skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This sort of thing is why I'm generally not impressed by the perennial "GC vs. manual memory management" debate. Manual memory management usually isn't. Simply using "malloc" isn't manual memory management, there's still a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes that may or may not match your program's use case. Both GC and "manual" memory management aren't single points, they're suites of options, which you can often mix and match beyond that. Statements like "Manual memory management is better than GC" is roughly like saying "Pie tastes better than cake!"... it doesn't even really make sense, there's so many pies and so many cakes that there's no way to universally order them like that, even for a specific person; add in the subjectivity of taste (in this metaphor, the different needs various programs have of memory in the first place) and it's beyond absurd.

(To my mind, "manual memory management" is when you get a big slab of memory from something, doesn't much matter what, and everything else is managed in your application code. If you're not doing that, you've got some sort of "automation" involved, and that automation can mismatch your program's memory needs every bit as much as a "GC" can.)
That’s mere conjecture.
All credit goes to u/notdjc and his post where I found this can be found here: https://www.reddit.com/r/options/comments/lbg848/i_built_a_s...
Anecdotally, I'm "the Linux person" at my company, so I have LibreOffice on my machine. Everyone else is on Office 365. I rarely need an office suite, and LO does the job for me, but with the online MS Office apps, seems like LibreOffice is further from professional adoption than ever before.

The online collaboration aspect seems to be the killer feature. If I load Excel Online in a browser to edit a file together with someone else, that just works, and it handles simple use cases very well. I suppose the web version of Excel wouldn't deal with complex spreadsheets well, but complex MS Office files are also prone to fail in LibreOffice.

I continue to run LibreOffice because it does what I need, but seems like cloud office suites are now expected to be an option, and the FOSS options there seem to be way behind.
Well there are:

https://data.energizer.com/pdfs/l91.pdf

But the problem isn't just capacity its maintaining the traditional zinc-carbon voltage profile. There were a bunch of much higher capacity Li/AA batteries from various manufactures that used buck converters inside the "cell" but they have fairly short lifespans, and efficiency loss due to the electronics.

For a lot of cases, companies just abandoned the AA form factor and embedded a rechargeable battery.
Yeah, this is a big problem with the ideology that the FSF pushes. They make it out to be that "freedom" (how they define it, that is) is the only criteria on which to make technical decisions. In the real world that doesn't work, and there are a number of other factors to consider.

For example, would it be a better choice for a school to choose to use a free software tool over something proprietary even though the proprietary one has better accessibility support for disabled students? RMS would probably say "yes" because he doesn't care about people, but anyone with a half-working moral compass is able to realize that accessibility is more important that being able to modify the source code in this situation.

I think the FSF would have a much better time rehabilitating their image after the RMS/Epstein shitshow by pivoting away from their uncompromising position (which lets be honest, was just RMS bullying people into parroting) towards one that encourages people to consider software freedom one very important aspect on which to make decisions, but not the only one.
I always thought about them as trilogies, so you're not the only person.
The more absurd thing is criticism of Yellen on this part is being defended - by the White House press secretary no less - as a woman's right to use her skills to make money. Yes, women should absolutely be able to rise to their talent and ambition, but it's a clear conflict of interest for government official. It's a disingenuous use of the most vacuous forms of language to defend open corruption.

But then again, if we wanted finance experts to chair the Fed and be the treasury secretary without any prior monetary relationships with banks and hedge funds, we would probably have just some academics. A lot of academics in economics/finance get paid for legal testimony on behalf of companies and such, too.
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Which thoughts? Are you talking about the liberal echo-chamber downvote squad, the americana/patriot downvote squad, or something else?
Market rate for what? It’s called bribing, this is the market rate for bribes. No company would pay these prices for a 30 minute speech.
Reading this made me wonder if one could use Substack in a similar way, and it appears that they do have a 'private' option that is available for free or paid authors. [1]

I imagine that limits what you can do with layout/formatting, but eliminates some of the complexity around helping grandma log in (since she could get emails with the content and also with a login link).

Disclosure: I am not affiliated with Substack; I don't even have an account.

1: https://blog.substack.com/p/new-private-substacks
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Billionaires can avoid paying taxes equal to what people make in life time. It is fraud.

Why should Bernie Madoff gone to jail then?! if some guy can steal a car then?

The scale matters.
Do you have a list of interests that a reasonable person likes?

Based on my experiences people love wildly different things. I've met plenty of people loving things that I would avoid at almost any cost.

I would guess that your view of a reasonable person is what you see in the mirror. It's not even clear to me why payroll software is so bad. It's not what I spend time on, but it seems like something plenty of engineers would like because the requirements are pretty clear and stable.
Because it's obviously a bribe
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http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

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This is the closest thing to the metaverse that I've seen. However, 3d feels somewhat nauseating on your phone - maybe a desktop app would be better
Speaker fees are a way of laundering bribes, plain and simple.

Watch the docu on OxyCotin. Doctors who made the most in sales for the Sacklers got paid hundreds of thousands to give lectures.. that literally nobody attended. They all kept giving the lectures, time after time.
> 700K is a pittance compared to the millions she would earn in the private sector.

We're talking about that amount of money for just a few days of "work".

> Yet people begrudge her the 220K she does earn. Treasury Secretary and Chair of the Fed would be a multi million dollar a year jobs in the private sector.

That doesn't make any sense. These jobs don't exist in the private sector.

In any case, Treasury Secretary is not a lifetime gig. At most 8 years, probably less. And then Yellen will go back to the private sector, to cash in even more. These are ongoing, transactional relationships. Think of these speaking fees as a down payment.
App size is a problem, but as far as I know only challenge there is cellular download size. (thats why in your examples, dropbox and ebay doesn't care about install size)

Main approach to this problem in industry is when you approach cellular limit, you optimize.

I also agree that it is big engineering investment sometimes. But the problem is you are targeting low hanging fruit (stripping comments from localization, stripping symbols, optimizing images etc) or stuff that doesn't effect download size ( deduplicate files )

Those fixes are good for small startups, which you are giving away for free.

The main engineering problem for big companies is binary size, optimizations like "reordering of the build optimization passes" etc.

I would buy this as a tool, but as a service it is a hard sell for me.
> over $150 in speaking fees

I suppose that's technically true
> lots more money than some cleaning supplies

lots more money than 12+ months of cleaning supplies, labor, delayed purchases, and increased transmission risk amongst your staff and customers?

i suspect it is close enough that we can't hand wave it away as you want to do.

in some facilities it may have been nearly free, with some reprogramming done to the existing HVAC system, to run the fans more, or more frequently pull in outside air.

> Does the exhaled air create risks to workers outside?

this is just FUD.
5th season is based on the 5th book which is easily top 3 of the whole series.

the 4th season and the 4th book are widely considered below average for the series.

if you liked the first 3 seasons, you'll feel right at home with s5.
> Then again, we've invaded foreign countries and sacrificed our civil liberties ("war on terror") for way less deaths than that.

Makes you wonder why we are always so quick to trade away our freedoms...
For top professionals, that is exactly the ballpark.

The goods object of the transaction is "continuing education perk for 500 highly-paid professionals." If I put 500 staff in a room and want to treat them, this is a nice perk that's not something they can buy on their own (even though many are millionaires).
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You mean your qdb.us project? It's cool, but I don't think it's very user friendly.
Yes, it would. It would eliminate clear conflict of interests.
The only bit of feedback I'll offer at the moment, having not yet seen Haven in action, is regarding the website.

Have a designer give the site a distinctive visual identity, including a logo. Once it's ready, expand that visual identity into the Haven application itself.

At the moment, the site feels a bit generic. That's not meant as a slight; just an observation.
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There is plenty of room to compete or innovate. GameStop might be getting a second chance, which is rare.
Whichever populists you’re talking about went along with the swamp being just as swampy as ever, if not more so during Trump’s tenure.

Trump, Fox, and establishment Republicans all directly or indirectly said “the swamp is better than the alternatives”. See, for example, many of the excuses given for hiring all the 9 figure and up net worth cabinet members.
I really love swipe keyboards. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any for LineageOS/F-droid unless you use the Play Store and Google .. which is the trade-off I'm willing to make. (The other one is the loss of a good maps/GPS app, but Garmin does still make and sell regular GPS devices, so..)
> it may contain information that can give them an edge

That's not a speech, is a consult.
A close friend of mine has worked there for many years. We've spoken a lot about the tech.

I don't know the answers to all your questions, but I do know that the emphasis is on research, not consumer (or hobbyist) use. I believe the devices are ~free, but each run requires using a consumable part that has to be either disposed of or returned for refurbishment, and I believe these are hundreds of dollars each.

The big advancement is the size and cost of the devices, the fact that a lab can have one on every desk rather than a communal machine that you have to queue your samples up for, or a device you can transport in field kit.

They do have cloud services that do much of the processing for you, but I suspect you'd want to be able to manipulate the data so you'd need your own data processing tools locally. It's not going to give you a 23andMe style report, it's more likely to say "yep, that's a human" vs "you're ecoli". I believe they do have training for how to do this data analysis, but I suspect this is targeted at customers on large contracts.
Hi, have you heard about Chaff Bugs? URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00659
Would "financial regulation professional" be better?
Maybe if you ran the test 100 times and did some pileups by position it would be usable in comparison to WGS
If Yellen had been appointed a judge instead of Secretary of the Treasury, and a court case involving Citadel came before her, would you expect her to recuse?
Anybody else resigned to scrolling by these headlines every month/week for the past five years? I just want to be notified when something is cheap, lasts, and out of the lab.
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Students lack control over the software they use because schools need them to stay on task in the classroom, to enforce behavior norms on their interactions with each other, and to avoid facilitating access to adult content. These factors are intrinsic to K12 and will not change just because the software is open source. That freedom accrues to administrators, not end users.
I wasn't aware of her career in regulation outside of finance. I think it's fair to say that her regulatory career has been focused on the economy, and that's what most people know her for.
I think using Racket should be avoided because of its problematic community. I've had disgusting experiences interacting with people from Racket community in the past, but so far I thought I was the only one. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that way. Recently, a computer Scientist Leandro Facchinetti described in his video his ugly experiences with top people in Racket community. The experience was such that he completely gave up his PHD and the use of Racket forever. You can view the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wY7FBtr7_c In the video Leandro Facchinetti says: Speaking of people, it's very sad that I had same bad experiences with some people in the Racket community, especially the people up top because they are the kind of people who are smart and they know about it and they will not lose a chance to tell you. I'll give you some examples: I was at the Racket conference having dinner with one of the creators of the language and some other attendees and the creator of the language had some very good points about higher education and how it is kind of a scam in the U.S. but to prove his point he decided some questions to the waiter that were kind of uncomfortable and everyone at the table kind of cringed. Of course, the waiter was gratious about it but still...
As another example, I was talking to another one of the creators of the language and he called one of my collaborators a doofus and the educators at my university, which used to be John Hopkins University, a bunch of donkeys. I understand that he had some points to make about how educators work but this is not the way you make them, right?

It comes to a point that when I was talking to the students of these people, they're kind of afraid of talking to their advisors and I must admit that spending time with these people is one of the reasons why I decided to drop out of the PHD and leave academia all together, because if that's how it looks like to be successful in these communities I think I prefer to try to be successful somewhere else.
shameless plug:

https://github.com/adsharma/py2many

I didn't write the python -> C++ transpiler, but added a few features to common and added basic support in 6 other languages.

It should be possible to generate the C++ from python.
You say i'm alleging the opposite of your argument, while I'm merely commentating about the observable ethics of the company in question.

I'm not straw
Ask HN: What (realistic) software tool do you need that doesn't exist
He is responding to a tweet that explicitly mentions Pfizer and Moderna.
But if you look at the power-meter thing, the acceleration power is many times the regen power

http://st.motortrend.ca/uploads/sites/42/2017/02/2017-Tesla-...
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And how will we start the change to more open systems, except by starting in the start of the workforce chain in schools?

Imagine if schools starting teaching everyone Blender over Autodesk Maya, for instance. We create a workforce where most people will end up knowing Blender over Maya. At that point, there is a compelling reason for enterprises to switch, and we see a world in which Blender becomes dominant and where people will encounter it in their daily working lives.

There are practical reasons to do this - Blender is free so schools pay significantly less, it still has its usage in freelance/smaller companies, and it has a wealth of resources from its large community on learning it compared to Maya. Many free/open source software suites are similar in these aspects compared to their proprietary counterparts. This, alongside the ideological reasons, is enough to switch.

And the ideological part matters too! In the English classes I've taken they regularly teach individualism and critical thinking. Why then, should we take away that thinking aspect when it comes to software and just tell students "use whatever they use, don't question its ethics?"

We have to start somewhere, and there's no better place to do so than schools, where it still benefits the school and students overall to use free software over proprietary software.
IOW what all the really good scifi is about. technical details are... technical details?
Warehouse and distribution workers that are paid $15/hr at a minimum, enjoy the same group health insurance benefits as their software engineering and product management coworkers, and enjoy the same 401k matching as their desk-bound co-workers — benefits that are unavailable to almost any other entry-level job that requires no college education.

And while it's definitely difficult that they have to put themselves at serious risk for Covid, that's true for any essential worker too. Ultimately most people agree that this is a worthwhile tradeoff to ensure that people continue to get access to food, supplies, COVID tests (in the case of frontline nurses), etc.

I'll re-iterate, there's no obvious correct answer, and it's difficult to agree on the best way to litigate these issues. One thing I can say for sure is that blithe one-line HN comments is the worst possible way to litigate them, much less understand them.
It's a symptom of complex systems. There's really no need for the financial system to be this complicated beyond serving the needs and wants of insiders.

If you have complexity you will have corruption. The more complexity, the more corruption. Some complexity is necessary, but most is not.

So instead of simplifying the system, you have to hire people that understand it to police it. Unfortunately the competent financial police are paid a small fraction of what they'd be worth in private industry, so now you have a mix of altruistic, incompetent, and opportunistic people. The latter pretending to be the former.
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I'm sorry but this is just not true. I understand this is your perspective but "these people hate their jobs and only do it for money" is impossibly wrong. Sure, some people hate their jobs, but they're probably not the ones who are thinking about ways to make their jobs more efficient and almost certainly aren't the ones who are going and launching new companies.

I've seen a lot of entrepreneurs start a lot of companies (and started several myself). Many of which you'd think were "boring" -- log aggregation, devops metrics, auto parts retailing, CRM.

I can assure you that in every single case, the founders were truly passionate about the problems they set out to solve.
Also, this is not new. It's been around for yrs
It would look like the 25th Amendment being exercised.
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even in situations when you feel you may know all the facts, it's still healthy to doubt your conclusions!
Book 5 is pretty disjointed with 4/5 stories happening at the same time. So, your feeling is accurate to the book.
Yeah, like everyone else says, 6 is the end. And they already retroactively removed one of the primary actors of the show from season 5 (clumsily, with edits and reshoots) because of unproven accusations, as is the style of the times.
I don't think streaming games will ever be a viable business. Maybe for slow turn based games it works fine, but anything time/frame rate sensitive is a no-go. I just can't see it ever going beyond novelty.
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There are websites that post pricing, and the "Please call" numbers will surprise you.

But $300k is not outside the ballpark for what people make for speaking. It's fine to be outraged by that, but it is fair to call it "market".
That’s an opinion that could make the bearer pretty miserable in life.

I am an entrepreneur, and I make software in fields that you’d find super niche and dull, yet I am pretty excited about making quality software, making clients happy, and building a team that I can rely on in delivering our services.
The collateral requirements are way higher for stocks that are heavily shorted, if I understand it all correctly. Meaning RH had to front more money for these stocks to continue allow trading during the 2 day waiting period for executions to fall through.
Ideally you would like to hire more than one, but I think my use of the word "discourage", was not the right one. What I ultimately wanted to say was, you want a balanced team, where no individual development pattern sticks out.

A very high impact employee could easily be the result of having multiple poor employees, improper planning, and so forth.
So no, we did not “have the vaccine” in February.

We did have it, we just didn't know which one it was. And we refused to risk any individual life in order to potentially save hundreds of thousands or more.

We also could have invested single digit billions early on to build capacity for all of these different potential vaccines, but we decided to play if "safe" and will now be spending over a trillion again to try to save the economy.

I don't blame the pharma companies for this. Our government and medical establishment was not intellectually prepared to make the hard decisions required to save us. And we need to be building momentum to learn how to do better.
Bear in mind that it'll only work once. Additional consumable flow cells are a similar price.
There are four differences. First, the IRS prosecutes a lot more low-income people than high-income people (by percentage as well as by absolute numbers) so a billionaire has much better odds of not getting caught. Second, billionaires have access to better layers, accountants, publicists and politicians to give them negotiating leverage if they do get caught. Third, the payoff for a billionaire successfully cheating on their taxes is much higher than for a non-billionaire. And finally, even if a billionaire does get caught and pays all their back-taxes with penalties, they will still most likely be a billionaire and be able to sustain a pretty posh lifestyle. So the expected value of the tax-cheating lottery is much higher for a billionaire than a normal person.
If you have sufficient money and can afford the risk you can build your own job essentially.
No, the point is that shipping by train is more expensive. The point is to drive up the price of oil and hasten the time when it becomes uncompetitive with renewables.
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What should the going rate be for the former fed chairman?

There aren't many of them so the is a resource scarcity. I'm not trying to suggest 700k in speaking fees isn't a bribe, but how much of a bribe is it?

I'd speak at a single conference for $1000, her $130k fee means her time is 130x more valuable as mine and I think that could be true.