skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Beauty of Calculus [video]
> For small short lived scripts and applications, do we even need to free any memory these days? ..we can just exit normally and let the OS handle the clean up.

That makes me think: why couldn't larger programs be composed of many such small, short-lived scripts/processes that give up all allocated memory upon exit?

I suppose there could be accumulated overhead for starting many such processes, and also the issue of allowing shared memory spaces that are explicitly not automatically freed. I'm way out of my depth in this line of thinking though, so, just speculating.
There's plenty of non-dense places for people to live in, yet for some reason more and more people move to cities. Maybe it's because of the density and its benefits, not despite it?
Remix is looking for a front-end engineer to help build better public transit
Not at all equivalent. I'm not forced to use Facebook (and don't).
Whereas I'm forced under threat of arrest and violence to fund the DOE.
If you don't like it just don't use it. If everyone stopped using Facebook it would be gone in under a year.
> anti crypto

That word, "crypto" alone is cringeworthy. HN is very much pro cryptography...
It's even harder to define (which might be why OOP is so popular --- it's easy to get dogmatic about "OOP is X", and the cargo-culters will pick it up and spread it like religion), but I'd say "be pragmatic and let it come naturally". Systems tend to naturally form OO-ish things even if they're not written in an OO language; the Linux kernel is one example. I think of OO as just another layer of organisation beyond functions and structures, arising from the desire to group related data and code together.
Well, increasingly, you are forced to use Facebook.

I went through the arduous process of deleting my Facebook account about 8 years ago. 2 years ago, I started doing freelance software development, and at some point almost every one of my clients has wanted me to implement a Facebook login. I could say no, but then I'm likely losing my livelihood. And in order to implement Facebook logins, you need a Facebook account (to administrate and view documentation).

My girlfriend cleans up estates, meaning that when someone dies, she helps the family of the deceased clean up the deceased's house. A lot of that involves selling their stuff, for which she splits the profits with the heirs. It used to be that Craigslist was the best place to sell stuff, but increasingly it's much harder to sell stuff on Craigslist, and easier to sell on Facebook marketplace. And again, to buy/sell there, you really need a Facebook account. She also does other odd jobs, and again, most of these are found through Facebook.

Maybe Facebook isn't necessary for the ways you benefit from the internet, but your experience isn't everyone's.
Buying used is definitely a good option for well-built furniture. (Here you can get a lot of things for free as well if you're willing to arrange transport.)
That certainly wasn’t the intention, the title is a bit of a mix of: the initial intent to list all open source collaborative text editors, and then realizing, as I state in the post, that it wouldn’t add much value to have a long shallow list, then deciding to limit the scope significantly, but not wanting to redesign the headline illustration, as so much effort already went into the post (both content and the code behind it) that I just needed to stop working on it and ship it :) Hope that makes sense!
Also, the two groups don't even seem to be on different sides, not really. Notice how this article doesn't have a single word of criticism for either the media articles decrying how terrible it is that tech companies allow violent and terrorist content to remain up, or the campaigns by major advertisers to pressure them to mass-censor all that content. It just pretends they didn't exist. The coverage of those campaigns by major media outlets was almost universally supportive. It's like the press are intentionally setting up a catch-22 for major tech companies, who coincidentally are eating into their profits and power.
One one hand side, I agree that Facebook/Amazon/Apple etc. but also many telcoms are way too big which in turn stifles fair competition and leads to monopolies (and subsequently abuse of power, lobbying etc). On the other, there has not been one good solution proposed to this so far.

Let's run through the options (accumulated over months or years of discussions):
1) Split FB into the FB-Instagram-WhatsApp trio that we used to have in the past. Neat but the main culprit remains the same.
2) Remove Zuck or at least reduce his voting power s.t. the board has more. This would work if we assume that Zuck is the main issue with FB, which I doubt he is. Investors would always push for more money and if it means more of the same privacy-violating, advertising-driven social media, I doubt they would change it - money hardly ever has a moral compass of any kind.
3) Kind of like 2 but on top of this, you fix some members of the board with community/government selected representatives which would be supposed to balance out things and/or at least raise concerns.
4) Introduce point 3 as a general rule - if a company reaches X% of the given industry's estimated total market value, it has to give up some board seats. In theory, forces companies to stay focused instead of spreading into every single adjacent industry.

Now, all of these have problems of their own (corruption in case of 3-4, anyone?) but the sooner the discussion starts the better. Google/Amazon/Microsoft/Apple/chip makers are next in line but also, as another commenter pointed out - we do want to see people build strong and prosperous companies that truly innovate.

Damn, it's a non-trivial topic, just writing this down brings more questions than answers
Top American Makeup Youtubers – American Beauty YouTube Channels
> I do and it puzzles me why most people don't

The feeling of slamming into second as you come out of a corner in a little sports car. In an automatic, its just a pedal and the wheel, in a manual you physically engage the warp mode. It feels good, gives a greater sense of power in your actions and also contributes to enjoyable familiar muscle memory. Humans dig physical ritual.
>I think it would be enough to ban Zuckerberg from running any public corp in his lifetime.

I always wonder ho this kind of trash is created.

You retarded because you father raped you? What it is?
The tragedy of star-crossed lovers exists throughout Indian history, infact Indian folklore are littered with so many of them and different versions that I grew up learning. Mirza Sahiban is just one example. It makes you wonder if these stories by modern writers are just recycled from concepts from older civilisations or possibly true events.
One point stood out to me: he thinks one "trouble with STEM" is that young hopeful scientists get herded into the math/engineering side of things -- if you dig biology, then you must know chemistry, hence physics, hence math! -- and he, as a naturalist, wants to push back on this tendency.

I think this is a good point. Yes, a good biologist should probably have some quantitative chops, or at least know what p-hacking is, but pre-college it's plausible to me that a hopeful biologist is best served studying the parts of biology they like effortlessly. Once you have something you feel in your heart is cool, it becomes much easier to overcome challenges to better study that cool thing. In contrast, if you immediately jump into all the other stuff necessary for a good understanding of that cool thing, you might never develop enough attachment in the first place to power you through the hard, not-so-fun parts.

I have definitely seen this in my own research career. Learning supposedly useful tricks for their own sake in a class has been much harder than picking up tools to solve problems I already have and care about. And using those tools in a context I liked made me appreciate them more.
I knew someone who worked as CS rep in 2014 at PayPal, in Ireland. He told me that if people make too many claims, they'd just close the account.

In my nearly 20 years of usage of PayPal, I've a 100% success rate on all of my claims (a few, I suppose about 4 or so). I guess my buy:claim ratio is in good standing.
I don’t know a thing about WebGL, but this is really neat, and the visuals are really fun. Great work!
I feel it changes the humidity and smell, that's not nothing.
The idea (although rather poorly implemented in the UK state system) is that choice leads to competition, and competition leads to improvement even of those at the bottom (and even for those who don’t really pay attention to the choice/don’t care). It’s a market philosophy of sorts.
Ubiquiti or Mikrotik. No more than $400 last I checked. Per device though, so router + switch could go up to $800 - $1000.

Quite an investment I admit. But it's long-term. I don't anticipate changing that setup for like 10 years.
It's propaganda. It's a caricature coming to life. A caricature created by the establishment media.

It's like if foxnews ran a story "What happened to my 13 year old daughter after consuming establishment media or democratic speeches". And then daughter turned out to hit every checklist of a "leftist" fanatic caricature. Or christian publications that would publish "stories" about how hollywood movies or rock 'n roll turned their child gay or in devil worshippers.

A lot of these "stories" involving children are even manufacture ( in order to write an article ) or sought out specifically. Just like the UVA rape story.
> We left a high balance with PayPal because at the time the interest rate they provided was high.

Why can they afford to pay such a high interest? Because they can ban you whenever they feel like it.

If an offer's too good to be true etc.
Your definition of garbage collector excludes reference counting, which does not require scanning memory. Reference counting is a form of garbage collection. The type of garbage collection you are referring to is the sub-type of "tracing" garbage collection.

However, I agree, "free()" is not garbage collection, but rather a form of memory management, of which garbage collection is a subset, and manual (free) is another.
Except in 3rd world countries, this is not true. Not true in Europe. In Europe, particularly the most advanced and developed regions; static phones are still ruling the roost.
With moving/compacting collectors, you never even call free(), and this is a huge advantage over a mark/sweep:

First mark touches all the live objects, then sweep touches all the objects that aren't live. You're touching every object every cycle. Yuck.

A moving collector touches all the live objects, but now they have new memory addresses. We never need to touch the old garbage at all! Most advanced GC techniques are around trying to revisit live objects less frequently, but they all have this basic theme.

Other memory management techniques explore the other side: Just touching the garbage. That's what happens when you malloc+free manually, or do (automatic) reference counting.

So the value-question restated is this: Is there more ham than spam?

If we have more garbage, then the ideal GC strategy wins. If we have more living objects (and few/no garbage) then literally anything else wins.

We do seem to have more garbage in atom languages like Java, Erlang, Python, and so on, so it makes sense that GC gets much more love than the other side of the fence, but I wonder often if we're missing a trick.
You could also make a subject access request under GDPR to see what data they have on you.
Just a guess from my personal experience. Might probably be wrong.
That doesn't necessarily follow. It shows that users prefer PayPal, but not that they wouldn't use alternatives if PayPal's not available. If they really want to know the answer, they could do an A/B test with missing PayPal and see how many people drop out without it.

Also, was PP the default/first payment option by any chance?
Kata containers give you all the disadvantages of containers, with none of the benefits.
What if it's not available where i live?
About RTL-SDR
The day humans start eating raw fresh or rotten meat and find enjoyment in that is the day I will accept that humans are meant to eat other animals.

There are people who advocate, and claim to enjoy, both those things.

This guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxvszzgYRjU who claimed he learned it from a tribe.
Surprisingly, these are the exact same plants that are ubiquitous in all post-Soviet governmental institutions.
"all eggs in the one basket" problem again here.
Hiring more staff always slows progress in the short term. It has a habit of making late projects later. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks%27s_law

I understand you’re desire for an FTE to be a meaningful measure, but imperially that’s not true. As I said several times effort estimates can be used, but after deciding to add staff progress slows down for a while. So, using effort estimates you would reduce progress over the next 3 months before expecting a longer term increase in rate of accomplishment.
Also PayPal is not alone in this practice. Many credit card processors when using bundled and fixed fee pricing also don't return transaction fees when you issue a refund. For example Stripe.

A good reason to get interchange plus pricing from your CC processor.
>I’ll never fully move past it. That stuff is permanent to some extent.

Likewise. I've never been to a reunion because fuck those guys (and gals).
Drift switches pricing model away from number of contacts
I'd say, very unlikely even if Zhao and Hu were given a go. Both of them were held pretty much like a decoration to appease the West.

A lot people exaggerate their role. Even back then, very few Chinese ever heard of them.

> What if the students in Tiananmen Square had peacefully dispersed, but continued to work quietly for democratic reform throughout the 1990s?

Then they would've been quietly hunted down to the last one without making much of a bang. People entertaining themselves with such scenarios have little understanding of the way the mindset of totalitarian regime leaders work: in 1989, the CCP was scared to death. Loss of power in any form for such people invariably means either a trip to Hague, or to their own secret jails.

Peaceful political change don't happen when the power holders are ready to do anything to keep their power. In such cases, only violence works.

I truly despise people who call for "peaceful resistance" in time when people are being showered with bullets. Such people bear as much responsibility for loss of human life as one who do the killing.
IIRC, there were cases showing this setup to easily break and not have certain apps work (like Google Maps which many people want).

It's cool if you have a weekend's worth of time to burn on such a project and fine-tune everything to your liking. But I don't.
Facebook Democratizes History
True, I almost forgot. Wasn't the model a bit slow (relatively speaking) at the time ? Maybe that's why it disappeared for a while.
You are not forced to be software developer. Nobody makes you use Craigslist

Less communism my friend, it will make you love better.

Just control your need to impose your beliefs on others

>Maybe Facebook isn't necessary for the ways you benefit from the internet, but your experience isn't everyone's.

Not an argument
Widgetic (https://widgetic.com/) | Full-Stack JavaScript Engineer | Remote | Full-Time & Part-Time

Our mission is to enable developers to earn meaningful recurring revenue. We're building a two-sided marketplace where non-technical people subscribe to immersive apps for their websites, which are provided by our developer community.

Our tech stack is built with NodeJS (Express, Hapi), Svelte 3, Sapper, as well as different tools for our infrastructure.

This position is fully remote. Please email andu@widgetic.com your resume/LinkedIn/GitHub. Thanks!
> * Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There's literally nobody you can call about it.

And here I thought small claims court was a thing in the US as well
> I consider censorship, money in politics, the congressional-industrial-military complex, the israeli/saudi/chinese/etc influence in our economic, media and government institutions, globalism, etc to be far greater threats to democracy than facebook. If facebook was truly as powerful as he says, the establishment and their media wouldn't be attacking facebook as vigorously as they have been. Lets be honest.

Censorship: Facebook is the largest censor on the internet.

Money in politics: Facebook is an enormous lobbyist and political advertiser.

Foreign influence: Foreign actors can gather lots of information through Facebook--most of the news about privacy issues on Facebook involve corporations, but it's naive to believe that it's only corporations doing this.

Media/government institutions: Facebook IS a media institution, and other media/government institutions use Facebook to gather information on people.

Globalism: Facebook is a globalist organization.
Yeah. I started very aggressively blocking all third party stuff and then I manually whitelist things as needed. Its crazy how many requests some sites make, for stuff that has no impact on the content I actually want.
One use case that I've long thought might be interesting is an orbital certificate authority/notary that is accessible directly via RF. Hard to beat the physical security and it would democratize access to a fairly mature and useful encryption ecosystem.
The nicest point about GC is that, for the vast majority of data, you no longer need to have a concept of ownership at all.

Ownership is not a fundamental architectural property - it is "only" a powerful technique for tracking data with a specific lifetime (of course, even in GC languages you still need proper ownership semantics for some pieces of data).
>If they really want to know the answer, they could do an A/B test with missing PayPal and see how many people drop out without it.

I've done these tests, repeatedly; removing the PayPal payments option consistently leads to a statistically significant increase in cart abandonment. Some customers strongly prefer PayPal (especially on unfamiliar sites) and some don't have a credit card.
As ar as I know PayPal in Europe is a bank with a Luxembourg banking license.

I'm wondering if they could pull the same shitty here. Considering that any bank, which freezes your account, doesn't provide you with any reason and actually refuses to talk to you may draw quite some ire from their respecive regulator.
It would be nice to have a house where you can regulate the draftyness better. In some seasons, draftyness is a feature, not a but, in others, not so much.
Don't think it ever went away in Germany. Solingen, a German city close to where I live, have been running trolleybuses for many years now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trolleybuses_in_Solingen
How is marketplace better than craigslist?
According to the CVSS score its a huge risk. FTA:

> 9.8 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

(Leaving my opinion out of this.)
Icecream – A little debugging library
I used to help run a rather large fan convention. For our first 5 years (starting in about late 2003 or so), PayPal was the only option we offered for registering online. At the time, they were really the only option for implementing online payments easily without the complexity of a full merchant stack (and it was just me doing the programming, volunteering to help them while I was still in college).
By the time we finally switched away from them, we were probably clearing $80k or so a year through them, with a very large percentage of that coming over the course of a week or so just before the event. People like to wait until the last minute. :)

We never had any issues, but we were very vigilant about transferring funds out of PayPal every few days just in case. We did finally stop using them, probably about 2009 or 2010, when stories like OP's started to become widespread.

For us, having them "hold" our funds for 6 months or cancelling our account would have bankrupted us. The hotel wants to be paid on Monday after the event. Vendors need to be paid within 30 days. Things like that would have been impossible for us to do if they decided to sit on the money or can us. We were a volunteer fan convention; we didn't have the financial cushion to withstand something like that.

Not to mention the fees were higher than a standard merchant account. We finally did switch to a merchant account through Elavon and, after I left, I think they switched to Stripe. Either way, they don't accept PayPal now because the financial risk to them that could result from PayPal freezing or canceling the funds is significant.
These do not have to be mutually exclusive accounts. There does not have to be a secret cabal of shadowy deep state operatives pushing a unified message, there just needs to be a propensity for the rich and well-connected (by definition a small group) to find their way into positions of influence in rough proximity to major media outlets. As you've said:

Politicians and relevant players get columnist and editorial roles because of their status and insight.

It's not difficult to see that wealth, status, and connection are self-compounding. I also don't think it's unreasonable to say that many people in this group hold views that are out of step with the majority of Americans, particularly when you are talking about the pro-military intervention crowd.
Not parent but been there done that. Merely moving PayPal out from first / default choice to alternative translates to lost sales.

Until you're big and known enough buyers don't trust you, but they trust PayPal.
The same fantasy world that according to some people should not have had any need for more than 5 computers worldwide. ;)

https://www.pcworld.com/article/155984/worst_tech_prediction...
It says something when we consider 4-7 years to be the "long term".
> Uber charged $1500 to my debut card a few months ago. There's literally nobody you can call about it.

Your bank. You dispute the charge. Uber can deal with your bank. It doesn't matter it was a debit card. It means you're missing the money immediately, but doesn't stop you from disputing.
More people using it, more of those people willing to buy.
The problem is that most terms of service include forced arbitration clauses. Even if they don't, you generally have to sue in the jurisdiction where the company is incorporated, which for the vast majority of people, is very far away.
Not in Adelaide they don't. Never in 25 years of living there have I ever heard a case of the police recovering stolen property. Heard several cases of people find it themselves and recovering it on their own, but not once of the police helping.

My own personal experience was that they noted my report, duly filed some paperwork in their write-only document storage system, and then went back to issuing traffic fines.
Sounds _exactly_ like Shadertoy. Is this different somehow?
One potential benefit (which merchants so far don't show you) is that cryptos is free for the merchants to accept. Credit cards can take a massive chunk out of your profit and they're open to charge back fraud.

Cryptocurrencies remove those fees and the risk for charge back fraud, so the merchant earns more when you pay them with cryptos. To incentivize this they could charge you less than if you paid with a credit card.
Ecstasy 'no more dangerous than horse riding'

Taking ecstasy is no more dangerous than riding a horse, according to the head of the Government's drug advisory body.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/453787...