skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't commenting on perl, in case there's any confusion.

I wouldn't call people who disagree with me on PL design issues beginners. I would call beginners beginners. It's not a matter of disagreeing, it's a matter of experience and time working on real projects with a language.
It is possible to create nif objects which are tied into the garbage collector and reference counted, and bound to a destructor function that gets called when the VM is done with it!
Oh man I forgot about that.
> The hopes for this kind of a vaccine aren’t very high.

Why actually? SARS2 is extremely contagious and it attaches to a receptor which is involved in various vital systems in the human body and can cause a wide range of life-threatening symptoms. This is what makes this virus so dangerous. However, apart from that, it's an "ordinary" coronavirus: It's not a retrovirus like AIDS and does not mutate as fast as rhinoviruses. I've not read any news about serious complications in vaccine development either. So what would make developing a vaccine so particular hard here?

> What you are referring to is sterilizing immunity.

Why would this be a requirement? The point of herd immunity is that it also works if less than 100% of the population is immune, as long as the probability of transmission is lowered enough to effectively stop the spread. A vaccine that would lower the probability of infection enough seems to be able to archive the same.
Very few laws have as many teeth in them for corporations as the GDPR does, it was designed with that particular aspect in mind. The EU bureaucrats have a personal stake in the outcome so that definitely helped to focus them.
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As I understand it webkit is just the rendering engine. You would still need to build the chrome around it, create and manage windows, etc.
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UART using polling[0] instead of interrupts, i.e. sending a character and waiting in a busy loop until it gets sent, isn't it quite wasteful?

[0] https://github.com/bztsrc/raspi3-tutorial/blob/master/03_uar...
Customers want(ed) it. Remember when the TSA was going to roll back the ban on pocket knives[0] and then due to feedback from a bunch of Karens they backed off and kept the ban in place[1]? I think more rollbacks would have been on offer had that happened but now the safety/nerf people endorse it all. There's no going back at this point, I'm afraid.

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I can't believe people actually find those results to be amazing. None of these algorithms, or as they call them - "AIs", are yet capable of adding detail (be it spatial or temporal) in a way that actually makes it look believable. It's all approximation, a very, very poor approxiation. I'm sure we'll reach that level one day, but for now, we are far away from it.

Add to that the fact that those film scans are rarely shared in their original framerate and you're getting an absolutely terrible result.
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I don't mean to sound stuffy when i say that the beauty of open source is that you are free to build a better alternative...but it is true. Either you can build a better thing that you want, or you can pay someone to do so, etc. That being said, there are existing native clients already. May i direct your attention to: https://www.matrix.org/clients/
Not sure if I'm missing something, but how does Rc<RefCell<...>> equate to "objective-c before gc/arc"? It seems roughly equivalent, in the same way that smart pointers are roughly equivalent: the lifetime is inferred by use, and retaining cycles are a problem. Arc could be a little bit more efficient (which does matter in some ui work), but I don't see how it'd change the use of a framework, and iOS and OSX devs have used objc with arc for years successfully and often happily.
A guy that works at Google complaining about minor PR spam and attacking a generally positive open source program is a bit rich given we can't visit a website or watch a video online without having ads shoved down our throats.

Anyway there is a simple solution... Archive the repo for the month of October, take a break from OSS, and chill out.
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With cheap I meant the dramatic effects, not the cost to produce ..
For context, the relevant answer:

> Yes. STL is not object oriented. I think that object orientedness is almost as much of a hoax as Artificial Intelligence. I have yet to see an interesting piece of code that comes from these OO people. In a sense, I am unfair to AI: I learned a lot of stuff from the MIT AI Lab crowd, they have done some really fundamental work: Bill Gosper's Hakmem is one of the best things for a programmer to read. AI might not have had a serious foundation, but it produced Gosper and Stallman (Emacs), Moses (Macsyma) and Sussman (Scheme, together with Guy Steele). I find OOP technically unsound. It attempts to decompose the world in terms of interfaces that vary on a single type. To deal with the real problems you need multisorted algebras - families of interfaces that span multiple types. I find OOP philosophically unsound. It claims that everything is an object. Even if it is true it is not very interesting - saying that everything is an object is saying nothing at all. I find OOP methodologically wrong. It starts with classes. It is as if mathematicians would start with axioms. You do not start with axioms - you start with proofs. Only when you have found a bunch of related proofs, can you come up with axioms. You end with axioms. The same thing is true in programming: you have to start with interesting algorithms. Only when you understand them well, can you come up with an interface that will let them work.

I have seen this a few times and have felt that "hoax" is the wrong word each time. Later he talks about OOP being "philosophically unsound", which adds some clarity to the statement. It's not that OOP or AI are made up (true hoaxes), it's that they will not accomplish (in his view) what they set out to do because they are founded on unsound bases.
To be fair - you're already in advanced stages, when you're looking into ARM MCUs.

PIC10F is $0.55 at Mouser. You can make a programmer for it with an USB-RS232 cable and few other cheap components. That is what I call beginner cheap. Even assembler for it is dead simple.
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Wirewrap is underrated. Its definitely tedious, but its solder-free and surprisingly reliable.

Its more expensive than soldering however: wire-wraps are best on header-pin posts, not on the ICs directly. So you should buy sockets-to-wirewrap posts if you plan to wire-wrap. You can wire-wrap on the IC directly, but its definitely not as reliable so I can't recommend the practice.

If we're talking about these small designs with only a dozen or two connections, wire-wrap is more than sufficient. Besides, you can still largely use a soldered Veroboard for most of your design, and just use the occasional wire-wrap for a harder to handle point-to-point connection.

Some beginner tutorials:

* https://hackaday.com/2014/12/18/wire-wrap-101/

* https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/working-with-wire/how-t...

I think having a few wire-wrap tools will help out a low-cost hobbyist. I'd estimate $50 in various parts (wire-wrap wire, a few dedicated wire-wrap sockets), but its largely "compatible" with soldering and DIP components. (Works with perfboard, veroboard, etc. etc. and everything you're soldering with)
What has become of the UK? Its sad.
I think that's an oversimplification. The iPhone was the closest practical alternative, last time I purchased a phone.
This headline may as well be: "Guy on twitter makes unsubstantiated claim about anonymous friend"
Celestial teapot is a defense against people making claims without providing sufficient evidence to support it.

By invoking the celestial teapot, I am not taking the opposite position of the one being made, I am taking the position of a rationalist who only accepts claims when sufficient evidence is presented.

Let me illustrate with an example:

A: Elephants are pink.

B: What makes you say they're pink?

A: How can you claim elephants are not pink?!

B: Huh? See celestial teapot (I never said they are not pink)

A: If you're going to use the celestial teapot as a defense for elephants not being pink...

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>instead of focusing their efforts on disrupting the Chrome/Webkit monopoly.

How do you know they're not doing that? Its a large organization.

Also, it is very hard to hire quality people at lower salaries, its just the nature of the beast. I work in life sciences and we work primarily in the public health sector (vaccines) and it is amazingly hard to find talented scientists when the larger companies in our area vacuum up the talent pool each year. We're not a non-profit, so our salaries are bit higher, but I can imagine how hard it must be hiring for a non-profit. Especially STEM grads. If you're a quality dev at FAANG or some-such, how much of a salary hit are you willing to take to work on an open source browser?
It's an illusion, but so is the original footage. People back then didn't experience reality in BW either.

I know it's silly, but I was kinda surprised the first time I saw early color photographies. I was so used to the BW or sepia old images that it had never occurred to me that, you know, people of that time did live in color too just like we do.

See these images from the early 20th century:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rgb-compose-Alim_Khan.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_photography#/media/File:...
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I think Glenn Greenwald nailed it with this analysis: https://theintercept.com/2020/09/22/as-joe-rogans-platform-g...
“Draconian” is a bit of a strong word, don’t you think? Coinbase isn’t prohibiting employees from doing activism in their free time.
IFTTT recently introduced a pro pack which quite heavily impacts a large portion of its userbase, which is why I personally think that their current number of users is pretty useless as a metric.

They also charge services for supporting them and want the services to make a special API for them (as opposed to plugging into existing ones), which is why I find them relatively scummy.

That being said, Zapier is just expensive. From my memory it's like $20/month if you want more than 3 automations running, and can easily rise to $50/month. I like it as a service, but that price is fairly unreachable for me.
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This is meant to cater to rich liberal sensibilities. Similar to protesting Joe Rogan, when they expropriate from artists day-in-day-out. They only pitch a fit when someone dares to say something that crosses their elitist feelings.
it's difficult for me to come to any other conclusion that their position is rooted in elitism—that "true history" can only be discovered by straining and toiling, as they do

I think there's a very similar pattern in tech with developers who hack on apps in 'proper languages' like Rust and C++ dunking on developers who write JavaScript or PHP because those aren't seen as 'true development' because they make things 'too easy'.
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Parody should be the most leniently protected category of fair use
Given that React is the exception in regards to WebComponents support.....
Not being able to port a number to them is kind of a non-starter for me.
Yeah, it's annoying if you want a number of watts that's specifically between 60 and 100. The vast majority of cables are limited to 60. But that's a far cry from being unable to charge things!
It's not impossible. But it is not as easy as through hole
Ubiquitous outside of Apple ecosystem only though.
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I can sort of understand that at a non-profit, but a company is a company (even if I think a world where crypto is normal would be a much better world).
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Are you not seeing the 50 000 000 EUR+ fines to Google [1][2][3] then just sort by size of fine

[1] https://www.cnil.fr/en/cnils-restricted-committee-imposes-fi...
[2] https://www.datainspektionen.se/globalassets/dokument/beslut...
[3] https://www.autoriteprotectiondonnees.be/publications/decisi...
Not sure exactly what he means by that but he does link to another effort that implements everything using Rust: https://github.com/rust-embedded/rust-raspberrypi-OS-tutoria...
Use the internet, not just companies (2018)
https://www.dwavesys.com/sites/default/files/14-1002A_B_tr_B...

Granted, factoring isn't the best use of our hardware, but as of 4 years ago, we were hitting 80% success rate on 10-bit semiprimes without baked-in knowledge of the answer. Doesn't need Shor's: we just implement a multiplication circuit as an Ising problem, clamp the outputs, anneal and read off the inputs.
How cool would it be if she got hired to work on another update for Prison Architect?
How is government any different in this respect? They do in fact take your money - taxation, enforced ultimately by men with guns.

At least in a private model, actors would care about reputation.
Perfect. Excel FTW. I agree!
I don’t see that in the Wikipedia article anywhere.
Not responding to a troll account, have a great day.
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I didn't know whitespace[1] was popular on Github... ;)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_(programming_langua...
This is why all non-trivial applications need to have a code review process and a CI/CD pipeline that ensures that no application goes into production except via that pipeline, and that all code is reviewed prior to deployment. It’s not a guarantee, of course, but it’s a start.
> Just because something is "perfectly legal" does not mean that it's not cheating.

In arms-length business relationships, including normal employment relationships, that's exactly what it means. The applicable law, including binding legal agreements like employment contracts, set the rules. Not violating the rules is not cheating.

> but I do take slight issue if this situation is true.

Why? Even if every word of the tweet is true, nothing says the positions aren't both contract positions with no, even informal, exclusivity expectation.
Mozilla Corporation doesn't accept donations. Most of its income comes from Google.

The parent foundation gets about half its income from the corporation. The rest is mostly corporate and individual donations.

Even worker owned companies elect a president or CEO to manage the company day to day.

Valve has less official hierarchy than most companies. It doesn't run entirely by consensus though. People who worked there have written about the unofficial hierarchy.
> the Switch should not be considered compatible just because it uses a similar plug

Imagine you go to a hotel and see an USB A port on the wall and you try to charge your phone, then your phone starts to smoke or simply ignites. You find later that port was not a standard USB A port, but a 220 volt plug for something custom. Should the hotel be responsible for that? I think it should. If it looks like a duck ...
Learning from, teaching about, and documenting history is extremely important. The fact that you or I disagree with some historians about the proper balance between accuracy and relatability does not mean we should denigrate the study of history. I tend to agree with you that exposing more people to history is a higher priority than painstaking color accuracy, but I also believe that there is plenty of room for the kinds of historians that care more about accurate documentation than about public outreach.
I was missing this piece of puzzle. It all makes sense now. Thank you.

Wait... why the hell is DO giving out free t-shirts in automated fashion without checking individual contributions! What could go wrong!!!
> people like me

Can you elaborate?
>someone who is capable of a "serious, violent crime"

That would be 100% of people who isn't either a baby or has somehow no way to move arms and legs enough to wield a knife, gun, poison, etc. It is not a question of capability but the situations you are put in and live through. Otherwise you are saying criminality is in the genes.