skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My ideal arrangement is fully remote and mostly async, with maybe a 2-4 hour (remote) overlap in the day.
> virtual cash

Heh... I would wager most of the world's USD is equally virtual.
IO felt more Ruby than Ruby. I wonder why it never picked up any mainstream usage.
Windows for me frequenctly needs a pagefile 8x the size of my memory in order to service the committed memory, even though it's never touched in practice.
An apology costs nothing. It's not like Intel is going to change the policies they're "apologizing" for, since they are mandated by US law.
Note that "short lived objects" and "stack allocated objects" aren't exactly the same set. Common Lisp has a dynamic-extent declaration, which can be used to stack allocate [1]. Go and Java implementations perform escape analysis. There can have some wins if stack allocatability is tracked at runtime, rather than compile-time [2]; Cliff Click reported roughly doubling the number of stack-allocated objects by using escape detection rather than analysis [3].

At least the Inkscape vector editor uses the Boehm garbage collector [4]. There are several programming language implementations which use Boehm and C, but one wonders if it is still a "C codebase" then.

[1] http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/d_dyna...

[2] Henry Baker, CONS should not CONS its arguments https://www.cs.tufts.edu/~nr/cs257/archive/henry-baker/cons-...

[3] https://youtu.be/5uljtqyBLxI?t=791

[4] http://inkscape.gitlab.io/inkscape/doxygen/namespaceInkscape...
"Sure, maybe after 4 years of issues things just happened to naturally get better right when the federal government carried out a targeted intervention."

It seems possible that the story is more complicated than that.

"But the purpose of a currency is denominating prices and debts, so it does matter."

I don't think currencies can change the value of things, so I am not convinced the denomination aspect is really the most important aspect of what currencies do.

"Economic activity is for the most part predicated on some concept of property rights, which are a legal construct and thus predicated on the existence of a government and its monopoly on the use of force."

That seems obviously false. Animals have territories, and they don't have governments. It requires use of force, but that doesn't require governments. Just because governments tend to monopolize use of force, doesn't imply they are required for enforcing property "rights".

"The argument isn’t that paying people to dig holes and fill them back in (or build warships and sink them in the ocean) creates economic value, only that it creates demand, which is self-evidently true."

What demand does the hole digging worker create - demand for shovels?

"A negative demand shock can cause an economy to contract to a new lower equilibrium"

I would agree that equilibriums are the right way to look at it, and "pushing to a higher equilibrium" would be what I called "kickstarting" like a motor. Still not convinced that simply distributing money does the trick, though.

"Deficit spending doesn’t expand the money supply if the government has to borrow to spend, it just draws money out of the private sector. Hence we’re back to the gold standard as the root of the problem."

If you assume money supply is the problem.
That doesn't seem like a relevant objection?

If structs support generic methods but interfaces don't then nothing happens, everything just works as you'd expect (whithin those limitations). A method which isn't part of the interface is not under consideration, so the generic methods have no bearing on the interfaces the object could or would implement.

The reverse would be an issue, but this is not.
There's this joke people say the only reason the US doesn't have regime change factions is because it doesn't have a US embassy.
Once you are already in prison it's hard to say whether you are forced to do it or not. It's not like you have a lot of employers and professions to choose from. And if the incentives include things like easier to get parole then refusing to participate would mean more time served. It'd be pretty hard to prove some labor is not "forced" in a prison setting.
> what is the difference then between closing and minimizing?

Closing is putting away, as in “I don’t think I’ll need it in the near future”, and minimising is putting aside as in “I’ll probably come back to this in 5 minutes”. The minimised window is not cluttering the screen but still accessible from the dock and list of open windows in its application. This is not related to the problem you claimed to have with an application being still open without having a single window.
I think you’re a little harsh describing it as a scam, but yes you have to be aware of who you are trusting and what the risks and failure when using this type of service, including the security risks.

Of course there are also risks with self hosting, depending on your competence and the service.

I have a Vm on the cloud I use for running nightly nmaps against my network range, when that breaks it’s not the end of the world, if the VM provider hikes the price, or goes bust, I can migrate it in an hour by running a script, thetr no sensitive information on there, it makes perfect sense to run on a VM.

Would I entrust my journalist’s files when they are investigating corruption in Amazon? No.
I would say, at least in the near/medium future, the fact you'll never hit a traffic jam for a 1 hour commute is a big plus.

But then again, weather probably will ground it more often.

The ultra rich in London, NYC, and LA: you can live 2 hours as the crow flies by car (which would be 3-6 hours depending on traffic) and cut it to an hour or less.

Or you can plop your floating megamansion offshore and commute to the city from there.

Bullet trains are point to point, and you have transit to station overhead. This is more direct above and beyond an absolute speed advantage.
If you refuse to provide authentication, the page will tell you the authentication to provide. Not sure why this mechanism is in place.
On ELF, Part 2 (2018)
This reminds me of C# sharp and their introduction of the unsafe keyword.
gc for everything until you need to manage your own pointers for speed or something.
"We apologise for the trouble caused to our respected Nazi customers, partners and the public. Intel is committed to becoming a trusted technology partner and accelerating joint development with the Third Reich,"

Hell, working with genocidal governments didn't hurt IBM's bottom line, why should Intel be afraid of it? We have zero history of holding companies accountable for being spineless hypocrites.
Even if you have written your application in a specific manner to achieve some technical goal, for Stack Overflow that is performance, you can still have automated testing with end-to-end test or system tests.

I prefer that over unit tests because a test that is larger in scale does not care how you have organized your code in contrast to a unit test.

Thus you can refactor all you want and the tests stays the same. Unit tests on the other hand becomes useless when doing large refactoring because you have to throw them out or refactor them too when classes and/or functions get removed or changed.
Everything is touching everything
Pre-crime facial recognition surveillance is authoritanism. Post-crime facial recognition of surveillance is investigative process. The cat is out of the bag, the only thing that prevents it's inevitable abuse is strict legal framework for its implementation
America is now in fascism’s legal phase
This has been high on my priority list as well.

Last I checked we needed a git account o upvote things or something - but even then I'm not sure we'd get a change in the roadmap / prioritization... I've considered hiring some peeps to make the code and offer it up to the community ti merge it or whatever. This and a few other important to me/my users, but really kind of superficial things in general that needs to attention imho.
In the United States prisoners are required to participate in "work duties," which are defined as essential functions of the prison. For example you can be made to wash laundry because you are using bed sheets and clothing.

You cannot be forced into doing external work where the benefit of your labor falls to a private entity. Of course you can choose to do so and the primary benefit is not the wages (which are unfairly low in my opinion) but the "day for day" that reduces your sentence.
The many options for websockets mentioned in this thread makes me think I should make my websocket C library open/public as well.

Of course, since it's a library, you still need to write code that calls it.
Just submitting part 2 of this as I stumbled across it after having played around with write ELF files by hand. Never knew about the Hunk format and I think the author makes some interesting points.
Surprisingly, there are a lot of strikes, labour issues, and general unrest in China.

Instead of thinking about it like a 'Orwellian State' - think of it more like an Orwellian State that could go 'off' at anytime.

Note that citizens are concerned about their prosperity - as long as growth is happening and money comes in - they are content.

But they are also ultra nationalist and ultra ethnocentric to the point where it's quite easy for the CCP or leadership to simply blame 'Western Imperialism / Chauvinism' for any perceived slight against China including legitimate concerns.

There will not be any protests in China about Hong Kong or forced labour. It will be about corruption, property rights, jobs etc..
If we can't employ Xinjian people anymore, what do you propose we do with them ?
Well the US constitution explicitly allows slavery in this particular case, why not?
What's the purpose of an autopay-enabled credit card compared to a debit card? Is it just a convention?

To me a credit card always feels "dirtier" because of the connotation that it produces debt and that I have to rely on someone else extending me credit, even if momentarily. It seems much cleaner to just spend your own money directly with as little middlemen as possible.
Yes I absolutely agree. I posted a blog post near the start of the year looking at how much performance automerge (written in javascript using immutablejs) leaves on the table. At the time, automerge took 5 minutes to run a benchmark, and my own code could do the same thing in 0.06 seconds. Since then I’ve sped up my code by another order of magnitude - it can now run the same benchmark in 0.005s. (4.9ms).

I don’t want to badmouth automerge - they’re working on it and have made big improvements this year. But that ratio - 5min:5ms - gives you a sense of the mountain of inefficiency we live with on modern computers with a lot of modern software.

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. We sent men to the moon in fewer cycles than it takes for modern windows to boot, by several orders of magnitude.

Complaining about the global chip shortage is a bit like a hoarder complaining about a room shortage in their overflowing house.

(With carve outs in my scorn for video editing, AAA game engines, AI, etc)
Democratic Domestic Product
The contrary view is that the state has at least two jobs: to create an environment where you're in a position to turn down bad deals, and to prevent the very worst deals from being offered in the first place.

Really it is about whether the government's job is to forcibly not govern, or to get involved.
CPK isn't competition to Stansted, ha, it's not even a competition to Heathrow, Gatwick, Frankfurt, Munich or Paris CDG.

The connection graph of airlines is based both on where people are, and what logistical bases they can get, and a) LOT doesn't have long range network capable of driving more traffic than Okęcie can sustain b) no other long-range airline is going to operate long range flights from CPK
How do folks using row-level security (RLS) for authorisation deal with stuff like this?

I mean, let's say Gravatar had only shown profile information to logged-in users. But they didn't want a single user to look at more than 100 profiles per hour. If they were to control access to their API using application code, that's easy.

But if they were to instead delegate that to RLS rules in Postgres, how could they put a per-user rate limit on it?
Many people talk to extraterrestrial intelligences openly all the time, we are only limited by our technological way of thinking. Spiritual channellers, psychonaughts, shamans, psychics, in dreams... if the universe is conscious then telepathic communication is the ideal method of interstellar communication.
> Command vs. ALT/CTRL bindings are vastly superior in Windows. The MacOS method of using the Command button is different for the sake of being different, not for any actual productive reason.

Command is much more accessible as part of a shortcut than control. Also, alt is much more useful as a composition key than as a pseudo-control key. And seriously, who in their right mind believes that things like alt-F4 are a good idea? The way Windows shortcuts work is particularly idiosyncratic and makes sense only as an historical oddity from way back when DOS had to coexist with Windows.
Apple lobbied the US government *against* the anti-concentration camp labor bill that Intel is apologizing for in the OP,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/11/20/apple-u... ("Apple is lobbying against a bill aimed at stopping forced labor in China")
Maybe it does explain something.
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-02-29
I had no idea people would want to do this. It turned out it was a simple matter of adding "user-scalable=yes". I regenerated the site and you should be able to zoom in now.
F# would fit the bill better I think compared to C#. F# has proper algebraic types like Rust, full pattern matching, immutability by default, less OOP baggage.
You should also collect Sony Alpha cameras too. Many of them have a preferential focus feature which uses face recognition.

You add up to five faces, prioritized, and it focuses to them if it recognizes in the crowd of people.
Thanks good point.

His personal website also used Google analytics and has no banner.

https://builtwith.com/?https%3a%2f%2fjonathanmayer.org%2f
Yes, this is very surprising to me. I would've thought that all stuff I do in chat is end-to-end encrypted.

Is this not the case for e.g. Signal reactions?
Sorry, I had no idea. I think I fixed the issue. Let me know if it works now.
> 4000 Node containers [1] running in parallel to handle just as many requests per second.

This looks crazy to me at first glance. 4k requests per second, for any reasonable sized request, should be easily handled by a single C thread. With plenty of room to grow.
China has a Justice System, and most people are in prison for crimes.

China does not have a Justice System - it's entirely politicized (people are put to death in private trials with fabricated evidence), but even then, we are not banning stuff 'because Chinese prison'.

We are banning specifically from concentration camps where 100's of thousands of Uyghurs are imprisoned not for any crime, but merely because of their ethnicity.

So if Cali started taking Japanese citizens property, throwing them in jail, and forcing them to work and to 'retrain their thinking' i.e. even worse than what happened to some in WW2, then we could start to talk about moral equivalence.
> I know how dumb customers can be

I find this insulting as a customer. Is AWS usually contemptuous of its customers?

I don't think I've ever called my customer "dumb", and working as a consultant I've seen all kinds of interesting things.

People make mistakes. They're always in a hurry. They may have a hard time understanding ambiguous, complex or incomplete documentation. The interface may be confusing and lead them to bad solutions. Come on, support is there to help.

Take it easy, shall we?
I'm not from the US so could you explain how credit unions deal with these things? Are they more sympathetic than banks or do they operate as banks-except-in-name?
One aspect of nuclear that is almost never mentioned is the disposal of the waste. The owners of Germany's nuclear power plants paid 24 billion in 2017 to rid themselves of the responsibility for it. It will cost the country an estimated 170 billion for temporary and permanent solutions, and the money is now invested in a fund to grow it. It was criticised by Greenpeace as insufficiently small. The government and even the Greens accepted this as there was a danger the companies would try to weasel out of paying anything. What happens if a company goes bankrupt? The management of the waste becomes the responsibility of the society. A lot of countries (even the US) don't have a permanent solution for the storage of nuclear waste and some of the temporary ones were already reported leaking.
That’s unfortunate. But I’d fully understand if that’s the terms of the service, at least for cheaper tiers. Basically “store all you want but at this price point you are subject to errors in automated blocking”. At enterprise level I’d expect service from humans though, and I expect to pay for it.
The highest entry on that 'Read Next' frame on the right of that website, for me is:
'Lick it up:...' that references to:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/lick-it-up-japan-professo...

Do I sense some traces of humor in that news feed algorithm?
> I see people -- including Chinese diaspora -- calling for banning Intel.

Is this feasible? There's not all that many other options for x86
https://github.com/erebe/wstunnel
Not all cars can be triggered on 125khz and some cars transmit RF only when the car is not parked.
This is off topic but if it's log files and you want simple processing you couldn't go wrong with awk.

Obviously I don't know if the output is default JSON and not a traditional log file output, that is transformed into JSON.

If your learning jq on the terminal awk is really easy.
Who says this? I have literally never once seen this.
You do not have a 'human right' to commit crimes, which is why you go to jail in nations that have a legit Justice System.

The concentration camps in China are not for people who have committed crimes, they're for people who are of a specific ethnicity, that's it.
I doubt it. China is not there yet w.r.t. semiconductor independence. There are people who say, buy AMD, but AMD is also subject to US laws...

So what will happen instead? From what I've seen so far, China is careful with counterattacking US because they know the US is stronger. I think the govt will just issue an angry statement but do nothing concrete internationally, while continuing their domestic efforts of semiconductor development as they already have, and also continuing with restructuring Xinjiang's economy (i.e. replacing foreign customers with domestic customers, as happened with cotton)
I’d like to see support for FIT files as they are emitted by Garmin fitness devices. It’s a clever binary format that in-stream defines the format of records which then contain the actual measurements which may be scaled for more compact representation. These multiple layers make the format not obvious to parse but the tool supports already an impressive list of formats that probably use similar techniques.
Do you have a name of the nvidia director? Tried googling but web looks like it's been scrubbed clean.
True, yet in the context of the experiment that part of the language was not used, so they could compare the two approaches.

I think this research highlights a important strategy to make all software safer.

A quote from the discussion section:

> Encouraging adoption of safer languages by reducing stress.
> For more on performing wireless packet captures see my YouTube channel

Nice article but the most important part is missing.
What is missing from the presentation is anything about recharging. The reasonable conclusion is they have no good story, there.

Most of the profitability of an air transport, when there is any, comes from quick turnaround. Having to wait to charge for an hour eliminates any possibility of that. An alternative is to have removable batteries, so when you land, you drop off dead batteries and slot in charged ones; and charge at the airport.

A better design would have an aft liquid-hydrogen tank and fuel cell, instead of batteries, for longer range and much lower mass. LH2 would be produced at the airfield during minimum energy spot prices, and stored underground.
I don't have all or any answers, but your comment made me daydream about a similar article talking about, say, how there should be more women in leadership positions in politics and business. And in the daydream you replied similarly, "But very tall people are underrepresented, as are the very short, the very fat, the very skinny. Pretty much anyone with a body unlike the average is underrepresented. Gender has very little to do with this."

I think the point was that you could argue your way out of seeing gender bias anywhere at all with your argument—it doesn't just apply in this crash-test situation.
Watching a Lecture Twice at Double Speed Can Benefit Learning
I've traveled to countries for weeks, even months in total, then moved there, before the real issues of said country / culture / society become properly apparent and people open up about things. I'm not saying it was bad, but it takes a bit of time to read a place. Imagine that in a place where saying the wrong thing can have you landed in prison.

I've actually worked with some Chinese for years and it wasn't until I went out on a dinner that some really ugly stuff about why Han people in the past have been treated badly and that being the justification for the treatment of Uighur people, then I listened to an hour about why Muslim people are a problem and all the horror stories they'd read about them in the paper (it was clearly propaganda). Scarier for me one of their best friends at the time, who just missed the dinner, was Muslim. That wouldn't be an isolated case I'm sure.

This is not to single out Chinese by the way, I'm just reinforcing my point that it seems naive to just say, "I stopped by, looked pretty good, I'd go back, seems like a good place."
What should have coinbase done? $150m is not a biggest of sums they handle daily for random persons. All you have to have is a bank account and a succesful deposit. Why should coinbase even care, if all regulatory rules were fulfilled?
Bandwidth stopped growing because needs were met.

> If it was available, there would be apps to use it.

To an extent, since the inverse is also true: there is as of yet no market demand for such large amounts of bandwidth either.

Once popular apps/usecases with heavy bandwidth requirements see wide adoption (at first limited to specialty high bandwidth networks), we will start seeing growth in the consumer bandwidth space.
Access to raw memory is locked behind the unsafe keyword though. Rust officially already does not guarantee any safety in that scenario even within 1 process.
Government ban means banned for use by government officials/entities. So it doesn't really apply to the general public or corporations(Unless the corporation specifically has a contract with the same requirements to do work on behalf of the government)
> Zero operating emissions

Could it be clear to everybody that this thing will require energy and thus will, in a way or another, emit somthing (either CO2 from electricity production or CO2 from the construction of means of electricity production).

Besides, why not just invest in trains ? (or lighter alternative if any)
With unique types and offering an alternative to monadic approach to pure functional programming, I always had an eye out for this language. I always found its syntax rather clean (no pun intended). Sadly there hasn't be much activity. or at least not much that could be discerned from its public facing website. I would love to see a revival in interest and development.