skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Isn't that only a small number of people? Most have their trusted news source and come by others only when printed out at Facebook (while their most read only headline and comments and don't click the link)

Going back to pre Internet: Even then most people got one newspaper and be done. (I myself grew up with in a household with a daily newspaper and two weekly, in addition to subscriptions to physics and computing magazines, but that was an exception, in most of my friend's places there was at most one) And TV channels there was one news program one watched (and still only few people switch between news channels)
Is there only a single instance of the example Counter object globally and as there are no additional await'ed calls between the get and put operations, the atomicity is guaranteed? Is the object then prevented from getting instantiated on any other worker?

Can this result in a deadlock if I access DurableClass(1), then delayed DurableClass(2) in one worker and DurableClass(2) and delayed DurableClass(1) in another worker?
Because the government doesn't get to decide who can be President.

It's up to the people.
shoot... I take Xyzal by the 5 gallon bucket. No wonder I haven't gotten it :D

But in all seriousness, I wonder if the homogenous form Zyrtec is as effective as the chiral-ically singular Xyzal.
Shoved the critical electrical stuff below the sea level... It's not like the reactors have fallen into a sudden volcano.
a strong type system in itself doesn't cause slowness in compiler. A large part of time is spent in code generator. Rustc produces lot of LLVM IR and it is mentioned there is some technical debt there.

For systems languages I don't think dynamic dispatch instead of monomorphization is not the right way to implement generics. And zig doesn't seem to be doing dynamic dispatch either. It shouldn't affect the amount of code produced.

The difference between rust and zig generics is difference between simplicity and rigour.

And I think having something built in is wrong, if it can be a library. Now library-instead-of-language-feature can lead to longer compile times and less friendly error messages. There are lot of tradeoff in language design.

Now that rust culture is formed largely of web / FP developers, it may indeed promote a template heavy, macro heavy programming style, which may lead to significantly longer compiles. For example, a struct based CLI flag parsing library instead of a simpler one, or map-filter chains instead of for loops. These may produce significant amount of generic expansions, and thus harm debug builds speed and compile times when overused. It also makes alternative implementations hard because the optimizer needs to be very good.

> Can you explain what you have in mind exactly?

Ok this is already long comment. Zig and Go leadership seems to be more focused on details of toolchain. For example this development, and zig cc. Zig also utilizes caching very well and focuses a lot on interop. That's impressive for a project at this scale. The focus on compilation speeds so much to create another backend is another example.

Rust is more about PLT and language/ tooling ergonomics. Cargo and popularity of VSCode among rust developers for example.

Not saying any of these are bad. Barring some overexcitement from rust community (I personally dislike that overexcitement), these new compiled languages are all very nice to have.
Is that a net position? I am not interested enough in the further details to try to figure it out for myself, but his net position is more important than the total debt.
A friend of mine in college (mid-90s) thought it would be cool to host a mirror of OLGA on a bit of server space he got as a computer science student as a way to help out the project.

I can't remember if the issue was a sudden spike in traffic or legal threats but I do remember that it was taken down. Still, compared to the sort of repercussions we take for granted nowadays, it almost seems quaint that all he got was a slap on the wrist and it had to be taken offline.
Here's a suggestion: "Paid Reader Mode" in which you can preview a third or so of the article in Reader Mode (without any clutter) and then choose whether or not you want to pay a pre-determined amount (capped by your browser settings) to obtain a _complete_, _unfettered_ version of the article as self-contained HTML, EPUB (or PDF) that you can save on your computer (or add to a site-independent library, something like a cross between Pocket and iBooks on the Mac).
Why not "PiaKnow"
Well, there's the Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) in Berlin, named after him, and quite prominent on the campus of FU Berlin.

Further, there was a conference/show to celebrate Zuse's 100th birthday, organized by the Tagesspiegel newspaper. This event was repeated for the last two years, I think.
You need to build the loss into the model (or not even see it as loss). Many streaming services don't seem to mind when you share your username and password with another household. It doesn't happen often enough for them to care.

How much money you would make if everyone did the right thing is a number that is not as real as the actual amount of money you make. Seeing things that way seems important.
> But this scenario is much easier to handle than an open core meltdown.

It's still not handled in Fukushima yet… And because of that, Fukushima is higher than Chernobyl in terms of radioactive material released in the environment…

> The Seine supplies drinking water upstream from Nogent.

What?

> These worst case scenarios have already been gamed through during the plant planning process.

This is probably why some people won't ever trust nuclear: the feeling of invulnerability conveyed by some nuclear enthusiasts, is just scary.

I'm long on nuclear, I moved from Paris to the middle of nowhere because my wife is working at the local powerplant, I studied nuclear engineering myself in engineering school and even considered it as a career (but I eventually chose software engineering instead). And let me tell you: this argument “These worst case scenarios have already been gamed through during the plant planning process” is bullshit. The plant was designed, then after some bad experience (France and worldwide) security was improved, then computer simulation improved and they discovered other failure possibilities and improved the security again. Then, Fukushima happened, and they discovered huge holes in security (especially when you lose all power supply AND all water supply, which wasn't a scenario deemed plausible before) and they improved security yet again (they created the FARN to have a dedicated emergency response agency, in case everybody else is busy as hell with other issues, and they added new bunkerized and elevated diesel generators to ensure the power is never fully lost).

But we cannot be 100% sure we have everything covered now, and I absolutely wouldn't be surprised if another catastrophic event occurred in the next twenty years somewhere in the world. (And if it happens in France, I'm ready to bet this will be caused by fire, because French safety standards regarding fires are waaay behind UK ones.
*taught to be bad form. You know why[1].
Which only made Germany the hidden champion of hidden champion companies.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoLIU2NI66w
I really don't respect Mark Zuckerberg as a man, but it's hard to claim he's on the wrong side of history when he's the one writing a lot of it. To be on the wrong side of history you have to lose, it's not enough just to be morally wrong.
Rust is heavily funded and maintained by Mozilla for use in Firefox's engine, Servo
Rust allows virtually any type of memory management you want, my point is the syntax is not optimized for things like arena-based memory management or custom allocators. Rust assumes most of the time you'll be passing around references to values or small structures allocated on the stack.
> Part of the calculation includes the fact that most of us are lazy and administratively incompetent and just won’t get around to unsubscribing, even if we want to.

I think the author's giving too much leeway to the fact that many publications (and services in general) intentionally make unsubscribing far more difficult that it needs to be
Yeah but majority of webdev is not that, right?
101ism also ruined the internet. People won’t look anything up.. every forum is ruined by people asking the same intro question over and over again (example: “What’s there to do in Yosemite?”)

Same for restaurants, fitness, investing, cooking, Linux, etc.

Yelp, AllTrails, etc exist for a reason. A whole swath of internet users seem allergic to looking things up, instead of asking about their own use case. (What’s there to do for a 16 year old? What’s there to do for a 17 year old? Etc etc)
A while ago I built this exact mechanism for Flow, it could be done in TypeScript if there was enough demand for it (it's rather a large effort) https://gajus.github.io/flow-runtime/
You’re both right. It’s totally subjective which is better, in which circumstances and at what price. That’s the real benefit Uber et al brought to the market, and why they should obviously stay there: more choice.

Everyone wins. Even if you prefer black cabs in all circumstances, as there’s now less competition in flagging one ;-)
The Python Return Statement: Usage and Best Practices
Have you ever hear of Anki or Memrise ?
Still you could use that energy to power the work needed to bring the temperature down - produce the mirrors you mention, extract stuff from atmosphere that makes the temperature higher and store it, etc..
At least three of those four have an undeniable technological/VC subject matter, clearly relevant to HN (WeChat, Peter Thiel, and TikTok)

I'd have to read them all to be certain, but 2 stories on OP's side and the 4 stories you presented aren't convincing for either argument, 10 seconds of research or not.
Thanks! I'm hopeful that things are slowly getting better, but it's still something folks have to be aware of. Especially when it comes to IP cameras. It's terrifying how many cameras are connected to the web and have default credentials. With a few clicks on Shodan, you could be looking through people's webcams without their knowledge. Insane!
This article is a bunch of crap and just glosses over what a hellscape it is once you add children to the mix. You can't change your mindset and invest in new hobbies when you have a kid that is as depressed about the lack of sun as you are.
You don't / can't know it's safe. It's not open source, and it has no good reason not to be open source.
Email yourself and put all the recipients on BCC. That's prevents reply-all, but of course wouldn't prevent somebody from forwarding an email.
They own the inventory and therefore take the risk of selling it. Amazon doesn't own the inventory of its marketplace sellers, and they can do anything they want to put them out of business at no financial risk to themselves.
>You don’t run the country, and acting against the wishes of the majority and NZ scientific advisors sounds rather despotic.

This is exactly the part I am rather confused by. Do the scientific advisors actually believe that there is no safe way to quarantine these tourists or that they pose an actual risk? It seems that it would be trivial from a logistics perspective for NZ do derisk the situation and the competent health advisors there would understand how.

Reading between the lines of what you are saying, it sounds like this is a political issue in NZ where the population feels afraid and hostile towards outsiders. Of course the collective people of NZ have the right to set immigration policy as they choose, as a matter of national sovereignty. I am simply curious as to why it is the way it is.
Can't speak for OP, but I've found that staggered layouts are rather non-standardized when it comes to the severity of the slant. As a consequence, my muscle memory is all over the place when touch typing, especially for the third row (ZXCVBN).

Ortholinears, of course, are all exactly the same, which lets me type with more confidence. I don't type any faster, but I do suffer fewer typos for words that require multiple row switches.
But he has 3.5b in assets. So that gives him about a 2.5b net worth. He can pay it.
Buyer – Negotiation-as-a-Service for tech companies
> one of those rare instances

You said it, not me. We can't have policy revolving around a single company. The net positive would be greater in the market if platforms wouldn't be able to double-tip.
> Subscriptions only work when I trust you both as a payment processor (so that excludes newspapers) and if you're already established as a trustable content creator.

Sure, but once you have made a name for yourself you want subscribers, which is why Patreon/Substack/etc allow people to subscribe rather than allowing them to either buy/not buy each piece of content. Every seller wants the consumer to default to paying them forever, rather than paying once and then having to make an active decision to pay again. (And before you have made a name for yourself, you don't sell your content at all, you give it away for free)

Control over the "default" behavior is just incredibly powerful. Creators are not going to give it up.
Net 2.5b

https://www.forbes.com/sites/danalexander/2020/09/28/yes-don...
How to Hire Junior Engineers
On that note, is there anything like Steam for movies and TV shows? I would love a platform where I could make a one-time payment for perpetual access to a movie or season of a show at a reasonable price.
Sure, but then no product should be able to buy end-cap space. Not just disallowing competitors. And in fact, Target/Walmart clearly enforce limits on what is sold. They don't advertise 'Become an Amazon seller' or open advertising to anybody but a specific few. OTOH, just because I haven't heard any complaints about this, doesn't mean anything.
And then they would be more expensive because they have to advertise and have their own supply chain. How does that help consumers?
Were you working on a C/C++ project, out of curiosity? Of the two projects I've meaningfully benchmarked gold on, one was written in Rust and one was written in Go. I can believe that the Rust/Go toolchains make life difficult enough for gold that there is less of a speedup realized.

And yeah, the `--incremental` support in gold is definitely very exciting. Unfortunately it is not complete enough that I've been able to use it on any of the projects where it would matter. Part of what gets me so excited about having first-class support in Zig is that it will work end-to-end, and adjust folks' expectations of how fast linking should be. Then those folks will go demand the same linking speeds of their C/C++/Rust/Go projects.

Building incremental support into LLVM/gcc/gold is definitely the long-term answer, but building an end-to-end incremental toolchain in Zig from scratch to prove the concept makes a ton of sense.
Supermarkets are a shitshow and from my point of view it's way worse than anything that's happening in the digital world. There are only a few players and that's where all people buy their groceries. If you're not there, you don't exist. And to be there, you need a really good deal.

Product placement (whether you need to reach high low or if it's front of your eyes) make a bigger difference than a packaging which of course dominates over the content. Fancy packaging is also something that big brands can allow and probably protected by patents. Most of stuff you buy is likely from a company which was bought by Nestle. Nestle can negotiate, they can't be removed.

Smaller producers must provide the same product that they make under the supermarket brand so that market can get customers accustomed to good value and then they start looking if somebody can make something similar enough but cheaper.

It's much worse than as if Amazon ordered products by how much money they were paid from a given company and banned products from competitors of those who paid enough.

Free market is long gone in the groceries world.

I did not do enough research, I don't have behind the scenes information, I just think about it sometimes when I'm shopping. I'd love to be proven wrong or read a good book or some article on the topic.
Yes, but I hadn't heard of any scheduling features. I just used the app on my laptop.

Looked into it a bit and you're right, I should try to figure it out first.

Although Anki is pretty useful, I found it's UX arcane and complex. Would prefer something simpler but if it means less work for me it could be good to stick with.
aww its cute how you try.
AIUI it uses Xlib. Not Xcb.

What a poor choice.
I use a shell script to flash the terminal background using OSC 11 — green or red depending on the last exit status.
I'd like a speech interface, as I often have my hands full with actual lab stuff.
Her specific plan had a lower bound of 25 billion in revenue.
I'm sure they thought of this already but the mention that underwater microphones (hydrophones) could be even more sensitive, taking advantage of smaller earthquakes brought to mind a previous HN post about using undersea fibre-optic cables to measure earthquakes. I can't find the link to the post but https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/undersea-cables-dete... or https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/06/seafloor-fiber-optic... both explain the concept.
I didn’t say Apple banned anything? What I’m referring to happened in 2015.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-01/amazon-wi...
Well said. The [rest of the] streaming business (audio such as Spotify, and video such as Netflix) suffers from the same problem.
This is a great question, and explains why we decided that the durable storage API needed to be explicit, rather than automatically serializing the in-memory object. Nothing is stored unless you explicitly use storage.put(key, value).

Since the storage is explicit, it's easy to upgrade the class definition. The in-memory object will be reconstructed and will need to refresh its state from storage.
Myself, I have been using a Kinesis RGB Edge with the "lift-kit" for about a month.

Have never been a perfect, trained touch-typist - so there has been a learning curve, but it is worth it.

My wrists feel so much better, and I am almost back to full speed. (Previously, I would just use laptop KB's).

The only complaints... Not from me, but when I am on web meetings, I have to be on mute, because everyone finds the KB noise too loud when I am typing... Lastly, very expensive, but much like my Ergotron monitor arms, this will likely outlast generations of equipment it is currently used with.
Especially for routine computer use, I just swap my mouse to the other side of the keyboard and use my non-dominant hand. It takes a bit of getting used to, but I can mouse with either hand pretty seamlessly unless I'm gaming.

It really helps with wrist issues. I also prefer a split keyboard.
> The things that help you usually also limit you

and yet, none of us seem to be programming in binary.... huh. Maybe there's some value in those "training wheels".
Nice summary on their website about the privacy restrictions and surveillance of the population due to their dystopian Social Credit System.

If people aren't that familiar with SCS, this should bring them up to speed. I understand that this SCS is not yet fully active and in varying parts being tested throughout the country, but, at some point it will be ready and go live nationally.

What's really worrying is that the SCS is in some parts, bits and pieces already in Western countries and there is a tendency for this privacy encroachment and surveillance creep to continue in the name of "safety" and "national security".

We should be ever more vigilant and actively oppose this type of draconian nightmare that George Orwell envisioned in 1984 and which is being perfected by the CCP and brother #1 Xi Jinping.
Your argument boils down to: they can be banned, so because “national security,” it’s ok. China may be violating laws, but TikTok isn’t, so singling them out is a bill of attainder, which the Constitution explicitly prohibits.[a] If they’re violating any laws, then why aren’t we being told anything but national security?

[a] And before the “ByteDance isn’t American, so the Constitution doesn’t apply” argument, they actually do employ US citizens in a US office. There’s also the fact that the Constitution doesn’t differentiate between citizens and non-citizens, but that seems to be ignored nowadays.
at least with roku we're already seeing that conflict of interest with them trying to use their position to leverage more money out of HBO Max
Does anyone have an alternative for Windows?
Why don't aid agencies like to hire local talent?
It’s funny because some places actually go the other way —- they start off only selling their own stuff and then they invite others into the marketplace. This is one way to overcome the marketplace chicken egg problem of having both buyers and sellers. This would stifle that.

Valve launched Steam originally only with its own games then invited others to join. Now it’s a completely open marketplace.
Good one but already registered.
What compile-time guarantees does that SQL library give? I don't see any docs or explanations at that Github repo and my TS knowledge is limited to be able to infer everything from a small code example.
> the society “will not be moving ahead with his address as we value our members comfort above all else”.

'I want viewers to feel uncomfortable': why race drama Noughts + Crosses is must-see TV -- https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/mar/05/i-want-...

Dear white people: your discomfort is progress. Keep talking about Ferguson – and beyond -- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/07/white-...

Academic Robin DiAngelo: 'We have to stop thinking about racism as someone who says the N-word' - Her book, White Fragility, has been a US bestseller and provoked an uncomfortable conversation on what it means to be white. She explains why she won’t give liberals an easy ride -- https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/16/white-fragilit...

If it was discussion of racism or that was making their members uncomfortable, would the Historical Society still place comfort above all else? What about the Arab slave trade - I'm sure discussing that would make some uncomfortable. So is it off limits?
This is tough to determine. One could make the argument that Gaming is inherently a childish activity that draw people with childish tendencies and childish tastes.

The counter to this would be what Nintendo learned with it’s product redesigns. Their original Game Boy Advance looked like a toy, but when they redesigned it into the Gameboy Advance SP, it became their best selling Gameboy up to that point. Nothing changed other than the design. The same could be said for the childish GameCube design, where the modern/Apple inspired successor Wii became their best selling console up to that point as well.

This is probably the same issue Tesla made about EVs. Why does an EV have to look like some particularly weird looking car? Why can’t it look like a decent entry level luxury car?

So ya, none of this advanced gaming hardware has to look this fucking stupid for sure. The design teams are basically insulting everyone’s taste based on some kind of prejudice, that we’re all some kind of Mountain Dew Code Red drinking neck beards with zero taste.

This chair looks like it has some very good utility that solves some issues around desk space, viewing angle and ergonomics. If they just approached it with less prejudice, it could follow a smaller modern minimalist form that would appeal to vast swaths of the population. For what it’s worth, a design like this is better at tackling the reality of sitting at a computer all day than the Standing desk. The standing desk is mainstream, but this will never be. I wonder why?

I cannot have a fucking scorpion chair in my apartment as an adult.