skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nim is not using GC anymore [1], is memory safe and support formal methods [2]

It's also introducing isolation [3] to provide safe multithreading similar to Rust's sendable.

[1] https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc...

[2] https://nim-lang.org/docs/drnim.html

[3] https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/244
In economics there is a research subject called "Theory of the firm". In 2016 Holmström and Milgrom got Economics Nobel for their research of theory of contracting and incentives especially as applied to the theory of the firm. It's theory that is actually interesting to read. They have papers like: The firm as an incentive system, The Boundaries of the Firm, Incentive Contracts, Asset Ownership, and Job Design, An Economic Theory of Promises, The Firm as a Subeconomy,
Would be nice to see an approved list of "memory safe programming languages" as RTFA just mentions a Rust example.

I'm assuming Go will also be an option, what are the others options for core OSS system tools?
> That sounds super exploitative tbh.

It's not, at all. You know very well what you get into, and have every option to get out at any point, with zero downside to your career. You get paid, get to learn a lot, get to experience building a product with basically zero risk for yourself. Why would the company also give you the upside? They put a lot of resources into this program.

Also, it appears that Mark enhanced the program in the meanwhile/ I was one of the early participants. There's more structure now, and there's a "goldbox" that suggests he figured a way to give employees some guaranteed upside.
The stimulus plan is proposed, and until it's enacted it probably shouldn't be included. And it's barely 2.1% of global GDP so it's not exactly like it would make a huge impact to the numbers. It seems completely reasonable on both counts to keep it out.

As 16-18, if debt increases and debt % of GDP decreases, the only thing that could cause that is GDP increasing more than debt.
Facebook bans news in Australia as fight with government escalates
>Ban parking minimums, so developers stop putting parking lots in their buildings.

SF already took that step:

https://www.reubenlaw.com/san-francisco-eliminates-parking-r...

Their permitting process is still a mess, based on what I have read, but that is a good start.
I've always wondered if this website (axios) is related to the NPM package for http requests. Anybody?
Because economists know that if you’re leveraged too high you won’t be able to service your debt.

Using your analogy, the rule of thumb in real estate is that a property shouldn’t cost more than 356% of your GDP (yearly salary). Said another way, your mortgage is no more than 28% of tour gross monthly income.

https://www.moneyunder30.com/how-much-house-can-you-afford
New DNS Abuse Institute Tackles Malicious Activity
Hot take: anyone writing articles about how they’re sensibly using heroin is an addict in denial
Is this some kind of Stockholm's syndrome?

This has been discussed plenty of times and it basically boils down to "just get f*cked and work around it". In my case, I just use different programming languages for performance sensitive tasks.

But it's amazing how people can come up with all sorts of justifications for a broken system that they happen to love. And then people wonder how there are people who can support Trump :D.
I worked for the forest service right after college, which meant spending a lot of time outside of urban areas. I remember always noticing how impoverished Seattle seemed when I went into town. Then, after a few weeks in Seattle, I adjusted and didn't notice how few species there were.

I really wish more people had a sense of what we are losing, what we will never be able to give to our children, because it is gone forever.
Oh oh oh here's another good one. A few years ago, I heard that The WELL still existed---yes, that classic pre/early internet community---so I subscribed. It turned out to be 99% dead and basically crap, so I tried to cancel, but nobody ever answered email and the telephone just went to a voicemail box in the void. Someone just kept collecting money but never responding to attempts to get it to stop. Eventually I just disputed the charge with the credit card company.
8 hours for sleeping

8 hours for getting your $80 for the day to get high

4 hours to get high

4 hours for...I don't know, working on a novel or something
I do have a problem with people using "number of CVEs" as a metric for anything...
This is legitimately dangerous reporting. Heroin is ranked in the top 3 of addictive chemicals and all this article reports about is this anecdotal nonsense. I've too many friends to Heroin to know the reality of the drug.
echo $filename:r

is the shorter, Zsh way to strip a file extension.

What am I missing from Ksh93?
The code you're compiling is flat-out wrong though. This is exactly a nasal demons situation. Since `Do` is static, the compiler can guarantee that the only possible place it could be set in this file is in `NeverCalled`. Since calling `Do` is only ever valid after that line in `NeverCalled`, it can safely assume that you'd only ever call `Do` after it's been set to `EraseAll`. Anything else is 100% undefined behaviour. You should have a check on the value of `Do` or have a default value.
I also have a special-needs sister so I commend you 1000%.

Are you near any colleges or hospitals nearby? Those are probably your best bet for finding a local helpdesk. Don't forget YC's Work At A Startup and AngelList -- I see remote customer support posting there as well!
Bio parents of my adopted child used them recreationally. They used them all through kids childhood. Really screwed em up.

Every single person in group homes and foster system had same sort of tale.
> * Macbook 16" from 2019 with2.4 GHz, 8-Core Intel Core i9 with 32 GB 2667 MHz DDR4 RAM and an AMD Radeon Pro 5500M 8GB GPU

Nice specs (32GB RAM) but perhaps not representative of the norm.
Exactly my point. National wire transfers around 10k would bother no bank around here. And international ones nether. There are no exact threesholds but receiving 100k over 3 months or so would rise no eyebrow. And no tax agency would ever know. I dont know the exacts in the EU however its not that.

Also yeah that movie thing is and was obviously wrong. But for locals there is a secrecy that you dont get anywhere nearby
The section you quoted didn't give any advice.
Nuclear waste is nonexistent issue. Earth has plenty of inhabitable space where that “waste” can be stored cheaply until it is ready to be processed by the next generation reactors.

Take any dry deserts, stockpile it in the middle of it, problem solved.

The problem with nuclear waste is not engineering or economic problem, it is voters and commenters ignorance problem.
I feel like especially those factors mainly rely on framework (e.g. Rails) support and I don't see much benefit from an additional library there.

The main value proposition from what I can tell is the one of swappable components, but from my experience with other systems that try to achieve something similar it's likely a flawed one.

E.g. in a lot of ORM libraries you can _in theory_ easily swap your MySQL database for Postgres, but in practice if you actually want to make that transition (which also rarely tends to happen during the lifetime of a single project) it's such a big hassle that you didn't gain much from using the abstracted version. In the meantime you also often have to restrict yourself to the lowest common denominator that is supported by the specific implementations, so you loose out on a lot of powerful features.
The quote is as follows: Yes, pedophile are other things than pedophiles. If they happen to be good at those things, which dont happen to be pedophilia - there is no reason why we should deny them recognition for taking humanity two steps forward, one step back.

At least from my understanding, society takes a hard line on pedophilia so this is universal agreement on its immorality.
Northern Mexico relies on Texas for its natural gas generation, but due to deregulation or corruption they have insufficient reserves and are going through similar blackout practices.
But they are used for that - up until my post this thread was bemoaning that IP law prevents them from being truly successful, i.e. in mass market consumer products
I'm pretty pumped for the Starlink rollout even though my current ISP provides better service at a lower rate.

I work remotely, so a quality internet service is a big concern for me when looking for a new home. Once Starlink is available, I don't have to worry so much about that.

It also provides many ISPs with much-needed competition, even at that price point. Even though my parents live in a suburb which should have good connectivity options, they pay almost as much as a Starlink subscription for lower bandwidths plus a data cap.
Thank you for your comment. Completely agree.
Giving these big detailed anecdotes about how we're actively in a surveillance state isn't working. People don't care. A lot of those same people have probably helped, in the form of public opinion solidarity, to make it this way. When you support or make excuses for engineering firms that engage in aggressive tracking, you give them clearance. When you constantly murmur about immigration or terrorism, it provides tools and reasoning for these systems to exist. If you fear monger about all the "bad people" on the internet, you create pathways for things like real name policies, sentiment analysis, or private data collection to prove who you are and what faith you come in. Then there's people who will aid these people and say things like, "Well those governments and companies aren't quite sharing data yet!" as if mass aggregation at a governmental level or through private partnerships isn't already happening. When you put all this hand wringing together it forms a useful set of tools for governments and private companies to abuse or misuse. Privacy on the internet was never about one small thing, it was always about an aggregate of decisions that achieve an outcome.
Not really off topic, I think it is very pertinent.

I am curious - what was your childhood like? Do your parents value outside places? Did your parents take you outside to enjoy nature? Do you have any memories of your mom or dad taking in a big deep breath outside and going, "Gee it sure is nice today!"

I ask because I have absolutely zero memories of this and it wasn't until I moved to the midwest and became surrounded by a culture of people who value good weather and sunshine and summertime that I became more in-tune with it. I also grew up in LA where we tend to take this stuff for granted, so there's that too.
In this case the main cause was GDP shrinking.
How about on Cloudflare's own help pages?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EFguS8oU8AEVslR?format=png

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/200170136-W...

I already reported this. The support person argued the point instead of addressing it.

I'm seeing this daily on a Cake affiliate portal. I wouldn't consider using any Cloudflare services for my sites. Instead of filling out captchas, I just skip content hosted by Cloudflare. Not worth my time.
I can't remember a single time typing speed has impacted my work, fwiw, and it's much harder to hurt your wrist with the longer travel.
You run the asset statement through pytest, which patches the generated bytecode to print a good error message

https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/
So if it’s untenable, it means those lending money will lose some, right? Or devalue, which also means those holding cash will lose some money.

Why would that be so bad?

If all countries decided to devalue jointly, it wouldn’t create inflation, no?

Seems to me that it would iron out some inequalities...
I disagree with this. The family that sold me their home was not in the home insurance business, and I am likely to get a lower auto insurance rate if I can shop around rather than being pushed to buy it from a car company.

"Insurance purchases are most often decoupled from your purchases. Perplexingly, you acquire the valuable thing (you buy the house or the car, you register your business), then you have to go somewhere else to get the insurance. The purchase and the risk transfer are oddly discrete events. It would make a lot more sense to not only unify the buying experiences, but to make insurance default ON. At minimum, insurance should be a convenient opt-out experience,"
Relevant (and still disturbing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJg02ivYzSs
This is one of the more presentable of the questionable topics ;)
Not related -- "The site's name is based on the Greek: ἄξιος (áxios), meaning "worthy"".

"Just" a Greek word, that's all.
Flotato,

From homepage,

>From browser tab to magic Mac app.
>Break free from the browser and add web pages to your Mac dock. How about a mac app for Gmail, Twitter, Instagram, Netflix, and literally millions more?

From their help page,

> Dig in to making real Mac apps from websites with Flotato.

Looks like you can create apps of your websites. And it looks like it does it using Safari's engine.
Applicability aside, how else could it even work, other than colony self-governance? Otherwise what's to stop one country from just claiming the whole planet when they get there? You could still have colonies ruled by certain countries, the way I read the sentence.
Psychedelics may function as placebo enhancers, via boosted suggestibity
> this is, as the kids say, an oof.

1.9T on top of 281T is barely a drop in the bucket. So now instead of 356% it's at 358.5% . Barely an oof.
Unless you shrink the interest rate to 0. The real danger isn't the debt per se, but the destruction of the currency (for the usa at least)
I wonder what implications this has for C/C++ in big tech backends. Startups, from what I've seen, have already moved away.

No doubt, it will still be around in low latency or embedded. However, this is a significant cut of their market share, especially if Google, Microsoft, and Amazon retires its usage in its systems.
The shift to long term mortgages ballooned house prices. If people conspired to pay banks less, houses would cost less (purchases are mostly made based on the monthly payment and perception that the price will go up, not on some more concrete valuation).
The Financial Times isn't as bad, but I did have to call them to cancel whereas I could sign up online...
I'm not sure how they fucked up, they have a good technology and their development studio wasn't doing too well, so they rationally stopped that part of the operation.

For a demo, it's pretty good, I use it everyday, I haven't been limited in my use. Actually, I could not play AAA games with my current set up, now I can, on whatever screen I want. Reading you, I'm not sure you've actually tried it.
Also, it's cheap.

As for the bashing stadia as a proxy to bash google, that's exactly my point, people seems to gain satisfaction in bullying behind their keyboard, it's annoying. Google is not perfect, but their products are really good, get over yourself.
Meanwhile the Hacker News community has just flagged this "scandalous" article. How ironic.

[edit]: My bad, now it's back!
This isn’t about human nature though. It’s a prediction of events that will occur based on past events. AKA fiction.
The money, credit, and banking system is an under-appreciated wonder.
It's all about the profit, synthetic opioids are designed to be as addictive as possible.

I've been through plenty of addictions, but quitting Oxy after surgery is the closest thing to hell I've experienced so far.
I'm not convinced either.

On the other hand, if we set it up well, each car will learn from the experiences of every car, so novel situations will (ideally) only be novel once.

R.I.P. Elaine Herzberg
There is no such thing as "a startup within a big company" on it's face is a tautology, so we can assume the author was not speaking literally.

So if he's not speaking literally, what does 'startup' mean? Is it characterized by the ownership structure? The maturity of the market? The culture of the team? The flexibility and nimbleness of the management team to pivot and move targets?

Since none of this is clear I think its possible that there is some disagreement even with the best intentions on both sides.
The people down in the mines digging gold / blood diamonds are replaced by computers. I don't think the people who own these computers are being exploited.
Depends on the audience.

HN audience wouldn't be too bad.
Good point, but this type of math always puzzles me.

We owe ourselves 356% of what we produce every year? We don't owe this money to some foreign planet with a death-star pointing at us. So at what point should we be concerned? What is the worst that can happen? We don't get our own money back from ourselves?
Wanted to learn about flotato after reading the post but the hamburger menu doesn't work on Firefox mobile...
It's interesting to me not being able to imagine a world where the dollar is less important. Every other country on the planet doesn't need their currency to be the global standard to be successful. You'll be fine when that inevitably happens too.
Does anyone know if there is anywhere we can find a graph of interest (rather than debt) vs GDP? It seems more useful to compare one annualized number with another. With interest rates historically low, this might be less of a burden on the economy than previous lower debts at higher interest rates, or it might be much worse - but I can't tell from a graph like this.
Because Apple is fundamentally a consumer company. The marketing and branding that are huge drivers of their success just won’t work as well in the enterprise.

Enterprise means people in suits doing sales calls. It’s a patient, one-on-one, handholding process, and it’s just not in Apple’s DNA.

Far better for them to come up with some new consumer widget that also leverages their strength in supply chain. That’s what they’re good at, and it’s extraordinarily profitable.
Cancer:
CNN, FoxNews, Vice, The Guardian, Business Insider

Bad:
NewYorker, New York Times, The Information

Not Bad:
The Economist

Good:
The Atlantic, Axios, Bloomberg, The Politico (at least in the EU)

Very good:
Reuters
Depends - you could have a very high salary and want a really nice house, that might mean you can't afford three holidays per year, nicest food or the latest technology but it's a tradeoff you could choose to make.
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The headline sounds a little more exciting than it really is. Debt before this year was already at 320% of GDP. It's also important to remember that GDP is an annual number ($/year) whereas the debt number includes accumulated debt from all prior years.
Clubhouse will be another snapchat when FB/Twitter clones it.
> which was basically a man-made disaster

So the man-made disaster consisted in allowing to build something like this in an area where there are earthquakes so big.
Stumble Towards Your Calling in Life – Jordan Peterson Motivation
Misnomers and Confusing Terms in Machine Learning
No idea. My grandfather would not have been able to go to an App Store unless someone did it for him though.

He struggled with the tech until someone showed him how something worked, at which point he diligently studied that one app for all it’s worth - but this was limited to YouTube and audio recording apps.

For him to have multiple messaging apps? Can’t see him do it intentionally - most likely he got hit by a pop up which then merrily used it to install a new messaging service.

It was a nightmare because he kept losing track and therefore control of what was going on with his phone. I’m sure the data security and privacy settings on those messaging apps would have been more upsetting.

For his use case a simple big standard iPhone would have made him happier, instead of having to wait for someone else to help him out.
Yes me. Every single time is see something posted from axios.
Pension funds would be massacred.
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> You are being needlessly hostile in a way that is very confusing.

Challenges to your hand waves are not "needlessly hostile"; they're exactly as "hostile" (i.e. skeptical) as the situation warrants. Maybe it's confusing because you're unaware that the consensus here is not the consensus among people who actually work on this stuff. They recognize that the current "solutions" are only stopgaps.

> Nuclear is extremely safe and clean.

Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three Mile Island, Hanford. Not actually a great record considering the number of deployments involved. Yes, newer kinds of reactors are likely to be safer. As I said elsewhere in this thread, I'm not actually against nuclear power. I just recognize that it's not easy or perfect. Blind faith is not my thing.
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There is a passage in Neal Stephenson’s Quicksilver where a noble describes the absurd cost of moving timber across France to shipyards.

Each petty aristocrat along the route levies a percentage tax on the shipment; the result is that a shipment must always be greater than 100% of itself because that is the effective net tax rate.
A big chunk of the C++ development is done in game studios. I doubt they would be willing to move away from it just for memory safety's sake.
I think one important difference is how (comparing to QE) much fiat money went into the economy directly through Covid aid and other items. Does anyone have the data?
Government income is lower than GDP, often a lot lower.

As an example, the US federal budget is under $5 trillion, US GDP over $20 trillion (getting a good view is extremely difficult, as states, counties, cities, etc. also have income, and borrow money, and that situation differs by country)
What happens if you lose your job and can't find another one in time to make your mortgage payments? Leverage introduces risks, higher leverage means more risk.
...right. Doesn't that say that news orgs get benefit from Google and Facebook then? Maybe Google should charge News Corp for highlighting and driving traffic towards them?
Hopefully this whole ordeal will reignite the love for RSS all over again...
They're headquartered in the Netherlands and it sucks here as well. Their operations are not optimised for a high volume of online orders and their website does a really poor job of handling that.
> a tenured college professor gets about about as much leeway from the rest of society as a white collar professional can get

Doesn’t this bolster the argument that the principal damage from this type of drug use is social, not chemical?
Repayment at the micro level seems dependent on age and health factors.

At the macro level, it's not about governments per se, it's about demographics.

Govs have some effect, e.g. car seat regulations lowering the birth rate in the U.S., but legislative/regulatory priorities reflect the wider culture.
My model M (daily use on a Mac) was built 24-sep-1987 plant code J1 which seems likely to have been Lexington KY.

I really need to pop all the key caps off and clean them as some of them are pretty grungy.
Startup business models and strategic planning
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Sure, I'm all for that. OTOH, my experiences with insurance companies is that they'll spend 10x the money and effort for denying payment, and the contracts are heavily weighted in their favor.
Since you called it out specifically I figure you might be interested to know the idiom is actually "swing a cat. Definitely a disturbing mental image, I agree.
To paraphrase and mangle a certain quote, if you owe a few hundred thousand dollars to a bank to purchase your home, that's your problem. If a government owes 356% of trillions of dollars, that's not just their own problem anymore.
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