skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Intel, which has 10,000 employees in China, said in its apology that it "respected the sensitivity of the issue in China."

This reminds me of a recent British politics round-table interview, where a member of the ruling party told the world that we shouldn't call politicians liars - despite the current Prime Minister lying through his teeth at almost every opportunity simply because he can get away with it - because it would undermine people's faith in the political system that keeps lying to them.

It seems that saying the things that need to be said about the political systems that need to be called out is not as important as getting the money (or savings) that the countries attached to those political systems can generate.

Or, as a great man once sang:

For china (f'china x 4) is a country that can bring us to our knees.

Not sure there's a solution to this though. Power will always corrupt.
There are many more crazy things regarding the brain. Man living with 5% of the brain: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-thursday-... . One case IQ 75, but another case IQ 176 and degree in Mathematics.

Supposedly hippocampus stores memories, but people with operated hippocampus still keep their memories? Psychodelic or meditative states being associated with significant reduction of all brain activity, what conflicts with the subjective experience.

Now, for example there are 12 medical cases described where blind people approaching death regained left their body and described visual information in the operating room, what was corroborated by impartial skeptic medical professionals: https://scholar.google.com/scholar_lookup?title=Mindsight:+N... . There is very sizable amount of evidence that something is going on in conciousness than just purely material. Read this article before you make the final judgement: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6172100/ . I am not implying any magic - maybe quantum computations like in Penrose/Hammerhof theory? Maybe material world is an "icon" of more complex reality underneath like in Donald Hoffman's model?

I'm looking for a scientific discussion here, not just "someone who thinks that materialism is not all that describes reality is surely crazy".
They started the Schwarz Group Cloud (Stackit), 8000 developers and yet not a single production ready service yet.
Just as fossil fuel boilers are.

That's why you install them in the basement. If you can.
> A German super market chain

Which one? I would like to support non-AWS-companies.
>> I wonder how close the plain rust users' times would get to bronze users over time as they keep doing similar tasks.

This is the real question for me. The rest is just implementation detail. Someone is (usually) paying for the code to be written. Are they getting more value for less spend over time?

When you look at it through this lens though, there tend to be bigger overriding factors a rust compiler (or any other choice of language) can’t really help with - e.g. is the design & architecture of the code heading in the “ball of mud” direction. I.e. is change velocity going to reduce over time?

With a garbage collector, yeah you most likely are getting more productivity out of a developer. You’ve delegated one of the hardest problems (when can i free this thing?) to the computer. Because of the way rust is designed, it doesn’t protect against memory leaks. It protects against use after free but not that i fail to release redundant memory. But unfortunately It’s not guaranteed that just adding a garbage collector will help with this. With a sufficiently good developer though, they should be able to move faster than if you make them Arc<> & lifetime everything themselves. It’s specifically the lifetime bit that consumes time / developer productivity. Using Arc<> isn’t hard or arduous in any way.
Krita 5.0
Heavy regulations on every aspect of digital world from ecom to gaming.
It's simply impossible to have reliable "best practices" in programming. It's still a young field and most of the ideas floating around are just fads. Yesterday's best practice will quickly become an anti-pattern tomorrow when another person comes along and creates a pretty looking website to promote his best practice.

None of it is based on actual collective experience. Just the opinions of people who are good at marketing their ideas.

Somehow if something is nicely written up and put up on a good looking website, everyone starts treating it like a well accepted best practice.

Examples that come to mind:

https://www.conventionalcommits.org/

https://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

https://semver.org/
Full Release notes here - https://krita.org/en/krita-5-0-release-notes/
"Why should I care that I am helping criminals steal money" is a pretty damn shitty attitude to have.
Interesting read and totally agree with the writer. But how do you govern / spread this definition to the courts?
> Prototypes in Io are simply better implemented as a concept compared to JavaScript.

Of course it is: javascript is prototypal out of practical convenience, namely that whipping up a prototypal object system was much easier to implement over a few weeks than a full-blown class-based one. It was never a philosophical / design intention, and thus the prototypal object system:

1. was never really good in the first place

2. was never significantly improved for convenience, some inroads were made in ES5, then promptly ignored thereafter

JS developers never came from or were interested in prototypal inheritance and that's doubly understandable from javascript being their first introduction to it (even after the ES5 improvements, and accounting for proprietary extensions like `__proto__`, it remained garbage), few will be motivated into looking up a Self environment to try it out after that, odds are much higher they'll jigger a frankenclass system and try to forget about prototypes entirely.

Talking about Self, and Io, and prototypes, having never really used either in anger I was surprised (and a bit dismayed) that Io's prototypes are a list thereof, that seems so much less sensible and pretty and flexible than Self's parent slots it just killed any interest I had in Io immediately.

And Io makes the same vocabulary mistake Javascript does (to the extent that I always assumed Io grew from an exploration of Javascript leaning more on prototypes, rather than growing from the original): while Self's OO is called prototypes-based, prototypes do not actually have much relevance to the runtime system: a prototype is the object you clone (shallowly), the objects you link to (via parent slots) are called / classified as mixins or traits depending whether they themselves have parents[0].

That is, Self's `copy` on clonables (as opposed to oddballs) is equivalent to Javascript's `Object.assign`, not `Object.create`, or IO's `clone` (an other name I find awful since it doesn't clone anything).

PS: "prototypal OO", not prototypical

[0] https://handbook.selflanguage.org/4.5/roots.html
Money is basically energy. Having an infrastructure that cost ten time as much money to maintain cost ten time as much energy to maintain.

I agree with you, people should understand that their taxes do not pay for debt (usually), that public debt is `good` for their pensions and the economy at large, so the debt isn't an issue. But this is not a trope specific to new urbanists, it is a general trope of people not understanding modern economy. And a lot of old "economist" (Tv economists, not real researchers usually) still believe in this (or use it as a talking point for their own political agenda)
IIS still making victims, sort of, wow
Face detection (that is, only identifying a face in a picture) is not face recognition (identifying the person behind the face).
Tbf Blindsight also features aliens and vampires. Unusually plausible vampire, but its very much a case of sciency-sounding detail to serve the points the story wants to make rather than a lecture on how the brain works. Plus I never believed the narrator was as detached from his emotions as he kept claiming anyway...
As a customer, I don’t take it as an insult, we all can (as per gp) be dumb on occasion, without actually being dumb in general. On the other hand, the comment did not offer much assurance with regards to the topic at hand either.
I upvoted because it's spot on. Those are exactly the drivers to get seriously rich. And you spotted me. I don't need to be rich or drive a lambo. Need for fuck-you money comes from a couple places, that I've seen:
* Dad was abusive, always put you down. You never felt good enough, you need to prove you're better than him. I had this. My brothers had it. One of them makes $3M a year and desperately tries to use it to impress our father. I guess watching that act made me realize that's a fuckin futile way to spend your time.
* You had some other form of humiliation, maybe you're short or ugly, girls don't give you the time of day. (I'm short and not terribly attractive - girls like me well enough if we get talking, and I always play poor on dates, although I pay for things. I never, ever want someone to like me more because.. [edit] double edit here. At my ultra-rich brother's wedding, his wife stood up to give a speech and she said:
" I always thought [brother] was short, but I realized he was a lot taller when he was standing on his wallet! "
Needless to say, they got divorced and he's still paying for it ).

Just since we're speaking very bluntly. I found that when I'm single, I can usually meet a girl if I stick around somewhere until the end of the night. But I usually don't do that unless I'm starving. So you're exactly right, having the focus and having the need are two different things.

The only place where I personally think you're wrong is your overall pitch - "don't be this guy [noduerme]" - to young fellas that think getting rich is the end-all. Like said, if I needed it enough, I'd spend my time trying to get fuck-you money and be rich by those standards. But proving the size of my dick just isn't something I need to do, know what I'm sayin? And funny enough, that blase attitude I've developed about it really fucking pisses off the ultra-rich people in my life.
Appears to be a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29657343
> given how hostile their government are becoming

To the extent that they are more hostile now, that would look like an effect of American attacks on them, not a cause. Causes need to precede effects.
Yes, and there is tons of hard work being put into it all the time to stop it.

This does not happen in crypto.
The former I'd agree with, the latter I'd question.

Because "very worst" (or even just "bad") deals is a loaded term. Why? For whom? When?

As discussed in this topic, a high-interest rate loan is a bad deal, unless it's the best option you have. Would no loan be better than that loan? Maybe. Should we take away someone's ability to make that decision? I'm not convinced.

At some point, the cost of freedom is freedom to fail. So it's always a balancing act between not making that failure hurt too much or too easy to inadvertently stumble into... and giving people autonomy.

You'd think engineers would understand that you can't optimize for everything at once.
Intel Is Putting Unvaccinated Employees on Unpaid Leave Until Conditions Improve
00:00:37 is hilarious and I haven't heard it for years!
There are two forms of optional type annotations:

1. Using a placeholder (let/var/val/auto/...) -- e.g. in modern C#/Java/C++/Kotlin -- and letting the compiler figure out the type, but keep the actual type known at compile time. This will give you compile time errors when using the wrong types, and keeps the variables of a fixed type.

2. Effectively making all types variant types that can hold any value and can change their type -- e.g. in JavaScript/Python/Ruby -- such that they are dynamically typed. This can lead to runtime errors.

For languages like C#, Java and the derivatives, they have the concept where all objects are instances of a common type. If you use this -- especially in collections -- you can also get runtime errors. As long as you stick to the generic versions of these, the compiler will enforce the type safety.

The statically typed languages have been making types optional where the compiler can deduce them to avoid redundancy and duplication. If there is an ambiguity, the compiler will omit a compiler error. This is the best of both worlds -- type safety without the noise of annotating types everywhere.
Have to say as a football fan, it's a scandal that they're running the world cup in Qatar. A winter world cup pushes the schedules way off what's normal and traditional. That is of course not the only concern, there's also stories about dozens of people dying building these stadiums in the desert heat.

There's also a heck of a lot of stories about how Qatar was able to get the world cup in the first place. It seems that FIFA isn't exactly free of corruption, which is a shame because they're supposed to be in charge of the world's favourite sport. Of course there's no accountability in any way, who even knows who their national FA rep is? I guess that's one of the perks of running a sport with that much history, people will still feel compelled to watch.

One thing that's positive is that ordinary people are not ignorant about this situation. You'll find in every FB post about this there's a load of voices expressing what I've just expressed. So whatever the Qataris think they're buying with this massive outlay, they're not getting it.

On the sporting side it appears they're making a decent effort of building a home grown team that isn't going to totally embarrass them, which is quite the challenge.
Crypto "market caps" are complete 100% fiction. They do not represent any kind of real value that exists. They mean nothing.
The problem with decentralized as far as what I have used so far,
is that you require a whole host of unknown people to donate
X amount of storage space to the network.

With IPFS systems I have tried so far you have to struggle to
find anyone who has any motivation in storing your stuff for you.
Let alone 4 people.

Back in the "good old days" a truly distributed P2P system existed
to "exchange" mp3 (all legal of course), and other files.
People had incentives to share what they and what they got.

This is still true for some BitTorrent content but it is not
very stable most of the time. (People do not seed for long),
though there are incentives to seed a lot.

If you dont rely on strangers to store your files and you are
paying Digital Ocean S3 or some such it is not really.
But sure you can pay multiple providers to store thenm for you.
That's a fair point, but the broader message of avoiding lifestyle inflation is valid. I used to make a lot less money and have very little in the bank and now that I have a much better paying job (and had a lucky break with an acquisition) it's remarkably easy to justify things to yourself. "Sure you can make more money, not more time" - "this new thing is more efficient" - "if I have X then my life will be better" (that last one is sometimes, but rarely, true - we had a ~500 square foot house and 2 kids and a bigger home did dramatically aid our mental health.

I hate buying gas and feel guilty about it, but also would like to be able to seat 6 people, so suddenly a Model Y seems "reasonable". But sitting down and doing the math shows that even if my goals are environmental, keeping the 12 year old Honda and getting a rental car now and then is much better than a brand new EV (and vastly cheaper) - but before thinking about it carefully, I was tempted.
The link to part 1 in part 2 seems to be incorrect.

Correct URL: https://kestrelcomputer.github.io/kestrel/2018/01/29/on-elf
With 3 Words, Apple Announced a Return to Office Plan That Finally Makes Sense
I think "El" is just the word for God, not a proper name? So it's like "Doctor" vs "George", not "Robert" vs "George".
> I'm convinced Rust is easier to write without the management of lifetimes in a short time span.

Yeah that's the problem with all these studies that use students writing new code for a few hours.

99% of coding isn't like that - it's reading other people's code (including code you wrote ages ago and can't remember), trying to figure out how it works, following complex call chains, debugging etc.

If you only look at Advent of Code type problems you'll come up with all sorts of strange conclusions, like static types don't make a difference, comments aren't useful at all, it doesn't matter if you exclusively use single character variable names, goto is totally harmless, etc. etc.

Though in this particular case I guess they didn't have much choice because there are no existing large programs written using Bronze.
Listen to the Sinica podcast. It covers China-related topics "without fear nor favor". You'll here politicians and experts talk about the increasing, and often baseless, hostility of Western media over the past 5 years.
Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)
Imagine coming at it from the other side and seeing "biscuits and gravy" on a menu.
> Modern CPUs and ram are obscenely, incomprehensibly fast. With the exception of a few very specific tasks, you should never be waiting for a modern computer to do anything.

I really wish we could drive this point home for everyone. The amount of work you can get out of 1 x86 core is insane if you know how to feed it properly. The upper bound is somewhere around 500 million transactions per second per core. I have personally built systems that can achieve somewhere around 14 million per second.

If you can reliably handle the entire serialized workload on a single thread you start to retool for the idea that you can fit the entire business in 1 box.

Being able to run everything out of a single computer is an incredible virtue, not some curse that must be cast to the clouds.
> The autocratic corrupt spying apparatus gov?

replace “autocratic” with “unelected”/unaccountable and you get the NSA.
Racial Differences in Time at Work Not Working
How would your assessment of Tesla's value change if you learned each of this items is not profitable for the foreseeable future?

For example it is certain that FSD is not happening any time soon. I am not even sure what AI as a service means or why Tesla would be competitive in this field. Insurance already has well established incumbents.
I miss having easy map, reduce and filter functions that are accessible from within the array itself

Those are be the sort of things that generics will enable.
Objective facts can become very hard to discern in a highly partisan environment though. That's the problem with how lots of US (and UK, etc) media works: there's obvious partisanship which can make it hard to extract the truth. Everything ends up as "the truth + highly political framing devices". There is no outside to observe from.
"One possible answer here is that these things (e.g., memory, emotion, decision-making, and pain) actually have more in common than we perceive."

This is definitely true. A high adrenaline state (imagine the emotion of being on a roller coaster ride, being in a fight, etc) reduces pain.
I studied clean a very long time ago, maybe 20 years, so I have no idea any more what the code looks like, but I can attempt to tell you the basic idea of this. There are objects that you cannot copy and also not use in multiple places as a function argument. E.g., if something is a file it is subject to these restrictions and functions that write to the file would accept the file as an argument and return a new object of type file that stands for the modified version of the file. This forces an explicit sequencing of side effects. This prevents the old version of the file still being usable in the code.
> It also makes it quite closer to D, an "easier C++", compiled language with a GC.

That's exactly why I loved D over C++ and Rust and had the feeling that I was not fighthing the compiler from day one: the GC, auto types, lack of annoying C preprocessor.
The point is that Wayland architecture is designed to discourage such API, secure or not (I'll also have to check, but AFAIK Wayland went with even less security support in protocol than X11[1] - not XFree/XOrg - so retrofitting is even harder). Same with accessibility et al.

Honestly, Wayland by design feels like MVP that forgot that outside certain limited systems they are missing a lot of "filler" APIs, and somehow assumed it would magically happen by itself. Unfortunately there's no DCOM on Linux in practice, and D-Bus is much more annoying to program against, so the expected "do it in D-Bus" never materialized (and was supposed to cover even things like copy-paste in the original discussions).

[1] X11 servers from vendors other than XFree/XOrg had things like advanced access controls over what applications could do, some integrated with OS-wide Mandatory Access Controls. There's also the forgotten (by most) part of the protocol for secure entry that one is supposed to use when accepting passwords and the like.
The problem is that sentence is still too vague. If you make a more quantitative statement it would be easier to engage with.

Requiring hospitalization but 10X higher probability compared to delta for surviving hospitalization can be described as "to have better health outcomes than Delta". But if transmissibility is higher it can still overwhelm the hospital infrastructure and cause more deaths by making beds a scarce commodity not only for those affected by covid but also others who need a hospitalization bed.

Note that a multiplicative factor reduction in the probability of surviving, becomes just a time shift during exponential growth phase of the spread. With a doubling rate of 2 days, a 1/16 factor is a delay of 8 days. It shifts the curve, does not flatten it, at least not at the off-peak regime.
It could easily be that you had an undiagnosed case of worms. That was the outcome of a bit of research about those cases where Ivermectin seemed to have a positive effect on curing COVID-19.
If you're a genius, you're a genius - an average teacher would be able to point you in the direction of the more specialised coaching that would benefit you.

For the kind of people who don't seem to be able to weigh up basic risk levels and end up dying unvaccinated at six times the rate of those that do, I'd suggest that going up enough percentiles to save their lives would be, yeah, kinda useful.
I'd agree with you on the marginal utility of that wealth, and (unrelatedly) on the moral righteousness of redistributing that excess wealth.

But that doesn't change the fact that we're talking about the government taking an asset (the 13%) from an individual.

It's hard to bill that as a zero-impact action with regards to freedom.

One might say "I think net freedom is increased by redistributing money from the extraordinarily wealthy to the broader population." But it seems illogical to say "We can create more freedom by taxing the wealthy, because that creates more freedom for everyone not wealthy, and has no impact on the wealthy."
I don’t disagree, but some other stuff often used in system and low-level programming is easier to use from C#: stackalloc and unmanaged heap, spans, SIMD intrinsics from System.Runtime.Intrinsics namespace, scalar intrinsics from BinaryPrimitives and BitOperations classes, C interop, threads synchronization, etc.
So, is this fake? https://www.stackit.de/en/cloud/products-services/
Whatever it takes to reduce the population, as the crash needs to happen to save the planet
If I'm not mistaken, wasn't Clean closed source and commercial for a long time?

I was very interested years ago, but I kept on thinking that without opening up it would eventually just fade into oblivion and never went beyond the toying phase. A common fate for the many languages with a single and commercial reference compiler/interpreter.