skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They haven't seen counterexamples because there are virtually none. If what you said was correct wouldn't there be many examples of big bodies of code written in a language like C? (And you can't say "linux kernel" - low-level code needs to be written in a low-level language, in order to communicate with the lower levels like hardware and controllers and such. There is a practical reason to write that in C.)

> because the trend in language design for 25 years has been to make slow languages

No one sets out to make a language to make them slow. The trend is to make higher level languages. Do you really think that there is no reason for it besides novelty and coolness factor?
> How do they propose to deal with the potential dangers of drug interactions?

My guess is greater reliance on pharmacy systems.

Drug interaction problems happen now; the current scheme fails to prevent this. Can you provide evidence that the proposed change will be significantly worse?

As some point the parade of horribles we're confronted with whenever any change is offered becomes preferable to the reality we're actually living.
> Patently and objectively false to anyone who read the article. It really makes me wonder what your motivations are for lying so blatantly.

Wrong. He clearly didn’t, because he describes a caricature of a Chinese person, reminiscent of a Fu Manchu type character that is dishonest and untrustworthy. Your motivations were clearly revealed the moment you created a throwaway account my man.
For every user wanting client-side encryption so that Dropbox can't see the content of the files you're storing, there's another user wanting server-side text searching, which isn't possible with client-side encryption.

The answer, of course, is to make client-side encryption an option.
Are you trying to say that nothing can be labelled as virtue-signalling, then?

The moment you start broadcasting moral positions as corporate policies, you're virtue signalling. It's not always negative, or false, but it's certainly a marketing move.

> early all of the things we now hold as self-evident (racial equality, gender equality, sexual orientation equality, etc)

Not all of us believe in all of that in the sense in which you mean it.

> Were the people who were ahead of the morality curve virtue signaling?

Were and still are.
I dunno, the name brand for a generic I took costs ~$200 a month.

The generic is $7.
Question: is what you are saying widely accepted by the experts who study human digestion, metabolism, and appetite, or is it a minority view?

On a more anecdotal level, I don't find that eating apples makes me hungry shortly afterwards.
Those were back of the napkin numbers. The S&P 500 has an average annual return around 10%. With a monthly investment of $10, it would take just over 32 years to get to $30,000. So I might have been a little too generous but the numbers are still realistic and the specific numbers were not really the point of the comment anyway.
> Please no, I don't trust the government at all to handle healthcare efficiently.

Universal healthcare doesn't mean the government handles healthcare.

> And I enjoy my insurance company through work, its the equivalent to a significant raise each year

You can still get your healthcare from your employer with universal healthcare. You'll just be covered in the event of losing your job. Probably paying less for it too.
Maybe this can woo Anne Rice?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WordStar#Notable_users
ME is removable. Coreboot devs will often remove it for you if you meet them in real life and ask nicely. I've since got a setup for doing that myself so if you are ever around me in real life ask nicely and I'll remove it from your machine
Take microcode: one human-visible instruction gets implemented by many microcoded instructions.

With jets, a string of many very simple human-visible instructions gets translated to just a few actual machine instructions.

So it's the opposite in the sense that a microcoded system expands each instruction you write, while a jet system contracts strings of the programmer's instructions into more efficient code.

As one of the comments says: "The point is that jets create a particularly vicious abstraction inversion whereby a programmer must simultaneously think inside the object language and a kind of metalanguage."

To take advantage of jets, the programmer has to get the shape of the code right as well as the semantics. It's a bit like writing poetry, with the extra requirements of rhyme and meter in addition to the semantic requirements of straight prose. You have to keep an eye on what jets might match the code you write if you are going to get the required performance.

ASM and microcode have none of this intricacy.
> I went through the extra effort of sourcing disks from as many different vendors as possible.

This is very good advice!

If you already built your array, consider advice: "replace a bad disk with a different brand, whenever possible".

Over time, you naturally migrate away from the bad vendors/models/batches. After following this practice, it seems ridiculous to me now to keep replacing the same bad disks with the same vendor+model.
The core issue is that WebAssembly VMs use the host’s native stack for return addresses and local variables, without providing wasm code any way to inspect or manipulate that data. Thus, there’s no way to scan the stack for GC roots, as would be possible in a ‘real’ assembly language. Programs do typically maintain a second, separate, stack, located within wasm-accessible memory, for things like local variables that have their address taken. In theory, you could make the compiler store all locals there across function calls; I think that might be what Go does. But that’s a performance waste. In any case, a manual approach won’t solve the use case of accessing JS/DOM objects from WebAssembly; that requires interoperating with the existing JS garbage collector.
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I like Element a LOT. See: http://element.eleme.io/#/en-US/component/installation
> Why is alcohol worse than broccoli, hamburger, or ice cream?

You do know what it does, right?

> Do you check to see how well they treat people of all genders, races, and sexual orientations, or are obligated carnivores the only class of concern?

Really not concerned with any of that at all. What I want is for employers to not spend their time telling me what I should think, or be, or eat. They can tell me what they want me to do, and what they're going to pay me for it, that's it.
Wait, hold on. Any G-code interface, like Mach3 or a serial terminal to GRBL is a "REPL". The only thing it doesn't have is loops -- which the industrial standard is to open notepad or vi, and cut and paste your "loop" into the terminal. I use this to face off material in my milling machine or manually move the spindle to "home" to remove the part. So far, I have not killed any birds, fish or whales yet.
> Those were decisions made a lot of time ago, when there was only a single region/datacenter, since that was what you were running your servers on. And then they remained.

Yes, and it's still a <bad adjective here> decision. Actually, there should be no decisions on those things. It doesn't matter if it is your personal blog. Store events in UTC, no ifs or buts. Then convert for display. You better be able to fully articulate why you are not using UTC (scheduling real world events?), otherwise use UTC. Make it a tattoo if that helps. Again, UTC. Yes I know you are a single person and you don't have more than one server today, still use UTC. Thank your former self later on when you have to match events across timezones...

Text representation is another example. Use Unicode for strings unless you can clearly explain why that's the wrong representation. (Which Unicode? Pick UTF-8, unless you have a reason not to, in which case you'll probably know what the reason is).
seconded. This is a breeze to work with.
Please don't post unsubstantive flame-y comments like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I don't have enough points to down vote and flag this.
Excellent context to frame this discussion.

"They won't be remembered."

-otakucode
I've contributed to autograph and would love to answer any questions.
> People aren't born with prejudices, they have to learn them.

This is patently, provably false.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-group_favoritism
The capitalists lobby pretty badly to suppress incoming disruptive technologies that could take their market share. Energy, agriculture, medicine, etc.
> he describes a caricature of a Chinese person, reminiscent of a Fu Manchu type character

Explain where you think this happens.

> Your motivations were clearly revealed the moment you created a throwaway account my man.

Explain what you mean by this.

Careful, my account is older than yours!
> There's a barrier to entry and a requirement in regards to education that are intrinsic in the stock market.

This right here. While the audience here should be able to invest, based on income and education levels, the sad fact is that a vast majority of people have never been taught to save or even budget. I am very much in favor of self-reliance, but when you have an entire generation raised by a generation that doesn't save, what do you think is going to happen? Add on to this ever increasing prices in rent and basic necessities (food, utilities), and it's not a surprise when the vast majority of people don't own stock, even in an index fund. Shit, pensions were created over half a century ago because our grandparents couldn't be trusted to save for retirement!

I will say this: scrape together $1k USD, open an account at Vanguard and put it in a total stock market index fund. Keep putting money into it, as much as you can afford. There are other better websites out there that go into more detail, but that's the gist of it.
I wasn't meaning to imply any obligation that you should be using Rust or anything. My point was only that the reasons people do things are already very familiar to you, so it doesn't do much to be incredulous of their motivations. I don't watch baseball, but I understand why people do it even if I can see no real value in it. People are motivated by a rational advantage far less often than by things like accessibility, familiarity, habit, curiosity, popularity, culture, counter-culture, identity, or need -- all of which are reasons that people use programming languages not present in your list.

Perhaps this is just obvious. But I do frequently see people pretending to be objectively objecting -- complaining about traffic that they are themselves the cause of as if they didn't already know the answer to their question.
> Go programmers have a habit of manually microoptimizing short-lived allocations to keep escape analysis "happy"

I've been writing Go for 8+ years and have never done this, and I wouldn't approve a code review of a teammate that did this.
The honest answer is no. It's information dense already.

It also includes lots of the authors personal opinions that I don't want to misstate.
I strongly disagree that it's no one's business where that money is going. That money is used to influence public policy, which can have a very real effect on me and my life. I think it should be very public knowledge that, a group that is advocating against climate change, for instance, be required to disclose that all of it's major donors are members of the oil and gas industry.

I think this idea of unlimited dark money coming into our elections to influence policy is absolutely terrifying, and without knowing who is giving the money, combating the influence of these groups is much, much more difficult.
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Somebody wake me up when we move beyond reimplementing Java applets and Flash once more. We had nice batteries-included VMs in the browser, and we turned our backs on them and went back to square one. Again, and again, and again. So we could bang rocks together with javascript.

Almost makes me wish VBScript IE had won. We might be writing browser apps in .NET now...
But that's what the article says: "We started creating tools to help our users find objects that escaped and if it was minor they could make changes to the code and help the compiler allocate on the stack."
You handwave over “given a diagnosis” like it’s an irrelevant detail.

You appreciate this is the largest part of the problem, surely?
Labor disputes are handled through state and federal labor relations boards. You file a complaint, an investigation is started, and eventually a ruling is made. Lawyers are not a requirement but the employer will probably send one anyway.
I flagged this because the headline used here on hn leaves off the In Mice qualification from the actual article, which is (potentially) very misleading. As bluGill and PaulHoule have noted, this is important!
No one was suggesting that a majority of society lives purely off investment income, just that investing can provide benefits for working class people too.
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I never thought quite as broadly as the author, but what he says is consistent with one thing I observed -- driving and pedestrian behavior.

In China drivers and pedestrians are both better and worse than those in the US. I found drivers and pedestrians both to be much more aware and had more agency about what they needed to to be safe.

Whereas in the US we assume a lot more that the rules of the road are going to be followed, and they are. In China you shouldn't assume that a given rule of the road is going to be adhered to, especially if there is any indication that it might not be (if that makes sense).

This results in the US looking a lot more ordered on the streets. But it also results in some situations in the US where it seems like people are brain dead. I personally prefer the US in this regard, but I was also raised in it.
The latency from the player to the server still exists though so I dont see how this is going to solve any problems.
Honestly, I pointed it out because it's an article on survival, which is a serious topic, and in the first paragraph it's got misinformation. That's not a great start.

I place things like that just below "I'm a programmer but I'm going to treat this tech talk like I'm a stand up comedian, which means it'll be neither funny or informative."
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Pointing at a single data point is not enough evidence to show that an upwards trend does not exist.
The only risk is your blog getting blocked by the GFW, nothing else.
To the downvoters, there is actually some historic and sociological evidence supporting this notion:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3201031

> Recent research not only confirms the existence of substantial psychological variation around the globe but also highlights the peculiarity of populations that are Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic (WEIRD). We propose that much of this variation arose as people psychologically adapted to differing kin-based institutions — the set of social norms governing descent, marriage, residence and related domains. We further propose that part of the variation in these institutions arose historically from the Catholic Church’s marriage and family policies, which contributed to the dissolution of Europe’s traditional kin-based institutions, leading eventually to the predominance of nuclear families and impersonal institutions. By combining data on 20 psychological outcomes with historical measures of both kinship and Church exposure, we find support for these ideas in a comprehensive array of analyses across countries, among European regions and between individuals with different cultural backgrounds.
I am actively looking for Stripe alternatives because there are several core platform features that are still not fixed or implemented, while every news I hear about Stripe seems to be how they are branching out into auxiliary services. Even their customer support has gotten worse in the past year or two.
Depends on the situation. I enlisted in 11th grade. I got a scholarship awarded as a senior and my recruiter told me it was too late to change my mind. A lot of kids are not aware of their options and neither are their parents. Also, the kids that enlist for the excitement of being a soldier base their decisions on the glorified version of events presented in movies and the media. Real war is an awful thing to witness. No sane person would ever enlist to take part in it.
From the guidelines:

> "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Parallelization on a single particle level at every point in space.
I own Xiaomi laptop you mention for almost a year now (2016 model). It is overall a pretty fantastical laptop, especially for the price. But be aware, that some models (mine as well) have coil whine issue (1), so it may not be completely silent. Also, BIOS is very limited, you can disable security boot, choose boot device and that's pretty much it. However, Linux runs perfectly without jumping through any hoops.

(1) https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/xiaomi-air-12-5-inch-mod...
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Me neither. As a Stripe user, I'd like to see them focus on their core business of processing payment.
I wasn't talking about the code.

Btw, you are thinking of Aeon of Strife (Starcraft mod). World of Warcraft hasn't even been released back then.
The way to think about censorship and risk in China is to consider reach. This article is in English, and hosted on what appears to be the authors own blog. The chance of it being spread to any significant number of people in the Mainland is negligible. Suffice to say, I think he’s pretty safe.
In case it’s relevant, I’ve been in and around China since 2004.
This is an interesting approach because even though they may be cheaters they are _still_ people that are interested in your game. The percent of cheaters with the objective to utterly destroy the game they're cheating at is probably negligible.
As an early employee, his strike price should be low, so the cost of buying his stock shouldn't be prohibitive. I'm not sure about tax laws, but I'm very sure that paying some tax should not be a reason for OP to stay where he's being overworked and underpaid.

I doubt the tax burden is so bad, but if it is, then the decision to join the startup in the first place was even worse than it seemed before. OP should just treat it as a sunk cost, cut his losses and leave.

Staying just escalates his investment and near-certain losses.

I haven't worked for startups in a while, but if the tax situation got to a point that it's compelling employees to stay put, then working for a startup is even less sensible than I thought.
I sure wish we hosted on AWS today. Work sucked big time.
It scales just fine. Some of the world’s largest publications run on it.
Try getting bed bugs and Airbnb refusing to refund you... That said, I'm staying at an Airbnb against next month for the reasons you stated...
Argan oil is also in a lot of beard oils. You can make your own beard oil at home pretty easily. Mix 50% Argan oil and 50% Jojoba oil, then add 5-10 drops per oz of your favorite essential oil (Cedarwood, Lemongrass, Mango) and you have yourself homemade beard oil whenever you need it.
Ben and Jerry's is owned by Unilever, one of the largest FMCG companies in the world
Oh interesting, I wasn't aware that was a thing. That makes sense.
> A common one is when someone is run over by a car and pedestrians just step over the body until a family member finds the body. The video goes viral, prompts a week of hand wringing, and then censors step in to talk about Confucianism and how the economy is growing. There is no innate value given to human life as precious.
Contrast this:
"I will use strong language about the authoritarian communist government but I do not want that in anyway to reflect upon the Chinese people."

With these sentences:
"There is a complete and utter lack of respect for the individual or person in China. People do not have innate value as people simply because they exist. This leads most directly to a lack of respect for the law/rules/norms. One thing I began to realize over time is, while not German, how law, rule, and norm abiding Americans are with minimal fear of enforcement. in my experience laws/rules/norms are simply ignored. Lying is utterly common, but telling the truth revolutionary. There was no value system. There was no exogenously held right or wrong, only whether you made money. With apologies to a bastardized Dostoevsky, with money as God, all is permissible. For instance, something as simple as standing in line in many places can devolve into a knife fight given the utter lack of restraint in cutting that is so common. A common one is when someone is run over by a car and pedestrians just step over the body until a family member finds the body."
Game consoles supported the concept a whole lot longer than other domains. ROM bank switching can be thought of as overlay loading, and beyond that most consoles supported overlays up until 360/PS3. The Nintendo DS cartridge format natively supported overlays for instance.