skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They've gone too far.
I believe that this is a cop out, an excuse for a culture of poor conventions. In all languages, good functions should be named well, simply organized, and doing only one or two things, and without many arguments passed in. Also in all languages, parameters and variables should be named expressively. There's no reason C should be exempt from this.
Photon, which was used in their benchmark, is not open source. Don't be fooled by DB.
> You have better taste than me if the art you like is better than the art I like.

That definition sends the essay down a strange path. Does anyone actually use that definition? Most definitions of taste say something which amounts to "a person with good taste has good judgement about how popular something is/will be on some dimension". Even if it's purely aesthetics. And, anecdotally there are some people who have it.
OK: I have a large number of large git submodules that I never edit, but they make every other command that just incidentally creates a diff output slow. I have found command line options for things like git status/diff (--ignore-submodules=dirty) and git commit (--no-status) to avoid this penalty, but I use git rebase -i constantly and wany to use git stash a lot, but the cost of these commands is somewhat brutal when they sometimes cause incidental status reports. What I really want is a setting that like "avoid incidental status" that disables status reports from any command except git status (as I do want to be able to see this status), as I simply don't ever need the noise (such as in the git commit default message) and it really is a pretty annoying delay when rapidly throwing around commands to edit history to have one which suddenly decides to take forever. If nothing else, though, a --no-status for git stash/rebase (I use all these commands through aliases anyway) would be very helpful. (I would be happy to be more specific if this sounds interesting but isn't enough to know what I mean, but I figure it might either be something you wouldn't get behind anyway and I also really want to take a nap and so want to leave a message earlier ;P. I also happen to be saurik@saurik.com and @saurik on Twitter.)
its “memory safety”, not “accesses memory”
I don't understand why you chose to prefix your variables with x and y rather than something more descriptive. It seems like x and y are completely arbitrary, which is confusing.
On the one hand, it slightly makes it easier to see which tab is in focus, on the other hand, it bugs me any way.
No matter how you look at it and what you compare it against, flying is always going to emit more carbon because... flying is hard compared to moving on the ground.
Please tell us more about your theories on this.
Substantial election tampering has not ever been proven, only minor instances that are laughable compared to e.g. Bill Clinton helping install Boris Yeltsin in the 90s.

I'm not aware that MA370 has a known cause of disappearance.

Crimea is a symptom of western NATO expansion and the funding of the color revolution in the Ukraine. It's not pleasant, but imagine if China interfered in Mexico and blocked off the gulf, I imagine the US would invade.
> Luckily all DDR5 DIMMs will have on-chip ECC

Until someone starts building chips with fake ECC to boost profit.
Really interesting to see the evolution of JS presented in this manner, thanks for sharing!
I’d love to hear more about why they deployed Google-managed message brokers and event processing protocols downstream from Kafka. If you’re already using Kafka as a broker, why introduce PubSub? For event processing, why Dataflow and not Kafka streams or ksqldb?

If it’s that your company signed a sponsorship with Google, I understand. But then why not replace Kafka with Google-managed services altogether? Are there things that Kafka does that PubSub doesn’t do that you really need (such as unlimited message retention)?
Not from hostile state actors.

We're talking about a country that has spent the past fifteen years rearming, has interfered in elections and referendums, has held nearby countries hostage over energy supplies, has been involved in ransomware and hack attacks, has imprisoned political opposition leaders, is currently massing an army on its borders, and is run by a short insecure and vain man with mafia connections who likes to posture topless in staged PR photos.

It's really quite surreal to dismiss all of that as "incompetence."
Maybe a ham transceiver with large antenna. Beyond that, water, food, guns and a stack of porn probably. Oh and my beer brewing gear.
Russia begins missile supplies to India despite US sanctions risk
It would significantly help your point if the conspiracies you were citing were not plain old unsubstantiated bullshit.

I, too have a laptop containing damning evidence about <whomever>, and no, I uh, won't show it to anyone, because I'm scared of the deep state. But I'm not so scared of the deep state that I will keep silent about it. I am at an incredibly particular level of scared.

That nobody takes me seriously is, of course, further proof that the powers that be are repressing the truth.
XPath 3.1

It is a w3c standard for e.g. JSON processing
I feel like someone who doesn't publish papers or give lectures would be somewhat low profile?
It's called C
I'd put a dollar on that particular stream being what caused this. They have been savage.
As opposed to falsely claiming he had an assault rifle and thinking that somehow strengthens the emotional/moral impact of an argument?
Peloton is suing its rivals over its on-demand classes
Everyone told us to apply, regardless of income. We were told that my private insurance insurance only covers so much and will be capped at X (either $ or hours). Medicaid would supplement the rest.

For instance, my private insurance offered something like 50 nights of care per year. Medicaid offered, I forget, but with Medicaid, unbeknownst to us, there were limitations that didn't apply when using my private insurance, such as only one parent could be in the house, the nurse would need to document exactly what the parent was doing during that time, etc.
I agree with most of what you say.

Here in Australia we held back from giving certain vaccines (the mRNA vaccines we have available here) to some demographics when the virus was suppressed here, until the risk from a new outbreak meant it was safer to get the vaccine than not. The adenovirus vaccine we have available was not held back in the same way.

The contention in this discussion, I think, is that we haven't established an absolute yardstick for an 'impeccable safety record'.

You rightly point out the adverse effects we're seeing from these new vaccines, and that they appear more frequent than adverse effects from past vaccines, but that doesn't make them significantly less safe.

Suppose we have an old vaccine that has adverse effects 1% of the time (this would be terrible, but still), and a new vaccine that has twice as many adverse effects. The old vaccine would be 99% safe and the new vaccine 98% safe - quite similar (though still terrible)!

When we start talking about the actual rate of excess adverse effects for the covid vaccines it's on the order of 10 per million doses [0]. Even if this is 10 times worse than old vaccines we're talking about vaccines that are 99.9999% safe vs 99.999% safe.

Based on the evidence we have these vaccines are extremely safe, and I would feel comfortable accepting the 'impeccable safety record' label even though I probably wouldn't choose it myself.

[0] https://www.health.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/2021...
How do you use the web UI?
I'm not sure what you mean, but with abstraction it's the opposite of what I said.

Premature abstraction really is very very bad (I won't go so far as to say it's the root of all evil).

The higher level the abstraction, the worse it is.

Unless it's born from experience writing the same kind of program many times. In which case it's not "premature".

"micro abstractions" are actually fine. You notice a recurring pattern in the code so you "abstract" it away into a function.
One of the reasons why we do it is that we don’t have the same funding lying around. And also a different attitude towards intellectual property and a strong dislike of being effectively hostage of a for-profit software company. At least that’s the feeling around here (not X, but close enough to meet people there for lunch :) ).

It is still more difficult than we’d like to get funded for Open Source development (as a non-CS scientist), but there have been some encouraging noise recently, and some political will to reduce our reliance on black-box commercial software.
As far as I'm aware there's nothing in the OS that should do that, at least by default. Perhaps an accessibility option. Or your charger is finnicky and somehow disconnects during charging a few times, but you say the sound is different. If you record it, and post it on reddit, they might be able to identify it.
I could give less of a shit if someone wants to judge me by whether or not I wear a backpack.

FWIW I think messenger bags are shitty design and think people who use them just don't know any better.
The silent mode switch? I’ve never heard them.
Individual changes at the scale of this problem aren’t literally nothing, but they’re pretty close to nothing.
don't apply through HR filter routes nor with a normal application. you need just one person on the team or senior on the decision path to advocate a look. stuff like DEI, veteran hiring, high energy, etc are real, and junior hires are all protected categories, so managers do care about non-unicorn hires and will bat for them .

-- startups, esp those scrappy (read: no $30M funding rounds) so aren't using HR recruiters, will do hiring directly through founders or later leads. in general, up to 100+ employees, a good CEO should be involved in every hire

-- everyone else: LinkedIn sleuthing -- identify the team you'd want to join and likely hiring lead

in both cases, direct reach out via LI/email to that person: ~2 sentences proving you are legit ready to provide value on week 1-2 (ex: impressive demo page/video link), leading to a coverpage of 3-4 paragraphs why you<>them specifically (project, ROI, ...) + regular CV

ex: if you want to do GLSL JS at Graphistry, I'd jump on an email / LI msg that linked to a cool GLSL video/demo and a good GitHub behind it. normally we have to hunt to find that kind of thing, so A+ for candidates who show they already align on our mission and can do the legwork.

80%+ of applications we get could have been applying for any webdev job, not ours: if we were looking for that, our job search would have taken 1-3 days. so don't present yourself that way nor apply that way. Numbers wise, instead of below the bar on 100 jobs so ~0% chance, at least get a 5-10% chance on 10-20, giving you a 100% shot

heck, as someone senior, i'd still never apply through the front door, including for co's I don't know anyone at
First, here is a direct link to the title post (rather than to an index in which the intended post might be lost): http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/202109/msg00001.html

Second, this is not about the Semantic Web, despite 'Semantic' and 'Web' appearing together in the title. It's about the history of semantic markup, which is where markup is meant to describe what text is. (Since it's about "meaning", the word semantic is used.)

Be sure to see the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77qDvd5uOx8), presented by Simon St. Laurent at 2021 Balisage, a conference for markup specialists, if you are interested in the evolution of markup from SGML to HTML to XML to XHTML to HTML5. To whet your appetite for what the video is really about (not the Semantic Web), Simon starts like this:

Hello, this a story where we, the fans of meaning conveyed by markup, mostly lose after a long winning streak. To soften the edges a bit, I'm telling the story with Playmobil figures...

It's very well written and cleverly presented -- worth a watch if you're at all interested in the historical arc of markup.
> so if you mistype the parameter name in the decoration, there's no warning

Mistyping the parameter name results in the following compiler warning, thankfully:

CS8963 The CallerArgumentExpressionAttribute applied to parameter 'conditionExpression' will have no effect. It is applied with an invalid parameter name.
Amazon to pay California $500k for ‘concealing’ Covid cases among workers
A few weeks ago it was from an older Chinese test. It would be quite disturbing if the ISS was destroyed and then China would offer cooperation with theirs.
This is awesome for dealing with razor bindings in cshtml when you need to manually set or clear an model state validation error. I previously wrote code to reverse compile a lambda specifying the element to set/clear and attempted to reverse that into its most likely form - it was a very disheartening process!
You need to test your weapons.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zoom-redirector/fm...

I just use this. I'm assuming that is what you're asking about.
The full article appears to be here (in Finnish, Google Translate works well):

https://www.lut.fi/uutiset/-/asset_publisher/h33vOeufOQWn/co...
Title is a little bit misleading. They've only taken down some streams from a single high-profile trial.
Why this isn't a built-in HN feature is beyond me. Not necessarily email notifications, but a simple notification system on the site.

I realize we all like the simplicity of the current site, but some QoL improvements wouldn't hurt.
I do wonder if something happened to the satellite necessitating destruction. Everything about this seems so unbelievably reckless that it feels like an emergency protocol being enacted. It's an old satellite but old encryption keys still need to be guarded for the sake of the historical data that might be decrypted with them.

I guess i just don't understand such a sudden move that's literally putting their own citizens lives (let alone all the others) at such risk.
If I run Zoom on Mac, I find that once a week, I have to reset my PRAM. If I don't, my Mac freezes for a few seconds whenever I use the volume up/down buttons, or whenever I screen share on Zoom.
Same here with regards to needing silence. But I actually need silence.

I can't stand music when I need to concentrate or do any work really, even if it's "just" reading over a bug report, triaging it etc. The only time I might use music is when there's a long enough repetitive task where I would just get bored while doing it otherwise. There's not many of those tasks or at least not long enough that spending time finding music for it would be a good use of time. I can probably count on my fingers how many times I've done this.

Even white noise is something that I can't stand. I might be able to drown out various types of white noise (like I forgot about the noise from the mini split heater while typing the above paragraph. But as I started thinking about what to write about white noise, both the mini split white noise and the fridge running noise came crashing into my mind and annoyed me.

I really like frosty winter, where I can have the fireplace on and turn off the blower. If the fridge is off, that's as close to a perfect moment as I can get to noise wise at home. You hear the cracking of the fireplace but not much else.

HVAC at the office? Immensely annoying! Especially if trying to actually concentrate. My mind will easily wander to and concentrate on the HVAC humm.

When the heater/fridge turn off, I can actually feel like a weight is lifted off my ears.
Note that this is only supported on RDNA2 onwards.

It is _enabled_ on 1st gen RDNA, but with no "official support" from AMD. (as such, no SLAs or any guarantees really)

On prior generations, it's not enabled at all. (Vega, Polaris)
Like I said, I haven’t followed this, so I do not know what your last sentence is about (and thus your mind is unjustifiably blown). That said, I can respond solely to the details you provided: you seem to be implying that Kyle was at risk of being raped by this guy if caught. That is certainly scary!

Do you think Kyle was unaware of the dangerous situation he created simply by virtue of carrying that weapon in that environment? Would there have more or less danger to himself as a response worker free of weapons vs one with a huge weapon?

The wanting to shoot shoplifters statement still feels very relevant to me, despite you ignoring it.
Yes, and Mastodon, and and (I know there's many more). Thing is, it will probably fracture at some point (look at how Mastodon split over (AFAIK?) Hentai), and then the mainstream is still Twitter/Facebook/YouTube etc. The alternative media needs to have enough legal and non-lunatic content. If say 99% of Bitcoin transactions are proven crime related (drugs, murder, etc) that's an argument to make Bitcoin illegal. But nobody's gonna argue to make roads or postal service illegal because these are also used for legal purposes. Massively, if I might add. In this context I remember Freenet, some Java P2P network and predecessor of Tor. One of the problems on it was that certain nefarious (disgusting) content was popular on it, and one of the main devs in an interview suggested that people should popularize other content instead. But therein lies the conundrum: such can be abused to obfuscate the bad actor/content. Its the same reason the US Navy wanted Tor to be used by others than them alone. What use is a piece of anonymity software if its obvious only one government department in the world uses it? None. Meanwhile, if you can roll X out for say a target group you find interesting, perhaps its easier to monitor. If you want to infiltrate say BLM for an information position in closed communities, and BLM is mostly on Mastodon (I don't know; its hypothetical), then at least the protocol is going to be obvious. Media like Twitter/Facebook/YouTube allow one to blend in, and have a large potential group of viewers. My point being, mainstream/status quo nor alternative/exclusive is a panacea. Each has their pros and cons, depending on where your focus/morals lie.
Those kinds of things matter when it's all about appearance and there's nothing of importance being done.

If I need a job done, I couldn't care less if the person who is able to do it wears a backpack or not.
Well to begin with, Java is not a serious programming language to do systems programming in, since it has poor control of networking, threads and memory.

Then it's a message bus built on top of TCP. Anyone with basic understanding of networking can see that if you have a producer that wants to send the same data to multiple consumers efficiently, you should use multicast.

Kafka also lacks proper mechanisms to throttle the speed of producers when consumers are too slow, which is the first thing you should ever be concerned about whenever you introduce a queue.

If you want something somewhat decent within Javaland you could try Aeron.
There’s no need to install a backdoor on your computer, which is super risky and requires high specialization. All they have to do is install one on your wifi lamp, or your vacuum cleaner.
Super interesting, I work in finance and love it, but I loathe kdb: it's impossible to read your own code 2 weeks later, every function is one letter, so go google what -9!' does exactly, quants work in isolation rather than in teams so code sharing is done via mounting the prod shared drive with all the prod code and so on.

I d suggest you do the contrary of me (who dabbles in KDB to help the Quants out of their mess) and try to join / work on more java/C++ features where you are so you can gain xp.
The notification history feature does exist, on Android (11 I'm using). It can show you both the recently dismissed notifications and the ones in the last 24 hours, grouping by apps.
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Snowflake has way more revenue, is worth 3 times more than Databricks and is growing faster. I'd say Snowflake is still in the lead. Plus, just look at Snowflake's customer list. It's a "who's who", Databricks is a "Who's that?".
When I was depressed, I distinctly remembering having discovered: "I cannot think myself out of this!"

Unlike most things in my life, which I could think myself out of (quite successfully!), this one I could not. That had a pretty profound effect on my core epistemology thereafter.

The thing which really helped me was retreating to my friends and family (who, thankfully, could get me out of my own head).
Listen, I have no connection to these people and really don’t care, but using sports slang to celebrate these deaths - as if such events are common and desirable in Kenosha - is indeed callous and disrespectful. Call me old fashioned.
I think if the CCP wanted to install backdoors, they would simply ask Apple to do it, as they did for iCloud.

Apple would, of course, comply, as they did for iCloud.

In the default configuration of a mac, Apple retains full remote code execution ability on the machine.
That's what Google Chrome has done (in Incognito mode) on Android. Been that way for most of the past year. It is literally impossible to read the URL, or edit it reasonably. (I'll typically copy it to some open edit-box somewhere to do so.)

The depths of idiocy across the development landscape are ... depthy.

Firefox / Fennec remains my general very strong preference, though on this specific older Android device, Firefox/Fennec performance remains abysmal.

On a newer Android device, Mozilla's aversion to keyboard shortcuts is another major pain-point.

On e-ink devices, EinkBro is superior for some tasks (Chromium-derived), though it also has its annoyances.
Nothing prevents adding another preprocessor to C# which mimic C's macros. Just no one did that for some reason (I wonder why).
Not feasible for the average person, but it was very easy to do for my LG TV.
Very much incendiary, intentionally provacative content of the exact ilk that it criticizes.

Is there any professional reporter that doesn't sell fear these days ?
Or worst:

"This is the damage a tiny speck of space debris can do at 15,000mph"

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/heres-the-damage-a-tiny-sp...
If you would like to engage further with these ideas I heartily recommend the comments related to and sources mentioned in [1] above and others in this page.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29229456
Has anyone seen the recent edition of Stroustrup's The C++ Programming Language book? It is 1376 pages long. This is where C# is headed as well.
To some extent, yes, I could imagine external intelligence arising in something that approximates a colony rather than a single organism. There are a bunch of (much simpler) examples of that on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_(biology)

It's not a giant stretch from that to imagine evolution happening within the components of the colony.
I can Cmd-C on one device and Cmd-V on another. It works wirelessly and securely without explicit network configurarion and even without network access. The amount of complexity that enables this simple feature is staggering if you look into the implementation.
Since the new Firefox UI updates, I really feel like I’m maybe the only one who actually likes the new look. Everything I read about Firefox lately is overwhelmingly negative. Either that, or it’s just the negative opinions being amplified and folks who are happy/satisfied just keep it to themselves.

From the posted image, is it really that hard to differentiate the not active tabs? There’s a clear pattern: icon, title, close “x”.

I’ve liked the direction Firefox has been going in. It’s my primary browser again after a few years of Chrome. I can’t be alone in preferring the updated look, I’m sure there are dozens of us.
Seems like a handy feature for things like test frameworks.

There's more detail in the official C# docs: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

And in the GitHub issue for the feature: https://github.com/dotnet/csharplang/issues/287