skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was for sure "ego flexing", or, I'd say trying to be sarcastic about guys who are unwell with Arduino.
Arduino itself is completely fine, but hardcore hardware guys aren't always happy with amateur who tend to use Arduino everywhere, without taking actual needs of the task into consideration.
Like, Arduino shouldn't normally be used in space as it's components are not radhard and are not certified for such uses.
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The use of French in diplomacy was primarily an outgrowth of it having been the court language of continental Europe. You also had dominant languages for other purposes--for certain fields of science, you sort of needed to know German.

But as the world increasingly globalized, there were a lot of forces to have a fairly universal language. And between the once huge British Empire and the industrial dominance of the US post-WWII, that language naturally became English.
Is There a Black Hole in Our Backyard?
It's luxury consumption. The fact that it's annoying to deal with records lets people think on some level that they're participating in the creative process rather than just loading an awkward machine. Pop music has always been sold as an identity.

edit: It's also merch, people are just buying them to support the band. I bet a surprisingly large proportion of records are being sold to people who don't have record players.
are you familiar with deposits in parts of the world? The aluminum cans have 10c stamped on the lid, and the bottles have it printed on their labels.

I couldn't be bothered going to a recycling depot so I would leave my recyclables outside next to the bins. People would walk around afternoon/night collecting all the recyclables with deposits from people's bins (recycling and trash).

It seems far simpler than your proposal.
Thats interesting, I use it for linux kernel work, what part was slow ?
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This sounds interesting, thanks for the link!
I've come to the same conclusion about startups vs. FAANG - I finally buckled 3 years ago and joined one, my initial grant 3x'd and my refresh grants 2x'd...that's a lot of wealth that startups weren't giving me, not even going into performance bonuses.

Startups can be a good deal for a founder though since VCs seem to be getting them in on the payout train too, but it just doesn't seem worthwhile enough for me otherwise to give up the gravy train for something that will likely pay less and be guaranteed to grind me to the bone.
The thing is we (the US) did do this at one point in time. When I was a kid you could buy a coke in a glass bottle and return it when done to be re-used by the manufacturer. For some reason we stopped. We should bring that back.

When I was in Mexico around the early 2000 they still did this. When you buy a drink you could return it for a few cents back from the vender.
JSON is now at the point where yes, it does makes sense to optimise it with AVX2 instructions.

https://github.com/simdjson/simdjson
What part of the detection is giving you trouble? Detecting whether a call is recursive, or whether it is a tail call that can be optimized? The first part is relatively easy, you typically have some sort of data structure representing calls and their targets, and you know what function you're currently compiling. If the function you're compiling is the same as a call's target, you have recursion.

LLVM's code is at https://llvm.org/doxygen/TailRecursionElimination_8cpp_sourc...

The core of this detection is in findTRECandidate. It iterates backwards over a basic block, looking for call instructions whose call target is the current function F:

CallInst *CI = nullptr;
BasicBlock::iterator BBI(TI);
while (true) {
CI = dyn_cast<CallInst>(BBI);
if (CI && CI->getCalledFunction() == &F)
break;

if (BBI == BB->begin())
return nullptr; // Didn't find a potential tail call.
--BBI;
}

The harder part is detecting whether calls are in fact tail calls that you can replace by jumps. There are all sorts of special cases, like whether alloca() might be called by the function.
> The review process what makes iOS so useful. People can install random software in a way you can’t safely do on Windows

Counter opinion

Billions of devices are scanned everyday thanks to specialized software that do it locally

They are called anti virus (also check for malware, trojan, backdoor, rootkit etc. etc.)
Have you used other languages here? Can you give a code example where Go shines here?
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> Companies don’t let you use production code in any language you choose.

You might be surprised. At most companies I've worked at (over a dozen) that's largely true. Three jobs ago I was product architect for the entire company and spent a significant part of my time fighting just this kind of language proliferation. However, it's a very different story at a large company. Google seems to try pretty hard to keep this under control. OTOH, Facebook (where I work) prides itself on a "bottom up" "engineer driven" culture in which any such top-down prescriptivism doesn't fly. Don't know where the others fit in along that spectrum. The situation gets even murkier when code is inherited via acquisition or imported from open source. So such code often exists, whether it's "supposed to" or not.
Even back to the founding of the US slavery was a huge legal and moral problem. It's pretty clear to a disinterested party that the entire system is monstrous and incompatible with the concept of a free society, but at the same time it's a huge industry with enormous political sway. Trying to form the US without slavery means losing half of the states you are trying to pull into the union.
100% recycling would be a disaster since recycling almost everything other than aluminum has a larger carbon footprint than making new. Additionally it would do almost nothing for plastic pollution since microplastics come from textile manufacturing, paint, tires, and other airborne particles from dense human population zones. Macroplastics largely come from dumping that's already banned under laws we don't bother enforcing.

"Recycle everything" is a mantra for people who care more about feeling good about themselves than the actual mathematics of our environment.
I feel like the challenge of explaining fundamental constants understates the strength of anthropic reasoning. Most regions in space are empty voids — why aren’t we in such a void right now? Being anywhere near the orbit of a star is extremely unlikely a priori. Why are we on a planet with oceans teeming with other life forms, instead of a barren rocky desert, which seems to be the norm for planets in general? Why are we exactly on the surface of that planet, as opposed to being 1,000 kilometers up in the sky or down underground, swimming in hot magma?

These are the questions where “Because those are the only conditions suitable for your existence to happen” is so obviously correct the questions make you roll your eyes. Applying the anthropic principle to fundamental constants is a speculative extension that might be right or wrong, but there are plenty of mundane coincidences that have no other answer.
The paper "Individual identification via electrocardiogram analysis" he is referring to [1] conclusion is: "Identification rate resulted equal to 94.95 % while the equal error rate equal to 0.92 %"

[1] https://biomedical-engineering-online.biomedcentral.com/arti...
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Oh it's much worse. It's all mixed up together, no sorting. I doubt any of it actual gets recycled, except maybe the metal. It's such an obviously terrible program that surely it only exists to funnel money to someone's cousin, or something. Ineffective, and directly causes several trash-devils swirling down the street every year. Been that way for at least a decade, and there's little or no agitation to eliminate or fix the program.

[EDIT] that is, I meant the bins are all made of plastic, so light and prone to blowing around or tipping, not that it's a bin dedicated to plastic. We don't sort, here, all the metal, cardboard, and plastic goes in the same open-topped plastic containers. No glass collection is done whatsoever, as it's not permitted in regular trash or recycling, so you have to sort that out on your own.
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Degrading environment is leading to economic in-stability. The chickens will come home to roost.
Parent mentioned FAANG and to my knowledge of FB, Google and Apple, they all let their teams choose whatever is the best tool for the job, including new languages (including developing new languages, for example Reason).
It gives me the creeps every time I see someone heating up their lunch in an old plastic container. Old dairy containers with snap lids are very common. It must be leaching so much garbage into the food. I can’t tell if that’s phobia due to bad science or these people are actually gradually poisoning themselves.
I wish Rust's non-x86 support was a bit better. I wish I had time to jump in and help on the MIPs target. I wish I could figure out how to cross-compile to ARM/ARM64+uClibC. I wish I had a pony, too.

Very exciting to see a language tuned toward reliability taking off like this.
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always spawning a thread is of course the naive implementation. You can put an upper bound on the number of threads and fallback to synchronous execution of async operations in the worst case (for example inside the wait call).

If your threads are a bit more than dumb os threads (say, an hybrid M:N scheduler) you can do smarter scheduling, including work stealing of course.
yet... sometimes it makes sense to leave some things to a pro. you should be able to ask for help.

I remember - a long time ago - reading the 7 habits book and the stages of maturity were - dependence, independence and interdependence.

So being a completely independent self-contained person is only stage 2.

It's a good stage though - personal sovereignty where you can do ANYTHING - but the next step is to do bigger stuff with others.
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Except now we have session and application protocols built on top of HTTP using additional software, which according to OSI would be additional layers. You can in a lot of cases use the standard to achieve this, but frequently enough we don’t.
Thing is, the people that care about privacy and security are often the often the ones understanding and developing the privacy conscious and secure apps we hear of.

Like any product however, if people don't care you won't survive and that's why none of the privacy conscious alternatives survive.

Only legal requirements have really made secure, privacy conscious or locally developed alternatives viable.
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Do German manufacturers still pull tricks like selling a slightly smaller amount of pasta/sauce/cheese/crisps/juice in the same sized container at the same price?

Happens all the time in Canada/USA. Funny how they switch to the common metric or imperial sizes where it fits their interests. E.g. a lot of pastas went from 1kg to 908g, while pop bottles went from 560mL to 500mL.
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You know, I actually thought you knew what you were talking about and were going to have something thoughtful to say. To answer directly: nope, this does not help at all. I was expecting something like a discussion of, I don't know, pertinent micro or macroeconomic forces, maybe something about elasticity as applied to housing, or citation of some article illustrating how a change in financing in one region had a measurable impact on prices and the number of buyers, or something of that nature.

Instead you are condescendingly lecturing me about the shape of the earth, and telling me the rest of it is so obvious you can't bother explaining it. But even I know we haven't run up against absolute geographical limits, and to to the extent that the shape of the earth is an influence, it one among many, in a process that is also mediated by additional influences, as well: constraints of availability of housing already built, the rate of new construction, changes in financing, population growth, people's savings, changes in how many people choose to stay at home, etc. I was waiting for some economically literate discussion of those kinds of elements.
Those that buy yachts and islands are a lot less frequent though. It's obscene, I agree, but it's not like everybody was well-off if you just nationalized Jeff Bezoz' wealth.

You don't have to wait for the market, you just need to make sure that proposed policies aren't massively affecting the lower classes. Food insecurity isn't a good foundation for a stable and peaceful society. When you're artificially generating it, you might want to take care of the poverty first, not the other way around.
WCH CH552G programmable chip is 30 cents:

http://www.zoobab.com/ch552g-blink
I understand not actively supporting it, but why hate or actively try to work against it?
Why is China's relative improvement even remotely relevant to whether or not we should allow communications systems it controls to operate within the United States?
one time my roommate called me from ... very far away... He said "come get me, I've biked too far".

and I drove for like an hour or more to bfe and got him.
Nice, he can get a shed in South Kensington now. Nice and close to Imperial.
I'm not the biggest fan of Epic Games or Tim Sweeney and it's probably a drop in the ocean, but Epic did donate $25k to Lutris.

Why do this if Tim is "incredibly hostile towards Linux"?

Seems more like indifference to me.
Mr. Sweeney is welcome to make his own mobile operating system and charge whatever rate he wants.

He's personally worth $5.3 billion.

Surely that's enough to take Android Open Source Project and make his own version.

It's easy to burn down a store that you think charges too much. It's harder to make a new store that people will like. Maybe take the high road, Mr. Sweeney.
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I find the argument against anthropic arguments to be weak.

* The terms life and intelligence lack formal definitions.

* The predicate why lacks a formal definition.

* The argument does not address the maximum number of possible configurations of the universe, which dilutes any quantitative arguments. Most importantly, the cardinality of the maximum number of possible configurations is not addressed. For example, the possibility of an aleph number [0] was not addressed.

* The argument does not address qualitatively different structures of the universe, such as universes with discontinuous lengths or types of affine spaces [1] where measurement as we understand it does not exist.

The list of concerns above is not exhaustive, and I don't think addressing them individually will necessarily salvage the argument. While stronger arguments for or against the anthropic principle are possible, I think they deserve much more rigor.

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

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_space
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Without that pressure Intel and Microsoft would have become even more evil. I think that MS and Intel needed a giant punch for the anti-competitive things they did or tried to do. Intel is still crippling AMD CPUs and they just have to put somewhere one the web a disclaimer(well hidden). If Intel could lockdown their CPU to run only Intel approved apps then Linux and the BSDs would have been hit hard, maybe OSX would not have existed (Apple used and still uses open source code)
Already works, doesn't need bringing back!
> doesn't have the Brideshead Revisited hangover of Oxbridge

I've watched and read Bridehead Revisited. Just curious what aspect of it you mean here: the aristocracy?
Well, luckily with Apple hopping on board I'm sure they'll put the effort in to ensure they can compile to ARM targets.

A Rust + Swift, massively cross-compiled future sounds pretty nice actually.
Huh I'd be interested to know more about the aluminum foil, since at a place I regularly get takeout from they wrap some of the items in aluminum foil (to keep it warm)...
Translation to American:

I'm scared shitless right now tho
Interesting concept and quite liked the playful logo. Can we pass in env variables to db connection ?

We are in similar space, we take input params of db and generate CRUD apis with Auth+ACL and then APIs are packed into a single lambda function. There is support for serverless framework as well.

[1]: https://github.com/xgenecloud/xgenecloud
> No. My whole point is that you're clearly happy in your benevolent dictatorship.

I wouldn't call it that. I'm not really sure it's a dictatorship. But whatever.

> But it really doesn't suite me. I just told you the reason I'm not happy, and you handily dismissed it as "not compelling". Which is fine. For you it probably isn't. For me, not having root on a device I own intended for general purpose computing is literally a no-go on every front. It's not just insulting, it's a literal threat to my source of income. I find it just as crazy as if Volvo told me I could only drive on Volvo certified roads. They may be great roads (the best roads, which will never damage the car, guaranteed!) but I don't give a shit. I bought the car to drive where I want to drive. I buy a computing device to run the software I want to run.

I think the crux of the problem is you're buying something with different expectations than you should have. If Volvo in this case said hey we sell a Volvo car and you can only drive it on Volvo roads, then if you got mad you couldn't drive it on other roads YOU bought the wrong car.

There is nothing stopping you from buying an Android phone and rooting it. As an iPhone user, as you mentioned, I want exactly what Apple is providing, or else I'd buy a different device. So when you want to change the product I like for your own benefit, then we'll certainly be at odds and I'll continue to support and campaign to maintain what I desire in the iPhone directly against you.

> So you claim that a new product will arise when Apple decides that you don't fit in their dictatorship, but watching what's happening with Google and search right now... Well, I'll quote you - "I just don't find this compelling"

> Google is still the only player in search. Youtube is still the only player in video. New products are at best fringe products that don't gain traction, because there's a clear monopoly effect in play here.

Certainly disagree. Google has quite a few competitors, Amazon, Facebook, Apple itself (searching via Siri in iOS versus a web browser) not to mention incumbents like Bing and DDG who have taken a little bit of market share. There are alternatives that work just fine. As for Youtube, Spotify is coming after them and then you always have new products like TikTok, or streaming services like Twitch.
I particularly like wearied experience dripping from 'Weeks of coding can save hours of planning' :)
"When normal sense makes good sense, seek no other sense."
The biggest problem with checked exceptions is that the application writer decides what is a recoverable error. Not the library designer. I could easily imagine a program where SQLException is a recoverable error. But I don't write those types of programs.
dude, get with the program :)
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Randomise the choice of lawyer.
Sure, it's larger than CDs. But there used to be the same with CDs, albeit in a smaller format.
I think this post's assumption that intelligent life is inevitable is unsupported. Just because lots of systems are Turing complete doesn't at all imply that intelligent life or even life in general is likely to arise from a random initial state. There's no support in the post for this jump in logic.

I think the solution to the Fermi paradox is that intelligent life is just spectacularly unlikely, and that we're the only intelligent life in the observable universe. I think most people reason that we're probably not that special, that our conditions aren't too rare, and that the likelihood of intelligent life given those conditions must be somewhat good, but I don't think any of this reasoning is valid given the anthropic principle. I think the fact that we find ourselves in a world where we're alone is evidence for the sheer unlikelihood of life.

If there were many values of the fine structure constant that could create a universe with any life at all, then I would guess that across that range of values, there would be more variation where some values would create a universe with rare lonely life and some values would create a universe where life was more plentiful. In that case, we would be more likely to find ourselves in a universe where life was more plentiful. But if there were a tighter range of possible constant values that create a universe with any life at all, then I would expect less variation with only universes with rare lonely life. Given that we find ourselves in a universe with rare lonely life, that seems like evidence that there isn't much room for variation in the constants while staying life-supporting.
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Aristotle is nothing if not astute. If you’d like more, I highly recommend Nicomachean Ethics.
We need a large number of samples when we lack sufficient understanding of the system in study. But if we assume our current knowledge of physics and biology are good enough then we should be able to find the best(whatever definitions is used) without needing multiple samples. We use multiple samples to create a model but if a model exists then non-contradicting samples add nothing. Although we could have a large discussion about bayesian epistemology regarding my last statement.
Your point is very valid, in retrospect I think that I shouldn't have changed the title.
I'd argue that the complexity of the laws is a tree. It looks enormous, but it's about splitting the hairs finer and finer on edge cases. Simple laws are just laws that are less completely specified.

So the real complexity only grows at a log factor with the total size of the law.
I really wanted to like Ghost but it seems out of touch. Like the only social media options by default are Twitter/Facebook, the plugin system is just zapier connections, themes are limited, and when I tried to self host because the official ghost hosting is expensive I only ran into bugs with it. After spending a week with Ghost I moved to Wordpress. I wish I could use the themes on Ghost with Wordpress because all of the ghost themes are what I want for my site. I want the nice parts of Ghost with a Wordpress backend.
> Given that smartphones are just an optional, convenient luxury item

A smartphone is not a luxury item.

It is a productivity device.

It is a general purpose computer, no matter how Apple wants to say it isn't.

It is also a vital machine for participation in the democracy. For many it is the only way they can talk to others and to their government representatives.

> An iPhone is like a video game console

The minute that video game consoles have "games" that are text editors, file editors, web browsers, email clients, etc, they stop being gaming platforms and become productivity devices that replace the household computer.
I definitely shop based on price. I look at different products in the App Store and then I see what their prices are.

> The 30% fee is non-negotiable which guarantees a certain level of price gouging.

Well, if you don't want to pay that to get access to the user base that Apple created and maintains then don't pay it and don't have your app on the App Store. This is pretty easy. Heck, companies get around this all the time (Spotify for example).
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Take a look at https://glitch.com/, you could easily host static pages there.