skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> GC is whatever technology that enables what you've called automatic memory management: a kind of illusion that there is infinite memory, from the programmer's perspective.

That's definitely not what McCarthy meant by it. I understand that's probably a common view nontheless, but I can use sbrk() and the fact my computer has gobs of ram/swap, and I'm not going to call that garbage collection. I don't think this definition is useful.

If you re-read what I wrote now understanding what I mean when I say "garbage collection", perhaps we can talk about strategies for providing that infinite view of memory instead.
I do think there is more of a feeling of attachment to the machinery with manual transmissions.

Germany is a huge exporter of precision-engineering so there might be a cultural sentiment there.
Being explicit gives the compiler more information to work with, enabling more optimizations.
Be super careful as you do that research - check the Terms of Service. Some, like Truecaller, are harvesting your call activity and network and reselling it.

It appears Hiya and Nomorobo have sensible policies.

However...

The problem is the completely randomized neighbor calls.

They are “calling from” real numbers belonging to real people.

Hiya Premium has neighbor blocking, but only prefix by prefix, and you can’t bulk add the prefixes.

It appears adding a prefix adds every individual number within that prefix to the phone’s block list, and each call block plugin can only block so many numbers, so the more prefixes you have, the more plugins have to be enabled.

“WideProtect” aims to simplify this, your mileage may vary:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wideprotect-spam-call-blocke...
Please stay away from artificial sugars. We have no idea what diseases they might be causing.
This reminds me a bit of Erlang's "let it crash" philosophy.
Absolutely. Tight coupling between data set instance and function that manipulates this data seems to be the current definition of object-orientation (as opposed to something more philosophical like "living entities communicating together", which is a bit vague IMHO).

Rather than having one big memory chunk, and one big function chunk (like the old DATA DIVISION and PROCEDURE DIVISION of cobol), you divide thoses into smaller data+procedure bits that idealy map to existing concepts from your domain.

That seems like a much more effective way of seeing the thing. Although once you start adding parallelism and asynchronous communication, you do probably end-up in something closer to the Kay definition.
Some times people say "What if $COMPANY goes evil?". But if Google couldn't make G+ successful, then them going evil shouldn't be too concerning. They're clearly not as powerful as one could think
Google Play is changing how app ratings work
Yes, but grass is not fruit and also protein from grass is useless for human nutrition (it would be quite the nutritional revolution if it was somehow made bioavailable for humans).
Because that doesn't work in schools favour.
Maybe we should have a sticky article at the top of HN for NYTimes' weekly Facebook bashing opinion piece?
The imports/exports are balanced.
> Yeah... no. Half of the German electricity is coal-based

And a good third comes from renewables without having any meaningful hydropower opportunities [0].

> Combined with the total stop of nuclear energy, and the unsolved problem of storing/distributing renewable energy

There are still 7 reactors running [1] just like on-going research into nuclear fusion [2]. Both are far more difficult problems to solve than electricity storage, which has comparatively research potential versus nuclear fission projects which have the actual unsolved problem of where to "finally" store that waste for decades and centuries.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_electrici...

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Kernreaktoren_in_Deu...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendelstein_7-X
U.S. campaign against Huawei hits a snag south of the border
> (There technically is a way to munge a property name in Python but its use is discouraged).

Do you have a reference for that (i.e. the discouraged part)?
I'm against direct democracy because I don't have the expertise or the time to make informed decisions about everything my government is currently doing for me. Direct democracy will likely devolve into a reign of demagogues imho.
Are you implying that there is a system free of flaws that we have yet to discover ?

First, "democracy" is pretty vague, do you mean direct democracy, representative democracy, presidential democracy, &c.
Then "democracy" isn't a fixed thing, it's been changing continuously for thousands of years. 500BC Athens democracy hasn't much to do with today's US version of democracy. So no, we don't "keep it flawed".

Democracy means "power to the people", the way you implement it might be flawed but the underlying principle sounds very sane.

> think how software evolves. now think how democracy stagnates

Change doesn't necessarily mean progress. You don't get to "move fast and break things" in geopolitics.
Service meshes make in-cluster mTLS a more-or-less automatic feature, which is worth having. Some will terminate TLS at ingress and convert to mTLS internally. The argument above is that you shouldn't do this and should instead plumb that ingressing TLS traffic all the way to the container.

The downside of plumbing directly to the container is that you lose many of the routing features of a service mesh. If it can't inspect the traffic, it can't do layer 7 routing. It can only route and shape at layer 4.
Not a matter of taking 8m2 for personal use but rather of eliminating 8m2 for green, parks, pavements. Adding friction for pedestrians with unnecessary traffic lights etc.

In a city bikes and public transport should be all you need. Cars do not belong in the city.
Both sun and sgi had business models built around premium margins and couldn’t adapt the the mammals underfoot. This phenomenon is one of the things that The Innovator’s Dilemma got right.

Apple’s in a slightly different position in that they bank a more profit sun/sgi ever did and are pretty aggressive on COGS so if/when they lose their exalted position they will have a lot more room to maneuver. This is how Microsoft managed to survive its sag (decline is too strong anword) towards irrelevance and recover.

IBM was in the same situation as Microsoft but though Gerstner managed to right the ship, his successors were not able to re-ignite growth (to mix metaphors)
Why just facebook? Why not Amazon, Google, JPM, Disney, etc?

"Chris Hughes, a co-founder of Facebook, says the company is so big and powerful that it threatens our democracy."

"threatens our democracy". I've heard this talking point so much that it has no meaning any longer. It's just another of the oft-repeated talking point created by PR firms as part of a propaganda campaign.

If facebook is truly that powerful that it "threatens our democracy", then it doesn't say much of our democracy does it? I'd say the people attacking the constitution and our rights are the real "threats to our democracy". Facebook is far down on the list of "threats to our democracy". 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.

If Chris Hughes, "co-founder" of Facebook truly feels this way, why doesn't he just created a competitor to facebook. It isn't that difficult to create a social media platform. Though it may be difficult to get users.
In some cases corporations literally do write the law:

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/investigations/2019/04/03...

https://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
Interfaces or bases classes where all methods are pure or empty are often used to implement messages in awkward ways in mainstream OOP languages as the languages lack proper union types.
>that we are inherently the good guys in any international conflict.

How else could any human or organization function if not by acting in ways they believe are right?

>The reality is our government has interests.

The reality is everyone has interests. The "government" isn't some homogeneous entity pushing towards a single plan; it's an incredibly complex network of individuals.

The nation isn't perfect, but does anyone really believe that, on net, America hasn't been a force for good in the world? What is your benchmark?
This morning cops called me to tell me I had 5 min to move my car or it would get towed.

When my wife was pregnant the hospital called me to say she'd been admitted after falling in the street.

Surely hanging up on anyone not in your contacts is a bad idea?
Red meat, eggs and green vegetables is always my goto to lose weight. It's easy, because it's just cutting out the rice, pasta, potatoes or bread from what I would eat anyway.
> a lot of dentistry work tends to be aesthetic

Is this true? This is so far from my experience I'm actually curious what the numbers are. If you have a study on this, I'd love to read it.
> But all of these are much cheaper than developer labour and reputation damage caused by leaky/crashy software.

Exactly! And that is the biggest advantage of not relying on a GC, it is easier to detect awkward usage and requires more thought upfront (but not any more than what is actually needed).

This results in less bugs and easier maintenance.
>anybody who gets tired of anti-Chinese submissions constantly being pushed on the front-page

It's not really anyone who gets tired, it's the accounts that revert to whataboutism whenever the communist party is criticised, flat out deny things like the Tienanmen Massacre, and spread a lot of hate when something happens that the CCP doesn't like, such as a Tibetan woman being elected president of a student union.

>anti-Chinese submissions

Anti-CCP. It is important to note that criticism of a government does not constitute hate speech towards the citizens. This is another tactic used by propagandists.
> for the vast majority of applications, I'd gladly give away 50% of the CPU.

Don't you think you're over-generalizing a bit much from your own circumstances? If these issues don't matter to you then you basically don't belong in this conversation. They matter a lot to people who write software that runs on large numbers of servers, with both CPU and memory utilization pushed to the limits. That's a lot of us. If you have a million machines, even a 0.1% improvement on either axis is huge. That's racks upon racks worth of equipment that doesn't need to be installed, powered, or maintained. If I could save 10% of 10% ("nothing" according to you) across such a large fleet, I'd be a hero and I'd be rewarded accordingly.
I grew up US rural and this checks out with me. I'm sure not every rural community had this era, but I bet a large number did.

(I highly doubt it's still like this.)
Of course the question is painted as competition for space use. It does not change my original reasoning.
Morning's Side Project: Working Capital Forecasting Tool
I just submitted my own RSS feed using curl and jq, by doing this:

$ RSS_URL="https://www.grepular.com/rss"
$ FEEDI_TOKEN=$(curl -sX POST https://feedi.me/tokens \
| jq -r '.data.attributes.key')
$ curl -X POST https://feedi.me/feeds \
-H "Authorization: Token $FEEDI_TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-d "{\"url\":\"$RSS_URL\"}"

As per the API docs at https://github.com/davidesantangelo/feedi
His pro forma girlfriend has to be sore in the chass, due to zuck being full ghay and all.

PRo form it! Ghay zuck for the win. Fools no one.
That is like saying please stay away from vaping as a way of stopping smoking. Great advice if you can, horrible advice if you can’t.

Perfect is the enemy of good.
Don’t think this is correct. My list of devices is littered with the old devices I restored backups from onto new devices. I have to do extra steps to wipe and remove a device to be able to be adopted by new homes.

That said, it is a pet peeve of mine that the new phone from old backup workflow doesn’t prompt for a new device name or to rename the old device. Reusing the name can be confusing if/when you still have both devices.
What Is a Topological Ordering?
This step of removal at least theoretically hands power back to the people, though, as people can vote out corrupt politicians, but can't vote out Zuck.
Bitlone
Hi everyone, my name is Ciro and I am a game developer.
Two weeks ago I did a game called BITLONE and published it on Apple appstore
https://itunes.apple.com/it/app/bitlone/id1461361804?mt=8

and google playstore
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.badbonesproductions.bitlone

To play the main game (arcade), you need to solve all the puzzles but some people said to me is too hard to solve it, also with the hints (are almost solutions...)... can anyone try it and tell me where I need to change it to do that more playable? Thanks in advance and my best regards

Ciro
That animated Windows logo in the IE status bar brings up a lot of memories. Did it have any real purpose?
It's a vicious cycle inherent in capitalism. Companies with a substantial amount of capital have the power to exercise decision-making about where to invest, what to invest in, how many jobs and what kinds of jobs to create or reduce. In order to avoid any economic meltdowns, politicians are doing their best to sustain the system and stimulate growth simply by balancing the interests of wealthy people, disregarding the interests of the wider population.
The title is big but the amount of substance in it is low.

Not sure if there is anything new discussed in this short essay.
It's not a rebranding. IntelliJ IDEA is still IntelliJ IDEA and is still owned by Jet Brains.

Android Studio is just Google's own version of it.
Would you be providing similar context if The Nation or Huffington Post would be the source?
What about New York Times or CNN?
Adopt democracy 3.11 where large private organizations are also subject to democratic rule
> On servers, idling CPUs is the norm.

The competition for "least true statement on HN" is always fierce, but you've just submitted a contender. All the people who have lots of servers work really hard to coalesce workloads and drive up utilization. I know because that's what I do, and it's what everyone around me does. It's why the cloud you use is cost-effective. The machines that are mostly idle are clients, not servers.
> Specifically, they used 10 problems from the Computer Language Benchmarks Game

Yeah some "actual data" right there.
Reminds me of the 2003 Norwegian comedy Kitchen Stories

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_Stories

> Swedish efficiency researchers come to Norway to study Norwegian men, in an effort to help optimize their use of their kitchens.
>Why so many government/intelligence agency people are working in media. Why so many children of politicians ( Bushes, Clintons, McCains, Cuomos, etc ) have prominent positions in the media?

Do you know what race also has prominent positions in the media?
I only work in GCed languages, so I don't know how manual memory management works, except segfaults in some courses at university. Guess I should quit my job, as you say I apparently can't really code :/ Thanks for letting me and others here know!
That's exactly what the astral pirates are - a growing worldwide movement of people who don't want the next decades of our lives to be defined like the last one was: 1.5 hours of mayhem, bouncing and jostling through tubes full of people full of worry wrapped in expensive headphones only to be deposited into well decorated offices in London to try to solve difficult problems. I failed at that - the really difficult problems can't be solved in that way.

Sure, a corporation might be able to launch a cloud product, the engineers might be able to scale out and secure the cloud offering. And more abstractions will be layered upon the human experience and more "wealth" will be created. But then we have to spend 1.5 hours desperately trying to rush back to a small slice of ?life? and then spend an exhausted hour trying to code some freedom into the FOSS. But this is not how free software or free culture or free society will come to be.

Locking on in front of oil company headquarters and doing mass sit-downs at major London landmarks are great but Astral Ship is one of the very concepts which can create viable and sustainable alternatives.

There's a huge emphasis on linux, local services (filesharing, fedwiki etc). The concept of a pirate ship borrows from federation, decentralize, etc. But it gives a centre - a ship. There will be many ships helping each other out. If you're not able to make the voyage watch this space anyways: an astral ship in nature on the edge of London has been designed and planned for some time as well.
PayPal will also stop letting you refund the percent they take out so you will be holding the bag when you refund a customer.

There is absolutely no reason to use PayPal at this point and any place that only takes paypal should be boycotted.
I'm not a city planning expert, so I have no idea. It's a fun problem, though:

From Wikipedia, Montreal seems to have a lower density than my home city (Porto), at 4k/km² vs 7k/km², but higher total urban population (3.5M vs 1.5M). Porto has very decent traffic (rush hour lasts 2h, entry/exit times peak at 30min).

It's either the total population that is causing stress in Montreal, or traffic planning. Porto did a very thorough change in traffic in the 90s, to great effect. Outer rings to avoid passing traffic going into the city, an inner traffic distribution ring, channels to have traffic avoid the old city center (centuries old, poor fit for auto traffic).
>I think I can give you a simple reason: Hollywood. Through movies and TV shows, America has been defining the mass culture for the past few decades, for almost the entire world.

I think this can conflate cause/effect. Hollywood creates these movies and stories because the people producing them believe the narrative.

It's interesting to me which narratives are questioned, and which aren't. The Vietnam War is widely considered controversial, but World War 2 was about defeating the evil Nazis, period, right? Adam Curtis has some interesting interviews with soldiers in The Living Dead about this topic; often the men on the ground couldn't tell good from bad.
Also execs (both buyers and sellers) choose to underinvest over time.
Stagnates?

Name one country where the democracy system in place is stagnating, and why.

And then in these cases, why/how less democracy would improve the people prospects altogether.
Hijacking Browser TLS Traffic Through Client Domain Hooking – HSTS
I think "surveillance capitalism" has a better ring to it. Maybe "corporate surveillance" if we want to be less ideological.
It's a loading indicator. A far more obvious one than the tiny spinning circles that seem popular today.
https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/bmaqp9/hijacking_br...
> flat out deny things like the Tienanmen Massacre

I'm fairly active on Reddit and I've literally never seen that happen. That's because the Chinese people so deep in historic revisionism often don't even care to begin with and can't even access Reddit in the first place, at least not "easily".

It's usually people with a "anti-China" position who bring up Tienamen square, to conflate it with whatever a given submission is about. As in: "Huweai must be spying because the Chinese government is authoritarian evil because Tienamen square".

> This is another tactic used by propagandists.

Just like conflating issues to give the impression to fight for the only "just cause" [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsehood_in_War-Time#Receptio...
What exactly are you claiming is being censored?

The media regularly investigates and reports on itself.

The press is far from perfect, but you’re alleging a vast and deep conspiracy when reality is likely far simpler:

The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.

Sales and business have little impact on editorial. Editorial flies by the whims of a wide variety of strong personalities.

Politicians and relevant players get columnist and editorial roles because of their inside status and insight (of whatever level of quality that might be).

Suggesting those outlets produce a single unified perspective or ideology is a bit much. Which would explain why you might see contradictory ideas.

I continually stress media literacy as crucial-especially these days. It’s not a mystery to be solved. Most of is pretty straight forward hum drum.

Edited to add:

The Atlantic is a very different machine from WP or NYT. It’s magazine whose content has been analysis and ideas and always has been. Their work will always have perspective woven into their articles. It’s not new to them. But it’s not a conspiracy, it’s part of their business model.
Game developers stick to the rule-of-thumb 16ms (60Hz) update constraint to have updates done before drawing.

Not sure how work can be done on something like KWin without that rule guiding decisions.
The old REST-style S3 URLs are specifically excluded from being able to redirect:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/how-to-page-...

You can create a new bucket or switch your existing one to "Static Website Hosting" mode to enable the ability to 301 your content going forward. But the URL for the "website" version isn't the same as the REST URL. And again, there's no way to redirect from the old naming scheme to the new one.

If you have content that you've ever linked with one of those URLs, it's stuck there forever.
It's very hard to evaluate what's actually going on here. This "post" could perfectly fit in a tweet. No details whatsoever, no details about wether they tried to reach to paypal support and if they got any replies. I'm surprised this isn't flagged.
> it would be quite the nutritional revolution if it was somehow made bioavailable for humans

Cows do a pretty good job of this [edit - for us].

Its kind of funny to say that because Elephants can get all their protein from grass so can humans (unaided by outsourcing to cow) because there are differences in physiology and lifestyle that are more than significant.
I'd be curious to hear how you plan to teach your children to not be overly trusting/naive of adults/authority figures while simultaneously ensuring adhere to your oversight and regulation. It sounds like a fine line to thread.
The first OO language, Simula 67, was exactly like that.
If you are running as a non-privileged user inside a container, which breakouts do you think can be used to escalate privileges to the hosting machine?

All a container is, is a linux process with added security constraints. So, if you're talking about an escalation from an unprivileged process inside a container, you need a standard Linux privesc attack (nothing to do with Docker) and you also need to bypass the isolation mechanisms on that process (namespaces, capabilities, seccomp filter, SELinux/AppArmor)
The rise of fear-based social media: Nextdoor, Citizen, Amazon’s Neighbors
“First everyone goes crazy that people can find stuff on these platforms, ”

I don’t.

I get crazy when effectively censor at the behest of (any) government under the “we’re private” excuse.

I’m perfectly consistent about this. That and our imperative need to break apart the big tech companies (and bank, but that’s a different question)