skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering: in C, this is probably OK on your system, but if you don’t fully understand the explanation I give below, then you should get sign-off from an expert before using this code. Here’s how it works:

Accessing an uninitialized variable is always undefined, in the following case:

* the storage can be declared with the register keyword

Because this is an array of uninitialized data, this is not relevant. In that case, the standard specifies that the value produced is indeterminate. An indeterminate value can either be:

* a trap representation

* an unspecified value

unsigned char never has any trap representations. Its value when uninitialized is always unspecified. Other types may have a trap representation, in theory: this is implementation defined. On your system this is almost certainly not true for integer types, but you may have signaling floats. Accessing a value that is a trap representation is undefined behavior.

If you don’t have any trap representations, then the value produced is unspecified. An unspecified value is, morally, “some random value from the range of values this thing can take”. Of note, the value produced is not required to be consistent: two “reads” can produce different results. However the act of performing the read and the results it produces (bounded by what I just mentioned) are well defined.

Putting it all together, in the case of this algorithm, on a system where integers do not have trap representations, the uninitialized read will produce an unspecified value, which the algorithm does not rely on a consistent result from. So, overall, it’s probably ok.

If you are using this code and don’t have a comment that describes exactly what I just said then you need to add one immediately. There are not many cases where it is crucial to juggle the precise definition of well-defined, undefined, implementation-defined, indeterminate, and unspecified. This is one of them.
It's not completely made up like some people think - there's 2 creatures called "daddy longlegs", one of which is venomous and has short fangs (but not the one usually thought of when that phrase is brought up), but lethality is unknown because there's no recorded cases and you'd have to intentionally try to kill someone with it to test it.

https://spiders.ucr.edu/daddy-long-legs
This would make a pretty decent New Yorker cartoon premise/punchline circa 2007
This does not seem related to this thread except that it involves smell.
The British were not promised that.

They were promised after decolonization, Hong Kong would get elections for 50 years and then China would fully take over.

China was also allowed to implement laws protecting national security.

What the British didn't foresee is China being able to gerrymander and also influence which politicians could run in the name of national security.
Given that it is a private company, would those share be meaningfully valuable? Plenty of ways to screw minority shareholders in private markets.
I suspect if you weren’t blogging you would be twittering and facebooking a lot more which (a) would also be equally available to those employers, (b) would have less context so your tweets/Facebook posts would have appeared more shitty/indefensible, (c) because you would have had the algorithms giving you little dopamine boosts with likes, etc. it’s possible it would have been much harder for you to come to the realization that you needed to tone it down…in fact, the shittier you are, the more you’re rewarded in these networks.

So it may not really be a blog issue, and quite likely the blog prevented it from being worse than the alternatives.
This is America. Wage theft rarely gets punished, if ever.
Of course when the shoe is on the billionaires foot, the workers are immoral: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2023/05/16/elon-musk-work-from-home...

Our culture is joke, bleating about how free we are. Some freedom from a mathematical minority would be nice.

We need term limits on all forms of social influence.
I don't know, why publish anything?

It's likely that nobody will see your old posts anyway because they won't scroll past the first page of your profile, and you'll soon be adding more posts on top of them, so they'll just get further buried. You'll need a pinned post for anything you want people to read. Clicking on a link is easier than scrolling a long way into a feed.

This is largely a matter of motivation: have you explained why they should care enough to click? A link that just says "archive" probably wouldn't be motivating.

Meanwhile, if you move the posts, all links break, and those might be links from places that are more motivating. It might be unavoidable the first time, but it would be nice if it didn't happen repeatedly. I expect a Github repo will still be there after today's Mastodon servers disappear, for example, so it might be a good way to archive?

All of this is assuming that you have archives that are interesting and valuable history and you want them to be public, so your archives are worth linking to. It's much like archiving old public mailing lists. Maybe similar archiving tools could handle both?

But if the posts aren't valuable or you don't want random strangers to be able to read them, it might be better to just let them go, or not put them online at all.
Oh shoot, you are correct!

https://web.archive.org/web/20020329184845/http://www.nearly...
Okay, so the final report is correct then thanks to him, but the conclusions aren't?

I dismissed him out of hand, I'll admit.

I'm just really unsure why the idea that heat reduces the strength of steel enough, and that the failure of the columns located in the hottest area of the fire then caused a cascading failure across other columns, is considered less likely than massive conspiracy.

It's the usual swiss cheese model of disaster.
I think Alphabet is a horrible name too, but they already were successful when they adopted it. Progressive and Booking are real bad. Tesla, oracle, Amazon etc are pretty unique names, I’m not sure I use those words in my normal vocabulary in a regular month, can’t complain about them.

Most people didn’t know who Tesla even was. I’m annoyed for him Musk stole his name. I wonder what he would think of that now
Right? I was blown away. I'm a lifelong activist who recently converted and this piece was part of the reason why. I played a game with my friend by reading some quotes and asking if this were from the Pope or an article in Socialist Worker.

I had always assumed that conservative and progressive interpretations of Christianity were equally valid. But now I see that the message is entirely antithetical to conservatism. The conservative elements came from distortions of the message by the institutional bureaucracy or co-opters, or from over-identifying with ancient social relationships and not recognizing those relationships were changing at that time from what they were previously. It's the change that mattered. For example, I'm an anti-circumcision activist. It's barbaric. But circumcision was the humane alternative to sacrifice of first-born sons. A clear improvement. So noticing the trend, we can suggest that millenia later, it might be time to take the next step and trade Jewish circumcision for something better. It's amazing to find this out and see that the Abrahamic traditions have built-in features for innovation and refactoring. Perhaps it's true that God is unchanging, although I doubt that, but certainly our relationship to God and scripture MUST change. Christianity is about continual improvement, not the worship of ancient social relationships.

Basically, the faith is about abstract monotheism, iconoclasm, and social justice. It is the story of an increasingly hands-off God who works through individuals to enact his will. It's about eliminating transactional worship and rote ritual in favor of a direct experience of divine inspiration. And it's about continually enlarging our sphere of empathy in order to make way for the Kingdom.
> When do they start straight up garnishing X’s bank accounts?

Well, they have to lose the cases before people can start enforcing judgements.
For a few years in your '20s, when your investment is going to be small either way, you presumably haven't got a lot of commitments, and you'll have your whole life to adjust for it if a literal once-in-a-century slump happens to hit at exactly the worst time? I can see the logic.
Personally, I prefer the acapella version:
https://youtu.be/bzVXFTGy2OY?si=kygVDnb7OtDwwmni
Microsoft is intentionally taking aim directly at IT departments by creating a situation where it’s impossible to keep up. Every monthly update adds another nag pop up, or disables, moves, or “accidentally” resets the switches to turn them off. Unless you have someone working full time to manage Edge and these nags, it’s impossible to keep up. They’re doing this on purpose.

You can even see it in the error messages they show. For example, if you disable the App Store, it shows a big message to the user “This feature has been disabled by your IT department”, which drives animosity where people complain that “IT is blocking me, and if we just got rid of them (i.e. used the cloud instead), we would all be happy and run the apps we want like I can on my phone”.

IT controls directly prevent users from signing up with other paid services, so their incentive is to get rid of IT.
What makes salmon a luxury goods? Its very affordable within the space of non-processed foods and healthy.

Heck it compares with processed foods!

I went to "www.webstaurantstore.com" (?) and compared salmon to a cheap mass produced ham (that is both are animal protein).

$10/lb for salmon vs $8/lb for the ham. Hardly a huge difference, but one is very processed with lots of salt and nitrates.
Law doesn't apply to secret service special agents! Just like with Tesla/SpaceX, it'll get the help it needs from the government

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-tesla-spacex-secre...
Sorry, wage theft is done by people in corporations, therefore it doesn't count as real theft, so going to jail for it is almost impossible.

If you wanna get away with a crime, do it in a company.
It was also seen as a more realistic, grown-up alternative to the James Bond novels that were hugely popular at the time.
What I like most about John Le Carre's novels is the length they go in breaking down the bureaucratic, political, and psychological aspects of espionage. Each book is another window into the actual mechanics of intelligence work.

So it's not surprising that quite a bit of common espionage vocab was popularised by him - e.g. "mole", "honey trap", "intelligence customer"
Alzheimer's is listed in the "Topics" related to that article on that web page.

An obvious next step would be a controlled test to see what happens with those folks.

Seems to me it'd be worth a shot if you were close to someone dealing with that. I can't see how it could hurt.
The "real" WordPad is built on top of the sample, with minor changes.
Ban is not necessary or helpful. Criticism is.
Is he known for plotting financial exploits like that? He certainly isn’t playing to make friends, but I’m not sure we’ve seen that kind of thing out of him before.
This essay seems to be nothing more than a rehash of, “Does history have a replication crisis?”
The Man From Fifth Avenue
Two days ago, thanks to cycle routing, I accidentally discovered a bike path (with some dirt even!) that ran parallel to a more busy car road that I have been riding for 35 years now. I had no idea it existed. Not all seems lost.
> another round of outrage from people harping on the difference between Open Source and open source

Are they doing the thing where they pretend there's no difference between open source and Free Software? I can't tell.

> providing a way for its creators to move from being just “indie open source devs” to successful business owners

Right, because of course being a business owner makes you a better developer. I'm being sarcastic, no it doesn't. Being a business owner just makes you a money-fetishist parasite who gets a free ride off your employees' labor.
Courts are a little more complicated than you are giving them credit for.

For example, federal courts can dismiss a case due to lack of standing in sua sponte (Frank v Gaos).

While you can file any sort of insanity, the courts are not beholden to just robotically follow though with it.
X is not paying their bills either from the sounds of it. Musk should be on the streets already.
That article is painfully poorly written. It’s just reiterating the same few points over and over in different words.
You don't really want to power the entire vehicle. The question is more like, which is the most efficient wheel, which is the best aerodynamic shape and which is the most efficient roof.

If you can have components with negative load it's all good. Say that 7-10kw / 60kw is 12% to 17% savings. 6-8mpg becomes 6.72-9.36 mpg

Or for laughs one could say every 10th car requires no fuel.
> C++ was not an approved programming language for Win95 components in its quest to run on Brad Silverberg's (Win95 manager) mom's 4MB RAM PC.

Plenty of Windows 95 components were written in C++, including pretty much everything that dealt with OLE. WinNT also used C++ for the graphics layer.
Nice, but this seems to only detect some existing RSS feeds on a given website.

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I think lawyers will be happy to push the issue forever. There's a big payout down the line here.
It need not be that way, as Sarbanes-Oxley demonstrates.
> If you view the early 20th century as peak-institutionalism, it's clear the pendulum has swung to populism... but how much further can it continue to swing?

We aren’t anywhere near populism in foreign policy. The public has essentially no input into it. Trump tried to go in a direction the bureaucracy disapproved of, and they mostly just ignored him. Biden diverged from the consensus on Afghanistan and got crucified for it. But can anyone explain to the public why the US continues to support Saudi Arabia? Good luck to that.
> I have had the free 3CX sip client on an android mobile, using a UDP vpn back to a freeswitch server which was connected to the UK phone system. Proof of concept thing.

I don't think any of the US networks do that, unless you want to set up your own phone operator :(
> I believe the argument is that it was effectively an offer to employees to stick around, and employees who did so effectively accepted the offer, at the cost of other opportunities in the market, and hence this was a binding contract. This doesn't seem so solid to me.

That's established law, it's the only way to hold companies to any of their promises.
And it certainly should not be pro bono.

It is a serious amount of work to take people to work, requiring years of education and a ton of skill. Particularly when the opposition has pockets as deep as X/Twitter/Musk.

Hopefully there are large damages that go to those who have been wronged in addition to restitution and repayment of the legal fees

I can not understand why some body like Musk who has such as easy ability to do the right thing would instead choose a far loser costly and damaging right. It's absolutely idiotic, absolutely damaging to the word as a whole, and fuck Musk. Only the worst sort of shit bag steals money at this level. If somebody steals baby formula out of desperation, they will feel far more drastic legal consequences than Musk will.
I don't have anything to add to the argument just that I happened to watch Escape from New York this weekend and there's an epic "green laser grid" sequence as he flies in to the city!

https://youtu.be/xxYmMRxnEic?si=J62FQIU-V7-9BI8x

Edit: and apparently they did it with practical effects rather than actually animating with a computer? Seems like they were aiming for that exact aesthetic.
That wasn't done in exchange for Elon Musk's severance offer. Existing employees when he took over were... already employees when he took over.
Thanks, upvoting for the extensive research!
Elon: I want X to be the next network people trust to transfer money

Also Elon: Let’s not pay any of Twitter’s bills
Tesla say their thing "crashes 0.31 times per million miles, a dramatic decrease from the average American, who crashes 1.53 times every million miles." (https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-fsd-safety-statistics/#:~:te....)

So maybe we should worry more about the average American?
I don't think X is going to go bankrupt any time soon, as I'm sure Musk can raise a billion dollars, which is what I understand the annual operating loss to be.

However, in the event that it did, the US has a waterfall payment structure. Secured creditors get paid first, then lawyers, then employee wages and taxes, then unsecured creditors, then shareholders.
Flight simulator on picolisp

https://youtu.be/D9HPq0fMVhw?si=VHMGmhAhk__9F4Y0
Under at-will employment, merely continuing to work for an employer amounts to consideration. This is well established.
> In business, if you don't honor agreements you get sued (and lose).

Unless you want future options with the person you are suing. Unless you need a reference. If you can afford it and if you are prepared to burn bridges.
Does it not count as a debt, that they have to accept cash ("legal tender for all debts public and private") for?

Or there should be the option of opening another account, at a less tyrannical institution, to use for those payments.
> If it's about maintainability and reliability, and not so much a threat model, why does the fact that your VoIP devices are already in a separate VLAN without external access mean it's not a big deal for you?

VLAN is what makes it not such a big deal. However, I want to offer the same solution to other people in our HOA, and I most definitely don't want to set up VLANs for each one of them.

> Then a C program sounds like an ideal choice!

Not really? No package management, for one thing.
Anybody who still uses X (formerly Twitter) is supporting their behavior
Why don't the people who actually do the work get golden parachutes?
This is just contract law. When I managed vendor contracts I had to specify the terms of payment (net30, etc) and penalty for late (2%, etc).

So there’s already legislation that enforces contracts. I’m not sure how you would make a law that was helpful to force prompt payment clauses specifically.

It’s important to only accept terms that you want. And if your customers keep paying late, then collect your penalty charges and negotiate for higher penalties next time.

Most vendors will pay on the absolute last day possible so if the terms are net30, they will pay on the 30th day.
How did we get to this place that so much of our media landscape was centralized within one failing company on Market Street in San Francisco?
How we know languages like proto-Indo-European existed [video]
The Wright brothers story is well worth reading up on. The director of the Smithsonian refused to believe them, and championed an alternate "first powered flight" for a long time. This is why at least one Wright flyer wound up in the Science Museum in London. It only got fixed after he died/retired.

The lack of history on display in the Air & Space Museum on this, is quite interesting: it's like the whole "tell the truth, the whole truth" thing completely passed them by (Admittedly I was last there 15 years ago, it may be fixed now)
"X is not, in fact, gonna give it to ya"

Nice.
There needs to be criminal consequences for company officeholders.

If you are wilfully withholding pay then it should be mandatory jail time.

Legislation is underway here in Australia for such an approach after 7/11 et al systemically withheld pay knowing that the financial consequences weren't going to personally affect them.
I hope the judge awards them all 3X what they were promised as a punitive measure.
> return sparse[i] < n && dense[sparse[i]] == i

This line lives in fear of the optimizer. sparse[i] references uninitialized memory and is thus UB and could be optimized out at a certain level. Also I think I read once that even if we’ll allow that sparse[i] stays in the program, there’s still no guarantee that each access of sparse[i] will read the same value since it’s still UB.
Resolution after upload was 1080, but now it’s 480 with extremely low bitrate. I uploaded them to Vimeo also, where they’re still great quality.
Do laptops ship with slow hard disks now? Doesn’t everything have an nvme?
Building software is a conversation right? Your specification starts out vague, the AI makes a bunch of assumptions, and then you just say “oh, I really didn’t want that”, wash rinse and repeat.
I sat next to a guy who made one of the arcade titles at Namco and the primary benefit to him was he got the opportuntiy to come to work at their USA R&D office. The Japanese employees got paid a lot more to work in the USA (though still less than Americans in the same office) and had a car and housing allowance and (if you see this as a benefit) got to live in America for a while. The pay if they stayed in Japan to work at the home office was pretty low, even compared to programmer/designer salary in a LCOL area of the USA, according to one of the guys who told us this over after work drinks.
I created https://aesort.com/ from this, with which one can create a personal ranking (takes some time though, since there are 836 aesthetics). It can be really fun/beautiful to put a list of one's top aesthetic names into Midjourney, and generate images of people, fashion, buildings, rooms etc.!
We don't have debtors prisons. While there are specific cases like this where some jail time would seem just, overall it's a negative for society. It's a civil matter for a reason. I do think such cases should rip the corporate veil to shreds though, and the billionaires would have to pay up.
What does that have to do with severance?
Do you use new devices often enough that the login friction makes it not worthwhile? I could only see this being a problem if you're doing a lot of searching from someone else's device. But if you're using someone else's device, who cares if you make a few Google searches anyway?

I pay for Kagi. I log in once and forget about it. Adding a new device is easy with a password manager.
See https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xIVONw9Pr4w
1982 (pre-ANSI C!), without any audio library or hardware driver to handle things for you, so 20,000 lines of code encompasses the whole audio stack.

With that in mind, the 140-char snippet at the end is an unfair comparison, since that leverages a sophisticated and mature audio stack provided by the OS and Supercollider.
As an avid Fate/Grand Order (aka FGO) player of 7 years and counting, I can tell you it's because the writing is simply out of this world.

Type-Moon's (and specifically Nasu Kinoko's) writing is satisfying to read, and his prowess as a storyteller is the only reason why FGO has become the long-running smash success it is today.

Many other FGO ripoffs came and immediately died, including even one by the developers of FGO themselves (FGO development at the time was outsourced to DelightWorks by Type-Moon, Type-Moon just does the writing and supervision) because FGO's gameplay is straight concentrated dogshit.
0.5–2% alcohol which isn’t significant unless you were to drink it by the gallon. that is similar to Kombuchas.
lb for lb, it would not surprise me to learn that farmed fish has a lower all-in pollution output than pork.