skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's amazing that one person can do all this. It really takes a huge amount of dedication, knowledge and high IQ to invent a language from scratch alone. I think he is trying to Rustify Golang which is a thing I always wanted to do before giving up entirely on Golang.
URL is in the README

wget https://vlang.io/v.c
Go is to c as Java is to c++.
I found a bullet in my roof. It was only a .22, but it was facing straight down into the roof, stuck maybe 1/8" or 1/16" of an inch into it.

I was amused and showed it to my neighbor one day and he immediately (and seriously) told his wife "See, I told you we should move out of this neighborhood"
I looked at the examples and saw ":=" as the assignment operator. That brought back memories of my first Algol programming class back in 1969.
Having spent my early youth in a "developing nation", this is laughable.
Correct, w2 is one character (latin small w with umlaut) represented by two unicode code points. I didn't realize there was a NFC code point for that character; try "\x66\xCC\x88" (f̈) or "\x77\xCC\xBB" (w̻) instead.

> the number of characters should be in a string isn't always clear-cut.

This is why I use examples from latin-with-diacritics, where there is no ambiguity in character segmentation.
The material itself isn't radioactive, it's just contaminated with radioactive particles.
My bad, I thought it was journalism not opinion.
Probably has the most sympathetic victims and has near-zero chance for self-dealing.
> since Equifax made it publicly accessible

It was stolen, not made "publicly accessible". You or I could never have accessed it, it took a sophisticated team months to do it.

Don't forget the Yahoo! and Marriott breaches, both of which were considerably larger than the data "Equifax made [...] publicly accessible".
> The FTE citizens rarely visit the country where the other 80 percent of Americans live: the low-wage sector.

This assertion is completely unsupported, and as it turns out wrong: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/05/through-an-....

> Overall, regardless of how middle class fortunes are analyzed, the material standard of living in the U.S. is estimated to be better than in most Western European countries examined.

The median disposable household income in the US is $60,000, versus $44,000 in France. That’s the median—it’s not skewed up by the very high incomes at the top. (Even that requires some adjustment. The median age in the US is 38, versus say 47 for Germany. The median German is at the top of their lifetime compensation curve, the median American is not there yet.)

At least in Maryland, California, etc., at that income level, a family qualifies for ACA subsidies that limit health insurance premiums to 8-10% of income, comparable to the health insurance payroll taxes in many european countries.

There is an attempt to popularize the idea that in the US it’s the top breaking away from everyone else, and that doesn’t happen in Europe. If you dig into the data, where the US diverges the most noticeably is actually the bottom 10-20%. And that’s a direct result of the middle 70%. The pay far lower taxes than in Europe, which funds a much less generous welfare state.
This is interestingly similar to the Star Trek episode "Thine Own Self" where there is a village similarly interested in radioactive material.
> America’s underlying racism has a continuing distorting impact. A majority of the low-wage sector is white, with blacks and Latinos making up the other part, but politicians learned to talk as if the low-wage sector is mostly black because it allowed them to appeal to racial prejudice, which is useful in maintaining support for the structure of the dual economy — and hurting everyone in the low-wage sector. Temin notes that “the desire to preserve the inferior status of blacks has motivated policies against all members of the low-wage sector.”

Contrary to what this paragraph implies, this is a misperception that both parties exploit. All too often does the left claim that white privilege lets one go through life on easy-mode [1].

[1] https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/mar...
All the horrors of Nextdoor, brought into meatspace.
In related news, I imagine things like "drone shot" will get even more popular, as liberty-minded Americans will likely invest to rebel or form counter-culture around anything that assists the surveillance state we live in.

ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF2tnFC_q8A

Or if you want to get really serious about it, try Skywall: https://openworksengineering.com/skywall-100/

There's also an increase in "anti-drone" drones. Drones armed with nets designed to take down intruding drones.
how does the performance compare to a simple ocr reader?
he delivered, where are the haters ? :)
I've been talking about the decline of the interior for a decade or more, and listening to politicians and academics on both the left and the right (who mostly live on the coasts) deny it.

If nothing is done about this we are going to get someone way worse than Trump. Whether it's a right or left totalitarian probably depends on which side can field a compelling demagogue first. Ultimately the politics won't matter much as long as pitchforks are handed out.
> The median disposable household income in the US is $60,000, versus $44,000 in France.

I don’t think median disposable incomes are very comparable across countries because of what people chose or have to use this money for.
Yeah, I tend to agree

Developing nations don't have a long queue of people trying to get in unless a really hard issue comes along (think Venezuela and Syria level problems)
So it seems like if they're playing the long game they would have fixed their 32 bit issues a long time ago. From a software engineering side, relying on 32 bit libraries seems like big pile of tech debt.

I've been experience a similar issue trying to get people to migrate off Python 2.7. And managers keep prioritizing features over the "long game".

Now if you say they're prioritizing the platforms with the larger customer bases, that makes more sense. And it's not the long game, its just enhancing the profitable side.
> No GC
How does that improve upon Go? Memory safety is much harder without a GC
All a terrorist would have to do is a few minor operations on domestic soil, then stand back and watch as the country folds in on itself. Like airport security x 1000.
There was a lot of promises. Give people time to test it.
To me, the most important characteristic of a developing nation is widespread corruption down to the lowest levels. I don't mean just politicians being bought by lobbyists, that happens everywhere, but when you have to bribe every public official to get anything done, or have to bribe doctors in hospitals before they even look at you. Is this the case for most people in America? I didn't have that impression when I visited.
My data is me, I own it. Any one using it for profit owes me my cut.
The devil is in the details, but if there is an agreement about what defines "harm", then the libertarian remedy would be civil or criminal liability for that harm.
You would think so, but these days the people running those small rural towns call long term knowledgeable professionals the "deep state"
> Removing that functionality would render driver, OS and embedded development a pain.

It would be worse than "a pain", it would actually make it impossible. There is no way other than "volatile" to guarantee that a load or a store to/from a particular memory address happens at a particular time (AFAIK).
This idea that vendors should seek to actively break working software simply because it's "old" is repellent to me. I use several 32-bit apps and components regularly because they continue to function better than the alternatives. Many are unlikely to ever be rewritten or replaced because the developers, ecosystems, and business models that made them possible are today either gone or moribund.
Sorry, I was out.

Ok,

f(x) = cuberoot(x^3)

f(0 + eps) = cuberoot((0 + eps)^3) = cuberoot(eps^3) = eps

e.g. value is 0 and the slope is 1.
Also, When I was living there, I heard it's an easy way for the municipality to make more money. Might not be the reason, but those were the rumors in the Third Ward/Museum District neighborhood.
Hum, well, you opened the topic, and you've dragged me much off-topic only to leave me in the woods.

I guess you've very effectively trolled me. And for that, my hat off to you ma'am.

Have a good one!

(If you're actually a real person, note that you initially came across as a conservative with a silver spoon and at least 6 figures of net worth based on the opinions you hold, so I figured my best strategy was to convince you I wasn't just some socialist out to tax all your money and give it to the poor. )
> At least in Maryland, California, etc., at that income level, a family qualifies for ACA subsidies that limit health insurance premiums to 8-10% of income, comparable to the health insurance payroll taxes in many european countries.

Are California's ACA plans any good? Ours are all still ruinously expensive if you happen to actually get sick and are poor enough to qualify for any help with the premium. Even the more expensive "good" ones suck.
I agree there's a phenomenon happening here and elsewhere where being "normal" doesn't cut it anymore, meaning if you're just an average person of average intelligence you have it harder now than someone in your shoes 40 years ago to live a good life. OTOH, if you're extraordinary in some way, and smart enough to know how to capitalize on it, you're in a much better position now than someone who was equally extraordinary a few decades ago.
"As the code base improved, kdb+ releases became faster – and smaller."

This is what I always strive for. Although I've only met Arthur a couple of times, he has been a huge influence on me as a developer. Besides some shared personal interests, his development philosophy that simplicity and consistency produces performance and malleability (to be able to constant add, subtract, or write).

He's on the top 3 developers I try to model myself after. While he's a god among men, his products (A+, K, KDB, Q, and now Sakti) make others mortal also gods among men by just learning to think and use his tools. My co-workers I'm sure get annoyed at my code-reviews ("delete this", "rthisewrite fir first with that then delete the second", "delete all this and return this",. ...) where I consistenly call for deleting a remodeling code to be as minimal as needed. I'm brutal about it - as I learn from K and it is partially Arthur's fault (and another dev I look up to). Maybe now they know where I picked part of it up.

https://shakti.com/ is his new distributed database project that is still somewhat hush hush, (and he not the kind of person that plays buzzword bingo - so I assume he has something special planned). I cannot wait to see how that turns out. I don't know if he's ever produced a bad product.
When I look at the great list of features, then actually look at all of this code written in V, I’m pretty underwhelmed. The code doesn’t look that much different from writing C, except it has more Go-like syntax. The language doesn’t seem to be assisting the writing of code very much, certainly not as much as claimed.
When I saw your "Rustify" I assumed V has a borrow checker, which it turns out not to have.

Having immutable variables, no null type and option types is not enough to make a language Rust-like IMO because dozens of languages have those things.

ADDED. Now that I know more, I see you have a point: V and Rust are the only 2 languages I know that have immutable variables, no null type, option types and no automatic memory management (i.e., garbage collection): https://vlang.io/docs#memory
> It’s a way of seeing everybody all the time. Fundamental to liberal democracy is the ability to have sacrosanct private spaces. That is where the life of civil society exists. It is where our own personal lives exist, where we are able to pursue our dreams and passions. And it is often where we hold power to account. When you uncover those spaces, you fundamentally put all of those things at risk.

Are satellite surveillance not already a threat in this sense? I have heard such images have a resolution down to 1 cm.
How I set up SSL with Let's Encrypt for my SaaS customers' dashboards
>...the lawyerese is the source code...

Inasmuch as that's even possible, yes. The problem is that even this "language" is open to interpretation by courts.
If it's disposable income, it doesn't matter if you put it in a pile and set it on fire, or choose to do home renovations. The fact that it's disposable means that it's left over after all of your necessities are taken care of.
Indeed, I grew up in a 'developing nation' that was quite livable. Not starving children in the streets. Even then, no where near the US standard of living. Small island, no running water, ate fish caught from the sea, electricity for 2 hours on Friday, one or two small trucks, transportation was on handmade fishing boats built from the palm trees.

I only visited the US a few times in my childhood, and it stood out like a fairytale land in my dreams. Today, the standard of living in the US is even more advanced than when I was a child 30 years ago. The US is still a mythic land of legend for most of the world today.
> The median disposable household income in the US is $60,000, versus $44,000 in France. That’s the median—it’s not skewed up by the very high incomes at the top.

You can't compare raw numbers. What's the cost of life? Cost of transport? Cost of healthcare? Job security? Quantity and quality of public services?
As someone living in a third world country, I can't help chuckling every time I see people discussing "poverty in America".
The French person with a $44k/year salary has probably received free education, healthcare, childcare, pensions paid by employer, and other benefits over decades which together have more than made up the difference.
Not going to happen. Or should I say that you'll have no applicants for your next CEO opening.

How about prosecuting the people exfiltrating the data? Seems like they should be 100% liable for their actions.
Isn't it usually game programmers who advise against GC because you can't predict when it will run and the performance impact it will have.
This has sure been my experience. I graduated with a CS degree from a typical state school in May, with a couple internships under my belt, and have only had job offers so far have been less than half what is reported to be the median pay. Most places don't respond at all even to decline, I'm given no indication many times that they read my resume / cover letter.

Is this what a 'industry that can't fill its positions' looks like? Is this what unemployment being 'too low!' looks like? All these indicators seem fraudulent, and the facts on the ground seem more akin to what this author is postulating. It is hard to imagine what the economy used to be like at its peak, where one could allegedly find a reasonable job at the median pay-rate for the industry, when you are pretty much qualified, without applying to several hundred places.
There are non-portable means in most implementations (via asm extensions). Obviously, this is more work and much less convenient than a volatile keyword that gives you the functionality.
Does it? I wonder if it accounts for how much more middle class Americans have to spend on their healthcare infrastructure than their french counterparts.
The obvious implication of farming it out would be that instead of simply being beholden to your neighbors, you would concentrate power in whoever or whatever group is paying the firm. That seems strictly worse to me.
More importantly, disposable income is just income after tax and thus not a very useful reference: a difference in tax rates and services (e.g. cost of rent / mortage, healthcare, transportation, …) will skew this to very limited usefulness.

Either gross or discretionary income is a somewhat more useful point of comparison, disposable seems the least informative / most misleading comparison possible.
>The median disposable household income in the US is $60,000, versus $44,000 in France.

That’s an apples-to-oranges comparison, since the French household receives many essential services - such as comprehensive health care and low-cost higher education - that the US household does not.

I wonder if anyone has done a study that attempts to quantify and compare benefits across countries, or whether such comparisons are even possible.
Is Facebook tracking what we type and don't post?
I came across some articles about the self-censorship study done in 2013 about how Facebook was tracking everything we typed and deleted before we even posted it, but didn't keep the content of the post, just metadata.

Then I came across this video (uploaded in 2015):
https://vimeo.com/124922671

In the video it looks like the text was being sent to their server, but I've also read here on HN a few others have tried it and it doesn't.

I've tried to test it for myself using Chrome DevTools and it doesn't look like the text I'm typing and deleting is being sent to their servers. I didn't see any network requests and I did a performance analysis and still didn't see any network requests, but I'm also not a developer, so I don't know everything to look for and now I'm confused.

So I'm here to ask, is Facebook tracking everything we type then delete before posting? If they were, wouldn't it have to be shown in the network requests?

If you have a few minutes to try it out and let me know I'd appreciate it.
GCs are good for some things and bad for others. I wouldn’t want to write an OS with a GC but I also wouldn’t want to write a web server where I have to manually allocate and free memory. It’s all a trade off.
I tried to install it, but you have to have the very brand new Windows 10 update release 1903.

So I tried to install 1903. 1903 is not available for my system, because I have a USB drive installed. [1]

All my spinning disk storage is an external enclosure, including my /user roots, so it's not something I can unplug.

Guess I'll be sticking with ConEmu for a while longer.

1. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-m...
When pigs don’t fly: UBS faces a China backlash because of a quip about pigs
Right that was how RH started. And once RH stopped caring about the desktop space, that gave room for Ubuntu to step in.

The linux desktop has always been a loss leader to getting inroads into the server space with paying customers.
Yeah, you'd think. But a lot of people who write code in solely Python and JavaScript just see it as an inevitability of programming. Much as I'd imagine people thought you'd always have to manage memory when programming. Or that programming would always involve punching cards and having to debug via hex dumps. Often times when a new technology like automatic memory management or strict, sound typing becomes available, people will only see the loss of freedom/control and not the corresponding benefits. They won't see it as "oh I lose X to gain Y", but just "I lose X".
Not in this case, no. Cyberpunk literature themes generally involve massive economic discrepancies and mega-corporations functioning as governments.

See, for instance, the fiction of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_gibson
It is not in my opinion. With modern development tools/frameworks providing memory leaks detection I have completely forgotten when was the last time that my programs leaked memory. And I write complex high performance game servers that run for months non stop. You just have to acquire certain culture/behavior when writing code.
It absolutely does not compete with the dollar. And that is very deliberate. Because it's not a cryptocurrency. Its a scam that Visa and PayPal designed so that they could block Bitcoin etc. and continue to get a cut of digital transactions.
> I look at it this way, how many have been driving on a long trip only to glance in the rear view mirror and see a bridge behind you that you do not truly remember driving under?

Attention and memory formation/retention are not the same thing. The mind tends to discard detailed memories of routine tasks that have been mastered. If I ask you to tie your laces, would you remember which hand touched the laces first? It doesn't mean you weren't paying attention - only that it wasn't memorable.
IIRC, you could still run these apps on Snow Leopard in VirtualBox by using Rosetta. It's PITA but I would still say they should offer Snow Leopard image for the purpose of having Rosetta support.

I'm not saying Apple will do anything like this but it would be nice of them to do it.
No, the disposable income is just income after taxes. You're thinking discretionary income.

Which would probably a better point of comparison as disposable income is greatly skewed by how necessities are taken care of (aka how much is handled by the state — and thus through taxes — versus left to the individual).
The definition of disposable income here is merely income net of taxes.
Dirty, rotten double crossing story of what happened to the Italian American mob
mkdir /var/tmp/vlang0.0.12 fixes the Segmentation fault for me

EDIT: Not needed anymore
> Just because automatic differentiation is a different technique than numerical differentiation doesn't mean it isn't a numerical method.

It does mean that. Pls see the overview paper http://jmlr.org/papers/volume18/17-468/17-468.pdf in particular section "2.1 AD Is Not Numerical Differentiation"

> substantial arguments to people that try to temper the breathlessness

Which arguments in particular?

> our comments regarding math and science always give me the distinct impression that you know the name of a lot of things without knowing much about the thing.

Ok be more specific, which ones do you care about? Maybe I don't always have time to answer everyone.

> some universal concept of duality

It's the concept of adjointness. And yes, it's very universal.
I'm actually surprised the difference is that small. I'd guess the increased retirement savings, unemployment insurance, disability insurance, college savings, daycare costs, and so on the US household would have to purchase to match the effective benefits to a French household would be way more expensive than $16,000/yr. Like, double that.
Title should also say "Citizens/inhabitants of the United States of America". America is a continent (also Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania - listed in alphabetical order)(not counting the N/S Poles). Americans are the people who live in said continent. I also think we gave the website the HN-kiss-of-death :)
Need a recipe for jellyfish. Locusts with honey is good so I read.
How about EMP cannons?
https://shakti.com/

the new project. Arthur has a tendency to turn mid stream sometimes. I'm sure much of that code was used in this new DB he's working on (db's and os's are quite similar).
I'll concede there are certain commenters on HN who put me in mind of the worse parts of Reddit.
Yup, for instance The Cave can't be run on iOS anymore, because it was developed as a 32b application. It's just one of a thousand.