skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing the author measured the overall performance and assumed that using error codes, rather than exceptions, is what made the sample code he provided slower. Turns out, the reason it is slower is because, in the case using error codes, a copy of a std::string is made. In the exceptions case, where the string is returned rather than passed as a parameter by reference, the copy can be elided because the compiler invokes NVRO. Has nothing to do with exceptions.

Maybe that author should use a profiler before making these types of claims? check the generated assembly? etc?

Far slower to return a value in RAX vs. generate a ton of code (blowing icache, etc.) is quite an interesting statement. I think it deserves a closer look, though.
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Thanks for the hint. I did not know them yet
Well, naturally we won't eliminate Covid globally until we globally pursue an elimination strategy.

It's a pity that more nations aren't doing so.
Content-visibility: CSS property that boosts your rendering performance
> cost of doing business

That's exactly what it is. These companies buy, research and stockpile exploits, and keep a few always at ready for when the currently deployed ones get burned. All exploits have a shelf life, and the more widely one is used, the more likely it is to get caught.

Because let's not forget: NSO and their ilk are not in the business of developing exploits. That's just their raw material. They are in the business of selling weapons-grade espionage and surveillance capabilities.
comments are bringing out grand thesis or bike shed of FP, but wjat OP actually wrote the article about was being forced to use recursion instead of iteration andnconsidered that FP.

If OP had titled his post recursion is weird I think we'd be seeing some different line of comments.

Secondly, his recursion example not really support his opening comments about FP and cakes.

Thirdly, you dont have to do things backwards in FP.
The worst thing I read this year, and what it taught me (2016)
FYI Australian govt relation to this channel:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCDxmZI3I8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNIYL5x1oy0

They're great!
This is the FEZ principle but puzzle centric. Nice
Disagree. We have an almost Gilbert&Sullivan level comic opera where we theater consequences.

Some headline catching big fine that gets quietly reduced to insignificance. Some giant parading announcement of a commitment to zero carbon and no meaningful action taken after the cameras leave.

It's pure political theater.

After we landed once on a plane, air marshalls came on before anybody could leave and escorted a passenger off. What happened? He smoked a cigarette. That's actual consequences.

Nobody arrested Exxon or BP executives for their gross negligence in their extremely avoidable ecosystem destroying oil spills. They didn't suffer any personal consequences. There was no tribunal for lying about climate change through propaganda campaigns since the 1980s

The FBI never showed up at Phil Knights house on charges of child labor or call in to question the very peculiar legal acrobatics of subcontractor shell games Nike uses to create liability distance.

It'd be like if the guy smoking on the plane had one friend light it and another hold the cigarette as he puffed it and we were like "Well I guess that's too complicated for the law to handle so it's no longer a crime! Carry on!"
Could you name an example where a company does not have to pay to use another's product and ecosystem? I can't.
If I could have another Bold 9700 but with modern internals and apps, I would be a happy phone owner indeed.
How do you think Tesla's are being sold now? They've already overturned these stupid laws in almost all the states except for Texas and a couple others. These laws were meant to restrict car dealerships from having unfair advantage over dealerships that they sold to. Tesla doesn't sell to dealerships, they sell D2C so obviously doesn't apply to them. I'm glad we're not being forced to deal with car dealerships and paying a higher price thanks to an unnecessary middleman. All others will have to follow Tesla's lead or go bankrupt.
Walmart says looking into fake press release on litecoin tie-up
Intuit gets a bad rap now and with good reason. But I read their book detailing their startup history about twenty years ago, it was quite interesting. Was as scrappy as any story you've heard here. Had to get out of Microsoft's way also, if memory serves.
The same qualities that make a stock or asset desirable (appreciation) make for a bad currency. The expectation of wild appreciation discourages transaction and encourages hoarding.

This is one of the the reasons why (low) target inflation rates exist. The (slight) devaluation of the currency encourages consumption or investment with the currency and discourages mattress stuffing.

You wouldn't buy goods with stocks.
> My problem is with artificial, curated reading lists, rather than something organic that arises out of interest.

This reads like a non-sequitur. OP pointed out that your summary of Don Quixote clearly shows you failed to understand the book at all, thus you're criticizing it out of ignorance. Hence the comparison of your summary with claiming that Moby Dick is a story of a guy who hates whales.
The ECMWF provide meteograms which show the ensemble spread for their global forecasts: https://www.ecmwf.int/en/forecasts/charts/web/classical_mete.... That webpage has a lot is great visualisations
I have no problem with the original building being restored or rebuit from scratch rather than with copies of that building springing up where'd you least expect it, just like garden gnomes.

https://www.wonders-of-the-world.net/Eiffel-Tower/Repliques/...
When you factor in state taxes + all the things the US government doesn’t do for me (particularly us upper middle class folks), my effective tax rate is pretty on par with Germany.
Getting errors packaged as status 200 graphql responses (hey technically graphql worked fine, here's the result!) really bugs me.

I wish we could standardise on something that feels more 'native', have RESTful (the tangent w.r.t. Fielding, as it's actually practiced) JSON responses , JSONSchema or OpenAPI even, as popular widely implemented IETF RFCs.

Or the same with GQL, but with corresponding changes to HTTP to make it make more sense. Have a response be a type consisting of nullable success data and error data perhaps, or more layered status codes as rigid as they are but allowing what GQL wants to express by 'here is a successful response that contains errors'.
My friend who studies music performance at University had this to say about Bach music, which I always found interesting:

"It's very hard to perceive counterpoint, and there is a limit to how much we can perceive at once. 2 voices is hard and takes practice, 3 voices is even harder, but you can have these flashes where you hear clearly voices playing off one another and its like getting a glimpse into the divine."
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> Fact: functional programming takes more time to learn.

Is this a fact? I was taught scheme at age 12 and in four weeks I had a working compiler. And I have heard that a team taught middle schoolers erlang and got them writing a chat network in 2 days.
Yes it is the context of this thread. It's talking about collecting the fees from the companies that use their platform, not the users.

Context:

> enos_feedler 2 days ago [–]

> This doesn't seem crazy to me. The idea that Apple collects developer fees via the payment flow is merely a convenience vs. direct billing.

In this case, the developer is the company and not the end-user.
Does that mean that I and people like me cannot do open source in 2021?

It means few people will hear about or discuss your projects, and that means you won't get the critical mass of people necessary for your project to become popular. If you also conflate popularity with usefulness or importance then that's a problem.

Pretty much all big open source projects have benefited from "marketing" of some sort or another. If you're unwilling to do that then you're limiting the scope and size of what you can accomplish to what you can do on your own.

However, devs who are happy to contribute to an existing project where others do the social stuff are always welcome on pretty much every open source effort. So of course you can do it.
See Gary Taubes, i.e. the article we are discussing.
Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1865
> People for whatever reason don't consider it weird.

Speak for yourself, I find React is weird as hell! But that's not because it's functional, Elm for example makes a lot more sense in my mind.
I’m not sure most people will end up as good internet essay writers too..
Witty but actually nonsensical.

The point of gate-keeping citizenship for immigrants has been explained ad nauseam in this discussion alone and is, frankly common sense expect for the most extreme on the political spectrum.
You might be interested in indie hacking or bootstrapping as phrases to google when looking for such articles.

www.indiehackers.com

www.bootstrappers.com
> But I just can't believe anything he says.

He is the only guy I believe when it comes to politics.
He things as they can be seen (often backed up by video evidence) not narratives.

Its an accurate view of politics that actually explains a lot of what happens
not to paint a sad story but i’ve never had anyone who preached inclusivity ever try and include me in on something, so i’ve always wondered what that word is supposed to mean.

i generally believe that there’s a huge amount of gaslighting going on in the media. misinformation can influence the media to attack a certain group over another as well.

this doesn’t have to be overt. there are other forms of hate and prejudice going on indirectly and not just from a right leaning source as well. some don’t even understand the damage they are causing by trying to “fix” the situation. in a lot of ways it’s making the system worse for everyone.

there’s a saying, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

anyways, full disclosure, i’ve lived in many states where you could vote outside of your registered political party. so i have voted outside of my party if i felt the candidate was a good fit for the job. i think we really ought to consider policy awareness programs, like way before an election.

so we aren’t just bombarded with political affiliated party bias propaganda. how much has the political adverts inspired extremism? then later back paddled after an election is over?

or worse, political gaslighting seems to be the norm these days, it’s a very deceptive practice, and is straight up toxic
Indeed, C came for $0 with UNIX that AT&T wasn't allowed to sell and provided source tapes alonside a symbolic price, in a time where systems cost several hundreds $$$$.

C++ came on the same package as C compilers, some of which it was a compiler switch away.

Both were picked by OS vendors that tried to cater on top of UNIX clones.

Yep, zero marketing.
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Could you expand on what you're talking about? I'm having a hard time picturing it but I'm interested.
Eh it's not a Ponzi scheme as far as influencers go. They are the new TV/movie celebrities and share fame with those groups. Plenty have been around for years now, sure there are rises and falls and fans are more fickle than in the past. Unless instagram and twitter and tiktok die soon they're going to be around a while, even though boomers and gen-x often greatly dislike them; those aren't the audiences they are trying to appeal to.
the seaweed research thing is going around for 5 years now, and there's nothing done on the ground yet .
Ah, haven't even tried that one yet, that's helpful to know!
I heard similar cases where videos got taken down because of the sound of church bells, rain, or even white noise [0].

[0] www.bbc.com/news/technology-42580523.amp
I was wondering this while scrolling through the thread.

I swype too :)
Well, I think he's definitely saying that we've been tricked and that the narratives that are pushed supporting our lifestyle and societal choices are lies told to enrich and empower others.
This is indeed a concern to me.

As others pointed out, blocking IP addresses is an option. Blocking access based on the HTTP Origin header is also possible.

I hope I can go on for some time without being to restrictive. With a fairly quick API that can scale with cheap VMs it should be feasible to keep it running at low expenses even at higher utilisation.
My point is that OP’s comparison is useless because Java most definitely has marketing costs mostly associated with that 8+ million Java developers, the same as other popular languages.
Check out micro VCs like Calm, TinySeed, etc. They operate on the model you describe, where they're not looking for 100x returns but merely several million dollars in revenue.
I have my share of gripes about Haskell (which I'm assuming is the language you have in mind when you're talking about a pure FP language), but even with the sarcasm disclaimer, this is a pretty extreme strawman.

This is the equivalent Haskell.

turnOnThreeLEDs = for_ [1..3] (\i ->
do
LEDTurnOn
threadDelay (10^6)
LEDTurnOff
)

or all in one line

for_ [1..3] (\i -> do { LEDTurnOff; threadDelay (10^6); LEDTurnOff })

It looks basically the same.

EDIT: I would also strongly dispute the idea that FP is structured around flow instead of data structures. In fact I'd say that FP tries to reduce everything to data structures (this is most prominently found in the rhetoric in the Clojure community but it exists to varying degrees among all FP languages). Nor is SQL an FP language (the differences between logic programming a la Prolog and ultimately therefore SQL and FP is very very different).

FP's biggest drawback is that to really buy into it, you pretty much need a GC. That also puts an attendant performance cap on how fast your FP code can be. So if you really need blazing fast performance, you at least need some imperative core somewhere (although if you prefer to code in a mainly FP style, you can mainly get around this by structuring your app around a single mutable data structure and wrapping everything else in an FP layer around it).
I don't think East vs West is a fair generalization of this attitude. In Thailand someone is building an Angkor Wat replica and the Cambodian government is protesting because they see it as somehow cheapening the original. Angkor Wat has undergone very little reconstruction and where it has it's only sections which can be mostly rebuilt from original fragments.
In Vietnam you can visit lots of temples that are complete rebuilds. In Cambodia there are hundreds or even thousands of ancient temples, none of which have any restoration done, and there is no movement to do any.
You might not have noticed, but most people are into celebrities, musicians, actors, YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagrammers, etc. Famous people.

We evolved to compare ourselves to others in order to elevate the fitness of ourselves and our in-group. We look to peers. We take an interest in their gossip. We look at beautiful people, smart people, successful people. We're curious. We're also intrigued by scandalous and dangerous people. It's how we update our mental model of the world and contrast ourselves against it.

I'd be utterly shocked if you didn't, at some level, take an interest in the personal details of some person you don't know.

Virtual celebrities and influencers provide the same sort of dopamine hits that their real life counterparts do, except they can be 100% controlled by a corporation.

You don't even have to look at virtual influencers to know that people will eat them up: lots of people are already addicted to fictional characters. Movies, super heroes, even cartoons and anime. They find pieces of themselves in it. They start to care and take deep interest.

Virtual celebs are the future, and a cottage industry is already cropping up in support of it.

And just wait until people use AR/VR to optimize their own appearances and behaviors.
If virtual influencers are travelling and taking pictures of themselves at cool places, you can certainly visit those places too. If they take pictures of food (very influencer-y thing to do), you can visit that restaurant and eat that food.
This is only true if your stages don't have arguments: with a | b(something) | c | d, `something` is now evaluated before b(something)
States could kill two birds with one stone and allow manufacturers to open up one factory store for every N independent service and repair shops which have full access to manufacturer documentation and the full parts supply chain.
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Cutis's point was that MK Ultra was a failure in terms of its political objectives
> There are lots of vision applications that aren't driving or medicine. Visual inspection is a one - that's used in insurance claim management

What kind of "insurance claim management"; health insurance claims? Sounds very much like medicine.
The different elements can all be verified, the narratives aren't there because he doesn't push them. The fundamental that I took from hypernormalisation was that there are co-incidences everywhere if you look hard enough but that co-incidences don't prove anything.
>During that period of time, the well-preserved remains of ancient Egyptians were routinely ground into a powder and consumed as a medicinal remedy.

let me guess: boner meds ?
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Well yes, it's personal experience. However, for me everything from study material to situational context to interaction with peers pointed to that being the case. Be free to make what you want of it.
Is there a way to access the article except than click & pay or being alumni of MIT? :)
> Lots of back-and-forth games on pricing, getting upsold on random add-ons or financial products ... I doubt I'd be worse off paying a standard price set by the manufacturer

While this sounds good in theory, what's to prevent the manufacturer from doing the same ? If you look at Google Fi, it probably wanted to be different from the usual carriers, but in reality they are not that much different and worse in many ways. They peddle the same overpriced phones/payment plans and try to keep you on the network, blurring the line between device cost and plan cost. They also distinguish between regular data and hotspot data. If you go back to AOSP in Nexus days, AOSP didn't have any distinction between the two.
Just like taxes can be used to kill people in foreign countries, it can be used to save people from fire and illness, educate them, etc.

When you try to defect from paying tax, you may have in your mind the people not killed with your money, but others in society will (correctly) recognize the people not saved with your money and wish to punish you. This is basic tit-for-tat group behavior. Tit-for-tat makes it possible to solve the prisoner's dilemma cooperatively.

I don't think the downvotes should necessarily be interpreted as punishment, though, it could also be because people think the above rationale is so obvious that your post has negative value (little information, noisy).
Well if you're the one seeking money, you need to go where the money is, no? You can't stay where you are with no connections and expect VCs to come to you.

It has always been the case that those who need money go to those who have money, not vice versa.
Which bits aren't true?
I bet that the sysadmins don't miss the BlackBerry :-)
I was talking about zipping all the files into one big zip/xz/whatever, torrents don't allow those to be broken up into "little files". All bittorrent clients I've used have the ability to select which files (-not- in an archive) you want to download, but default to "all"
> Classics become classic because they are beloved, not because “literature majors” demand it to be so.

Although I totally agree with you, there's also the meaning that the Classics is just a collection of books people claim to have read but never did.
Now I got it! Sorry, I did not get your point in the beginning. Compressed textures could be really interesting. So far I have no experience in this regard, but I will look into it
> Many economists like to invoke the tragedy of the commons' as a justification for property rights (real, maritime, or intellectual) but they tend to sidle around the fact that it's almost impossible for anyone to get legal standing to advocate on behalf of the commons.

Erm, what? Aren't those just two different ways of saying the same thing? The tragedy of the commons happens because there is no owner of the commons who can regulate their use.
This is what made C++ popular,

Apple:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_Programmer%27s_Works...

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

Borland:

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

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

IBM:

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

Microsoft:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Template_Library
You could store the standard deviation as well as the mean (or median) of the ensemble. That would maximally double your data volume (but would add quite a bit less with compression). The UK Met Office have done same nice work into how to optimally combine the severity and risk of an event into an impact measure
I would implore some form of higher studies though. Not all college is a waste, and even within software, putting your focus towards a topic and doing a PhD is life changing in terms of giving you more structure. The world needs smart people to guide it in all directions. Too many of them are now being wasted moving money around and showing ads.
I think it's the case in the UE. It doesn't really solve the luggage issue, but that's a bit more difficult because that one is truly optional. I don't think I have paid a different price than what was displayed in the aggregator.
Okay, now this is rude. We're on public forum here sharing our opinions. Mine are based on the fact that I do know how online criminals operate as well as how money laundering work in my country.

I really can't speak about US and how FBI works, but again most of online criminals are not operate in the US.
true, although argument evaluation order in a(x,b(y,c(d),z),w) is already somewhat hard to rely on
I think a lot of the appeal of Fallout is the PipBoy aesthetic.

Green mono monitors are de rigeur for so much geeky computing. Linux terminals in basically every movie.

Knock knock, Neo...
> The males of this species have the habit to aggregate on and attempting to copulate with discarded brown "stubbies" (a type of beer bottles). The males are apparently attracted by the refraction of light produced by the glass bumps of the bottles, resembling giant females with a very similar colour and surface.

> Consequently to this behaviour the species is actually threatened. Prof. Darryl Gwynne, from the Toronto University, and David Rentz have achieved the Ig Nobel Prize for their studies on Julodimorpha species behaviour.

> This behavior is often given as an example of a Supernormal stimulus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julodimorpha_bakewelli
It's YouTube that's the perpetrator of the tragedy of the commons here. There must be a mandatory expiration of any intellectual property into the public domain after a set amount of time and/or after the owner died and the state should first and foremost protect the intellectual property of the public domain, that is, prevent any party from claiming it exclusively and punish any offenders.
Ad-hoc offline or sync support invariably goes wrong in important ways that lead to persistent missing or incorrect data and data loss. It’s something that needs to be designed in from the start, and it necessarily takes the form of a data-oriented API, entirely opposed to what this article is suggesting (UI-oriented). If your main UI needs to work offline or with sync, you can’t use a UI-oriented backend.