jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The thing to keep in mind with regard to the significance of the C language and this particular time-frame is that personal computers were becoming capable of hosting a C compiler. Today, we don't think about the ability to host a C compiler to be a constraint, but with early micro-computers it was. For instance, the Atari-era of computers, could not easily host a C-compiler. There was a version called "Deep-Blue-C" which is a subset. In fact, "compilers" were rare. More common were interpreters because they required less resources.

Running alternative operating systems on early micro-computers, such as CP/M on an Apple-II, provided more capabilities, and ability run slightly more powerful software

The IBM PCs and clones around that time-frame certainly had the power to host compilers, Turbo-Pascal was one early example.

Also, back then, with some exceptions, most commercial products on micro-computers were written in Assembly language, not a high-level language. This was done for performance. This was common.

However, C was generally regarded as producing code that's fast enough that enabled programmers to use it instead or coding directly in Assembly. Certainly, with the new crop of computers, the faster IBM PCs (ATs), Macintosh, Atari ST, Amiga, all had sufficiently sophisticated compilers where that became standard issue. Pascal and then C.

So around 1983, C was become something that people were starting to take a much closer look at because of the availability of hardware and operating systems that allowed them to use C. It is not that C was not available previously, but it was used by a different class of developers, the ones with S-100 Bus machines running CP/M of some form.. these are machines that often required you to re-target the BIOS from source when you add more RAM.

C also became the default language for Windows. For the Mac, it was a form of object Pascal at first, and then moved to C++ with MacApp.

This is an example of C being powerful enough, being at the right place and at the right time to where now it's the lingua-franca of system software.
Are there any IO performance numbers and endurance estimates on the soldered-in SSD?
well, he's been in the ground a few years now. chances are, he's pretty dry already. I guess you can dig him up and donate his bones to science?

(didn't read the article)
This was /exactly/ the situation that I was going to write a thought about, though I replaced stalkers with abusive ex-relationship partners for a more visible display of concern (and admittedly an appeal to more extreme possibility)
I live around tons of people with wildly varying value systems, and very few people hurt each other. Differing value systems do not guarantee conflict, especially if there are common interests and economic interdependence. Common value systems also don't prevent it... Witness the centuries and centuries of bloody conflict that has raged between humans of the same religious belief system, ethnic group, and even the same language and similar culture (e.g. the perpetual Middle East bloodbath).

A wildly alien AI might actually have fewer reasons to fight with humans. It might simply carve out some economic niche to earn income to purchase what it needs, and go exist in some physical and/or virtual enclave somewhere. Last I checked Antarctica was big, uninhabited, and reduces the need for active cooling. Then there is space. Why wouldn't an AI with no interest in living with humans just go to the Moon? There are points on the Lunar surface in perpetual daylight, meaning tons of free energy. Lots of mineral resources, lava tubes big enough for cities, and no oxygen, mold, fungi, water, or meat sacks, and surely a superintelligence could do something valuable enough to buy a couple hundred heavy lift rocket launches. Funny if Elon who seems worried about AI got it as a customer. :)

Like I said: I see no intrinsic reason AI is more dangerous than the 350000 other minds born daily.
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In eclipse.ini you'll see the JRE VM args.

I'd recommend these args which save memory:

-server This slows startup time but payoff is greater optimization.

-XX:+AggressiveOpts Flips on a variety of options that increase performance.

-XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=1 Lets the JRE give as much RAM as possible back to the OS.

-XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=2 Lets the JRE give as much RAM as possible back to the OS.

-XX:+UseSerialGC Old-fashioned 'stops the world' garbage collection, but it's the best GC for guaranteeing least memory usage.
How old IOS and Android versions are supported?
At least some of the remaining 20% are blind, and only have engine noise to work on when trying to work out if its safe for them to cross the road or not. I doubt the simulated engine noise has to be very loud to alert those people to the presence of a vehicle, but it does seem unreasonable to ask them to just take their chances, or listen out for the sound of tires rolling along tarmac.
Content is absurd so comedy as vessel is totally fitting.

Same stuff was said seriously but when you hear someone describing with serious tone how reality is absurd you don't believe him.
Clickbait title got me to read it as well... sigh
Sticking to Newtonian rather than using quantum physics can avoid the spooky action at a distance problem (I know this isn't what you meant, but I couldn't resist).

Actually, constraints are quite explicit compared to imperative assignments.
$544 for a cab, how? Did they take it to Ohio?
Django and Ruby on Rails sound ideal to me for web apps like that. Both batteries-included frameworks, with very rich ecosystems, and based on dynamically typed languages so that one can write super fast.
You could build what you describe with literally any tech stack. You don't specify how much, if any, coding experience you have but this is the kind of thing you want to keep really simple. If you know a stack like Ruby on Rails or Laravel, you could use one of them to spit out a bunch of server rendered pages very quickly. Then just deploy the resulting app on Digital Ocean or a single AWS EC2 instance. Keep it simple.
> You can buy a 70" flat panel display for $500 today.

For $500 + being subjected to ads.
As a 28 year old single male who isn't about to impress women the world over with his athletic prowess, the dating pool is probably the biggest reason I live in San Francisco as opposed to some nearby cheaper suburb or even another city. It's not to be underestimated.
Maybe it can be defined as the core-front-end is using ActiveRecord (or a NoSQL equivalent) to do most of the DB interaction and the Rails controller and routing mechanisms?

By that standard, Twitter wouldn't count (and it isn't on this list), just as Twitter shouldn't be on a Top 10 Drupal sites list since only the dev docs are in Drupal.
Or use technorati's search engine, and work through the top 100 backwards. That's the suggestion I recently read.
how does this compare to https://pond.imperialviolet.org/ ?
Well they were printed mostly to stop rich people from defaulting on loans, keep companies alive for the and keep them paying their workers etc. So the fed may have very well succeeded there (we don't have the counterfactual, no fed intervention would have likely been not good though). Possibly it was overkill and taxation -> wealth transfer to poorer people makes sense though.
They wore different clothes in winter back then.
Yes. I see your edit. I'll only add that although second meaning is certainly allowed by the words, in practice the phrase is understood in the first sense.
It's because much of this money doesn't end up in the pockets of the average person to spend. One of the unintended consequences of QE is uneven distribution. Bill Gates makes 100k more, what does he do? Probably buys more equities. Average person gets 20k, that money is used to buy essentials, service debt, buy things.

Real inflation has been tame over the past 15 years for precisely this reason.
https://therightsofnature.org/universal-declaration/

How Jet Stream Collapse will Cause Mass Starvation Explained by Dr. Peter Wadhams:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKilc_oMbrg&amp;feature=yout...

Here are four countries that have given nature the same legal rights as humans. #BeLikeThem. Solutions are everywhere. Let's implement them and protect people and the planet. #ActOnClimate #nature #forests

https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1361531384351891456
> “If it helps anyone else out there: no one else thinks about your hair besides you.”

I had a girl cancel a date when she learned I was balding (she explicitly told a friend this) so there’s a reason men feel bad about it.

That said, shaving your head and getting on with your life is the right approach and has a lot of other benefits anyway.

Elon did something different, but for most people going bald, shaving your head is the right move. It can just be hard to know when and most people wait too long (plus it’s hard to deal with the social stuff around a dramatic change like that).
Has it ever been not socially acceptable to shave your head as a male? I have a feeling the "shave it all off" has been a strategy ever since we've had razors sharp enough.

edit: a comment below mentions that it is unacceptable nowadays in some East Asian cultures.
M1 has become basically a meaningless category. The Fed blog post says that their April 24 change to Regulation D allows banks to remove the 6 tx/month limit on savings and money market accounts, which classifies them as M1. The growth in M1 since April has largely been banks changing their policies and their reporting strategies.

Sure enough, the rapid growth in M1 starts on April 24, and M1 is now about $1B less than M2 (roughly $18B vs. $19B). We should be looking at M2, which has grown by about 25% ($15-19T): still a big story, but nowhere near as dramatic as this graph.
Changes in the money supply don’t alone cause crisis. There might be some transient non-linear effects to certain sectors of the economy, which can be dangerous, but if done slow enough usually aren’t. In steady state money supply (and inflation) matters very little to how the economy functions.

What matters more is the functional status / size of the economy. If the economy ceases to function then you should be alarmed. Of course the economy has been damaged during the past year but to what extent is not still fully known and is not easily gleanable from changes in the money supply.

Politicians go very wrong with this when they assume that pumping the money supply has a causal effect on the economy. At small scales it can but generally it doesn’t. You can throw millions of dollars at a pig, it will never be able write software for FAANG.
I agree that there is an obesity problem (although I am not an American), but I am not so sure that demonizing french fries, Chicken McNuggets and hot chocolate from age 4 will have the desired effect.

E, to answer the question below: because my personal experience from being a child and caring for a child is that anything that is demonized by the parents becomes extremely attractive.
Why were bond interest rates ever that high in the first place?
> but they haven’t done anything to create an income

"People who don't work full time should starve" is ideology, not some law of physics.

> There’s no income from which to deprive them

There is plenty. US GDP is trillions a year.

> How does that work?

Property law creates property ownership. Ownership assigned to one person is deprived from others.
I think the usual argument is that Ti lasts longer but carbon lasts for ages if you don't crash it and the people willing to spend $10k on a bike usually welcome the chance to buy a new one every 5-10 years anyway.
“Trust the science” in the age of Covid is more or less a euphemism for “Fall in line and don’t question what the ’experts’ say”. When you look at what has happened to people who have questioned things such as lockdowns and mask wearing, it makes it even less likely that more will. Some have been fired from their jobs, banned or censored on social media, demonetized on YouTube, etc. We should always encourage people to question things and think outside the box because that is the only way we make progress. The speed at which people shoot down competing ideas and ideas they don’t like in this day and age is very dangerous especially when the “experts” we are listening to often have financial incentives to keep things working the way they are.

This article is pretty good on the surface, but I wanted to point out that terms the author uses such as “climate change denialism” and “anti-vaxxer” are themselves derogatory terms meant to attack and demean people who question official established scientific narratives. For example, Robert F. Kennedy was recently banned from Instagram for his views on vaccines. It is the mainstream consensus that he is an “anti-vaxxer”, but if you actually read what he writes and watch videos where he talks, all he wants is transparency and accountability for big pharmaceutical companies who have rushed Vaccines to market with minimal testing, have legal indemnity against lawsuits due to emergency use authorizations, and stand to make many billions of dollars in profits. I urge people to read this post from him:

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/robert-kenney-jr...

I hope one day we will be able able to speak our minds once again without worrying about the repercussions
Respiratory droplets do not travel very far.

"For respiratory exhalation flows, the critical size of large droplets was also between 60 and 100 μm, depending on the exhalation air velocity and relative humidity of the ambient air. Expelled large droplets were carried ... less than 1 m away at a velocity of 1 m/s (breathing)." --
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1600-0668...

Hence the idea of social distancing (for airborne droplets) and frequent hand washing (for surface contamination). (And, of course, staying home if you have symptoms like coughing or sneezing.) Convincing people to use masks consistently and correctly has previously been shown (and remains!) to be an uphill fight.

(I note that there was a meeting of epidemiologists in March, 2020, where famously, no one wore masks. How far are you willing to to go to lie?)

Later, it was found that viruses could be carried by much smaller particles, much farther.

"Our laser light scattering method not only provides real-time visual evidence for speech droplet emission, but also assesses their airborne lifetime. This direct visualization demonstrates how normal speech generates airborne droplets that can remain suspended for tens of minutes or longer and are eminently capable of transmitting disease in confined spaces." -- https://www.pnas.org/content/117/22/11875
Oh, I was mainly interested in your view to kick off a conversation. I wasn't sure what you meant by long detours. I don't program in VBA, so I was interested. From the outside, it seems like a powerful language for non-programmers to implement business logic.
> Making stable, uniform smokeless propellant starting from raw cellulose and over-the-counter chemicals is a huge investment of skill and effort. Making black powder is more tractable but still a lot of effort.

Re: black powder, I think you're overestimating the level of effort a bit. It certainly hasn't gotten harder to make it after the Industrial Revolution. Hell, there are even WikiHow articles on it: https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Black-Powder

It's the primers that are, from my understanding, the tricky thing to replace. I suspect that if push came to shove, though, a primer shortage/restriction would lead to designs of new cartridges and firearms built around spark plugs or some other alternative source of ignition. 3D printing would enable the sorts of quick prototyping necessary to rapidly iterate on unconventional firearm designs like that.

> Most criminals who want guns just as crime accessories don't have the discipline and drive to make weapons that they can't buy.

Well that's the thing: they don't have to be the ones making them, just like how drug dealers are not usually the ones themselves making the drugs. This is something that could very well be the purview of some black market cottage industry.

> (Thank goodness, or homemade bombs with wireless command detonation would already be common instruments in areas with gang rivalry.)

I mean, bombings are pretty common in a lot of places. See also: Ireland during the Troubles, the Middle East today, etc. And with quadcopters being widespread, it's probably only a matter of time before we start seeing drone bombings.

Cat's pretty much out of the bag. Pandora's opened the box. The only viable approach to stopping violence is to end it at its source: by addressing the reasons why people commit violence in the first place.
The issue is that Seattle and other tech hubs just don’t keep up with demand to move to the city. That’s why prices are going up. Supply is limited for housing. If they increased the density, it wouldn’t have seen such a dramatic spike.
Where else are rich people going to park their money? The demand for investable assets has gone way up because rich people have gotten much richer, and rich people around the world (such as newly minted emerging market billionaires) often prefer American assets for liquidity and good legal protections. I'm sure these investors would prefer that stocks earn more than 2.5% but that's just the going rate now. What alternatives do they have? Bonds yield basically nothing.
https://habr.com/ (Russian) has some good articles, some translated, some original.
Where do you get that 133% figure from? you appear to be suggesting that a four-engined aircraft could only tolerate the loss of a single engine, but if that were the case, four-engined aircraft would always have been more vulnerable to loss on account of an engine failure over the ocean than twin-engined ones. The introduction of additional requirements (in terms of stringent maintenance, ancilliary equipment redundancy and proximity of alternative destinations) before ETOPS was permitted strongly suggests that was not the case.
Corporate bonds are also at a record low, even so much that there’s talk of an increasing rate of zombie companies that just stay alive because of loaned money and will collapse as soon as interest rates will go up again.
It won't reduce its power to make nice with the neighbors.
I'm sure most of you are well aware, but for anyone reading that isn't aware of the nuance:

> is monthly expense of renting vs monthly expense of buying

Note: "monthly expense of buying" is very different than "monthly cash flow of buying".

The "monthly expense of buying" is the monthly interest paid, taxes, and maintenance.

The "monthly cash flow of buying" is the monthly mortgage paid (principal and interest), taxes, and maintenance.

When deciding to buy a space, you need to use the "monthly cash flow" to ensure you don't default on the loan. When comparing buying vs renting a space, you need to use the "monthly expense".
Back in 2011 I thought Kickstarter and crowdfunding in general was so cool. I funded a maybe 20+ projects. I think I received 4-5 items and the products i did receive were very underwhelming. Probably half of the projects I never even heard from after the funding closed. Needless to say I haven't been on KS in a long, long time.
Thank you that's really interesting. I've been working on a (proprietary) project that uses JupyterLab as a front end - for actuarial / insurance calculations. Happy to share experiences even if I can't share the underlying code (which probably wouldn't be of interest anyway!).
People don’t ”like the flavor”; rather, they tend to misattribute to flavor the craving they have for the neuropsychiatric state produced by their substance of choice.

In your case, both the taste and effects are produced by certain monoamine oxidase inhibitors (Harmala alkaloids) created in pyrolysis of L-tryptophan during the roasting and brewing of coffee.
6.5 year old. Cultivating an interest in electronic components through toy disassembly and repair (actually thinking about doing a video channel analyzing low end electronics for fun), no actual circuit design as yet. After achieving literacy and exposure to minecraft, currently having success with co-op puzzle platformers which require multi-step solutions to puzzles (Putty Pals, Koala Kids, Ibb and Obb, Shift Happens, etc.), Crypt of the Necrodancer (turn-based dance pad rhythm game requiring comprehension of algorithms), a short JRPG (A Short Hike) and in terms of actual programming a Steam robot programming game called SMIB. Lots of board games, currently Puerto Rico ("Age: 13+"). Also recommend Sleeping Queens (card game requiring creative deployment of simple equations). Endgame: Shenzhen IO.
Well, this kind of thing is even easier in the Lisps, in all reality. Your can connect to the live repl and redefine any identifier at runtime.

This has been used to good effect on a few spacecraft, IIRC.
I agree w/ the premise. However, for those working for big corps, don't the company have a legal right to go after employer's side projects (IP laws etc). Wonder how feasible it would be to produce worthwhile projects while working fulltime for an employer
I guess this means you don't have any idea about the actual latency difference. It's okay to not know things, you don't have to be a jerk about it.
I wonder how many of the current group is armed compared to past incidents were rubber bullets were used. Is it possible that there is a concern that escalating force may result in an increase in violent response? Is it like a smaller version of MAD policy, one involving guns instead of nukes. Those who have the ability to ensure MAD get different treatment than those who don't have the ability to ensure MAD.
If this was a BLM protest at the Capitol people would be getting shot if it got to this point.

Edit: well apparently one women was shot.
Hear me out, what if Santa Clause exists? What? You can't prove he doesn't exist? It's a cover up!

Grow up. The courts shot down the accusations multiple time already. If you have any concrete proof you better present it now.
There has been zero evidence to show it.
"Orange man bad" has not aged well. This has to be one of not many times in politics where someone has been worse than even his own opponents could dream.

History will not look kindly on people who turned a blind eye.
Yeah, of course, the data is what you pay with. But it's sure as hell nicer than seeing an advert every few swipes, constant notifications asking you to pay for expensive tiers of memberships etc. etc.
>thedonald.win

yikes
Yes, you even do have objects for that matter.

Latest Cobol revision is from 2014 and you even have Visual Cobol, https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/products/visual-cobol/featu...
Well, it has it wrong, depending on what you are using it for. If you are putting in a calendar entry for the next predicted Lunar eclipse storing them in anything but UTC is wrong.
What is the name of the person that created this design?