skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way I see it, a broker doesn't owe Winklevoss exchange's customers. Instead, the Winklevoss exchange owes their customers...

Looks like Winklevoss-paid PR to me.
This is overly simplistic. Some hype cycles are real, and drive real long term value, like mobile and cloud. These technologies rendered many businesses obsolete and created many new opportunities.

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a new AI version of every SaaS out there, followed by a consolidation cycle in a few years.
I for one like "raw char arrays", and really don't care about missing string functionality in C. I basically use sizeof, snprintf, memcpy and am just fine. I've toyed with defining struct String{ptr,size} sometimes but largely it just gets in the way.

If you think it's necessary, it's very easy to make an argument that you'd have to have a generic type for slices of any type. (Actually, more so than strings, since C is just not a language for domains with a focus on strings).

Now, whether you think a language must have a generic slice type or not, C is simply not the language where you can fit that in.
Computer Chronicles Revisited 78 – BIX, Nexis, EasyNet, and Macworld Expo 1987
This is wonderful, but I feel kinda sad that it's filed under "humor".
Volvo is bought by the Chinese
Polestar is a joint venture between Volvo (majority owned by Geely anyway) and Geely themselves. Their cars so far are indeed made in China, with a US manufacturing facility coming online soon.
So, to recap, the left tried to create a left only town square, and now someone comes in and makes it neutral again, and we’re angry enough to hope this guy wasted $44bil?
Selling at Amazon in the 20s seems as dangerous as selling at Walmart around the turn of the century.

The outcome is probably going to be the same; a sea of ultra low quality generic import goods that only poor people shop at.
Yes, but, the problem with ic becoming managers is that they are too involved with eng work. Often dictating how things should be done. Also, they have hard time letting their beloved legacy code go.

Best managers are IC who have the ability to trust their eng to do the work. Their main role should be “advice”, provide context and connections within the company.
From a technical perspective, sure.

How Amazon is using this? Nah.
Case in point: https://news.crunchbase.com/transportation/autonomous-drivin...

Shows all the factors at play here:

* Company founded by kids who know / knew nothing about the space

* Investors who smell money opportunity and see an opportunity for asset value inflation

* Invest in the company, rush to multiple rounds, based on hype

* Company goes "public" using scam/sham SPAC approach (yet more proof of "startup" as financial product)

* Then the company goes bust after it goes to market because the whole thing was just asset inflation, and when the bubble pops, it goes poof

- I also find it curious that Techcrunch calls these obvious startup-as-financial product companies Upstarts and not Startups. A distinction without a difference in many cases.
Children are not getting surgery in any significant numbers. This is a made up right wing talking point
TurboTax works just fine for me. Integrates with my investment accounts and handles the typical combo of 1099, W-2, and supplemental income without issue.

The dark patterns have been getting worse, though, so look up what should and should not be free for filing.
Show HN: A ChatGPT wrapper for Python and terminal
No wonder why a significant portion of C programmers actually want to keep tags (`struct` in `struct foo`) instead of removing them wih typedef.
Not sure why you felt the need to say the same thing twice. My reply to this would be the same as above, i.e. see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33844284

It seems like something that is prone to happen in text and 'on the interwebs' in particular, where we don't have intonation and don't know each other. FWIW, I wasn't being mad or anything. I just read your post in a different way than you meant it and as I explain above I think it's absolutely possible to read it that way. Everything else is just following from that and the thread you're replying in here has almost nothing to do with you any more and is just trap_goes_hot going on some tangent and me replying to the trolling more than your topic.

I spontaneously laughed at the moldy cookie thing and I almost had to upvote him/her for that lol!
This is kind of a bikeshed argument, but I'd prefer if the view was labeled as such. So instead of str_t it would be strview. Rust makes this same mistake IMHO and it causes a lot of confusion for beginners. I would personally call the strbuf_t strstore but that's even more nitpicky.

Naming things is one of the hardest problems in CS.
That's a very convenient excuse for blocking anything you want unt it is irrelevant. I also like how, now that the provenance of the laptop is not doubted, and hacking and Russia were not involved, people say "it doesn't matter, there was nothing incriminating on the laptop anyway". What a strange OP for Russia to pull off, you'd think they sold forge something juicy if it was their plan.
I’m not sure if they share a platform with actual Volvos but yes Volvo owns the majority share, followed by Geely.

All Polestars are manufactured in China as opposed to other Volvo models, lots of which are still coming out of Sweden and Belgium if I’m not mistaking.
1. Ditching null termination makes it cumbersome for interoperability with C ecosystem.

2. It has terrible overhead.
Perhaps this question is exemplifying the type of "competitive living" the article is mocking.

Personally I don't think it matters if it's Statham or The Classics, what matters is you sincerely enjoy it rather than out of some sense of obligation.

And I'd much rather listen to anybody talk about "The Transporter" than "Life of Pi", or Panera than rediscovering spirituality.
Nuke’s in the game in a different form as a “hidden” permanent kill streak (MGB nuke). Agree with your sentiment though - it’s lots of fun!
And hell, if you want a warranty and good return policy, Costco has ‘em for $60-80.

Spending multiple hundreds feels like a sucker’s game.
How one Indian state is leading a solar power boom
Like the other responder said, the Cowgirl is good. There are other mechanized things like that. There's also custom built beds and other pieces of furniture.

A lot of my spending comes in the form of impact toys like floggers and paddles. Locally created, leather toys can cost upward of $150-200. It's worth it, because the cheaper mass-produced stuff can have edges that will cut the skin. Or they have cardboard in the middle and will break after 3-4 sessions.

And having multiple impact toys of varying thickness and weight is important because they all feel different.
You seem to imply that the reaction is unreasonable, but if one is invited to ask anything it seems a fair expectation that the reply should be an actual answer, rather than plausible-sounding noises superficially associated with the context.

As for the fantastic frog, getting words out of it at all would be a remarkable achievement for the different reason of how unnatural it would be for a frog to produce those particular sounds, but neither storing binary sequences that can be programmatically mapped to symbols nor retrieving or performing arithmetic on such sequences is exceptional use of a computer program.
Indeed, self-evaluating your smartness precisely seems unlikely: you are more likely more or less smart.
I think that most conversations about where cars are designed or made aren't very clear cut with the _exception_ of a lot of Chinese brand cars, which is an interesting commentary in and of itself.

For example, Polestar cars are designed in Sweden on joint Swedish-Chinese engineered platforms and made in China.

Most vehicles are highly globalized like this until you get to the Chinese-market ones, which are designed (or "designed," depending), engineered, manufactured, and sold just in China.
Wellp, so much for my career.
Music scientist Phillip Dorrell [0] has argued for the existence of currently hypothetical "strong music," a class of musical stimuli presumably discoverable by strong AI.

The idea makes sense if you accept the concept of "intelligence explosion." Any property, in this case the rewarding effect of acoustic stimuli in humans, can be powerfully maximized. There must exist patterns in music-space that would have profoundly greater impact on human minds than those our low-wattage brains can find. So through a really powerful search and optimization process that can more efficiently explore remote, undiscovered regions of music-space, we get a "music explosion."

What these songs would sound like is the real mystery. Would they sound anything like the music we're familiar with? Would they lead to musical wireheading?

It also seems a bad idea to measure musical goodness by, say, how many times humans will replay a certain audio file. If you use this measure, I don't think you'll end with what you want at all.

See also "supernormal stimuli": https://www.sparringmind.com/supernormal-stimuli/

[0] https://whatismusic.info/
Of course everybody knew what this meant.

The question is: is it a fair advantage/tactic? And I think the answer has been given too: no, it's pretty skewed. If they want to keep the fairly positive reception of MW2, it's obvious what has to be done.
Cheap shit outsells expensive stuff. News at 11
The person in the article.
The linked tweet points to October 2020. That's before the election and long before Biden was installed; the requests were not from the government.
And that’s true. What can you do to avoid “demographic crisis”? Thinking you (or we as a society) can change course of things is very flattering, however flowed it is.

You can try to change global things like earth orbit or natural course of time with same result.

To understand how stupid “climate change” ideas are, you can simply look if it’s preachers are doing anything following their preachings. They fly private jets and then tell regular people about “offsetting carbon footprint”.

It’s all about money and power, nothing else. Climate change is of no interest to them.
This kind of writing has its own rewards. It is just as valuable to the writer as the reader. Paul Graham makes the point that developing writing skills also develops your ideas. If you cannot articulate your ideas well enough for others to understand it, it is likely the case your idea is still fully undeveloped.
As a kid I played rayman 2, some levels were way too dark on the crt monitor. I finished the game after figuring out how to change the gamma and contrast settings.
I fixed the roof of the garage at my mom’s place with my dad. Then ate two cheesburgers from McDrive and drove home.
I tried to ask ChatGPT to make a more comprehensive summary but it gave me a very similar output, i think because "summary", to the model, has to match certain conditions of length, it is a very limiting factor; to my understanding, this tool wasn't meant to be used for this type of article (at the moment), instead, i find it perfect for summarizing long blog posts optimized for SEO.

However, if your goal was to just know what to expect from the article and then read it, it made a 'Pretty good job'.
Is that not also a true statement about the population at large?
Is quoting Seinfeld a pretension to cleverness? If so, the times have changed!
Do you test for protocol negotiation for USB C Power Delivery and proper Lightning or Thunderbolt support? I think for many uses that's more important than small electrical losses
Only one article cited，and it's about employee wellbeing which while an important topic is not the catch-all 'best leaders' headline.

So, to play Devil's Advocate, a study [1] of a technology company, Microsoft, that finds that

> technical skills are not the sign of greatness for an engineering manager.

[1] What makes a great manager of software engineers? https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8094304
There is how you become a manager as you call out, but what happens after? How to stay an excellent IC as you spend more time in management and become a manager of managers? Picking up a small enhancement it big once in a while can be helpful for you, but also really interruptive for the team. You can code on your own time, but that only goes so far. What are strategies to keep these qualities a manager brings who also is a top IC even after years managing and managing managers?
Hrm... I guess I'm not getting as 'ripped off' as some folks. CPA does my business as well as personal/home - price went up to ~$1200 last year, from $1000/year for the previous several years. 'Business' has both consulting and some real estate/rental component, but it's likely a bit low-effort for them. Has still felt like a decent deal. Having to start over and do it myself feels like it's more trouble than it's worth...
There is no reason to expect you will find the sort of dialogue you want unless you take some steps to initiate it yourself. The people who regularly appear on the front page of HN did not start off doing so.
SQLite does store a null character in strings, it has lots of documented [1] issues in the API level though.

[1] https://www.sqlite.org/nulinstr.html
Which is basically how web workers work. Download silently then either use the new one on restart, or add some app level code to ask the user if they want to take the update now. At which point its a minimal install process since most of the work has been done already.
Depends on your definition of "purely". I will watch using an mpv managed by EXWM so it will be showing up as an Emacs buffer. Or you could use the embedded video player in EAF.
Someone do that to me, I remove it and create a 2 star review. The only way to discourage such behaviour is negative consequences.
*Schadenfreude
> It can boot or block whoever or whatever story they want to for whatever reason.

We discussed this years ago when it first started. When you’re the defacto town square then no, you shouldn’t be able to kick people out for whatever reason.

> Why don't we analyze Fox News's decision to run or not run certain stories.

How do you justify the left ignoring stories in their media? For instance the story about Chase Staub.

> People's first mistake is getting their news from Twitter, or Fox News for that matter.

There’s always an assumption it’s Fox. Try WSJ.

> This is not a free speech issue.

Very much disagree. Ask yourself why you’re so upset at this information. Or if you’re not upset, ask why there is so much anxiety around this story. Clearly some the left are concerned about what this will result in.

> I guess the story is that the people that ran Twitter were left leaning? Which we already knew going into it?

Yes and that’s a problem when they use their political viewpoints to control the conversation.
Note that you mentioned ML eng, while the parent mentioned data scientist.
For those interested -- there is a related Nassim Haramein discussion about Geometry -- which starts at the following time offset in the following video:

"Nassim Haramein At Rogue Valley Metaphysical Library [1]":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z83YyNyOEiQ&t=635s
With inline data, only one malloc is needed for the buffer housekeeping and character data. It's also probably slightly better for cache performance since the housekeeping data and string data are together.
Middling is fine for me if it doesn’t fall apart or burn down my house. Quality encompasses more than just efficiency.
I suppose that makes sense considering most conflicts involve groups who (accurately or not) wouldn't consider their enemies members of their own race.
So many words are devalued these days, like facist, racist, Nazi, and extremist.
IMHO if your "OOB" defn includes popular plugins w their default configs, Obsidian is at least comparable on features, and more accessible.
Yes you’re right. We need to unionize. How are we going to feed our families and have and live the American dream only making $160K+ straight out of college up to $350k+ and the tech company I work for is considered the “frugal FAANG”.

If you stymie immigration, what’s to stop companies from just expanding their overseas offices?
You can store the string as part of the same heap/stack allocation rather than as a separate allocation.
I do not have either of those issues on Linux though, apart from dependencies, unless it is in the form of AppImage (which it often is these days).
Are you me?

I also miss doing the individual contributor stuff. But… I know the business. I know the team. I know the pain points, why the exist, and the organizational dynamics that allow them to persist. Now that I have moved from informal to formal leadership, I try to focus on:

(1) adroitly executing the approvals and things where I could screw up the team by being slow

(2) coaching individual team members to build on their strengths and mitigate their weaknesses

(3) improving our corporate processes, tools and culture to systematically make it easier for the team to do the high value stuff we need from them

(4) recruiting excellent people who bring new perspectives and experiences to broaden our horizons… ideally coachable people ready to participate enthusiastically in #2

(5) crafting a team strategy that guides individual team members to work that utilizes their skills while combining with their colleagues to deliver more than we could individually… all in line with the overall corporate direction and communicated in a way that is congruent with the current political winds.

It is so. Much. Harder!
I mean Musk is jumping pretty far to the right. And all the lefties have just been purged.
> Should I flood random Android threads threads and complain you can't even select multiple threads in Signal to archive/delete them at once?

I don't think that's a fair comparison. I posted about how my phone, by default, had no functionality to set a solid color background, in a thread about setting your phone's background to be a solid color. I think that's relevant.

I just find it amusing that setting a solid background color is no longer considered basic functionality for an OS, and people have to use 'workarounds' or install third-party apps to achieve it. It sounds like we fundamentally disagree that this is something worth commenting on, so I'll leave it at that.
Polestar currently have production in China but will later also be produced at some Volvo factory in the US.
Since the data store is markdown and can be synced with git, eventually an open source UI will appear. It's almost inevitable.

Ironically, if Obsidian was open source and charged $25/mo for services, I'd happily pay for it. Even if they used a strict license to deter competitors (eg. stating they must license their changes back to Obsidian and that all hosted software interacting with Obsidian must also be open source).
Does it have access to the web? For one of my questions it answered:

"Unfortunately, I am unable to provide a detailed description of the education system in Poland and its changes over the last 30 years because I have limited access to information and cannot browse the internet."

but I have no idea if it's not lying :)
Paying additional real money to a game developer for an advantage in a competitive game against other players is not decades old.
The only virtue Tim Cook knows is money. Everything he pretends to believe in the context of America goes completely out the window in the context of China. Why? Because money.
> It’s an idea; it doesn’t need evidence. It’s just meant to evoke thought. I’m ok with that and don’t need you to try to prove it by something Kierkegaard said.

The point of citing Kierkegaard is to make use of the insights of others to try to explain something and to shed light on it. What the author is examining starts as a vague, confused, and murky impression that requires refinement, analysis, and effort to get to the essence of the thing. Clarity is not a given. Do you presume to know all there can be said about a thing? If not, then looking at what others have said is an opportunity to grow in wisdom and break out of the provincialism of one's own limited perspective, if only by the very act of wrestling with their material. I thank the wise who came before me for showing me the way and enriching my understanding of reality.
The page about Bluetooth LE [1] shows a video [2] which is part of an article about hacking of a BT lock, but the link [3] is broken and doesn't work. It is readable in the web archive [4], but the archive has lots of broken images.

It's a shame that this content went away so fast... say what you want about the typical blogspot or medium blog, but at least they tend to last longer than some personal websites :-( Can we read that article elsewhere, has it been made available in other site and just not updated in the Youtube description?

[1]: https://www.bettercap.org/modules/ble/

[2]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=kzRCGxDKPFA

[3]: https://www.eyeohtee.cheap/dont-worry-about-being-locked-wit...

[4]: https://web.archive.org/web/20200221132029/https://www.eyeoh...
The PDP-10 was not RISC by any definition.
The flu vaccine and mRNA vaccines are very different. One is much more proven than the other. How do you reconcile the heart issues some had?
> CCP forces companies to accept CCP members into their board and leadership

Except they don't?

1993 company law stipulates party committees are formed in any org with 3 or more CCP members... Trivial conditions to meet when party membership is like 1/8 of workforce and committees have been limited to dumb shit like organizing staff picnics not influence operations. Many chinese high up enough in company leadership/board will naturally be CCP members as you'll find democrats/republicans in a US board who has political affliation for upward mobility. And with respect to Chinese leadership / board members, they're not wasting their time doing party committee duties. Committee chores gets pawned off to nobodies, who more often then not don't do shit outside of keeners advocating for benefits and better working conditions, which was why these committees were conceived in the first place. Recent Euro chamber of commerce surveys concluded there's no push to strengthen party influence in foreign companies.

"Party committees" is a non issue and hasn't been for 30 years, thinking otherwise, because bloomberg, known for pushing anti-PRC hitpiece is more or less eating "sinophobia" bait. Misattributing said reporting to insinuate CCP is forcing members onto board and leadership even more so. It's just facts.
"Contrary to people’s forecasts, they were more likable the more they spoke, and their partners formed global rather than differentiated impressions."

In my experience, reticence to talk is mostly about fear of saying something stupid, which generally happens when you don't have anything to say but your trying to say something. Assigning people to talk for abitrary portions of the conversation might just cause you to say more stupid things. So, this is indeed a surprising result.
That's a great list! decouple (https://pypi.org/project/python-decouple/) is a useful alternative for managing secrets. It converts values to the correct data type which is nice.

Another detail that matters deciding VPS vs PaaS - batch job processing. Heroku dynos restart once every 24 hours, longer jobs can't be scheduled.
Video games typically have different standards for fairness from real-life conflicts.
No one cares if one domino falls over. But a whole bunch in a row is quite a spectacle.
I remember my first generation iPhone only had a black background and could not be changed. People blamed this at that time. Now I'm more convinced that this is intentional.