skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All implementations of in-process thread multiplexing is sort of like a garbage collector. You have a resource, you manage the allocation of a resource to something that consume it, etc. A lot of house keeping and some overhead code that needs to execute before any work is done (each time). In my mind, it makes sense to have a single, well tested, and abstracted implementation that all other systems can use.

You can see a need for this at least in the Android space: RxJava, Kotlin coroutines, etc.

Also, in a user-managed thread multiplexing system you can't guarantee "fair" scheduling. If you have some DOS bugs in your server you can lock up an entire serving thread. A language-level multiplexing system will not have these same kinds of edge cases.

There are many places this sort of thing becomes helpful. We could also see concurrent processing utilities that could be very helpful. See this for more info on how this could lead to cleaner programs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6kdp27TYZs
In what way is Common Lisp not a functional language?
Hah, I spell out the As -- "an A A A A record".

I also call it "w w w" and not "dub dub dub" as some people do. Though I feel neither come up in conversation all that often.
It's not misleading. This is just you looking for excuses to dismiss evidence that debunks your position.

We can get strong indications about the danger a variant poses to each age group from looking at national data, notwithstanding individual states having "distinct public health policies and cultures".

The variance in public health policy/culture and vaccination rates across states does not make national data meaningless. When a particular variant of a virus has massively proliferated across the US, and caused very few deaths in children, a reasonable observer concludes the risks it poses to children is slight.

You're picking individual states, and then making inflammatory insinuations about the significance of the most alarming statistic you can find about them, while insisting that national data not be taken into account. This is just bad science, focused on reaching a desired conclusion.

What non-cherry-picked data shows is that the delta variant was the dominant variant in the US during the week ending July 31st, when there was only 250 covid positive testing children hospitalized in the entire US.

The data from England also shows that the risk delta poses to children is extremely low. Idiosyncracies of England's public health policy and culture cannot make such a huge impact on covid survivability that it's going to turn a virus that is dangerous to children into one that causes zero or close to zero deaths nation-wide.

Remember that across all of these jurisdictions, almost all children are unvaccinated, and vaccination status is the only health-care-mediated factor that could conceivably make a huge impact on survivability.
C# dev here so please forgive my ignorance. Is it fair to say that Loom intends to build a more efficient and transparent async/await system for the JVM?
$399

I really wish there was a basic, cheap e-ink tablet on the market. Basic and cheap. We have basic but not cheap.

AFAIK e-ink isn’t pricey to make, it’s just that the E-ink company is a monopoly so they jack up the price. Which is a shame, because i would buy an e-ink if they weren’t so expensive.
Love it when representatives don't represent, such democracy
I would add, Haskell is bad at naming stuff, especially function arguments and generic type parameters. It has a tradition of point-free style which deliberately avoids names, and when names are required, they're typically meaningless single-letters. This makes it hard to build intuition and to follow code.

For example, the main Haskell graph library (fgl) has two type parameters, named 'a' and 'b'. Instead of meaningless letters, why not 'NodeLabel' and 'EdgeLabel'? Now it's obvious what they mean!
It can be triggered by resetting your password wrong. If hadn't been so "paranoid" I would have gotten totally fucked by that.

You should always assume google accounts are temporary.
ROS – the open source Robot Operating System
I didn't know this! Is there an easy tool to check how many chain-on dns lookups happen?

I also typically have at least 2 for clients, including evidently google's 4. so this is important to know!
What doing hybrid buys you is… learning 3 paradigms. The hybrid language/framework needs to be learned. The ios and android paradigms need to be learned. And you will do plenty of debugging. Across all three.

Don’t ask me how I know. Coding mobile apps since 2009. In native and in all hybrid platforms. Android and iOS and sadly Microsoft.
Yes, until the Dayton accords, though likely at Helsinki too, though there’s no way to see.

I thought I saw a flash of white in the Versailles treaty photo but when I zoomed in it was just some man in a lightly colored suit.
Not necessarily.

Searching online, you find varying opinions, with little evidence. Eg most are insulated; most aren't; it's an issue of not being insulated enough to prevent arcing; in case of fault, insulation may burn away due to high current etc. I'm not sure what to believe.
> Something something = new Something () is usually a smell to me.

var something = new Something()

... this one in C# is probably using type inference? Or maybe it doesn't matter in C# because it has a dynamic type anyways? Yes, Rust permits type inference but sometimes it can't infer it and you have to specify it. And sometimes it's clearer to be explicit about the type. C++ permits it too (auto) but depending on the team it can be pretty unpopular except for maybe verbose type names/iterator types, etc.
> I think the best management technique for successfully developing a software system in the 1970s and 1980s (and perhaps in the following decades), is based on being lucky enough to have a few very capable people, and then providing them with what is needed to get the job done while maintaining the fiction to upper management that the agreed bureaucratic plan is being followed.

Surprisingly, very little has changed.
If we reach a point where the spaminess of an email can be correctly determined based on the reputation of the domain from which it was purported to be sent (after some cryptographic and policy checks), then is the problem of spam equivalent to the problem of bootstrapping trust for new domains?

I suppose technically there is the problem that a domain with a good reputation can be hacked or bought, but the costs of that happening should be orders of magnitude higher than the cost of buying a new domain.

Requiring new mail-serving domains to post a bond for good behaviour seems like it would similarly increase the costs of buying a good reputation, but the problem is coming up with a fair process to decide when a bond should be forfeited.

I'd be reluctant to give the ITU any control over the global email network, so instead perhaps there could be some system for countries to delegate the bond-forfeiting power to companies of their choosing, with each country having a vote in proportion to the cube root of their population size. All existing domains would be grandfathered in to not need bonds, so the potential damage from abuse of this system should be minimal.
I've been drinking milk so long that I'm just the opposite: water makes my throat feel dry and makes me feel more parched than I was before. While I'm sure it's doing a fine job of hydrating me, it kind of sucks that it makes me feel more thirsty.
Live Australia (where I think the snakes are probably much more venomous than NE US?). Have young children so any snake I see on my property other than a green tree snake will be executed.
And most importantly, in a situation where real production efficiency dropped because of covid 19, failing to allow prices to adjust upwards (and real wages to adjust downwards) to allow the economy to adapt to the situation would put the labor markets in a gridlock and make tons of workers unemployed/underemployed and thus much poorer.

Inflation is what allows people to have jobs and contribute to productivity despite the unprecedented health crisis.
Did exactly the same. Instantiated a few servers for a one-off task, week and $1-2k or so later remembered. Didn’t occur to me to ask for a refund.
Or rediscover techniques forgotten by the latest fad!
Turns out, the original goal sucked, and I shouldn't have set it
note that legged animals (like humans) have self-tuning (biodynamic) spring-damper systems built into our legs (and backs). if we didn’t, we’d not have the range and endurance that we enjoy, and possibly would have died out as a species due to an inability to find enough food fast enough. nature is amazing.
The neighborhood in question was built in the late 1960s, underground has been the default for a few decades now but this neighborhood (along with many others through SJ) is just all old construction. There's no real justification for moving the power underground, even in rich neighborhoods most streets still have power via poles unless they're relatively new.
During the first 45 years of my life, if I wanted to see a parrot I had to either go abroad, or to some friends who had one in a big cage, or at the zoo. Then roughly during the last 7-10 years they started to appear first near the south west areas then they took the entire city. Now I hear and see them every day flying out of my window.

https://anamericaninrome.com/wp/2020/04/parrots-in-rome/

Also seagulls, that were nowhere to be seen away from the sea (which is over 30km from here) until years ago, now build their nests on roofs and can attack people to protect their eggs. As an upside, at least they took over pigeons.

Not sure if it's due to the global warming, still worth of attention.
"And you saw yourself," said Gargravarr, "in relation to it all?"

"Oh, yeah yeah."

"But...what did you experience?"

Zaphod shrugged smugly.

"It just told me what I knew all the time. I'm a really terrific and great guy. Didn't I tell you, baby, I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox!"

-- Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Wealth tax is ridiculous and the incentives are catastrophic.

Basically, if the tax amount is less than the typical investment returns, you have something equivalent to the existing income tax but with a nasty new way to avoid it by finding asset classes that aren't covered or aren't easily valued or reported. And if you try to use a rate higher than typical investment returns, you blow up the whole world as people start burying gold in their yards in secret at scale instead of putting their wealth to productive use, because hiding it from the tax man any way you can becomes more profitable than investing it.
Who says people in third world countries aren't successful?
Majoroutput.com – drawing site, drawing saved in url
Betrayal of Afghan Interpreters
We got the t-mobile SIM card to replace our sprint SIM last month (acquisition).

We didn’t know it came with a 10x increase in spam calls (same number too, wtf?)
I'm not sure who among the commenters here are from the Philippines (unless I'm misreading the other comments, my impression is that there is none), so I'd be glad to help. Born here and lived here for all my life (currently living in the capital city of Manila).

Are you looking for a general overview of Philippine history, or are you looking for a specific period or era? Any particular aspect of Filipino life and culture you also want to explore?
I am not at US$20(yours converted) probably closer to US$14-15 on average, but midgrade COL is 800-100 2bed/1200-1500 3bed/1500-2100 4bed in my area renting, and probably 20%-25% less buying. Staff is 98% under 23.

Key detail seems to be that shared accommodation is very undesirable for my staff, at least those few that live outside the family home.
Yeah, there's definitely some Giorgio Moroder vibes in there.
thevagarant - thank you so much. This is a very detailed strategy plan.

I can see so many places I work against myself here. I think the main one is hoping that the things that draw too much energy do not. Like over investing in work.

Also some people seem to have so much more energy to work with! And comparing myself to them seems not to help at all.

It will be interesting to figure out my min/max from this Lensa.

Thank you again!

Much to think on here.
BeOS has the Be File System, a light database on top of a filesystem, and you can query to your hearts content.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170213221835/http://www.nobius...
they do at the bottom. people cant live below a certain threshold. business need employees.

it is a combo of gov funds and employment that keeps them alive. see % of walmart employees on food assistance.
I largely agree. In my social circle idea of raising taxes is widely seen as unacceptable. The general mood seems to be 'they are already wasting so much; they don't need more'. The fun part is that it will come almost regardless of what comes next. In practical terms, US will need both a serious cut in spending AND higher taxes just to stay afloat, but that is not a politically acceptable message.
and https://inside.java/tag/loom for lots of content from the Loom team.
I was just reading the thread realizing the same.
I've actually come to understand the appeal of Electron recently. CSS is an amazing tool for styling and something like WPF + CSS would be a great tool IMO if it existed.
I have to disagree with you. Sonos was founded by a couple of ex-JBL employees who created one of, if not the best consumer wireless stereo & home theater systems over the years.

Their business model is not to release brand new products each year, but to release improvements through software to existing hardware. One of those software features was TruePlay which existing users of Sonos were able to have free of charge. This was part of the patent that Google was copying.

I hear a lot of people complaining when large companies such as Google or Apple gobble up smaller companies or use their market power to drown out competitors. This is one of those scenarios, but through blatant patent copying.

I am always in favour of large companies being caught copying technology developed by smaller players in the market, which clearly produce quality products. Also, of course those part of the legal investigation know what the patent is.
I think FP is hard because (a) lack of libraries/bindings (b) impedance mismatch with underlying host ecosystem. In every personal project where I have used an FP language (Elm, Elixir, Haskell) I have run into these problems. Then I have to put my project aside to get into the weeds to get some bindings working. Often the bindings will be abandonware, or work just well enough for you to make progress until you run into severe enough problems. This has happened for me using OpenCV, ZBar, async I/O, threading, lower-level kernel APIs, databases, just to name a few.

Often I think, I could have solved the problem so much faster if I had just stuck to Python or Javascript, or in the language the library was written in. In the end, you end up swimming upstream. This includes the effort of handing it over to someone else.

Elm tries hard to provide an impedance-mismatch free environment for UI development, until you reach a point where you want to do something just slightly different; then it becomes painful. Sure you can integrate Elm with JS using ports or even React with Elm, but creating a polished UX experience is a different level of effort.
> for inflation (and make up the revenue by using the ordinary income rate instead of the capital gains rate)

If corp tax rate + LTCG isn't less than or equal to the top income rate you are effectively incentivizing changes to commercial structures to turn more gains into income to escape the double taxation -- and away from open and accessible public markets.
How about reverse? I like the idea of CA ( I visited it once; I liked the weather ), but not enough to justify tax cost involved. I am comfortable where I am now.
Who Are the Taliban?
I've always used nginx for my servers. Is HAProxy that much better to consider learning/switching?
I'm saying a string of ill fought wars will bankrupt an empire, not just cause inflation.
Wars are expensive, governments need to print money to finance them. Dollars need to be backed by economy and taxes.
Go read "On Bullshit." You'll find it's actually a very straightforward concept.

Also, not everything in life is science, and emotions can be useful messengers. Ignore them at your peril.
I mean, I don't have IPv6 at home (Verizon) and I don't have IPv6 at work (workstation or servers). It's frustrating.
https://codesandbox.io/embed/simple-physics-demo-with-debug-...

There's some excellent demos of how this works with this library with a full physics engine. Loads great even on my phone.
Asset values do rise with inflation, and that itself doesn't make the owners of capital any better or worse off. But in an extremely low inflation environment, owners of capital can collect rents on their capital which will generate a consistent return that won't be destroyed or devalued by inflation.

The relationship between inflation and inequality is pretty complicated because there are a bunch of other factors (notably growth) that play a significant role. I just wanted to point out that the economics of inequality does not support OP's argument (i.e., inflation creates inequality).
Controversial take: Electron.

For background: I cut my teeth on Windows Forms and then WPF later (both VB6 and C# .Net then Core). So I am not anti-Microsoft/Windows specific technologies, and both WinForms and WPF still work just fine. If you already have them in production, keep going. The discussion here is greenfield.

Why do I lean Electron in 2021?

- Better migration paths/exits (e.g. Business wants a web/intranet version? Incredibly easy/cheap migration). ASP.NET would allow some code reuse from WinForms/WPF, but we're mostly talking about DAL/DOMAIN/BLL, UI is a full re-write (Blazor is also a full UI re-write, as the structure is different from WinForms and or WPF).

- More/cheaper talent.

- Larger availability of libraries (inc. better official third party integration libraries & support).

- Testing and or infrastructure as code as core components rather than afterthoughts/tack-ons.

- If you ever want to support other desktop or mobile platforms it goes from an improbable project with WinForms/WPF to a fairly manageable one (not free, still requires testing/tweaks, but even .NET 5.0 doesn't have a fantastic all-platform UI story, aside from web/ASP.Net).

Sad part is that I don't even like JavaScript/Node.js/Electron very much, but yet the whole package in 2021 is extremely difficult to ignore. Plus in my limited experience almost all LOB eventually grow until they become web-apps of one type or another.
The command I quoted works verbatim on one of my Ubuntu systems. It's ~60X faster than eg "for i in $(seq 1 8000000); do touch $i; done" because it creates many files per fork+exec, and fork+exec is a much heavier operation than creating an empty file.
I think rich people are last to notice. Regular Americans are drowning in debt. Cities are filled with homeless now, like never before.
> all of the extra hassle and legwork of accepting appreciated shares just so they can take your one-off donation is counter-productive

going to etrade.com and opening an account, followed up by mailing proof of being a nonprofit? It's as easy as that, I ask charities to do it all the time.
If undetected by the bank, the individual becomes the victim when their financial reputation is sullied by false reports of failure to repay debts.
If you are not using async IO and have a thread per core, if (as is quite common) your program needs to make IO calls (network being likely worst case) then the thread will sleep on a blocking IO call and CPU will be idle even if there’s work in a queue.
> What I wanted to get at with my questions was "what's the ratio of bad stuff produced per kilometer driven for hydrogen and for batteries?"

Right. When comparing objects of similar complexity, cost of the object is generally pretty proportional to bad-stuff-produced, with exceptions for unpriced externalities (carbon emissions being a big one, and mining or refining in low-responsibility jurisdictions being another). The carbon emissions of battery pack manufacturing are small[1] relative to lifetime emissions from an ICE car, not totally sure for FCEV.

> Both systems are going to have different ratios between Bad Stuff and efficiency and my unqualified guess is that hydrogen _might_ be better.

I couldn't find anything specific to FCEV, but my gut instinct is that FCEV would be dramatically worse - hydrogen is reformed from natural gas, necessarily entailing carbon emissions. If you're going to release the CO2 from natural gas anyway, might as well do it by burning in a high-efficiency turbine and use the energy to charge your BEV at high end-to-end efficiency. Or if you're going to consider "green" hydrogen, might as well use the renewable energy to directly charge a battery, at 3x higher efficiency.

[1] https://theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/EV-life...
It officially refers to point of sale, but I'm reliably informed by everybody who has ever touched these things that both acronyms apply.
P4 Benefits the Router for Academia, Research, and Education (Rare) Project
A simpler view for America: the representatives to things that make them personally welathy, and current politicians haven't been paid enough to introduce a competitor to their existing investments
I suspect the comment you are replying to executed what is called a joke.
I know the article is for Linux...

I recently was involved with a Windows filesystem driver. Windows lowest-level usermode APIs support iterating through directory contents for infinitely sized directories. (You just need to make sure whatever wrapper your language provides doesn't wrap the result in a pre-allocated array.)

For example, in C#, the System.IO.Directory static methods that return IEnumerables will let you iterate over millions of files without issue, at least on Windows. They probably will do the same on Linux and Mac.
I think we are not verbalizing the elephant in the room. I know game developers have their ship tight and will use the gpu to it’s fullest (the proof is in the pudding).

The thing I’ve been trying say all along is, I want applications using the same renderer at a primitive level.
From the customer's perspective, does it matter how their data got out?
>250 children hospitalized

That was over 2 weeks ago. As of August 15th there are now 1,900 children hospitalized with COVID in the US. There are many states that are just starting to experience the delta surge. The US delta wave is not projected to peak until September/October.

How many more children than 250 must get admitted to hospital for you to accept there is sufficient risk for masking? How have you determined this number?

Also, if you're going to compare outcomes between England and US you absolutely have to compare policy and vax rate. Nearly 90% of adults in UK have had at least one shot compared to 70% in the US. In some individual states it's more like 50%. This is why per capita caseload in the US is significantly higher. Higher caseload means a greater number of children will get sick.
There are lots of reasons for insurance. One kind of insurance (liability) is to protect you in case you screw up. Other kinds of insurance (e.g., uninsured motorist, fire, etc.) are to protect you in case other people screw up.
IMO you probably want some KCl along with the NaCl or you'll get bad cramps and other things.
Weekend bike ride on near by trails
I took the bike riding seriously this year by dedicating every sat morning for a ride on near by trails, here is my compiled version of recent rides. These rides really helped to catch early morning sunrise and birds chirping sounds, also to burn calories towards my weight reduction