skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It has nothing to do with pointers and everything to do with basic computer arithmetic. You can constrain the range of an integer with a bitwise AND operation providing a cheap modulus by power of two. In this regime, zero-based indexing is the natural result. You have to make an adjustment for 1-based. There are whole host of other operations that are simpler with 0-based indexing.

The problem it that most people, even programmers, don't understand how computer arithmetic works and have fantasies of mathematical number lines that the hardware only partially simulates. You see this consistently in the post-Java crowd who think that unsigned integers are some sort of unholy aberration because the languages they've grown up went further to maintain the fictional number line semantics.
VLC Banned in India?
Disagreed on both:

Demonstrably pricing already technically works in many hourly priced markets in face of difficult conditions - the swings are not that fast and the time quantum can technically be made much smaller still, there is no fundamental signal propagation speed bottleneck in sight.

Quotas yield cutoffs only if you exceed your quota, so you would still get power constantly for light loads unless you err by blowing your quota. This is far better than getting blackouts.
There are quite a few articles alleging that VLC contains 'malware', or 'chinese hacker urls'.

I know the software is available on gitlab (although they typically ignore pull requests).

Has anyone spun up VLC in a VM and monitored the attempts for network access to check any of this?

I imagine that if any group would get to the bottom of this, it would be HN.
If it’s on DVD I’ve probably already seen the content at that point.
Some helmets from bern have special holes that are compatible with u-locks and similar. (https://www.bernhelmets.com/collections/bike-helmets/product... u-lock vents) I haven't done an exhaustive search but I imagine others do similar.
> you can think of "royal purple" being so expensive that only the real elite have access to it.

Depends on the timeframe, those Purple Islands shellfish were juicy at the very beginning, I think got selectively bred (by accident) to have very very little purple. Purple was originally a substance, like cocaine or gold or blue paint. Later got called purple dye. At the beginning there was no other purple anything anywhere (porphyry marble but that's different, and not the same shade, same root though).

Not even the elite, the king and maybe his family too. Elites wore red, Patrician (one of the meanings, it's a double entendre) is those who wore red. During the Republic wearing purple was a death wish. Caesar I think didn't refuse fast enough at one point, something like that. Then during the Empire--I think right away--purple was back. At least in porphyry it was back. I think in clothes and perhaps statue paint? Late Empire it was by far the most expensive substance. Like a pound of silk dyed purple was worth twelve people's lives.

And there were different shades, not like now where it's like what's the RGB hex of that color squirt squirt squirt here it is, #123456, or #abcdef. It's not the real deal.
It's an offset from the beginning. Simple as that.
All SQL database implement the actual Relational Calculus internally—it's required to implemented a SQL optimizer.

SQL is just a language for submitting Relational Calculus to the database (+ DDL statements).

If you wanted to, for instance, you could add a language alongside SQL in Postgres, submit the results to the internal RC optimizer, execute the optimized query, and get back the results.

In your new language, you can address all of the issues Carlin Eng/Chris Date identify in the article.
I have never been accused of sexual harassment, and none of my friends or family have been either.

It seems statistically unlikely that you and most of your friend group have all been accused of sexual harassment if your behavior was unimpeachable.
Uh I'm confused but don't know c++.

why doesn't that loop end instantly?

I mean length - 1 < length should always be true, right?

Or does it only terminate when the number underflows? Terribly confused here
50% of my miles and 90% of my travel time is on a bike.

Signalling a change in direction should only be done with your left hand, per manuals.

Braking can be achieved with only the right hand (rear brake, typically).

Dismounting and signalling/braking is hard to do at once though. And you're right it should be obvious that a cyclist is turning left if they are in the left turn lane.
I wonder how much damage is solved by halfing all speed limits. I'm constantly amazed about how much risk people will take on in order to arrive home (but usually, a red light) a minute earlier.
Is that really the case here? I really doubt it considering how careful debian is when it comes to privacy. Even the popularity contest is opt in.
Google Finds ‘Inoculating’ People Against Misinformation Helps Blunt Its Power
Testosterone rates are down over the last 50 years [1].

That correlates with the changes to food production to lower costs [2], [3].

Based on your "alex jones" jab, you clearly took my statement to refer to a "conspiracy," when really I attribute these changes to a combination of:

1. Financial incentives for corner-cutting which are bolstered by government policies increasing regulation (production, safety, employment, etc) [4], leading to companies having to spend more for compliance and look for ways to corner cut, with the unfortunate choice being product quality, or, increased prices.

2. The government legislating to have ever-increasing budgets for entitlement programs [5] and other superfluous spending which necessitate higher taxes (financial pressure on working class people) and money printing. These, predictably, lead to inflation which corporations combat by increasing prices and so upward mobility gets knee-capped for a large chunk of the population.

On the relationships side, divorces went up significantly in the 80s and were stable until the early 2010s [6] as marriages started to decline and single parenting increased [7].

The greater point being, all of these changes can be attributed back to social changes with a root cause of government decision making. Like I said, look around. It's all there. Admittedly, it's complex and it's far too easy to take an irrational stance in the form of "it's the globalists!" but in reality, a lot of poor decision making and mismanagement in the government is the root of our woes.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7063751/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20516261/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21367944/

[4] https://www.nahb.org/blog/2021/05/regulatory-costs-add-a-who...

[5] https://www.pgpf.org/chart-archive/0027_entitlement-programs...

[6] https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-us-divorce-rate-has-hit-a-50-...

[7] https://www.statista.com/statistics/276025/us-percentage-of-...
This is pure sophistry, and in addition it is factually incorrect. You should look carefully at the word 'authority' and diversify your information sources.
(Render founder) Any chance we could connect about the issues you saw with Render? Email in profile. Lots of former Heroku customers spending thousands of dollars every month have successfully made the switch to Render and are quite happy (as you can see elsewhere on HN). I'd appreciate a chance to address your pain points with us.
You can cancel your NYTimes subscription with a click if you live in California. Anywhere else and you have to call and suffer their customer retention haranguing.

Pretty much the only CCPA benefit I’ve seen.
Yeah the media was using this to downplay it a few years back. "It's just metadata." they were all parroting in unison. It aggravated me to no end.
I'd consider it social engineering in this day and age.

Who _wouldn't_ want to tell you all their encryption keys and passwords after listening to Janet Jackson? ;-)
How would you run multiple instances of an app on a single machine with systemd? I.e. if they are listening in the same port.
> Forgiving someone of a $10K or $20K loan is the exact same thing as sending them a check for the same amount.

False. The government isn't holding the note for student loans: banks are. Paying off these student loans goes to a bank's balance sheet whereas checks sent to people get spent on any number of consumer goods (or invested into Wall Street Bets stonks if that's your thing).
This assumes a check is mailed or that everyone intends to pay back their loan. They either have 10k in new money or are "saved" from spending 10k in future money.

This will not turn into consumer spending if the debt is just "erased". People who can't pay their loans don't have money to spend elsewhere.
I so very much hope the US moves away from the model of two weeks off a year and towards the European model of more like eight. I’m in a Scandinavian country and everyone (including my very senior boss who is incredibly busy) takes eight weeks off and it does allow for everyone to have pretty good mental health and also just enjoy their lives and families without guilt
As kaashif points out, railguns have recoil. Recoil isn't a special trait of chemical propellants, it's Newtonian. The railgun pushes the needle, so the needle pushes the railgun.

Add to that, the rails and the capacitor bank have mass, substantially more mass than the needles. The same force that sends a railgun projectile down the rails also tries to push the rails apart. The rails need to be strong enough to resist this force trying to separate them. You can't even let the rails flex, because if the rail loses electrical contact with the projectile then there's no current flow and therefore no force to push the projectile. For a railgun this small you can probably wrap the whole assembly in carbon fiber and call it a day, but there's no way any of this comes out weighing less than the needles themselves. Just one of the capacitors will weigh more than a bunch of needles.

An air canister weighs to much? A standard CO2 cartridge weighs about 50-100 grams and has ample capacity. A CO2 cartridge in an air pistol lasts for dozens of shots, that's plenty.

And silent and transparent? Now I think you might be trolling. Neither UAVs nor railguns are silent and only a few components in them could conceivably be made transparent.
It's not free money for the economy though. that $300b will be paid for by increased inflation or additional future taxes.
It clearly defines where a statement starts

And this is another example of the ad-hoc problems of SQL: query terminators (;) are optional. If they weren't, there would be no abiguity where a statement would start: it's the first word after the previous terminator.
This COULD provide privacy.
I think the interesting part comes when the technical community and the non- (or less-) technical community try to communicate, though.

A marine biologist might reasonably talk about an octopus' tentacles, and understand what other people mean when they talk about those tentacles, even though octopuses actually have "arms" in strict terminology.

Similar friction happens with the word "theory" in science or "proof" in mathematics.

But back to the topic: I think enough people use "open source" in a non-rigorous sense that it's worth leaving room for multiple definitions, versus trying to stamp the non-technical ones out. Marine biologists don't generally go around emphatically saying "they're arms, not tentacles!" (well, maybe some do, but mostly in a good-natured, aware-of-how-silly-it-is sense)
All employee salaries are public at the U of California
I was under the impression JMAP was just a sync protocol and had nothing to do with js in email. Is that incorrect?
Did you forget about the Jim Crow era, when courts themselves were highly suspect?

And union busting police?
And modern police, before and after 2020?
I'd never read the whole excerpt.[1] It's much more communitarian than the commonly recited phrase, "never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee", which seems self-centered in isolation, emphasizing one's own mortality rather than what one loses when someone else dies. Of course, "No man is an island" is also commonly recited and can stand alone, but I hadn't known it was from the same paragraph.

[1] I originally wrote poem but it's excerpted from a larger work of prose, Devotions, chapter XVII: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/23772/23772-h/23772-h.htm#Pa... See also https://interestingliterature.com/2021/08/never-send-for-who...
Yeah, that's demand response.

Bitcoin miners are the key players innovating in that space right now. It's something that can very easily be packaged up in portable containers. I believe Chinese miners for years had a yearly migration to soak up massive amounts of excess hydro power during the rainy season that would have been otherwise wasted.

There might be a place for more generic computation datacenters, but they would have to find a relatively unique customer that has compute loads that can be turned off and on at a moment's notice, and potentially be down for days, weeks, and even months. There's probably a startup to be founded here, if you can figure out how to severely undercut equivalent AWS services to justify the lack of uptime guarantees.

I don't know enough about hydrogen production to know if it can be quickly spun up/down to suck up variable load. I imagine gas transport infrastructure is going to be the biggest blocker.
The point is these killings have not been happening for 100 years as claimed. These are a new type of killing, with a newly invented legal justification
Did they fix the bug that did not allow you to log on to your Google account and sync from Chromium?

Or was that intentional?
Because the results from search.marginalia.nu are absolutely irrelevant?
The reality where these 'HUGE FAILURES' killed essentially no people? Yeah we are really hiding from that reality.
How can you get a loan on a used car from the 90s? I think if you want a car that old, you will have to pay cash.
That's something Google did to Chromium, not Debian.
Long live deliberate incompetence! Let's fill the world with a cloud of uncertainty.
No it’s not. That’s only true if they already had the money and were going to pay. A lot of people just can’t pay their student loans so this would just have the effect of taking the pressure off them, not enable them to go out and spend money.
Waste 0th element or reuse it for something like length (hello, pascal strings). Another option is using base_address - element_size as your array value. Another option is using +element_size for all array accesses, assembly languages usually have this instruction. There’re many options to use 1-based indexing without sacrificing performance.
Three years ago I was at a company where the ceo called a special all hands to discuss work life balance, and his message was that we do not need to respond to slack/email on the weekends… immediately! Hahaha
Thank for you for the insight!
> tensions (wars, etc.) between countries that is rooted in access to oil reserves disappear because of this

Unlikely. Lithium, minerals and advanced manufacturing clusters remain geographically concentrated and adversarially demanded.
That depends on the driver implementation and what exactly the features are that you are looking for. In general if you're using virtualization tools like KVM/Xen you can configure a computer to make virtual machines that can be accessed remotely (for example you would likely want to configure the network to provide your machine with an IP address). You can use GVM for GPU accelerating various programs like those that use DirectX, Vulkan, and OpenGL so if that meets your needs from a remote machine and you have the necessary resources (networking resources such as IP addresses, time and know-how to configure such a setup) then I would say yes.
Or Kent State.
You do understand that besides thirds, fifths and sevenths, there really are seconds, fourths, sixths, ninths (same as second), elevenths (same as fourth) etc... as well, right? There even are intervals that are not named after a number e.g. the "tritone". The reason the 2nd and the 3rd note in a chord are called third and fifth is because usually chords are made with these intervals instead of dissonant intervals like seconds or fourths. It seems pretty clear you'd already know these things, so can you explain what's your issue with music note intervals?
How about Sherman's March to the Sea?
This is going to disappoint you as much as Russiagate.

I'm not a Trump supporter.
If my city were more like amsterdam I'd be happy to forgo the helmet, but in hilly seattle between the chances of getting clipped by a suv or taking a tumble on a steep grade.. I'll stick with the helmet. I don't find it too much of an inconvenience. I just clip it to my bag after I lock up.
Spotify is not exactly a shining beacon on the hill for a successful company. They aren’t profitable and they are total beholden to the record labels. They are forced to give 70% of their revenue to record labels. Their fixed cost go up in lockstep with their revenue - not exactly the model of a successful tech company.

Netflix paid a fixed amount to license content and then could spread that cost as it gained customers. It’s the same with their own content. They never have to pay the content producers again for the content they fund.
Well written! Thanks for the team!
Why should people who can't (or won't) pay their student loans be considered worthy of having money spent on them? Invest in the people who know how to handle financial responsibility: they are far more likely to create economic growth and provide jobs for the people who otherwise couldn't pay their loan obligations.
Craig here from Crunchy. RDS is definitely in the spectrum of more managed, but I'd still say it's more of a spectrum. For instance to my knowledge AWS doesn't fully monitor your individual database for availability, much of their monitoring is more on a fleet/control plane level. There are cases I've heard of where your database is down and AWS simply doesn't know about it because it's not doing health checks against postgres itself. Not implying those cases are a common occurrence, but in a spectrum of how managed it is we definitely aim to be at the far end of how much we do for you on Crunchy Bridge.

Another big area is tooling we're building in to help app developers. Things like health reports for your database, built-in audit logs, simple SSO integration are just a few things that you now don't really have to think but can benefit heavily from. Overall we're a pretty big parallel to Heroku Postgres, with more to come (I wrote about some of that vision here - https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2022/05/18/unfinished-busines...).
My kids' daycare lets moms and dads volunteer, but only moms help kids in the bathroom. Not because they think the dads are abusers, but because it's far less likely that the moms are abusers. Seems like a strong policy backed by evidence, and both moms and dads support it.
California air agency to ban sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2035
If your line: "But I imagine that they will invent new problems and the critics will hastefully rush in with their low effort hot takes" was _only_ intended to refer to "inventing new problems about environmental issues" and "low effort hot takes about environmental issues", you have not achieved the clarity in communication you were looking for.

Also, it's kind of a weird stance to take? I haven't seen anyone claiming that PoS wouldn't do exactly what it set out to do, that is fix the energy waste issue inherent in PoW-based blockchains. Maybe we just run in different circles, but the main criticism I see of PoS is that it doesn't _matter._ It doesn't make blockchains or defi any more useful or moral, and it just highlights the other externalities more clearly.
To some degree, yes. Though the higher minimum wages in other states have raised the starting wages for many jobs in Texas that used to pay Texas minimum.

That is, many formerly $7.25/hr rate entry level jobs in Texas are now paying closer to $15/hr. Because once a few companies adopt it, others have to compete. Also, some areas have their own minimum. Austin has had a $15/hr minimum for several years, recently raised to $22.
This is my feeling as well. The biggest problem with new projects is that you don't know what the product will look like in advance, even if you think you do. Restructuring code, especially with full 20/20 hindsight, will make that code much better.
I really never want to assume order in tables. That's because there could be many orders of interest, and that's one reason to have multiple indexes. And also because for a table, the order of rows can be hard to guarantee. Obviously something like qSQL would try hard to guarantee table row order, and that's great in the cases where qSQL is useful, but more generally it's going to impose on how you work with the database.

On the other hand, SQL is set-based. But being set-based is weird in the world of computers because in memory everything is ordered. Sets are a fiction in programming, as they're always ordered in some way, and the set abstraction can only try to hide that order.

And that order can be very useful.

But there can be many orders that can be useful, but only one in which things are stored in memory -- the others can only be extra indexes.

So the general purpose thing (SQL) has to be set-based, offering explicit ordering, and taking advantage of actual order for optimization.
Why does this "penalize" students who have paid off their loans?

If cancer were cured, has everyone who had cancer prior been "penalized"?
Twitter staff exodus accelerates amid Musk battle, whistleblower complaint
Can't understand why the American government wants more inflation and everyone is just calmly watching they increasing it?
I'm really struggling to understand why a monitor would be designed this way. It's already receiving a pixel clock and all the pixels, horizontal fields, and entire frames at 59.95Hz. There's absolutely no need for the monitor to be keeping track of a separate 60Hz clock anywhere.

All I can figure is that it might have some motion blur or other interpolation feature and it's holding frames back after receiving them and displaying them from an internal buffer at 60Hz. In this case, you'll get occasional (but rare) tearing/stuttering no matter what since the computer's clock and the LCDs hypothetical clock are not syncronized.
Friendly heads up but you may want to check your bias here -- it's been studied and cyclists don't break the law anymore than cars do [1]. In fact, motorists break the law more frequently and they do it's to save time whereas cyclists most frequently do it for personal safety or the type of thing that's unlikely to cause harm to others. [2]

Perhaps you don't see it anymore because it's so common but cars break rules all the time -- rolling stop, speeding, illegal u-turns, running reds, etc.

[1] https://usa.streetsblog.org/2018/01/03/study-cyclists-dont-b...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2020/09/18/motorist...