skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that's more of an issue with C++.

Usually developers stick to known patterns and subsets. Sure, you can write "clever" code that's more aproppriate for IOCCC than as system-critical code, but that's the case with most programming languages.

There is such a thing as "bad code" and "good code". A lot of code linters can catch "code smells", and features can often be disabled at the compiler level.

On the other hand, not having to resort to inline assembler or writing 500x the amount of code in some cases is why we have such features. Complex features are useful in some (complex) cases, but are not to be overused.
They're trying to prevent the law from being used against them. From the article:

A federal judge in California on Friday denied Visa’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by a woman who accuses the payment processor of knowingly facilitating the distribution of child pornography on Pornhub and other sites operated by parent company MindGeek.
It's not illegal. But that ensures their eviction from the party and can potentially destroy their political career.
Credit card companies have an incredible amount of influence: they're effectively gate-keepers for monetization on the web.

There's a long history of them blacklisting people and even using their influence to pressure companies from removing them.
Visual Studio Code July 2022
Some graduate students will likely spend a substantial part of their PhD understanding this paper. They will learn a lot in the process, and then they can contribute by either extending the result or finding a way to simplify a part of the proof. Or if they have a (very) related interest, they may be able to adapt some of the techniques to the problem they're interested in. Slowly over time, through this process, the knowledge might diffuse to other less related areas.
No, but we also do not want private companies being in the business of facilitating illegal activity. We wouldn't expect UPS to deliver cocaine once they become aware that a particular customer is using UPS to ship drugs. Visa isn't obligated to investigate all of its customers, but once informed of wrongdoing it should take reasonable steps to distance itself.
> I think far too many people who fight for remote work don't realize that they are fighting for their own commoditization, and that it will kill their career if they actually get what they think they want.

A reasonable argument, but it doesn't always hold true. I've been remote since 2014. I work more, not less, because of it. And I bring a lot to the table when it comes to solutions. A mid-level dev would have a much higher risk of replacement.
Also read the book due to comments here. Was very aligned with some of my interests in relationships between language, information, life/intelligence and metaphor <3

You might get a kick out of this paper (though some may find it's proposal a bit bleak, I think there's a way to integrate it without losing any of the sense of wonder of the experience of being alive :) )

It analogizes conscious experience to the a rainbow "which accompanies physical processes in the atmosphere but exerts no influence over them".

Chasing the Rainbow: The Non-conscious Nature of Being (2017)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.0192...

> Though it is an end-product created by non-conscious executive systems, the personal narrative serves the powerful evolutionary function of enabling individuals to communicate (externally broadcast) the contents of internal broadcasting. This in turn allows recipients to generate potentially adaptive strategies, such as predicting the behavior of others and underlies the development of social and cultural structures, that promote species survival. Consequently, it is the capacity to communicate to others the contents of the personal narrative that confers an evolutionary advantage—not the experience of consciousness (personal awareness) itself.

So consciousness is more about what it subjectively feels like to be under pressure/influence to broadcast valuable internal signals to other (external) agents in our processes of life; aka other humans in the super-organism of humanity. I analogize it to what a cell "experiences" that compel it to release hormonal signals in a multicellular organism.
The Russian government doesn't like Americans, weed, or gay people. Here we have a famous gay American with weed. (Inb4 "it's not weed, it's a cannabis oil vape" -- do you think the Russian prosecutors care about that distinction?) This... will almost certainly not go well for Brittney, unfortunately :(
How did it erode democracy?
Maybe its a matter of Fedora looking ahead of the curve? Raspberry Pis, in their 4th version, are pretty close to being usable as a tiny desktop computer. Within the next generation, assuming raspberry pi specs continue to scale up (8 or 12gb ram coming on the board?), pis will be rather capable machines for desktop computing.
Do humans assume things without understanding their relationships?
I bet that same patio set is listed on Amazon (multiple times under different names and with different photos), and it's the same mfg.

This is kind of my point. It seems that we now have millions of psuedo-offerings which ultimately boil down to a fraction of actual sources, most of extreme low quality.

If we don't do something about this soon, we better be practicing DIY constructions from the many good videos on youtube. Before you know it, the only tool which will actually suffice is the tool you make yourself.
There seems to be two groups of protobuf libraries for HTTP 1.1, the ones that want to make it look like binary+HTTP/2 grpc (grpc-web, grpc-gateway), and the ones that make it look like idiomatic web tech (twirp).

I'm excited to see more ideas in the second category.
For best effect, read the entire trilogy without sleeping, using whatever chemicals necessary to make that happen. And then start to see fnord the signs of conspiracy from the book everywhere in real life.

RAW made conspiracy into art.

I loved it but I also know (and have known) some folks pretty deep into provably untrue conspiracy thinking. Honestly, it seemed to be a way to self-medicate with conspiracies for them. I don't think that my Illuminatus experience compares with what they're thinking in any but the most trivial way.
In particular:

> Cover, write, and present every story with the care I would want if the story were about me.

When your subject is described by a press release to which you add little more than your byline, you haven't taken that level of care.
Fixing Nits Quickly
Do they care about the children or their reputation?

The Financial Times released an 8 episode podcast titled Hot Money on who controls the industry. The podcast isn't appropriate for everyone, but is a great listen.
i like jqueryui, it is so dang cute
VLAs make it a lot easier to corrupt the stack by accident. Unless you're quite a careful coder, stuff like:

f (size_t n)
{
char str[n];

leads to a possible exploit where the input is manipulated so n is large, causing a DoS attack (at best) or full exploit at worse. I'm not saying that banning VLAs solves every problem though.

However the main reason we forbid VLAs in all our code is because thread stacks (particularly on 32 bit or in kernel) are quite limited in depth and so you want to be careful with stack frame size. VLAs make it harder to compute and thus check stack frame sizes at compile time, making the -Wstack-usage warning less effective. Large arrays get allocated on the heap instead.
>This is the largest category. You can see what’s being attempted, but the joke utterly fails. Sometimes it fails so hard that it almost works as anti-humor. Overwhelmingly these are a variant of “Once this guy did something dumb.”

What the author doesn't get is that those are meant not just as ha-ha jokes, but also as ironic comments on behavior. E.g., his example on this category:

"A pedant was looking for his book for many days but could not find it. By chance as he was eating lettuce and turned a certain corner he saw the book lying there. Later meeting a friend who was lamenting the loss of his girdle, he said, “Do not worry but buy some lettuces and eat them at the corner, when you turn it and go a little ways you fill find it.”

This is an ironic remark on how people think what worked for them circumstancially, it will work for others, even in another situation. E.g. this joke could be used almost verbatim as a ironic critique of modern-day cargo cult of success (where copying BS circumstancial things a rich person does, like "waking up at 6am" or "only eat Soylent to save time") is supposed to be how you find success.

Or take:

"Another person who was going away wrote to a pedant that he should buy him some books. But he regarded the request lightly and said to him on his return, “I did not receive your letter which you sent concerning the books.”"

The joke here is not about "someone saying something dump", but rather poking fun at "the check is in the post" kind of behavior.

Moving on: "Cumaeans are stupid. I’m not sure what the Cumaeans did to deserve this, but there’s a whole section with jokes like this"

The point is not Cumaeans, and those kind of jokes at some group (from the Polish to rednecks) are a staple all across the world - including by those groups made fun of themselves.

Or one he is confused about, which is perfectly clear:

"A pedant had purchased a pair of breeches and since they were very tight and he had difficulty in getting into them, he pulled all the hair off himself."

It just a critique of people doing something supposedly to help with a situation, that actually has zero returns.
(the guy couldn't fit in his clothes, so he shaved his body hair - as if that would make much of dent to his body volume).

One can see that there are tons of examples of this behavior in modern life (and, alas, in programming).

The author says he is especially confused about this joke, but the meaning is, once again, totally clear:

"A shrewd fellow whilst wrestling fell into the mud and in order that he might not seem to be clumsy, he got up entirely covered with mud and stood conceitedly through the whole contest."

It's again poking fun at the well known "save face" behavior, that if you accidently fail at something, you can try make it appear like you didn't fail, but rather intended what happened. There are like 100 examples of the same exact behavior in modern comedy movies.

In essense, the author appears to take the jokes too literaly or as actual advice, fails to see their point, and in general appears to be quite the ...pedant, like the butt of some of those jokes!
Clickhouse is a realtime system where Trino is a batch-oriented system. There are tradeoffs for doing realtime vs batch.

Realtime is generally more expensive to run as you process every individual row as it comes, batch is when you can deal with minute latency and want to handle a lot of data in chunks.

Trino is also a query engine rather than a database and it connects to many different systems: https://trino.io/docs/current/connector.html

It also happens to connect to Clickhouse and it's very common that people will use Trino to query clickhouse realtime data and join it with data in big query, an object store data lake, or Snowflake: https://trino.io/docs/current/connector/clickhouse.html
What's the difference between what localstack provides and an emulator as you describe? Just support, or do they do different things?
> Who goes to work knowing they'll spend their entire day ruining lives?

We've got folks producing drugs at scale, anyone who works for the tobacco industry, the liquor industry, the arms industry, we've got the oil industry. There are so many industries that are more or less directly murdering people every day and making life for everyone around them measurably worse. These folks sleep just fine, because they fundamentally just don't care about you: They care about the people around them. That's more or less normal, too. Caring about everyone is something you have to be taught.
It really depends. In some, neighbors will assume you're going through a rough spot and cut it for you. It probably depends on how many generations removed your neighbors are from abject poverty. Too many and they lose touch with how easy it is to end up on one side or another of the line.
Hi, one of the creators of Superblocks here. Most building blocks in Superblocks are fully extensible with code, and we're building much better debugging capabilities in the platform. The form based configuration is easier to work with for simple use cases, for more complex use case, you can extend Superblocks with your own business logic in code. We're also building a gitops feature where we allow users to manage Superblocks apps and workflows in source files just like any git project.
Also a reliable indicator that it was never time.
The Anti-Defection Law can very much be applied if a legislator votes against a party whip, even for a bill. There are calls to limit its applicability only to votes on the government, but that is currently not the case.

Quoting from PRSIndia [1]:

Does the anti-defection law affect the ability of legislators to make decisions?

The anti-defection law seeks to provide a stable government by ensuring the legislators do not switch sides. However, this law also restricts a legislator from voting in line with his conscience, judgement and interests of his electorate. Such a situation impedes the oversight function of the legislature over the government, by ensuring that members vote based on the decisions taken by the party leadership, and not what their constituents would like them to vote for.

Political parties issue a direction to MPs on how to vote on most issues, irrespective of the nature of the issue. Several experts have suggested that the law should be valid only for those votes that determine the stability of the government (passage of the annual budget or no-confidence motions).

[1]: [The Anti-Defection Law Explained](https://prsindia.org/theprsblog/the-anti-defection-law-expla...)
Allowing arbitrary expressions allows self-documenting signatures:

void concat_strs(
int str1_len,
const char str1[str1_len],
int str2_len,
const char str2[str2_len],
char out_str[str1_len + str2_len],
);

void manipulate_array(
array_dim dim,
int arr[dim.x][dim.y],
);

Supporting things like printf() was probably not specifically desired, but it would be difficult to define it in such a way that it accepts all reasonable expressions and doesn't accept any "unreasonable" ones.
Not sure if those are comparable 1:1. Do you mean you have a datalake that you are using snowflake to query using 'external tables' that you want to replace with trino ?
Also Spirulina in large doses is not kind to your stomach or your bathroom...
When it comes to computing motions, and interpolating between motions, this might be a nice way of doing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq9YfdPHhIo

I think that some computational geometry problems admit nice solutions using Projective Geometric Algebra. Using it is fairly intuitive: You have some elements of the algebra that represent Euclidean motions, and some other elements that represent flat objects like points, lines and planes; you can then intersect these objects, "join" them into larger objects, and apply transformations to them. If it looks to you like it could make some things you're doing easier, then you might try using it. I think there are already some Common Lisp implementations out there -- but if there aren't, then it shouldn't be difficult to make one from scratch.

There's also Conformal Geometric Algebra, which is notable for allowing you to represent circles and spheres as elements of the algebra. But efficiently implementing it appears to be harder than PGA.
The protesters want transient housing for homeless people, not for more UC Berkeley students. If you haven't seen them, Berkeley has some world-class homeless encampments. You can get some idea of the situation here: https://www.berkeleyside.org/2021/09/02/berkeleys-biggest-ho...

Suffice it to say there are a lot of homeless people in CA and there are activists who want to improve their condition. Whether people's park is an appropriate location to provide transient housing is a controversial issue.
Kind of orthogonal to this conversation, but... with increasing temperatures, I find myself wondering at what point more parts of the US might switch to a formal siesta or even nighttime hours. Last summer my area had a month+ of 100+ degree days, and this year it looks like we will have at least several weeks of it. People, especially outdoor workers, simply can't be expected to work in that for a full on day - people would die. So it makes me wonder if we will start to see interesting shifts in the work day as happens in other parts of the country.
That's how we got bitcoin. Wikileaks was dropped by Visa and other payment providers. Everyone then looked for an unblockable payment system, which moved bitcoin from a niche tool to the "cool" form of payment.
One way to make it more enjoyable could be to do it by topic - this way the universe of words would be much smaller, instead of the entire dictionary. Topics could be - music, baseball, food etc
ok, that is just more nonsense...

but let's go with that. fgetpos stores offset in an fpos_t object...in memory...memory is finite as you admit...thus the length of this fpos_t object must be finite...thus there is a limit to how many bits fpos_t may contain, thus it can address only finite file length...
I won't be the one to disagree on the effectivity of that approach, but not sure what would be the goal.

To ellaborate: aren't there unintended consequences of very high intelligence?
Granite is common, but other rocks have similar numbers.
Sounds like trying to convert a truck to work like a train. Why not just more trains?
We do support environment variables, though not through the UI yet — it’s on our top priority list.

One can use a file to adjust env variables: https://www.git-tower.com/help/guides/integration/environmen...
UPS is used to deliver illegal drugs. Visa is aware of this fact. Should they ban UPS?
I just hope "entrepreneur" is more than just selling courses online/dropshipping/shopify sites.

I remember one time I got sucked into this blogger guy/persona like a Purple Elephant, and they sounded so welcoming. I hit them up to ask for tips and they're like "yeah sure you got $500?" I had to laugh I was like oh...
IQ is much more a measure of prosperity/conformity than anything else, past 90-100.
This would be possible, but it feels like cheating :-)

Idk how to express this properly, but I feel like there is a difference between this and the fseek approach.

In a similar vain, you could say that a certain kind of undefined behavior controls the tape, or writing to a specific part of memory does.

I suppose this would fall under adding additional compiler extension.
"Write Useful Books" by Rob Fitzpatrick is an amazing guide for how to write, test, edit, and polish technical nonfiction.
Self-reporting is probably ideal, probably with a camera recording everything so I can judge my answers and behavior and compare it with my memory. But we don't really have a great handle on how much of our memory of conscious experience matches our real-time experience or even if the memory-formation process might "be" consciousness, so I admit there are blind spots in studying consciousness rigorously.

I don't buy the philosophical zombie argument simply because consciousness does alter behavior. I wouldn't participate in this conversation the same way if I didn't experience consciousness. It would be more like vivid imagination (as apposed to moderate aphantasia) where I find it curious but don't have it. As in the novel, unconscious beings probably behave noticeably different.

There are, apparently, some people who have a very reduced sense of consciousness. I know I have done and said things when I'm not (memorably) conscious, for example when half asleep or coming out of anesthesia, and my behavior has been altered according to witnesses. I wasn't quite "myself". I can also hyper-focus and reduce conscious awareness of my surroundings and of my own body and mind, but that still feels like I have an internal awareness and memory of the experience. I am fairly certain I would be able to tell if that is switched off for a time.
The most prolific people at my startup were doing 20k/month. The worst performers were doing 500/month. No, the people doing 500/month didn't compensate for it in other ways.

Of course this was a company that needed to build a product and enhance it to survive, not a pseudo-monopoly daycare.

Even up to a few hundred developers, its quite obvious who's a strong contributor and who isn't. The people who produce the most code are almost uniformly also the most theoretically strong/capable. Though there was a case where somebody was quite prolific but produced pretty poor/buggy code. It's obvious from how smooth the features they developed go when shipped to production.

In most workplaces you'll find that 80% of the results are produced by the top 20% of contributors
I think in the medium term, probably genetics, because that's partly a trial-and-error approach. I feel like brain-computer interfaces, and other technology that relies on actually _understanding_ details of how the brain works, are quite a ways off.

But... in the short term, I think we could still make massive gains purely by improving education and child-rearing. If our schools and families actually raised and educated kids _properly_ (whatever 'properly' is), we'd see huge improvements in average IQ.

Real improvements that may be culturally infeasible, and also could be very damaging if they are done wrong.
I did very little guessing on the regular puzzle, which took me a little over 6 minutes, but the master-level one did require some brute force at first and took me much longer to finish. Once I got rolling, though, I was able to solve it intuitively. It's more like a sudoku but instead of mathematic logic you rely on your knowledge of English vocabulary and spelling. It may not have traditional clues but by giving you the pool of letters for all words it gets progressively easier as you fill in the grid and eliminates certain possibilities out of hand.

The only real issue is getting your initial foothold, especially if the grid's pre-filled letters are mostly common and not helpful in placement. Having a pre-filled J is much more useful than, say, a prefilled E.
> conservative in all their predictions in order to not being labeled as alarmist. Newsflash: they were STILL labeled alarmist

It doesn't matter how reasonable you try to sound, some people will still hate what you stand for. They don't require logic to hate you, and they don't require the claims against you to be true. And if you compromise your principles to appeal to these people, you will loose support from both sides.

So you might as well stick to your guns and put these people on blast.
I think they were being sarcastic. At least I’d hope so. Not sure any company that large actually cares
I think the prices are more or less in line with what they're offering. Based on the descriptions I expected low-to-high triple digits, which is in-line with Arden Labs golang training.

The subscription model is a bit annoying, though, I'd prefer to spend a bit more to get lifetime access to sets of tutorials so that you can come back to it at any time in the future. The future upsell would be new tutorials sold to existing users. And it'd be nice to be able to buy it sliced either by language or by target. Most likely someone is learning Python so then they want to buy the Python set of courses, then they come back later and they're learning Go so they buy the Go set of courses, etc.