skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It applies the same philosophy but doesn't require special data types. Not all data stores support decimal numbers, and every programming language I've used uses floating point numbers my default. JS doesn't seem to even have a native decimal implementation at all.

Strings work everywhere, and are first-class data types it most systems/languages. They take more bits per digit than numbers (though you can choose a wider alphabet to mitigate that, such as ASCII 33 '!' through 126 '~'), but I'm happy to trade the storage away for using a first-class data types.
They ended up growing and eating so much sweet potatoes that they turned orange after a while. They had to pump oxygen into the biosphere 2

This is a fantastic read https://dartmouthalumnimagazine.com/articles/biosphere-2-wha...

[..] Microbes in our organically enriched soils had produced carbon dioxide at a greater rate than our young plants could produce oxygen via photosynthesis. We discovered that most of the missing oxygen was converted to CO2 and had been absorbed by the unsealed concrete in our habitat.[..]
In practice C code, especially well-written C code, will have most of the same bounds checks. It's not uncommon where a C programmer could safely omit a bounds check, but of course it's too often that the average C programmer mistakenly omits a bounds check or implements a bounds check wrong. See, e.g., the recent HN post, "Escaping VirtualBox 6.1", https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25795731 (https://secret.club/2021/01/14/vbox-escape.html).
Defer your startup for few more months.

Continue working at your full time job, reduce your expenses and save as much as possible. Look for consulting/ contract/ part time after hour work while working at full time job.

Once you have enough savings to not rely on part time work to support while working at startup AND you already have enough extra paid “after hour” work and built such connections, quit full time job and focus on your startup. Continue taking contract/part time work.
So some plastic moves from one place to another, and this is considered a cleanup?

Can't say I'm impressed.
I don’t know if it’s ironic or not, but as someone not into mathematics, the first example is far more readable, and it’s not close.
> - Compatibilty with C: That doesn't tell me much, because C++, D and Rust all have excellent C compatibility.

Zig's @cImport/translate-c is significantly easier to use than Rust's bindgen (though it's been a few years since I used bindgen) plus it can translate actual functions to Zig and not just declarations (e.g. inline functions)
Why a keyboard application code even needs access to the internet? Could the OS just not allow it in the first place? I honestly don't fully understand why it's a Signal's problem in any way.
The Elon Musk vs. Gary Vee Approach [Plus a New Approach]
Resolve Path with Node
"leaked from lab" claim absolutely does not imply "designer". The virus could have been natural, collected for study (possibly in animal) by a lab which studies such viruses and still leaked via an accident (unexpected human transmission).

To prove that it is "designer virus", additional, different kind of evidence is needed.
> I'm not sure how well you can separate that: most people are going to hit those bumps when they get started.

Your XML example is spot on and I agree. However I'd never say XML itself was flawed specifically because some of the tools, APIs, and specs built on top of it were flawed.

That would be like saying electricity itself is flawed because you don't like electric tooth brushes.

Likewise, Java was not flawed just because J2EE was a mess. The fact that J2EE drove people to NodeJS, has nothing whatsoever to do with Java itself.
The breakdown of "All Respondents" (i.e. all programmers) into Web, Mobile, and SRE/DevOps is telling.

Let's just say that it's a big world. People programming Excel spreadsheets aren't using vi, either. I won't dispute that.
Rot sets in when:

- teams no longer have a real customer, such as “big rewrites” that will ship in 3 years

- teams accept low quality and slack off. One PR isn’t called out and that gives a permission structure for lower quality

- a bad egg gets on the team the wrecks the feelings of emotional safety. The brilliant narcissist the company feels they need to let his/her abusiveness slide

- we throw new hires “into the deep end” because they have to “take their lumps” like we did

- people get territorial over code because they’re insecure and maybe not great developers.

- the customer is ignored to chase the latest cool new thing

- hiring standards are lowered and anybody with a pulse that walked by the tech section in the bookstore is hired

- good developers stop seeing peers, and realize they do all the work, so leave for a healthier team

- tech illiteracy outside the team trumps tech competency in the team. When the manager says “stop writing unit tests, just get the feature done”

- any rumor “hire cheaper labor” causes your best to flee and your least qualified to jockey for status
Scientists Have Sequenced Dire Wolf DNA
> brontobytes

Sorry hella, my vote was easily placed.
If lawyers don't get paid, they don't bother going to court at all. Do they deserve to be abundantly compensated for their skills and time spent taking on one of the most powerful companies in the history of the humanity? If not - who would bother?
> The new Biden administration has no reason to cover this up further, due to the obvious danger that another pandemic results from a lab accident involving designer lethal virus.

This is true - but the implication, then, is that if they don't follow through with it, it is most likely to be because they don't feel the evidence is strong enough for it, as opposed to that they do believe it and are inexplicably covering it up.
I agree with the other comment about how this incentivizes just being a good content picker. To simulate and get the efficiencies of the stock market, I think you need a mechanism that is analogous to how a profitable company pays out dividends. Sure the speculation can drive prices but fundamentally there needs to be some intrinsic value to an investment that is actually derived from how useful the content is... how profitable the content is
I do find it slightly bizarre that on HN, a website run by ycombinator i.e. Americana, seemingly the Russians always get the benefit of the doubt. Similarly with the President actually. The politics here is quite hard to characterise.
I am not a programmer :(
There's a relatively large difference in executable size, which might matter in some situations. And in run time. For executables that can get put to task doing a lot of heavy lifting and hammering on memory resources like grep and awk and others, it might make a real difference.
I once created a system of vertical and hydroponics build for underground ‘farms’ to grow food on Mars for a ‘Crops on Mars’ hackathon.

The key feature would be an inflatable ‘mattress’ on the surface above that will freeze and thaw.

I still think that it will be useful for underground farms on earth. I was really thinking of ‘hostile environments’ rather than growing on Mars.

Powering my underground Mars farm was a challenge but I sorted that out with a nuclear battery. Whatever. Shouldn’t be a problem for earth tunnel farms.

HST: I think if we are to colonize space and start living out there, we could convert earth into a ‘garden of Eden’ ..a work in progress, as it were..with a skeleton farming team tending and supplying food to the space earthlings.

Or if we are to colonies a planet, it would be in the form of a cluster of sealed habitats or environments. And each habitat will be vacated as it regenerates ...in a way, a kind of progression of seasonal changes. Only..on earth, the seasons change. Up there, we will simply move to a seasonal module. This way, we can regenerate and deal with waste/recyclables etc.
I paid, and I wasn’t in the US.
> I am actively evangelising my family members to start using alternatives.

Which specifically? I've finally succeeded in showing them the light regarding Signal.

The only usable alternatives that come to mind is Gab for Twitter (or Mastodon but that'd be a stretch for most of them). With respect to Facebook and Instagram, I don't see a clear path to a seamless switch as with Whatsapp and Signal.
I do have some capital on the side but I am super short on time at the moment. So you do trade altcoins? Which ones are you referring to?
Very awesome that both of you are on here!
“By misunderstanding happiness, the modern conception increases the likelihood of disappointment.”

By writing an article about the concept of happiness without ever defining the term in the article, there is no way to discern any change in conception that may not be simply a semantic confusion. And this is the BBC...
Note that Pompeo is also alleging a link between Iran and al-Qaeda (see the https://www.state.gov home page, for instance), which is another "extraordinary claim" - nobody has been seriously worried about al-Qaeda in a long while, and Iran has not been historically aligned with them.

If Pompeo is running for president in 2024, a war with Iran will benefit him in much the same way the war with Iraq (which was based on untrue claims) benefited Bush. It's in his interest (both in the sense of a personal interest and in the sense of consistent with his neoconservative / hawkish beliefs, which are much stronger than Trump's) to sour the relationship with Iran and also to prepare the American people for the idea that we should be going to war with them.
Wouldn't minks fit your requirement here?
Could you add undo/ctrl-z functionality?
If the content lingers on the site and people interact with it consistently positively maybe that would be a good indicator of quality content.
Also so many n00bs !
This one obviously has a result in mind (i.e. Trump almost definitely believes his own rhetoric if Tillerson's statements are anything to by), but if they end up publishing a properly weighty document like the Mueller report I will take it seriously.
In fact the startup is an offchain peer to peer protocol for crypto transactions between hardware wallets. I am finishing up the whitepaper this weekend, I can share it with you?
A lot of games slam the CPU even when idle because of busy waiting and looping they built into the game which could likely be improved by better async and parallelization natives or frameworks.
Hella can be the binary version. The decimal version can be hecka.
Floating point numbers aren't special data types either.

You don't need decimal. It works fine with binary floating point. The reason they don't call it robust is that it requires re-balancing, but so does your proposal.
Will Amazon release a Color Kindle in 2021?
> And yet, if V8 can compile and launch my program in milliseconds, it seems like a similarly designed just-in-time rust compiler/interpretter should be able to do the same thing.

Along these lines, Rust developers are working on adopting cranelift (a compiler framework used for JIT in Firefox) for quick debug builds, where runtime performance is not critical.
Is there a way to sort on that without a recursive query?
NoSQL rocketed in popularity, because it required zero working knowledge of how databases work. You could get up and running on a project, without having to worry about what tables, columns, and their relationships to one another meant. You could throw ANY data in, and generally get it back out.
yeah i don't especially expect that to matter in practice. monads used to require CPSing all over the place too.
I think Postgres is popular because of its emphasis on being explicit, strict, and correct.

We're seeing the same thing in programming language adoption, where TypeScript is exploding in popularity and seemingly every language is getting static types if it didn't already have them.

To me, the rise of Postgres (and its spiritual siblings, languages with expressive, static type systems) are about maturing of the industry rather than hype.
Just so you know, you can absolutely put this on your resume. Blogs, side projects, even hobbies. I feel like anything that demonstrates, "Look: I am smart, I am different, I am not like all the other candidates" is good. Way too many candidates have "stock resumes" - chock full of buzzwords without real substance. I skip right over those ones. But I always read about the side projects because they demonstrate genuine interest, not bandwagonning.
WhatsApp uses dark patterns to encourage unencrypted cloud backups.
I'm sorry, but this is the stuff of nightmares. Everybody I know who hates reddit hates it for the reputation system - reddit karma is what makes it so full of shitty memes that get regurgitated again and again. Tying that sort of system into work (especially ones that docks points for things like introducing bugs! Try having a blameless postmortem after that!) is a god damned nightmare.

Not too long ago people in this community were pissed at workplace monitoring tolls that were introduced as wfh started due to COVID and Microsoft for adding individualised metrics in teams. I'm sure you have positive intentions with this, especially with incentivising micro-interactions like cheering teammates for good work. But whether or not you intend it to be a workplace monitoring system is irrelevant, with easy to see metrics it will become one. I dread the day I'll have to ask my coworkers to "cheer" me on PRs because I introduced a bug and my karma has gone down.
And keep in mind last week Mike Pompous of the State Department released a memo on forming a closer relationship with Taiwan [0].

The Trump administration is stoking the flames against the mainland China on their way out.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25706155
The phrasing on that statement sounds a bit off, and I'm not sure whether it's a real misunderstanding of how React works or just the way the sentence is written.

React re-renders components recursively by default. If I call `setState()` in a component halfway down the tree, React starts its rendering pass at the root component, then skips quickly down the tree until it runs a cross a component that's been flagged as dirty and needing an update. From there, it recurses down through all descendants of that component and re-renders them as well, regardless of whether those components have any queued state updates or whether there are any changes to their props.

For more details, see my extensive post "A (Mostly) Complete Guide to React Rendering Behavior":

https://blog.isquaredsoftware.com/2020/05/blogged-answers-a-...
Error handling is such a train wreck. Manually returning an error in 2021? What were they smoking?
Sometimes engineers have perverse incentives. If you want a FAANG job, it probably helps to have experience with FAANG tech, even if your current company doesn't need it.
What makes you say it's less efficient? It's exactly analogous to storing increasing decimal values between 0 and 1, just using base 26 digits (encoded A-Z) rather than base 10 or base 2.

Start with .M (encoded as "M"); add in .F, .T to insert before or after. Once you find yourself trying to insert between .M and .N, do it by adding .MM.

But in a database char types can be arbitrarily long, and database indexes are well suited to indexing them. That gives them a lot of advantages for this kind of usecase.
I am not a programmer unfortunately, my fulltime job is in tech sales but I was outright lied to about the role before joining. At the moment I am doing the fulltime job, while jobhunting for other full time tech sales positions, while also working on getting the startup off the ground, while my cofounder also has a full-time job and another project he is working on.
No troubles this side.
Ryzen 5, RTX2080 daily driver on Ubuntu 20. Even use steam for Linux mostly in the off hour. Very little noticeable diff with game performance on win10
900M sounds like a lot, but how many "particles" or plastic are there in the ocean. I'd have to think.. quadrillions at least?
I used to drink approx 5 cups of black a day... but now it messes with my digestive processes.

I'm off coffee completely. Black Tea works just fine for caffeine.
Pedantry aside, isn't it? In a thread about the backlash to whatsapp changes, Op said "it's not what you think it is!!!"

The point is, this happened to be a watershed moment. Whether the conditions (mining metadata) were met years ago or in a week or two from now is irrelevant.
Yeah, my experience with go is there is a lot of boilerplate, and the verbosity actually makes it harder to read imo, because the core logic is cluttered with less important details.
The ecosystem is moving (2016)
Postgres supports table partitioning and foreign data wrappers (used for accessing remote SQL databases) which can be used to set up sharding as described in the postgres docs.
It's hard to compare Google's "union" to this one. This one would be much more like the old factory workers banding together. The people at Amazon make far less than the people at google and often don't have the luxury to think about "societal concerns" they just want to put food on the table. I think all around it's good, but this would be a much different type of union and probably better be much larger or it will get squashed quickly
If I need to fit something between z-index 2 and 3, I'd just put it at 2, and subsequent to all the other z-index 2 elements.
I think the wisdom is to choose a better algorithm if you can, and choose a better implementation if you can't?
Yeah, I think exist a lack of convergence in build the "batteries" for common web flows (auth, admin site, etc).

It not help rust still lack the "#1" in some key areas but maybe what we need is to people to voice the interest here.

I'm in the fence about doing something that could be the "auto-admin" alike django, and the maintenance cost is what make me doubt this. In the other hand, maybe following the model of tailwindcss with a full open source + a very nice styling to get the proper founding will help (and btw, i plan to use tailwind)
Seek to be useful rather than powerful is good advice for people and organizations.
This is actually my site. I built it over 10 years ago. I do understand the complaint about it being mostly western lit, and I've recently started searching for and adding more non-western lists. I am open to any recommendations. Thanks!
At the end of December 2019, A friend had a layover in the business lounge in Seattle on a return flight from Europe to San Francisco. At the same time, a direct flight from Wuhan came in. He spent 3 hours in the lounge waiting for the flight to SFO, ate at the buffet.

A few days later, he said he became deathly sick. Fever, coughing, and said he felt like he was going to die. His wife became very sick shortly after his illness began, and his 8 year old son as well. His symptoms did not completely clear up for him for a month. His wife was seeing one specialist after another for months with after-effects. His son got through it in 3 days.

All of this was before the first cases was officially reported by the CDC as diagnosed in Seattle on January 20th.

My friend's doctors did not know what they were dealing with at the time and did not test for COVID. After COVID became known, he looked into anti body tests. They were expensive ($700+ at that time) and he did not have one.
The article said it trended on Saturday. It trended because people talked about the insurrectionists chanting it. And Twitter blocked it within hours.
For fr/en, author Jean-Loup Chiflet has written a few books consisting entirely of what you're describing. The most famous is "Sky My Husband (dictionary of the running English)"
Just make sure there's no competing edits going on at the time that might cause a race.
16% unusually low for a class action suit.
$1 a year ? There'll be plenty of takers even in India for this.
Hacker News is a diverse website. It’s more than people who just go “China bad” and “Russia bad”.
You only get one chance to omit something from the standard library. After that, you're stuck with it forever.
I was just being flip. The selection process will never happen because the conformists and professionally dishonest will have something to say about it.
I'm not quite sure why you picked west africans. I'd hope there's africans from all over the continent on here. Personally I'm east african
I’m trying to piece together how any of this makes sense.

The implication is that Covid was a biological weapon accidentally released? Wouldn’t this be a pretty idiotic biological weapon? An especially bad one for a heavily urbanized country to release? Not to mention the main outcome of this “weapon” would be hurt China’s top importers?
> If Pompeo is running for president in 2024, a war with Iran will benefit him in much the same way the war with Iraq (which was based on untrue claims) benefited Bush.

Was the war Dick Cheney started going years before Bush announced he was running? How would this be comparable at all to Bush/Iraq?
Upon reflection, you're right. Thanks for the wake-up call.
This isn't a response to a good faith reading of their comment.

There is a vast gulf between 110 million dollars and not getting paid.

Even keeping in mind just how expensive a lawyer's time is, how would say, 10 million dollars not be enough of a jackpot for a lawyer to take on a case like this?

It really does seem like a truly arbitrary and overinflated amount for the lawyers to make out like this. I wonder how many of those 1.6M users would benefit from 50 dollars more than the lawyer will benefit from an extra 100 million.
Amazon: Do It Without Dues
Based on what the commenters on this article are saying, this bug doesn't actually corrupt the hard drive.
Ugandan here. I spoke with my family in Kampala yesterday (cell phone calls still work) and whilst some things like atms not working are an issue, for the most part things are working, especially since there is a large use of mobile money for payments
Blood vessel expansion and damage are common with all influenza-like diseases. They are quickly restored.

It would be quite interesting to learn of the long term damage of SARS-COV-2
I am very happy to hear this news. In Communist China if someone's account were purged I doubt it would be reinstated, so regardless of what you think of Trump as a president, this action reflects very favorably on America with respect to free speech. I hope Twitter will follow suit, and that Parler will be reinstated on Apple and Google, and its AWS account on Amazon. There are blacklists being written up, I hope those are dropped as well.

Ordinary Americans should not have to think about signing up to the dark web, which law enforcement can't easily access, for their ordinary everyday lawful political speech. A former president certainly shouldn't.

I myself am not angry at Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, or Amazon that this happened. I am just so sad that free speech could be taken away in the first place.

This is a big win for free speech.

Below I copy the lead sentences from Wikipedia on free speech:

Freedom of speech[2] is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or a community to articulate their opinions and ideas without fear of retaliation, censorship, or legal sanction. The term "freedom of expression" is sometimes used synonymously but includes any act of seeking, receiving, and imparting information or ideas, regardless of the medium used.

Freedom of expression is recognized as a human right under article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and recognized in international human rights law in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Article 19 of the UDHR states that "everyone shall have the right to hold opinions without interference" and "everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice".
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