skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on your compiler.

But as a general rule, the programmer will have a hard time "outsmarting" the compiler by using different objects or abstractions.

Compiler authors have spent many hundreds of combined hours making C code run as fast as possible, and optimizing the switch statement is something they've most certainly done to death.

I.e. if your control flow is switch-case-like, use a switch-case.
But does it support fake news?

WHAT IF TOTALLY RIGHT IS ACTUALLY COMPLETELY WRONG
RUMOR HAS IT
YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS 'Alt-facts in logic'
END OF STORY
LIES! RUMOR HAS IT
YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS 'Fake news are not discovered yet'
END OF STORY

PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE

It prints that "FAKE NEWS ARE NOT DISCOVERED YET!", disappointingly enough.
One problem with this is that it's easy to conflate "addictive" with "people like to use it". Should television shows been punished for cliffhangers because they hook people into seeing the next episode? Breaking Bad had an interesting plot and character progression that made me want to keep watching - are they addicting me?

One person might say "We created all these statuses and features to be addictive" but it seems just as true to say "We created this stuff because people liked it and we are trying to make something people like."
Some feedback: there are a lot of grammatical mistakes on your landing page. My English isn’t perfect either, but I would recommend having a native speaker do a pass over it.
You just contradicted yourself

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24569102
Dynabench: Rethinking the way we benchmark AI
The most popular posts in FB are from fox news taking heads.
Perhaps, but it's unfortunate that so many of Python's design objectives are (in practice if not in theory) so limiting with respect to performance, tooling, package management, maintainability, and other important dimensions of professional software development.

Of course, it doesn't mean there aren't companies who can't be successful in spite of these limitations--if you make enough money you can afford to throw money at these problems and make them better (you don't need efficient compute or parallelism if you can afford to pay a team to set up and operate a Spark cluster for you not to mention the cost of the additional VMs and the additional effort to write spark instead of a native language).
As a consumer, I really like how the AppStore works and I buy iPhones for me and for my family specifically because there is only one store and one way of subscribing and one way of using in-app purchases. I really, really hope Apple win this. I just don't want to have to deal with the possibility that every app is going to have its own in-app-purchase dark patterns.

If everyone that wants to be able to side-load alternate app-stores could move to Android land and leave iOS alone, that would be great.
> As much as I vastly prefer PostgreSQL, I will tell you that MySQL is much more preferred in enterprise settings, probably 8 to 1 in the environments I've seen.

That's largely because enterprises often have big investments in SQL server, OracleDB, and/or DB2, and are only using open source engines for more lightweight purposes, and/or as part of cloud transitions where they are just taking vendor default options or whatever options was supported when they came on or longest.

At least, that's my experience working in enterprise and being literally the single voice urging even considering pros and cons before using MySQL-by-default with no particular rationale in a transition effort (which resulted in us using Postgres.)
How much do you want to bet that Epic and Spotify would pull their apps from the App Store or limit the features of their apps on the App Store in order to force people to their preferred platform?

This isn't even hypothetical. Spotify already refuses to add features to the Apple Watch.
I believe it doesn't uphold the 'spirit' of the law. It's sneaky/sneaking. They could've had a discussion with Apple, or gone to court about it; ahead of time. What they did was sneaking around; plain and simple, and Apple just responded the way they would to any app that suddenly activated a secret backdoor that would violate their terms and conditions.

They invalidated their own potential for legal standing by intentionally sneaking around instead of working through the system like, for instance, LGTBQ+ people (I'm lesbian) did. If something is an injustice; you don't just, e.g. walk into a church and try to get married in a state or country that forbids it. You'll be prosecuted or killed. Doesn't matter that it's not fair.

Apple's stance isn't as black/white, cut/dry as gay rights. But the point is, these guys took the absolutely wrong approach, have made themselves look like fools, and taken away power from people taking the time to properly (e.g. not intentionally sneaking around, which a backdoor switch to violate their terms and conditions is, by definition) try to move through the legal system and make these changes.

All Epic has done is made that harder for real champions of Justice to approach in the future. It's the stuff conspiracy theories are made of. They're not standing for rights. They're standing for profits. Nobody's falling for it, especially not the judges.
But that is Postgres tech and it gave CockroachDB the ability to reuse existing client code for Postgres.

https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/why-postgres/
I would love to see Facebook labeled as a domestic terrorist group for how much they have aided and abetted, and sanctioned accordingly. Make it illegal for companies to do business with them. You don't have to shut them down, but if you make it so they can't earn enough to survive, then oh well. Sorry, not sorry, you're business model wasn't a good one.
Useful functions for game development
> I'm honestly depressed because people rush to defend bad behavior of their favorite monopoly.

In favor of supporting a cartel who will essentially have the same power? I don't think the OP was defending Apple, just that the antagonist is likely just as awful.
> and the database for everyone else

I also love postgresql but lets not get ahead of ourselves! It's great for SQL and as a traditional relational database, but there are plenty of use cases that are better served using other models (especially if you care about _time_ as a concept, then Datomic or crux is probably better suited) [although there are attempts on making bitemporality accessible in postgresql too, like https://github.com/scalegenius/pg_bitemporal]
also, if anyone can recommend an alternative to hootsuite, without a contract with ICE, I’d love to give it a shot.
Quick and dirty - tripwires either on the gates or ground (more prone to false positives) and hook them up to either electronic alarms, flood lights, or starter pistol blanks (if legal).
I think we need to wait to the next iteration to get a totally indistinguishable one, but very impressive still ;)
The MIT license is very permissive and allows commercial use. So why wouldn't you be able to do it, since everyone else can? This is why licenses exist. Just do it. If you get a lawyer's letter over this, you can talk to one then.
Well that's ironic, because a system relying on continuing population growth is inherently unsustainable.
That... was actually very helpful. Thanks - I'm having a look at it now.
There are, it's called network pruning. You generally can reduce network size 90-95% without loss of accuracy with these methods.
The electoral college is undemocratic. I admit that. I deny that it is a flaw.

The Senate is also undemocratic. I admit that. I deny that it is a flaw.

The intent was to create a republic, not a democracy. That difference is why we have the electoral college and the Senate.
Thanks for the recommendation, I used Fabric for local scripting ages ago and haven’t revisited in some time.

Is it mostly the Make-style task decorators for managing the project task list that you consider a win vs. native subprocess.run? Are there other features that you find valuable too?

(Back when the original fabric was written subprocess was much less friendly to work with, of course).
> users having more control over the technology they depend on.

Bit of a chicken/egg problem there isn't it?

I bought the iOS device and depend on it being as locked down as it is—that's why I bought it.

I wasn't force to choose an iOS device for any reason. If I depended on more openness I could have gone with an Android or other device.

Do I depend on having a phone? Yes. Does it matter which one? No—the choice is there.
I generally support the "fight" against the Apple tax but I'd have to agree that this is grossly misleading.

Apple is doing much more than providing transaction services in exchange for their cut.

Whether or not what they do is actually worth 30% is up for debate (IMHO), but it's dishonest to say that that their cut is merely a "transaction fee".
Rethinking AI Benchmarking
pretty sure if you buy an item (game, controller, etc) FOR a playstation, they are paying sony a royalty to produce that item.
Freestanding C requires nothing more than the bootloader be written in assembler and that's an architectural dependency; most I/O mapped, embedded devices simply require the binary be loaded in a specific location (usually an offset on ROM). CRT0 itself can also be bootstrapped in C.

That's quite different than a low-level kernel bootstrap, which is what you linked. Regardless of whether you do it in Assembler or the aforementioned languages, you must build a hoist outside of Golang.
well, anything interacts with anything via gravity
Different words with different definitions. Who cares if people like to use it if it's addictive?

"Addiction is a brain disorder characterized by compulsive engagement in rewarding stimuli despite adverse consequences." Wikipedia
Touchland and Noshinku
You're "narrowly pushing back" on a point I never made. I never made any claims about purpose.
Is Bootstrap 5 ready to be used in production?
There is a lot of work happening in the filecoin area, which I imagine addresses durability. filecoin is built on top of ipfs.

https://filecoin.io/store/
Security and privacy are just like those 200 metres waterproof watches they were selling in the '80s. Most people who bought them hardly went deeper than their bathtub.

You buy the concept, and caring about the expensive details is a nice signal of affluence and self-esteem (I deserve this much security & privacy).
>My path in technology started at Facebook where I was the first Director of Monetization.

While the title is a bit creepy, I can certainly see how it could take awhile to start second-guessing the work when it's your first tech job. Making a platform more interesting, useful, and engaging would certainly be an interesting challenge, particularly at first.
Microsoft to Shutter Its Ad Monetization Platform for Universal Windows Platform
I have this discussion nearly daily when talking with Android users. The iPhone is not a modular unit that can be tampered with at all, but despite even being a software developer, I do not actually care about my phone being modular. I want it to work and I want it to work well across the entire platform. Not only does iOS severely limit your options for changing your phone's UX, something a lot of people lament about quite often, but they also have rigorous design-guides that push every developer in the eco-system to have it look the same way. Something as simple as the date/timepickers that Apple removed in iOS 14 can't be changed by the user, but Apple does their hardest to make sure everyone makes it look the way they've set it up, and for my purposes I legitimately prefer that over deciding it myself but having the apps on the platform ultimately use either or willy-nilly.

There definitely are issues with Apple, but the user not having full access to changing their device isn't really one, and that's coming from someone who most definitely has the know how to do pretty much anything and still remain safe, I'd dread to see users be stuck having full root access to their phones without even knowing what the fuck that means.

There absolutely needs to be options for those that want to be able to hack away at their phone to their hearts content, but it doesn't need to be every phone, and Apple aren't criminals just because they don't offer that possibility and users happen to want their phones anyway.

Please don't give me root access to my iPhone, I do not care about it, I have no need for it, and I do not want it.
Java starts fast, and NodeJS uses the same sorts of techniques as HoSpot does.

What you're doing here is comparing apples (large web frameworks) with oranges (languages). If you used a framework written in the same way as Spring Boot with Python, it'd also be very slow to start up.
> All the arguments about what company is most evil entirely miss the point.

This!
No, this is applicable to all transactions the bank knows about.

If money enters or leaves a bank account in a quantity greater than $10k within 24 hours, a report is filed with every detail they know about you and about the transactions.

This has been law for more than 20 years. And it's made money laundering really, really hard.
>I'm honestly depressed because people rush to defend bad behavior of their favorite monopoly.

While techies lived in their utopia, the rest of us without the ability to compile from source were tricked into downloading spyware, profiled, and scammed from dubious "developers". These problems were known, but nothing was done about them in the name of "developer freedom".

A company comes along and offers the vast majority of people a safe computing environment at a premium. Surprise, surprise most people choose that and instead of having to trust N-developers to not do everything in their power to get a quick buck, I only have to trust 1, Apple, to do the filtering.

The problem that I'm starting to see is most people here, being developers, naturally side themselves against Apple. The alternate perspective I have is that most developers are actually user hostile and Apple is the only one that has repeatedly shown to value my dollars over abusing my data or privacy. So, no, I'm not "rooting" for Epic after the games industry and repeatedly shown they will abuse children with gambling mechanics. Why should fight for Match Group's rights at the detriment to my own?
James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing
I don't understand how anyone could continue to work for Facebook, knowing this.
2ndQuadrant contributes major features to PostgreSQL 13
> that can impact the national security of the United States

National security...

Seems China practiced this excuse so well that US decides to copy that...
Attempts to prevent it were shut down. Shutting something down is an activity, thus /active/.
Can you AppImageine that? – Timo Paulssen
The original title was actually Revenge of the Jedi and there are still old posters and ads around for it, eg https://entertainment.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/20...
Fascinating. From page 8, §11, in the section on "Unterpläne", it looks also as if it used a kind of function calls and subroutines. "Plan" seems to mean "program", so "Unterplan" is literally subprogram, and it had a facility to automatically return to the point where it the subprogram was called.
> As for the goal - the goal makes sense for Spotify, not me. I wouldn't condemn them for trying yet I don't have a stake there. They don't do this so that I can pay less, they do this so that they can earn more. I don't see why I should put my mind on helping huge, wealthy company to obtain their goals. Same goes with Apple.

I personally think this is quite a far reaching issue we can and should form an opinion on. I don't own an apple device but I think it's an important issue of user freedom. It is a much stricter version of the exclusivity you consider a problem.

But I overinterpreted your original statement. Sorry about that.

Also: Thank you for elaborating on the issues. I was aware of those points. I just don't share your judgement about those issues, but there's no real point in discussing them further as it's super off-topic :)
> As someone who knows quite something on this topic, I do not really see what is the surprise here.

I'm not sure it was necessarily meant to be be surprising, especially to people experienced with neural networks. (In fact, it looks to me like the article is aimed at people who are curious but do not have a deep understanding.)
The downvotes for your parent and your follow-up retort don't make sense.

I'm also backing these companies' argument and I don't want a walled garden. I want an open and competitive marketplace. I want to be able to distribute my software to everyone (like I used to be able to do).
Thanks! Scrimba itself isn’t open source, but we have considered is, so maybe we’ll do it sometime in the future :)

The language it’s written in is fully open source (created by our CTO, Sindre). You can learn more about it here: https://imba.io
> The new IOS14 feature where I can tailor the Airpod audio response to my hearing frequency loss is simply amazing!

What feature is it? Can’t the same be achieved with EQ?
Actually it does. Native images use about half as much memory or less. Dynamic linking, reflection and speculative JIT compilation are expensive features, memory wise. But you get it back in runtime performance, where native images are slower.
There is a professionally developed time series extension for Postgres. I haven’t tried it personally but it might be “good enough” for quite a few use cases just like Postgres’ full text search can be “good enough” without having to bring in the machine gun that is ElasticSearch/Solr.
What do you mean they have been an outspoken critic for a long time?

Honest question: Were they outspoken when they were a director at FB, or when they were president at pinterest? Or did it start two years ago when they became CEO of Moment selling an app to cut down on screen time?

In my mind, an ideal arbiter isn't also selling a product to fix the problem they are raising awareness about.

This doesn't mean what they are saying isn't true, or that they didn't have a real change of heart, but is certainly a conflict of interests.
Yeah I was hoping this was about bootstrapping startups, because the comments would've been interesting to me.
OK So this is just about conversion.

H2 doesn't need solar, it needs power, it doesn't care where that power came from. It's essentially a disconnected system, to sell it as if H2 somehow means solar (which I get from earlier threads) is a little bit disingenuous.
> Who watches the watchmen?

The US Attorney, who'd receive the information and decide whether or not to prosecute, and the juries/courts involved in that prosecution. Plus, the typical regulatory loop of Congress, courts, etc. involved in the all of the Department of the Treasury's doings.
The same can be said for the CIA, FBI, Justice Department, etc. If you have a good suggestion for how one can trust their government to have secrets, but also not do bad things, please share it.
Universal basic income gains support in South Korea after Covid
Assange is your typical cold war era anti war guy, it was sick how suddenly the American left wing spat on her for shitting on status quo. He was a messiah for the left when he did the same for Bush administration. Anyone remember Palins emails? At least for Clinton there was something to reveal.
> What you're doing here is comparing apples (large web frameworks) with oranges (languages). If you used a framework written in the same way as Spring Boot with Python, it'd also be very slow to start up.

OTOH, there's at least an argument that the structure and features of languages influence the kind of frameworks that people tend to use with them. They are distinct but not necessarily causally-unrelated elements of the community/ecosystem around a language
Handhake is one of those service that is not over hyped. Check out their sponsors: https://handshake.org/grant-sponsors/

Also a decentralised DNS is exactly what we need.
Not even that, the newspapers published it.
Unfortunately live listen is more like a replacement for remote microphones, not the hearing aids themselves. It adds around 70ms latency with a bluetooth headset. This is enough to be very uncomfortable. For comparison, most hearing aids on the market today have around 8ms of end to end latency.

Source: I've built a hearing aid and done extensive latency tests :)
There is a vast gulf of nuance between “fine” and “dealbreaker”.
Trouble at the FDA and CDC
Unfortunately that $1 aid will cost $1000 when it hits the public market. It would be nice to see open source hardware in medical devices. And a health/safety approval of the DESIGN. At least devices that won't kill you if they fail. So I can build my own like I build my own desktop computer.

Buying any Chinese electronics off Aliexpress doesn't excite me too much. Generally, they suck.
Thanks for question.

One of the things that Timescale License does (similar with Elastic, Confluent Community, etc.) is to define a "Value Added Service", and basically say you can utilize/distribute the database as part of a SaaS service or product provided that it's a Value Added Service/Product, and basically just isn't offering the (in our case) "TimescaleDB-as-a-Service".

Then it becomes a bit of reading the actual definition in the license. In our case:

https://www.timescale.com/legal/licenses#section-3-10-value-...

Unlike the other licenses, we tried to couch part of this definition is specific details that engineers could understand, e.g.

"(iii) users of such Value Added Products or Services are prohibited, either contractually or technically, from defining, redefining, or modifying the database schema or other structural aspects of database objects, such as through use of the Timescale Data Definition Interfaces, in a Timescale Database utilized by such Value Added Products or Services."

So basically one important test would be: if your SaaS service is defining the data schema, indexes, etc., all good. If your users have arbitrary DDL access to the database and do this all themselves, that would "classify" as a "database-as-a-service" offering under this definition.
I enthusiastically support a candidate who advocates for dramatic change, and my fellow volunteers and I understand that they almost certainly won't happen.

Our experience has been that anything that results from our work will be compromised, and we want to aim high so that we can compromise somewhere in the middle.

It seems like you're implying that people who argue for "x" are ignorant of the fact that they'll get a fraction of x. Anecdotally, people who argue for "x" are aware of the fact that they'll get a fraction... so they ask for very high values of x.
I want this but for PowerPoint slides
Does Steam allow side loading into it's launcher/library?
You don't need to fund wars or drugs, just use Facebook
PS: The devil };)
They let me read it without paying... might be because of ublock origin or some other addon though...
My experience with freedom to run software resulted in me spending an inordinate amount of time dealing with malware.

If anyone wants to come up with a freedom to run software alternative that doesn’t result in me dealing with malware, I’m open to it.

Until then, I have to pay Apple, because I don’t have time to deal with the alternatives currently available.

Edit:

>Half of my audience is on your favorite device. I didn't have to pay for them before Apple sunk their claws in.

I might be part of that audience, but when I was purchasing tablets for my business, I chose Apple, because I didn’t want to deal with malware or google support. I knew I could rely on Apple to not have malware and to provide in person support in reasonable time. I’m also willing to pay 30% extra for a subscription via the App Store since I know it’s dead easy to cancel it.

I am aware of Apple’s injustices with their arbitrary rules and enforcement and how they are able to screw over developers. But I need to move on with life, and I need something that just works.