skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the mass measurement of electrons an abberation then in the QFT interpretation of the empirical data? Or is it that energy can have mass prior to being converted under some conditions?
> Also, `zig -Dc` links to libc (`-Dc`) but builds in debug mode by default, similar to Rust and C/C++ compilers

Right! This was a misunderstanding of mine. Updated results:

8-thread Intel laptop machine:

zip 0.9.0-dev.958: 230
rust 1.5.0-nightly 21-09-12/qsort: 545
rust 1.5.0-nightly 21-09-12/rsort: 255
go 1.16.8: 355

32-thread AMD workstation:

zip 0.9.0-dev.958: 125
rust 1.5.0-nightly 21-09-12/qsort: 780
rust 1.5.0-nightly 21-09-12/rsort: 135
go 1.16.8: 135

The reason why I think that conclusions should not be drawn due to the excessive variability between systems.

On the parent poster's system, zig is faster by a much larger margin than the two systems I've tried. And there's a ~45% difference in Go's performance compared to the fastest runner for the respective system.
It's unnecessary. You just have to make sure to not develop it first.
Toilet training cows could help combat climate change
Zombie businesses required to pay more for labour go bust.

Raising the cost of labour is a far more reliable way of eliminating zombies than attempting to raise interest costs. No business can operate without labour.
We Tweet at Their Pleasure (2018)
Then what about just orbiting around it? It would just need to be big enough to not cause strong tidal forces.
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You don’t have to contact me in particular — you can get in touch with anyone at Stripe. (Or even DM Stripe on Twitter.)

With regard to the last part of your comment — absolutely. This is a final recourse when the system breaks, not a part of the system that we hope you ever have to use.
90% of global farm subsidies damage people and planet, says UN
I criticize the web page for being clickbaity and cryptic, but you go all “It’s supposed to be cryptic!”. I swear, it’s like listening to fans of Lost trying to explain why it’s fun watching a TV show where nothing makes any sense but continually hints at things making sense later, but it never does.

A reasonable person can explain things in a straightforward manner. If someone instead chooses to be cryptic and veiled, perhaps in a misguided attempt at being theatrical, they open themselves up to criticism. Which I provided. Quite reasonably too, I thought, since the text preferred to be cryptic and clickbaity instead of explaining anything.

If someone really prefers to be theatrical (like in actual theater or movies), they could still preface it with a reasonable explanation that they can’t give away the twist in the synopsis.
* Go language thread

* top comment reply is about Rust

Why am I not surprised at this. This style of trollish, overaggressive Rust evangelism is so obnoxious, it turns so many people off the language.
> they collided gold nuclei accelerated to 99.99 percent of the speed of light.

How did they achieve that?
All the code that actually runs on CPU is written by a computer, when it executes the compiler or runs an interpreter. And most of them don't need advanced machine learning functionality to implement an error handling syntax which is significantly less verbose.
Most plastic can't be recycled, yep. If it would melt under low heat (plastic bags, food containers, other packaging) it can't be recycled.

HDPE plastic -- the heavy duty stuff? The only truly recyclable plastic.

I throw all plastic that can't be recycled in the trash.
This is the international arms trade. As long as you have state endorsement and aren't violating UN sanctions, there are zero consequences.

And if you think this is in any way unusual, take a look at the places the US and China and France sell weapons to.

Israel's specialties happen to be software exploits and EW equipment, but this isn't a deeply different interaction.
There's also “If The Pirates Of The Caribbean Breaks Down, The Pirates Don’t Eat The Tourists.”
"Quarter" have other popular usages that are deeply ingrained in American culture. "Quarterback", "Insert a quarter", "This quarter's results were good", "quart" (measurement), "it's a quarter to one" etc. Actual math aside, it's simply a more familiar word.
I thought this would be the same Matthias Wandel as https://youtube.com/c/Matthiaswandel but the patents aren’t woodworking related from what I can see and have all been filled in the us rather than ca hehe.

Op is there something specific you found interesting in those patents?
I'd say there's a clear difference between what they were doing post Deng Xiaoping and what they've been doing since Xi Jinping came to power. It's much more worrying now.

I remember 15-20 years ago, my friends in China had hope that eventually it would open up but there's no longer any hope there. The few friends who are still outspoken (and are much much more careful than they used to be) now have no hope of this whatsoever.
"If you want peace, prepare for war"

It is very scary in the Asia-Pacific region. But in recent times the wars of note have been America v. [various smoking craters]. In the local area, China, India, Japan & Korea all know how war works, and the SEA nations might be surprising.

It is early to start worrying about China starting something. It is a scarier thought imagining them responding to something else.
I agree, it’s a bit of one-sided point of view. It’s only about the code quality. The cryptography analysis is beyond static analysis tools’ capabilities. Static analysis is more high-level study.
But we do not have a limited number of vaccines. At this point there has been plenty of time supply chains to produce the necessary precursors so we are limited entirely by demand. If we are distributing extra vaccines to other countries it is because we don’t want to not because we can’t or because we’re fighting over a single scarce resource.

There is no evidence that we have to choose between boosters or sending vaccines to other countries.

This is the same flawed logic that officials made when they spread doubt about the effectiveness of masks early in the pandemic, hoping to “conserve” masks for healthcare workers.

The assumption of vaccine scarcity is actually a hidden assumption made outside the expertise of those who aren’t deeply knowledgeable about vaccine supply chains.
In the US there is a particularly pro big business conservative wing of the right that is hyper in favor of unlimited low skill immigration. It's totally at odds with the mainstream conservative position on immigration. So why do they hold that position? It's not out of the kindness of their gentle pro-immigration conservative hearts of course. It's because they want the cheap labor to feed to big business and it helps to suppress wages for all the rest of their workers.

If you go back just 15-20 years ago, the Democrats universally understood this fact of labor supply/demand. Large amounts of low skill labor hurt their middle class and lower class labor voters, hurt their wages. And the Democrats used to be against such vast low skill immigration, because they had a large labor vote to protect. You can see this in action by looking at speeches from decades past (including by still prominent Democrats like Bernie Sanders). Their position now? Crickets. They've gone radio silent on the matter vs a few decades ago. That specific labor vote is no longer what they view to be the future, how they are plotting political dominance for the next 50 years.
>I'm mostly convinced that all the primitive emotions have a use and a non-zero optimal quantity

Sure, it's learning negative reinforcement.

Eat poisonous fruit that made your belly ache? It sticks in your mind, you remember it (as regret) and you wont do that again.
SwiftKey is getting buggier but is still a massive step up from the default since it:

- works with more languages

- can be configured to suggest completions and corrections but not auto-apply them

(If anyone from MS/SwiftKey team wonders: these days if I delete a word and start on a new it shows both the original word and the best predictions for the new word. Thankfully it only inserts the new one - but sadly it inserts two spaces.)

And since this is a startup forum, some advice if anyone else reads this:

1. don't skimp on testers. Good testers are extremely valuable.

2. give us users a way to give you feedback! You get a lot of rubbish (I know, I am a dev who sometimes work on products with easily available feedback channels) but without it feedback like this ends up on open forums like here - or we are just silent and mightily annoyed and ready to forgive quite a lot from the next app/keyboard/service that actually fixes the stupid thing your product didn't fix.
If you're doing something more complex/involved in order to handle a particular error, then no I think a conditional/match is fine. It's the common case when you're not doing any special that the boilerplate becomes overwhelming.

Having said that, if you're outputting the same metrics for every error then a method that does this for you makes a lot more sense than repeating yourself all over the place.
"Mismanaged franchise declines" doesn't get smug upvotes, cheap comments, shares and general engagement/popularity among the HN and Reddit demographics the way portraying fast food eating Americans as dumb does.

Every human (and many non-humans, though they may have more difficulty expressing it) who's had to divide things by three and four knows that knows that a third is more than a quarter. People know in the back of their minds that other people know this. But the dumb lizard brain takes over and they can't help but engage with low effort content that is spun in a way that confirms their biases.
If you consider it from the perspective that race and culture are typically conflated into just race, then "race is a social construct" is fairly logical.
Even outside of the marketing - In the US A&W is essentially considered off-brand fast food. They're already starting from the position of bad branding, and then using an absolutely terrible name for a burger.
Which is why we should use them as soon as possible.
One presumes it "works" in the sense of "it does what it's been engineered and tested to do"
Depending on what you define "Blackberry like" as, the F(x)tec Pro 1 is that. Physical keyboard (slider style, though) and officially supported for LineageOS.
Despite my deep desire to see modern medicine win out in this war against Covid, I find myself becoming increasingly blasé about these kinds of articles. Regardless of their supposed authority or the site/journal they’re from, subsequent headlines often disprove them.

Case in point: there is a raging disagreement about booster shots in the news over the past several weeks, and the conflicting statements drive me to news-weariness.
Jeff Bezos is funding a reverse-aging startup called Altos Labs
Sentence before:

> Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Heavy_Ion_Collide...
Yeah the APU2 handles gigabit no problem and the CPU is plenty fast. They have really nice intel NICs, see https://pcengines.ch/apu2.htm. As you say, ships with coreboot.

I've been using APU2's for years (and before that APU and ALIX). The ALIX couldn't really saturate gigabit, but iirc even the APU could. Highly recommended.
Supreme Court Finds Google’s Copying of Oracle’s APIs a Fair Use
When does a vice of society get created and the creator not know of its harmful effects? Rarely, it seems.

In actuality, though, as much as I think it's obvious that Instagram was designed specifically for the mindset of teens (and incidentally the countless with Peter Pan syndrome), it's too easy for us to simply blame Facebook. We are also responsible for raising our children to a certain level of emotional maturity and ego awareness, which I believe isn't necessarily a solution but may prevent some from getting sucked into the void of social media. My parent's generation pretty much failed at achieving that with their children, and their children haven't done much better with theirs. Maybe it's an overreliance on institutions which has made us complacent and often careless; as a society we seem to only react to problems rather than be proactive, acting like a deer in the headlights long after the symptoms of the illness have manifested.
Xendit (YC S15) now a unicorn, with $150M in fresh funding led by Tiger Global
I don't think "optimising based on UB" is covered by "ignoring".

And neither is "optimising assuming UB never happens", especially if said UB is explicitly written in the code, thus contradicting the assumption.
This sounds more like dog breeding with elephants and gene editing than Jurassic Park.

They are trying to make a cold weather adapted elephant
BTC is monetary policy.

People can hard-fork away with any monetary policy but that simply won't be Bitcoin.

Would Bitcoin remain dominant over altcoin with changed monetary policy - that is another matter - and indeed not 100% certain.
Based on my guess of what's happened (informed by working on card dispute systems), is sounds like JustUseApp have been exploiting a little loop hole in how card transaction work, which creates quite a bit of liability for Stripe if they're pushing through a significant amount of transactions.

My guess is that Stripe would work with them to tweak their product so it can work without expose Stripe to all this risk. Might result in something clunkier and harder to use, but at least it'll still work.
AFAIK basic doesn't do stackframes. So a recursive function would overwrite itself.

Or maybe it was algol
I wish Isi Etomi well.
Whistleblowers are tried in secret courts, press freedoms are curtailed, and surveillance is advancing at an alarming rate. Sorry, it doesn't stop being a police state just because police don't arrest you for jaywalking.
Amen!

Same as you and GP.

I'd add that, for me, "functional programming at the edges" is sufficient: I don't need to go full straight jacket / Haskell-style to get a huge lot of the benefits of FP. I can still use an imperative outer shell and still have lots of functional parts in my code which are easy to reason about.
Precisely! More accurate hiring means better output means a more prosperous economy and society.

Time to democratize knowledge.
That’s not really the concern. Foot travel is ridiculously slow. This virus travels by air, first class.
Instead of shooting down satellites and causing an international incident, along with risking Kessler syndrome, why not just prevent people from owning Starlink Terminals? You can enforce it fairly easily with import bans, and find smuggled devices by triangulating their radio signals (worst case equip a couple planes to fly over the country to look for Starlink radio signals). Or just strongarm SpaceX into not providing service to terminals in mainland China.
Yes, some anatomical differences are certainly affected by environment, but the quoted phrase is typically used in the context of treating races differently based on behavior ("X people are immoral", "Y people are stupid"). It's meant to encourage people to treat each other with equity and consider that such observed differences may be distorted by news, your like-minded cohorts, sociological conditions, etc, which are all theoretically addressable. But maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, since clearly the idea that races have anatomical differences is not contested by anybody - after all, anatomical difference is the very thing we base the word "race" on, colloquially. You don't need non-obvious differences to see that, since we already have obvious differences.
There is, it's called intuition. Unfortunately the new mantra in big tech is "data driven decision making", which is supposed to mean that you do research and collect data prior to making decisions, not that you A/B test everything to a local maxima ignoring intuition and the holistic bigger picture, but companies have taken it to mean the former. Intuition is the basis of taste-making and aesthetic and is one of the most important things to develop if you're doing product design, and it's absolutely something that can be learned, it's not innate. All intuition is, is your mind making inferences and extrapolations from prior knowledge to the current situation before you, which you can't adequately explain or don't follow the strict rules of formal logic / rationality.

Part of wisdom is being able to apply knowledge in new situations, and this is the basis of intuition. Intuition is wisdom in action, and we ignore our intuitions as people and as societies at our peril, both in our personal lives and in business.
The firearms licensing laws vary from state to state, but as a general rule you need a 'legitimate' reason to own a firearm, and self-defence is generally not one of them.

For instance in NSW (the state that Sydney is in) - the NSW Police have a list of Genuine Reasons to own a firearm[1].

There's also other criteria you need to meet.

It means that day to day, as a general rule the only people you might encounter with a firearm are police officers.
That is, unless you work in a rural area or in one of those related industries.

[1] https://portal.police.nsw.gov.au/s/article/Firearms-Licensin...
Yeah, good question. First, we aren’t trying to calculate the absolute rate, just relative changes. (The absolute rate would be nice to know but it’s not needed to know whether we’re getting better or worse.) Methodologically, we sample/scrutinize rejections manually and also look at the occurrence of discovered false rejections. But you’re right that there could be some dark matter that we never become aware of.
Covid Hospitalization Numbers Can Be Misleading
Sorry, yes I should have been more explicit.

In the UK we call it Northern Ireland, in some/most[1] parts of Ireland its called "the 6 counties".

[1] I only have a limited frame of reference here
I’m unconvinced.

The death rate in Israel is lower than the US for many reasons — including a far less obese population, a younger population, a higher vaccination rate, and (likely) more willingness to do things like mask up voluntarily. They don’t have an Arkansas.

The cases started falling around when the boosters started but it could just be the natural rise and fall. Timing is not enough proof for me.
> Why is Israel with its early high vaccinations levels doing third shots?

Desperation. This is a case of politicians overpromising on something they could not deliver. Science will have to take a back seat.
> but doesn't seem to handle single-faced triangles

Highly unlikely that this is a problem with backface culling, that's too basic to screw up without also affecting countless other games.

I haven't played Halo but if [0] is how it is supposed to look then there is proper occulsion (i.e. depth testing) between different parts of her body. This would also make backface culling only a performance optimization if everything else is working correctly so may have been left disabled.

[0] https://youtu.be/wwuoTueSR7k?t=109
The differences exist on a spectrum and there’s no hard line between one or the other. Yes, as you mention, there are biological correlations. But at the edge cases, it’s quite subjective. How many races are there? Ask a different person and they’ll have a different list. Is Asian a race or is that ridiculously general? etc etc
It's the real and perceived threat of resistance. Do you think 'compliance officers' would be more willing/confident going door to door in a society that is armed or disarmed? A different approach might have been a used in East Germany if every house the Stasi went into looking for 'undesirables' had the potential for meeting a shotgun.
I wonder about whether governments could make it illegal to pay ransomware.

If a business from country X could not legally pay, then what would be the point of attacking any company from country X?
The point is that language is not enough. I'm a fierce critic of how contemporary media seems to be moving away from NPOV as a default, but objectivity requires, at a minimum, an attempt to properly weigh and prioritize information. Which is deeply contextual and even time-sensitive.

The usual example is an hypothetical Wikipedia page starting with the sentence "Adolph Hitler was a soldier, a painter and a statesman". It's not wrong, but I wouldn't say it's a good summary either.
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A few other points - first, from what I can tell, the third pounder used two 3 ounce patties while the quarter pounder used one 4 ounce patty. So it's possible that it looked like less to people.

Second, the third pounder later changed it's name to the Papa Burger. Though there's a lot of discussion claiming the name "third pounder" hurt sales, I can't find any information about how the change in name effected sales. And even after the name change, it still doesn't seem to have been nearly as successful as the quarter pounder or the whopper.

Third, the way A&W management talk about this makes it seem like if they just offered up a larger burger a good chunk of the population would come to them instead of McDonald's. It sounds like they convinced themselves that "bigger burger" was going to be a hugely successful campaign, but it's likely a lot of people didn't care that much.

I wouldn't be surprised if some people opted for the quarter pounder because they're bad at fractions, but my guess is that there are other, more important factors involved. When choosing a fast food place I doubt the first thing that pops into most people's minds is "how many ounces are in everyone's signature burgers?"
It has a bit of a double meaning.

Starting with the Ivy Bridge (3rd) generation, Intel switched to using thermal paste between the core and heat spreader instead of solder on socketed desktop processors. Presumably this was done as a cost savings measure.

This caused a marked increase in core temperatures and thermal throttling. Enthusiasts discovered that you could remove, or "delid", the heat spreader and replace the "toothpaste" with higher quality paste or liquid metal to drastically improve temperatures (15-20c) and improve overclocking headroom.

Edit: This event is commonly reflected on to showcase Intel's greed at a time where they dominated the market. It wasn't until the i9-9900k that Intel went back to soldering heatspreaders for consumer CPUs, at which point they were forced to because they were being challenged by AMD.
I suppose a related question then is if your review team is applying stricter rules than you are. Surely, in this particular instance, the review team should have been able to see that its a bug in the same way you are. I guess I'm confused by why contacting a founder helps here, are you overriding some checks somehow? Is that safe to do? If not, why did the review team not spot it?

Maybe it really was a strange and unusual set of circumstances that made this occur, so hopefully its rare that someone would need to escalate to you directly. Thanks for being responsive to questions and making your contact details available. That's a lot better than some companies do.

PS: since I have you here, completely off topic, I met you once in Dublin long ago and you got me interested in Lisp. Thanks for that :)
Yes only the elite, who speculate prices beyond the reach of normies, should be allowed to live where they want.

Nice embedded class based bias by the stiff upper lip crowd.

Make the minority that hands itself free money subject to the same open market and you have a point.