skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what's happened here. You used the word "Jew" to describe "citizens of Israel". You have to know that those two words don't mean the same thing, and the history of extrapolating accusations to all Jewish people. The distinction between the two terms is straightforward, and hardly a "hand grenade" as you suggest downthread. I'm struck that you haven't at any point simply said "I misspoke". Did you?

This whole subject is a weird tangent from the original post we're discussing, but you seem on this thread to have managed to double down on what you said in 2019. That's hard to ignore.
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It’s a shock mount (probably [1]), meant to reduce noise transmitted from the table or the boom arm or whatever the microphone is attached to.

[1] https://en-de.neumann.com/ea-87
What is wrong with Optionals?
Right clicking the back button is faster!
> This is true for JS too, but I never hear as much hate for that language.

Really? https://www.google.com/search?q=JavaScript+is+the+worst+lang...

If it exists, some people hate it. If it's popular, most people hate it. It's a universal law. /s

Anyway, you never hear "JS is not suitable for high-end games" because with JS that's kind of self-evident. While with Java, some people don't know enough to realize that.

> Also there are classes of games for which the latency introduced by a GC may not be that much relevant (e.g. strategy or simulation games).

Strategy/simulation games can get quite big/complex. Keep in mind you're not just modeling the units, but also the terrain the various particle effects and so on. You can definitely pull off something like StarCraft 1. But people want games to match the capabilities of their hardware, not that of a Pentium from the 90s.

And performance remains crucial on mobile. I.e. you may get the game going, but it'll suck your battery empty in record time.
I see in that document the mention of a libredox as a libstd replacement, I'm guessing that means they have their own primitives with constructors that handle allocation failures?
Well, in that case I stand corrected :) It makes sense.
Octopuses are intelligent animals but are not long-lived. The common octopus lives but "a couple of years".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_octopus#Characteristics
I'm not OP but I don't think either of those statements is accurate.

We don't engage in eugenics and we do engage in medical care because people are more than animals and we value individual survival more than gene pool hygiene (might be the wrong term?)
Slackware Linux 15.0 Beta
A hacker club condemning government software contracts is pretty hilarious and irreverent.
It's a shock mount system. Suspends the mic from any external vibrations
Yeah, Static typing. In C# I swear this the only reason I can get anything done( Visual Studio's auto complete is nice).

Most people basically work to eat, I've taken Java jobs just because I needed the work. It can always be worse.
This is especially notable with Peter Overby. Excellent journalist and presenter, though.
To rephrase that, Bitcoin uses more energy that all of MGM's properties in Las Vegas.
The other things is that far more commonly than sirens and alarm bells going off about something specific, is that someone just didn't wow me and I thought we could do better.

When we meet after an interview round "meh" is a much more common collective reaction than "run away now."
Fun fact: if you turn off "Web & App Activity" tracking, Google won't let you set a Home or Work address in Maps!

https://twitter.com/jonathanmayer/status/1044300922149588993

https://support.google.com/maps/answer/3093979

> Fix problems with home and work in Maps

> To use home and work when you search or use directions, you must turn on Web & App Activity. If can't find home and work in Maps, learn how to turn on Web & App Activity.
I would look for sources of this in a conflict of interests. Most humans don't care about the fate of other species, as competition for resources is relatively rare. An exception is where animals can be turned into a resource to extract, with overgrown chickens as an example.

Whereas humans compete with other humans, and it's in one's interest to manipulate others to be less of competition, but more subservient instead. Even if the human who advocates for it doesn't benefit from it, their descendants will.

With conflicting interests at play, rational neutrality is hard to achieve.
I don't think your website is participating really. There are a lot of posts describing this opt-out but none really say what you are opting out of.

It seems that the content of your website may be used to identify the users interest.

It isn't illegal because the browser is allowed to do whatever you want with your website. This is really no different than an extension that can access your website content to recommend other pages you may be interested in.

In the same way it isn't clear to me why I would want to opt-out. I guess it is 1. Sending Google a signal and 2. Protecting users from themselves?

But if I want to protect users from themselves I'm probably better off showing a banner recommending Firefox. (And this also helps the open web at the same time)
Genetic Load
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_load

We take this on because we can leverage technology to improve lives.

We take this on because it might be one of the things that makes us human.
Ask HN: How you even get an interview?
So a lot of job hunting advice is what to do in interviews.

But what you do when you don't even get interviews?

Since I started university in 2008 I got interviewed, in total, even if I include recruitment agencies, about 8 or 9 times.

Meanwhile I sent hundreds of resumes, in multiple languages, formats, long ones, short ones, and so on. Only thing I never did was lie on the resume.
> “In hindsight I wish we’d made these other measures of well-being the primary outcome measure,” he said. “However the world — the Food and Drug Administration, the European Medicines Agency — doesn’t recognize those measures as valid.”

Am I understanding this correctly? Other academics are critical of the outcome measured, but it was specifically chosen because of recognition by national authorities.
Can you explain why for those of us unfamiliar?
Why would you control what people use to visit your website? By leaving your website on the open web, you contribute to a bunch of other things, bots parse it left and right, rank it among other websites, archive.org makes snapshots, and not one of them had you opt in. How is this current case different?
I heard a theory that a large reason humans have complex brains is that we need them to do fine motor control with our hands and throw things accurately.

Similarly, a octopus probably needs a big brain to control all the muscles in its arms
Yeah I plan on adding pretty much all the major popular languages. As well as support for things like Jupyter Notebooks and React
Pre-setting max memory seems odd these days, when everything runs in docker, with its configurable memory limits.

Handling process memory usage pre-docker wasn't so easy.
Go uses DWARF.
> my site, by proxy, is participating

I'm 100% against this whole FLoC thing but I really cannot understand this conclusion.

If I drive through a McDonald's drivethrough, and Android/iOS/Fitbit/Tesla/whomever records my journey via GPS, they know I ate a McDonald's but McDonald's the company has not directly "participated" in any tracking of any kind.
To be picky, Medium may be writer-friendly but never was really reader-friendly. The page are heavy with banners blocking the view, no possibilities to know in advance which article is paywalled or not. I do not have a problem with authors publishing on Medium, just Medium itself.

Besides that, nice and interesting write up!
On older consoles (X360, at least), that screen served two purposes:

- prompt the user to pick a location for their saved game (the console supported saves on the internal HDD, over USB, and later featured cloud saves)

- prompt the user to pick their local profile

For online-connected games, it also provides a "safe" spot to land if there are connection issues, which are very common nowadays (many games have online components and will drop the connection if put into sleep mode).
With respect, welcome to the Kotlin version of #ifdef, where language features depend on the underlying runtime.

That 3D graphics library using SIMD and value types from JVM on ART or JS?

Good luck achieving the same perfomance and memory semantics.

Kotlin/Native has already been rebooted as its memory model was incompatbile with JVM libraries.
How Big Tech Controls Web Search
Google's Project Zero will wait longer before disclosing security flaws
It drove $600 in sales for vim and 5 free trial signups for Slip :)

Pretty happy with it, especially since I didn’t even post the HN article
At the very least, no panics for allocations. Methods that return Result exist, the issue is that while they do, the panic-ing ones also exist. There are plans to address this, they just haven't been implemented yet.
I have seen a lot of projects fail over the years, for many different reasons, but I have never seen a project fail due to the choice of programming language.

> I've seen a lot of Java projects fail, over engineered, full of spaghetti code, riddle with inscrutable abstraction, stuck in a glue of badly designed architecture that has been fossilized by the type system.

Sure, but do you really think the same organization would have produced perfect simple elegant error-free code is Haskell or Smalltalk (or whatever "better" language you are comparing to) under otherwise same requirements, deadlines, resources and management?

I'm not saying languages doesn't matter. A better/more appropriate language is like having a bigger screen or a better chair. All else being equal, it will increase productivity and make developers happy. But it will not make or break a project. The things that will break the project: Bad/unclear specifications, bad management of change requests, lack of testing, unrealistic scheduling, lack of customer feedback, bad communication or conflicts among developers.
I think it's both. Mimalloc had to use a different register: https://github.com/microsoft/mimalloc/issues/343
What exactly do you believe the link is between someone's profession and their genes? Because your comment reads like you believe there are genes for things you consider moral and immoral.
Do you mean the shock mount?

It's designed to hold the mic and avoid transmitting vibrations from the mic stand (caused by moving or jostling the stand) to the mic.

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/dwEAAOSwg0deXHFG/s-l640.jpg
For test chips there is something called shuttle.

Other than that, foundries are known to sponsor IP development on their processes.
In terms of the definition of "advanced", the question I was answering was a subjective one. I think it's appropriate to use the term "advanced" for societies that can plan for their long term futures and continue to exist in stable equilibria in a given environment.

The second point isn't dependent on an external comparison.
Looks like after nvidia 1.5m grant devs returned back ;)
There was one NPR broadcaster who used to read the news on weekend mornings for my local station (WHYY), I forget her name, and I haven't heard her in a while thankfully, but she literally whispered the news.

It was like someone I don't know, whispering sweet, unsolicited nothings in my ear. Felt uncomfortably intimate in a way I hated. I was always like, "Lady, I don't know you like that, so cut it out."
It's your lucky day - https://tldrthis.com/
Why do we expect tech companies to stand up to the people in charge of the countries where they operate?

Is it because we hope and think that tech companies are somehow a new UN of sorts and we get disappointed when they don't live up to their ideals?

I think part of it is that we've all bought into these companies PR departments' promulgation of values and core beliefs. Not realizing that those statements are little more than the ad campaigns that help them sell the most widgets and get the most engagement and hire the most idealistic employees.

How many extra hours a week would you work for the company that professes to "share" your values?
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encoding/json sucks anyway, so using something 3rd party would likely be better option anyway
I’m in management. The meetings are crucial so my teams can be productive.

It’s impossible to keep my calendar in my head because I require a mandatory 4 days of notice before scheduling a one off meeting so I would be tasked with keeping the next 30 days of events to be able to schedule time on my own.
> That sounds like a stretch.

No more of a stretch as comparing it to farming or art.

I’m not making a judgement here, just listing other activities that make money for people and which have externalities, since ‘making money for the miners’ is claimed as a good.

You be the judge.
This became worse during COVID as many of the presenters work from home and aren’t as savvy with their momentary mute. Lots of swallowing, coughing, and nose whistling. Particularly during Morning Edition.
NPR's Tiny Desk concerts (when they were actually at NPR) regularly blow me away with the production quality. They are so good at it despite all the wonky setups that come through. If you dig around in the comments you'll see my handle in there fawning over them regularly lol.
Can you show instances where congress (INC) was censored?
"The tape out means that the documentation for the chip has been submitted for manufacturing to TSMC, which essentially means that the SoC has been successfully simulated. The silicon is expected to be obtained in Q2 2021."

Would this mean the actual chip delivery may still be delayed?
Hey, I'd love to hear what you think about http://rysolv.com/

Still pretty early stage development. But we're building out some project management / crowdsourcing side to the application as well.
A lot of chips are made on mature fab lines because they don't need the performance of 5nm lines or can't justify the mask costs.

No one is investing in mature fab lines because they're not leading edge and they're being run to amortize the initial investmnet made into them years ago. Therefore not much additional capacity for mature lines.

So yes you can see 5nm chips being taped out but the 40-130nm chips are squeezed for capacity. Also this chip is likely not running in the same crazy volumes that ST microcontrollers. It is easier for TSMC to squeeze in a few dozen to a hundred wafers for SiFive on their line.
Again why not do it BTC if it is indeed the future?
Moral zombies: why algorithms are not moral agents
>>> You know how Darth Vader's theme plays when he enters the scene?

Before Vader's theme, was Williams' Oscar-winning Jaws. Two notes. Unforgettable dread every time you venture into the ocean. Not to mention the birth of the Hollywood summer blockbuster phenomenon ;)

https://csosoundsandstories.org/two-notes-that-changed-the-f...
Imagine when he learns the currency that the majority of criminals use ...

I agree with you. Comments like that have such a low intellectual effort that they are mainly noise.

People in stable countries (us, uk, western Europe) don't understand the lack of confidence that citizens of underdeveloped countries have in their own government and financial institutions.
It's just time; we have stabilized the interface for the single global allocator, but the more general allocation API is still being worked on.

You can do all of these things for your own data structures, but the ones in liballoc shipped without that support, because we had to get Rust 1.0 out the door. Now support is being retrofitted, and that's part of why doing so was okay before; the plan to do so in a reasonable way existed at stabilization time.
That is a phony argument. You blamed all Jews for Israel's actions. That was antisemitic. You don't need to wait for Israel to become better before admitting that. Many people have criticized Israel, sometimes very harshly, without needing to say things like "I hold Jews collectively in contempt". Your blog post on the matter [1] would have looked more dignified if you'd said "I was wrong" not just "I didn't express myself artfully".

[1] http://phk.freebsd.dk/sagas/israel/
Because a couple of years ago, showing a couple of non-invasive ads was a good enough business for everyone. Now I have to pay for content, my data gets collected and sold, and I get personalized ads LOL

Maybe it's because the move into the public cloud is more costly and decision makers are incapable to admit they made a mistake.
Dogecoin spikes 300% in a week, stoking fears of a cryptocurrency bubble
Ok I'm super sympathetic to how annoying it is to manage JDKs, but holy hell it's not like Python tooling (for example) is a walk in the park. Are you using system python? Is it pip, with it's constantly breaking upgrades, or poetry, which isn't necessarily production ready? Do you have a virtualenv? Pipenv? How do you package it?

Java tooling can be painful but to me it's VERY squarely middle of the road.
I was trying to trade off the volatility, sell high, buy back low, etc. I had just started to figure out a working strategy, when it imploded.
It's quite possible that an app is holding onto data that can be flushed, at the expense of future database lookups, session negotiations, etc. Without a proper mechanism in the kernel it is hard to manage memory pressure.
> Bitcoin creates no value.

Bitcoin creates a "source of truth" which has lots of value for people. For example, working at an organization where everyone wants to cooperate to deliver a product, figuring out who should own, update, and report on sources of truth takes lots of effort. But those sources of truth within organizations help people coordinate their collective efforts.

Out here in the regular world where we cannot trust each other, having a ready-made source of truth has lots of value because it lets people all over the cooperate who otherwise could not.
Feature is live. Text delete:last to the service's number and the most recent post will be deleted.

This can continue to be done and will delete the most recent chronological post.

Thanks again for the feedback!
FTA:

> In response, UK-based artist Stuart Semple created a pigment that he claimed to be the world's "pinkest pink" and made it available to purchase on his website for "everyone but Anish Kapoor".

I love artists.
Do you need expensive microphones to make a quality recording?

This week’s video shows a side by side comparison between 3 popular consumer and boutique microphones.

Neumann U87, Røde NT1-A, and Fifine K670.

Are they worth the price difference?? Let’s find out!

https://learnaudioengineering.com/u87-vs-nt1a/
In my experience the hardest part of this is syncing the remote audio files. For T>30 minutes the drift can be substantial.
Huh, I never knew that he was also a writer/journalist. Come to think of it, that explains why he includes so many interview segments in his video. Thanks for pointing that out!
Is Google completely down for anyone else?
Israelis May Ban High Tech Cars from Bases: ‘Perfect Espionage Vector’
This was an interesting book: A Philosophy of Boredom
by Lars Svendsen

https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Boredom-Lars-Svendsen/dp/1...
>It seems the cookie notices are annoying by design to guide public opinion against future regulatory attempts. "See what they made us do? Don't regulations stink?!"

I get that impression also, and doubly so for the FUD-packed GDPR messages. "Oh sorry, we can't legally serve this webpage to you, EU resident, because of the atrocious GDPR! (because it's full of spyware which the GDPR forbids but we won't say that part out loud)"

For what it's worth, I do think the GDPR messages are raising awareness in a way the cookie warnings were not, in part because some websites use dark patterns to get you to "agree" and others do not, and people are starting to smell the bullshit. If nothing else, the laundry list of trackers the websites are required to tell you about is a real eye-opener to the layperson who doesn't run uMatrix.
It’s also in TSMC’s marketing interest to product a small number of RISC V parts with their latest process.

Plus it’s probably fun for some of the people there.
The central problem with this model is that any metro that graduates to "tech hub" becomes unlivable in short order. The Bay Area is the original example. But then it happened to Seattle, Portland, and NoVa. Most recently it happened to Denver and Austin, where housing prices have tripled in five years. It's starting to happen in Nashville, Atlanta, SLC, and Columbus.

It's a combination of the immense wealth generated by the tech industry and the rigid supply inelasticity of America's NIMBY housing policies. Anywhere this unstoppable force meets this unmoveable rock, prices explode. The entire area quickly becomes unlivable for anyone who didn't get in on the property ladder early. Then the tech industry is forced to go out and find a new tech hub for all the junior engineers who are bid out of a house by the senior engineers who cashed out their RSUs.

Full remote is the one opportunity the industry has to actually break this cycle. After all it's not just a problem for tech recruiters, it's also having all kinds of disastrous spillovers for the regular non-tech folk, who happen to be unlucky enough to live in the next metro targeted by the tech industry.
> I always wonder if this is the flip side of the fast compilation?

Go is cheating a bit on this one by heavily caching everything. Building in
fresh container is quite slow (ok, maybe not c++ slow but still much slower
then C).

Always having to build anything due to static linking does not help either.
No, it benefits google and google margins only. Ads have been on a downward trend for ad partners for years, you will never see a dime from giving google more data.

This FLoC network should be opt in and it should be revenue sharing for all partners that participate.

We need to stop giving google all our work for free.
Paying to get through a oaywall doesn't mean they don't collect and sell your data. Quite the contrary. They actually know who you are, they know your bank account/credit card, ...

I am not willing to share this data with media agencies.
It’s more fundamental than that, it’s just simple economics.

If a companies didn’t pay more than people are currently making at their current job, they wouldn’t be able to hire experienced talent in meaningful numbers. So virtually all companies are forced to pony up a premium to obtain talent.
Of which, the picture of on the home page has clearly visible white text over it.... :D
Ah I understand that bit! I don’t understand why panicking if you run out of memory is a thing and or why it’s especially bad in kernel code...
> Pop vocals in particular are way thinner than people realize.

Thanks to near constant use of auto-tune I think most people realize pop vocals are thin.

Edit: clarification to remove accidental contradiction. I initially ended with "... I think most people realize that," which would have essentially translated to, "Most people realize that pop vocals are thinner than most people realize."
This reminds me of the 2.8kg pyramid which sits atop the Washington Monument. At the time it was cast, it was the largest single casting of an exotic metal which cost more than silver, known to you and I as Aluminium.
Francois Chollet (Google) – Intelligence and Generalisation
Yeah G1GC has been a marvel for us as well (high traffic streaming video)
Thanks, interesting to hear!
Amazing list. And, well, very apt username.

Would you be able to describe your disability in more details? I am curious about it, and I would love to hear your personal perspective.
Not encryption so to speak, but people have use vulnerabilities in devices to cut off power. I suppose in a hot region one could take out many elderly this way. Some time ago, the power companies were doing rolling blackouts that contributed to the demise of many elderly.