skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All of this is true, but if you are just starting with C, none of it matters.

If you continue using C, then you should eventually learn this stuff, but to overburden someone with a list of 100 things they must do right is the surest way to frustrate them to the point where they give up.

If OP eventually writes C code that goes into production for a company, it is the company's responsibility to have procedures and safeguards which ensure that OP writes reasonable code. Ideally, one such safeguard will be a senior colleague to introduce them to the thornier parts of C.

To expect a beginner to learn all of the finer points of a topic from the start is bad pedagogy.

On the other hand, K&R provides a set of exercises which are fun, graded, interesting, and challenging. By the time you finish them, you have a working knowledge of a large and useful subset of C. You can then proceed to reading another book (or consulting some other reference). Invariably, you will find that they disagree with K&R to some extent. Learning to spot these differences and begin to understand how C has evolved is itself an important lesson.
Totally agree, the "live" subtitling on BBC is remarkably bad.

It's way worse than even using a cheap computer with open source solutions - it's strange no one at the BBC decides to resolve this as it would be easy and could easily give the public a far better result. Even if you took a hit on the most obscure words, off the shelf would outperform the current process by a country mile.
Most software written will not be used. Nobody will buy it, or even download it if it is free. (Or even FOSS free.)

The stuff people complain about is all the rest.

But maybe the reason they are complaining about it has to do with how the purveyors figured out how to get it into people's hands. Enough hands to sustain the product.

We can almost entirely blame this on the end users. Users vote for software and hardware with their purchase and use decisions.

Whenever you have a problem with anything, you're a victim of the poor decision making of a million unsophisticated consumers who voted for that piece of crap to have the revenue stream and funding so that it garnered your attention too.

Consumer behavior itself basically creates a barrier of entry to the existence of viable alternatives.
"Mathematics" is not the same as "writing down math."
The SEC won a case last year which pretty much answered the question "is it a security" as "Yes" for just about everything where the promoter can make money off of it.

An investment contract exists if there is an "investment of money in a common enterprise with a reasonable expectation of profits to be derived from the efforts of others." - US vs Howey.

The "oh, but crypto is different" argument doesn't fly any more. Not since FTX.

You can still watch "Don't be like Larry", FTX's Super Bowl ad.[1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fWQob8RZj4
“just because of Elon Musk mucking up Twitter”

i get that the tv says we’re supposed to hate him… but is anyone ever going to explain why? because he’s racist? bc the tv said so? bc he doesn’t support the ghost of kyiv? lol
I use newsboat, and feedly on the web. I don't use it on mobile.
It would be interesting to see what would have happened had Apple bought Be instead of Apple, but I think it's pretty clear Apple made the "right" move. NeXT had really good software, and of course, Steve Jobs (and let's not forget about the rest of the NeXT team with people like Avie). Hard to imagine Jean-Louis Gassée (or anyone else really) being able to turn the company around like Steve did.
I'm with you on ANKOS, but GEB is an accessible and fun (if a bit wordy) introduction to formal systems and Godel's theorem, so I wouldn't put it in the same category. GEB also was not marketed as anything revolutionary (except in its pedagogy). ANKOS and SoM were.
It depends if you're using additive or subtractive coloring. Blue and yellow paint make green. Blue and yellow light make white. Old-style Christmas lights used paint or pigment over incandescent filaments to color the output.

I'd say the more spectacular error for this answer was the human's. :)
I never used Reader but I did use another one that also folded, a year or two before Reader went away. Then it got bought and came back, changed, and that stutter interrupted my process and I never really recovered. I set up Feedly and then don’t use it.

I think I’m from the generation(s) that expect to spend a lot of time in a browser window instead of hopping between applications triggered by notifications. So the moment I put something into an app, if it’s not situation dependent like Apple Fitness, or team chat for work, it’s just too much friction to make it a habit.
Try some of the remote agencies like TopTal, Turing, etc.
I know this is what he meant, but I wanted to believe it was indeed a mole. It would have been much more exciting, like a Catholic themed version of Among Us.
> The estimates — which include 37mn people who were infected on Tuesday alone, or 2.6 per cent of the population — were revealed by Sun Yang, a deputy director of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in a Wednesday health briefing, according to two people familiar with the matter

Interesting, I’m a bit skeptical about the “according to two people familiar with the matter”, I don’t know if someone in China can report these data to Xi, or the Chinese entities prefer to remain silent/report fake data, to please Xi.
Source on the bitwarden claim? I've been using it for a while and would like to know for sure if I should switch.
But it's not about his wealth, it's about his political connections.

If he was a wealthy donor to Trump in an identical case he'd be rotting in Rikers with no hope of bail.
No it doesn't, but that is essentially what a coding AI would have to do for correctness.

Unless we are not talking about correctness.

And we are not talking about trivial cases either.
In context, he wasn’t being completely serious, IIRC. I think that was one of a list of fairly comic possible explanations for Musk’s recent behaviour.

Though, it’s probably as good an explanation of his nonsense as any, really.
Exactly this. It's now "industry standard" to mug people; why should I swear your Hippocratic oath when everyone else is getting rich? Instead of asking developers (the organizations, not the individuals) to mend their ways, we users need to take action to defend ourselves.

- Education. People who didn't use computers in the earlier age of full user agency might not even imagine a world where they fully control their devices.

- Advertising. One should not be allowed to advertise "selling" something without handing over full control.

- Law. Shrink-wrap licenses should be neutered, software patents limited, DMCA abolished; these are legal moats around developers' power.

- Technology. Open software, open hardware, open data, self-hostable services.

- Platforms. It's time to treat software as hostile by default, the way an Internet connection is now de facto hostile. The OS needs to be hardened not only against hackers, but also against developers.

These are vague generalities, not concrete suggestions, and there are huge obstacles to each. Perhaps others have useful suggestions.
> Does this mean that in your interpretation the headline $250M bail bond number is indeed nominal

Its not nominal, it is substantive: the bail amount is itself a financial condition—the penalty assessed for flight.

Requiring sureties (people who agree to be liable in the event of flight, for the full amount—his parents—or a partial amount—the other sureties—with a process that allows default judgement on prosecution request and irrevocably designates the court as the sureties agent for process, with only what amount to courtesy copies of any notices sent to the surety themselves at the last know address) is a separate substantive condition.

Asset qualification of sureties has a purpose, especially for arms-length sureties, but it is not what makes the bail not-nominal.

> That if Sam does flee, the court accepts that it will likely collect less than this amount from the signees?

I... would not interpret it this way. What I would say is that the court probably expects that the signees so not have nontainted assets sufficient to pay the bail.

However, should SBF effectively flee justice, that would mean the any criminal forfeiture would be avoided or indefinitely delayed, but evading the ability of the US government, when motivated, to enforce a default judgement may be... somewhat more difficult.

(Furthermore, I suspect if any of the involved parties were to be seen to start moving assets to facilitate that—and I would bet there is more than a little attention on that—there would be uncomfortable conversations and prosecution motions to amend bail conditions, at best.)
> US is a partial democracy, just like China

China is a partial democracy? What bs!
This is such a spot on observation. But the incentives aren’t there for business competitors to self-regulate in an ethical manner.

That’s why we as users (and yes, we’re all users to various degrees) should push for more robust regulation. If, as you correctly note, most competitors are only going to operate in the legal-but-unethical space, change the law until the legal avenue and the ethical avenue are the same.

The libertarians will come out of the woodwork to say more regulation is not the answer, but when it comes to alternatives, watch the real world examples of “unregulated ethical businesses” melt away into the realm of the theoretical.
Download multiple articles from the Hacker News API:

https://github.com/realrasengan/autobahn/issues/12
I'm not a Catholic but I've been to a number of services and that is not my experience. Not saying those things haven't happened, but I don't think claiming that they are 99.9% is honest conversation.

Maybe you should look at what elegant demons you have embraced, as we all should
Where the previous restrictions that effective?

And for how long could they have kept them up?
A while back I realized I bought a series I didn't really like after the first book, but forgot about. Audible exchanged each book for a credit no questions asked (even the first one that I did listen to!) That plus the constant credit deals and audiobooks for $5 or less... I don't see how they do it.
No, it’s correct. It shows green as a primary colour for additive mixing.
This is presumably the BMJ's annual silly article
I've been using a TinyTinyRSS instance on Docker. I've also been playing with FreshRSS but there's some things that I don't like as much.
Those aren't tentacles; tentacles are motile.
(Is it that you don't know of any yourself? Or that you think I can't provide examples? In what world is what I said even slightly controversial? Type checking is just catching on now, decades after it was invented and implemented. C'mon.)

Anyway, off the top of my head, Ada.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_(programming_language)

and E...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_(programming_language) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CapROS

Qubes and SEL4 are Operating systems. (OK Labs was acquired by General Dynamics. That seems like a pretty good recommendation to me.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_ass...
Who is the designer behind Haiku's icons and general "feel"? It looks really nice.
Yes, they are. The answer is still “none”, but I used the wrong colour in the reasoning
Netflix lists ‘Glass Onion’ island compound for $450M on Zillow
CNBC says 8-10% is likely, with the real numbers known once the filings come out. And 8-10% of $250 million is... a lot more than SBF's claimed few hundred dollars.
3. “It just works” laptop hardware
I think the author is making two points among others:

1. LISP based text/books always present the same two cliche examples

2. They never go beyond (1) given how much they talk about recursion. He mentions sqrt of 5 in the explicit formula of Fibonacci sequence and how that could be explored in more detail to find out where that comes from. For that you need to know [0]. That's part of a larger suit of theorems on sequences. This stuff together with theory that surrounds the Gamma function can easily take up a whole book. But there are a ton of books that treat either one really nicely: most textbooks on discrete math and real analysis.

[0] https://ibb.co/TR1f5Gz
> "... cchoices or behaviour you want to encourage."

Perhaps. But too often tbat mindset results in dark patterns. That is, the user is "encouraged" to make choices not in their best interest.

This was in the first couple of lines. I checked out immediately.
My gut response is because their prices are lower. They offer half the cut, and are usually selling well below half the cost elsewhere. More, most of their sales are almost certainly credit system based, which super complicates how much they sold for. (That and bundled with ebook purchases.)

If anyone has data in how much they pay out and how elastic the demand is to increased prices, I'd be interested. As it is, this feels misguided, though.
Ontario, Canada

https://archive.ph/0CUwG
It is absolutely sufficient because open source provides a quick and easy remedy — fork. I use Vaultwarden. No spying.
I’m really confused who the target market is for that thing. It doesn’t seem practical for a work vehicle, and I assume people who drive pickup trucks for non-work purposes are looking for a certain, probably-not-that, aesthetic.
It's JetBrains Rider not Raider...Plus the blog post I posted also talked about the out of the box experience with just installing one Wasi.Sharp package to get WASI WebAssembly support out of the box for most scenarios...except it is still too big to put into Cloudflare workers because it contains the entire Mono runtime...
It was released only because he was forced to by management.

Given Tolkien's druthers, he'd have kept it all in a private repository, working on branch after branch, cherry-picking changes strung like a Christmas tree.

What he really wanted to release was The Silmarillion, but they passed. It included a long but incomplete verse version of Beren and Luthien, which utterly baffled the readers. The publisher demanded a Hobbit sequel -- which already included a bunch of random stuff from The Silmarillion, but mostly just a few inconsistent fragments.

So he wrote The Lord of the Rings, and despite himself, managed to actually get it released. All the while he kept tinkering with his masterpiece, never releasing it at all. Some other developer (his son) finally cobbled something together after he died -- mostly by reverting to branches that were decades behind the HEAD.

He was very, very, very unproductive. But he sure made a lot of commits -- and then reverted them.
I'd like to see the GeekPort reintroduced on non-Pi class machines. A bit of digital GPIO, some analog lines, maybe SPI...
Whose story is this sentence? (2012) [pdf]
The M1 was such a groundbreaking chip. I don’t expect Apple to wow us again until the M4 or M5. This is a good time for Apple to pause, look at what Qualcomm, AMD and Intel are doing and see how they can attract the same class of talent that gave birth to the M1 again.
What is your digital shoebox? Do you have a legacy plan for your photos?
Inspired me as an undergrad Industrial Design student in 1989ish that and The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at M.I.T by Stewart Brand were the two most influential technology books for me at that time.

Coincidentally enough it turns out my cousin was in the thick of it while the pre-media lab was still part of the architecture school. She would tell me stories of what she was up to in college... when I read that back I had to loop back and ask her about it.
Furthermore, getting new software approved at a big corp can already be a hassle. But at all the places I've worked, seeking approvals for and opening up a funding line to pay for a license increases the hassle 10x.
So the slippery slope fallacy?

The unfairness here came with selling someone a ticket to a venue they are prohibited from accessing. Solve that problem and the rest of the "unfairness" goes away.

… And if you are incapable of responding to the argument without snarky running commentary, kindly refrain from replying.
I'm using 1password for 8y now and am still confident on them being able to securely store my secrets. I think the trade off between convenience and security is there. I did move some 2fa codes to it and I'm unsure if I should have done so, might roll back that decision..
US companies effectively have been "banned" in EUrope since 2015 for this exact reason :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Schrems#Schrems_I
In school, I quad-booted Debian, Win2k, QNX, and BeOS on my desktop.

BeOS was very light weight. Its ethernet driver for 3c509 was buggy and crashed often, but being a userspace driver, I just got a popup asking permission to restart the driver. Conversely, a couple years later I had an OSX laptop, and a corrupted backup CD that would kernel panic OSX, Win2k, and Linux. (Honestly, ISO 9660 and FAT32 drivers should be migrated out of mainstream OS kernels, since kernel latency is very far from being the bottleneck when using thunmb drives or CDs.)

On the other hand, BeOS had some questionable uses of metadata. After improperly using tar to backup my home directory before a reinstall, I lost all of my NetPositive browser bookmarks. I didn't realize each bookmark was a zero-sized file with the URL actually stored in metadata. My improper backup procedure dropped the metadata fork.

Also, there was a kernel bug related to semaphores. I had some semaphore code that worked fine under Linux but would kernel panic BeOS.

Had Apple purchased Be, we'd likely have a much lighter weight OSX, though perhaps with poorer support for multiple users.

I'm still hoping that someday QNX RTP gets open-sourced. A hard real-time light weight microkernel OS was fun to play around with. In particular, a cache benchmark I ran for a systems class showed quite a bit smaller cache footprint for QNX vs. Debian. (Though, Debian almost certainly had more daemons running, so it's not an apples-to-apples comparison of kernel cache footprints.)
What else do you do with an unregulated quasi-monopoly? Pay out to shareholders
Care to share video?
they’re going to ruin remote work. already had 2 guys interview, pass, then another guy shows up for job.
> move to areas where the population has a similar mindset.

> Those options may be limited though.

This ^

I'm looking at small towns in rural areas now. I really just want to raise my own kids (homeschool), do some light farming, and maybe at some point start a small business in something I'm interested in that maybe I can use to help my kids become self sufficient.

The regulations and cost of living in _so_ many places are making this next to impossible. I'm glad I bought a fixer house when I did, or I'd only be able to afford a condo these days. : /
How do we punish the Cambridge analytica's founders and employees?

Since this seems like a big deal that FB is fined 725M
It's awesome that Haiku has come a long enough way that it runs on my Framework out-of-the-box. Still ain't quite there as a daily driver, but it's very close.
My worry is that you could do something 60% as good for 1% of the cost, at which point a well-narrated audiobook becomes an extreme luxury good. Most people will pay $5-$10 for the "good enough" algorithmic version, and there aren't enough people who care to pay the fixed cost of Michael Kramer doing a version.
I do and unlike hn, nobody gently corrects. You just end up with fewer friends. Karma, as much as I hate the term, or people “hearting” tweets, or downvoting posts, has made me a better person in the real world. But the important thing is to only submit yourself to good algorithms and good social feedback. There are places in the net where the prevailing wisdom, manifest as upvotes/downvotes will make you a worse person. Clearly, of all the internet, HN is the best in this regard. Largely thanks to Dan’s moderate moderation and the smart, curious and diverse user base.
> No. The "developer" is often as much a clueless victim and tool of other forces who misuse her work.

Eh. It's implausible to me that we're simultaneously both highly paid geniuses and clueless tools.

Fundamentally, I think we need to decide whether we are professionals or minions. Professionals being people who have not just a duty to the paycheck, but also to the profession and society at large. See, for example, the ACM/IEEE code of ethics for software: https://ethics.acm.org/code-of-ethics/software-engineering-c...

If somebody wants to say, "Yup, I'm a minion, just going to build the volcano lair and the atomic rockets, and I'm not going to worry about where they'll come down," I will at least commend them for their honesty. But otherwise, I think we need to act like professionals and take responsibility for being clueful about the impacts of our work. Between the need for software and the rise of remote work, our negotiating power with employers has never been stronger. Let's use it for something beyond foosball tables.
The Closed Captioning System for the Deaf - which became known as "608" - was always capable of displaying captions in color.* However, this faculty was largely underutilized, due to a variety of historical / technical reasons.**

* Indeed, the first test broadcasts from 1979 included color.

** This is due to the design of the original 1980 "decoder," which only 'worked well' for color when installed inside an NTSC television. For the external adapters, grayscale instead of color was displayed. The only way to view color captions in color back in 1980/1981 was with a TeleCaption TV - and there was only one model ever made.
There are a lot of providers who sell DRM-free audiobooks. Until Spotify bought them Findaway was the biggest "distributor" for a lot of these companies. I don't personally look forward to yet another industry locking away content behind a proprietary, subscription streaming service.
Plus, I might add, the drivers are responsible for 100% of the expenses of operating the vehicle.

Back when I drove cabs the company owned the car and was responsible for all maintenance and insurance requirements. I just had to put in gas and if it broke down they’d send out a tow truck and give me another car. It was more expensive this way but once I got the lease + gas paid I kept everything I made. Some days I’d have the car paid off in the first couple trips and some days I ended up working for free but I always ended up making enough to pay my rent and eat.

I have to take Lyft whenever I’m in Phoenix because they destroyed the taxi industry there and I have a pretty good general idea how much it costs to get places in a cab and Lyft is currently charging as much if not more than the cabs charged while giving the drivers a smaller slice of the pie. Last time I went to visit my parents Lyft charged me ~$50 while giving the driver (IIRC) $18 plus a whole $0.50 gas surcharge for a 23 mile trip. In a cab it probably would have cost $56 (I’m really good at estimating it turned out) which would have all gone to the driver to do with what the will. Beginning of the shift that’s half their lease, end of shift it’d be all profit.

The last company I drove for the owner was really good to the drivers and would do things like adjust the lease price depending on the market conditions and he had no problems turning a profit up until Covid hit.
Here's one example of when to commit auto-generated code: if you use a tool like Cython and want to distribute sources to an end user, it is frequently recommended to distribute the C sources generated by Cython instead of the Cython code itself. The given reason is that the end user may not have access to Cython, but will likely have access to a C compiler. (This is frequently the case on scientific clusters where users don't have superuser privileges.)
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