skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Custom allocators were needed, and often still are, in order to have enough memory in the first place (for example memory pools for specific sized small allocations are common), to avoid fragmentation that could lead to out-of-memory conditions or the need to defrag over time, to have control over how the free list regains memory and how long it takes. It’s important in a real-time or embedded application to prioritize predictability over some of the host OS’s goals, and to have stronger guarantees.

IIRC I think one of the primary reasons the EASTL was developed is because the STL at the time did not allow overriding the default built-in memory allocator, and because STL did a bunch of memory allocation.

This is changing and games use lots more STL and dynamic memory allocation than they used to, but a decade ago and earlier, STL use was generally discouraged for the same reason that any and all heap allocations were discouraged for gameplay and engine code: because doing heap allocations during real-time and in performance critical sections can impact performance significantly, and can be dangerous. This is still very true today: the first rule of high performance is to avoid dynamic memory allocations in the inner loop -- true in JavaScript, CUDA, C++, even Python. Dynamic memory allocations can sneak up on you too. It might seem small or innocuous until it piles up or pushes you over a threshold or hits some kind of lock condition.

One mentality I learned game programming that can be counter-intuitive at first is how and when to reserve the maximum amount of memory you need for a given feature and never change it. It can feel at first like you’re hogging way too much, or that something’s wrong with coding that way, but it’s much more predictable, can be much higher performance, and it can be safer for the overall system to ensure that you will never have a weird condition where several things all need more memory than expected at the same time and it suddenly crashes.
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> As if it's impossible to know who to hire from LinkedIn, patents, knowledge of the field, etc.

That's misunderstanding the argument: it's not "They poached our employees and that isn't fair!", it's "Clearly our technology was legitimate and innovative, they had to poach our employees to duplicate it!"

It's an argument toward the standing of the patent(s?), not a complaint of unfair trade practices.
I saw `<< std::endl` when my brain was still developing, and now it's too late to stop using it.
Several factors contributed to English's success. I just think it would be a mistake to attribute it all to America.
Let me see if I can elaborate further.

PE company comes in to a med facility. We have proof that when they move in, they make new policies. These policies have a demonstrable proof that they reduce standard of care, cause X% more incidents, and Y% more deaths.

From the article is:

> After a hospital was acquired by private equity, admitted Medicare patients had a 25% increase in hospital-acquired complications, compared with patients admitted before acquisition. Patients also had 27% more falls and 38% more bloodstream infections caused by central lines, which are temporary surgically inserted ports that allow easy intravenous access for patients receiving repeated drug infusions or other treatments.

We have demonstrable proof that policies put in place have directly caused this harm. I'm not trying to alleviate blame when a med professional does something wrong and causes an injury. However when we see increases like "25% increase in hospital acquired complications", tells me that there is underlying policy that caused a significant increase in injuries/deaths.

We can point towards a policy that causes mass injury, yet the policy people are beyond reproach. Instead, the 25% more injuries are looked at as an individual bad action. Now we should be looking at the individuals and how their decisions caused a bad thing to happen.... however when we see trends from multiple people towards the same reasoning, and the reasoning is "policy", then absolutely those policymakers should be in scope.

I would also look at policy decisions of 2nd derivative effects too. However those can take quite a bit of time to appear. Again, if policymakers want the responsibility of policy, ethics, legality, and direct result of policies should also be what they look at and are responsible for.
The goal of expert testimony is not to find the best technical solution. The goal is to adjudicate a dispute. So yes, objective qualifications trump subjective ones, and that shouldn't be surprising or disappointing.

All of the qualifications you list amount to subjective evidence of clout in an obscure (to non-programmers) programming clique.

On the other hand, the certificate from a Blockchain University probably had a well defined curriculum and criteria for passing.
I was a short order (Waffle House style) cook from 15-21 so I got pretty good at cracking two eggs at a time. In my 20s I impressed a lot of girls with that trick. Now we just need a video on how to see the right pan temperature by the oil shimmer and how to flip an egg.
> People expect it to work and when it does they take it for granted, but when it doesn’t it damages your reputation and brand.

That's the definition of a table stakes feature. It's not as if you can not implement it and people won't notice!
A few years back, I was a line cook for Denny's. Busiest day of the year was always Mother's Day. Shortly after Denny's introduced the Grand Slam Breakfast (I did say a few years back) I worked Monther's Day on the egg station. In 8 hours, I did eggs for 344 Grand Slams and 45 omlettes. Total: 803 eggs.

So I got pretty good at cracking with one hand.

The only point I'll add: Crack on a flat surface like the counter, not a bowl or pan edge. It yields fewer small egg shells shards to fish out.

PS: I also got to the point I could shell 30 hard boiled eggs in under 30 seconds with a 2-handed shell technique.
When I opened the link, I was expecting Clive Palmer bullshit, but I got Gina Rinehart bullshit. Those are the two that always come to mind, so perhaps the generalisation isn't that far off.

I clicked your richest 50 link and don't recognise most of the names, but I was reminded of the Packers. I don't see the Murdochs on the list though, what's up with that?
I have been told by tech writers that Google discovered that at some point electricians will refuse to route more power into a building. So even if you created a separate thermal plant, you still have issues.
Indeed. It'd be curious if someone started publishing a CPI basket priced in BTC just so we got to see the in/(de)flationary metrics alongside USD terms just to have a fair comparison. Shouldn't be hard as it's just a matter of factoring in the price of BTC on at the time the normal CPI data is calculated.

Surely someone's got a few lines of python in 'em to be up to the task...
Los Angeles Office Building Sells at 52% Less Than 2018 Price
While all of us with the luxury of having time off enjoy that, let's be thankful to those still working essential services like grocery stores and emergency departments. Also people in coffee shops, bars, and other entertainment venues that all the people with time off frequent.
The second chance pool blew my mind the first time I got an email to resubmit. You figure if a post gets no traction, that’s just how it is. But I’ll never forget getting that email.
I imagine I would frequent that URL somewhere close to as much as the OG HN we all know and love :) that's a good idea.
>Look at IPv4 vs IPv4.

I'm not sure if this was a typo or deliberate, but either way the irony is beautiful.

>12v is a good compromise because PSUs can be manufactured to support both the new and old standard and motherboards could even accept ATX power inputs and just ignore the 5v and 3v rails.

The biggest sticking point with 12VO is that it's physically incompatible with ATX. 12VO doesn't provide the voltages ATX expects (obviously), nor does 12VO provide compatible physical connections (this incompatibility is a selling point).

ATX's biggest selling point and why we still use it to this day is its backwards and forwards compatibility. Outside of certain outliers you can just expect an ATX PSU to work with ATX equipment, regardless of when you buy or bought the parts; the virtues of a well-followed industry standard.
You can see all of those deleted/flagged comments if you turn on "showdead" in your options.
US startup I work for is also shut down this week and has a very liberal unlimited PTO policy. I took about 6 weeks of PTO this year, for a variety of reasons, and no one asked a question about it.

A lot of folks in the office work 35 hour weeks, sometimes less, but we are meeting or exceeding our company goals (which were already aggressive).

I think this as really good way to run a company... everyone is always firing on all cylinders when we're working... and when we need a break, we take one.
I should also apologize. I was over-aggressive in my response. Just ticks me off to see a comment that seems like it's defending messing with property of others (which you actually didn't imply, but instead I inferred it).
I have witnessed first hand how many old PIs use PhD students and postdocs to come up with ideas and draft grants. Obviously as ghost authors. After discussion with other colleagues, this seems much more common than what I thought.

Arc is indeed special because all funding is internal, just like it was at LMB or CSHL during their golden years. This encourages small groups where everyone does research, instead of creating a class of middle managers.
How do you serve your calendar on it?
Don't even think about RDH4.
Yes! Sorry I meant 3-4 times as long. It’s not universal to every game, but for a perfect example, my husband and I both played Mario Kart 8 on CEMU (Wii U Emulator) and I can play for about 6 hours uninterrupted before needing to charge, whereas my husband only gets 1.5 or so on my old LCD deck.
I’m not sure how you could work around it. If you wanted to, say, import an iPhone from Europe then Apple could gate access to the App Store based on your IMSI. Then you’d need a European SIM with your imported phone, so you’d be roaming all the time. And presumably Apple could detect that you’re roaming and just redirect you to the US store anyway, disabling any 3rd party app stores anyway.
> improved markers on EVERY single thing tracked

Sounds like such a diet could have adverse affects on TSH, T3/T4 and Test. Were those tracked? If so, what was the effect?
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My first (and last) smartphone was a HTC Desire, and I wished HTC died before the day I would shell out over 500€ for that piece of smoking crap. It needed the mainboard to be swapped not one but two times under warranty before it could be used for more than 1 minute without rebooting (apparently a well known overheating problem) then, months after warranty expired, it suddenly died beyond any recover to became my most expensive paperweight.
I know I'm just an unfortunate drop in the sea, still I don't miss their products at all.
I'm not too worried about the complexity. What I *am* worried about is that your number of SATA power ports on your motherboard will become the limiting factor for how many SATA drives you can connect. The number of SATA *data* ports on the motherboard was not as much of a limiting factor because you can add data ports through M.2 / PCIe adapters.

For example, the "MSI Pro H610M 12VO" hyperlinked in the article has a manual that shows it as having two SATA power ports, and an image shows one such port connecting to a single drive. Now I imagine this is a simplified illustration and maybe each port will have enough power to supply 3-to-4 HDDs (depending on current rating of the HDDs of course), but that's still a max of 8 HDDs. Meanwhile the non-12VO PSU I use has four ports available that can each connect to 3-to-4 HDDs each, so a max of 16 HDDs, and it definitely has enough spare power to support them because I sized the PSU for that need.
> how about just non-profit?

“If the public health goal is to improve hospital care, then focusing on things like for-profit or nonprofit status is a distraction” [1].

> Taking "profit" from keeping people "not dead" seems as close to extortion

Modern medicine is expensive. For profit or not, expenses must be covered.

We’re better off incentivising people to become doctors and nurses and pharmaceutical researchers. The problem is all the nonsense being eaten up in administration, administration largely paid for by price obfuscation.

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/hospitals-c...
There are different playbooks, but one is to take a declining business and cut unprofitable parts until it becomes (at least temporarily) profitable. The debt has a higher interest rate that reflects the risk of the strategy not being successful (hence being called junk bonds).

Even in the case of bankruptcy though, the bondholders may still come out OK. Toys R Us actually made about 5 billion in debt payments in the years it was privately owned, and it took about 5 billion in debt as part of the buyout. The bondholders may not have gotten the return they were expecting, but they mostly got their principal back.

All of that said, the real problem as I see it with PE is that it's just so exploitative. The only thing that matters is the investor's money. For example, one very common strategy after a buyout is to cut quality in various forms. People may have a positive quality impression of a store or a brand, and then keep buying it even after the PE company cuts quality. It takes them a while to realize that the product they're buying is not what it once was, and so the PE firm is making money by tricking people into buying bad products.

The hospital case is just an extreme example of this where the cuts in quality lead to people getting sick and dying.
None of these pulse oximeters on Amazon from China are violating these worn device patents because those pulse oximeters don't use an array of emitters, and heavily process the reflected light results. Wearable pulse ox is an entirely different tech stack as finger clamp pulse ox.
Very much so and it all happens with zero transparency, explanation or acknowledgement, very sus.

Your account can also be effectively shadowbanned with everything you submit going straight to the “dead” pile. Again no explanation and the only way you realize it is cause your submissions slowly die with no comments (and when you view the site in a non logged in fashion your submissions are not there)
> Not saying dang never blocks users/comments, but it's exceedingly rare and I've only seen it for the most obnoxiously egregious behavior after (usually multiple) warnings.

Issuing warnings or reminding people of the guidelines (rules) is also part of being a moderator, so the moniker is perfectly cromulent to describe dang's role
I'm a huge proponent for a produce-heavy diet, and I'm happy to hear your anecdotal experiences have been positive for yourself and others. However, I will say your statement, "If you tell them, hey, have 10 lbs of salad a day for 90 days, they'd say that sounds healthy but sounds too hard to eat that much." is untrue. I don't think anyone with a solid education in nutrition would say 10lbs of salad/day is healthy.

Can I ask what inspired you to go down the route of vegetable juice, vs other dietary changes? Rapid weight loss to the tune of 20lb+/month is rarely a good sign, except in the morbidly obese. Gradual, sustainable lifestyle changes tend to show good, healthy results in the short and long term.
Actually, you are looking at the wrong part of this.

The mistrial had nothing to do with the patents in play here (which in fact the court had preliminarily ruled in favor of Masimo's assertion that Apple violated its patent rights).

This trial, that was a mistrial, was over Masimo's allegation of "theft of trade secrets", in that Apple had multiple meetings with Masimo over its technology and learning all about it, then hired the people running those meetings from Masimo to Apple. Masimo alleges that information was shared in furtherance of a licensing deal or agreement, but that as soon as Apple knew what/who it needed, it abandoned them, and since it has not attempted to enter into any discussion with Masimo since, that this was its plan all along, and it never entered those discussions in good faith.

The mistrial was a result of lack of unanimity that Masimo demonstrated the theft of trade secrets - there was no patent component to this trial.
> NPR's deliberately shoddy journalism.

I don't think "shoddy" is the correct term to use here. NPR/PBS, just like e.g. SVT/SR in Sweden, the BBC in the UK, NOS in the Netherlands and ARD/ZDF/NDR in Germany are better characterised by the term agenda-driven journalism - they tailor what they publish and how they publish to fit their desired narrative. They are certainly not alone in this but the difference with commercial actors is that these public broadcasters mostly use tax funds and/or special unavoidable levies to finance what comes down to poorly masked propaganda. NPR actually gets most of its funding from corporate sponsorships and donors but it does also receive state funding.
it's a very small number; there have been 117 Green Party office holders, ever, across the entire United States, even though there are more than half a million elected positions in the US. And most of those people were not initially elected as Greens.

There has basically been no successful attempt to set up an ongoing party infrastructure and base, that actually wins elections. Pretty much all independent politicians in the US are one man shows.
I did a gameboy emulator one week, when I had time from things like waiting for planes to arrive. I set the goal of playing the logo animation and sound. I achieved that goal within the time I allowed, and then I stopped. I have a good background in game development on Z80-based game systems, so what I learned had more to do with the original GameBoy than with how to write a game.
Back in the 80's almost all the SV tech companies close from Christmas to New Years. A very civilized practice.
Scraping Women's College Volleyball Roster Data
We usually say "three fours are twelve"

Instead of "three times four is twelve"
There are, I believe, multiple HN moderators; Dan is just the only vocal one. And among all the different sites on the Internet, there are multiple different moderation styles, of which Dan's is just one.
> what you treat as a positive reward signal matters if you want to optimize for the goal that's actually intended here.

What is this singular goal that you are implying should be intended here? The absolutely pure pursuit of science? That's never been the goal of space travel, even from it's inception.
That's a fun list. Random pet-peeve.

"Human ancestors almost went extinct 900,000 years ago. “A new technique analysing modern genetic data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.”

Another interpretation is that there were always large numbers of hominids / humans alive at any point in the past 1M years. Rather the descendants of those 1,280 individuals out-breed and out-warred all other hominid / human groups.
Retail? Try Blackrock.

There's Bitcoin ETF's whose approval is imminent.

Never mind the fact that it's been able to be held in 401(k)'s for over a year now.

And while that sounds sort of nuts, consider that in the 70s, people looked at gold investors askance considering that given that it was no longer money and had very few industrial uses, it looked like quite an overvalued commodity.

That bubble hasn't burst yet. Maybe don't hold your breath too much.

My big concern is what happens when the original wallet structure can be broken by quantum computers. Modern wallets aren't vulnerable, but there's enough BTC floating around in lost wallets that the influx of liquidity could be quite an event, to say the least, when it hits markets.
Every time this comes up, I’m always amazed at how cynical some people can be towards Patagonia. It’s weird to me. It’s like the one person in your friend group who actively discourages others from improving their own lives because they are unhappy in their own.

I mean “Weasels”? Really? Come on. Say something insightful/interesting or don’t say anything at all. Calling them names is low effort and childish.
A long, long time ago:

Me: Look at this dot!

Mom: You put a dot on the screen?

Me: Yes! Now hit the keys! You can move it!
Just have a look here, where MacBook repairmen is going through Apple mistakes

https://www.youtube.com/@rossmanngroup
Wow, I wonder what they did to make such a huge difference.
But we absolutely do differentiate them in Polish. Accuracy means dokładność whereas precision translates to precyzja.
Take a look at input-leap. It has experimental support for Wayland.
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>The only point I'll add: Crack on a flat surface like the counter, not a bowl or pan edge. It yields fewer small egg shells to fish out.
That happens to spammers and serial abusers and, as I understand it, nobody else. People are overwhelmingly told when they're banned.
The Psychology of Poverty: Where Do We Stand? [pdf]
Ironically, some EEs called that design paradigm “random logic”.
Sure, just don't complain about Open Source licenses after you chose it for your business. And don't claim it to be open source when open source doesn't work for your business.

You choose open source or you don't. Either way is fine. Just take responsibility for your decision.

It's simple, really. I don't understand why so many business owners complain so much that open source doesn't protect their business... It's not meant for that.
CR and Mg in the suppression of genome-destabilizing RNA–DNA hybrids
Some new features are specialized, like standard library support for SIMD instructions, and you learn them where you want that.

But many offer better ways to do familiar things, that make the overall programming experience more pleasant. Use those as soon as the compiler you use gets support for them. Often they make bugs harder to write, and correct code easier to write. Now we can write

for (auto const& [key, value] : map) { ... }

instead of

for (Map::const_iterator_type it = map.cbegin; it != map.cend; ++it) {
Map::key_type const& key = it->first;
Map::mapped_type const& value = it->second;
...
}

It is just better in every way.

Another example is extension of "constexpr" to more and more of the language; each eliminates the need for some range of template metaprogramming. Nowadays you can ignore almost everything written about template metaprogramming, because there are good, straightforward ways to achieve its aims with ordinary language features.
Yup, this is what bothers me the most. Either there's a principle here behind opening app stores or there isn't.

If we're opening them up, then let's open them all up.

The idea that video games or stores below a certain mega size should be exempt is absurd.
It's possible that can’t actually prove that the keys were destroyed was the only legally relevant part of your testimony.
Snowflake Python connector lack of async support
(Bearing in mind there are multiple cases going on here...)

> "Apple countered that it did not infringe the asserted claims of Masimo's patents and attempted to distinguish the technology underlying its pulse-oximetry technology. Apple also argued that Masimo's asserted patent claims were invalid as obvious over the prior art."

It did. And then the court ruled that there was sufficient merit to Masimo's claims. Hence the court ruling, and action we are seeing today. Apple's appeal will / should have to show that the court erred in that decision, with more than "we reiterate our previous claims" (a la "we strenuously object" in *A Few Good Men).
Russia confirms Ukraine destroyed its warship in Crimea attack