skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your retort might be formulated too dramatically, which makes it easy to dismiss (or downvote).

Having said that, yes, when I came across that sentence you quote

(> Most fundamentally, I’ve always thought that the United States had a more profound respect for human dignity.)

I had to chuckle as well at the (then) naïveté of the author. Apart from immigration, the incarceration and homicide rates I’d also adduce capital punishment, the issues surrounding policing and race, as well as health insurance.

Still, much better than many other countries! But certainly not near the top.
How interesting this might be depends on why it crashed. It's likely the compiler that compiled the Beam VM not producing the correct code for Apple silicon. If it turns out to be in the Apple ARM OS or possibly hardware, then it gets more interesting. Also, many top posts on HN these days I don't find newsworthy but I wouldn't say so categorically, just to me.
25.* is not larger than 10.*. What problem does this solve?
That just bites.
Is there an iMessage support for Apple? I never knew that. I only see website chat and phone (call back) options in India.
It's still cool:

perl -nle '/\b\w{4}\b/ && print' dialogue.txt
NanoGUI – Minimalistic C++/Python/WebAssembly GUI Library for OpenGL
In China, you only qualify for one year (and I think now 3 year for special cases) working visas and you have a really hard chance of obtaining permanent residency. Almost all foreigners are temporary residents. So while you can come and work...you aren’t supposed to immigrate.

Plus you are subject to political whimsy if your country of origin does something the CPC doesn’t like (even if you are Canadian).
Dynamic linking has been a thing for 50 years. No need for WASM for that.
Clear case of optimising the wrong thing.
If you read the paragraph at the top, it lists other "similar" IPs. It's not strictly accurate.
> I think I subconsciously attributed it to the fact that the US President uses Twitter as a major tool of communication, and many journalists followed suit

I think you've got that backwards. Journalists quoting tweets to construct the desired narrative gave legitimacy to twitter.

Trump rode on those coat-tails. His birther campaign should have never gained mainstream traction but the media couldn't help themselves from reporting on a conspiracy theory because Trump is a salacious figure.

They Streisand effected his entire campaign and presidency.
Brain aneurysm is truly something terrible, I lost a friend to it a couple of years ago. (She was 22 at the time and in good health). She just woke up one day in the middle of the night with a headache and had to vomit. On the way to the hospital she fell into a coma and never woke up. Really scary.
This is like the RISC vs CISC debate: 25 years ago some of the loudest individuals proclaimed that x86 was dead, and we’d all be on MIPS/PowerPC/SPARC/Alpha. Reality doesn’t always match up with idealism.

Engineering has a habit of advancing due to incremental improvements. The ICE still has room to grow and become more efficient.
Damn, I loved watching Myth Busters and Grant. I'm very sad to see he has died so young.
No. At seven transactions per second, and 157,680,000 seconds, the network doesn't have enough capacity in a five year period for every person in north america and europe to do one transaction.

There's plenty of capacity to transact via the Lightning Network—over 13,000 nodes and 37,000 channels: https://1ml.com/statistics
Surely this is the wrong way around!

People on Twitter pay too much attention to journalists.

Tech Twitter needs some sort of filter to keep them out.

From PG’s Twitter a few hours ago:

> You can protect anything from unreasonable people by making them build something in order to attack it. Unreasonable people can't build

https://mobile.twitter.com/paulg/status/1282689679649800196
You can define any executable in the $BROWSER environment variable which will be executed whenever antigravity is imported.

You could execute a 'curl` which directly pipes into 'bash -c'.
I don't think we realize how much "work" some people have had done.

Take Elon Musk. It's amazing how his hair grew back and that's he's aged so well considering the stress he's under. Hair implants, Botox and a nip and tuck here and there will keep you looking your billionaire best.

I was oblivious to this type of thing with men until my wife started pointing it out.

It's no wonder that among the things that money can buy is happiness if plastic surgery improves your esteem and how people react to you.
Journalists looking to twitter for the "pulse" of culture or current "narrative" is akin to creatures of the jungle who sit under mango trees and wait to consume rotting mangoes that fall beneath the tree. After a while, they don't mind the stench, they're lazy and intoxicated without exerting much effort at all.
Widespread banning of individual owned vehicles would prevent far more deaths and amongst younger people too. Millions saved. Millions more “life years” saved. Pollution reduced.

The science is also very clear on that.

Is that what we want though?
Nostromo has been consistently spreading misinformation about the pandemic on HN since it started. When are they going to be banned?

Having a wide and healthy discussion on this site does not require that we entertain people advocating mass death.

The constant refrain that this isn’t a big deal seems belied somewhat by the five hundred thousand dead people.
You paint an incredibly unfair picture with your comment.

British Columbia shutdown hard and fast, controlled the disease well, and has daily case numbers in the single digits.

Ontario fucked everything up, had massive spread in their care homes, and still has hundreds of cases a day.
was just watching mythbusters a few hours ago for the first time in years.. RIP Grant

Not sure about the timing but I wonder if Hulu was recommending the show because of his death or it was just random
The ICE has no room to become carbon neutral with efficiencies that are even comparable to electrics. Getting from electricity to liquid fuel to movement probably has losses exceeding 90%. Electric cars on the other hand are like 80% efficient.
You’re facetious, but I agree with GP’s point that the high esteem in which many foreigners hold the USA (primarily foreigners that have never been there) is based on depictions from glamorous movies and TV series.
https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/418878main_FSWC_Final_Report.pdf

NASA averages something like 0.1 bugs per 1,000 lines of code, industry average is closer to 15.

Surely there are other factors, like testing, linting, and language choice that influence the number of bugs.
Absolutely brutal. When I saw the headline I was almost hoping he died in some kind of bizarre robotics accident.
> Then, unless the startups you talk bought multiple geographically distributed datacenters and deployed their own submarine cables, they were not working at that scale. Don't exagerate.

No, you’re right. Totally exaggerating, but that was seriously their mindset. “We can’t use an SQL database, it won’t scale to a billion users!” I strongly suspect the team talked about where they’d deploy their data enters and the risks of using other people’s cables - only _partly_ in jest.

The one I had in mind specifically while writing that were fighting with sharded MongoDB clusters, eventual consistency, and auto scaling app server fleets, while not having 1% of the user base I support with a more complex app on a handful of t3.medium spot and on demand instances, and a dB.t3.large rds aurora database. I know it’s always hard to reliably forecast when your current solution’s vertical scaling capability will runout and you need something more scalable than a stateless monolith with a vertically scaling SQL database behind them, but they were easily three maybe four or more orders of magnitude short of that inflection point. I have zero doubt their kinda good idea could have scaled to high seven or low eight digits of revenue before needing any heroic platform architecture. Well before that became a necessary problem to solve they could have had a 50 person engineering team with leadership who’d done it before to solve that problem for them.

And I totally agree with your “neglected codebase” problem too, I’ve spent the last 18 months or more on a “rewrite the old Grails backend code in Java” journey, which has gone about as smoothly as they always do /\/\/\/\... We’re now finally in a place where the Java platform is as good as the old one in most areas, and betting in some important ones. But of course we now have a bunch of “legacy clients” who are not (and may no ever be) migrated of the Grails platform, and I’m fighting very hard to avoid the worst of the “neglected codebase” problems that’s gonna throw me over then next few years while we solve the legacy client problem (and COVID isn’t making it any more likely that some of out government clients will upgrade is the need to pay to do so...)
Please read the context. We were discussing the borrow checker and memory management, not other features.

Regardless, there are other languages with better type systems and functional features.
The typical retort to home/un-schoolers is about "socialization." The article addresses that here:

What stood out, he adds, is that “many more said they felt their social experiences were better than they would have had in school.” Sixty-nine percent were “clearly happy with their social lives,” he says, and made friends through such avenues as local homeschooling groups, organized afterschool activities, church, volunteer or youth organizations, jobs, and neighbors. In particular, “they really treasured the fact that they had friends who were older or younger, including adults. They felt this was a more normal kind of socializing experience than just being with other people your age.”

For me, the last bit about having older and younger friends is something dearly missing from the typical school experience. Regimentation by age is present nowhere else in life, and I think it hinders lots of people straight out of school.

Aside from not having friends your age, "adults" are also made to be the enemy through the power imbalance in a typical school. This makes it a bit harder to adjust to the real world in a subtle way that many take for granted. Early career professionals should be drawn to the most senior members of the organization to get the most knowledge they can, before that experience retires out of the company.
> you will never connect to a 25.x.x.x IP

Unless the UK decides to sell it. An IPv4 /8 is worth at least $250 million at the moment.
This whole piece reads wrong for me.

The United States has been disenfranchising its own citizens for decades particulary economically.

Students from around the world should be allowed to stay but this world view is so foreign, pun not intended, from my perspective as a mixed man from a broken background.
Quite a lot of the Americas, Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Australia, etc have bad public transport. From your username and use of the British-style "transport" rather than American "transportation", I'm guessing you have some connection to Hong Kong. I am quite willing to believe that's one of the places with good transport. But it's nowhere near the global norm if you look at the over-200 countries and separately administered regions/dependencies/teritories around the world.
Can anyone comment if this document 'Covid-19 in school children - A comparison between Sweden & Finland' is an official report ? I'm unable to find it by browsing or searching for it on the website.
We were talking about the borrow checker and memory safety, not about memory limits, access patterns, etc.
During the ARM announcement they said they would be contributing support to open source projects, and Homebrew was on the slide, along with a dozen or so other major projects (though Homebrew itself represents hundreds). I do not know what form that assistance will come in.
The Mythbusters were incredibly influential in my desire to pursue engineering. I also liked watching Battlebots, seeing all the crazy things they would come up with...

I wish the best for his friends and family.
These all seem to want to stop you, but who do I call to get help committing suicide? I've been in this bathtub with this damn toaster for an hour, nothing's happening.
Sure, but renewing your work visa is easy enough as long as you are of value to the industry you work in.

It's not nearly as bad as the H1B system.

If e.g. Alibaba really wants you on their deep learning research team the government isn't going to say no.
That's really sad.

Grant seemed like such a genuine, kind-hearted intelligent dude.

My condolences to his family.
So very sad to lose a hero, I was lucky to be crammed right next to him at Pershing Square in a very crowded group at the March for Science in Downtown Los Angeles a couple years ago. He was very friendly, I was starstruck. I wish I could have chatted with him more.
> doesn't make sense on a logical level.

The commenter was a) comparing two rates (incarceration rate of minorities) between countries by providing their ratio, and then furthermore b) providing an additional related piece of information, namely an absolute level in one of those countries. Perfectly sound, logically and all.
I proctored one of the tests administered by KL7AA (Anchorage); I know GLAARG (Los Angeles) is also doing online tests...
The Cost of Mistake in Hardware Projects
Fair enough. I wanted to mention that Rust is not the only language that targets WASM since you talked about maturity.
I mean. Vehicles do provide mobility at the downside of pollution in a world designed for vehicle mobility. Its a non trivial and expensive change.

Masks protect for cents a day from a deadly disease leaving many people with damage for life, crippling medical bills at the downside of what exactly? Many professions wear them day in and day out.

People have forgot that government means making choices we may not want but have to,
That's... Okay, yeah, that's fair. The libraries are pretty awful.
"Inside Nick Denton's phony, hypocritical class war against tech workers":

https://pando.com/2013/12/26/look-whos-gawking-inside-nick-d...
Short answer: lots of people wanted Bitcoin to be decentralized PayPal… but those people lost.

Bitcoin is a store of value; it's base money. It's the rainy day stash for when things go to shit. Not necessary a global economic collapse but bad nonetheless.

Here's a rational prodcast description of the store of money vs. payment rails: https://stephanlivera.com/episode/185/
> This makes me want to take more risk in life

Depends on what type of risk. Some risks make you die earlier.
And those things are entertainment, they show what people want to watch.
Hi! If don’t need any pre processing we have built in support for all the major librairies.

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People have a hard time admitting that the normal school experience is often a negative socialization experience. When it's good, it's good, but it should be obvious that alternatives can also be good.
Your comment does not make any sense.. there is a difference in choosing where you will be while attending college vs. being required to leave the country. Many students do not avail of dorms post freshman year.
Obviously. But as further reading exposes, the inverse is not always easily memorable -- or even easy to to compute! The inverse of the normal distribution, specifically, needs estimation of an integral to compute.
Honestly this hit me harder than any announced passing in the last few years. What a brilliant and pleasant human being.
Making NSF more like DARPA?
How to run an open source software company
Grant warrants a black bar.
Digital EiR
That isn't what I'm talking about here. It's most obvious on passthrough: there's simply almost no sound being picked up by the ambient mics.
Bassists are great because you guys don't get bogged down with traditionalism like us guitarists. Active pickups? No problem. Solid state amp? No problem.
If you get married you can make all the headaches go away. Just saying.
Grant and I lived in the same building in San Francisco for a while and I met him at the HOA-run functions. Always a delight to talk to about his crazy path through life. He was a good man and I'm really sorry to hear of his passing.
Oh we sell a path to American citizenship, but it's not the international students. It's the EB-5 visa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EB-5_visa The purchase price of US permanent residence is as little as $900k, and until last November 21 it was as low as $500k.

Sure, the international students often don't pay that much, but in many cases they don't end up with good access to permanent residence either, let alone citizenship.
> non-US mainlanders

should be US non-mainlanders
> I'm also arguing against it being provided in the stdlib because Rust is big in avoiding "you're holding it wrong" kind of answers

Even if it was true that Rust is big on that, such a function is not "holding it wrong", it is just a matter of convenience and development speed vs. performance.

For the vast majority of code it does not matter whether you allocate a few times or not. The timing difference is in the noise.

Let Rust be a convenient language rather than a PITA.
Shorter code block doesn't mean unclear code.

Besides, in your very implausible example (unless there's some underlying library - or an esoteric language maybe?) 1 line of that code (apparently) replacing 1000 line of clear code can have a comment to explain itself.
You are very wrong here. Ethanol as an ICE fuel could be done carbon neutral very quickly thru yeast, and battery technology will probably never reach comparable energy densities in weight limited applications (mobile applications). We may engineer a society where the limitations of batteries are not limiting (because we/goods never travel far), but only a fool thinks you need electricity as an energy source for carbon neutral ICE.
find a fun challenge you personally enjoy solving, and start with some high level languages to get some experience of what "coding means", and slowly give yourself time to learn, through trial and error, copy other people's work from places like github and "check out" copies to work with, see if you can get things to build, or "compile" and run, and be patient, take your time, keep it interesting and fun, and find groups to work with, at least 2 or 3 peers learning at the same pace as you, and a few mentors to learn from, folk you can easily meet online, join some meetup.com groups, virtual and in person, dial into googel hangouts or zoom calls where you can to listen, watch, and absorb, and be careful and selective about the amount of content you consume from youtube or similar as it's easy to get caught wasting time on folk who are not good teachers or programmers and you go down a dead end rabbit hole..

start small, have fun, build many things - even start with things like HTML and build a web page you can load with a web browsers, then add some simple JavaScript for popups or forms, don't write off the fun languages like LOGO and BASIC can give you to get started, jumping in too deep too soon will potentially turn you off coding..

you can have a lot of fun with web based programming spaces as well..

here's a fun COmmodore 64 BASIC emulator to play with

https://c64emulator.111mb.de/index.php?site=pp_javascript&la...

here's a fun simple workspace to learn how to program in different languages, try this one:

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/execute_basic_online.php

here are some other great resources

https://www.businessinsider.com/64-places-you-can-learn-to-c...

https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/learn-coding-online-for-...

https://learntocodewith.me/posts/code-for-free/

https://dynomapper.com/blog/410-top-25-websites-to-learn-to-...

https://skillcrush.com/blog/64-online-resources-to-learn-to-...

have fun!!
My take is that lots of extremists are on HN, and they dislike with what you wrote.
Most of that stuff depends on explicit CREATE STATISTICS commands being run in order to work around column correlations and stuff like that. The general assumption of independence among columns/attributes is pretty universal (as the paper actually says).

One of the most useful areas for future improvement is making plans more robust against misestimations during execution, for example by using techniques like role-reversal during hash joins, or Hellerstein's "Eddies".
I agree, I had hoped for a RC, instead we pinned a version in our own Artifactory. But I'm glad it's there now.

I was following that long-running issue #3070 for a while, and discussing it in our team we thought that this project was maybe not going to make it. And yes, we are discussing maybe trying to contribute (though it's a slow-going discussion). This is an important project for the Spring ecosystem, or at least the way we're using it, that I don't quite see an alternative for. So yeah, again, glad it's there now.
Yeah after 1980 or so the 'cold war' was just about siphoning taxpayer money to the military industrial complex.
Too much of anything happens on Twitter. People evolved to resolve conflicts face-to-face. It's so easy to interact on Twitter in a way that very few ever would in "real" life. It doesn't feel good to be mean to someone's face, especially if they seem like a mostly nice and reasonable person (as most are). Take that away and we naturally fall into toxic shout matches that go nowhere and slowly emit a cloud of intangible tension and stress that hangs over everything.
Indeed. 1989.

The major ramp up of military power came with Reagan's presidency.
I think, the new RON oplog is the biggest change.
> The BHR

I assume that's some sort of contrived neutral nickname for the ship. It's the Bonny Dick to sailors and always will be.
It’s not old. It’s not new. Wasp classes have a half-century lifespan. It’s one of the newest Wasp classes to be commissioned. You still have plankholders on active duty. By ship standards this is not an old ship.
Why would we have table references all over the app? We still use centralized models, just not ORMs.

Have a class representing a table and methods where you hit the database and map the response to an instance of the class.

It’s nice in a typed language when I map what the query will return and the compiler enforces it.

But not all my queries map to a class, but it’s not a big mess since we only use statically typed languages on the server so I still need to map the result to a tuple or dictionary of not a class.
A fun way to learn more about the original mathematicians involved in cracking the codes and later creating the cyclometers, is to see the movie "Battle of Warsaw 1920". It is a wild movie about the Polish Russia war. There is a group of mathematicians that we meet in the movie, who decide they want to do their part to defend Warsaw, against the Bolsheviks. Their treatment - familiar, and their actions - brilliant; make for a somewhat humorous, but also educational story. You also learn about the last cavalry campaign, and this little known movie about a little known war, which was historically extremely important(to Europe, and therefore to the West.) (Find it with subtitles!)
I'd love to hear how you arrived at that conclusion (that somehow military spending before 1980 wasn't the same as post-1980).
Yeah it’s a harrowing situation. I look forward to seeing an accounting of what happened. This is a catastrophe for the Navy.
Definitely. I've seen tethering implementations that put the tethered device on its own NAT, behind that of whatever network the host device is connected to.
Interesting, but only 75 responses (and selection bias) make me wary about drawing broader conclusions.