jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Maybe the better definition would be 'GC languages with a runtime'? There's a distinction between languages that require a runtime and impose a GC (with the associated penalties) and 'low-level' languages like Rust* .

I'd say 'GC runtime languages' are somewhat dubious for low latency etc. (but see Unity and ZGC!), while 'low-level languages' are overkill for typical UI/CRUD apps, I don't see any useful advantage for Rust there.

* Go would be in the middle I guess - technically requires a runtime, but the runtime is relatively light and all binaries are static - unlike .Net whose static compilation support is frankly rather theoretical right now due to common use of its powerful reflection capabilities.
It's crazy that at this point we still keep with this delusion. Of course this is a lab virus. This info is getting old:

https://project-evidence.github.io/

https://theconversation.com/coronavirus-origins-genome-analy...

Who was really behind this, and the whole history of it, is something surely we won't know for know.

"When war is declared, truth is the first casualty"
I wonder to what extent a lifetime of exposure to advertising contributes to our craving for stuff. The article claims an evolutionary psychological explanation: anyone know of any research to back that up? Our ancestors were nomadic, so acquiring a lot of stuff wouldn't have made sense, would it?

I wonder whether the super rich of the 17-century wanted to acquire stuff as much as we do. They would have had the means to buy a lot, but would not have been exposed to as much marketing as us. I concede there would have been a lot less stuff to buy then.
"What's good for GM is good for America" used to be a quote around Washington. What an awful company, and a cautionary tale about taking "public/private partnership" way too far. GM also ruined Los Angeles -- look up the transit system LA/OC used to have prior to GM's purchase of it and lobbying. LA would be a much nicer and more livable city had GM not had such influence.

GM really should have been allowed to die in 2008.
Sweden basically has qualified immunity for all employees (our law is a bit different but offers almost as strong protections). So, no, I do not think the US is the only country which needs qualified immunity.
You'd also need a TURN server if both peers are behind NAT without UPnP, which is very common. STUN alone wouldn't be enough.
Derek Sivers won't like it one bit when he sees how his creation is being abused. Have you tried going all the way to the top at CDBaby? (Derek is on HN by the way, but sold the company long ago).
The scoring rules for Go are much more complex. I've seen plenty of cases where novices have struggled with end-game scoring, especially under Japanese rules.
Did it occur to anybody else that these laws are being used to legitimize racial discrimination and harassment?
icrap , you crap.
Can we register multiple addresses ?

If I had children (!) I'd love to have photos sent to my relatives every month.
Internet runs fine without JS, just like Hacker News... But yes, I should not spend time arguing something which doesn't worth it and go back make some real things.
It does use Android kernels, probably for the drivers.
When you have figured out Intel 4965 on the current kernel please report how you did it. The same that works on Windows.
Not even close to a new idea, I vaguely knew someone who did the same with a single-decker bus. (Sadly she had to get rid of it due to health issues that meant she couldn't drive it anymore.)
Hasn't Amazon actually gone the route of recoding all Google Play related infrastructure so that seamless porting is possible?
Backblaze employee here - we're going to release the raw data in a couple weeks, so everybody can do their own analysis.
Which version of Android app do you use?

2.11.498 seems don't work for me.
There isn't a WhatsappWeb option.
I feel terrible that this happened to the author and his experience clearly shows the incompetence of the government bureaucratic agencies - no water?! that is outrageous! I wish I could say that this will not happen again (to him or others), but the truth is that it probably will. Perhaps one positive aspect of this horror story is that the author has shared this with everyone and hopefully this can help educate people for positive change. I felt chills reading the author's anecdote and I am astonished by his courage and composure; I don't know if I'd be able to handle it myself.
http://code.google.com/apis/finance/
http://kottke.org/09/06/online-financial-data-apis-and-resou...
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/417453/best-most-comprehe...

(edit: Added the link for Google's finance api because I'm not sure if you are referring to their api or finance site when you say 'scrape')
Again, not assault and not a thug. If frisking is assault, and anyone who does it as an employee of some organization, then by your logic all police commit assaults, and all police are thugs. Clearly, they are not. If a police officer frisks you, under normal circumstances, that is both legal and expected. It's a security measure.

A thug would be somebody who carries out a simple violent crime under orders of somebody else, who is also not legally allowed to do such activity (say, a gang leader or organized crime leader.).

A fundamental basis of government is that it is the only socially authorized entity who can commit violence and/or otherwise restrict a person's movements. We as a society give government the right to do that.
That's cool and all, but I don't think folks who commit suicide generally Google it before hand.
"he has ready access to every conceivable piece of studio technology, and is instead using the $1-$50 recording apps on the app store."

Was that in the linked article?
You'll have to define "simple" because there's just too much variety in the sites listed. I don't find Facebook's design simple by any means. That doesn't mean it's ugly or unusable, but it has much more going on, requiring much more deliberate action on my part, than the Google search page, or HN.

And HN is simple in some ways, but not others. Why, for example, if I want to see my own comments, do I have to click "threads", not "comments"?
There needs to be some connection, not necessarily interaction. Geographic proximity creates communities whether or not they interact, because the members have inherent shared interests. Something may arise that spurs interaction and action in concert. But the community exists already by virtual of residence by the members. It may be latent, but it's there.

Other relations between members are possible as well. Students and faculty at a university, for instance. Or staff and patients at a hospital. Or a regional technology interest group. In these cases, membership in the communities is more tenuous, and is maintained by group participation, enrollment in the university, participation in a hospital treatment program, etc.

Virtual communities such as HN are almost entirely reliant on interaction for establishing membership.
Never since flash have I seen something waste so much CPU for so little payoff.
They address the idea of building a non-hierarchical system on top of a hierarchical one. They argue that doing so is bad because it adds a layer of indirection to your data, and they argue that it's unnecessary since their non-hierarchical system can in fact implement a POSIX-compatible layer easily (so they say).
lionhearted, you're missing the point. This is not a partisan issue. Please tell me things are not so divided in this country that people read partisanship into everything, even as far as HN.

T.A.R.P. was started and passed under George W. Bush. The people advising him, including Henry Paulson his Secretary of Treasury, and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke were telling him the same thing. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troubled_Asset_Relief_Program

My point in posting here is not about partisanship, but about accuracy. Economics is a science -- not an exact one, but a science nonetheless. At its core economics is not about partisanship at all. People can probably turn anything under the sun partisan, but that's their problem. Believe it or not some people are able to focus on doing their job (and providing their opinion) in the interest of the country above partisanship, like current Secretary of Defense Robert Gates who is a Republican. Economists advising both sides of the aisle support the position I've outlined. I'm not going to to look them up for you, but you can feel free. I'll start you off. Look for the comment near this one by jbooth http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1901677.
Needs 12 more people with 200 StackOverFlow points. This is a useful testing tool for anyone building web apps.
If we have that much energy at our disposal, we'll presumably be so spread out we'll be incapable of annihilating ourselves all in one go. Some will remain to learn from the mistakes of others, and the anti-tech-crazies will get to say "we told you so".
Interesting tool, but not really a replacement. Most of the examples can be written much more simply with grep/sed/awk, etc.
I used readability on this link. It actually dropped the 'Epilogue' on this one which left me scratching my head for a couple seconds before I backed out. But readability is incredibly handy on almost every ugly/noisy content page, it's one of the few tools I use every day.

I didn't know Safari had a "Reader" button (I usually stick to FF/Chrome), out of curiosity do you know who implemented the idea first?
I think you may be, severely, over estimating the quality of contributions that come in from random people to large projects hosted on Github. The pull request process tends to be highly iterative. Someone sends in the request, we send back suggestions, they make revisions - the back-and-forth continues until a final state is arrived upon. The nasty code that existed in the interim is really not of any use to anyone (and that's saying nothing of their general ability to write commit messages, which is generally lacking).

Anyone that demonstrates a repeated ability to make pull requests that require no revisions (and that have commit messages that are useful) are just given straight-up commit access (thus this particular tool does not apply to them).
There really is no negative side for someone as large as Amazon to immediately put up a quick notice that "we are receiving complaints about x-y-z

Do you have an idea how many such complaints amazon is receiving on a normal day? Per hour?

Why make every single AWS customer panic for an hour

Diagnosing problems in a big system is not that easy.

A turnaround time of an hour is not too bad for a behemoth the size of Amazon, and when you consider that this was a worst-case scenario.
I wish cryptocurrency payment processors supported many more coins, but I understand how they can't support everyone's pet coin. I do wish I could pay for more things with Nano, though, it's amazing how you can pay for things instantly without any fee.
Someone must have told the developer of BarveDNS to rethink the name.
Radicchio? But you can provide shade pretty cheaply.
Well, with Julia it is time to first plot for every new session. So if your typical workflow is to start Julia and just do a single plot of the recently acquired data (quite common workflow in my field), Julia is an order of magnitude slower than python or scilab.
For mRNA vaccines, this is the first time they've ever been produced at all, and it's for the biggest vaccination campaign in history.

So I can see how that can't go much faster.

For regular tech vaccines, you're probably right.
As a non-native English speaker and European, I find these "minor language tweaks" pure distraction. I mean, one could raise taxes and offer quality free education to everyone -- like many European countries already do. One could also enforce more wage transparency to fight systematic salary discrimination. But it's so much cheaper to capitalize one letter.

white Black

There! Now everyone knows I am actively fighting discrimination and it costs me zero.
Throwing more variables at a question we already have an answer to is a waste of time.
We know that older people get it more, die more, and are more at risk under all circumstances.
Not all antibodies neutralize the (or any) virus. Some just mark virions for immune cells to acttack, but won't stop the infection process.
Is name calling against HM rules?
Cabrini Green will not be missed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrini%E2%80%93Green
I have too faced demotivation when it comes to side-projects. Until recently (64 days to be exact) I have started spending my morning's first 3 hours on my side projects.. and these side projects are not to make any extra pocket money.. but just that it is interesting and I get excited to learn something new while doing something which is interesting.

I get motivated even more seeing the github streak (github.com/rajeshvaya) and it a very small measure which helps me going as well.. everyday for past 64 days I have made sure I spend my first 3 hours of my morning time (even on weekends.. I make sure I get up early)

after you get this initial start it is kind of self-motivating which will keep you moving forward.

What i think is just 2 important things to get this:

1. Work on the projects which interest you and not because other people think its cool or just to make little amount of money

2. Try to spend first few hours of morning on your side project rather than ad-hoc amount of time and different time-span of day. Keep it regular, same time just like gym
Make something that can be built and deployed before you get bored[1]. Once you start attracting users, it's easy to keep going on it.

[1] Which may mean that the MVP takes a day to build, or the project is something that will be sufficiently useful for you that you can work on it for six months without getting bored.
Malware doesn't imply a script; I would worry about malware on the server itself running in userland.
'To curry' also already was a verb, and as a bonus, that verb has the connotation of 'adding something'. To curry a function, you add a value for its first argument. That helped it become popular. I don't think this would have survived if it would have been called 'to Knuth', 'to Kernighan', or 'to Jensen' (in general, names for stuff one adds in moderation to something larger to improve it give good names for small things one adds to something larger: 'salt' in cryptography and 'syntactic sugar' are other examples)

"Some prefer 'first' and 'rest', but compact composed versions like '(cadr x)' for (car (cdr x)) don't exist for those English variants."

It may be lack in my mastery of English, but AFAIK, 'cadr' didn't exist, either, but that didn't stop it from becoming the standard way to describe the second item in a list.

If they had used first and rest, we likely would have frest and frrest for cadr and caadr, and I wouldn't rule out 'rfirst' either; it is not as if that is harder to pronounce than 'cdar'.
Off topic, but Indian English fascinates me. For example, "Honourable" is abbreviated to "Hon'ble" everywhere on that site, saving very few letters. (Of course, it's also somewhat weird to bestow a special formal title on someone, and then abbreviate it out of laziness. If you don't type out their title, how much are you really honoring them? English. Weird language.)
It's not just a problem with data movement inside the machine. Data movement between processes and machines is also horribly wasteful.

Text encoding/decoding wastes massive amounts of energy, which is why I've been developing a format over the past 2 years with the benefits of binary (smaller, more efficient) as well as text (human readability/editability): https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding
That means the algorithm's complexity is non-linear. I am suspecting the JScrush code currently but it could be somewhere else as well.
This is why you ignore copyright. There are zero consequences for doing so. I have zero respect for copyright. You can do whatever you want and you might be get a letter in the mail that can be thrown in the trash
Is the recent move to Visual Studio Code by all Facebook developers also part of this strategy?
Thanks for the essay. I’ve often seen, and myself felt the frustration of the productivity mismatch of having to work with other teams, vendors, and third party products that drag their heels, are rigid, or inflexible.

When your day-to-day involves writing code — putting together hundreds of moving parts in a code editor and shipping levels of complexity orders of magnitude greater than any previous era of the Industrial Age — it can be a real drag to get slowed down by things that aren’t code.

We have to work as teams of course, and it’s enriching when you’re all on the same page. People scoff at mission and statements and company values, but once you start working with an external vendor you realize the importance of the literal meaning of company. When you’re forced to work with something inflexible it’s ok to hack around it. It’s our bread and butter to do so.

But having to hack around things will build a sense of resentment especially when it happens over and over again, and in particular if you ever find yourself doing that to an internal product it can be a serious enough red flag to require some major org changes.
> That could be a very interesting plot.

No, it would involve lawyers.
Just because the cities have .gov domains does not counter the fact that the other, very official looking, domains are unused and potentially available.
I second this, but I doubt anyone would get the go ahead to pursue this fully (spoof canvas readouts, user agents, fonts installed, plugins installed, screen size, etc) in firefox (non addon). Would also be great if noscript functionality was built into servo/dom/netwerk modules (would be way more performant than the addon).
Will it have vim key bindings? My fingers have vim wired in and that's not going to change.
This is a shockingly boring and cursory annual letter. Most of it reads like a copy-paste from all of the previous letters (retained earnings, bonds bad, why non-Berk conglomerates suck, insurance float is awesome, etc). OK, it's nice that Apple did some stock buybacks, and that they did too. Uh, what else? It was a whole year.

And what a year - what it doesn't say is far more important than what it does. Where's the grappling with the fact that their 2020 return was only 2% when the indexes are up 20%? (Did I read that right?!) For that matter, shouldn't the fact that their return in 2020 was so low be grounds for very serious soul-searching? Buffett has always justified the cash reserves and passive investing as enabling him to make awesome deals during the proverbial rainy day. Well, was not 2020 the mother of all rainy days? Where are his deals? If he couldn't do anything with his bankroll in 2020, when is he ever going to be able to do anything with it? What did they do all year? Does he really have no thoughts about how the pandemic was handled? About Western governance and economics? Is it not astonishing that the sole and only reference I noticed to coronavirus is a throwaway clause about some furniture stores being closed? WTF. This is not at all the letter I was expecting.

Has anyone seen Buffett in person recently? Are we sure he wasn't kidnapped and replaced with Deepfaked Zoom calls a year ago?
> I am already on the "no SoMe and digital minimalism"-wave

I'm curious, what does "no SoMe" mean? I tried to search but not having luck figuring out what it means.

To respond to your question though, I've dealt with this in the past and the biggest thing that I try to focus on is, "What do I want to excel at working on?" In the past, I've had numerous activities (work, side projects, family/friends) going on at any given time and would rarely say "No" if people brought new opportunities to me. After operating like that for a while, I came to the realization that by having so many activities I was effectively putting minimal effort into most of them. Personally, I don't like giving something only partial attention due to decrease in quality, so when I realized that I was not really giving all these activities the attention I felt they deserved I decided to cut back. I went through all the activities I had going on and decided which ones I wanted to keep for some time.

Something else that might also help is a prioritized list of what you care about. I feel the exercise of going through and really thinking about what you care most about will help determine what you should focus on to avoid burnout

The last thing I can think of is taking things towards the bottom of the list (assuming they are small activities) and rotate them. As an example, I rotate my personal research, analyzing stocks/crypto, and playing video games. They are all things I enjoy but I can't do them all in the same day/week without feeling burnt out.
Oh sorry. I got distracted and thought I was still replying to the Mu-user :)
At the moment we have no way of knowing whether our users are health care professionals or not. We are releasing a new medical case each week(or more often), so that would keep the medical professionals from removing it - but others who are just downloading to checkout the app would get rid of it (that's our guess - we are still learning, trial and error). Advertising to medical professionals is much appealing than a general crowd.

Yes, we have several clean advertising plans. i.e - sponsored cases.
If they add an NX client and/or a shell, I will sell my MBP. I really, really, really like this device and concept.
they did damage many businesses. Walk through minneapolis, place was destroyed. Storming the capitol is not appropriate, and i'm not drawing a moral equivalence, but those people will be arrested and charged. Many of the rioters over the summer were not. Celebrities raised bail money for them.
I think a major hurdle is that beyond a certain income level, people don't want to be seen as stingy, and refilling/buying bulk is generally associated frugality more than altruism.

In order to reach more people in developed countries you need to make things more upscale. You need high quality, long lasting, "designer" containers.

Also, a trade-in program would help a great deal. Many people don't know they want something until they see it, and they hesitate to buy a new container on the spot if they already have one. If they can simply redeem their old ones for a large portion of credits it would put their minds at ease.

The trade-in stations will need automated cleaning, since you can't guarantee their hygiene. In the end lazy folks will just swap in their dirty containers with clean ones every time they head for the shop, which also alleviates the mental hurdle of cleaning.
Eg: Click on the yellow circle for South Africa - Mexico. Skip to the second half and watch the cloud explode for the goals at 1:17 and 1:41. You can also roll over the small circle-tag things to bring up the text in the center. This will probably be more interesting later in the tournament :)
West Wing did it...

http://tv.yahoo.com/the-west-wing/show/episode/15164/recap&#...
Thanks for sharing your tips and experiences. Yeah I guess there's no magical solution. One thing also I find gets people's response is using 'I know you're busy, but...'. Ofcourse I haven't done any A/B testing on that or anything.
Nice to see activity in Dallas :) I lived there for 3 years and left this past January. Good people down there.
https://www.thetrumparchive.com/
Twitter has a monopoly and needs to be broken up.
Happened to me a couple of years ago:

Kid: Dad, what's Fortnite?

Me: Fourteen days

Kid: What? That makes no sense

Me: It's an old word that means two weeks

Kid: Okay I want to play it

Me: What? That makes no sense

Kid: I want to play it, what does it mean?

Me: It means two weeks. What do you mean you want to play it?

Kid: I want to play it. What does it mean?

etc, etc. Weird drive home until I went online.
JamesMcMinn, your posts are being marked as dead. Not clear why, try getting in touch with the mods if you read this.