal for a couple of weeks but now, maybe 2 years later, everything is fine.
love running into old friends on HN, so some very stale info from someone who hasn’t worked at SO in many years: while the job board was differentiated and nice from the programmers side, it’s really difficult to convince recruiters to use a new system with new rules. most (not all ofc) just want to spray and pray.

as a job seeker being told “you’re gonna have the upper hand here” is amazing, as a recruiter it makes it very difficult to sell to unless you really own the market.
Not only that but with universal healthcare meaning that I'm subsidizing someone else's poor health habits, I want everyone on a government-prescribed workout + diet plan ASAP. Then again maybe COVID has been a blessing for culling the weak with minimal end-of-life costs, natural selection and all. Not going to be a popular opinion, but that's the emotionless conclusions of a purely scientific worldview.
Wrong Submission;)

You probably wanted to comment on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30023169
In visual memory, size matters
Age-related diseases and degeneration are a massive burden on modern healthcare systems, are difficult to treat because we don't understand many of the underlying pathways, are extremely debilitating for patients, and are difficult for their family and loved ones. Properly understanding these cellular mechanisms and pathways can open up new avenues for treatment for cancer, Alzheimers, and other diseases, all of which would result in lucrative new drugs. The market for age-related diseases is extremely large, and it only grows every year.
This conversation is like telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.
Climate change implications are interesting, I think a net negative in the long-term for all the greenhouse gases released, but an unknown short-term global cooling trend expected. Was the recent snow storm in Eastern US affected by the Tonga eruption?
Do you think the company will fail on the current course?

That's the biggest factor IMO, having a large slice of 0 is still 0...

There's nothing wrong with wanting to be lean in a vacuum. But if you're in a space that moves incredibly quickly and being lean means moving too slowly, that's the real issue.

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In other words I guess I'm saying, forget about the money for a second and focus on the effects it's having.

Are important deliverables slipping, is traction waning, etc.
One thing I think is really nice about excalidraw is that the excalidraw file format is simply json - this makes my notes/drawings/diagrams greppable!
> Where are we on spinal cord recovery after a complete sever?

It's been performed in animals, though it resulted in paralyzation and subsequent euthanization. Human attempts have been prepped for on several occasions, but never carried out.

Past human candidates have been paraplegics, but I think you'd find even more willing patents amongst those with terminal cancers.

It would probably take trial and error before we can reattach a spinal cord successfully. Early patients will likely be paralyzed.

> If you are an oligarch and don't mind murdering a healthy young type o- isn't that really the only barrier?

This isn't scalable and also doesn't confer the advantages of a neutral immune system.

Monoclonal bodies can be used for all other sorts of uses. Wide-scale and repeatable studies, basic research, smaller scale blood and organ transplants, etc.

Since attempts would be limited, the difficult kinks would not be worked out of the protocol. By building a scalable methodology, it begins to work for everyone and becomes safer and more practical over time.
Yes! And how policy can have unintended consequence is HUGE. Why doesn't he really even mention that? It's upsetting that among the many observations that "people, tip more" ends up being the final thought and not "we created a system that affords all of this behavior, " not one that works with known conditions.

Sure, I personally think people should be more generous, but they aren't obliged to be generous, I don't really fault them for not being more generous, and if lack of generosity is a condition of the system, he doesn't really have a good argument for saying "we crafted a system knowing people aren't generous, please be more generous so our system works."
To be clear, I don't think the CDC is full of political operatives intent on fighting a culture war. What I think is that almost nobody at the CDC smokes, that they don't know many smokers, that they (correctly, more or less) perceive smoking to be a lower-class-coded activity, that there is probably near-universal agreement within the CDC that smoking is an undesirable (maybe even "gross") activity (associated with low levels of educational attainment).

On the other hand, they all fly in airplanes. They attach little or no moral weight to flying. Everybody they know flies on airplanes. Etc, etc.

I think it's unlikely that this isn't influencing their language. The risk of smoking, in their view, isn't something to be managed or weighed or compared; rather, smoking is an abhorrent activity that should be stamped out of existence.

How could that possibly not influence how they write about it?
I'm confused. Didn't they remove it in 8, too?
Tile has "Tile Network" which is similar: https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/blog/what-is-tile-network-c...

That blog is from 2020, prior to the release (maybe not the announcement, though) of AirTags. It's also probably nowhere near as widespread as Apple's device network, but it does exist.
> Restaurant owners do not like it. For them it means a fixed percentage of revenue has to go to the front of house.

Reducing fixed period costs (e.g. labor costs of servers, rent, IT hardware) to revenue based splits (e.g. tipping, hotdesks at coworking spaces, the cloud) is an excellent way to minimize risks and most businesses are willing to pay a premium for that.
Honestly you probably should prefer to specify by distro, and use the userspace+kernel convention only when you specifically care or it matters for some reason. If I say Fedora, I probably don't need to say "Fedora GNU/Linux", since GNU and Linux (as well as RPM and systemd) are implicit in "Fedora". On the other hand, "Debian" usually means "Debian GNU/Linux" but Debian has a living HURD version (Debian GNU/HURD) and a basically-dead FreeBSD version (Debian GNU/kFreeBSD), and experimental work has been done to allow replacing its coreutils with... I think the Rust rewrite? So there it can be useful to specify.

And, of course, the other reason is because we are Hackers and hackers love their pedantry;)
KYC is already hard to deal with, I dread the day I mistakenly log into my Binance account from a US exit point, because my account could just get frozen.

I prefer they keep being like this instead of things being even harder.

And them doing everything to avoid governments getting data from their customers would suggest me that their loyalty lies with their customers first, and governments last, as it should be.
Growing up in Michigan and moving to Chicago (12 years), I sort of felt the same. Recently visited Cincinnati though and it was kind of amazing. Little town in a "valley", Nice river front, people and shops were nice. Good downtown feeling. Would def consider it a low cost of living place on my radar now.
I'm guessing you've never been to Columbus and have little idea on what it's like there.

Plenty of people go to top schools in that part of the country for their PhD. If they're willing to spend 5-7 years doing that, I can see them willing to work there.

Also, if people moved to the middle of nowhere in New York to work for GF, or Burlington, VT - I think they'll be OK with Columbus.
When you log in, do the terms of service links lead to this page?

https://workspace.google.com/terms/standard_terms.html

It would be interesting if it didn't, which could suggest there's a different free product. "Google Workspace for Nonprofits", for example, seems to be unaffected by this change, and still free.
Wanted to clarify on this, as my comment may have come across as antagonistic... I think what they are trying to do is a good idea and has promise. That said, I stand by my statement - there are no shortcusts - so I would market it differently. Rather than say "Learn Software Engineering 30x Faster..." change it to something like, "An Alternative Resource to Software Engineering via a Visual Approach," or something like that. It is the "30x faster" that didn't sit well with me.
I do the same. I just have one saved. No one has ever complained, even when it's blatantly obvious that I didn't sign it by hand.

I figure even if they do complain, it doesn't matter. Its not like I don't have permission to do what I want with my own signature. The worst might be that they come back and say "sign it properly please" and then I have to go through the effort of printing it out and scanning it back in.
I think that if somebody remade the statue with your point of view in mind it would look somewhat different. Maybe all three of them would be on foot for instance.
All of our development machines have multiple drives mapped to specific functionality:

C: System
D: Data (business data and main work area for product design data)
F: Library (stuff you rarely touch, PDF's, books, references, "knowledgebase", etc.)
G: Backup (external)
S: Swap and Scratch Files (this is actually a RAM-based 128 GB drive for speed)
Z: Development (mostly for web development, VM storage, etc.)

The idea is that the C drive can be taken out and shredded and the most valuable part of the computer, the data, is unharmed. Decades ago I learned --the hard way-- that storing your data on the same drive as the OS/system files is a dangerous thing.

The other thing this facilitates is backup. You can backup and restore each of the logical/functional units separately, as full drives.

This also makes upgrading the system or the entire computer far simpler. The separation between OS and data makes it so.

Way back when, before the registry was a thing, you could upgrade your OS without having to reinstall the applications. While I understand the advantages of common DLL's and the centralized management of common settings and code, I do miss the ability to not only separate data from the OS, but also applications. I don't think that is ever coming back.
FYI, it is a search ranking algorithm.
This is a shame, I found my current job on StackOverflow along with other high quality interviews.

What alternatives are there?
Time to investigate WASM-security holes for a next generation security firm
Recently learned about Ghostscript and man, it does PDF manipulation really fast. If you find yourself merging PDFs a lot, here you are:

gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o merged.pdf tobemerged1.pdf tobemerged2.pdf tobemerged3.pdf

Ghostscript is similar to ImageMagick in that it does so much that learning to do one specific thing is hard. But that line merged ~300MB of PDFs together in 20s on my M1. Doing that in Preview causes a beach ball.

I installed it with Homebrew, but the project home is yonder: https://www.ghostscript.com/
I'd definitely want immortality in the sense of stopping physical (and mental) deterioration. You can always just commit suicide if you're done.

I discuss this with friends and family occasionally, and they all seem to have these ideas that we're "only supposed to live 100 years or so". But that seems like a logical fallacy (appeal to nature) to me, it's not an actual argument.

And sure, there are plenty of dystopian movies about how all of your friends die while you live on. But you know, you can make new friends. As someone who has moved often and had to make new friends often: it's not that bad. Friendships come and go.

Just imagine the things you could get done if you weren't pressured by time. You could witness the colonization of other planets, the unification of humanity. And if everyone were immortal, we wouldn't have to worry about things like pensions anymore, and I bet that we'd see an extreme lowering of crime and violence.

The only read problem I see would be overpopulation, and possibly draconion measures to regulate it.
Side note: Why don't we have national ID in the US?

I know many people don't want us to risk becoming a "show your papers" country, but A) We already kinda are (ever been pulled over?), and B) It just makes more sense to have something like ID be centralized, preferably with a much better model then SSN's.
It has made some nice post-dictions: things spring out of that we do see, things not built into the model to start, which also lends credence.
Hah fair enough. Whole bunch is usually is 2 pots of 4 grams, 3 infusions each. But some people (like my wife) can guzzle filter coffee (much more total caffeine than my single shot) all day and have no trouble getting to sleep. Which makes me jealous. It’s all relative I guess
If process A opens a file and passes a file descriptor to process B, then process B's descriptor will continue to refer to the same object regardless of what process A does.

Process A can unlink the descriptor, swap the directory entry out for some other object or whatever, and Process B will still have a handle to the same initial object.

Nothing stops A from mutating the filesystem object in other ways. For example, A's write to the middle of the file or truncation of the file will be visible to B. But merely unlinking the file doesn't alter B's view of the object.
To clarify, this is for software running on my computer, not software as a service running in the cloud.
When we will have the version for MacOS or Linux?
I agree that’s a somewhat correct reading; we (obviously?) didn’t do it on later meals. I think it’s fair to say there’s a reasonable gap between “you don’t have to” and “you really ought not”.
Intel is fabulously profitable and throws off $12B a year of free cash flow, most of these projects take 5-10Y. That's $60-120B investment without borrowing, which - well, capital is cheap at the moment.
I vote for Foot Locker
Boy this resonates. Not every business needs to "change the world" and IPO with a valuation of $10 Billion.

There are thousands of small businesses out there that provide a quality service, and generate good revenue, and pay their founders and employees amazing sums of money.

Love it.
What exactly do you think is happening here, that I went to these places with demands? I know what job roles are open and I know the compensation. I dont apply until they get more interesting, they are getting more interesting.

There are better jokes.