skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much, if anything about geopolitics or diplomacy (to the point of finding some stuff absurd)... but after this period of escalations, especially the ones from Russia, with the whole sham referendums and annexations, I think the global positions are set.

Neither India or China care enough to do anything about it. They had plenty of opportunities over this period of time - and I must assume there were talks from the west in this matter.

So looks like we're heading to a split world.

Regarding talking Russia out, officially there were plenty of attempts, which ended up with Russia escalations at the end of them all.

You need to remember that part of this game now is about the survival of Putin... and I see no way how he can save face - even with the help from the west. He put himself, and Russia, into a position where there's no way out unless it's defeat and humiliation. The only way I see is to prolong this for decades until he dies of old age, and that's that.
When a store ceases to be reliable, isn't it time to stop shopping there?
At least for USBs.

Feels like an inconvenience.
Okay, sum types. Let’s say you want to implement an optional type, how would that look like with sum types? `Nothing` is okay, but `Some` needs to somehow mark the wrapped object’s type, so you also need generics here.
The above is a utterly clueless post and is best ignored.

To the OP:

K&R Ansi C is one of the best book to learn "Fluent C". The code is terse, no-frills and to-the-point. It is not a "Software Engineering" book so you have look elsewhere for that. Also without an understanding of the language, its runtime services and system interfaces (eg. ABI) it is pointless to look at Security/UB and hence don't bother about it in the beginning; You can get to it later.

In summary, read K&R C along with any other books that you like.
Maybe I am tinfoiling too hard...

In February this year there was an attack against Vodafone Portugal that brought down their whole mobile networks, 4G, 5G, and fiber, taking them several days to bring everything back up [0]. It also very clearly was a state actor, no threats, no ransom, sophisticated.

Taking down pipelines, taking down comms, taking down transport infrastructure. All within a few months. Always on NATO targets, always localized, never claimed with any statements, always sophisticated enough that it would require knowledgeable state actors.

It all seems like a training ground to find out if they can do it and probably a message to NATO members to not assume they are safe.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/02/vodaf...
Which is pretty much what Russia has been doing for a while, adjusted for their actual capabilities to conduct such effort.
It's not about the data but about the signal as such.
You can do poormans by copying known large files (all your Linux ISOs) and then doing a shasum on source and dest.

Or repeated rsync set to verify each block.
Perhaps the thieves had to run and leave the cable?
I think Encyclopedia Britannica should not be the benchmark, but "real" scientific/scholarly encyclopedias and dictionaries.
It's not like things changed after... iraq, iraq 2, afghanistan, syria and many others... dead kids from all over US and europe losing their lives for some rich people to get richer. Somehow occupying sovereign countries and killing kids is a bad thing only when putin does it.
Oh and what’s “the narrative” in this case ? A country doesn’t want to be part of a communist dictatorship subject to madness like “zero covid”? Is that a narrative ?
Or, you know, he had his campaign website built by the lowest bidder, they for whatever reason accidentally included or forgot to remove the noindex tag, and the candidate wasn't aware of this and genuinely thought he was getting censored by Google.

But it's awfully hard to generate outrage on either side of the aisle with such a boring explanation.
> That's not what's characteristic for a coinbase transaction, many transactions might have only one input.

Yes, you're correct. Thank you for the clarification, however I wanted to mark the check found on the source code. By the way, "bad article": I think you're a little bit over exaggerating.
Social media has caused a lot of people to shift their world views, and re-examine their identities. Not necessarily in ways that benefit themselves or society.
> Sincere question, what are you doing with 5 gbps to the home?

Download "Linux ISOs"?
> You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, “Look at that, you son of a bitch.”

―Edgar D. Mitchell
Most of those licenses are at least one way compatible with each other
Except he literally said not like Hong Kong. These news articles try to stretch things just to smear Musk literally all the time. (Actual quote "they could have an arrangement that’s more lenient than Hong Kong.")

Yes it's not a great idea, but attack the idea, not the a straw man of the idea. All you do is give more fodder to people.
unfettered access to their full health records in digital format. No more long delays. No more fax machines. No more exorbitant charges for printed pages.

Some of that is true, some of that is hype.

Last week I asked a mid-sized healthcare company for my records from ten years ago.

I was told that they could not be transmitted digitally, only on CDROM. And that the price for duplication started at $500 and would go up from there.

I was also told that if my current doctor requested the records, it would all be free.

So yes, the records can be moved around digitally, but actually personally owning a copy of the records dos not seem "unfettered."
Not knowing what is going to happen is exactly the thing. When people watched the moon landing, or a shuttle launch, they shared the anticipation, tension and hope. Anything could go wrong at any time, and sometimes it did. Watching something that is happening right now feels like it has more weight to it.

Watching something like this after the fact you most likely already know what's going to happen and it will not have the same emotional impact. Plus, whatever the outcome is, it's in the past.

Someone brought 9/11 as an example and that's definitely a good one. You can watch the videos online and feel grief, anger, sorrow. But you already know it happened. You will never watch this footage thinking this can't be real, this isn't happening. You will never have that sobering experience after the fact since you now live in a reality where it already occurred.
Most Lufthansa customer service is in India or at least indian origin.

Zero help from customer support so far.

But ad is correct. Avoid lufthansa if possible.
He actually said "they could have an arrangement that’s more lenient than Hong Kong."

So the headline is incorrect.
It would help that one person, but the airport and airline need to process all those bags.

Time spent searching for one bag is better spent sending 15 bags on their way.
- I specifically mentioned 2G networks which AFAIK iPads do not even have, not WiFi or Bluetooth

- It can't "take down" aircraft communications, but it can be an annoyance to the pilots, which can be a problem in an emergency situation. It is a little thing, but aviation safety is a result of a lot of little things. Accidents rarely have a single cause. For example the worst accident in the history of aviation: the Tenerife disaster where two B747 ran into each others during takeoff is the result of a long and improbable chain of minor problems, some of them related to radio communication. Cell phone interference won't be the main cause of an accident but it may be a contributing factor.

- Do you really need to have your phone switched on? It won't work at cruise altitude anyways, and during take off and landing, you probably don't need another distraction.

So yes, having cell phones turned off make a lot of sense, it is a rule that has a small positive effect on security with almost no downside since you can't use electronic devices during take off and landing for other reasons (distraction) and you can't use your cell phone during cruise either because the network doesn't support it.
What a General Diagonal Argument Looks Like (Category Theory)
I admit that this is a red flag for me, because from my latest experience it degenerates into "whataboutism", which is part of the russian rhetoric.

"What about Iraq war? What about NATO expansions?..." as a means to justify the invasion.
Trent Telenko also has some fairly unconventional opinions about electoral fraud in the US which, for me, cast his opinions in a different light.

He's entertaining but it's always a bit unclear what his specific expertise is.
While the GSM-R system belongs to the rail system which is dubbed critical infrastructure much of it is either publicly documented and/or shared between a rather large number of operators. So far I didn't read anything that would indicate that this disruption required more than somewhat specialized domain knowledge and a bit of experience in the industry.
> K&R

I've read a lot of books about programming over the many decades I've been doing this, and the K&R book still stands out as one of the best examples of how to do a good job of documenting the tool you've just built. The K&R book gave me the heuristic of "read the book by the folks who wrote the language". That heuristic turned out to be mostly wrong. But the book has stood the test of time.
I get sabotage. But why international sabotage?
Show HN: Maiao, Stacked Diffs for GitHub
The American Way.
However, there is a good chance it might end up like “Truth Social”. Twitter isn’t exactly impossible to fork.
The doctors notes are sometimes actually a problem. We are in Sweden where they are open to patients and I know doctors who received complaints because of their notes (e.g. because they made the patient anxious). They were pretty harmless ones, like "this should be monitored". So to avoid complaints doctors start to not write notes into the official notes, which makes things worse.
Can u share some obvious and non obvious signs you’re in an abusive relationship?
Relevant link:

* Stacked diffs vs Pull Requests [1]

1 - https://jg.gg/2018/09/29/stacked-diffs-versus-pull-requests/
The Vanishing Point of the Laws of War
Yeah true, and I'm sure a Samsung would have suited me better, but I bought a pixel because of what I thought would be decent android support.

Up to this point I've only ever purchased android, but usually after ~2 years they stop receiving updates and go downhill pretty quick after that. The fact that the iPhone 8 is still supported on ios16 is crazy to me, that was released the same time as my old one plus 5t, which I loved but just slowed to a brick in 2021. That's why I'd go iPhone
They didn't even waive the fare?? They charged him the £10.

Terrible customer service.
Yes, and in some parts of the world they are obligated to run background checks on their employees or contractors.
The trouble with RYF I think is timing. If it came at a time when the movement was strong and had a large mindshare, then getting certified would get you a market and might be attractive to some vendors.

As it is, the RYF market is so small that no vendor is incentivezed by it unless they are part of the movement already themselves.
> Do you think you would get a similar or diminished experience with e.g a raspberry pi and a little LCD screen etc that booted straight into a minivmac emulator?

With vintage hardware, you are constrained by what the machine can do. With emulation, you are constraining what the machine can do. It does make a difference. To give you an example of what I mean:

I collected vintage hardware in my university days. It was a time when you could get something like a Mac IIfx for next to nothing and still expect it to work. Well, crunch time came and I found that I was getting far too distracted. A vintage Mac provided an ideal work environment since it was great for preparing technical documents and didn't have all of the distractions of the Internet. Boot it into System 6 with Multifinder disabled, and it reduced the distraction of other software installed on the machine. Doing something similar with an emulator simply would not have been as effective. It is too easy to escape the sandbox in a multitude of ways.

Is this a physical differentiation (i.e. based upon the capabilities of the hardware) or a psychological one? I really don't know and I really don't know if the distinction matters. The outcome is the significant part, and that outcome suggests physical hardware does make a difference.
Ask HN: Best book to learn programming in 2022?
Not a book that teaches language syntax to an already established programmer. Rather books that teach how to program in any language, so that the book is great for someone starting out.
Therefore "option two is that the guy who might soon be in charge of Arizona state elections is so incompetent and so stupid that he accidentally blocked Google from searching his website"

"Blocked" or "hired people who blocked" is the same thing in relation to a guy who wants to be elected to run things.
Yes, this is also how I mostly use guix, just use the guix.scm file and not bother with a channel.
My channel is now demonetized because I cover the war [video]
> Billionaires: It's so small... Maybe I can own it?

Billionaires: It's so small, I have to go to mars so I can own that too.
Interestingly enough, it doesn't work on mobile because you can't scroll the vertical sections properly.
ehmmm... From the recent Bloomberg article I read the Russia claims ~6K dead and some unspecified western experts estimate it rather ~15K. Now USA lost ~60K in Vietnam. Sorry, that is not "as many or more". Nowhere near.
Let me ring you in a bit. Can I also order a pizza?
> pointer provenance

But what could a book last updated in the 1980s have to say about this subject? The phrase falls out of DR260 (Defect Report #260 in the ISO C standard) which wasn't even raised until this century.

Here's the mention of "provenance" from what WG14 (the committee for the C standard) wrote for DR260 back in 2001:

"the C Standard does not prohibit an implementation from tracking the provenance of the bit-pattern representing a value"

Vague right? And it's technically true, the C standard says nothing whatsoever about this subject. Of course it also doesn't have anything to say about which Pony is Best [Princess Celestia is Best Pony, don't @ me]

You might assume after DR260 the C standard was fixed. Presumably C11 and so C++ 11 and modern languages in this family all spell out how provenance works exactly right?

Nope.

The status quo is that the standard appears to say pointers are basically just addresses, but they clearly aren't in practice in your C or C++ compiler. If you raise bug reports about this, your compiler vendor will say it's provenance and, if you're persistent and they don't just stop answering you, eventually point to DR260, the unresolved defect from 2001.

There are folks trying to produce a consistent model which is somewhere in the ballpark of what programmers expect to work versus what compiler vendors actually deliver, so that both will be happy or, if not happy, at least both will agree on what the situation is. This model is some variation of what's called "Provenance Not Via Integers" but it must have exceptions because clearly sometimes provenance is transmitted via integers, and how that works must be explained too. WG14 did not take this work for C23, but it will become a Technical Specification in the C23 era. If compilers implement this TS, and if programmers prefer having at least the guarantees from the TS over a shrug emoji then perhaps some day it becomes part of the standard itself.

K&R mentions that you can't go around pointing to things of the wrong type (but C programmers do it anyway, and then doubtless you'll say K&R didn't warn them) and that you can't use pointer arithmetic to get at objects which are out of bounds (again, C programmers do it anyway).

The language is unsafe, and it's poorly designed in various ways by modern standards, but the OP didn't ask "What language should I learn?" they have apparently set their heart on learning C and so it's very strange to imagine the goal is to learn a good modern language which C isn't.
Pretty much any tech product top search results on Amazon is a fraud (and it can go VERY deep into the results). I have been burned so many times I finally learned: DO NOT BUY TECH from Amazon! PS: Forget the Amazon Choice as it is mostly just based on how many buy the product so it tends to be self reinforcing, even for a fraud product.
Exercise causes weight loss only in that as you want to get more fit you start watching what you eat, quality and quantity, more carefully.

As a lifelong runner I know I only burn 80 calories or less per mile, that's nothing.

However exercise does things that no supplement or drug can do, proper AMPK and cAMP activation, endorphin and endocannabinoid release.
The grandparent was arguing for a move away from USA/UK influence. Presumably that means leaving NATO.
Do you tell someone being assaulted that they should stop fighting back against their assaulter and submit? Because that's what people shouting for "peace" are doing.
Cross installs of packages almost always work fine IME.
If they were cut simultaneously or close enough AND they weren’t routed together (I’ve seen cases where the main fiber and backup fiber were in the same trench for a distance, backhoe magnet) then it’s pretty good guess it’s intentional sabotage.

However if one line had been cut at some point earlier and they were ON the backup line when that got cut, it could be sabots or it could just be generic construction mistakes/idiocy.
That nearly made me cry.
It would be much easier to pick the nearest N stars and point lasers at them with a peculiar frequency that would stand out on any spectra.

This random quora answer[1] suggests lasers could potentially have a spread of ~0.1 arcseconds so that would be (10 * 60 * 60)^2 * 40k ~ 1e13 times less power required (per target) than an omnidirectional source.

[1] https://qr.ae/pvZZjd
Perhaps you read 'intentional' too quickly.
Yet there it is at the top of HN.
The YouTube algorithm won’t take long to serve it up if a viewer spends any amount of time watching programming for small children. It takes some time training the account that you don’t want anything related to baby shark to ever be suggested.
> True founders accept risks and value community.

That’s a no true Scotsman fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman
We’ve had cases of workers intentionally sabotaging a system to get a day off.

Not saying it’s that, but everyone jumping to “Putin activated his sleeper cell in Germany to … delay trains THREE hours” seems kind of silly. Unless a 3 hour delay in Germany is like a seven day shut down elsewhere.
He basically went up an untethered elevator and saw a very limited view of Earth. He did not orbit Earth and did not see or experience the same things as the others.
I thought they were talking about the lost working time whenever my machine locks up because a job I'm running uses up all my cores/memory, or I have too many browser tabs open.
The main reason for what you call "theater" is possible interference with ILS. And saying mobile phones or other devices are not in the same frequencies, does not cover the scenarios of misbehaving/cheap or uncertified devices.

"Instrument landing: why do all electronic devices need to be shut off?" - https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/11555/instrumen...

"Why aren't cell phones allowed to be used in aircraft?" - https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2021/why-arent-...

MythBusters dismissed it a few years but forgot to consider misbehaving/cheap or not certified devices. And I would not trust two hipsters to be the certification committee for commercial airliners... -

https://web.archive.org/web/20140715091521/http://www.discov...
The reason these drives bother with firmware that makes them look larger to the operating system is so that people buy them and don't notice it was a scam until after the return ratio.

Also I don't know what the internal politics are like at Amazon but it is inexplicable that these listings are present and top of the results for probably a year by my reckoning - fake drives are easily spotted by anyone who knows what current drive sizes and form factors are and in theory it there should be some friction to making a selling account so that you can't just keep re-listing the same fake products under infinite new names. Though that seems to be exactly what's happening.

Also bonus points, if it's a third party seller in my recent experience Amazon literally does not let me report a product as fake, only request refunds and replacements from said seller. When I finally used a LinkedIn contact to reach out to Amazon they told me to create a marketplace seller account to report copyright infringement - but that's only if I own the copyright lol.
Threads is a film that haunts me to this day, despite only having seen it once, in about 1998. For reasons I don’t fully understand our science teacher in secondary school was talked into showing it as an end of term film to show a class of 15/16 year olds. She refused to watch it with us, for reasons that will be pretty obvious to anyone who’s seen it.

There’s a very short list of films that I think are both absolute masterpieces and something I will never watch again, and Threads sits squarely at the top of that list.
Sounds like the effects of LSD.
> It's not like things changed after... iraq, iraq 2, afghanistan, syria and many others...

Conscription is a huge difference. Hundreds of thousands were sent to Vietnam against their will.

> Somehow occupying sovereign countries and killing kids is a bad thing only when putin does it.

Ugh this both sideism.
Affiliate programs are one of the few win-win monetization strategies online. Sure, it gets abused by blogspam. I don't want to minimize that abuse because it does suck. But when you look at the good affiliates, someone who truly offers valuable advice that can help you find what you need to buy, and gets a few pennies for it... is that not exactly the type of paid content that we want from the internet?
Putin’s war is illegal – Russians fleeing the draft may have the right to asylum
"...Sometimes light is a wave, sometimes it's a particle."

If light in these experiments is behaving as wave, then, there would be nothing surprising about a wave acting as itself even though it is far away from the origin. I mean, if we look at waves created on a pond by a stone, we will see that they behave exactly the same way even though they may be moving in opposite directions.
Pipescript: An Extensible Transpiler for PowerShell (and anything else)
To me it does look a bit comically like searching for the philosopher's stone as an ancient alchemist. If it's found within your natural lifetime you will be dead before the research is complete; by definition it will take longer than an average human lifespan. Mice only live a year so they are pretty quick and easy to study.
Who peed in your cheerios this morning?
If stupidity was a disqualification from political office we’d run out of politicians quite quickly.

Google Search Console is pretty good on digging into this, we discovered that a portion of our website was unsearchable because a plug-in was adding a meta tag to those posts.
According to the news magazin Der Spiegel, cables in two cable ducts were cut. One in Berlin and one in Dortmund (400 km away). -- Source: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/deutsche-bahn-derzeit-kein-f... (in German)