skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not the first time the Staatsanwaltschaft (public prosecutors office) of Augsburg has made dubious and potentially politically motivated decisions. If you look at the list of dubious cases and their sources on Wikipedia (perhaps using a translator service) there seems to be a worrying trend and continuity to their questionable decisions. [0]

Notably their 2013 decision to allow a police raid on the regional newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine because an unknown individual posted an allegedly offensive comment against the CDU politician Volker Ulrich in the comments section on the newspapers website raises questions about whether the same decision would have been made had the „victim“ not been an important member of the party in power in the city of Augsburg.

Or their 2009 decision to allow a police raid on someone who was accused of illegally downloading two individual songs worth 1,29 each.

[0] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staatsanwaltschaft_Augsburg
At my company, we had like 3-4 steps, each with clear wording to cancel a subscription, and they had to type something in the end to confirm. Guess what? We still had tickets asking to restore their subscriptions :)
I'm curious, how was TMJ diagnosed?
> The one who is mistaken here is you, although I shouldn't be surprised that someone can dismiss [...]

Yes, I was mistaken in my first read through. I'm taking your indignation with some amusement, but I hope you can be civil going forward.

If you look at the second snippet of code, you can clearly see how it declares the arguments `restrict` and then uses them to access the same piece of memory. That's *wrong* - it violated the promise made by `restrict`.

What I didn't see at first was that the first snippet of code appears to be fine. As far as I can tell, it doesn't break any rules. *So the optimization pass from the first version to the second version is incorrect.* After that, everything that follows is still questionable.

The following passes use the `restrict` promise from the second version to eliminate from the load from `x` and so on...
Twitter Adopts Poison Pill to Ward Off Musk Takeover
You think no other potential future employers will hear about him and this case? The actions of the previous employer impugn his reputation as a future employee. While not exactly legal, I'm sure companies would find a way to say they don't think he's a good fit for their company out of fear of the consequences of what could happen should he have a panic attack.
Hey, yes, this only simulates in the software, and does not translate to any lower level IR that can target actual hardware.
Also thanks for posting and sharing this!
Hi, what you're saying is technically accurate, but Firefox and Duckduckgo are still far better than chrome + google session + google search + gmail.

Although, I've edited the post, as it could be misleading.
I have a reMarkable, but can't recommend it for this or any other use case. The hardware's great, and deserves better than the software it has - which barely exists, and mostly doesn't work well.
You could scrape the site, either from Wayback or from WordPress, if you manage to get it working just briefly, and then host the site statically out of an S3 bucket. wget has an option to recursively crawl and save a site, but there are other tools.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/Websit...
It's not just about now. Who knows what happens in the future.

Eastern Europe was fractured and weak following World War One. A huge invasion still came twenty years later. This is a game played out in centuries, not 20 years. The future is unpredictable. Russians leaders plan in that world.
>> Overall, it is difficult to see how prohibition of psychedelics can be justified as a public health measure”
> This is activism, not science. As I said above, I actually support drug legalisation – but it’s far from appropriate to include this kind of thing so prominently in what’s supposed to be a neutral, factual scientific analysis.

Scientific studies that ingesting chemicals like THC are one of the reasons we have things like the Rockefeller drug laws. Activism from some in the scientific community is one reason people are rotting in jail for selling marijuana (while tobacco companies donate to politicians and in return get trade deals where it is illegal to have a law requiring warnings on cigarette packs.

People can be arrested for ingesting mescaline from peyote plants like Native Americans used to, scientific studies and activism is one reason for this, but scientists asking for people not to be imprisoned for getting mescaline from a cactus is not "appropriate".

(I have never tried mescaline but don't want to be imprisoned if I ever do)
I'm glad you commented as that is precisely not what I was trying to say, so i'm sorry I wasn't clear.

(OK, actually I did agree with the article in regards to points outside California.)

But I was trying to make two points where I thought the post was not correct:

1 - The "don't want to miss out on upside"-motivated crowd take a lot of risk, sometimes on stuff even I think is absurd...and some of those bets that seem stupid to me do pay out.

2 - There's nuance in what appears to be "herding" behavior so that the "sheep" complaint is...probably wrong.

Again: my comments are supposed to be normative; the VC community neither needs nor deserves my support.
"Man fired over panic attack wins wrongful dismissal suit" would be a much clearer headline (and no one would click on it).
> Risk taking in the workplace

You mean like this bold approach to development?

Programmer: "Please, boss, let me write this one in Rust."

Manager: "OK, but if you are even one day late, you job will be on the line."

Programmer: "Never mind, I'll use Java." Knowing that if three months late using Java, nobody will care.
They could have sort of been. It sounds like the manager is an ass. It's possible the other employees were planning/participating at the boss's direction and then felt bad about the situation when they found out.
The million dollar question. They were probably got embarrassed and fired them in a rage/panic for “causing” them the embarrassment.
This seems like a money-grab from a municipality. As people engage in cord-cutting behavior, the municipality can't excise it's tax from the cable companies (people who dig cables). So they are looking to make up for the shortfall by going after Netflix and Hulu.
Security update: Git v2.35.3-1
And the good enough gets better.

It makes the snobs look a bit ridiculous: "Oh, it only took you five years to get to where we were... but we were on expensive hardware you couldn't buy without a major contract, running fewer applications, and invested in a system that would be eaten by the low end so comprehensively now only snobs know how good it was."
I find that using the Old Reddit interface with RES on desktop, and Apollo on mobile, more or less eliminates the icky parts of the Reddit experience.

The catch is that both of those usage modes are pretty much at the mercy of Reddit Inc., which could decide to "deprecate" them at any time they see fit. And given that Reddit Inc. seems to be planning an IPO, I imagine that those will both be on the chopping block sooner rather than later.
”While it’s certainly possible to boot up Among Us during work or schedule Zoom lunches between random teammates, the set of remote bonding activities is significantly more limited than the set of in-person bonding activities.”

I’d like to see this revisited once VR / AR is more mature. Apple’s and Meta’s new headsets are just around the corner.
I have read this and own it; if such a book were written today, the author would be instantly cancelled for presupposing to even investigate their motivations

today, the press would simply declare America's enemies to be cartoon villains who were born evil and as a result incapable of understanding

what contemporary America understands about Nazis is basically the vision presented in Raiders Of The Lost Ark
An extremely-well-traveled travel photo-blogger I read sometimes, who has a thing for signs (among other things, like fire hydrants), noted that only one or two other countries in the world come anywhere close to the US when it comes to posting rules on things. He framed it as practically the defining feature of American cities and towns: signs with rules on them, everywhere.
The article also makes a brief mention of some type of violence, but curiously does not elaborate on it.
> When was the last time a major distribution found a backdoor in a popular package?

Packagers not finding a backdoor doesn't mean that there isn't one. How many packagers actively audit the code they support for a given distro? It is not uncommon for distros that support esoteric platforms will claim a given package works for that platform because it compiles, but it reliably segfaults on execution. Who's responsible for that? Packagers have even introduced[1] vulnerabilities by "fixing" code they didn't fully understand at the time.

Packagers have a difficult, thankless task, and we're doing them no favors by being confused at what their job is. They ensure that the package builds, integrates with the rest of the distribution as much as possible and updates/patches swiftly when issues are found upstream.

[1]: https://lwn.net/Articles/282038/
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying, but the stop sign (around here) means you have to come to a full stop and yield to crossing traffic, which includes bikes, cars and other vehicles, but not pedestrians.
> Turned out that urban warfare didn't really happen much

The war isn't really past tense; the swift advance to and battle for Kyiv with the intent of forcing capitulation didn't happen, but as the shift to seizing territory Russia really wants rather than getting handed it by a friendly government imposed on Ukraine has happened, urban warfare has become a thing in Mariupol, and if Russia continues prosecuting the war it’ll probably happen more places.
I've been pulled into the frontline of a culture war, so I've become pretty liberal with who I block, including using chainblocking on people who encourage harassment of others.

It occasionally hits the wrong people, but it's the only way to make twitter usable for me. It's not my failing.

It's of course all against the twitter rules, but twitter moderation is horrible and these people have also learned to speak in code. It's not "kill yourself" anymore, it's "join the 41%".
I took some pre law classes in college and this was the exact kind of scenario we’d get in exams.

Interesting thought exercises when it comes to interpretation of how law applies.
Thank you for this. I'm currently (today) trying to negotiate an offer with AWS and while the brand/tech is making it really tempting, Work/life balance is really important to me right now as a father of a 3 year old (the only child I am planning to have).
Unless you are part of their existing installed base, don't waste your time. It's an attempt to generate interest in a dead product. Oracle long ago killed any chance of it remaining relevant in the larger software world.
Ahh, sorry I never completed the story. The program was simply fixed. I believe the way they wound up fixing it was simply static linking libpng and zlib. I found another workaround too, which was a very obscure linker flag, but I can’t recall what it was as it has been a few months now. If you run into this problem with a random binary and can’t get it fixed properly, you can use Microsoft’s REBASE.EXE or EDITBIN.EXE to rebase the preferred base address to be within the range of a RIP relative CALL. If you are savvy with PE, writing such a tool by hand is very straightforward; you need to write a PE parser that can map virtual addresses, relocate as if you are a real PE loader, update the preferred base address, and write back to disk. The only case where something like this won’t work is when the executable has some kind of on-disk CRC checking, or something along those lines. (So probably, VMProtect and Themida encumbered binaries can’t be modified this way. But that’s OK, as most tools of this sort only works with Microsoft’s toolchain, which does not have pseudo-relocs.)
> (I assume in the following that where you wrote `strict`, you meant `restrict`.)

Yup, silly typos. Sorry about that.
Another thing they could try would be a different eq curve overall.

I always find The Sound of Music as reproduced on older narrow band with am radios and phonographs interesting. A lot of that gear doesn't really produce anything over 10 khz.

But, where they emphasized frequencies in the spectrum is different from Modern equipment, which basically is shooting for flat response.

My grandfather's old radio, when played in a room have a comfortable volume, sounds really good. It's present. And even when I use the little transmitter to send it an idealized signal, it had a roll off starting around 8khz, the absolute high-end was maybe 12khz.

I never took the time to analyze it in detail, and kind of wish I had. The usual 62-100 hurts emphasis, like what you'll find on your typical loudness button on a 70's or 80's stereo was there. But it also shaped the sound in 3 to 8khz range.

The end result was a very natural sound the didn't overpower, felt like it should be there in the room with all the other sounds.

Wish I could say more but I'm not where I have any detail information. I can say the enjoyment of the music is different, and fulfilling. It's not bright, like those higher frequencies bring to the overall feel of the program being produced.

Robust, full, seem descriptive... clear is another one. Often, when I hear high bandwidth audio, through limited devices, it seems muddy, unclear, not precise. Those older radios are not like that. Well, the better ones anyway.

In any case, the eq is different, and that impacts our perception related to the overall feel of the sound.

Sorry for the typos. I'm doing this with the voice dictation. I may actually go back and revisit this myself. As I age up I'm getting be expected, natural roll off most all of us get in our later years.
Sun ultimately suffered the same fate of all of the Unix workstation companies. By selling only expensive "Serious Business" hardware to corporations they were able to keep the per-unit margins high, but were completely crushed by commodity PCs in volume and ultimately total profit. Ultimately those huge commodity sales volumes were turned into big R&D budgets that allowed them to produce faster and more efficient hardware than the big workstations providers. And then the one advantage they had: the OS, was undercut by BSD and Linux.

So a company has the option of spending 5 or 6 figures on a big Unix box with a 4 figure yearly support contract and pain in the ass license management, or they could spend a low 4 figures on a PC running Linux that is just as good or better in all the ways that matter and doesn't have annoying salesguys to deal with or recurring costs.
Why was the McDonald's one not frivolous? Was it just because it was 185 degrees?

Edit: Why are people disagreeing with this? It's literally 2 questions and it seems the temperature was the issue when looking at culpability.

Edit 2: someone here provided the additional type of information that I was interested in. It wasn't just the temperature, but also that the cup had a design flaw that made it likely to collapse if you took the lid off. Thanks!
the chinese government creates youtube channels wich engage in genocidial denial [0], i believe paying for a normal PR campaign is normal

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbKSswCwEMg&ab_channel=Jerry...
I could agree with you a few years ago but since LSP and Tree-sitter the tables have basically turned, I'm pretty confident you can get _more_ IDE-type features in Neovim (albeit with some amount of effort, no doubt). But, again, you can tailor that exactly to your liking.
While we're talking about Private Relay: with it enabled (on an iPhone), Google won't show me search suggestions. Both google.com and Safari's address/search bar are affected. It's a small feature, but a feature that I rely on often, so it's quite the dealbreaker for me.
I worked at Intel from 1988-1998 and when I started we had either AIX or SunOS terminals (a few folks had giant HPUX boxes). By 1996, everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, switched to Linux and VNC. It happened quickly. First we started hearing about Linux, then a quarter later all the remote machines were Linux, then the quarter after that they took away our workstations. There were a few HPUX boxes in the larger pools for extremely compute-heavy layout tasks, but everything else was RedHat.

Point is: I remember writing scripts for then main environment and every script had to work on all terminals. The three variations meant constantly armor-plating things with HPUX/AIX/SUNOS variable checks. I hated that. I was glad when RedHat came along and we stopped doing that.

(Also, back then it was a sign of being cool to have an 8514/A monitor, and not the B&W sun terminals.)
I don’t know of any mental illness that isn’t accompanied by intense mental distress
Yeah, fast heay things and slow light things don't mix well together in flows. The fast things have to stop being fast to stop from obliterating the slow things.

If you think of a hypothetical situation where 50% of the road things are slow then there's not much benefit to being able to go fast.

Where is the tipping point?
Seems like more is being found out about covid, and so things which were thought early, turned out to have more nuance to them. Vaxxed people absolutely don't get hit as hard by covid, therefore requiring far less expensive hospital care. Since we all pay for this, this seems a reasonable thing to do.

What is not reasonable is me trusting YOU, someone who's arguments, seem somewhat ... unconvincing, about the severity of the covid infection you would spread to me without a care.

As for your babies, supply chain issues coincided with covid, they are not caused by it. Please research the issue, you will see.

Why not take a trip to a hospital and ask the staff what they see and think? Oh, and a mortuary, see what they are seeing.

I look forward to your report, sir.
"I'm harsh about this because investors buy a ticket for a growth ride, and the best ones are diversified enough that they really do just buy the ticket and take the ride. But watching engineers iterate on refining the exeuction of solved problems, managers focus on "getting resources," and sales acting like the abused secret side partner to some flagship account they're fronting to attract investor/acquirer interest - are all just spinning wheels, imo."

-- that was an incredibly well written and succinct summary of the the dangers of over funding. I couldn't agree more!
I did not know about this. Thanks!
Nah. A temporary passing I get.

I’m talking about duos and trios just riding in sync having a conversation.

This happens way too frequently in some areas of where I cycle. Nobody calls them out on it either, except honking drivers.
Who's to say where you work after you leave one employer and go to another?
Kindle Paperwhite continues to serve me well for ten years of daily reading. I upload pdfs, various doc formats and all my ebooks to it all the time by simply emailing the file to Amazon’s whisper service which you get automatically with the kindle purchase.

No, it is not a note-taking device although short notes for highlighted text may be done. It is a reading device. And I highly recommend it.
In SC an overly broad noncompete can’t prevent you from earning a living using the skills you have.
So which is going to happen first: shareholder law suits alleging the executives have breached fiduciary duty or Elon dumping his holdings and waiting to buy in at half the price (or less)?
$450k worth of money. Soldiers often get mentally destroyed in wars and they don’t get squat.

I’ll trade a panic attack for $450k any day.
> I assume there are capable people

Never a great assumption really.

> working at these large TV companies who can ascertain reasonably well what kind of demand there is for a dumb TV.

Companies are focused on maximizing profit. Demand is secondary.

The hardware cost difference between a smart TV today and a dumb TV is negligible, but the loss of years of spying on you and serving you ads isn't.
From knowing a whole bunch of people with ranges of issues, my personal opinion is that it seems that certain people are just simply not "tuned" to their lifestyle/environment, and the mental health issues stem from a certain part of that psyche not wanting to change their environment.

Not that this would get past any ethics board, but it would be an interesting experiment if you took someone suffering from severe depression, fed them 10 grams of shrooms to reset their brain, and then put them in a remote village in South America with no phone or internet where basically their entire day has PURPOSE - i.e wake up, do work with fishing/farming/hunting construction, socialize in the evening, all as a group activity.
Yeah I noticed this too, and I think they're actually referring to his panic attack? I guess I can't say for sure but if that's the case I hope he somehow sues them again and they go bankrupt.
There seem to be some missing facts. The statement from the business indicates that their defense for firing him was that they reasonably believed his flip-out could be the start of going postal.

Without knowing what he said, it’s hard to judge. Since the jury found for plaintiff, I’m going to guess they didn’t see it as a credible threat.
If you're the kind of person who likes the ability to tweak your environment and get things set up just right for you, I'd recommend getting a Kobo and putting KOReader[1] on it. It has the classic OSS problem of bad defaults, but it's very flexible and can be a uniquely nice experience once you get it configured in a way you like. It's mostly written in Lua and has responsive maintainers, so if you're a developer you can extend it even further.

It has great PDF support, including good reflow and note taking support (highlights and text notes). And export support to text/json/html/Readwise.io for those notes.

It also has the best UI I've seen to visualize the structure of a book you're reading.[2]

The biggest downside is that you have to do more file management of your ebooks, since it isn't hooked into a nice cloud like Kindle. I use Calibre for this, and set up an OPDS server for some basic cloud downloading.

[1] https://koreader.rocks/

[2] Book Map and Page Browser: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/releases/tag/v2022.01
Not necessarily. Many such contracts also contain a choice of law clause that specifies which state's laws will apply.
I cant think of anything remotely in twitters caliber where the public of the world can go to freely gossip with one another.

Scientists, authors, journalists, techies.. a huge amount of really smart creative people are on this platform sharing their lives, cool things they find, & discussing topics & current affairs. I can roll up to any given conversation and join it.

I cant think of anything that comes remotely, no where near as serving as effectively as the public square of the world as twitter.

Dinging it because it only has x% would be modestly interesting to engage in of there was anything even faintly as connective, populated, & open to the world. There is not. Remarking that some people have outsized presence mirrors the real world: to expect the world engages in a public square exactly the same way as one another is absurd & a discredit.
Unclear. It says later he had a panic attack upon being confronted over the previous panic attack, and that he was fired after this second panic attack.

The quote about the employees acting appropriately for office safety sounds like this second event was interpreted as violence of some sort. We weren't there so we can't know, but it's one of those things where the overall picture makes the jury decision seem likely to be reasonable.