skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you bored and want a fun new take on programming? Or are you truly, in practice, extremely dissatisfied with the current marketplace of C alternatives

I think the reason is something else: It's not the demand that's amazing, it's the supply.

A lot of people like making languages, and full working environments to go with them. It's fun! If you're into that sort of thing, it might be the most attractive kind of project, with a kind of geek gravity that draws you in when you've got the bug.

A new language and its environment is an interesting exercise, even if it takes years. It's something to do to hone your craft. It's not particularly difficult, if you go for it, it just takes time. You can add all those ideas you wish other languages had but never do. Probably if you're into making languages you have a lot of ideas like that.

There's lots of interesting things to learn, lots of puzzles to solve, and then you have an artifact at the end which other people can appreciate. They might even find it useful, which is another reward, another bit of satisfaction.

If that's a major reason for new languages, why C-like?

I think C-like hits a design sweet-spot that is easy to understand and easy to branch out from. But it's also something you know other people are likely to understand and appreciate. It's not too exotic, at least at first glance. With so much supply and a lot less demand, you want your language to be noticed, to be useful and seen as useful. Being C-like boosts chances of acceptance as a language to take that bit more seriously.

I company I worked for a very long time ago wrote a hardware compiler, with a front-end language for hardware called Handel which was a DSL in Standard ML (great language. ML. by the way).

It was used, but it got more popular when they wrote a C-like front end and called it Handel-C. There was no real difference to the language, and Handel-C was in many ways less powerful (because there was no ML with which to manipulate the syntax tree), but the C-like syntax made it a look familiar, and therefore marketable.
Successful??? They don’t have the revenues to hire a single employee!
Picked up a handful of old 10g mellanox cards and just direct connected my computers since even the used 10g switches are still expensive... i can reach double my 1g ethernet speeds but not near the 10g max. I'm thinking the pciv1 slots str holding them back...
Since there are workarounds, it's ok for HN purposes. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989
Yea, I'm not really feeling all that sympathetic for pali here. A) calling the maintainers bastards is really not helping their case, B) the maintainers already clarified they weren't planning on reworking the code to reduce the audio quality.

If anything, I think this whole debacle illustrates the reality of big open source projects. It's largely thankless work a lot of the time.
DHS to issue China data security warning to U.S. businesses
I think having actual documentation about how the memory system is supposed to work would do a lot more to answer questions than linking to the tests.

For example:

x = [1, 2, 3] // is this stack or heap allocated?

foo(&x) // how does the compiler know if x needs to be ref counted or not?

return &x // is this valid or UB or a compilation error?
83% of pages use JQuery, 4% use React
I've been happy with Fastmail so far. Very smooth experience with their web and Android apps. Want to try using them with my own domain soon.
> Journalists are putting themselves in positions in which any normal person would be arrested, and the police are treating them like any normal person.

Which is exactly why we expect journalists to have special protection, and thus why we track violations of these norms. And things are clearly getting worse.

The point isn't to find an excuse for the police here, it's to recognize that a problem exists and find a solution.
Thanks. So it's not related to Einstein's General Theory? In discussions around the cosmological constant, static vs. expanding universe and energy of space, it feels like the expansion is a consequence of the General Theory, and that all we need is to fill in some constants, like the amount of matter in the universe, and the actual energy of space.

Is the theory missing in some more fundamental way, like the lack of unification of gravity and quantum mechanics?
Cook turned back on Musk offer to sell Tesla to Apple
Ask HN: Top Website Hosting Services?
Which are the top 10 website hosting services that businesses (including independent contractors/consultants) use? wix.com, weebly, godaddy, wordpress comes to mind. It will be good to know from you guys about your thoughts.
We can certainly agree that this is too much. You have inspired me to keep an eye out for such nonsense.
> a feature that was already absent on the newer Slim revisions of the machine.

Sounds like it was clear what Sony was doing.
I was asking the same and then looked at my pihole and came to the same conclusion.
For reverse mergers (with significant foreign assets) the audit requirements are retrospective: you list first then have 6m to audit yourself.

Be careful just dismissing the current system. Being complex isn't always bad...
The lockup period for an IPO is usually 6 months. That means that institutional investors have the opportunity to realize their gains any time post IPO, while employees have to count on the price to hold for that long before that can get any liquidity. Two or more earnings calls in the period add to the risk.

In a direct listing employees can sell on day 1, since there are no obligations to underwriters.
> Your last three citations have nothing to do with covid.

They wouldn't. The subject of my comment is the government's competence and trustworthiness with respect to COVID-19.

> Furthermore, if there were more people dying from covid than official records suggest, you would see it show up as excess mortality. But Japan has seen very little excess mortality in 2020

Strange, because one of my “last 3 citations that have nothing to do with covid” addresses that point.

Number 3.

> How are we supposed to measure the impact of COVID-19 with such low testing and no idea what the expected death tally to have been?

Now to the part you definitely read:

> Your first citation complains about incompetence in the presentation of data, but does not suggest any sort of attempt at a coverup.

That incompetence is part of a pattern of behaviour (which was the point of those "nothing to do with covid" citations) that, if I were a cynical man, would almost appear designed to make it difficult to hold the government to account, of which there is also a pattern of behaviour[1]:

> Not in dispute is Abe’s aggressive campaign against press freedom.

> Japan plunged from 22nd to 66th in the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index over the course of [Abe's] second premiership

This in particular may account for the lack of a smoking gun:

> The 2014 Protection of Specially Designated Secrets Act weakened freedom of information rights and criminalized whistleblowing. Government bureaucrats could face up to 10 years imprisonment for leaking state secrets, while journalists who published such secrets could face five years in jail.

The article is a long and damning indictment of the way Abe's government (and Suga is included too) has restricted press freedom.

So we have a government that is:

- ostensibly incompetent in the way it supplies data and information
- aggressively and illegally restricts information leaks
- openly bullies the media into silence
- has ignored huge dangers to the public before, in pursuit of money or prestige

But you say we should ignore all of this because it's got "nothing to do with covid"? No, I'm not going to do that as I share the mayor of Futuba's[2] impression, "I strongly mistrust the government".

As I wrote previously, I'm not sending anyone to prison so I don't need to meet a ridiculous standard of proof. If Abe and his minions were on trial then I would, and they probably should be for several things if not this.

[1] https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/after-abe-will-press-freedom...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futaba,_Fukushima
https://archive.is/Se7W0
First they say 5G isn’t dangerous, and now they say a 5G supercell is going to precipitate in our neighborhoods.
Basically, opt-in advertising. A phone book. Mail-order catalogues. Searchable listings. Trade shows. All of these restricted to providing information, optimized for comparison shopping and minimizing available artistic freedom.
> Are you bored and want a fun new take on programming?

Nothing wrong with that.
Seals are making 'Star Wars' noises at each other underwater,we have no idea why
What if anything does this mean for SPACs?
Ok, we've changed to that from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-sec-nyse/u-s-approves.... Thanks!

(I'm sorry about the paywallness, but as long as there are workarounds it's ok, and people have posted workarounds in this thread.)
And that's the entire point of this subthread: people need to get their government to rein in the big corps. Yes, they still need to be wary of their governments and vote responsibly, but they need to be doubly wary of these corporations, and not be afraid to use government to control them.

I see a lot of rhetoric around "free markets" and "not interfering with enterprise" -- usually pushed by corporations themselves. People need to reject that thinking and understand that the corporations don't have their best interests at heart when they say these things.
Funny, interesting and informative. The IT crowd of HN often forget that many terms did not originate with the advent of the computer - me included.

Cement rendering is the application of a pre-mixed layer of concrete, possibly colored, onto a surface. Per the wikipedia link.
UCSF Doctor Challenges Reports of High Covid-19 Rates in Black Community
IIRC it was an issue with the video connection. Nothing at the time could provide enough bandwidth to support 5K, so Apple had to cobble something together. With USB-C and TB3, that's no longer an issue.
Power in Naming Things
I haven't checked for PredictIt since I am not an American and can't bet there. But the usual financial construction for a betting market where you can take both sides is the same as for a law firm, or a share dealer, all your money held by them is legally separate from their money so even if they get into horrible debt problems their creditors have no possible claim to your funds and you just get it all back in a few weeks after the paperwork is done.

It's clearly not as truly safe as government bonds or insured savings where the government is ultimately on the hook to make you square - but it's pretty safe. I wouldn't put next week's rent money (if I rented) on "Trump lost the election" at PredictIt. But money put aside for the new car, for next year's vacation or for a birthday gift in February? No sweat.
> banks are, therefore, incentivized to underprice IPOs as much as they can get away with.

But don't banks compete for the IPO business by telling the company what a high price they will list it for? That doesn't solve the problem of a bank saying they'll list for a high price, winning the bid, and then coming back later and saying that intervening events cause them to think it should be listed lower.

But presumably companies that are about to IPO have advisors/lawyers who can see these sorts of shenanigans coming and fight against them?
Um... Blazor hasn’t been used in any significant scale, and where it has been deployed, the websocket has been a bottleneck to performance.
TBH, at this point we may as well start using whitelists: 1st party domains and known 3rd party CDNs for static content and maybe media, 1st party scripts for frequently visited sites and a special button hidden in a safe place to enable 3rd party scripts for those who want to live dangerously.
You call me an asshole and somehow I'm the jerk? I'm saying your point is both wrong and irrelevant, which it is. Maybe you're the one with the problem.
Let's just not have ladders so that people don't have to wait for benevolent dictators to take them under their wing.
Can someone please tell me why articles of this type leave me with a feeling like "this could have been said in 50 words"?

Is it because the author was tasked with filling x pages and then proceeded to dilute the content as needed?

I wish there was a way to identify these articles before-hand and...not read them, or get a summary.

I totally want to read full articles when they are NOT written this way.
Agreed. Also, Prime Video IS a major incentive for a lot of people to sign up for Amazon Prime and thereby helping perpetrate their near monopoly - so I guess it's a win win for Amazon and for Jeff's sex life.
It's great when people do use an automatic fallback, and we've had reliable methods for that since the 1990s. I've seen WebSockets webapps where they don't bother with a fallback, though.
What kills me about the Teams whiteboard app is that Microsoft already makes the excellent Surface whiteboards!

We're 10 months into a pandemic and Teams still doesn't have a decent whiteboard feature.

Microsoft should be ashamed.
> Which is exactly why we expect journalists to have special protection

I don't. Freedom of the press is the freedom of anyone who has one to publish, not special freedom of media or journalists as a privileged class.

In fact, I find the suggestion of such “special protection” to be aristocratic and not merely outside of but contrary to the idea of press freedom.

I am concerned about activity designed to prevent people from engaging in journalistic activity or retaliating for them so doing, I am not concerned about journalists being subjected to the same treatment as everyone else unless that treatment would be unacceptable if they weren't journalists (and, in that case, the objection has little to do them being journalists, though if the wrongs are concentrated on journalists, it starts to look like deterrence or retaliation against journalistic activity.)
You're comparing one of the best, most-influential games on the NES with a rush-produced cash grab on the Atari 2600. There were many better games on the 2600. Also, the NES came out six years later than the 2600, so it's way easier to make more detailed and more interesting games for it.
> There is a cautious tale of moving to a red state: If enough blue state people move to a red state, they may bring the policies that destroyed the previous state with them.

By all accounts blue states are doing just fine: https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/521875-democrat-run-citi...

Red states seem better at addressing homelessness, but that's about it:

https://appliedsentience.com/2020/07/30/economics-are-red-or...
Yup. Really can’t get my head around the ostrich-lemming like attitude of the multitudes.
At the start of the project, the source code was not available and I deliberately wrote that I really hope and want to believe that the first option is the correct. Nonetheless, this project did start controversially with absolutely bold claims, other, similarly small languages like zig interestingly doesn’t have bad connotations associated with it.
Hopefully V will be able to shed these and will grow successful.
Hey, can you please not post unsubstantive comments to HN? We're trying for something different here and you've unfortunately done a lot of it. Name-calling is particularly not desirable: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I don't want to ban you because posts like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23450857 are much better.
Very much this. They don’t speak in a way that makes me think they have any internal knowledge of the areas they are speaking about.
You're getting very close to the much deeper question: what are these ("rags-to-riches") stories for? And even more generally, what are stories for?

Suppose you drop any and all negative criticism of the story. What's left? What's that for? What should anyone make of this story? What lessons can they learn? What true lessons can they learn? What invented lessons can they learn (because sometimes we tell stories to convey invented lessons, rather than ones rooted in truth)?

What is it that you want someone to get from a story like this, and do you believe that your desired lesson is useful and/or true?
Now you recognize the problem with a huge company that has to rely on the decisions of one person. CEOs don't scale. I mean, they scale in making large decisions, but they don't scale in making the best decisions with the most information.
Ask HN: What facial cues do you miss with masked interactions?
I can’t read faces anymore. I did not realize how much I relied on ‘face reading’ not just to make quick character judgements but also for lie detection, trust level factoring and just overall evaluation.

I don’t know if I am alone in this or if others are also struggling with masked interactions? Especially for first meetings.
Yeah good thing you stayed out of this no use crypto currencies stuff for the last five years, you would have lost a fortune, because well, it has no use and nobody wants it.

Roubini sure called that one.
"You dislike capitalism, yet you participate in it. Curious!"

It's almost as if you don't have much of a choice to participate.
What if incomes grew like GDP?
There is a sense of injustice that the anti-food waste campaign affects ordinary people while the rich engage in gluttony.[1] At least this law doesn't risk triggering such sentiment.

It would be interesting to know whether someone calculated the impact of 'Mukbang' videos on consumption. South Korea already tried to regulate these videos in 2018 as a public health concern, which was presumably based on some analysis.

[1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/13/operation-empt... :

> “Can you first limit the dining of officials? Don’t always take away from the people,” one said, referring to formal banquets and lavish meals held by officials.
> Hackers have broken into home surveillance cameras like Ring to harass kids and threaten families.

Hasn't it been shown that the majority of these "hacks" are just poor password habits by end-users, ie- password reuse and not changing of shared passwords following breaches?
StarLink is taking FCC rural bandwidth funds, so there is a geographic tranche they’re prioritizing/reserving capacity for.
NTF and investor can simply issue more shares under any number of arrangements; cap tables are not written in stone. If they have a hard time, they might also start a new company, and liquidate all the assets from the current company.

Every ongoing business arrangement relies on goodwill and intent to survive, like any other relationship. Consulting a lawyer with expertise in the area may be a good idea, but the best solution is probably the cleanest and easiest one.
It’s weird but not wrong, the area he lived in is still there. Guasti, CA: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guasti,_California
Yes!

I have an iPad as well, and love going down this route if I'm presenting. However, my desire for perfect lines gets stronger and I'm not always the best at drawing...
It’s not really debatable that money has an influence in US politics and elections. It’s also pretty clear that for presidential elections, votes are not equal for people living in different states. But to say “We don’t have ‘one person, one vote’” in this context is pretty blatantly false.

The primary reason that dollars have such an impact on elections is because dollars get spent on advertising and on canvassing and on outreach, and the impact of those things is that it gets your candidate more votes from more people who otherwise wouldn’t have bothered to vote. The way that dollars buy elections is via people voting.

There’s plenty of rational debate to be had about gerrymandering and campaign finance and a whole host of topics, but to throw our hands in the air and say that votes don’t matter is nonsense.
I think the complexity/level is too high. You could easily do the chat from the example video in vanilla JavaScript with a Node.js server and Websocket, that would also be faster and smaller.

The video was however a great tutorial, although a bit too fast. (I had to pause and replay a few times). But it did not sell me on the concept.

A more simple approach would be to send a (head) request to the server every 5 second asking if the source/HTML/state has changed. Then do a sophisticated diff/replace of the DOM (like in React, but without React) making the smallest change to the DOM as possible (only change what was updated). eg. no full page refresh, nor iframes. (and also send a diff over the wire, not the full page).

If you would make the app fully functional/pure you would then be able to cache many states (input->output) and predict them on the client and prefetch, for example a link click, would instantly do the DOM/diff and update the page with the new content. For example in a tic-tac-toe game you could pre-render all states and have the client pre-fetch them.
Known 3rd party CDNs are used for all kinds of content from CSS needed to make a site work to ads and tracking scripts.
There are no consequences. We are already eating fish and chicken, which are pretty alive by any definition.
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, this is a good point.
The Faroe Islands were part of Norway for 800 years until about 200 years ago. Nordic territorial rivalries continue to exist as friendly banter (for now).
CEO pay has risen over 900% over the last forty years:

No, pay for the CEOs of the 350 largest companies has risen over 900%.

Said 350 largest companies have also grown dramatically; "CEO of the 50th largest company in 2020" (Procter & Gamble, $67B revenue) is a much bigger job than "CEO of the 100th largest company in 1980" (General Foods, $5.4B revenue).
> You call me an asshole and somehow I'm the jerk?

People who call you an “asshole” tend to think you’re being an asshole. How is this surprising?