skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Privileged, certainly. I take exception to the "laziness" accusation though.

We all have a finite amount of time on this planet, and replacing menial tasks with things that are interesting or enriching should be considered one of the more positive things one can do for their own life. It's like what they say about being rich/wealthy. Many people (I blame media mostly) think about the luxury items and lifestyle that one can purchase, but the real win is that fact that you don't have to anything you don't want to do ever again. You can choose exactly how you are going to live your life.

I don't personally believe life has a purpose or meaning, and I've become content to just wander the world finding interesting things until the end of it.
Run-of-the-mill full-stack + mobile web development + a tiny bit of DevOps. I am decent at understanding and solving business problems, and very efficient (and all around brilliant, let's be honest), but otherwise I don't feel like I'm doing anything special, technically. For the most part. Note 20k is $125/hour at 100% utilization, which I find rather easy to achieve.

I had spent years at $40/h, then upped to $60-70 after joining Toptal, but clients were paying $100+. Knowing who the clients willing to pay that much were, I found it possible to reach similar clients directly, and here I am.

I rather frequently take over really abysmally done work from previous developers. I don't think those developers are generally paid less than myself. So the takeaway appears to be that technical prowess is a minor factor in the whole picture.
I think the sugar ingredient in bread is partly to feed the yeast, but if you start looking at ingredients, you'll find sweeteners in almost all the packaged foods, from lunch meats to soup.
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By the time the bishop comes in to A2 it is usually too late XD. Zwischenzugs in exchanges still get me sometimes, otherwise I've mostly fixed these. Thanks for the time spent answering though, I think the main thing is to remember to take the time to think things through. So obvious and yet so difficult :)
This SQL file could be an entire AI-based, ML-driven startup to stop hateful / offensive language. Just need a good name like Klean or, NoH8 or something.
I've seen enough pro-Marxists posts brigaded off of Facebook to know that Republicans have no actual problem with Facebook censorship.

Their beef is what Facebook is allowed to censor. They don't want to stop the juggernaut; they want to steer it.
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Why are you allowed to install things on your mac from non-apple sources if this is the case? I didn't have to go to an Apple Mac App store to download VSC from MS. I did have to click a prompt informing me that this program was downloaded from the internet and could potentially be harmful to your device type message, do you really want to install it, though. Has the mac landscape gone to hell with worse experiences, more malware or "software that makes them unhappy" because people can and do install software from non official Apple sources? It's literally the same company. Why does one being a "phone" or "mobile device" change things?
Yeah I hate that, is it something real or are my chances lower than being bitten to death by a dog?
> But apparently they can be dodged with a truckload of political contributions.

I like your rage. I think it's mis-targetted though. In the Reagan era, Supreme Court nominee & Nixon criminal Robert Bork got put in charge of the FTC, and re-defined Anti-Trust to only apply when consumer prices went up. Any other kind of monopoly was ok. Because of this, the FTC hasn't has a regulatory basis to manage jack nor shit for 40 years. This isn't just the typical dump-truck-loads full of money problem: this is a 4 decade old crisis of the government being unable and unwilling to govern.

Cory Doctorow has many great threads on this all, but here's two:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/10/borked/#zucked

https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/06/calera/#fuck-bork

America needs to unwind the damage of Borkism, & start trying to regulate itself. Right now, we cannot.
When I was a kid in a christian household I asked how come there were no supernatural things happening today like the stories in the bible. I got the idea it was not good to ask impertinent questions like that. Later I started to be more skeptical. People just believe things with no evidence (often heard when they were young), whether its the story of angels and demons in the bible or the ideas in scientology about aliens. But the thing I noticed is people usually believe the things they learned as a kid, but are really skeptical of other religion's bizarre or supernatural claims of magical things happening. The part that is missing (in some people as adults) is applying some of that skepticism to their own religion.

So what's happening when an adult accepts a new religion that makes them accept a new set of supernatural 'facts'? I always wondered about that process.
True, but OPENSTEP on its own would not have been of much interest to Dell given the very small software ecosystem. The promise of also inheriting the Mac application ecosystem made Mac OS X far more marketable.
Ive Been Meaning to make that comment
Elmore Leonard's rules for writers (2010)
Note the 10% was a minimum not a prescription. As for the "cannot give nearly that much" they don't believe everyone should pledge to give money. The FAQ is actually very cautious about who should do it https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/about-us/frequently-asked-qu...
Another good resource: https://zig.news/
From drewg123's other threads, it seems like their machines are also hitting (or approaching) memory bandwidth limits, so being able to reduce some of the memory write/read requirements should help with that.

I think what was working best was having the disk I/O write to RAM that was NUMA aligned with the NIC, so disk -> PCIe -> NUMA Fabric -> RAM -> PCIe -> NIC.

If instead you could do disk -> PCIe -> NUMA Fabric -> PCIe -> NIC, at least for a portion of the disk reads, that would still be the same amount of traffic on the NUMA Fabric, but less traffic on the memory bus. This probably means that the NIC would be doing more high latency reads though, so you need more in-flight sends to keep throughput up.
And to be fair, all marketing is aspirational. But outside of tech, the aspirational image involved running with your dog down the beach before eating dinner with friends and family on a scenic patio, which is somehow tangentially related to a vaguely named pharmaceutical product. And then you going kayaking while grinning ear to ear.

Is this silly? Yes, but it beats aspiring to work all the time.
Not for aspartame, which is the primary sweetener used in diet sodas

> So far, only saccharin and sucralose (NNSs) and stevia (NS) change the composition of the gut microbiota.
A whole personal pizza comes close, but typically the slices are under 300 calories. I haven't had a Costco pizza slice in a while, but aren't they enormous?
> Yeah. Network effect. Arguably nothing on Earth has ever had such a powerful network effect as Facebook.

Facebook's network effect was overwhelmed twice, once by instagram and again by whatsapp... shame both those ended up squarely in Facebook's court. Remains to be seen how much dent can TikTok / Twitch / YouTube / Snap / Azar / Telegram can make on to that once-in-a-generation trifecta.
Alternatively Beck's 0% is 60 cal, almost no sugar and is a decent facsimile for beer. Win win.
Holy cow. That saying of "make it up in volume" finally makes sense in so many places it previously seemed infeasible.

Its not purely cashIn-cashOut, there is a time property as well, and various forms of investment can make cash_t1>cash_t0
Of course - which is exactly why Zig is not ignoring this. But we still have to compare apples to apples, and oranges to oranges. My original comment was about languages - specifically the ability of the language to consume libraries from another language with minimal hassle, and the response was that Nim somehow does it better.

I'm not even sure why arch support was brought up in this thread, to be honest, because it's not relevant at all? If your problem is unsupported architecture, it's a blocker long before you need to use any libraries...
The actual Medicare for All bill in Congress as we speak has plenty of provisions to increase supply. Minimum nurse-to-patient ratios, minimum physician staffing levels, maximum wait time standards, "health professional education expenditures sufficient to meet the need for covered health care services", a capital expenditures budget to improve facilities, etc. I don't think we need to debate the details here though, we all agree that more doctors and more hospitals would be necessary.

"Medicare for All" is a convenient shorthand, it doesn't literally mean "just let everyone sign up for Medicare and change nothing else".

> Market demand for healthcare services is essentially infinite.

This is kind of an insane claim to me, can you back that up somehow?
Reality is that nobody knows what is the long lasting impact of web assembly in our industry in the years (or decades) to come, unless somebody can predict the future. As such, if somebody is passionate about it and gives all their heart and mind to it, I see where they are coming from and I respect their commitment.

To imply that "It is just XYZ" in dismissive tone, well that is quite rude and disrespectful at this point in time.
Most wars are fought due to resource scarcity - either commodity materials, food, or something else scarce.

Humiliating a country is often done through extreme resource extraction and/or subjugation (where existing resources are controlled, at a minimum, if not directly extracted).

Adding ideological humiliation on top of it can make the fire burn hotter once lit, but is rarely the direct cause.

WW 2 was a good hexample of this - the crushing penalties on the German economy + the ideological humiliation fed a fire the world has not seen for a long time.

But if Germany had been allowed to prosper, but been humiliated? Unlikely they would have been the aggressor. For evidence, see what happened Ww2, where that is essentially exactly what happened.

If they been made poor the way they were, but otherwise treated well? Hitler may not have been the figurehead, but someone would have, and a war would have been inevitable. It probably would have been less vicious and pointlessly destructive of lives and property - but not by that much.
If they aren't aware, is it even that adverse?
I wonder if it's because it's a higher dose. Slightly better protection against covid and slightly higher risk of side effects.
Even disregarding the language entirely, the toolchain innovations that have come out of Zig are pretty exciting and worth the price of admission.

I hope Clang and Rustc learn a few tricks from them.
Yeah Typescript in VSCode is pretty good. I guess because the VSCode developers use it all the time!
Uh no I don’t.
> I just did a quick benchmark searching for `kthreadd` using grep and ag and it's magnitudes faster than grep.

I'd be careful with that. You may have just tested the awesomeness of linux caches :-)

Yes, it "looks" magnitudes faster:

]$ time grep -Rsn "kthreadd"
...
real 0m26.895s
user 0m3.131s
sys 0m3.151s

]$ time ag "kthreadd"
...
real 0m0.906s
user 0m1.930s
sys 0m1.186s

]$ time rg "kthreadd"
...
real 0m0.860s
user 0m1.756s
sys 0m1.123s

But wait, somehow grep got magnitutes faster too:

]$ time grep -Rsn "kthreadd"
...
real 0m2.961s
user 0m1.979s
sys 0m0.959s

And we can make both ag and rg slower:

]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
]$ time ag "kthreadd"
...
real 0m17.761s
user 0m2.371s
sys 0m2.728s

]# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
]$ time rg "kthreadd"
...
real 0m19.276s
user 0m1.859s
sys 0m3.063s
Geez, as the real data behind the vaccine slowly drips out I'm happier and happier I didn't inject an experimental drug in me. Especially considering all the "studies" thus far have taken place during summer when covid isn't an issue anyways.

What we've learned since their release:

- the spike protein is toxic

- vaccine immunity is narrow, binding to only a few epitopes on the virus

- immunity wanes quickly

- IgA antibodies aren't produced by the vaccine, causing vaccinated to still suffer infection

- heart inflammation becoming more and more common

- the mrna accumulated literally all over the body, not just the muscle as we were initially told

- manufacturing of these vaccines are subject to frequent contamination

And that's just to name a few. Glad I wasn't dumb enough to take one for a disease that's not a risk to most healthy young people.
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Oh, I'm sure millennials (as a generalization) have their own new varieties of petty pride. Just, the particular brand described the article feels like its age has passed and I'm glad for it.
You really overreacted here.
You saw her special? Everything else I’ve seen of hers was cringey, but baby cobra was solid work. If you don’t like it you likely don’t like most “good” stand up comedy these days. Awkward and embarrassing is a pretty good description of the art form.
this is not true for homebuilding. which is a huge sector of the us economy.
Usually each opening has its own book (or several books!), I prefer just starting with Lichess studies and YouTube videos

e.g.

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alichess.org%2Fstudy+s...

Memorizing the 20-30 traps and mistakes in those studies is sufficient for beginners; you can use spaced repetition (I use my own private Lichess study to collect positions) and cover the 20 or so most popular openings in a few months.

Again, not enough to win but it helps you punish bad play and learn how to handle aggressive players (since many of the traps are in fact bad play but only with perfect counterplay)
So I was. But AFAICT every vendor is a small player when the customer is a deep-pocketed big spender.
It's also just good optics. "$160K is a reasonable developer salary." Even if in practice it's not how they want to use the money right now, it's setting expectations correctly.
So there's really two problems that are being conflated in the phrase "no code":

1. We need a richer library of standardized DSLs for various real-world environments, where the power of a full PL is perhaps too dangerous without excessive training.

2. The method of specifying algorithms in plain text (i.e. "code") is not intuitive or unapproachable for large numbers of people who could otherwise benefit greatly from the ability to "program" the tools they use.
> but who wants political stunts at a game. The audience doesn't, no real debate is happening. Not the same scale as political dissent censorship.

"No one wants to hear the things that the people I disagree with say, so laws preventing them from saying those things aren't really censorship."

> not exactly a great comparison against the censorship of political dissent.

"The things my opponents say aren't as important as the things I want to say, so censoring me is worse than censoring them."

> but their suggestions aren't the majority in the party and they won't get far. Conversely, the Democrat party as a whole is currently and successfully crafting a censorship campaign.

"My side always loses and the other side is evil and always gets their way, so even if there are dark instincts on my side we should be worried more about the other side."
I think the "interesting" part of this is that you could generate useful amounts of electricity with panels that could be made and repaired/maintained/recycled in a very DIY fashion. They would definitely be worse than commercial Si panels in every other way, but when a ~400W panel on my roof breaks, it's probably going to wind up in a landfill rather than me troubleshooting and fixing it. A 5%-efficient panel that was very DIY-friendly would be pretty neat.
I'd be more than happy if facebook disappeared. They are a disaster, no doubt. That's not what's going to happen though. Facebook will get exactly what they keep saying they want: regulation and oversight. Facebook will be just as entrenched as ever and will protect the Official Copy of Reality as defined by the ruling class. They are already doing that to some degree and just want it to be codified.

My concern is for the open internet, for the people, for the ability to challenge and dissent, for free speech in practical terms.
I'd say Zig is a more strictly low-level language than Rust, with less safety (it's not memory-safe) and a less sophisticated type system, but with more emphasis on being low-level (malloc is fallible) and with more metaprogramming capabilities.
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My mistake. :)
Does it matter? You may have noticed that you are not allowed to be against the vaccine.

What's the point then to even discuss any numbers? All of this should appearently be decided by experts, isn't that the general consensus?
2.7 per 100k [1] according to an Israeli study. Couldn’t find these details on the Scandinavian study. This article at least in text said you’re more at risk of getting it from Covid than the vaccine — I wish this context with numbers were always printed in these cases. The non-scientifically trained public isn’t taught or should be expected to know how to contextualize these things.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2110475
So, they are halting the Moderna vaccine due to myocarditis and recommending the Phizer shot for younger men.

Yet, Israel found the Phizer shot lead to myocarditis issues [0].

I wonder what the numbers are and what data decision makers are looking at.

[0] https://archive.is/3bZoH/ (NYTimes)
> how can your engagement from clients be "the same", despite half the availability?

Essentially, it's 'engagement per dollar', not 'total engagement'
CDC's numbers are here, if you're curious: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/acip/meetings/downloads/slides-...
without talking about accuracy any comparison is meaningless.
The only thing that worries me about diet coke is what it may do to the gut microbiome and how it lowers Vitamin D levels in the body.

Other than that, far, far better than regular coke, which should be banned for people under the age of 21.
Note that going from 1200 ELO to 1800 ELO is going from 18th percentile to 74th percentile. Pretty much any form of study over 6 months will get you that progress, because you'll have spent more time on chess than ~74% of players.

Going from 1800 ELO to 2400 ELO (74th percentile to 99th percentile) in 6 months would be a lot more interesting, because clearly your study habits are helping you progress faster than others.

A lot of being better than X% of people at something is just about spending more time doing it than X% of participants... Most professional video game players have 5,000 to 10,000 hours of experience in their game.

Source: https://lichess.org/stat/rating/distribution/rapid
Taken from https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-12132652 (sorry, in Finnish):

Spikevax: 5 cases out of about 49000

Comirnaty: 6 out of about 380000

I think these are numbers from Finland specifically and not the larger study.
They would provide no evidence, sorry, I can only offer you common sense.

She's a long time liberal activist and the Democrats had this whole shit show ready to go at the same time she came out.

There is evidence that they are doing a censorship campaign, by their calls for censorship.
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A simple search for "hunter biden laptop" on Facebook immediately kicks up three news articles, dozens of site posts, and (in the bubble I can see from my own friends list) several dozen posts on the topic from the point of view that the laptop was real.

If this is Democratic censorship in action, it's incredibly bad at its goals.
> Starting with a stripped-out Linux kernel and a standard toolchain (whether gcc or clang)...

Harvey OS[1] is a Plan-9 based OS but with a modern toolchain using C11 and Go. Not much activity in the last few years, but then a burst of activity this summer.

1. https://harvey-os.org/
Number 3 exhibits the over simplification that I claim misses something important. Number 3 leads you down the path of thinking that society can only get more wealth by more transformation. Nothing in 3 allows for creating wealth by swapping jobs round to make workers happier.

9a does not, in itself, go beyond the Marginal Revolution. In the basic version of marginalism, the demand curve slopes down because every-one, uniformly, has less appetite for extra when they are already well supplied. And the supply curve slopes up as production is pushed to include less fertile land or to refine from less concentrated ore.

Diverse preferences over production and consumption are an extra twist to the story.
If you're a founder or a developer you're more likely than not taking advantage (either your bussiness or the business you work for, or you for your personal projects) of tons of such "pet projects" from Python and Node, to Postgres and Zig.

So, there's that...
You have to compare ecosystems, but when doing so, you still have to compare PL design and PL implementation separately, because they have different implications. A quality-of-implementation issue means that something can be done, but isn't done by this particular implementation. A language limitation applies to all implementations.
No judgment is meant here - I am always so curious about people who think water is bland. When I'm thirsty, cold ice water is the best tasting thing on the planet to me.

I enjoy the taste of diet pop, but I also find myself reaching for it sometimes out of sheer boredom rather than thirst. If I drink some water and I find it bland, to me that's a sign I wasn't actually thirsty.

I don't think there's anything unusual about reaching for a soda as a treat for its taste. But in terms of pure thirst-quenching - damn does water hit the spot.
Does Buddhism talk at all about the difference between acquiescence and forgiveness? I think that's usually among the thoughts on the minds of people who might hesitate to forgive, and I'd imagine it's come up before.
I think you can compile Zig to WASM, and then it's just a matter of finding a WASM interpreter/JIT in C.
This would have been a re-badged version of OpenStep, then named Rhapsody, well before OS X roadmap was plotted out, let alone released.

NextStep/OpenStep had support for x86 since 1994, so it was all ready to go if Dell wanted to play ball. But it wouldn't have included any support for Classic Mac software.

In other words, it wouldn't have supported any software at all, except for the few OpenStep devs still hanging on. But perhaps it would have been a good way to help kick-start OpenStep development.

Apple's original plan was to ship OpenStep as the next generation Mac OS, while running classic Mac OS software in a VM. This OS was eventually released as Mac OS X Server in 1999

But this plan was hugely unpopular in the Mac community. Microsoft and Adobe told Apple that there was no way they would port Office and Photoshop to OpenStep, and that killed the original plan.

This forced Apple to go back and tightly merge classic Mac OS and OpenStep, with the Carbon APIs and a ported version of the classic Mac Finder.

And thus, Mac OS X was conceived.

Three years later it was released.

Two years after that, it was good enough to use.

Two years after that, it was running circles around an aged Windows XP.