skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have used refs for a multiplayer server. Five years in to Clojure, there was finally a reason to break them out.

Players were in rooms, which were updated ten times a second. All of the rooms are largely independent, meaning the best strategy to do this is to use a threadpool to update them in parallel.

However, occasionally operations would require synchronization between rooms (eg, move one player from one to another).

It worked pretty well.
Hmm what do you base that on? I'm genuinely curious. Looking at Linkedin I see a lot of Ruby jobs in London, some in really top notch companies. To me London seems like a great place to be a Rubyist.
Just for comparison's sake this is from Linkedin (London Metrpoloitan):
Ruby: 1238
Node: 1940
PHP: 1332
Rust: 157
Python: 9208
Golang: 588 (might be called Go in many jobs though)

Conclusion: Ruby on par with php, less popular than Node but not by orders of magnitute, and used way less than Python. But comparing it to web development languages like PHP/Node, it's right there with them.

If anything Ruby is in bad form in mainland Europe (France, Germany, Netherlands) where for whatever reason PHP is king for startups.

Now for frameworks:
Rails: 480
Laravel: 41
Django: 535
Symfony: 164

Conclusion: Rails is really up there with any other major framework. Could be that some job posts don't mention the framework, but I'm going with the data we have.

Some famous Ruby shops I know are from London: Deliveroo, GoCardless, Funding Circle, Babylon Health. I honestly don't see how this is bad.
> In sub-Saharan Africa, extreme poverty has actually been increasing.

According to your source, only in absolute terms, not in relative terms. Ideally, both should go down of course, but it does mean a smaller percentage of Africans live in extreme poverty today than they did 25 years ago.
If you hold the volume or brightness button and start dragging you don’t have to wait for the animation
smoking - yes, it's incontrovertible.
drinking - less clear; mortality rates for teetotallers (total abstinence) are higher than for even moderate to heavy drinkers, and there are health benefits from eg 1-2 servings of red wine. IMHO the issue is the degree to which people slip from a drink or maybe 2, to 3 or maybe 4.
Alphabet’s Loon Balloon Breaks Record by Spending 312 Days in the Stratosphere
Rocket's development process is quite slow, and they haven't but out a release since then.
You can replace Rails with anything that's Turing complete right? We all know that. C, Assembly, Rust, anything can work.
I just don't see WHY.
If you're gonna say performance I'm gonna say who cares.
I agree. It will take some time until we have a Rust framework that is as robust and feature-rich as Django or Rails.
AI model detects asymptomatic Covid infections through cellphone-recorded coughs
I saw that performance became more uniform with Rust/WASM. Not faster all over, but less slow in the worst cases.
Also Glen talked about why he's so upset with journalists at the moment with Joe Rogan this week - https://youtu.be/vk1rSvnvXoY?t=262
What questions should be asked in hearings like these, spfink, to illuminate the reasons why big tech companies should be broken up, in a way that might resonate with voters?
I can’t believe that you genuinely would consider these tweets to be a “thorough point-by-point takedown” of the article.

If anything, her counter arguments were so weak that I’m even more strongly in support of Greenwald than before.

For example, at one point she implies that we should not trust the emails (and further, that it is incorrect to claim that emails have been leaked), because they are pictures of emails instead of text files. What?
Does the method of collection matter for determining the truth of the matter? This is the same defense or reasoning as the HRC emails in 2016.
Does it matter if HRC emails were a DNC insider or a foreign agent hacking?
Does it matter Hunter emails, msgs and videos were from an abandoned laptop, a chinese blackmail operation, or another source?

Isn't the real question: are the emails authentic? Or have they been manipulated? What do the emails and private messages tell us? What can other sources corroborate? I think this is Glenn's point. There are sources coming forward saying the emails and meetings that involve them are authentic.

The Biden campaign has never disputed the authenticity of the contents of the HDD (because that is a trap. they know that the trump campaign has evidence, and they are smart to not get caught in a lie. then the lie about the laptop becomes the story)
The article is about an anticancer effect. I don’t think you could reliably feel an anti-cancer effect.

Your comment appears to have zero relation to the article and could be posted on ant article about food or digestion.
Value measures bereft of an encompassing political framework tend to very quickly degrade in terms of who can enact more existential violence on the other, and even that, given enough time for adaptation can stabilize into an equilibrium indistinguishable from a polity.

This is the driving force behind symbiosis, family rearing, community building, business, justice systems (and the necessity of blind spots with regards to Law Enforcement to universally apply) and the "taming" of the criminal element as a much needed escape valve for development away from dysfunctional political dead ends. Quite to the contrary, all life tends toward the political, and politik as it happens makes all other value measures besides existence possible.

So quite to the contrary, from the system-centric point of view, in which a eukaryotic organism can be considered a policy of living tissues, extant fauna, and set of evolvedmechanisms for keeping everyone alive and in check, the stable political equilibrium from which all other activity inherent to prolonged existence can take place, the political is life.
America First Became America Alone
> "Leading gut doctor: I beg every American to throw out this vegetable NOW!" type nonsense.

That and obscure investments into shitcoins. I get that the FDA and every other public health agency worldwide has more pressing problems than quacks, but what are the SEC and their European counterparts doing all day? I'd expect them to investigate scams and questionably legal "investment" opportunities.
I think this is why we need more federated social media, based on protocols, just like I can own my email account (by getting a domain, for example) and I can move it accross providers and interoperate with other people on other providers.

I would be able to choose the provider that I trust the most (or self-host) and even move to another provider, while still being able to participate in the global conversation.

This way we'd also have different fronts (apps, websites, clients, etc.) to this network, each of them editorializing it however they please.

I'd own my account, my posts and I'd be able to choose which front I want to use to interact with the network.

Users would be responsible for what they post and fronts would be responsible for what they show, if they choose to filter and/or promote content.
- Runs on Linux, Mac OS X
- Also "runs" on Windows.
I remember both moments and "movies". Some memories are more like pictures, usually accompanied with emotions. Other memories are more like movies, where I visualize the events unfold.

I seldom remember what I dream, but when I do it's usually right before I wake up in the morning, and it feels like being in a movie. I often get aware that I'm dreaming and can control the movie (dream) to some extent. I can then get really annoyed when the alarm clock goes off before the exciting part is over.
If you have the money and want a high quality FDM printer, buy a prusa. If you are on a budget get something like an Ender-3
Nothing is either a right or a privilege, objectively speaking, so it can be a right in one historical/social context and a privilege in another.
But is it web scale? ;)
Rails was released 16 years ago (according to wikipedia). Rocket just got the first release that builds on stable rust. Thus: Give it 15 years, we'll be there!
Given how weak some AAA titles are regarding bugs (Bethesda, Horizon Zero Dawn) I highly doubt there is _any_ automatic testing being done in most AAA games, let alone indies.
I hope they make the source code public one day.
You can't host Firebase yourself.

If they decide to kick you out, hike the price or Google buries it you have a gigantic problem.
Yeah it's a little disingenuous I think, there is basically nothing that matches the productiveness of Rails/Django when it comes to building webapps and without a clear reason why or strong community around it I'm not sure what the point would be. If you're building a CRUD app I don't think language performance is going to be the bottleneck. I think Rust looks awesome but as someone who uses multiple programming languages daily I feel like we're too often looking for one language that can do everything rather than just picking up the one that fits the problem area.
It depends if you think additively or multiplicatively:

newLoadTime = oldLoadTime - (70% of oldLoadTime)

newLoadTime = oldLoadTime / 3

Personally I find the additive expression unintuitive and find the multiplicative expression easier to reason about. "cut by" does generally indicate an additive expression. It should really have been phrased as something like "reduced by a factor of 3"
Just from watching the video it looks great :-)

What I like especially is the idea of teaching the keyboard shortcuts while using the software. In addition, the avatar mode sounds like it could be really fun.

Any chance of increasing the size of the world and making it like a first person gaming experience?
It's not a superpower. For me it's a combination of two: Urgency and having had enough sleep. If I have a flight, I almost always wake up 30 minutes before my timer go off; even if I didn't get enough sleep. If I have nothing important to do the next day, my brain will usually ignore the waking up part and carries on.

One thing I noticed is that in the last year I have been waking up just a few minutes before my alarm goes off. My postulation is the iPhone alarm sound. It's bizarrely painful that I think I'm waking up just before it to avoid hearing it.
From dawn to sunset. Suppose sunrise is 5:30 and sunset is 6 pm. Does that mean you get up at 5 am, eat quickly, then eat again from 6pm until bedtime?
You got any specific examples or texts that one should know of?
> Suppose Alice publishes R1 and Bob publishes R2. R1 is Alice's message xor Alice's one time pad. R2 is Bob's message xor Bob's one time pad. The one time pads are "random". Then it's discovered that R1 xor R2 generates a third party copyrighted work.

It is common among computer people to think the law can be hacked like an algorithm. It does not work like that. If you xor two apparently random files and they surprisingly produce the full text of the Harry Potter series, you do not have plausible deniability if you start distributing it.
John Carmack once did [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21907517
What is the proof that one party did it against the will of the people, while the other went with the will of the people? Given how much ongoing violence was continued and expanded even once the democrats has a president and congressional majority, it seems like both parties were and are happy to perpetuate imperialist violence in the name of a fictional protection.
Wow, so having kids is the only way to be a participating human being in life and climate change?
yeah, it doesn't really have a proper home anymore, but it is pretty much finished as a library. While I have used it for many years now and not had a problem, it still may have problems on edge cases I haven't touched on. I mainly mention it here because it took me a while to find a nice small simple library that can be easily embedded in smaller microcontrollers and uses no dynamic memory. Often a hard thing to come across anything done well.
Being on Substack solves the problem of censorship by way of one's editor or organization. It re-introduces the problem of unedited journalism; i.e journalism that isn't passed through a degree of peer review to ensure rigour. It seems as though it's no longer guarantee both full journalistic freedom and rigour at the same time.
I highly suggest reading at least one book on Computer Networking and my recommendation is for An Engineering Approach to Computer Networking: ATM Networks, the Internet, and the Telephone Network. You get a detailed overview of all the important network technologies.

Next for TCP/IP; i suggest The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference followed by the Stevens' books already mentioned by others.

Finally to understand the interaction between HTTP application protocol and the underlying TCP/IP suite i suggest Web Protocols and Practice: Http/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement.

Only after you have some idea of the above should you look at the Linux specific implementation for which Understanding Linux Network Internals: Guided Tour to Networking on Linux is a good reference.
In practice it almost certainly means OMAD after dark.
But it isn't a factor.
You likely have Aphantasia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphantasia

As for your question, yes! I don't need to actually close my eyes, I can think about certain things and see a vivid image of it deep inside of my mind.

If you need something to compare it to, can you actually hear music in your "mind" when you think about a song? It's kinda like that.
> “the free market of ideas” -as well as the idea that Facebook should remain a neutral party at all cost

were abandoned by facebook the moment non-customizable feed algorithms replaced chronology, not after the resulting system lost whatever 'objectivity' remained.

this, and not the resultant 'gaming' of the implicitly-clickbait-biased platform, are the root cause 'that led to overcompensating in the wrong direction, and the current situation.'
Do you have more details about this? Honestly it sounds like paranoid delusions. However, I could see using good-looking models playing fake customer for influencing high net worth individual to spend more. It might make financial sense in a high price, high margin business like a jewelry store. I also heard anecdotal reports of paying homeless people to hang out in front of a competitor's business to scare away customers.
Yes. But relativelty that mighty fall makes them reek like trash. At that point, it's a duck.

What's worse is they continue to leverage their once-stellar reputations to sell second-rate "stuff" as "news". They've lowered to bar for the accepted definition of journalism.

They might not suck, but they're intentional pursuit falling has broad societal and cultural implications. Perhaps not 100% tabloid, but they use that tool enough to make it more and more legitimate.

To have a healthy and proper Democracy requires a coherent, honest and transparent Fourth Estate. That ship has sailed, and it was prior to Jan 2017.
SiFive launches HiFive Unmatched mini-ITX motherboard for RISC-V PC’s
>If that's the case there is no way to save the US. Everyone will keep screaming at each other based on the propaganda they buy into until the guns come out.

You say that like it's hyperbole but there's a hell of a lot of people who think we're on that track. What not everyone agrees on is whether it'll be a problem next Wednesday morning or a problem for our great^N grand kids.
It's not clear to me whether you've read it and are making this argument knowing the case it makes, or if you just saw that date and dismissed it a priori.
Breaking Down China’s Social Credit System – An Advanced Guide
interesting that this is coming right on the heels of this recent article:

https://aerospace.org/paper/physics-space-war-how-orbital-dy...
ah ffs, why do they have to do this all the time?
Migrating eagles racked up a cellular bill – Roaming isn’t cheap
Best+Home+Remedies+To+Get+Rid+Of+A+Stuffy+Nose+-+Health+Lines
The Importance of IT Support During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Job interviews in data science: my experience copy-pasting solutions
They haven't explicitly compared/used data yet with coughs that are legit due to disease, but not covid didn't they?
All my memories have George Clooney in the role as me.
Thanks.

> Any chance of increasing the size of the world and making it like a first person gaming experience?

That's the plan, except it will be the most open ended game ever, what you do inside is up to you... want a epic battle game? Build medieval siege engines yourself and fight other people. Want a city simulation? build the transportation system yourself, charge people to use it...
Performance doesn't matter until it does. I've seen a malloc upgrade save millions of dollars.
It's not a trap, it just is. In the end you're forced to choose: revenue or something else?

"Sufficiently Powerful Optimization Of Any Known Target Destroys All Value ... when we optimize for X but are indifferent to Y, we by default actively optimize against Y, for all Y that would make any claims to resources" https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/31/does-big-business-ha...
Any plans for additional datasets for cypto? Numerai and a few others are mentioned providing datasets (NLP datasets too) and algos described here 'Machine Learning for Crypto' Traders https://eduardmason.medium.com/machine-learning-for-crypto-t...
The title is incorrectly copied. The original says "Nears Its End"
It is.

Factor, noun "a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression."

It's not an exact integer factor, but I think the concept of factor is more general than that.
Meanwhile Microsoft are doing the opposite: https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/microsoft-365/windows/univer...
If you reduce it by a multiple > 1 of its total time it must be negative, i.e. it's giving you back CPU cycles every time you execute it. Quite impressive.
The rather shouty title makes me wonder if someone put Descartes before the hoarse
Here's a pretty interesting website from the creator of "Children of a Dead Earth" which focuses on near-term space combat ships.

https://childrenofadeadearth.wordpress.com
Rust has been "web ready" for some time. C++ is "web ready", too.

But why should one choose Rust when there're plenty of alternatives with much larger and much more stable ecosystems. And those alternatives offer much higher productivity and a much larger talent pool.

Rust is not even the fastest web framework (https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/) . And the benefit over Java, C# or Go is really negligible. Who needs more than 300000 req/s and can't afford servers to scale?

So, another nice try from the Rust evangelists, but no thanks.
It's marginally better because of the magnets that align the charger and the phone precisely.
>but what are the SEC and their European counterparts doing all day?

Raking in the $$$ fining banks for missing technicalities on reporting and whatnot.

Look at the incentives and you can predict the outcome.

It's the same reason the DOT spends their time harassing scrap haulers and dump trucks for being a few pounds overweight rather than trying to track down the people driving on no sleep or systematically skirting the rules. Fining people for petty BS is the financial meat and potatoes of their operation. Good Old Fashioned Police Work (TM) is just a loss leading sideshow to keep public approval high enough to get money. It's like how Red Bull's primary business is selling energy drinks but they also have a bunch of extreme sports ventures for PR purposes.

Pretty much every enforcement agency is like that. You want to see the EPA, OSHA or SEC or whoever levy big company ending fines that scare everyone into compliance then you need to take away the low effort to enforce petty stuff that is the bulk of their revenue stream.
I have been using AWK at work and found it cumbersome for my use-case (run-once analysis/manipulation of 200GB csv datasets). I found out about Miller[1] a year or so back and have been using that instead. I don't know how it stacks up in terms of performance, but for my money, named arguments and one-shot statistics is all I need.

For example analysing the number of people per-year over multiple differently formatted files is as easy as `mlr uniq -f pid,year then count -g year`. It has filtering, very extensive manipulation capabilities and a nice documentation.

John has also reacted very fast on feature requests I had (so fast that I've not yet implemented using them).

[1]: https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#overview
I am not surprised, our bodies's core mechanisms have not changed since our hunter gatherer days when what's is being called fasting was just any other day occasionally punctuated by large feasts after a successful hunt.
New security Headlines podcast episode
>Spotify got in first

Actually Rhapsody was the first. But I guess conditions at the time weren't such that it really went mainstream.
At this point I think many believe their own lies. We read about pee tapes, Russian collusion, foreign intervention and suddenly there is a focus on editorial accuracy. What a joke, Greenwald is far more believable than many of his colleagues and I don't mind him getting a bit invested here.

If all these activists would stop lying and just said Hillary/Biden are better choices because their programs are more foundational, it would have been a walk in the park.

Instead you have these partisan fanatics (not restricted to the US) that are completely fine with undermining democratic processes and restricting freedom for their opponents, even perceived ones.

It makes you feel you can have a reasonable talk with a fundamental Christian instead of a reporter of main stream media. Perhaps there are drugs and blackmail involved, I am running out of explanations. Complete hysteria.
> Why add a circumvention method in the first place.

To support legal use-cases such as archival?
At the very minimum you can reuse the code for input validation on the server side in the client. Given that those, if maintained separately, tend to diverge, in my experience, this is a net win.
Nice article in general, but seems to miss the most important point (at least for me) of why Clojure (and similar languages) are way better than anything else today: it's REPL driven development. Definitely more important for me than any of the other "why we love Clojure" points.

As long as Rust doesn't offer something similar as the REPL driven development Clojure offers, there is zero reason of preferring Rust (for me) over Clojure for the same tasks. Which, because of the last point ("Rust is not homoiconic") won't happen any time soon.

Now, if you need to do embedded system development, Rust might make more sense than Clojure, but it won't replace Clojure for the same tasks today.
Once you have millions of dollars in hosting costs, you can rewrite your app in rust. Most likely, though, your app is never going to cost more then $5 per month.
> So you demand that scientists produce predictions that are bang on not only in 'what' will happen, but also 'why' and 'when'?

Yes, actually: if I'm supposed to take "scientists" seriously, the only reason we listen to them over astrologers is they're supposed to get things right, not make shit up. Why is this confusing to you? Do you think there is some other reason to listen to "scientists?"
Data protection supervisor to assess legality of blanket communication analysis
I dislike eating. That’s a known thing about me. No one would bat an eye if I did exactly that - water should other eat.
embedded / iot / automotive, this currently stands on c ecosystem due to suppliers and billions of lines of legacy code

the failure of rust was it tried to start from scratch where better solution would be to seamlessly integrate into c,

maybe if gcc has support for compiling rust the future switchover on embedded would be easier