skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
and that can probably be fixed by a software update somewhere down the road
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19527078
That's fair to say, but I think it's true of most of Stephenson's books - and he still manages to cover so much interesting ground that they turn out to be good reads despite the long-winded plot holes.
What does "too well” mean?

The paper proves that Tetris is NP hard, but that is only because Tetris is infinitely long game. It's still easy for a computer to play as well as a human and faster
Image sanitization. Why? Maybe political aspirations or deprecating old opinions.
Transpilation is compilation. Let's stop the gatekeeping.
> ..embed scripts .. hosted via the CDN of CloudFlare

I'm browsing to med.com/somedisease and now CF links my browser to the URL from Referer header.
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Is that the warehouse that burned to the ground? I remember being both sad and laughing at the hubris of building such an inaccessible, complicated warehouse.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47160448
What's the difference between those branches? Any explanatory links, or care to elaborate?
Apollo11 brought a message of peace to the Moon -but Neil and Buzz almost forgot
It isn't a natural state. Rigid stratification needs to be maintained forcibly through laws. Free markets are a natural state, and not coincidentally free markets produce lot of mobility.
> Assuming the product works as advertised

The rumors are that it didn’t work as advertised, or even at all. Or when it did it could get hot and catch on fire.

I think Occam’s razor applies here.
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just wait for the next war. BigDogs and SpotMinis everywhere
I'd be interested in the time between when I click 'delete' and the last bits disappearing off a Facebook storage medium.
The US has invaded and occupied several countries on the other side of the world in the last few decades. Russia's conflicts have been limited to their periphery and Syria, where they've always had a base.
Apple has a history with the entertainment industry. They know that their cooperation means leaks. We already knew about the updated Apple news, there were rumors about the game subscription thing. We knew something was coming for a TV service because they’ve been buying content.

Basically they might as well have announced things because they were rumors about all of it and if they kept trying to keep it secret for months and months the chances are their partners would end up leaking it purposefully/by mistake.
There are less complaints about 2018 model. They didn't really fix it.

If my (non-Apple) laptop is anything to go by, the keyboards with that crappy low-rise design have average life expectancy of one year. The 2018 modification will not get clogged with dust until the end of 2019, at which point people will be complaining about it too.
How do you get the 11 years figure? What is your idea of a drastic reduction? How will you measure it? And should all countries observe it equally?
Yes except some people are using python where they should be using C++ and powet consumption is a good reason not to use python in these cases.
My theory: they couldn't make it past the FCC. Managing overlapping harmonic frequencies is incredibly challenging, and gets harder the more coils that you are integrating. From patent filings, it looks like Apple’s ambitious plan was to use considerably more coils than other charging pads on the market. https://ifixit.org/blog/14883/what-finally-killed-airpower/
>I would love it if you could forward a source for this statement.

You can look up any of the mortgage and housing industry financial reporting pieces. I normally use the ones produced by RBC when looking at the issue, because they're well put together. There's a few put together for assets in the US and EU that I respect, but they're a lot more work to sort through - maybe who has good material for those areas could chime in?

To your second main point: 1) you don't need to be a majority owner of the market to move the market. 2) Foreign laundered capital is not channeled through corporate entities.

I think the published literature is conflicted but leans towards what I'm saying, but there's a lot of behind the scenes things that make the picture s bit more clear, but I can't disclose more for professional reasons.
Has anyone else’s data been ‘mistakenly deleted’ or just Zuck’s?

Seems more like a feature than a bug.
Never mind that in the 1800s the northern economy prospered while the southern slave economy stagnated - a proximate cause of the Civil War was the south trying to economically protect itself from the booming north. The War then (literally) burned the slave generated wealth to the ground.

The end of slavery ushered in another great boom in prosperity in the US.

And, of course, attributing US wealth to stealing land from the natives doesn't explain why South America, which did the same thing, failed to prosper and remains a collection of countries people run away from on foot trying to get into the US.
I applaud the intention but I doubt this is going to make a difference when it comes to signing or keeping users.

If the service keeps growing they will quickly realize that latency and availability matters. Uptime would be now a major concern. If something blows up in whatever facility it's used for these servers they will be fucked. No way to shift traffic to another server.

And let's not even talk about computing needs. At scale, that matters. Having managed services also matters and helps reduce operational cost (a lot). Having a bare server in someone's garage in Reykjavik is the opposite of scaling. It's literally a recipe to deprive yourself from the technologies that can make you successful and definitely a way to slow down your progress.

If SimpleAnalytics' goal is to stay small, then maybe this could make sense, but that for me makes this business pointless and it doesn't sound like the vision the founder has either.

Or maybe this is just an MVP until they can have their own on-prem infrastructure with fully encrypted hardware. Idk, maybe the founder's vision go as far as that, and I can't see beyond the downsides of a such a random move.
Even now people everywhere have problems pronouncing GNU, Emacs, or Linux, and the word's connection to "liberty" should become clear if someone thinks about it for any time. Both "free" and "open" have their own problems, it seems like a fine alternative.
Chicago may be on track for bankruptcy if they can't get their pension costs under control.
I don’t have the source to hand, but I’ve read (or heard on a podcast) that Job’s made that decision on stage. It surprised everybody, including the dev team behind facetime. So it’s less a case of Apple remaining silent, and more Steve being Steve.
Job postings are a lagging indicator of a language momentum, because successful products - which belong to companies that employ many people - were built years ago and will probably keep using the same tech stack as long as possible.
IK + PID is not how these robots work. These robots use MPC and trajectory optimization, which should absorb minor disturbances just fine.
Where are you getting that quote from? I don't see it in TFA, and you don't provide any reference.

If the server uses full-disk encryption, and if it's well locked down, it would be nontrivial to secretly access and copy the server's data.

I mean, adversaries could attach a keyboard and monitor, but they couldn't log in. And you can even delete the root password, and allow only key-based login via SSH.
> the language itself is essentially a transpilation (a direct rule based conversion without an AST) to x86 so no other platforms can be supported.

Hmmm I'm not sure if this is true but he says that "V can compile to (human readable) C, so you get the great platform support and optimization of gcc and Clang."[0]

[0] https://github.com/vlang-io/V#run-everywhere
I haven't heard of it, thanks for the recommendation!
Not at all :) thanks
What if they couldn’t get the multi coil design to work charging ANYTHING at high power.

Maybe it was capable of charging the watch and the AirPods just fine, it was the phone’s power demands that were the thing killing it.
Hi,

This is definitely not a toy language. Right now it can emit x64 machine code, more platforms will be available after the open-source release in early June.
I'm looking forward to supporting other countries.
I deleted my account. Then I went to an event at Facebook’s campus and was asked to sign in on a tablet. Sure enough, there was my profile pic staring back at me...
source of quote: https://www.wired.com/2014/09/the-fbi-finally-says-how-it-le...

additional: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/10/10/fbis-warrantless...

> If the server uses full-disk encryption, and if it's well locked down, it would be nontrivial to secretly access and copy the server's data.

OP's article mentions this, part of the reason they move out of the US is because RAM can be trivially read even if full disk encryption is used. Reading RAM still works in Iceland.
I realized the other day that the V author is the same person that created gitly, which was a really nice looking git forge [1]. I believe the author's stated plan was to open source it, but the website went offline after some time without an open source release ever happening. I hope the author follows through on this one, because both projects look(ed) pretty neat!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13819447
It's so easy I've got a client who runs old production Solaris/Sparc code that way!
I've put a lot of information on the home page and the docs.

I'm working on articles about C/C++ translation right now. They will be up in a couple of days.

What else is hurting you? I'll update the website.
Would you find a tax on non-compete clauses (perhaps with a size depending on how many non-compete clauses are currently active) somewhat less objectionable?

I’m not wholly advocating for that, but it seems to me like a compromise position with the benefit that it has a clear upper bound on the cost it would impose (when denominated in money), while still doing something towards whatever people are trying to do by banning it.
Interesting. Have you ever used Erlang in production? How did you find it?
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What was the book with the "Memory Hole"?
Def agree. Dave chapelle said it best. If you grew up on the hood where everyone was broke, you didn’t feel as bad cuz you didn’t know any better.

But being a lower middle class kid in a rich neighborhood, even if you we’re better off than the kids in the hood, everyday at school you are constantly reminded of how poor you feel, more so than the people in the hood.
Maybe :) Suggestions?
If this is thr case, this post should be flagged for misinformation.
And, of course, HackerNews.
> 1 - Why would you want to replace java on the server?

Well one reason, if you look at the paper, is memory consumption. One of the ways Java gets good performance despite being a GC'd language is less efficient memory usage. (Although there are many advancements in this area akin to what Go has accomplished but as the paper's metrics show, often Java uses a lot of mem.)

Also probably lots of people will agree that it has accumulated some cruft over the years and predates lots of modern trends and things like concurrency and functional programming and whatnot require more complicated code patterns.. a classic example is the getter/setter verbosity of a simple value type (not trying to start a flame war here).

However it's fair to say Java is the thing to beat in terms of "goldilocks" languages that blend productivity/safety with performance.

> 2 - ...would we not use C++?

Because it's a huge regression in productivity and safety. The goal is to reduce memory consumption while achieving great performance and, crucially, consistently low latency which is a greatly underappreciated server metric and really should be the number one benchmark IMHO.
Signaling is the law!

If you can’t follow the law, don’t ride a bicycle!
Does V compile directly to native machine code? Or is this just some scripting language that trans-compiles to C.
What a shame, this would be the actual experience of wireless charging that I had envisioned it was. The reality of wireless charging is quite different: fiddly and possible to have your phone be dead in the morning.

I wish someone could figure out how to make a true wireless charging mat like this. As it stands, I wouldn’t buy a wireless charger for my wife for example. She’ll just plonk it on there and then ask me why her phone is dead in the morning.

Who cares about convenience when there is a non-zero chance of waking up to a dead phone?

I hope someone figures out how to make “true” wireless charging that just works so that there’s no more fiddling with positioning.

I think that’s why there is so much hate on AirPower, people say “who cares there are plenty on the market”. Yeah true, but not any that my wife would want to use. And I’m betting there are a lot of people like that out there.
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*48 not 38. Original comment has been edited.
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basically every program i have written has been concurrent and benefited from multi core support. a language that doesn’t have it just isn’t an option.
All examples work. Something may go wrong. It's pre-alpha software. No need to be so edgy.
It's not that there isn't enough information; it's that there's a lot of amazing claims and no way for me to evaluate them. Like I'd love to know more about the supposed C++ translation. The homepage shows an example with seemingly idiomatic translation, but is that actually representative of what people could expect?
It's kinda weird to hold someone accountable for things they said 10+ years ago. That's a weird "feature" of modern Life, but it's only been possible since this century.
"Professional" as a term of art refers to architects, doctors, and lawyers. "Professional capacity" includes engineers, programmers, really, anyone you might colloquially refer to as a "professional".
It probably happened because someone used Zuck's id, 4, as an id in a test (because people happen to do that all the time), which then ended up mistakenly deleting the old
posts.
I've had really good luck with the tilted stand ones. If my phone is propped up on it, it's charging. I have had much worse luck with the lay-down pad ones.
Made a shoulder-strap laptop bag out of leather. 8-9oz, shoulder. Very basic, but works well.
If what is the case? What's the misinformation?
It's the effective tax rate you arrive at when averaging over the fair market value of all houses. It's much lower than the tax you or I pay due to Prop 13.

The figure is from https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-property-tax-calcula...
Yep. I've been using OpenBSD since circa 2000 and rarely deviate from the stock software and configuration. At least as important as security (and not unrelated), they ship HTTP, SMTP, and DNS services in base; services which the developers use themselves.[1]

Package management is more difficult, but if I have to install something as a package I probably don't want the headache. Upgrades are more manual as compared to Linux distros, but they're simple and consistent and well-documented so require no more than an hour every 6 months. Sysmerge (for upgrading /etc) and now syspatch (for kernel patches) have made it even simpler. The upgrades come precisely every 6 months. The system evolves incrementally so I don't need to invest much effort in keeping pace--just stay on schedule.

I only backup user data and a few key configuration files (e.g. domain specific rules for smtpd.conf and httpd.conf) as I can recreate a setup with minimal effort.

I stopped running POP and IMAP a long time ago. OpenBSD never provided native solutions. (They shipped a POP3 daemon, popa3d, for a few years but few people used it.) I use mutt, some others use alpine, and others just forward their email to somewhere else. I do greylisting with OpenBSD's native spamd and some simple RBL checks that run from the MDA, but that's it. I get more spam than I might otherwise, but it's tolerable, especially considering I don't have to maintain additional software. And most other users don't see the same spam volume--I've used my e-mail address on web pages and in public forums for nearly two decades so it's on pretty much every list traded among spammers and marketers.

[1] People criticize their "secure by default" mantra as disingenuous or misleading, but if you've been running these services for years or decades you know exactly what they mean by it.
Do you have a specific link? The first one I pulled up was filled with training where the cops were already ready to kill innocent people who had their hands up. It was an eye opener indeed. The cops in that video were obviously fearful assholes who would get innocent people killed at a regular traffic stop for no reason. Anyone of them could be the asshole from this story who shot an innocent man. Eye opener indeed.
Hi,

Developer here!

Happy to answer all questions.
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> Out of curiosity, why has no-one done automatic reference counting on the server side before?

My guess is you fall into one of two categories:

1- You don't care a ton about efficiency because you can scale out to infinite servers that are relatively cheap and affordable. So you can run on django or rails or whatever and it's fine at "pre-IPO" scale.

2- You do care, but Java is good enough.

So you kind of have to be at Google's scale to care about creating a new server language. In Swift's case, the motivation was super constrained mobile devices, so bringing it to the server side is more of an incremental engineering cost against that massive investment.
This is normal, true, but be aware even your starting point gives clues. Your IP address, your browser choice, the fact it’s (probably) the first time YouTube sees you... it all feeds into the algorithm.

Might be the case that Chrome users in your area are going Incognito to watch Ben Shapiro videos. Given your reaction, that might be exactly the case.

Or it might be Ben is a B-level celebrity that might attract a click to display an expensive ad.
"You give up the right to spend 40 hours a week the way you want, instead spending them the way we want, while we give up the right to use some our money however we like and instead give it to you."

That's the employee giving up their right to the fruits of their labor and the employer giving up their property right to the monies used to compensate the employee.
> I wonder if Apple was trying to make it a bit too magical (judging by the pre-render shots) allowing the user to throw a device onto the pad anywhere and expect them to charge.

That was exactly the sales pitch.
BD's machines actually have terrible energetics. They use very heavy and inefficient hydraulic actuation. I can't find a source for it, but IIRC Atlas has a specific resistance of around ~40, compared to a human which is around 0.2. I don't know an RC Car is at, but direct drive motors are quite efficient.

Whatever BD's angle is, it's not efficiency.
That doesn't negate the fact that it's a good decision.
> but hopefully not at the expense of quick response to real emergencies.

An overpowered response at the expense of innocent lives are not in any way better. It's actually worse, since the people responsible for the killings don't face the consequences like everyone else.
I wonder if anyone has previously taken the trouble to archive some of the dorkier Zuckerberg images?
Thank you for your contributions to the Rust ecosystem over the years! I've tinkered with many novel programming languages over the years, and most of those come and go, but Rust is one of the ones I stick with. Rust is the first programming language I have encountered that shows that linear (affine) logic is more than just another PLT or mathematical logic curio that is a practical tool for good software engineering, and that systems programming can have the trappings of type safety and ergonomics just like its application counterparts. Best of luck on your next transition.
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Very cool product. May I ask what size of team it took to develop your MVP?
Well we have no idea what it can actually do or how it works because it’s not open source. Based on comments I found while researching him, the code is directly translated to the target language with no intermediary representation, so essentially the backends are hard coded and no optimazations take place.
> Money buys happiness up to a certain point. I believe it was around $70,000 per year

The study I saw around 1990 was around $200,000/yr in then-current funds.
Well, it's definitely helpful. Let me tell my story, I had been working as a freelancer for 2 years. I mainly worked on Upwork. Most of the clients are cheap and micromanagement. And most of the jobs are short term. I think the big problem is how to find a good client? If you are an American, you may have networking. Your friends can refer you a good job. Or you can go to the events, and try to sell your business. But if you are not an American, you may struggle to find a good client. So I think this post is for those who are living in developed countries, not developing countries ( third world )
Try the Fibonacci with memoization example, changing MAX to 55. Still work for you?
Their typescript compiler may not be targeting the correct ecmascript version so the typescript generated could be using polyfills instead of native features.
Both Qi chargers that I have make it very clear if charging is happening. The "just plonk it down" problem is human, not technical.

I'm sure you're most likely underestimating your wife's ability to learn what is, in reality, a quite simple task.
It will be back, open source, re-written in V:

http://gitly.org

I started developing Volt/V in the middle of developing gitly.

That's my biggest drawback. I finish 90% of the project, and jump to a different thing.

I've grown a lot since then, and I'm slowly wrapping up everything.
I'm not trying to pick on it. But those languages are significantly harder to develop for. Go/Swift are trying to be general improvements that maintain and improve upon developer productivity while achieving great performance and efficient memory utilization (which if you look at the paper is one area Java is not necessarily great at).
Same goes for almost every single blue state.

Especially for California.

It's a national pension crises.
The GitHub issue about the playground says C++ translation is "not coming soon".

So the claimed C/C++ translation looks misleading.
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I’d certainly put Erlang (and Elixir) in the class of scripting languages. In that category it beats out most of the other classic scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, and Lua at execution speed and energy usage, aside from JavaScript and oddly PHP.

For being a mostly pure functional language it performs pretty well in that category. To the parent comment’s question, the reputation for solid performance likely comes from Ruby/Python developers. When dealing with web server applications it really shines due to how it handles concurrency. Also NIFs are really easy to write, especially in Rust.
Why is that bad? We're in an era of unprecedented stability, if anything walking strongly and having large sticks is working.
Phew, somebody gets it.
Trampoline parks explode in popularity amid warnings of “catastrophic injuries”
Hah yah he gets the history delete button that doesn’t exist.
It kinda boggles the mind that an org as successful and as well-staffed as FB still does something as primitive as chef on a cron.
HDDs almost never sustain 400 MB/s unless you are talking about something pretty exotic. 5200 RPM drives are generally in the 100-130 MB/s range and 7200 proportionally faster but still usually under 200 MB/s.