skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It took me some time working with a non-GC language to fully appreciate how amazing Garbage Collection is. It really makes a lot of things easier, simpler and specially safer. Yes, of course it has some drawbacks. Yes, of course, not every single kind of program can afford to have a GC. But hell, life is so much easier with a GC! I'm very happy to see that there is active research and development happening to make the drawbacks of GC as minimal as possible!
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This is probably the norm.
Does anyone know of a lo-tech digital audio player with amazing battery life (weeks/months?). Sometimes i go through periods of listening to the same tune on repeat for days on end (I find it helps me concentrate), and i dont want to worry about it running out of charge or me forgetting to charge it.
> All I ever found was freeloaders who don't put in nearly the same effort

What happened after you noticed that they didn't?

(You noticed before they had gotten any equity, and stopped working with them?)
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That CSR’s work is worth a certain amount. The discussion is whether that amount best serves the CSR if paid all in cash or divided into a mix of cash and equity. In Mailchimp’s case, they were clear that it was all cash and no equity and I suspect that was the preference of the CSRs as well.
For a site dedicated to Walkman, the "gallery" is surprisingly lacking. It only has a few models for Sony, and didn't have anyone I have used.

Edit: it looks some links would lead you to http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/ , which has similar but somewhat different content from the main site. This page http://www.walkman-archive.com/wa/sony-walkman/#all seems to have more models.
Oh, cool! I've never seen anything like this before.

I'd be interested to see why you made this project. Were you building it for yourself?
Exact same for me, gave Windows 11 a try, really liked all the new features, only downgrade is not being able to put the taskbar on the side of the screen. Arch Linux will always be my daily, but I think they've done a good iteration, other comments probably haven't actually tried it.
Cool idea but it needs to be able to handle special characters. Right now searching "Hello World c#" returns no results because the search term can't handle #. I also can't just delete the # because then I would be stuck writing C...
So they have two versions of the dataset, one of which is completely pointless?

Just don't bother releasing your dataset. This is wasted effort.
Russia Hypersonics Missiles: +
America Hypersonics Missiles: -

Looks like money isn't everything :D
I use the mouse a lot but always look for ways to use it less. For example I have seen a recent apps that are designed from day one to be “keyboard-first”, I.e they have an extensive set of Kb shortcuts and even a generic Command-K (or similar) that brings up a menu of “actions” to choose from, and shows associated shortcuts for those. Examples: Pycharm’s Cmd-Shift-A, Superhuman’s Cmd-K, Linear’s Cmd-K, etc

I have been on the lookout for a pure-keyboard way of creating Google calendar appointments, including adding a zoom invite, but have not found it yet. If someone suggests an app or extension for it, I will be super grateful, and will buy you a virtual coffee :)
You can simulate git via:

mkdir v2 ; cp -rp v1 v2
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It’s not an all or nothing outcome. And I’m not talking about Google or Apple leaving. There are many companies which have dev offices in Russia, they would be less likely to hire new employees in Russia if they believed they can be arbitrarily imprisoned for random reasons.

Just look at what’s happening in Belarus in the last year (IT companies started fleeing to neighboring countries)
I guess, the important question is what happened to the app copies already installed on the phones? Do they still work? Can they still receive push notifications?

If they're still working - it's much less of an issue. The fact of pulling the app is still serious but surely everyone who wanted to participate had the app pre-installed for a while. If that's the case then Russian tsar's demands for pulling the app off the AppStore are just another example of your classical bureaucracy fuck-up.
For those who want to very this claim: https://fjkraan.home.xs4all.nl/comp/atom/atap/
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Programs that make self-hosting easier are great, especially a monitoring solution like this. Reminds me: I need to throw up a mail server :)
Lysenkoism was a fully political distortion: a politician (Stalin), not the scientists community, decided (for political reasons).

The RBMK wasn't an horror, it was simply meant to exploited in a certain way, and containment was integrated. At the Chernobyl plant the guys committed a serious boo-boo (the very possibility of a disaster is common to all designs, there is no absolutely full-proof design, especially if the guys can shunt actuators/fiddle with captors/whatever).
Well, yes. But for Russia's former satellite states things definitely improved.
I'm of the same age cohort as the author. I was thoroughly enjoying coding until my early 40s when I found myself wasting an entire day now and then debugging some obscure point in Java but with slow-to-no progress. This burned out my motivation in a hurry and I could see the ageism writing on the wall so I did a sideways move into tech writing. Surprisingly, a lot of tech writers have not themselves done tech, so hey presto a competitive advantage. If you can use your engineering background to formulate mental models that you can then write clearly (and creatively) about, give it a try, and while you're at it provide feedback to the UX people to get more consistency into the UIs.
In most sectors it wouldn't even cross (low-level) employees' minds!
> I don't think I am giving anything up by skipping them

My understanding is that there are some lock-free algorithms that we do not know how to write without garbage collection [Keir, 2004], so you strictly are giving things up, because you can't use those algorithms.

(But I'm not completely up to date on latest lock-free work.)
In late '80s an italian advertisement company sent to almost all italian families a book where you could buy almost everything using Post Offices. A kind of amazon's father :-).
If any italian will read this post he will remember "Postal Market".
In the last pages of that book there were all tech stuffs to buy including ZX Spectrum, commodore 64, etc.
I was 7-8 years old and I was fascinated about those things.
I didn't have enough money to buy a computer.
When I reached the right amount (my savings) to buyone, Postal market hasn't sold any computer anymore.
I started in 1991 with a "12 Mhz 80286 Vegas Communications".

I still rimember the feeling when I was browsing those pages
Government officials supposedly threated these companies employees with jail time. I'm mostly critical towards these corporations the only bad guy here is only Russia government.
> - Removal of weak references (finalizer, phantom, soft) can help reduce the GC pause time further as these warrant stop the world phase

I'm in way disputing this, but why would a weak reference be different than any other reference, beyond the added flexibility it gives the GC (you may or may not GC this reference if you please)?

I admit I don't give GC much thought beyond every coupe of years when I switch jobs :)
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You should be more worried about AI in the future. And that will affect the young programmers just as much as the old ones.

And just to clarify, this concern is not about the current programming-related AI technologies, which have nothing like human abilities. It's about anticipating advances that have not yet occurred.
In such a case smart other nations may only buy with a complete technology transfer, just like China did and does.
To bring a bit of perspective on everything, it's good to remember that democracy, or what the West idealises as such, is not necessarily the ultimate regime that every country in the world needs to follow right now for its own sake.

Of course there are places when power is abused, taken, stolen from entire populations but not every society is fit or ready for what we'd like to think as the world standard of governance.

Cultural, historical reasons, micro and macro economies, ethnic groups, religions, resources... This kind of evolution takes time. Generations. Ages.

And to be honest, even if the grass looks greener in our pasture, the fundamentals of democracy are meant to evolve as well in the West. For the best I hope. Feels like it's been taking hits when we entered the information age.
Honestly Apple's Russian executives look very weak and unprepared in this video.

I suspect they're just hired from some agency or consultancy as FAANG have very limited corporate presence in Russia.

So they just keep being sheepish and stumbling because they have no incentive to stand their ground. Just hired guns.
Those two scenarios of yours are not really mutually exclusive, at all. The government can both take the necessary public health measures and realize that those measures are rather drastic and can be used for permanent curtailing of public's control over government. Government is made out of many people, you know, so its overall intention is the combined intentions of people it consists of.
Black Lotus Labs uncovers Linux executables deployed as stealth Windows loaders
The Art of the Political Facade
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Changing your mind isn't lying. And to be honest, the owners decisions about a company you don't own are not really your business.
It's hard to give numbers, it doesn't seem to be very many, but losing out on a few key sites does make a pretty big impact.

You see stuff like this sometimes, makes me a bit sad.

https://linux.die.net/robots.txt
Russiam government needs to shut up Navalny a lot more than they need western IT companies. Successful multinationals know when to blink.
I don't understand some of the points here.

You as an employee are not entitled to equity at all. That's incentive, not required.

And equity isn't a great offer either. How many startups REGULARLY fail before they even get out the door?

For everyone talking about how much money they made off of equity options, we can find plenty more that lost out on a chunk of their monthly salary.

I'm not saying don't take equity, but let's be honest: Identifying if a company has the potential for their equity share to outweigh the lost salary requires skills and knowledge most of us don't have.
Yeah, I have my complaints about Java the language (and mostly use Scala myself) but the tooling for Java development is really compelling. Everything just works (IDE, debuggers, etc) and idiomatic Java code tends to be very high performance without a ton of special effort required for performance tuning. And if you do need to do performance tuning, the tooling for metrics and performance tuning is also amazing. One of the most underrated aspects of building on the JVM is that the runtime itself provides a lot of visibility into runtime performance "out of the box". If I do have to debug performance issues, I can just fire up JFR and get a ton of useful metrics about performance bottlenecks with no changes to the actual source code. I can even run JFR on my production workloads and get great visibility into the were the "real world" performance bottlenecks are happening.
Should inherent complexity be simplified?
Any tips on how to improve?

I've noticed myself really shrinking into a negative attitude lately -- not sure how to prevent myself from becoming the stereotypical jaded senior engineer (I do certainly feel like I have quite a bit management-wise to be jaded about though, which is part of the problem).
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Google didn't entirely pull out of China, they just terminated their product lines that were unsuccessful in China.

I was also just posting a fact that people have made the same calls for China, not my personal opinion about whether we "should" discontinue services with China. On that last point, I'm honestly undecided.
Regardless of differing political opinions and objectives, this comment comes off as unnecessarily aggressive and infers OP's tool is useless. I really wish stuff like this wasn't on Hacker News.
Garbage collection is the least of your problems in that case. You can't use a standard OS for that kind of scenario either, Linux has far bigger jitter than that. And if you have a hard real-time system, you could have a hard real-time garbage collector too.

Garbage collection gets a bad rep from garbage collectors that are tuned for throughput rather than latency, but there is no lower limit to latency for garbage collection and there are GCs out there that prove it (like Azul). If you can afford dynamic memory allocation, you can afford garbage collection. And if you can't afford it, you can just preallocate and turn off the garbage collector.
"Who cares?" reminds me of the diagnostician's distinction between signs and symptoms. Vital signs of the health of the biosphere can be measured, just like your blood pressure can be measured regardless of whether you I should care about how you feel.
They are working on a fix at least.
That's ridiculous. Why should I be taxed on every transaction? I get taxed when I make money and then everytime I purchase something/move money?
Imagine how much more creative we'd tend to be if we didn't have television and Internet distractions! What do you do after a long day of herding livestock? Take your chert, grab a drink and carve some camels!
> This article is evidence that Apple has and is continuously willing to bend to demands in dictatorships... That's why people are talking about it here.

But this has happened for years already with similar ways. What has changed to make this big news? They have blocked many apps in the U.S as well, but it seems to be fine when for the majority it is OK. For example idea of withdrawal of the TikTok was fine for the most, while it was only for political reasons. People pick sides when it is the most suitable for them.

> It's been widely reported that the reason iCloud backups aren't encrypted is to make it easier for the FBI to surveil them, despite there being no American laws forbidding Apple from encrypting the backups.

And yet, Apple made a way to make encrypting possible while avoiding liabilities, and people made their best to not allow that happen. Such an irony. (Looking at CSAM feature. People seems to still ignore the fact, that it changes from server-side encryption into partial E2EE + server side encryption, tooking a way powerful arguments from FBI to not enable encryption on backups)
I definitely could see health care borrowing ideas from manufacturing for scheduling. LEAN/Six-Sigma has indeed been applied to this world.

However, innovation is sometimes stifled because care providers being compared to assembly-line workers is taboo.
From the blog:

"Three policy proposals:

A 500% tax on advertising. It’s a zero sum game with no benefit to society. If you are paying for eyeballs, you pay a 500% tax. Force companies with these trash addictive business models to find a way to work for the average person, not pimp them out.
1% tax on the full amount of every trade. Fuck off worthless HFT mega brain drain. Fuck off short termism in markets.
Separation of church and state. And that includes Harvard, Yale, and all the others. No funding, no loans, no Title IX BS. Separate!"

I'm curious what event or thought process made #3 appear on the list.
Hi everyone, I’m one of the authors of this project and I’m happy to answer questions!

You can read more about how this works here: https://joel.franusic.com/playable_quotes_for_game_boy

We also have a presentation on Playable Quotes to the Internet Archive and the video of that presentation is here: https://archive.org/details/joel-franusic-presentation
I absolutely love "Anything", use it constantly.

Has saved my neck many, many times.
I was under the impression that "customer" simply meant any person who makes use of their services.

Are there certain categories of people who CloudFlare refuses to have as customers?

(I know there are SOME -- for example, as a US company CloudFlare is subject to US trade restrictions.)
I've been using DaisyUI which seems similar to this.

I'd love to hear people's thoughts on Flowbite vs DaisyUI. Is it worth the switch?
It's not the companies job to make sure your salary is commensurate with your pay. It's your job to do that.

In fact it's your job to get the salary you want, not your company's. The best way to do that is to negotiate up front or leave for a job that will.
> You can't use a standard OS for that kind of scenario either, Linux has far bigger jitter than that.

Bullshit.

We were using Linux and it was just fine.

But I agree, it requires more knowledge than your run of the mill software dev will ever have.
Why not? You pay taxes on every deal you make in the real world. And since you buy a part of a company that should be tax-worthy too.

Tick-based exchange would probably just increase the problem (better prediction for ~HFT..or better call them HF-prediction then), but hey i really don't know, both solutions are better then none, i guess.
High flier: Deutsche Telekom tests mobile antenna in the stratosphere (2020)
If you don't use a GC then you're either using reference counting or manual memory management. Those have their own costs. With RAII popping stack frames means freeing resources recursively. If your free() implementation takes a lock then that can block other threads too, for an arbitrary time if the object graph being released is large.

A garbage collector can do that work concurrently.
I don’t understand what are you trying to challenge here? My claim that people think that, or their belief that this does not happen?

I don’t know how can I prove that people think that. You just need to be in the gun community and talk to people who would never put it in writing. My own gun trainer told us the story of a man going to the doctor for getting his hand hurt while doing repairs at home, the doctor chatted with him and he mentioned that he lost his job recently that’s why he had all this free time to do his work, the doctor reported this and his guns were taken away. (Please note no more details were provided than the story).

The point is that mental health is a very tricky game, there is an immediate loss of trust due to the fundamental nature of what it is. I personally don’t think you should own guns if you’re taking antidepressants.
I'm perfectly happy to have all you lot depending on GC.

And, I don't "do my own memory management". I just don't rely on a GC to do it.
This page says the Health Check is "coming soon"..

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-11
There is a Swedish.. uh... "Tradition"? in Stockholm called "Vaska"[0]- basically the point is to buy a really expensive bottle of alcohol and pour it out.

Why? Status. It's pretty universally reviled by the rest of Sweden; but people do it.

The same is true of Apple devices, some people buy the latest one every year; but much like consumers of alcohol, the people who buy the yearly phones are in the small minority, just like the people who "Vaska", and both are similarly reviled by the other consumers of those products.

[0]: https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Vaska
That’s not being deplatformed.
But Apple and Google fight for progressive values and are working to ensure a better future by protecting our planet.

/s
There's a huge difference between these 8-bit computers and PCs that came later, or even the CP/M machines contemporary to them.

When you booted a ZX-80, 81, Spectrum, a VIC-20, a PET, or an Apple II+, you went straight into a BASIC interpreter (or REPL, for the initiated). You could enter a program, or issue commands at will. We rarely think about this, but the first UI you see in those machines is a programming language.

And we did program a lot with those machines.

With a CP/M machine or a DOS PC (there were about 2 people in the world with PCs without floppies ;-) ), you boot into an OS. It's not a programming environment, but one designed for starting applications someone else wrote. While most had a BASIC interpreter you could run, it was a standalone program and not THE language of the machine. And experimenting COULD harm the computer - you could delete files from your DOS boot disk, as many of us discovered the hard way.
Agree 100%. Let me build stuff using simple easy to understand tools.

Cleverness in code starts working against you as a code base and organizations scale.
I think it's obvious. You can tell that by Apple not being a criminal organisation.
I have an interest in logic and cs curriculum and i like Geneses in general(last days i've read intro in math phylosophy from Russell and some acm report of cs curriculum. I search for cs curriculum and this is the first link https://www.cs.rice.edu/~vardi/sigcse/ Feels so good to recive good answers so easy. Thanks.
It's cool you don't have to do anything to get it to work now, just install distro and bam!
I think the BlackBerry 7230 was the most effective communication device ever made. It had zero distraction, Zero clutter. Only blazing fast Mail, Text, Calenders and Phone/Contacts.
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The most profitable choice for them is to stay in Russia and obey the government. They have no reason to leave or risk getting the same treatment as Google by disobeying.
Remember interview at Swissborg... Equity sucks, best are tokens... Well easy to say when you have majority of voting rights...
Curious description of raping and pillaging you have there.
The chronology doesn't really tell the full story. Hoefler made some stand out typefaces, but many of the commercial successes and culturally iconic fonts were designed by Frere-Jones by himself or in partnership with Hoefler. Gotham is the biggest example, but Whitney, Surveyor, Archer, Vitesse and others were either FJ or collaboration work.

It's quite fair to say that Hoefler would not be in the position he is today without Frere-Jones, and by many accounts, and even how Hoefler presented things in the press, they were a partnership. Even before they started officially working together, Hoefler was consulting Frere-Jones on ideas, such as on Knockout - http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/arts/11iht-design11.html

It's not like Hoefler's foundry was a juggernaut when Frere-Jones began contributing to his work, or even when he joined the company. They had several success stories - but so did FJ prior to that - and both of their largest successes all came when they were working together.
And on top of that, the wages in Chinese factories are approaching and sometimes surpassing a 1000$.

Even that infamous wage gap is significantly decreasing.