skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Go authors have (ab)used comments to extend the language in experimental ways for code generation, build pragmas and recently file embedding.

They’ve done this to avoid breaking the language stability guarantee, not sure if there were other reasons. I think it’s a mistake personally to create this sort of metalanguage in comments (now you have two problems!) but it’s easy to avoid using this most of the time as the uses are pretty esoteric.
So, we discount the research, and just go by what private industry says? Because that's the alternative, as industry will massage and cherry pick the data until it fits whatever narrative it wants. It has a lot of money at stake.
These comments stating: “just move if you’re unhappy”, are not helpful, and infact quite insulting.

They remind me of “if you’re not happy with our immigration policy just move somewhere else”. It is completely ignoring how people actually live.
My broker said it was a standard $3K closing cost if at zero points, but I ended up taking some negative points as a credit towards closing costs.
Is Youtube infrastructure or publisher?

The way ad placement works suggests publisher. Is the scale of that publishing transformative?
> In the US roads are mostly maintained by taxes on gas.

This is a common misconception. Most road funding comes from the Fed and state/local income and property taxes. Gasoline taxes exist but do not comprise the majority of funding. It's important to emphasize this because I pay a LOT in taxes but don't even so much as own a car, so I'm paying way more than my fair share for road upkeep.

The solution would be simple -- tax based on odometer reading (and do it federally, so you can't get around it by moving cars between states). Every year as part of your taxes you'd look at your odometer and then pay an amount per mile driven since last year, and periodic vehicle registration renewals would keep people honest (there'd be the same kind of penalty fee there as for paying taxes late). So long as all the states require vehicle registration and send that data to the feds, it'll work. The states could also have their own tax on top.
Wouldn't be much point in having the top domain if it has zero relation to EU?
Epic will be redeveloping the entire 87-acre site, for reopening in 2024.

The mall is in Cary, NC (Raleigh-Durham / RTP area).

Ironically, I was thinking it'd be kind of cool to work in an old mall building (with the typical US indoor shopping mall layout). Inefficient in many ways (parking, space utilization, HVAC), but the idea of locating teams in small (fishbowl?) office-like pods seems interesting.

Natural light would be a problem. The food court could be appealing...

Some of the complaints you mention sound like they might be specific to that building? Commercial floors should be standard build slab/tray concrete in a mall or office building. Retail HVAC should be adequate if inefficient.. Then again, a failed mall might have failed for a long list of reasons, and a crappy physical plant is definitely one of them!
But this is not about eradicating all opportunities for bias, it is about reducing them. Making e.g. the filtering of resumes blind to race and gender would likely improve the situation, even if e.g. the interview still provides opportunity for biases to creep in.
Credit card churning, manufactured spending, and points accumulation. These activities remind me of cryptocurrency in that there's profit to be made among those who participate, but it's also wasteful of time and energy. Here, credit card reward maximization rewards the status-seeking aspect within us. There's the thrill of getting something valuable (business class tickets and luxury hotels) for seemingly nothing.

In some sense, it's just being a savvy consumer, but I'd feel better if there were some sort of carbon tax placed on air travel.
> If you like C, you will love Go

That may be true. But if you love C you’re going to hate Go like you’ve never hated any thing ever before.
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GitHub has just announced a license for developers in Iran:
https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
Hey Nat, since you're on the line here, can I ask for more details about how this process might apply to other software forges? Were you able to secure a general exception for your line of business, or is it specific to GitHub? If the latter, how difficult/expensive was the process?

Great work, by the way. Kudos as well for committing to a DMCA abuse fund.
You had a guy down the block? All I had were pigeons and no redundancy. There were a lot of literally dropped packets.
> That's just as true of our actual responses to COVID.

Please expand on that point to clarify. The second order negative outcomes of a botched vaccine rollout would be enormous, both for this particular pandemic and longer term.

> I explicitly said in my post that not all Americans would choose to take the vaccine. You are attacking a straw man. I was simply giving the highest possible upper bound to the expected number of deaths from vaccination.

This is a key point that you cannot elide though. If 30% of the population takes the rushed vaccine but 70% takes the tested slowly rolled out vaccine, the difference in the herd immunity outcome is large.

> Yes, and why is that? Because despite all of our "respected" institutions saying that the vaccine is safe, many people don't believe them. Why not? Because they know that those same institutions lied to them, repeatedly--and not just in general, specifically during the whole COVID crisis. So why should people believe those institutions now?
> In other words, we have a problem with the status quo.

The FDA never lied during the pandemic, that I know of. Broadly speaking people do trust them, and the tests and approval has a positive effect on vaccine acceptance. Also note that this isn't a binary choice "status quo"/"not status quo", you have to offer a realistic alternative to the status quo that we can measure the status quo against. Rushing the vaccine has more negatives than positives, in my opinion (both in hindsight and even more so with the information we had at the time).

> Who would be reporting and exaggerating the side effects in a way that everyone would hear about? The mainstream media.

No, mostly social media. But even if the mainstream media is responsible (whatever that term means, it encompasses local stations, cable news, NPR and newspapers like the NYT/WaPo, each of which have different propensities to exaggerate), you're not offering a solid alternative.
Probably because Porn in blocked in Iran. So Iranian first connect to Tor or a VPN which makes their IP western.
I mean, "Brexit means Brexit", no? The ToS for .eu domains is not that clear about the fact that these are not to be considered property but there is an important point:

> SECTION 9. RIGHTS GRANTED

> 1. Upon registration of a Domain Name, the Registrant obtains a limited, transferable, renewable, exclusive right to use the Domain Name for the Term unless otherwise stated in the Rules. No other rights can be claimed by the Registrant except for those included herein.

The key point here is: limited. This should indicate that a domain name is not property. On top of that UK .eu domain owners had 2 years time to figure things out.

This whole article read like a big complaint about not doing long ago announced homework.
I'm surprised Iran doesn't block Github. There's plenty of political content on Github - it makes a half-decent blogging platform for the technically inclined.
> DST better aligns with most people's day schedules

I'd like to see that studied closely in light of the fact that 1 in 3 Americans suffers from chronic sleep deprivation.

And just because people have earlier schedules doesn't mean that they operate well with earlier schedules -- and because society programs us for decades to wake up earlier and to view oversleeping as sloth just asking people what their preferred sleep schedule is may bias results. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that half the people in this thread who think they really want that hour of light at the end of the day wouldn't function much better if they got more sleep in the morning.

There's also the asymmetry where people who are early risers want that extra hour of light in the evening -- at the cost of the late sleepers suffering chronic sleep deprivation and all the related health costs ("I want an extra hour of light, and you dying early of a heart attack is a small cost to pay for that").
I never knew that programs were broadcast, that makes total sense and it's completely awesome that you could just analog record a program from a radio program into the system like that!

The simplicity of the cassette tape recording (and playing) mechanism and how it works w/ a simple 5V amplitude modulated signal makes me happy thinking about it every time I see something related to it mentioned.
While I am fairly sympathetic to the cause in the abstract, as someone who had to clean up after various incursions from the folks doing the mass downloading, the methods ... let's just say that they have externalities that I and many others end up having to deal with.
It totally depends on what you want to get into.

Want to get into the applied side and build/test aerospace equipment? You don’t even necessarily need an advanced degree. Don’t discount how many contractors do this work for the government either. Lockheed, Boeing, Honeywell, Jacobs, etc. all need engineers to do the applied science. Don’t overlook tangential roles like quality either because the industry is littered with them.

If you want to do research, you’ll probably need an advanced degree and possibly time in academic research.
In addition to Ma...

"Ren Zhiqiang, a retired real-estate tycoon, fell off the radar in March after accusing the Communist Party of mishandling the coronavirus pandemic, The New York Times reported. Beijing later sentenced Ren, 69, to 18 years in prison.

"The country reportedly arrested other critics of its response to the pandemic, including Xu Zhangrun, a law professor, and Zhang Xuezhong, a human-rights lawyer.

"Xiao Jianhua, an asset manager, was abducted from a hotel in Hong Kong in January 2017, Reuters reported. Xiao disappeared into Chinese custody, and the country later seized parts of his company, Tomorrow Group, The Times reported in July. Regulators had accused Xiao and other tycoons of taking would-be investors away from Chinese stock markets, The Guardian said.

"Meng Hongwei, the former head of Interpol, disappeared in September 2018 during a trip to China from France, the BBC reported. Last January, China sentenced him to 13 1/2 years in prison on bribery charges.
Yep, it seems that the person you're replying to doesn't know that it usually takes longer to grant such licenses, GitHub got really lucky here (or the US have thinked about the prestige of having GitHub there).
I’m a dummy. Sorry. Misread the original. Updated the post to reflect that.
Bankruptcy has a 7 years bad credit sentence in US. You are good as new after that. Not sure that's the case with other countries.
Currently all run chunks play at the same time. So 'run somechunk' will create a run of a chunk that begins at the same time as all other run chunks.

Your question does bring up an interesting idea, which would be to have a 'play somechunk' command that is blocking. But that does not exist at the moment
The author is making a fantastically insightful point that more people need to understand, but the whole thing is ruined by the strange choice to use a massively loaded and judgmental term like "morally incompetent". I know it's cast as self analysis and so is supposed to be somewhat self-effacing, but it also means that folks who really need to hear it won't.
I think they're using the "3P" version of "pivot", as in "Pause, Pivot, or Persevere".

Pivot definitely seems to soft a word to describe what is, generally, exactly what you said - a full startover. At least, in the context of a startup.

But then I dunno what other "P" word would work, and heaven forbid we break the catch alliteration... :-)
ot: do plan on adding an RSS feed? Would love to subscribe.
In college, I pulled a gas line through 30 feet of existing retail space at this very mall for a retrofit asian bistro. It's an absolute dump, no natural light, sprawling and fundematly unfixable early 80s bad mall architecture.

I have a friend who lives across the street from Epic's existing HQ. It looks like a fun-looking building to work in, I have a hard time imagining Cary Towne Center not being a downgrade no matter how much cash you throw at renovation. Just getting the all-permeating smell of stale roasted popcorn out of the concrete is going to take a small fortune.
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IIRC, Russia provides gas to Europe.
People are going to focus on discussion with COVID but to me the big takeaway from this great article is the lessons not learned. Whenever discussing stagnation or regulatory deadlock in the US the default response is to handwring about the dangers things like the FDA protect us from. It’s refreshing to see someone eloquently write about how there is inherent risk that regulation also exposes us too.

There’s no one extreme that is perfect but I personally would prefer rapid progress with some mistakes as opposed to what we seem to be experiencing now.
I just do not understand how somebody like Ben Thompson, clearly at ease with the internet age, can continue to place so much emphasis on what a handful of large corporate information outlets do or do not do.

>the default is to push for censorship, if not by the government — thanks to that pesky First Amendment — then instead by private corporations.

It's the goddam internet. You don't have to write on FB. You don't have to write on Twitter (and please don't try to actually write on Twitter). Dozens of companies will offer you essentially one-click wordpress installations for you, with 10 more clicks to customize it to match your aesthetic inclinations. Write your stuff there .... oh wait, just like Stratechery does.

Nobody is coming for your blog. And, in the foreseeable future, nobody will come for your blog. You can write whatever you want. Getting people to read it might be slightly harder than if you use some corporatist social media platform, but arguing along those lines merely cements those platforms in their pseudo-monopolist places, which is hardly desirable for all manner of reasons.

Is it a good thing that FB/Twitter et al. can make wrong-headed decisions about the content they allow on their platforms? It's not great. But compared to the information overload issues mentioned here by other commenters, it's not obviously bad either. And it does nothing to reduce your freedom of speech.

Ben Thompson could post articles on Stratechery that make non-libellous false claims about anything he wants, and nobody will stop him. He could this every day for the rest of his life and nobody will stop him. He doesn't like the monopolistic aspects of current social media giants, but continues to insist that they are so important that any "censorship" on these platforms is a significant social issue. I find this contradictory, and naive, and in almost every sense, simply wrong.
... and they'll call it "The cost of doing business". Disgusting.
It's definitely common to accelerate specialized operations without the overhead of a general processor, but it's also possible to effectively use them as a much more flexible microprocessor when you need it.

If you go looking for a microcontroller for your project, you have to choose among what is available. Maybe this microcontroller has two hardware UART interfaces and 1 SPI interface. If I don't need any UART but instead need a CANBUS interface that microcontroller won't work for me. Sure I can bitbang the protocol on GPIO ports but that uses up a lot of the limited processing power on the microcontroller... Usually that means a more expensive microcontroller.

There is a threshold that you can cross where a small FPGA is cheaper than a microcontroller that has enough pins and processing power for your application. This does come with an additional upfront design cost of also writing (but more often integrating) the soft cores but sometimes that makes sense.

Sometimes peripherals just don't exist at the price point you need. Try and find a microcontroller that has a MMIO controller for under $5 (I probably couldn't do it at under $10 but I haven't gone looking recently), it's rare they're needed but sometimes a design requires one.

There has also been a lot of recent interest in doing formal verification of hardware logic. A lot of the microprocessors and even that full CPU in whatever device you're reading this on has a lot of undocumented black boxes and undefined behaviours both of which prevent that verification from being meaningful.
I'm not sure what the second would be. The first is presumably "deliberate discharge," and then...?
Divorces Tumble, Marriages Drop in US During Covid Pandemic
A bit harsh, but the explanations of the 'morally incompetent' remind me of a great article I read a few years ago, titled The Reductive Seduction of Other People's Problems:
https://brightthemag.com/the-reductive-seduction-of-other-pe...
The fataility rate for COVID is also extremely skewed towards older people, to the extent that most COVID deaths are over 75 years old, and people under 40 very rarely die from it.

The median age in the U.S. is 38. The median age in Africa as a whole is 19.

Africa also has very few cases, but this is simply because mass testing is not available.
Really keyboards should be engineered to be completely silent. Then, under each key there should be a small piezo electric speaker to make a key click noise for reasons of haptic feedback.

The app that goes with this should then be able to do things like make the keyboard sound like an Apple keyboard, or a classic IBM one or even a typewriter. It should be one of those features like how digital cameras have a speaker in them to make a fake shutter sound.

Since keyboards can already cost $200+ (Looking at you, Logitech) I don't think this is too much to ask, particularly if spill proof.
Considering it already comes up early, yeah, I can stay asleep if its bright out, but going to bed when its bright out is really hard.
Just re-read your own comment for context then.
> There is no actual upside

...unless the "I would experience prejudice" reason is correct.
I'm not sure what you mean by "I also get to deduct the rents", but it doesn't match anything that I understand about the tax code.
Think of this less as shifting one direction or another, and more as discontinuing the endless bi-annual shifting. It just so happens that by discontinuing it, we have to pick a side, and people seem to prefer this one.
Are you old enough to have seen the thalidomide children of the mid-1970s?
Running trials takes time. It isn't worth it.
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When your subjects are human beings, the rules are different - both for ethical reasons, and because if you violate your subjects' privacy you won't have any more subjects for next time.
I obviously missed the boat on replying to this in time, but here it is, for posterity.

I think the belief that we'll eventually get to a state "wherein we provide adequate resources to everyone without requiring them to work" is wonderful, but unfortunately, unlikely to happen.

I'm sure this has been thought out by people much smarter than me, but I see two problems.

First, who decides what "adequate" is? At some point, a decision has to be made on what resources to allocate to a person. Here, in the US, we "let the free market figure that out", which, ideally, means that people are free to negotiate and enter into transactions as they wish, but in practice, is just another way of saying that the government doesn't intervene in decisions unless laws were very clearly broken, and even then, justice is not quite blind. In any case, aside from laws and regulations on what constitute a minimum level of support for people, we do not define what "adequate" means, probably because it's actually a really tough question. The communists, in theory, wanted to appropriate resources "from each, according to their ability, to each, according to their need." Except the people in power were ruthless and corrupt and that system wasn't all that great at incentivizing people. Anyway, good luck with defining "adequate" and then getting people to agree with you on that.

Second, and more difficult, is that the people who control the means of production now will be somewhat reluctant to give that up in the future, so I'm not sure how you'll manage to produce adequate resources for everyone without requiring them to work if someone else still owns the means of production. If you seize the means of production, you're back to communism.

So, I think the main thing that utopian visions like this miss is the messy reality of human beings, that they're born with inherent inequalities and that those inequalities persist over time. Someone, or, probably a corporation, will own the robots of the future. That corporation will control enormously powerful means of production. There is nothing requiring that corporation to pay you for anything, nor for them to provide you with adequate resources.
Well, GitHub is now fully available in Iran: https://github.blog/2021-01-05-advancing-developer-freedom-g...
We should just split the difference and call it even!
Citizens United said otherwise.
Competence and practicality are severally underrated among many people who believe they are doing good. This belief seems to often short circuit critical thinking and the person ends up diminishing their impact or having an adverse effect.

Examples:
Habitat for humanity - for the cost of sending one incompetent american to build a house in the third world, an army of local builders can be hired. If you really want to make impact, donate rather than going in person.

Talented and capable people who end up working low impact non profit jobs at low pay. If you had a real job and donated half your income to the cause, both you and the cause would be better off.

Stupid advocacy. People who get excited about feel good slogans like "cancel rent" without considering impact on the medium and long term supply of housing, and thus end up amplifying the problem they believe they are fixing.

These are just a few examples where not doing the seemingly good/moral thing can be much better than doing it.
You can't mute a microphone. Mute is when something can't make a sound. You put a mic on mute.

So no, the text is correct. But obviously it's wrong. It doesn't ONLY mute the keyboard, it mutes everything for the person typing. The keyboard, the person, the squeaking chair.
I think you have missed the hidden point of my comment (well, it is sarcasm though so apologies to that).
You are right, kids don’t give a shit about walking to school in the dark. They don’t give a shit about eating tons of sugar either, it doesn’t mean either healthy though.

You have to be aware that there are social reasons for why people—including kids—stay up later. Moving the clock to a permanent DST might move social activities with it and ultimately cost a significant portion of the population a healthy sleep cycle.