skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AssemblyScript is a compiler that aims to compile TypeScript code (with slight differences to be able to make sense in Wasm, though trying to minimize those differences) into Wasm. To remain compatible with TypeScript (which is AssemblyScript's goal) and be an optimal language for Wasm that will communicate with TS/JS on the other side, the type `string` would need to be in the same format to avoid any perf hit or data loss while passing thing if that type across the Wasm-JS boundary.

I'm not sure what type of compiler to label that as, but that's the goal.
By definition there was no-one that day that could beat her. It’s an empirical outcome, not a theoretic one.
> You mean like Western European aid and investment from the US for reconstruction after the war?

Yes, exactly:

"""

The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative passed in 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $13 billion (equivalent of about $114 billion[1] in 2020[2]) in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II. Replacing an earlier proposal for a Morgenthau Plan, it operated for four years beginning on April 3, 1948.[3] The goals of the United States were to rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernize industry, improve European prosperity, and prevent the spread of communism.[4] The Marshall Plan required a reduction of interstate barriers, a dropping of many regulations, and encouraged an increase in productivity, as well as the adoption of modern business procedures.[5]

"""
> Good for the author, but the article leaves "MOM GET THE CAMERA!" impression.

I agree but still think there's value in having this kind of content abound on the internet as it gives beginners with zero experiance a good starting point.

> Might as well attach a diesel-fueled generator and a pentium 4 to the back of the desk.

Maybe but it's 5 bucks so who really cares.
Exercise is not a great way to lose weight. The phrase is: "You can't outrun the fork."

Deuterated water studies back this up. Humans burn roughly the same amount of calories active or passive. The body only shunts the available calories around.

Now, exercise has lots of documented benefits. Weight loss just isn't one of them.
I too have registered emoji domains with Freenom and my experience has been good.

In fact most of my domains I have upgraded to paid registrations.

I’d love to see these allegedly high traffic domains that were just taken and sold to 3rd parties. My guess is if there is any truth to the complain the free registration expired and the domain was scooped up.
Less worried about the Pi, and more worried about a big heavy thing moving about on its own on random time intervals. Do these desks have some sort of torque-exceeded safety shut off that keeps from squishing your cat or similar?
I was also confused by the small size of the images, and the small incongruities in them, but I didn't realize they were ML-generated, I thought it was some surreal and elaborate way of illustrating.

The narrative really throws you off because it's clearly human, and I'm glad the small images didn't spoil the trick too soon.
Maybe for the very largest companies, but I work in a world where companies don't even have a website because they think it is a waste of money. Where they say, "We have never done any marketing ever, why start now?". And that is the vast majority of companies.

Companies with 30 or 100 people don't have 10 statisticians on staff, backed up by 20 behavioral psychologists, in order to do what you are saying.

Does Facebook and Google and Fortune 500 have all these resources? Sure. Undoubtably. But I've talked to thousands of business owners this year, and, trust me, this is definitely not the case.

And to repeat, this is with thousands of business owners I've talked to this year alone. Have you personally talked to this many this year? How about the last 10 years? How many business owners have you talked to, personally? Trust me, most companies that are not in the Fortune 1000 don't do this. There are over 31.7 million small businesses in the United States, according to March 2021 data released by the SBA. 90% of businesses in the U.S. are small, with less than 20 employees. Only 10% of all businesses in the U.S. employ more than 100 people.
People feel entitled to their internet access without consideration of infrastructure costs, especially in North America. They see symmetric multi-GB connections commonly offered in countries such as Japan, South Korea and Singapore, and wonder why it can’t be done in the US.

Population density is why: Singapore is ~8400 people per square kilometre, while the US is a scant 36 per square km. That’s two orders of magnitude difference. Everything else follows from this (high prices, single provider, spotty last mile service, etc.)
Importantly, they measure different things. If there's a dynamic "happiness disparity" (like income disparity, and plausibly correlated) changes on the lower end won't differentiate between a change in mean or variance.
This is for B2B SaaS in the boldest biggest sense.

If you want to go indie you can make similar choices to Basecamp (read It Doesn’t Have to Be Crazy at Work) and stay lean and small.
This Wikipedia article claims “ there are "around" 5,000 bases total, with "around" 600 of them overseas”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_military...
Since it mentions that Ractors are inspired by the actor model, I'm surprised that it doesn't make any comparisons to how various actor model implementations in other languages handle backpressure
Poor countries are often eager to sell some right their country has, as a sovereign entity, but is not using - even for a relatively modest sum of foreign currency. In a corrupt country the money might never see the treasury, going straight into some official's pockets.

Of course, such arrangements are not very reliable. The relationship between a sovereign entity and an individual, or even a small corporation, is unbalanced. The rules of the game are set by one party, and varied at their whim. "But that's not fair" might work in countries that pride themselves on fairness, such as the United States of America (though don't count on it) but it won't get you very far in Equatorial Guinea.

If these arrangements annoy the other sovereign entities, they might do something about it. For example, the Paris MOU (and subsequently similar Port State Control rules in much of the developed world) - is what happened when European states were annoyed that places like Panama were not pulling their weight when it came to safety and employment standards on commercial shipping, and operated Open Registers (which the Europeans argued were in fact mere "Flags of Convenience") to earn money without spending that money where it was needed.

But if they just annoy you, a mere individual with no rights on the world stage at all, you can go whistle. You are not even eligible to complain to most of the bodies that claim jurisdiction over sovereign entities, another sovereign entity would need to take up the complaint.
It's their hard luck that to a crowd of curious and intelligent hackers and nerds in the silicon valley and social media programming space, all this is FASCINATING :)

I think in many places it'd be possible to get a whole righteous indignation going that could be exploited against itself, but this is Hacker News. We are nerds and super-interested in exactly this sort of thing, to the point that there are rules against obsessively hyper-focussing on it.

And so when you try to judo-flip the system, nerds immediately notice the discrepancies, and fixate upon them. And nerds can't always be depended upon to fire up righteous outrage and paint themselves the aggressors: the peculiar detachment of the nerd mind comes into play and the reflexive (exploitable) responses can't always be exploited.

Mask-slips like the handling of this article are FASCINATING. It reveals a system behind the story, and the idea that the system pops up in all sorts of places (and has predictable behaviors) is like a puzzle to be solved :)
Because that’s a very very very naive understanding of the gender pay gap.

The statement is that “women make x¢ on the dollar that men make.

You can “explain away” much of the gender gap by accounting for all sorts of things like career choices, aggressiveness of switching jobs and seeking promotions, experience levels, etc.. But that doesn’t make the problem go away or those things not issues unto themselves.
There's also around 400 MHz of dedicated sharing-only spectrum in mobile bands, available in the UK at a flat price per 10 MHz required.

(Replying to GP)

At least in the UK, no bribes or envelopes of cash required. Nobody is going to want to help someone try to get started from scratch, but the spectrum access isn't anything like what you fear, at least in the UK. No connections required, the forms are all available online, and if you ask nicely and want bulk licences, you can use a spreadsheet instead for your requests, which is a bit less hassle than PDF forms.
> The problem is that 1 in 100 year events are happening nearly annually these days.

But that doesn’t matter if they are actually designed to handle 1 in 100 year events. If the drains can’t handle a storm it means it wasn’t implemented to do so, whether it happens annually or once every 50 years.
For me the major inconvenience is having to add yet one more power adaptor to typically overcrowded socket outlets. I wish we had a common system of power adaptors that allowed to get some volts from already existing plugs! I reckon this wouldn't always work, but it should be possible to get the power required from a Pi Zero from practically any already existing supply...
Yeah, seriously. Spend any time in Europe. Most local websites are at their ccTLD.
> I think you are mischaracterizing what the research has actually shown.

Oh no. Look at the early data on HCQ on https://c19early.com/. Results were showing around 66-70% reduction in death with a high confidence interval.

Then look at both the revocation of the EUA from the FDA on HCQ, and look at the NIH study.

FDA: https://www.fda.gov/media/138945/download
NIH: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/hydroxychloroq...
I think people would be much healthier if we allowed the night to be dark. Personally I sleep much better in darkness. I don’t really understand why everything needs to be lit up at night.
You can if all of the reasons for whatever aspect of diversity is out of whack is under your control. But often the reasons for lack of diversity are not isolated to a single knob that the company itself is privy to dial to an ideal output.
Very mildly related: I recently found this youtuber whos thing is walking around in heavy rain and unclogging street drains. Neat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIBqdpR4C_U
Shameless plug: I've been working on a Simulation along similar lines. Runs entirely on GPU and allows you to view it all in real time: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1482770/Terra_Firma/

Some really cool details in this blog post- I hadn't done anything complicated related to weather.
Australia is spending lots of time in hard lockdown for minimal virus numbers and they haven't really achieved anything. The minute they open up travel they'll be swamped with it. Nobody has even the slightest natural immunity. And how long will they keep the isolation up?

The hard-line approach works when everybody applies it. The virus could actually be stamped out that way. Especially when it all began. It would have been a great approach then. But not when the rest of the world is one big breeding ground. It feels to me a bit like a mechanic that's trying to work while keeping his coveralls pristine. It makes things a lot more difficult and sooner or later things will go bad anyway.

I'm kinda happy Europe is not trying this. Even though it was never an option anyway with so many land borders and countries disagreeing about everything.
A short while ago I tried to replace a 5mm x 5mm surface mounted push switch.

It didn't go well. Now I am learning KiCAD...
I wouldn't call weak muscles and right/left imbalance "doing it wrong".

I'm probably in the weak muscle category. Possibly added to by a negative attitude.
If this is the case, then we should just say:

Signal is not secure because they have limited resource and cannot invest in an area with Security adequately.
Avoiding Apostrophe Fail’s
The temperatures I’m familiar with and can find online are much lower than what you list, specifically starting to decompose at 250c and significant decomposition over 350c.

I’d be worried about putting this on a grill or frying it. It’s theoretically mostly safe in terms of temperature, almost.

Wikipedia already has a section addressing temperature overlap between food and Teflon decomposition:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene#Safe...
Note the buildup of frost on the return tube all the way to the pump.

That's a clear sign that you've massively overcharged it! I agree with his position about environmentalists, but I think he should at least learn a bit more about the science first. YouTube can help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLauVofEDzY

(All the refrigerant should boil off in the evaporator, and the return out of the cabinet should contain only room-temperature vapor. Frosting all the way back to the compressor wastes power cooling what doesn't need to be cooled, and can damage the compressor with liquid refrigerant.)
They can already charge for the service in jurisdictions with cap and trade. The two assumptions would be 1. Over time, the number of jurisdictions mandating cap and trade expands and 2. the cost to sequester decreases to meet reasonable cost per ton of emissions those who must emit pay.

I've seen the "true cost" of CO2 emissions at around $50-$120/per ton, and Climeworks charges $600/ton to sequester a ton of CO2 underground (with a target price below $100/ton) in stable mineralization form. At some point, intersection between the two will occur. Anything that can shift away from CO2 emissions will, anything that can't will pay to have the emitted CO2 removed from the atmosphere.

Critically, it should be required to prove that the CO2 captured and stored is, and not resold for other process use (soda carbonation, oil production improvement, etc). Captured CO2 must be sequestered.
Was the soldering done blind folded? Even that wouldn't explain the fact the strands were not twisted or tinned or anything...
Visualizing MIDI with P5js
The Vanishing Designer
Calm down, I only said at worst for Quill, it seems like now I have to question your reading skills.

> If all you have on Signal is opt-in feature for payment, and an issue of usernames that's being worked on...

Opt in or not, don't think I want cryptocurrencies in my chat app. Look what happened to Keybase after that. Usernames of some kind should have been be there from day one. We don't need any more phone number leaks.

Also don't forget that Signal cannot end calls properly and the recipient is still able listen after the call has ended. Very bad. [0]

[0] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/10247#iss...
"How to prevent telemetry Google could only dream of"
Absolutely, Alteryx isn't cheap by a long mile.

It's the only one I've had experience with.
Reditus – Helping B2B SaaS companies to set up a partner program
So it’s only gof if it results in a viable virus? That makes sense. I guess there’s no real danger of a lab escape as long as it’s not a viable virus, but then I do wonder why the backtracking on the lab escape investigation? Was WIC maybe doing gof research and not telling people?
PDO.
You write the query and insert the variables in a second step. I’ve been doing php 10+ years and that’s all we’ve been using. Or if your framework has an orm you can use that.

There are pdo drivers for most popular databases

https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.pdo.php

Honestly it’s my favorite way of accessing databases (compared with Java Perl and python)
How did him stealing the code impact your company's revenue?
Apply the 5 by 5 Rule to Put What Is Happening
> The docs for how you were supposed to do SQL were just full of the antipattern of building queries by string formatting and concatenation

This is still to this day the recommended way to construct a "WHERE foo IN (a,b,c,...)" query in PHP. It's insane that there's no way to pass an array of values into a parameterised query for that use case.
A complex, accuracy-seeking metaphysical model of reality seems like a decent goal to aim for. It is a bit of a vague, hand wavy goal, but I think this is both a bug and a feature.
This is a super interesting direction. I wrote a wasm OS [0] a few years ago—it didn't go quite that far, but it could've had I spent an additional couple years on it.

[0]: https://github.com/nebulet/nebulet
Road cycling is one of the sports where giving luck room to happen is a perfectly legitimate part of the game. Did others have a better hand? Maybe, but they failed to play it.
> Vaping is fairly popular, safe

No. Vaping is not "safe". Please stop saying this.

Vaping is safer than cigarettes. That seems to be true. Vaping is a great intermediate step to try to get people off of cigarettes.

Vaping is NOT safer than not vaping. One huge problem with vaping is that it has infested the high schools and reversed 25 years of anti-smoking efforts.
I think, this is trickier. Happiness generally consists of 2 components: hedonistic (short-term, "had a great meal" type) and eudaimonic (long-term, "I am doing the right thing and am confident about my future" type).

What's happening for at least a decade is that the sources of hedonistic happiness are becoming more accessible(tasty food, booze, entertainment, substances), while things that used to bring eudaimonic happiness are either becoming unaffordable (property ownership, raising kids, financial independence), unpopular (long-term relationships, religion) or economically uncompetitive (small businesses).

The media is doing its best to distract people and convince them that they don't want all those long-term things, but you can't really fool the human nature. The tensions are rising, although it may all look great on paper.

A more interesting and objective metric would be the suicide rates, but I couldn't easily find anything more recent than 2019.
Realistically the attack surface of a Linux running almost nothing, in a local network, is also very small.
Besides the high cost of transactions, price volatility, inability of crypto currency to be a currency without fiat, enormous electrical power requirements, high technology dependence, needing two utilities to work, losing to exchanges running off with your money, losing to media destruction, use in fraud, use in extortion, and celebrities manipulating your money, is there anything really wrong with it?
> There is a shocking obliviousness to climate change, plastic pollution, economic problems, healthcare (personal and the system), philosophical/existential inquiries, etc. Not to say people don’t know climate change is happening - they just aren’t aware of any details beyond surface level memes.

In the 60s-80s, there was impending nuclear war, overpopulation, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, radioactive and chemical waste, deforestation of the Amazon at an alarming rate, and various species placed on endangered lists. That and all the religious rapture expectations, in the US at least.

Somehow civilization managed not to collapse or annihilate itself decades ago. So the updated crisis of climate change, plastic in the ocean, etc. starts to sound like more of the same doomsday talk. Not that all of these things aren't problems to deal with, but are they existential in nature? Do they mean we should expect life to get worse? Because the overpopulation bomb and mass starvation didn't pan out. We produce more food now than we ever have. Acid rain and the ozone layer were manageable. Species often make recoveries after being protected. Rivers recover after being cleaned up. A majority of the original Amazon still remains, even though deforestation and fires remain concerns. There are more trees in the world today than 100 years ago. And standards of living having been going up around the globe over that same time, while absolute poverty has been diminishing.

Maybe we can manage our problems and avoid the worst case scenarios. In the movie Tomorrowland, Hugh Laurie as the villain does give a really compelling speech in which he talks about how all the doomsday expectations are an excuse to not fix problems, which contrasts with the main character, who is very optimistic that humans can find solutions, unlike all her classmates and teachers.
> content addressed computation

Isn't this what smart contracts were all about?
Weird, now it works for me as well! First time I tried the game ran, but my keypresses were not registered. Disabling uBlock fixed it (but so would a reload probably).

Perhaps some focus related issue.
There are thousands of scientists working on this stuff all over the world. Most of them seem to be on board with the vaccines. You don’t have to trust the government. Just watch what scientists are saying. Considering that these scientists are spread out all over the world it’s hard to imagine that there is a world wide conspiracy to control what all these scientists are saying.
They were based in Boston IIRC, and he compared it to that.
New reddit is a blight on the already scarred name of software development that seems to exist as a parody of modern web development.
Dendreo – Leading SaaS platform for professional training centers
For Medicine Admission it's very common what you have described: most students sit for 3 times or more until they get the score (this a reason why in Argentina there are so many Medicine Brazilian students, it's free and there is no admission) Our personalized courses and prices approach will undo this consolidation.
Let's be generous and assume they outsource this -- which is a huge mistake. Your contracts are going to be an enormous pain, or if you use the paper from your customers you will be at a disadvantage.

Have a sharp general counsel _early_. If you want real (i.e. enterprise) customers you will get destroyed if you agree to their terms for SLAs and penalties.
I always wondered if “real_” means “now this time we’re serious” or something less funny.
The reports of it are correlated to the rarity, except in instances where reports are not generated, such as apps that do not collect error telemetry.
This is actually a good thing. Laws that are unresponsive to unwritten cultural norms (and their changes over time) are extremely inflexible, and the position that they should be so inflexible is a radically conservative one.

Responsiveness to cultural norms is in part a function of courts having to maintain some minimum level of perceived legitimacy with the public.
Of course we "couldn't afford" to fix climate change, so now climate change is going to fix us.

No truly intelligent species trashes its own planet and makes it less inhabitable. But here we are.
Also consider that this is not just one country but countries all over the world.
Regarding S&P 500 vs. real estate returns, you are assuming someone buys a home with 0% leverage, but most people use leverage via a mortgage, which boosts returns both from price appreciation and rent. Also, locking in a low rate is a great inflation hedge. Also, real estate is not as highly correlated with the market, so it has benefits from a diversification standpoint.
Agree it wasn't the best analogy. How about a storefront instead?

Realtor gives you a great deal on a nice location in downtown. You spend months putting it together, making it look good, advertising. Opening Day comes around, and if more than 100 people come he tells you you now owe him 10x the rent or he's kicking you out.
Sometimes when I play No Man’s Sky, I hope I’ll come across a single planet that has culture/cities. A quirk in the simulation that gave rise to it. Much like our lonely little blue planet. Or maybe I just smoke too much.