skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I once encountered a structured that were packed, even though it shouldn’t have been. Took me over a day to notice where the error came from. I was poking at the internals of a library so I could gather information that it had, but did not provide. There was this context structure I normally only could access through a pointer, but copying the definition of the structure into my own code ought to do the trick…

…except it didn’t.

The way the library was compiled by default made the structure there smaller than my copy. Took me some time to guess why my data was all garbled, but the cause was pretty simple: there was no padding, even if it meant some members ended up unaligned. I had to replace the unaligned members by char arrays to get it to work (I did not dare explore the compilation options of the library).

And then I found a totally different solution for my problem. Oh well.
So should I switch to Firefox on everything or VPN or just erase cookies every session?
The US dollar is losing relevance each year.
You're correct, of course. Unfortunately, the linked article was light on data and statistical analysis, which I think would have highlighted that the Democrat shift is the more statistically improbable one.
Since people refuse to see regulatory capture as an unavoidable feature of capitalism.
Thanks for these details.

I think others might be forgetting (or not know) that the factors of safety* for the parts in airplanes (around 2, or less?) are very different than factors of safety for the structural parts of bridges (around 5?). Compared on those terms, planes are light and fragile, on purpose, so you can't f around with cheating tolerances.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_of_safety
I am on Medicare. Because it is not universal means it is only partly socialized and still operating inside of a non-socialized system. Why does this matter? I cannot get any doctor I want, only the ones taking Medicare, which are fewer and fewer, because they would rather only take people on private insurance.

In France for example you can walk into any doctor and they will see you.
Somehow I missed this idea in the rush to see a Raspberry Pi Pico output DVI (aka HDMI). Holy cow, the implications for ham radio below 30 Mhz are astounding. These things can do stuff that used to be reserved for DSP chips.
Interesting! I love stuff like this (compatibility layers like wine, darwin).

I think a better title might include mentioning what Haiku is, though 15 seconds of googling worked just as well. :)
Is what the article says re: the pahole utility still correct (that it's not maintained)? Looks like it might be maintained now w/ kernel git under the dwarves area.

Pahole is a decent utility to look at what the packing of a structure actually ended up after everything has had its last effect in the compile chain.
The issue is that software is useless without proper hardware.

While their software support is admirable, their hardware philosophy, design and real-life practice (eg pricing a screen repair almost similar to a new phone) is anything but.
- 2018, Cambridge Analytica

- 2020, Facebook announced it won't fact-check political ads during the looming election.

- 2020, ex-Facebook data scientist Sophie Zhang revealed inner practices profiting from political disinformation and manipulation.

- 2021, ex-Facebook employee Frances Haugen leaks documents revealing unethical business practices for profit.

Given Facebook's rotten practices, seems it will give us at least one major scandal per year, but without serious consequences so don't sell your stocks.
Nice. If anyone else happens to be looking for a particularly thin Eco-Drive watch, my watch is an AR1135-10E which is also very thin and much cheaper.

Looks like it's still 40% thicker than the One though.

https://www.citizenwatch.eu/product/ar1135-10e
Doesn't that just change the distribution requirements of the device? Basically, stick one in each stall.

Non-sequitur: I am really disappointed that I have not seen a brown noise joke on these threads yet.
The point is that if you care about the resulting in-memory layout then you by definition know on what platform the code will run and what is the ABI.

If you want to produce same sequence of bytes regardless of underlying platform, then you have to do it by hand with uint8_t[] buffers and explicit shifts and masks. Casting pointer to struct to char* and writing it somewhere is inherently non-portable and this gas nothing to do with bitfields and nothing to do with things like __attributte__((packed)), although both of these things are useful when you want to do that and understand the (non-)portability implications.
Self hosting my emails, grade of 100/100 on mail-tester, I'm on none of the dozens of blacklists I've queried... and Microsoft marks every single one of my emails as spam.

Just because you're lucky doesn't mean other people are "unexperienced". I don't know what experience has to do with it tbh. Maybe if you have experience working for Microsoft and you can contact the right people there...
90% leaving might be too high, but even of a tenth actually manages to move on it will have a huge impact.

More importantly, a lot of them will be leaving though burnout and depression (a significant number of hospital staff is already on this course).
That's insane. Any practice here in middle Europe will give you Midazolam so you won't remember anything.
The United States doesn't help people in the United States jailbreak their phones.
I don’t like this either. I think maybe people are more used to this in the US, but I personally think that if you can’t be objective you need to be more humble in your communication.

… of course Coke can trash-talk Pepsi and vice-versa… but if I’m making a technical assessment of competing products or software platforms I get a bad feeling of anyone using those sales tactics.
True! "Breakingviews" != Breakingnews but it sure is close. It's so easy to mistake. Talk about clickbait. It's a bit maddening.
Haha, no, I made up the vim pedal story as a positively outrageous example for humor's sake. I thought I was all the way into insanity and so it would be obvious as a joke. My bad.
"You can now repair your iPhone yourself using the new Apple Driver(tm). For only $199 for the basic version ($399 for the Pro version), this screwdriver can be used on any compatible iPhone, iPad or Mac."
No, most Californians do not live in the desert, not even close.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6c/K%C3%B6p...
Considering there's still a "system configuration" step that relies on Apple Support, I wouldn't be surprised if they'll just deny it for you because they don't approve of you working around their restrictions.

Similarly, for the tooling, is it actually available to purchase or is it a rental only? If it's a rental they might still retaliate (beyond just keeping your deposit) by banning your account and/or devices and/or denying future "system configuration" on any parts ordered on it to prevent people from "purchasing" the tooling that way.
Not at all.

Over the pandemic I got interested in late bronze age history, and I've been finding all sorts of interesting things cross-correlating papers in the past decade or so in different domains with ancient texts, etc. Fascinating stuff, and a lot I think is currently escaping the specialization blindness of modern academia.

There's no way I could have done any of that before the current plethora of information.

In fact, for one book series I had to contact the publisher to get a PDF version so I could search it for fragmentary names of sea peoples.

If anything, what I'm growing more wary of is the increased trend of gating information behind paywalls, and the signal to noise ratio caused by blogspam.

It's arguably much easier to find out what a Luwian bilingual inscription about Mopsus from the 8th century BCE says than it is to find out which application tracing provider has the best pricing model for small businesses.

I don't think that's a healthy direction for information, and suspect it's about to get MUCH worse as AI generated text becomes an increasingly low barrier to entry and increasingly higher altitude.
It's very responsible for building the hate echo chambers, though.
That's my point exactly. My neighborhood is getting a little louder every day as more of my neighbors buy EVs. One of my neighbors has a regular Toyota Camry, and the other has a hybrid Highlander. The Camry is really quiet, just tire noise, couldn't tell you what the engine actually sounds like. The Highlander howls as it comes down the street with some sort of demonic choir sound. And my wife's Bolt isn't a lot better.

As you say, only modded and older cars make enough sound cruising at 25mph to hear over the tire noise.
It is probably meaningful if comparing to past years.

A lot of people did leave NYC, and probably NYS. So if a much larger number than usual are considering leaving <fill-in-the-blank>, chances are that a larger number than usual will leave <fill-in-the-blank>.
It's a classic problem of not considering consequences.

Good coffee is barely more expensive than terrible coffee. Good tea is significantly more expensive than terrible tea, but few tea drinkers quaff it in the quantities that dedicated coffee-fiends demand. The overall cost of providing coffee, tea and a few other beverages is quite small compared to any other benefit of working in an office.

The cost of not having good coffee available for cheap or free is that people take coffee breaks that last much much longer, and nobody counts that time. The secondary consequence is that they don't spend the coffee break time talking with coworkers in a convivial surrounding, so they don't cross-pollinate ideas and share information.

I've worked for the same company for 18 years now, and it's not because of the excellent coffee service. The excellent coffee service is a result of being a company I like to work at.
Polestar released a video with similar bullshit. They said their turn signal sound was inspired by nature. They recorded a twig snapping in Sweden. The result nothing special and something you would just create on a computer.
Every C++ compiler released in the last 30 years will trivially inline oneliner getter functions, member or not.
> None of these things can practically happen to a corporation.

But the corporation didn't break a criminal law like the person in this example.

> But maybe you're on to something, here - perhaps they should.

Directors and executives can absolutely get convicted of crimes relating to their operation and oversight of the company. Whether the laws and investigating agencies have as much power as they should is very debatable but the legal framework is there.
>A day before the military invasion, operators associated with the GRU, Russia’s military intelligence service, launched destructive wiper attacks on hundreds of systems in Ukrainian government, IT, energy, and financial organizations. Since then, the activity we have observed has included attempts to destroy, disrupt, or infiltrate networks of government agencies, and a wide range of critical infrastructure organizations, which Russian military forces have in some cases targeted with ground attacks and missile strikes. These network operations have at times not only degraded the functions of the targeted organizations but sought to disrupt citizens’ access to reliable information and critical life services, and to shake confidence in the country’s leadership.

https://query.prod.cms.rt.microsoft.com/cms/api/am/binary/RE...
There was never any moment where the iPhone was a fart app novelty. It was immediately and obviously wildly better and more useful than every phone than came before it.
We have a nice blog on that:

The Taming of the B-Trees
https://www.scylladb.com/2021/11/23/the-taming-of-the-b-tree...

"B+-trees have been supported since ScyllaDB Open Source 4.3, and our B-tree implementation was added in release 4.5. They are hidden, under-the-hood optimizations ScyllaDB users benefit from as we continue to evolve our infrastructure."
This does sounds kind of useful. On the other hand I performed a similar task just yesterday using the native pg_dump and pg_restore commands, and it only took a couple of hours to setup (and now I have a repeatable script), so this’ll need to be implemented really well to provide value.
Yep - this is the VFS shadow copy extension for samba, works great! Actually it doesn't require ZFS, just a method to create snapshots and find them - example smb.conf :

vfs objects = shadow_copy2
shadow:snapdir = /home/.zfs/snapshot/
shadow:basedir = /home
shadow:sort = desc
shadow:format = auto:%Y-%m-%dT%H_%M_%SZ
> Depends on the platform. IIRC on ARM a bitfield access is masking and shifting, only done by the compiler instead of me. With optimized code I often have to look at the disassembly anyway if I want to know what's really going on.

ARM supports native bitfield loading[1], extraction[2] and clearing[3].

1 - https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2022-03/Base...

2 - https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2022-03/Base...

3 - https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0602/2022-03/Base...
That's pretty much in accordance with how I understood the matter then.

> Of course we already have ok mics the size of sesame seeds so, what's your threat model?

Really hard to tell without a bit more specifics about implementation and adoption I guess, but co-option of ubiquitous consumer technology in the spirit of The Dark Knight (2008) comes to mind.

As you strongly hint at, there are ample opportunities for various kinds of unwanted listening already and it's up for debate whether this clever innovation brings anything qualitatively new to that.
Large enough quantitative changes can often turn out to be qualitative changes though, and I find the present technology a bit suspect as something that might give certain people ideas about making shitty IoT devices with it and a partially different set of people ideas about getting huge amounts of those gadgets and sticking them in a lot of places where neither mic nor loudspeaker has any business being constantly present (and where currently there are indeed no such devices constantly present, because even people who aren't entirely in their right mind wouldn't pay for it all).

By the way, I am as saddened as anyone to see these aspersions cast on a fresh ingenious and exciting innovation. It ought to be that when we get a miniaturized, scalable, much cheaper and more power-efficient way to manipulate energy like this, that per default makes the world a better place. But here we are.
Ask HN: Does Microsoft use Teams for internal comm?
could some Microsoft folk tell, if Microsoft uses Teams for internal communication?
the UX ! :-)
or anyone feels it is pretty good ?
Healthcare and insurance.
> 3) Meta has never created major new innovation/product in-house after Facebook. Metaverse is extremely unlikely to succeed against competition. Discount fruitless R&D from profits.

The Quest 2 is honestly pretty amazing, especially for its price point.

As for the metaverse - which competition do you specifically see beating Facebook?
We want people to buy electric cars as the first car.
The ability or willingness to take on loans or proof that you have access to other financial help.

Time is money, if they force you to take more time they are increasing the total actual cost of education.
The only standard C functions that manage files use zero terminated byte strings as filenames. I'm not saying C made a great design choice here either, but the combination of this and Windows using UTF-16 makes it impossible to write code that can open a file that works on both windows, and other OSes, without OS-specific #ifdefs
ya governments are gonna probably bring more immegrants to backfill vs raising their wages and giving them decent life.
Injection into the environment (container config, Docker, k8s, etc) or the execution context. The actual mechanics are highly dependent on where your secrets are and where they’re going for use. On a dev workstation, could just be some bash or Python using the AWS cli, for example.
Plumbing is not entirely a zero sum game, and referrals are a big part of exploiting division of labor. If two plumbers are good at different aspects of plumbing, giving referrals to each other when they're called to jobs for which the other one is better suited has positive dividends - better plumbing gets done and customers are happier. A plumber passing on work this way is passing up the immediate benefit of a contract in hand, but presumably trades that for a better contract in the future that he might otherwise not have gotten, not for nothing at all.
I replied to another comment here as well on a similar note - software is just one half of the picture, and needs proper hardware. Apple makes hardware that looks good in advertisements - even if it comes at the cost of consumer benefit (see: Apple's unbraided charging cable failure issue amongst others).

They are very happy to support your device... as long as their poorly designed hardware doesn't fail (specific example from Louis Rossman's video - at 48V power cable to the display next to the sensitive data lines.)

Apple know cares about customers as long as it doesn't hurt its PR, much like the vast majority of profit-driven companies.
I've always wondered what's the reason Yamaha is so big in music. Like I get that Japanese big conglomerates are known for being, well, conglomerates with tons of different product lines. But how did Yamaha (which is not really that big) become a big player in niches that are so different?
The companies that manufacture and distribute phones think that user access to their own phones is a legitimate security hole.
Health care is far from a free market for labor, IT, etc. It's one of the most heavily regulated and dysfunctional sectors of our economy. The normal incentives like supply and demand don't work the way they would in other industries.
Or any of the asian phone co's?

Much less their support horizons (horrible).

Ignoring the bloatware they ship with of course (not all but many).
Well now I'm curious, is the claim that photoreal-ness doesn't matter when training network for the real world. Weird.
Tremendously interesting read. Thank you kindly!
I love that response because I think it gets to the point and the problem.

Q1: "What is the worst-case runtime complexity of quick sort" is a question that has a rigorous answer that can be proven with fundamental scientific concepts.

Q2: "What is the programming language/framework we should use for this next project" is one that absolutely cannot.

Any answer to Q2 will invariably involve some personal opinion and bias, AND YET serious professionals with decades of experience - ones perfectly capable of answering Q1 would also be expected to weigh in on Q2, incorporating their knowledge, context, the skills of the rest of the team, the existing architecture, the requirements, etc, etc.

It would be absolutely arrogant to push back against the qualitative analysis of a senior software developer making a recommendation to Q2 with "That's just your own opinion and bias" - ESPECIALLY by someone outside the field who doesn't understand all the considerations being weighed.

I sympathize with your desire for health officials, but my theory is that everything about epidemiology, public health, disease spread, etc are all mostly Q2-category questions. You still need a PhD and rigorous understanding of all the Q1 questions but shaping public policy in a pandemic is all Q2.

Education is much the same way. Education of mathematics at scale is less about mathematics and more about people.
In an ideal world, North Korean people would internally overcome their repressive regime.

Perhaps the first step forward is a tech elite that educate and unite the people against their leader. Maybe they are by accident, breeding a large group of hackers in the general public that will be employable outside of North Korea today.
What do you need to hook it up to?
They're pretty safe on the two most popular ISAs: aarch64 and amd64.
My experience says otherwise. Our neighborhood is getting more EVs regularly, and you can really tell the difference. If a regular car is driving by my house and an EV is a block behind them, guess which one I can hear? The EV. And Hybrid Toyota Highlanders and RAV4s are the worst, though a Bolt isn't exactly quiet.
iMovie on my iPhone.

And Garage Band on my iPhone if I need to fiddle with sound.

Otherwise kDen Live on the laptop and just live with the complexity by accepting it will take a few hours over a few days to understand what I need to do by watching YouTube and reading forum posts and a manual.

It is sometimes hard to accept that learning is going to take time. And picking a standard tool with a non-trivial learning curve is faster and easier in most timeframes longer than five hours or so.

Because the five hours pales compared to all the “shopping” and “research” looking for a silver bullet.

There are people with more than a decade of Garage Band experience and nobody with a decade of TikTok experience.
> Many WGU students HATE these types of articles, because they undermine the legitimacy of WGU.

> Their model is competency-based, so you must demonstrate you posses knowledge in any given domain.

The guy took courses at college, online, and worked in the field for over a decade before speedrunning WGU. It seems to me he’s the exact model of “demonstrating competence” that you mention - I don’t see how that makes WGU out to be a degree mill.
1: don't go through the administration, that will be a hassle. Just ask the professor if you can sit in on the class, and if they say you can (which they probably will if there are empty seats), do so.
I've worked on some government projects (currently working on one), and we always try to open source everything we can. For instance, CMS has a lot of open source repos in their github org (https://github.com/CMSgov).

The mentality is changing in govtech and there are lots of orgs really trying to push for better software practices. It can be a slog though.
Isn't this a reskin/fork of cabbageaudio too?
They would except for the federally mandated noisemakers.
I'm 20 years into my career and know how to program competently. I have missed out on job opportunities because I don't have any credentials other than experience. I'm the type of person who would test out of everything immediately because I already know it. Guessing it's similar for this fellow.
Email is as close to ‘fixed’ as you’re ever going to get.
This discussion indicates about $75,000 which is easy profit when the patient is already on the bed and intubated.
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/cms-hikes-payment-for-covi...

It doesn't even work for helping recovery. Literally poison with no medical use anywhere for anything. Another drug company and hospital emergency payday.
I’ve flown three times since the 800 has been green lighted. I have very intentionally picked Airbus flights. I’ll never get on one of those Boeing jets.
I've been thinking about how asmr relates to music quite a lot lately. Some people think it is just a weird thing, but asmr videos of people brushing onto mics are getting millions of views. I think it should rightly challenge our assumptions about what music is. I won't be surprised to hear these sounds filtering into popular music. In some ways it is similar to how harsh clipped digital distortion is fairly popular all over TikTok.

Also, I just found Olafur Arnalds from his music cribs tour on Spitfire Audio [1]. It seems he has collaborated with them on some virtual instruments. There are several videos of him on their channel including breakdowns of some of his music. The last couple of weeks I've been down a YouTube rabbit hole on these modern composers (mostly for film and television).

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnKTwPDsDiU
Can you give me an example of a PoW-based social network or chat application which has been more successful than conventional alternatives like Mastodon?