skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it why people always hated (tracing) GC. Unless you are working on a hard real time systems such as DSP or audio synthesizer, having some kind of GC is always the boon.

Not only you can run code faster in some case (by suspending GC in some critical code and just do plain allocate and resume GC at a later time, and this is also how you make it more real-time compatible), it can also help curb fundamental security issues such as dangling pointers and use-after-free.

GC is also not the blame to the bloated size of your app, Nim [1], for example, is a language with GC/runtime while being lightweight. Another honorable mention would be Haxe [2] for gamedev, where it can generate much more compelling C++ code that the binary size is just slightly bigger to what you normally do with C++ while having much less lines needed to code. And it has a tracing GC.

So I do think GC-enabled language can be like C/C++/Rust. Even if there is a binary and performance difference, it won't be huge. But the way it makes your program safer by a huge margin and your programmer less mentally pain, makes having GC a huge difference.

By the way, even smart pointers/move semantics and ownership are one kind of GC (by leveraging linear/affine logic to ensure resources will not drop out of its controllable/life phase commonly called lifetime), so most of the time what I refer to GC is more specifically tracing GC where mark-and-sweep algorithms that usually need to stop-the-world is indeed a fundamental problem in GC design especially for multi-core platform which is going more and more popular nowadays.

[1]: https://nim-lang.org
[2]: https://haxe.org
Mathematical Recipes [pdf]
Yes, before Django there was Zope.
Honest question:
are there document languages for ticket systems and/or process/project plans? like gant diagrams? no tex code, but real DSLs?

this looks interesting
Economy can evolve, what we consider as fundamentals can change, people would think it is crazy to have a currency not backed up by gold previously has worked, it is time printing money becomes normal, it is just numbers anyway. Unless there is an alternative, the economy will go forward as it is. As long as everyone is buying into this game, the game can continue forever.
Characterization of the Fishing Lines in Titiwai from New Zealand and Australia
What a response.
Apple moaned about privacy with years. Not me.
Apple used big billboards all over the world with clear privacy message.
Only to create biggest intrusion on user space circumventing 4th amendment by introducing scanning by third party private corporation criteria (funded by DOJ). Creating a precedent in which all governments will be able to snoop and classify.
And I am "moaning". GTFO.
I was curious about that quote "less than 10 tons of long-term radioactive material" and looked it up:

Based on the orano group marketing site: https://www.orano.group/en/unpacking-nuclear/all-about-radio...

it's 200 grams per inhabitant in France, which is 67 million.
200 grams * population of france in metric tons is 13.4 t

That's quite good, even if it isn't 10 tons. Of course you still need a location for the short-lived (~300 year) nuclear waste.
Fine-tune a non-English GPT-2 Model with Huggingface
There is no such intelligence. You’re mindlessly repeating US propaganda.
Great timing before the Apple event today.
Python was already the scripting language of choice at CERN when I was there about 20 years ago.

Summer School computing classes even used to teach unit testing in Python.

And the Atlas HLT/DAQ build scripts were based on Python.
How engagement makes you vulnerable to manipulation and misinformation on social
From 302 to Subdomain Takeover
> At the time in California, you were able to select a community college as your high school.

I mean, at this point why not just take the GED or CHSPE and go straight to community college?
Given how much I've heard about Germany's solar investments and seen the panels on roofs around the country, it's a bit of a reality check that solar only accounts for only about 9% of their energy mix. It makes me wonder if it's measured properly since some would get used at the point of generation and not go into the grid. It also makes me wonder if the tech has been generally oversold in the press vs. its potential.
>absolutely no scientific justification for consuming animals

Given the state of nutrition science, I would also say there is no scientific justification for not consuming animals.

Given historical precedent, eating cooked meat seems to have effectively taken fat (a very long digestive track) apes with small brains and turned them into bigger brained highly capable humans.
Scepticism of the Microsoft Study Saying Remote Work Siloed Employees
OK, I don't see the message here and my localization is correctly recognized so I didn't think it could be mock data. Snow two days ago? Let me think... probably not ;)
Off course there is still OOP involved. Also most FP languages support objects to some extent. Also records and their modules have some similarities to OOP. And even FP can be never completely pure, there always has to be state.

But this approach is just more functional than the one before.
SwiftKey is for some reason significantly worse on ios than android. I still use it because it has far better correction than the builtin keyboard and I haven't found any other that supports multiple simultaneous languages on ios.
>> Java is popular due to the jvm

That's not how history played out at all. Java spent much of its life being pitched as a way to make C++ developers more productive.

The jvm was actively hated by many for years - slow startup times, excessive memory usage, it didn't used to enjoy the rich tooling ecosystem it has now and it was seen as opaque and hard to tweak for performance.

To this day it's not that hard to find Java devs who want off the hotspot jvm - whether that's to go onto other JVMs with different tradeoffs (Azul or whatever) or whether to go native compilation (GraalVM) instead.
Yes, continual improvement in battery technology. They aren't here yet, but solid state lithium-ion batteries are widely considered likely to be commercially available in the next few years.
It is really awesome. I was looking for a solution that allowed me to use the native Wireguard implementation without needing a third-party proprietary client. Mullvad was it and port forwarding was just one additional benefit. Vopono works great for my use cases, although I have a hard time sending everything through a VPN because pretty much every VPN provider is going to put you into captcha hell or some services straight up block you when you're behind a VPN.
If these things can be made to work on top of prescription lenses, I'm all in. I would say that roughly 50% of their target market would be in that situation.
Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling
We're talking about 20 year old wind turbines. That's the stone age of wind turbine development.

But many of these would even be able to produce electricity that could be sold, but the bureaucracy of doing so is complicated. There was some discussion about creating solutions for those and make it easier for them to sell their electricity, but it didn't happen.

But in any case: It would be better to replace those old turbines with modern ones, though this is often not allowed...
I miss my Motorola Droid with slide out keyboard.
You still have to maintain the existing turbines.

Maintaining 20 year old hardware that's exposed to the forces of nature quickly costs more than building something new in the same place. In particular when the 20 year old hardware has been from the beginning of a time of extensive R&D, so that new parts for these old models might be hard and expensive to get because all the cost-efficient producers are already on to the new stuff.

Try maintaining a 10 year old server (10 years instead of 20 to account for significantly more physical wear out in the open) without replacing the mainboard, CPU, RAM and disks with newer models. Same issue: industrial production moved on. The main difference is that nobody cares if you replace a 1U server with a newer 1U server.
The thing is, they're scared in large part because of the propaganda by greenpeace et al
I wonder if face identification is actually good enough at that without producing false positives. (Also I think there's been enough movies about that particular scenario that there'd be a ton of uproar if that came into reality.)
While Google's support was definitely a factor, Go also had some important language features going for it. Most importantly it is targeting a relatively empty niche in the programming language landscape, i.e. that of high performance, close to the metal languages with little performance overhead, while still being easy to write. "Easy to write" for 80% comes down to being memory-safe, unlike C/C++. If you're in that niche, you have few alternatives. The other options for mainstream memory-safe languages are interpreted scripting languages and Java-style jitted languages. Go easily beats both in resource consumption without being much harder to program in. Rust isn't really comparable because while it is memory-safe its memory management system still forces the programmer to think about the memory and resource usage, thus being slower to program in.
COVRA and Urenco have long term solutions (1kY) for storage and disposal. In Finland they have as well. Not sure why you think there isn't anything in place for this.
Other than security, the other bad thing about applets was that they were very slow to start, and required a Java runtime that did not come bundled with the browser - you had to download an installer for it manually, install it, and then the thing was constantly nagging you about updates (and, IIRC, the updating agent or whatever it was that sat in my tray noticeably degraded the machine's performance even if nothing was using JRE).
You mean ie. Empire State Building can be referred to as Evil State Building?
Winning Tech Stack: the must-have tools for growth in 2021 and beyond
+1 for Joplin, I use it for logging my work day. I dump the information in JIRA task I work on and have highlights and other related notes in Joplin, although I wish Joplin has a native support for calendar (similar to https://zim-wiki.org).
This is a plot point in a black mirror episode! You should watch it if you haven't seen it, it's "White Christmas".
DeFi Pulse Index
From what I’ve been reading on German communities, the vast majority of private solar panels seem to be used directly and not sent to the grid. No idea if there are official stats about this.

edit: Wrote this slightly wrong. So what I’m usually reading is that they are mostly used privately, and only the leftover energy gets sent to the grid.
> Certainly knowledge about it had only started trickling out in the general industry at the time as compilers started exploiting it

It was common knowledge among C programmers long before then, for both security and portability reasons but optimization was also done. Old MacOS even used the higher 8-bits of pointers for MM flags. Other popular systems did equally weird things (think VAX.) That discussion linked to by the Jargon file is from 1992.
What can you do with Notion as Software Developer?
Ah, probably because you were viewing in landscape mode. The message only appears in portrait mode.

The app's main use case was for mobile, where you're likely to start in portrait orientation.

I'll have to make the landscape mode more usable, especially on desktop.
Are there any specific points in the video you disagree with?

Just saying something is biased does not make you correct. It is just very elaborate way to say “oh no it isn’t!”.
https://www.sfen.org/rgn/dechets-radioactifs-verite-faits-ex....
Popular Issues with Netflix Freezing Screen and Ways to Solve It
I am not skeptical at all. I literally have not talked to a single person outside my twenty-person department of a company of over a thousand in a year and a half since working from home started.

I haven’t had a reason to, and there is no just bumping into somebody and striking up a conversation like there is in the office. I would’ve had to have gone out of my way to talk to someone I have no reason to talk to.
> ‘Take the pan out of the over once it’s been in for 30min, where the pan contains a folded together eggs and previously mixed flour and sugar’ isn’t more FP than ‘Mix the flour with the sugar, then combine with eggs, then fold together, then put it into the oven, then take out after 30min.’

Oddly enough, the language that put the most thought into this problem is Perl, which provided the pronoun variables to represent "whatever I just computed".

Natural languages always offer multiple strategies for ordering the various parts of a sentence, because the order in which things are mentioned is critical for several purposes, from making it easier for the listener to follow a chain of thoughts to building or defusing tension or correctly positioning the punchline of a joke.
This is pretty neat, I used to run Tomato on a lot of hardware. Shame there are no screenshots, as the original Tomato GUI was pretty nice for the time and I'm curious as to what it looks like now.
> So imo we don't need another Chrome, just like we don't need another Linux.

With your preceding reasoning you don't need Linux either, since Windows already exists.
Good cause if they are anything like the 2nd dose shots they should find a way to compensate people for missing 2 days of work with headaches, fever, chills, body ache, etc.
Marseille has been run down by drug trafficking and decades of neglect by the French state not immigrants. In a way it has to do with immigration In that the reason Marseille was so neglected and poor is because it houses a large part of the Algerian diaspora which came after France lost its last colonial war something the French government would rather forget than address.
There simply isn't enough space in the German parts of the north and baltic sea to build enough wind energy. Germany will definitely need both on- and offshore.
Job vacancies surge past one million in new record
For all that, you can still get an awful lot done in a dead language!
The compensation is not missing weeks or years due to Covid... or in rarer cases, you know, dying.
I think that we must see C always in the context of assembly language. Pascal and C really helped things moving forward in terms of abstractions. C seems hard now and it is, however, assembler is way harder and when things started to evolve from 8bit to 16 and 32bit computers, we were all glad that machine language was something from the past. Same goes in most part to BASIC.
It's the cleverest trick the social media companies pulled. "It's too hard!" So they don't do it!

I'm imagining a world where the answer was "tough luck, you have to or you don't get to do business". Imagine a Facebook where due to the enforced human moderation you were only able to make a single post a day. That actually sounds like it might solve a lot of problems!
Clojure has the -> macro:

https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/-%3E

It does the same thing, but it's much more awkward to use.
pretty disappointed in the video after the green screen @0:50 didn't see a terminal popping-up
That is a flawed argument, why? Because BASIC died, so if we follow your analogy PHP would also have died after the initial popularity and then been replaced with something better, but that hasn't happened, thus there are some unique qualities with PHP that makes it hard to replace.
Is there anywhere that one can read about that? That's...bizarre
Has anyone considered the incredible danger of "free" AI that can own property and bank accounts?
> I always thought...

You must be new here: That's what they changed their mission statement to.

Originally, it was just simply to support development of the browser.
Nope:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor

The CANDU is a successful attempt, the energy amplifier was never attempted, and self breeding reactors are a material engineering problem (alas not yet completely solved), not a physics problem.

Throwing a fraction of what we are spending to chase the "fusion dream" we could have achieved a great deal more for present reality.

Again that's all IMO.

edited: clarification
No, Bitcoin will never add tail emission, because 21m cap is the very definition of Bitcoin. If enough transaction fees won't come then Bitcoin would have failed.

Monero is changing (hard-forking) regularly, so your point is broken on arrival - and I am saying this as Monero proponent. I love Monero but it is easy to change.
Is Chess a Sport?
Mining hardware just means commodity electronics; the guys with ASICs may be faster but they can't shut you out entirely, and the miners don't generally control the people who make hardware (even the specialised ASICs). Whereas the stakers inherently control the supply of the crypto in question (and they can can e.g. cut off people who sell large amounts to outsiders, in a way that they couldn't cut off hardware makers), and there are generally only a few points where you can exchange that crypto for something commoditised - usually exchanges that do strict identity verification, may only be available to people in certain countries, etc..
Another one for your list: have a look at the energy use of electronics on standby.
I can imagine. Nobody would ever step foot on the road or in bars with a bunch of ruffians all around
If you like restoration videos I'd recommend https://www.youtube.com/c/BaumgartnerRestoration

Great attention to detail and mastery, from what I can tell as someone who knows nothing of the subject!
It's also worth noting that the "con" has resulted in the architect having a position as a "Design Critic" at Harvard and he's been a visiting lecturer at quite a few other universities.
There is also one scheduled in france https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cig%C3%A9o
I'm not sure anyone considered it worth writing up - it was standard SafeDisc. Just frustrating as someone trying to use it legitimately.
What can a heuristic website evaluation do for me?
Cryptocurrency May Soon Be Subject to Wash Sale Rules
Give this a look https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak

The TLDR is: 7 million people die anually from air pollution. Fukushima and Chernobil combined don't even put a dent on that. And solar+wind alone is not enough.
Reminds me of the Sidekick, but not the one that slides vertically but the one that spun around. God I wish they'd make a modern Android phone like it.
The pipe operator really is elixirs secret sauce. The whole OTP platform amazing but web servers can live without it. But the developer ergonomics of the pipe operator for code that is to a large extent

1) accept input
2) parse input
3) transform input
4) store input

Is just amazing
Possibly a stylistic choice? More futuristic?
Machine-Learning media bias
The issue is that Germany is actively sabotaging the adoption of nuclear power.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/germany-four-others-...
Turbines (any distance) are _much_ quieter than living within 30km of an airport. Didn't stop https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_der_Verkehrsflugh%C3%A4f... from happening. Priorities...
Autonomous driving startup DeepRoute.ai closes $300M round led by Alibaba
Quoting from the article:

"Update (9/1/2021) The reporting this story is based on contained incorrect statements of fact and misstated the reasons for several recent events between ARM and ARM China. For an updated, accurate story, please see here."[0]

[0] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/326617-arm-refutes-acc...
Voting. The main difference is that the division line between parties and government is placed differently than in democracies. There are advantages and disadvantages of course, but the main point is: it’s silly to believe there’s no social feedback mechanisms in a country changing as fast as China does.
How about you introduce paid medical leave, like the rest of the developed world.
Of course that is important to artists. We all have egos, and their hand, the creator's hand, has more value to them.

Yet, this does not mean the viewer shall have the same perspective. For them, the stimulus, not the source, may be more important.
Covid-19 and the new merchants of doubt
The (excellent) libraries are python's platform

I would have avoided python if I could... But I can't avoid numpy/scipy etc etc
I think its very funny as in laugh out loud funny, regardless of its age. The situations are plainly ridiculous on the face of them. Its more Marx brothers than Noel Coward funny, the former is timeless while the latter is the kind of curiosity more akin to vintage computing.
If we make an ultra long lasting flavor X, I believe a brain perceiving X gum will make that sensation the baseline. Like we forget the sensation of socks or a strongly smelling restaurant after a few minutes.
Not sure if it's a Great Pyrenees but check out the dog in this video:

https://youtu.be/wrwHWgyFEks?t=559

The guy points, the dog runs. I swear, it's like the dog speaks French...
> ... or didn't respond in time to inquiries from Spain officials, it looks to me like the system (at least in Spain?) does not work.

As a rule you will not be contacted by the relevant trademark registering office. What happens is that the registration filing is published, and if you are opposed to it going through you will need to file opposition within a certain period after the publication.

That's why organisations with IP to protect typically directly or indirectly (that is via counsel) use trademark watching services. Essentially these scan the where ever the filings are published, and will send you alerts or whatever when something turns up on the radar.

Actually filing opposition is rather tedious and expensive, and particularly when different good/service classes are being used, sometimes difficult to actually be successful with.
I wonder what the specs and connectivity are. All day battery? Wifi? 5G? Can it be used independently from a smartphone?

I really like the appeal of these wearables, but only if they have a basic set of capabilities and I can leave my phone at home.
I think this is the correct analysis - the focus should be to provide vaccines to the rest of the worlds nations that have not yet gotten widespread access to vaccines. This is likely to cause the greatest benefit in the form of fewer global deaths, and reduced global spread of the disease.
Wasn't DarkSky scheduled for closure by the end of the year?
The person you replied to basically saying the opposite of you.
I remember a time before youtube. Recording tunes on a tape recorder as a child. It's not so fanciful to project that history to the digital now and run with it.

I'm rambling, but I'm over youtube. I'll access it via third party tools stripping adverts, and recording (just like I did as a child) but I don't see them as necessary.

Youtube was a delight before. And generally still can be. But not necessary and increaslingly clunky and way too overly advert dominated.

Maybe they should rebrand it as a historical archive and be done with it. If they can't make the copyright work, sunset it like almost everything else and let other players emerge who can.

/endrant
Why exactly? It is just as much a positive for Google paying some (to them) small money to avoid lawsuits as it is for firefox to be able to stay afloat.

Do you have any reference to issues where firefox lost credibility?
Why Is It Mandatory to Make an Amazon Like App Development?
> piping vs nesting are different syntaxes for function composition: x|A|B|C vs C(B(A(x)))

> The former might feel more comfortable, familiar, and left-to-right readable for someone new to FP.

C(B(A(x))) is the syntax introduced in school, but note that if you continue on in algebra the notation flips from C(B(A(x))) to x_{ABC}. Everyone agrees that it's easier to list the transformations in the order they happen.
Corrected URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58498231 (no ".html" at the end).
I found the play more of a meta comment on the book, as if it was deliberately misrepresented to make fun of the audience.