skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quick question;
Whats been the performance like, specially with Go's GC. I know snake is probably not a project to push the language run time to its limit but still would love someone to chime in. I may be wrong here but i assume that GO's GC is more geared towards concurrent data access tasks like web servers.

I am currently evaluating 2 tiny frameworks; ebiten and oak. Oak is super interesting as it doent uses sdl/glfw etc in its core. But has a rougher api. Ebiten on the other hand feels very frinctionless.
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That's fair, insofar as I'm unfamiliar with the mercurial commands.

It's unfair insofar as it does what I expect it to, which is to diff between what I'm curious about, and where I am.

In other words, if you elide the second argument, it defaults to wherever HEAD is.

The point being, this is not something I personally need to look up. I'd venture a guess that your familiarity with hg is interfering because the conventions are different.
The fact that kmix was downvoted indicates with the problem with a LOT of the youth today. I grew up in the 80's during the cold war. I remember the freedoms we "had" in the USA, and how people defected from the communist "utopia" of the USSR. When I was young I learned that our constitutional republic is based on the assumption that people in power are corrupt. And believed in quotes such as "When the government fears the people there is liberty, when the people fear the government there is tyranny", which gives a rather obvious interpretation to the second amendment. You can have the type of weapons that will cause the government to think twice before taking away our rights. Or "People who give up liberty for safety and security will have nor deserve neither" A deliberate nod to the fourth amendment. The war on drugs is due to completely ignoring fact that the federal government has enumerated powers. Probation in the 1920's was only legal because a constitutional amendment had to be made. We have things like "Enhanced Interrogation" and Prison Rape, a deliberate ignoring of the law against "cruel and unusual punishment" which is just accepted with out second thought today. I could go on and on, but it's become clear that something that my dad told me years ago is true. In a Democracy, you get the government you deserve.
It was peak America mostly for straight, white, Protestant men.

It was not peak America for gay people. Or for blacks. Or for women. Just a few years later, America was worried about having its first Catholic President.

But, who wrote the stories, and directed the films, and set the cultural memories about that time?

Why weren't the Roaring Twenties peak America? Quoting Wikipedia:

> This period saw the large-scale development and use of automobiles, telephones, movies, radio, and electrical appliances being installed in the lives of thousands of Westerners. Aviation soon became a business. Nations saw rapid industrial and economic growth, accelerated consumer demand, and introduced significantly new changes in lifestyle and culture. The media focused on celebrities, especially sports heroes and movie stars, as cities rooted for their home teams and filled the new palatial cinemas and gigantic sports stadiums. In most major democratic states, women won the right to vote. The right to vote made a huge impact on society.

Why isn't now peak America?
Interesting. I've long suspected the dropship arbitrageurs had existed on Amazon for a while, but I thought they had long since become unprofitable, or at least this Amazon to eBay channel had. Could you go into more detail about this? I'm sorta curious about how big the market is.
What you say, in other words, is that swift is biased to run on iOS. I think the tradeoff are rigth and work well in practique.

Probably if swift get more traction in server side, is where the difference from GC (that in other words, are BATCH ORIENTED memory managers vs SCALAR ORIENTED) then the need to improved things will show up.
I remember when Neverwinter Nights 2 came out touting that all of its data files were in XML for ease of modifying in user extensions. So I had a look and was it XML? Was it fuck, it was like a GeoCities novice's idea of how to code HTML - absolutely unparseable in any way unless you're the idiot who decided what the codebase needed was another shitty homegrown parser.

And yes, plists suck and make your XPath selectors ugly, although you could write a function to abstract them out.
China warns it won't tolerate dissent in Hong Kong
database version of this is datomic (closed source).
Are there any others?

browser version of this is datascript (oss).
Rats love driving tiny cars, even when they don’t get treats
Airbnb reviews are practically useless. Numerous of times I've been to 10-20 good-reviewed apartments that ended up too dirty or noisy so I had to go to a hotel.

Also, for no reason Airbnb prohibits from sorting by reviews or price, so I've developed this script - it's super userful: http://sakurity.com/airbnb.js
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_retention
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With 16mb ram and 32mb flash, maybe it could run the Linux kernel:

- the board is based on the STM32F7 chip

- https://elinux.org/STM32#STM32F7_based
Exactly for this, I have built https://IncidentOK.com which sends alert over email/slack to user if any third party services like this reports an outage or incident.
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Heterosexual white men are the most politically, culturally and financially powerful demographic in all of human history. Don't worry about them, they'll be just fine.
Does your Fitbit have a cellular connection? He explicitly said he wants something that allows him to leave his phone at home.
I ended up replacing several fitbits in my family with Apple watches. The $199 price point is very compelling.
I like some of the principles of agile but like the problem is the ceremonies chew up so much time. I have an none technical project manager who is absolutely in love with everything agile. I am in a project where basically 3 of us are going to do the work. I sit next to one of the people but we still have to have daily stand ups. I am one of those people who works in longish chunks, I can sit for two solid hours or more and not move if I am in the zone. But now because Agile says we need all these meetings and ceremonies I feel like half my week in is in the agile meetings or preparing for these meetings. Yes I have raised these issues but been overwritten by management. I am in Africa so I cannot just get another job.
>Apple Watch doesn’t natively, and even if it did, you still have to charge it at night

The way around that is to charge it earlier in the evening before bed - I do that and it lasts me easily until the following evening.

But it's a shame the device doesn't cover sleep natively.
Haha, I wish I had known these things back in the day! :-D

Thanks, interesting.
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How to Build Your Own PyTorch Neural Network Layer from Scratch
If you moved in with someone, you would at least have another person to face this question with you.
At my current place of employment, I don't find git to be super performant. We do have an ugly monolith of a repo though.
> microkernel vs. microkernel debate

For others that are not familiar, you mean the microkernel vs monolithic kernel debate.
Oof. Goodbye Fitbit. Or, rather, welcome to the world where you're a pawn in internal politics.

You may think you have a product but you don't. If your product survives (as in, Google didn't buy you just for the team), your product schedule will have to survive the interests of every other PA/team in Google.

- You think you have software to run your products? Ha. The Android team will have a different opinion.

- Even if you survive Android, Fuchsia probably thinks you belong on their paltform.

- Oh and while we're at it, let's integrate with OAuth2.0 so your device now needs a Google account to even work (and stops working when refresh tokens can't be used as happened to many Google wireless routers).

- Your software development is now set in stone as various teams work out how to migrate it to Google infrastructure and rewrite it in [language/framework du jour].

I actually agree with other commenters: Google just doesn't know what it's about anymore. It has no overriding vision. Larry just isn't the leader Google needs to be, which would be fine, except that he clearly wants to be.

Disclaimer: Xoogler.
Raw audio files are pretty massive.

A .wav file is 16 bits/sample x 44,100 samples/sec ≈ 700 kbps. Thirty seconds of that is about 2.5 Mb, which is a reasonable size for a photo. However, you wouldn't be able to send nearly that much data, since you'll be limited by various kinds of noise.
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By providing better healthcare, sure.

Most rich people are usually willing to pay good fraction of their net worth to live 10-20 years longer.
I'm traveling in Europe and get a cookies/privacy notice on every single site. There's no new information provided. It's just obnoxious.
Regardless of what you think of this plan its absolutely stunning in terms of the wholesale changes to the way Americans receive healthcare and are taxed.
Employee provided health insurance guarantees cheap labor and easy to abuse employees who must make a very hard choice if they are to lose health insurance.

Who would lobby for changing that balance and who would finance the campaigns of politicians that support such a reform?
The speed of branching in git, compared to subversion, was a huge part of convincing me to move. Not an entirely "fair" comparison given that subversion is a centralized VCS, but speed is very important.
This is a pretty long article that just states Googlers are talking about a lot of things while actually doing nothing.

This is basically the "thoughts and prayers" equivalent for the tech world.
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It's more amazing to me that this modern powerful hardware can't emulate technology from 1983 without overheating.
You need an iPhone. The square design might not appeal to everyone
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That's awesome! Do you mind linking your podcast? Curious how it's structured and topics. I was also thinking about doing a podcast but only whine and push my thoughts on my fellow few followers in my blog right now.
You’ll love Lab Rats by Dan Lyons. Highly recommended.
I've got a stylesheet I wrote that turns HTML or XHTML into a fully indented and highlighted representation of itself which I was quite proud of :) I used to spend a lot of time writing XSLT and XQuery lol.
I wouldn't blame anyone for not trusting them, but here's their page on it:

https://policies.google.com/technologies/retention?hl=en
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If they are so unhappy, why don’t they quit? It isn’t like they don’t have other companies hungry for their skills. I’m not defending Google since I don’t know enough of what’s going on, but if people are that unhappy, then quit. If Google starts to struggle to find workers and they are seeing an exodus, then naturally they’d have to correct course. That’s how markets work.

It feels sometimes like Google is a kindergarten for grown ups and now is the part of the day when the kids threaten to hold their breath until they get what they want.