skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A more charitable explanation is (in his words), "it’s no longer fulfilling my goals, and it’s not as fun as it once was."

When I look at it from his point of view, I feel quite sorry for him. The language's forum has 9 posts in the last calendar year. 4 of those are him solving a problem using Leaf. Then, I check out the status page and realize that, for all the work he has done, Leaf is still in a very primitive state.

I'd equate it to being like a startup. At some point, it stops making sense. Then, you can either ride the ship down into the depths, or hop out when the going is as good as it will get.

As for his dependability, I've got to tell you that, from my perspective, anyone who can pull this off is more than impressive enough.

I think he should be awfully impressed with what he did. And, I don't think it's even remotely fair to judge him as being undependable. Based on what I've seen, I think he should have pulled the plug last year, when he first wanted to quit.
> You know that 90% of Electron apps do not have any native function calls

That does not make sense. If they made no native function calls, they could not even display a window.
Whole brain emulation: a roadmap (2008) [pdf]
> We use an express server to pre-render our text

That's silly. Unless your users are on throttled dial-up inet, and you're trying to feed them several volumes worth of text (a MB or so?), pre-rendering text on the next page is not a good enough excuse. This must mean you are using some large framework to deliver text and present your website. HN seems to be able to deliver tons of text to users without javascript bullshit, why can't you?
Unmet (created) needs.
It's not an anonymous platform. You sign up with a username, email and password like anything else, there just isn't a requirement to supply a phone number, photo ID or similar. What they mean is Discord just banned the user accounts and groups and called it a day, because trying to enforce a ban like that is infeasible.
$500M Hyperloop development facility set for southern Spain
Partial Snapchat Source Code Leaked and Posted to GitHub
Is there a way to implement gravity batteries on a household-level scale? Shouldn't we all be using solar to lift a weight during the day that will lower during the night to feed the grid?
Snaps ui is one step above a text based terminal, I just have to learn all the swipes and taps and menu layouts through trial and error.
A day at the Free Market (short story, 2015)
This does seem like a powerful idea. The problem of networking friends, family, and co-workers has more or less been solved, but the problem of putting together complete strangers with shared interests and coincident physical locality really hasn't even been attacked except in very constrained use cases (i.e., dating services).

It's possible that the next big wave of social networks will be less "Facebook" and more "Spacebook."
I was almost like OP for a while. Working on game, fed up with existing languages (even C), wanted a better C. I was excited about Jai, but as time goes on I'm finding it looks less and less what I want from a language. Seriously considered making my own.

Then I started working with Zig[0]. It's about 90% the language I want and even though it's still immature and the syntax, std lib, and semantics are in flux, I still find the quality of life improvement so huge that all my current projects are in Zig.

Zig is a better C to Jai's better C++, I think. It's a small language, it favors simplicity and explicitness, it has entirely manual memory management to the point that there isn't even a default allocator (we pass one in to anything that requires one). It even lets you import C headers directly to interface with C libraries.

[0] https://ziglang.org/

(skip the "stable" 2.0 download, it's way out of date from master)
Thanks -- any recommendations on a textbook for better understanding semiconductor physics?

I'm a physics major, but haven't gotten to do much semiconductor coursework yet.
Isn't Python's async/await syntax an implementation of green threads? I mean using await is almost exactly the cooperative scheduling idea. The article may use Futures and callbacks but you can just as easily do something like:

result = await fake_network_request('one')
Really curious, is there much of a usecase for a stable rust ABI? There is no ecosystem of "rusty shared objects" to support and cargo tends to build things fine without it.

As an outside observer it looks like an unnecessary complication.
If I'm not mistaken, Mesa/ANV supports Vulkan back to Haswell (with some limitations until Broadwell).
Just like Disney did with Alice in Wonderland, right? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk862BbjWx4

"And now you, dear filmmaker, want to come along and want to make your own version of Star Wars: A New Hope? For shame! That's like stealing food right out of George Lucas' mouth."
In his early days, Python did not need anything, it was simply nicer to use than the other languages. Nowadays ML is a big plus.
(FYI I didn't downvote you because you gave a thought out answer, must be other people.)

> ...most of whom are owned and heavily staffed by people who don't tend to describe themselves as centrists on the political spectrum?

The tech companies are _significantly_ right wing on any spectrum including countries outside the USA.

> Considering this, can you imagine any scenario where perhaps multiple silicon valley companies work in a coordinated fashion to de-platform someone of a political persuasion that they disagree with sometime in the future?

If you are saying tech companies should be broken up, I don't have a strong opinion on it. If you are saying that they should be forced to promote conspiracy garbage - I disagree.

> Considering this, can you imagine any scenario where perhaps multiple silicon valley companies work in a coordinated fashion to de-platform someone of a political persuasion that they disagree with sometime in the future?

I hope so, ISIS uses social media.

> I think we've seen large societies in the past get a little carried away when everyone starts thinking the same way.

I disagree that is what is happening here - when Australia's chief scientists was questioned by a conspiracy theorist he said "I like to keep an open mind, but not so open my brains fall out". I think brains fall out delusional fear mongering should be suppressed (not by suppressing free speech, just by people sense checking and only promoting what they want) by the majority, particularly when it has real world impacts like AJ. You could argue the current state of the internet (lots of garbage conspiracies) is an effect of this being short-circuited.

As well, I think your dogma towards "free speech at any cost" is an example of people getting carried away and thinking the same.

Every other western country has free-ish but not free speech, however people are more free from fear and persecution in those places than in America. Consider that AJ is banned from visiting places where quality of life, political engagement, etc is higher than in the USA.

Even if you disagree with my points, what about the company employees' free speech, don't they have the freedom to publish whatever _they_ like?
> my understanding was that this information was deliberately omitted, not just unread; it was fraud

Debt was fraudulently misrated, so you'd have junk bonds rated as AAA or whatever. But the primary data was all there, so you could actually go visit all of the properties and talk to the owners like they did in The Big Short, it's just that no one did. The people who approved the mortgages also weren't verifying people's incomes, and in some cases were even encouraging them to lie about their incomes. But the primary data was all there, the reason no one audited the primary data was that it was too expensive relative to the payoff. Blockchains can fix this. (The residential real estate market is pretty fragmented so it's unlikely to be one of the first industries to get transformed, it's just an easy to understand example.)

> Currently, blockchains have very high energy usage.

This is really only true for Bitcoin and things modeled after it, where the integrity of the chain is secured by wasting an amount of electricity that's directly proportional to the expected future price. This clearly isn't sustainable so BTC will have to change their POW if they want to be successful. But it's also not an inherent property of blockchains, there are many other blockchains that are already secured differently or are working on novel security mechanisms, but as I said they just need to be proven out over the next few years.
It's also a way of doing leaderless agreement about distributed platforms in low-trust environments. I'm no blockchain fanatic, bit ISTM that a decentralised discussion board could require the spending of tokens to make posts. The market should hopefully make the tokens of desirable communities more expensive, which discourages cheap, low-effort posts. AFAICT, before blockchain you could have decentralisation or paid posting but not both.
> also which a school can do little to help with.

I think I disagree with you there.

Debt - Schools could do better at financial assistance and in helping students better manage their finances.
Relationship/mental issues - Schools could provide or increase their access to counselors/therapists. Peer mental health support is also becoming an attractive option.

All of this being said, I'm not arguing that schools should help with these issues, rather just pointing out that there are solutions out there.
Your down voters are clearly proving your point.

It seems that despite HN audience comprising mostly smart people, they are no less ideologically blinkered than other forums.

I am continually disappointed that on non-tech threads, HN is just as biased (and in the same direction) as reddit.

A further disappointment is that even tech threads so often end up devolving into discussions of politics and Trump, with the predictable outcome.
Why else would they have made up this ridiculous story about being hacked? You're much too charitable.
> Here's my advice to developers who want to freelance: network and network some more. Write blogs, create content marketing material for yourself.

There are many developers who can't do it because they live in Eastern Europe or Asia or Latin America and speak only conversational English.

Upwork has a lot problems but it's providing $25+/h rates for thousands of professionals who otherwise would get only $10-15/h or less locally. (I'm one of them.)
Being creative and copying ideas are not mutually exclusive.

For instance, I love the harry potter universe. I just happen to think that JK Rowling is a terrible writer. I would pay hundreds of dollars for quality fan fiction, ideally licensed or legal. There’s really no mechanism for any human on the planet to tell a story in this universe and widely distribute it legally.

Arguably this is more of an issue with copyright and trademark, but I think there’s a lot of room for art to fluorish if there’s a market not beholden to IP law.
> Games are still in need of a better language.

I find Swift to be the best so far, its strong ties to the Apple ecosystem notwithstanding.

Having tinkered with various environments since the Sinclair Spectrum's BASIC (though back then I had no idea what I was doing) I've successively fallen in love with Visual Basic (6.0, not the .NET impostor) and then C#, and now I'm smitten with Swift.

In Microsoft land I was let down by their usual dichotomies that did not allow you full access to all their APIs (or hardware performance) from anything but C++ (though I did manage to make playable DirectX games in VB6). I don't know how that has changed in the last decade since I jumped ship to Apple, but .NET was treated as a second-class citizen for too long.

With Swift, not only do I have access to everything that Apple's operating systems offer, it's also a modern language which feels naturally suited to game design patterns. Although until Swift 2 I often had to fight the language, since Swift 3 and especially now in Swift 4.2 I find it effortless to reason about most game architectures while sticking to the language's idioms.

I also appreciate it for enforcing good practices and getting rid of most sources of ambiguity (such as the ++/-- operators and the legacy `for` syntax, or being specific about %/modulo and so on), even if it may feel annoying in the beginning if you're coming from "looser" languages. It also compiles to native code and can easily interop with C [0], but best of all: I am glad to be able to finally leave semicolons behind. C# honestly feels archaic in comparison now.

As for the elephant in the room – that Swift is only good for iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS – well, those platforms have a combined userbase of over a billion users, and the most successful app market [1]; I don't feel that it's such a downside to be limited to those platforms. I do wish that the Apple TV came with a proper gamepad so we could only target that without losing users. It could be a serious contender to existing game consoles if Apple took that route.

If you're in love with Swift too, I'm writing an open-source game engine which offers an Entity-Component-System architecture on top of Apple's APIs [2].

[0] https://theswiftdev.com/2018/01/15/how-to-call-c-code-from-s...

[1] https://www.google.com/search?Apple+App+Store+payouts

[2] https://github.com/invadingoctopus/octopuskit
>transmeta

Wow - now there is a name I haven't heard in a REALLY long time.

I was at Intel when transmeta was still in stealth... and interestingly worked in their CPU benchmark DRG lab where we tested SIMDs on procs and Intel was focused on the Celeron being a <$1,000 that was performant to the gamer crowd... We were worried about transmeta at that time.

We were testing the games that were released on celeron machines against an AMD machine to prove out (subjectively) that a gamer would see performance as better on the Intel platform than AMD such that they woud buy Intel...

Intel actually paid game companies to code to the SIMD instructions in their games specifically to make them faster, and then paid the companies marketing money to promote the games...

Sadly, Transmeta was still too vapor for us to test against...
I hear/read this regurgitated in many comments about AJ as well as him calling for assassinating President Obama. Yet the evidence for this never materializes. This seems more like poisoning the well to avoid any discussion/argumentation.
You may enjoy his classic: http://idlewords.com/2007/04/the_alameda_weehawken_burrito_t...
I can relate. I work in the US by the way.

I don't slack off, but I feel like there's a position as a Software Engineer past which I wouldn't want to be promoted. I see folks in the higher levels and the stuff they have to deal with has zero appeal to me. My salary and bonus at my current level are already more than enough to sustain my lifestyle and save plenty for retirement - I don't need more.

A lot of people are attracted to the idea of "getting more responsibility", and they like the prestige/visibility that comes with a fancy (e.g. "Principal" or "Staff") title. Me, I just want to put in my hours solving problems and go home do something else.
Interestingly, the author of D is on this comments page ... he did do D :-)
> I think a lot of people have mistaken ideas about how performance sensitive games are. They care about performance, but not so much that it trumps all other considerations. Games really aren't that different from other apps.

Beyond that, even where performance is the priority, a generic performance win is usually more interesting unless the IHV is buying the developer time.
Snapchat gets $250M investment from Saudi prince
The major "dessert" releases seem to happen about once a year now, with a big marketing push, and often substantial user-visible changes.

API levels change when there are major developer-visible changes. I assume any time there's a backwards incompatible change for app developers, they bump the API version, as is standard for any API.

No conspiracy theory required.
Relocation will the last of your worries.

Climate change's big killer will be that crops that used to grow in places, can't grow anymore.

This will cause mass human migration. Combine this with a larger, increasing human population you've got a recipe for disaster. Many scientists speculate that the Syrian war and the Arab spring was a result climate change.

An interesting tidbit is that the death count from one of the most cited nuclear war simulations (of 50 warheads) wasn't the people who died in nuclear blasts. It was the people who died as result of climate changed caused by nuclear weapons.
> but PLEASE do not spread misinformation.

The data they quoted is official from Google themselves. You've provided no data source by contrast, just anecdotes.

> good riddance actually, way too much toxic people in the community

They're "toxic" because they're raising the cost of doing business in the ecosystem as a limiting factor? That's quite a stretch.
How GDPR Is Moving Ad Budgets Toward Private Marketplaces
There is a strongly negative relationship between women's education and fertility. Is this, in the long run, also good for the taxpayers?
My parking garage in California charges $5,000 for charger installation. Plus you have to pay for the energy, at retail charging rates. Definitely not worth it.
> If you read what Elon Musk wrote...he does not believe Tesla will be private in the long term. He believes the stock price is a distraction, and invites people to crap on, or harm the company because they are shorting it.

Cynically, I think it is hard to reconcile the Elon Musk who says "our stock price is a distraction" that we need to not consider it moving forward, and the Elon Musk who has borrowed against 40% of his stock in the company and whose pay package is entirely based in stock. This move prevents him personally from facing many possible downside risks, and it is hard to take his statements at face value.

> Public companies have pressure to perform every quarter, rather than focus on the long term goal. General Motors stopped reporting quarterly car sales (or monthly?) because it's a distraction. GM's focus, is actually electric vehicles and self driving cars.

General Motors stopped reporting monthly sales numbers in April, citing that monthly numbers are too volatile to gain meaningful insight from. That strikes me closer to a decision meant to provide greater transparency than one of Tesla's sort.

> Per Musk's announcement, once Tesla is stable, and producing at a constant rate with predictable growth...like Amazon like Berkshire Hathaway, like Starbucks, then he will consider making Tesla public again.

None of those are anywhere close to the predictable business you seem to think they are.

Berkshire especially. Prior to 2017, Berkshire consistently posted extremely up and down earnings due to its huge positions in the re-insurance business. Since 2017, it has posted even more volatile earnings because its public stock positions were required to be marked to market instead of at book value. And you know what? Wall Street hasn't cared about the quarterly choppiness of the Omaha company.

My point here is that Wall Street cares about quarterly financials... for some companies. If Elon had one that had proven himself capable of meeting his own goals or generating cash, he would be in that category. But instead he has a company with $10 billion in debt, only been cash flow positive for two quarters, and never come close to meeting its own stated estimates. It's kind of hard for his debt and equity holders to not start eventually asking "where's the beef?"
It means you don't give Apple money.
Good artists create. Great artists steal.
Well let's look at our options:

1. Government - Not a great track record on limiting fringe speech, it seems to descend into totalitarian objectives

2. Institutions/Churches - Not a great track record of tolerating logical speech that is inconsistent with their beliefs

3. Corporations - Capitalism is the best process we've found for spreading freedom of choice.

Nothing is ever perfect, but when 1 & 2 fail to do it right it's catastrophic. When 3 messes up, they lose their own shirts and the damage is more contained.
Great point, also I would add payment processors to the list.
What's the case for "billion-dollar companies using neuroscience to manipulate the behavior of individuals is a moral and societal good"? Neuromarketing seems pretty straightforwardly evil to me...
Thanks for sharing!

And, BTW, I took your initial online test just for fun+research. I really liked the mix of question types. And it was clear a lot of thought went into picking the answers for the multiple choice questions: apart from the best answer, there were answers that were way off base, but also 1-2 that sounded plausible to someone who had some knowledge of the topic.

EDIT:

One more thing: On the page that describes the process (https://triplebyte.com/company_faq_learn_more) it says there are two steps:

- Quiz (10% pass rate)

- Technical Interview (30% pass rate for those who passed the quiz)

But when I tried the process, I saw 3 steps:

- Programming Questions (i.e. the quiz I mentioned I tried)

- Programming Problems (it says it will take 30 mins, and I haven't tried yet)

- Technical Interview
The Shadow Rulers of the VA
Gyrojets never took off because of how expensive they are to produce compared to conventional ammo. ($10 vs $0.50) Their only advantages are gun size and recoil.

Micro drone guns might actually be the one use case for gyrojets, because recoil and barrel weight are the most serious issues.
China successfully tests waverider aircraft
You will become a better developer if you study more languages.

You will become a better developer if you study more mathematics or statistics.

You will become a better developer if you study psychology and interpersonal relationships.

You will become a better developer in many, many ways.

Keep studying. Keep growing.
> make an owl into a really creepy logo.

An owl is a predator of the night. Why ever should it not be creepy?
Can someone recommend a book on chip fabrication?
I'm confused, why is this news? This is how its been for ever. I get my most interesting projects form upWork since I can check before applying what the job is about, which is something carder to do when you talk with a client of the street. Not to mention that you get guarantee pay every week. You don't have to spend time and energy to force the client to pay you. Which is the best part of upWork. Sure they get a 10% cut, but perennially is well worth it for the ease of mind.

And the tracking app also allows me to organize my work by living notes to the clients to let them know what I worked on. Which is always appreciated.

To sum it, up – not sure where the problem is. This is what it is, it works and if you are good you'll make plenty of money for yourself and upWork ;)
I followed this company a while back. And while this is great that the building went up in such a short time, but this will do little to nothing to housing costs. At leasrt not unless thousands are made..
I bet it was a weird joke in the hacker sense --- however "not even wrong" the content of InfoWars is, you have to admit that it is a lot more thought-provoking than Facebook.
The Constitution was amended to explicitly prohibit Congress from making laws abridging the freedom of speech as well.

What's relevant is the Supreme Court reconsidering a previous decision without any change to the Constitution, but that too has happened before, e.g. Brown v. Board of Education.