skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The primary central banking mandates are global weather control and full tax cattle breeding capacity. If state property objects aren't breeding, then monthly tax stamps on breeding permits must be mandatory.
Yeah, I got Gmail in the first week that it was online, and the reason everyone wanted in is because it truly was that much better than anything else at the time. It’s difficult to remember nowadays how bad Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, etc. were in comparison.
more likely, you were treated as foreigner that no one really wanted to talk about government when you were present.
This line of reasoning works adequately when looking at a single program, but when you look at a larger group of programs, performance still matters. The more performant each individual program, the more programs can be run simultaneously.

This helps everywhere: mobile (better battery life, smarter apps), desktop (more apps open without swapping), server (more compute in the same footprint), and embedded (smarter devices, less power, cheaper hardware).
Missile subs are probably the most dangerous weapon in the world. Each can carry 200 independently targetable nuclear warheads with a 4,000 mile range.
What more should leadership (or investors) need to hear?
"Pfizer Comirnaty" and "Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine" are biologically and chemically the same thing.
Hard to say, his phone was the one that ratted him out.
You should take a look at handshake. A lot of GitHub users can claim using their ssh or PGP keys. https://handshake.org/
I hope someday we can convert python to javascript, or even embed python into web pages. There are too many languages these days, for me at least.
They don’t allow s-traps or u-traps in new US construction, either. I believe that it’s p-traps only.

Hopefully this will help.
I think most JDKs these days are running mostly the same code (Oracle's Java) though a lot of them have little extra improvements or fixes (and some have longer support periods too).
I try and stick with OpenJDK as that's the default Java implementation and it's probably a sensible default unless you have a requirement that one of the other ones specifically meets (like extended Java 8 security patches).
The paragraph after also notes that even this record production is below demand: "For cereal production, FAO projected a record world crop of 2.800 billion tonnes in 2021...That would be below world cereal use of 2.811 billion tonnes..."
Where are you getting this information?
Some anecdata: Node was roughly as fast as dmd, the D compiler for fast iteration. The LLVM and GCC based D compilers are hugely faster.

By using JavaScript you are throwing away something like 2-3x.

There will be cases where JS can keep up because it reduces to a local loop which gets optimized the same way as any other language, but all those little other bits add up.

Same with Python. If you do everything in numpy you can be very fast, but what happens if you don't? You could use a fancy jit but now you have a deeper stack with no control over the emitted code - nice if you already have the code, but not ideal.
Is it time to stop paying for a VPN?
I'm excited by the idea that entry level embedded stuff like Arduino and RPi will keep feeding a new generation of tinkerers, in the same way PCs did (speaking as a child of the 80s). With the amount of plug and play sensors and code nowadays, it seems like imagination is the only limiting factor for inventing useful physical things. I suppose this has been going on for a while now, but I'd say we've yet to see the dividends as it takes a generation of kids to start really being creative with the possibilities.
Maybe, or maybe not.

Suppose you accept 1.5x or 2x or even 3x your annual salary to take a COBOL job. Nice... for now.

What happens in 2, 5, or 10 years when this COBOL gig ends?

Now your skills have withered or disappeared and you're 2, 5, or 10 years behind when it comes to "modern" technologies where 99.9% of the job opportunities are.

In a sense, that COBOL job is a gamble. You are gambling that you can ride that sucker until retirement.

Of course there are other possibilities. You could sock most of that extra $$$ away and spend a year retraining yourself, or something, if/when that COBOL job ends. Or whatever.
They wrecked their lives in the course of a crime, as criminals do when they get caught.
Brand new 3D graphics engine for Commodore 64
Those are some really bad benchmarks.

JavaScript is probably like 10x or 100x slower than C or similar languages when you write something bigger and any of the following happens:

- the ratio of code size to run time is too big. Then the jit can’t keep up.

- you use a lot of value types. Them be structs in C, no need for allocation. In JS them be objects. The JS VM will try to escape analyze them, and it will succeed some of the time, but fail enough of the time to cause massive punishment.

- you churn objects while having a large base heap size and the generational hypothesis holds only a bit. Then you’ll wait for the GC a lot.

- you have a class hierarchy with many descendants and you often access properties or call methods on the base type. Then vtables or whatever work great but JS inline caches blow up.

- probably lots of other conditions.

Write enough code and at least one of these will hold and you’ll be slow in JS, fast in C.

(Source: I work on JSC and I implemented a lot of its optimizations. Benchmarks like the ones in this post are the sort of thing my JITs eat for breakfast. It’s cool to see people throwing me softballs but I like to be honest about what the technology I work on is capable of.)
they couldn't be charged for fraud. illegal activities don't get legal protection. this is why you can't e.g. sue your drug dealer for breach of contract because he didn't deliver those kilos of cocaine he promised.

they could get them on tax evasion, though, assuming they didn't report their ill-gotten gains (which you can do without incriminating yourself, amazingly.)
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28804588
This makes me wonder if, as some are speculating, COUNTRY 1 is some US ally. Maybe the US had some cooperation in the investigation. It also makes me wonder who they haven't caught, if anyone. Nuclear proliferation is a scary idea....

I don't think it even has to be an ally to get cooperation, I'm sure even Russia or China would be happy to cooperate on apprehending an amateur spy. They have their own spies to worry about.
I won't carry any water for aforementioned company's explanations, "AI did it" or not.

Speaking generally, spam detection (even in email) often has as much to do with the behavior of whoever is trying to send a message as it does the content.
I _suspect_ that a group of people were spamming it as evidence for their conspiracy theories and enough people reported the messages that it got added to a filter. Same thing happens with domains used for phishing (Google Safe Browsing), email spam filters, or other things.

Anyway, I'm not offended. I'm surprised that people here, upon hearing hoofbeats (spam), thought zebras (conspiracy to suppress information) instead of horses (spam filter false positive).

I'm sure someone will look into why electrospaces was marked as spam on Monday...
Close.

It's similar because there are lots of false negatives, but few false positives.
Adding unreachable to random places you think the compiler should already know about can yield some perf wins!

Compilers are quite chaotic when you get deep in the passes.
Back in the day it was mostly very verbose but extremely fast. Cobol was designed for batch processing on use cases like accounting systems. We used it on signal processing apps, which had a lot of data, mostly on tape. It could rip through data stored on high-density mag tape--it was able to process data at the speed of the device.

(I did COBOL apps in the early 1980s.)
> below world cereal use of 2.811 billion tonnes

How can use be higher than a record-year's production? Did they mean "demand" or they actually meant "use"?
All it takes is some uncertainty and doubt to make a lot of possible options seem too dangerous.

It isn’t very fun to think about, but there is a reason behind a lot of the crazy stuff that governments do.
I think his own experiences are valid for him, but he definitely generalizes to everyone:

1) I have never once felt loneliness. I dont get close to people at work and never have.

2) adrenaline - Im definitely not addicted to adrenaline. Im more of a stoic. I hate fires so avoid creating fires at all costs. Im constantly gaming worst case scenarios. Fires happen. I do admit I tend to get lazy when things are good and work harder and am more focused when things are falling apart. I dont get an adrenaline rush, instead it is easy to tune out everything except the solution to the biggest problem.

3)constant information flow - Im good at just ignoring things. I have created a structure where I get info from my direct reports and from key people on the ground. I sit in on project standups so I know what is actually going on. We mainly use slack now and so my emails have dropped to almost nothing. I only monitor a few key channels daily.

4) feelings of inadequacy - Im a stoic. I know Im bad at lots of things and that is ok. I dont beat myself up over things I have done wrong.

5) arrogance - I dont really have this as Im constantly second guessing and gaming out worst case scenarios. I almost always let my reports do what they think is right though I will often challenge them.

6) jealousy - I have jealousy over lots of things. But Im also very happy with what I have. If I was told i was going to die in a month, I wouldnt feel that I would have to rush out and do a lot of things that I missed out on. I would mostly do the things I have already been doing and prepare people in my life to be without me.

7)wanting to quit- I have gone through this many times in my life. sometimes I have essentially stopped working and let my mgmt team run things. I try to change up what Im doing every 5 years or so. It is a good way to quit without quitting. Whatever you dont like to do, find someone to do it for you.

8) pride - I dont need accolades, I dont need fancy stuff. I mainly just want to be able to do things I enjoy doing.
C – Bubble sort slower with -O3 than -O2 with GCC
May decency prevail.

I stumbled recently on an interesting chart. Have not doublecheck the math, but comes from FinancialTimes, so I expect it to be credible. Bottom line, you need to vaccinate between 800 (60+yo) and 25,000 (<18yo) people to save 1 hospitalization over a 4 week period, given that we take current numbers for vaccine efficacy against infection at face value, and assume there will be no further declines as time passes.

https://www.ft.com/content/3439145a-80a4-47ad-9ceb-54a0cb707...
Well my specific belief is that housing won’t keep up with inflation rather than fall significantly in absolute terms. Not sure how I short that belief.
I think people expect the U.N. to be an advocate for their visions of the world.

The U.N.'s primary purpose is simply to minimize the occurrence of war, especially nuclear war, not to spread any particular political ideology across the world such as “freedom and democracy”.

In this particular case it allows China a conduit to achieve what it wants to without firing nuclear missiles.
>> crumbling antique infrastructure

Are you talking about the hardware or software? It's worth considering that Lindy's Law [1] might apply here.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Electron apps are memory heavy and slow at interaction because Chromium loads a ton of rendering and Web API code into memory, and interactions triggered by keyboard/mouse/touch input go through layers of non native handlers so that event listeners behave uniformly across devices. It's all part of a complex rendering loop, and whether an element has a fixed position during scroll can affect memory and performance by hundreds of times compared to those 2x js-vs-native you mention.

Oh, and the Web API has has stuff you wouldn't expect like USB, Bluetooth, MIDI, vibration, TPM etc.
If you're a programmer, getting a simple C++ or Rust "init system" working is a great exercise to understand how a Linux system works. Just a kernel image, your C++/Rust init program, and maybe busybox so you have a shell.
With infinite money, sure. Realistically you won’t have the budget. And even if it’s “in house”, it’s going to be some service run by another team or organization within your company that has their own priorities, roadmap, and deliverables. They’re not just going to scale up their service because you asked them. They basically don’t have to do anything for you at all. And even if they agree - everything has a cost. There’s simply the overhead of even sending an email or a Slack message and setting up a meeting, getting people ramped up on your use case, why you need them to scale, for how long, for what use cases, etc etc. everything has a cost and money and budget are always constrained.
Eh, I think his point stands. Similarly to the story I told in my other comment:

1. Hey, you need the vaccine to go in there to visit your relative!

2. OK. Woman walks to the other part of the hospital to get vaccinated.

3. Woman returns 10 minutes later and is able to visit the relative.

Why? I thought the vaccine takes time to work. Plus, I thought asymptomatic people have a next to none chance of transmitting, vaccinated or not. So, is it about health & safety?
To encourage microphone access.
After Whistle-Blower Goes Public, Facebook Tries Calming Employees
The answer here appears to be simple. Because elections and free speech are aspects of the system that by design introduce certain level of instability, but also a way to channel population frustration thus preventing having to resort to violence.

CCP chose stability of system above all else.
can it handle a c7sus4aug5 open tuning?
You're falling for misdirection. This isn't IT related.
Flagged for the censorship police, pray to the Science Ministry for forgiveness.
Do you seriously want to waste your time like that?
To answer my own question there are 2 active python to js efforts:

https://brython.info/static_tutorial/en/index.html
https://github.com/qquick/Transcrypt
Please share where if you recall.
Will they learn enough COBOL to be worth the money? Seeing how hard it is to find good mobile developers, and having lived in a COBOL shop back in the heyday, I don’t see a meaningful number of talented “show me the money” types passing up modern tech for antiques.
Except when the fabulists are historians. Have you ever read Herodotus? It’s hilarious.
> I can confidently say that games and apps in the browser and Electron are noticeably slower than other apps

In my experience the great majority of perceptible slowness in browser apps comes from DOM reflows, not JavaScript
In point 1, why does trading of crypto incur a taxable event? If I buy a Picasso for $20 million and then later trade it to a friend for a Van Gogh which is worth $40 million, is that taxable?
What printer did you buy?
I'd rather learn COBOL and get paid 2x salary for the next 5 years than learn some BS JS framework that I'll have to forget in the same timeframe.
It is a complicated question. If you look at the results, China is now the ascending/aspiring world power. And they got here in how much time? From that perspective, they got a lot right. Worse, US planners got a lot wrong.
I don't think it's learning COBOL language that's the hard part. An inexperienced programmer who hasn't worked on financial systems is going to make security mistakes and write buggy code for awhile, both of which can be deadly to a bank. But it would be better to have that person rewrite the infrastructure than try to fix bugs. The problem with these ancient systems is trying to understand how bugs arise from subtle unintended interactions within millions of lines of code. I've been coding many languages for 25 years and I would consider it extremely daunting to try to tackle a bank bug knowing that one wrong assumption about one line of code could crash whole systems or cost millions of dollars.
They do, I had a clearance rejected because the examiner was convinced I had previous involvement in drug manufacturing. I don’t. I’ve never even used them. Hell, I barely drink. I ended up getting a much better non-clearance job offer elsewhere so it didn’t ultimately negatively affect my career, but it’s still irritating.
Many are speculating it's a possible or likely cause. Not sure anybody is claiming it's the cause.
> on top of that you have to tip the miner

Ethereum gas is the miner fee, they're not two separate things. More compute-intensive transactions cost more gas, and the price of gas is set in the market by supply and demand.
Canada has seen staggeringly high real estate inflation in many places lately. There have been places that have seen 100%+ increases in prices over just the last few years.
Sure no problem!
Transaction reversibility, fear of law enforcement and the ability to react to things is the reason why the bank tire fire doesn't collapse on itself.
It's in the DoJ PDF - https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1440946/downl...
haha this a project my current Ph.D. advisor worked on (he's the lead author of that study).

He likes to say AI=avian intelligence...
Atom/GitHub wasn’t owned by Microsoft when Visual Studio Code gained traction. I’m guessing that the maintainers had no interest in giving Microsoft more help in reducing Atom to an unmaintained status and promoting Visual Studio Code for free. If the maintainers work for Microsoft now, I highly doubt it was ever a choice to move on. Teletype was probably in progress as well pre-acquisition, as that sort of feature came much much later in Visual Studio Codes development.
In Russia we call it thermorectal crypotoanalysis.
"Thermo" refers to a soldering iron.
I recently got back to a web app with node I'd been working on two years ago, and I'm finding packages deprecated, command-line arguments that no longer work, etc. Lots of breaking changes all the time. There's definitely something worse than average with the node development experience. Things are quickly changing and at the same time very poorly documented.
All the C compilers I know of can handle "int main()" just fine. Is there any practical reason to prefer "int main(void)"?
>You can access the data in ClickHouse at https://github.demo.trial.altinity.cloud:8443 (user=demo, password=demo). This is a public instance running on Altinity.Cloud.

All I get is a white screen with the word "Ok"
what should worry researchers is rise in people who don't produce an offspring despite being capable. Children take tons of money, blood, and sweat to bring to a state when they start producing net benefit to society. These people will eventually get old, and then they would be leeching off the productivity of my children, the one I spent all the work raising all while they were busy blabbering about social justice.
Nice Write-up!
> Classic PIC has a hard-earned reputation for awful compiler support

Luckily the assembly language is one of the nicest in existence.
Excellent news - just like our esteemed central bankers wanted!

We've been rescued from the evils of deflation!
Thanks for the different suggestions, I went with this one. Fluent Python also looked promising but I can't buy the 2nd ed yet.
No it isn't. Many schools do DARPA work on their own or in partnership with commercial operations. These frequently involve data with restricted access (not classified but still sensitive) and there are active espionage efforts to retrieve that information by taking advantage of lax academic security.
And yet the flip side where companies set piles of cash on fire trying to replace that legacy stuff is also common.

e.g. https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252446965/Lidl-dumps-500...
MacOS is literally UNIX.
I'd believe this will add additional strains to import-dependent nations like Singapore and Hong Kong.
> That only works if he doesn't think the cost is worth it.

He'll be finding it out, then.
Hey
I just started using Pinboard last week.
Are the Earlier/Later buttons working for you?
Clicking on Earlier only seems to take me one page back. Successive clicks(of Earlier or Later) return that same page of bookmarks.
Tried on Safari and Chrome.
Thanks
Interesting; the stepped shaft for some reason is reminiscent for me of a horse cock, but I'm not an animal cock expert
Cool idea, I've also wondered several times over the last month when anti-cheat will really actually start coming to Linux games.
Mars exploration. I don't know why, but i get all emotional and ureasonably excited about it.

AR. VR is cool and all, and I was blown away the first time I tested it, but the ability to project information into the real world, to create reality 2.0 (a term I am sure I will regret), is just well, magical.

From everyday HUDs to being able to put a fake fire place into your home, AR would be both cool and useful.

At a lower level, Docker is pretty cool and having practical ARM laptops is fantastic (even if only Apple have great ones right now).

It is easy to all doom and gloomy, but we tend to forget that we are living in a world so full of magic. We have access to the greatest library in the world[0], millions upon millions of songs in excellent quality, the most complete encyclopedia of all time and an excellent search engine to tie them all together.

We have free video calls of unlimited duration around the world, we have GPS and can navigate from any one point to any other on Earth.

As long as I am lost in a place with cellphone access I can hold down a button and tell Siri to find a way home (or to any other place).

And while we are talking about this: we have completely changed the face of the planet, throwing out night it self with artificial light. I was born in 1987, we had street lights, but flash lights was a special item that you had to bring and they weren't that bright and didn't last that long. Since LEDs became a thing, they became smaller, brighter and lasted forever. These days they are a built in thing in phones that we don't even think about.

Anyway, we have so much to be excited about if we just look around, but we don't because we take everything for granted.

[0]: what scholar of yore had access to a library with a million books? I know of none. Today anybody who can access library genesis has access to over 6.6 million books.
To me it looks like a lot of this knowledge is spread out over many different excellent technical blogs like yours. While the content is good, it's hard to get something that resembles a more complete picture compared to just another piece of a big puzzle.
Title should be updated to reflect that this is US only.
I can bet they were 100% sure it's some sort of a cheap lame trick by the U.S. side.
I spent multiple years of my life working on a (at the time I started) decade+ project to retire such a system (i.e. a duct-taped hodgepodge of poorly documented COBOL and mainframe assembler that was understood and maintained by staff who was entering retirement age at an astounding rate), at a "midsize" financial company (i.e. between 3k and 4k employees, all told). While the cost of maintaining the old system was certainly high, it worked astonishingly well (provided you didn't need to add new features, such as a "graphical interface"), and the cost and difficulty in replacing it was truly enormous. I think you're drastically underselling the difficulty of re-implementing a company's entire suite of LOB software, complete with migrations and training, and likely with very little in the way of flexibility to change the core business rules/logic.

Furthermore,

> they're held together with a fragile weave of scripts, hacks, unsupported hardware and outdated knowledge

Swapping out COBOL for typescript and mainframes for linux boxes and a pile of YAML is not going to change any of that. People can and will build garbage with any set of tools you give them. Not ever software problem is like use-after-free where you can fix it forever with a sufficiently clever piece of tech.