skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would those niches be? Non-openjdk JVMs occupy even ultra-niche use cases like hard real time, military usage, embedded (though arguably Java ME is just a subset of Java, so you may or may not consider it the same), and the other direction of crazy performant server machines is well-served by OpenJDK — apparent in how is it used on a very very huge percentage of all web servers with top companies relying on it almost exclusively (apple’s servers are mostly Java, google has plenty of java applications, alibaba is a java webshop, twitter runs scala with graal, etc). Just an interesting note, OpenJDK’s GCs can handle heap sizes well into multiTERAbyte ranges.
Indeed. And these are communities that were banned from immigrating at one point, put in camps and their assets stolen during WW2.

Clearly poverty and even oppression doesn’t explain a groups eventual standing.
Some other implementations of Lua:

https://github.com/yuin/gopher-lua Lua in Go

https://github.com/fengari-lua/fengari Lua in Javascript

https://github.com/moonsharp-devs/moonsharp Lua in C#
I don’t understand why anyone would have slack open outside of their work hours. And then complain because they lack the self control to turn it off.
A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
Arcmap is flexible in that it comes with arcpy. How flexible depends on how much you pay. Unfortunately, arcpy is unreliable for some use cases. My colleagues and I found it to be the only python module ever that could result in different results for the same inputs each time it ran.

We've since switched to open source GIS and we'll never be going back
Read up on what a JIT compiler is. Also, OpenJDK is written in C++, not C.
Kinda interesting, but I can’t help think that starting with Windows XP and using TweakUI etc. to turn off most of the annoying things XP added would be a slightly more useable NT 5.x experience, as it got support longer.
Absolutely I still struggle to read the Bible and find the relevance. But then I felt a tug and wound up at a more modern church that applies it to today. Podcasts on leadership and entrepreneurship. Dinner parties on people’s rooftops overlooking NYC (precovid). Volunteering together delivering meals to those in need. This I could understand.

Also Christians aren’t perfect. My hope is that you don’t let us ruin what could be the best thing that can happen to you.
Silq – First Intuitive Programming Language for Quantum Computers (2020)
I was raised religious (catholic), and kind of believed in it. And then when I was 18-20 I spent a lot of time and effort to rid myself of religion, and have been living happy and free ever since. I still enjoy the occasional mass (once or twice a year), mainly because I like to sing.

I have not taught my kids any kind of religion or spirituality, and they don't seem to miss it. I wanted to spare them the effort of getting out of it later. What I hadn't anticipated is that as a result, they are pretty ignorant of most things, they have little idea who Jesus or Mary are, etc. (We tell them about it sometimes, of course, but it's very different than going to Sunday School for 10 years).
I rented an SUV for 46 days, drove it across the US.
And
j = json.loads

For quick debugging:

print( j( some_data_structure ))

For some data structure that you'll eventually be sending out as json.
Quest 2 costs $300, this one is 2k+.
Viral load is not the only factor; there is also a) how long that infectious viral load is present for, and b) chance of getting infected with that viral load in the first place.

No analogy is perfect, but I think that this one is instructive, as it breaks the binary logic.

The statement "vaccines don't prevent..." conflates two very different statements, i.e. "vaccines don't prevent all occurrence of $outcome" (which is often true but not the point) and "vaccines don't have any impact on $outcome, prevent any occurrences of $outcome" (which is false, but is often implied).

It's clear that COVID-19-Omicron is infectious to a crazy degree, but that's a different statement to "this defensive measure does nothing".
AI Accelerators – Part I: Intro
Oh absolutely; it just always felt like what Passat gained horizontally offset what it lost vertically. Again, not that I'd go for a sedan over hatchback personally... and if it can't even make up the lost cargo space, the point of long sedans is even more lost on me.
I spent much of my life without money, and I was altogether fairly satisfied and curious. I would often wonder, will I feel the same forms of loneliness, inadequacy, aimlessness, when I have money, as I do now without it?

Yes, I have.

Emotions are their own realm, and the time you spend observing and reflecting on them, as we are doing in this thread, is valuable.
Sorry... what? what do you mean?
If you want Lua which is luajit compatible, do what I did and use Lua 5.1 for the scripting engine. This way, if luajit performance is ever needed, scripts written with my engine will not break.

Lua 5.1 + bit32 (because, yes, I like to be able to do bitwise and/or/xor stuff) is my current favorite scripting language.
How did Foundation end up being after episode 2? I stopped watching then and kinda forgot about the show
+1 for Daylio. A low-friction way to track your activities and mood. Comes with a lot of ways to look at the data as well.
80% of consumer spending is by women in the us.

Women are more likely to replace 'worn out' clothes

There's a good chance that the majority of men's underwear is bought by women.
My new early retirement life goal is to buy 2 hydro power plants in italy for $2m and live off the 10% annuity income of $200k
I dunno - when MP3s became thing, in my country you were allowed to convert your CD to MP3. But you need the CD to prove your ownership (technically - I don't know if there ever was a court case where somebody produced the CDs).

It seems to me in that sense a NFT could help - you can get the MP3s anywhere, but the NFT proves you actually paid for it.

Of course there would have to be a way to get the Ubisoft games, or they would have to play along.
Was this Russian social media company Vkontakte?
Everybody I've talks to jumps on the victim blaming high horse every time this comes up. "Well just don't get banned. What did you get banned for? What were you wearing when you got banned?"

I have friends that got banned because somebody hacked into their account and fraudulently bought things. This is apparently account sharing, ban. Or filing a dispute about the charges = ban. Mass report by trolls = ban. There's a bunch of technical reasons outside your control where your account can be banned.

Most of the legal protections you otherwise would have apparently do essentially nothing when you're banned from the service / platform you are required to use instead of just the thing you bought.

This is annoying when your Steam account is hacked. This is a life altering problem when your YouTube comment gets flagged for a combined technicality of a combo-rule like "hate speech or terrorism" by calling somebody a "dummy," causing your YouTube account and all videos to be shut down, gmail account and all archived email deleted, all google docs deleted, all linked google cloud services to be suspended, and all 3rd party login oauths to be revoked. You won't be able to log into even non-google things, and further can't reset your password / login credentials or prove who you are because your email was deleted.

This entire nightmare can happen to anybody at any time for any reason. Even further, because YouTube in particular is fully automated customer support, your rebuttable is likely to be automatically denied and flagged for trolling putting you in an even worse state. The only chance you have is if you happen to personally know a higher-up human before hand that you're able to talk to.
What if it was all on chain? See https://ultra.io (a Steam competitor) for an example of this:

"All the content you buy from Ultra, such as games, DLCs, and virtual items, are on-chain digital goods you truly own. On Ultra you’re in control of your assets as though they were physical items. These assets can be sold, traded and given away to your friends within Ultra, or outside of Ultra, through 3rd party marketplaces and mobile apps."
It's just weird to have a card that instead of giving access to your own funds might also put you in debt. As for those things you've mentioned - they are US specific. I'm pretty sure that all of the extra services are tied to a specific card plan and will not get better with switching to credit.
Here's a sketch of a proof using tools from Markov chain monte carlo. Writing on mobile so forgive any typos.

Suppose you start by drawing a point uniformly at random from the triangle. We'll call this step 0. With probability 1 this point is not in the sierpinski triangle, but if we consider finite approximations of the sierpinsky triangle it is in the level 0 sierpinski triangle (see this random illustration I found on Google [1]). In particular, since the Level 0 sierpinski triangle is just the whole triangle, the initial point is uniformly distributed in the level 0 sierpinski triangle.

This is a base case. Then we can do an induction step: If we have a point which is uniformly distributed in the level k sierpinski triangle, applying the transformation (pick one vertex of the triangle at random and move halfway towards it) results in a point which is uniformly distributed in the level k+1 sierpinski triangle. This is because each corner of the level k+1 sierpinski triangle is a scaled copy of the level k sierpinski triangle.

Putting the base case and induction step together, we deduce that when we repeatedly apply the transformation of picking a vertex and moving halfway towards it, at each step k we have a point which is uniformly distributed in the level k sierpinski triangle.

This is enough to show that if we start with a sample of N points drawn uniformly from the triangle, after k steps we'll have N points drawn uniformly from the level k sierpinski triangle (i.e. an arbitrarily good approximation of the sierpinski triangle, if we make k large enough). It's not quite enough to show that if we start with a single point and record the location after each step we'll end up with something that looks like the sierpinski triangle. For that we need to establish ergodicity of the Markov chain. The details are technical but not difficult to show; basically the Markov chain needs to not get caught in fixed-length loops (aperiodicity) and never get stuck unable to reach part of the triangle (irreducibility). Both these conditions are satisfied, so the Markov chain is ergodic and starting from a single point will approximate a sierpinski triangle.

I've glossed over a bunch of details but hopefully that shows the basic idea.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ali-Bashir-4/publicatio...
It's very subjective but would like to know if some of you are sharing this feeling around you:

In the modern occidental society, Christianity, which was the spiritual tradition, was abandoned and rejected by almost all the teenagers and young adults at the end of the '60s and by the following generations.

All the next generations until now, in its majority, were declaring to be atheist and rejecting all spiritual side of life.

I don't know if all the Covid related situation changed something but, around me (25-30 years old), a non-negligible part of them started to gain an interest in spirituality (mainly Catholicism here).
You will need to identify the slow responses and break down performance of each part to then identify what part of the stack is slow.

You don't have a lot of resources (RAM/CPU) in use so it is possible that's the constraint but you have a real learning opportunity to understand better how your tech stack works and learn some performance tuning. Your cloud provider should have some stats for you to see if those things are hitting limits, some simple charts to glance at would at least give you an idea.

You mention its a CRUD app so first thing I would look at and spend time on is your SQL queries and analyzing them. The majority of the time in web requests for CRUD apps is in the DB - because it could be loading and reading a file from disk (where the DB stores data) which is typically slower than receiving bytes on a network socket. Learn what `explain plan` means for your database flavor. I am going to venture a guess that you may not have database indexes on some tables. An explain plan for your queries should tell you what indexes, if any, are used.

For your front-end you could look into caching services for any JS framework libs, images, etc. assuming there is a way to do that on your network in China. That would reduce the bandwidth usage and if those services work properly, your end users would be downloading those assets from a faster server than you provide.
There's a lot of heritage in archived and emulated computer games from 80's and 90's. Further, I still have some games in their original boxes somewhere and being nostalgic enough to not have thrown them away I own my copies of those games in the true sense of the word. Same for music on compact discs. I have ripped most of them for myself but I still own the original copies in a closet.

Now, 30 years from now or roughly 2050, there will be a cultural and historical blackout because anything people are "buying" now are basically revokable privileges to temporarily hire games, music, and movies. There will be no single server up and running to provide today's games for people who are today young but will be middle-aged few decades from now. And, even before that, judging based on Ubisoft it looks like the "purchases" will be long gone before the service itself.

What a waste.
SDP per capital is a poor metric when for years your social service policy was explicitly a one-way bus ticket to Vancouver.
Used to not be religious, too RCIA at Harvard and became Catholic. Love contemplating free will, since by most definitions it is supernatural.

Religious practice adds so much color to my life, especially in terms of contemplating gratitude. The central worship of Catholics is the Eucharist which translates into giving thanks.

If life has no meaning, nothing is lost, because it has certainly improved my life.
I meditate, usually an hour of sitting practice, and then through the day.

Practicing more felt really urgent after a couple of big psychedelic trips, and I've found getting into contact with a source of fundamental unconditional love hugely helpful. I feel very in touch with the sacred, despite being agnostic at best.

I'm not a huge fan of the mainstream concentration work stuff; I've been influenced by Rob Burbea's jazzy, improvisational approach.

Also, currently I'm working on the jhanas, which are a lot of fun, and I'm excited to work on them at a 10-day retreat starting in a week. Leigh Brasington's Right Concentration is the best intro, or for a thread see https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1471300341232668679
What about you write the book, it is good, then others take said book and print it themselves to sell on Amazon for less because they don't have to cover the cost of the time and effort that went into writing the book.
Recently I was attending several catholic weddings and I was taken aback by the level of religious fervor and literal interpretation of the bible there. I was expecting the preaching to be more focused on how to live a good life and be a valuable member of society, but instead it was more about how I will burn eternally for not believing.
But if my understanding is correct, PGOs don’t help much with “speculative optimizations” — eg. Java can almost always elide virtual calls when only one actual class is loaded implementing an interface, reverting back to virtual calls on class load.

No matter PGO these and similar examples can’t be done without self-modifying code, while java with JIT is sort of that in a way.
I am surprised they don't keep a link to the download on f-droid, it seems to be there, and provided by them.
You’re not seeing how the delta variant would have spread in a fully unvaccinated population. Notice how the original variant and the more infectious alpha variant failed to thrive post-vaccine. There was some competition effect from delta but it isn’t as if one variant directly suppresses another. Delta would have ravaged the country without vaccination reducing its rate of spread.
Re-implementations often turn out faster simply because you understand the problem better, which seems to be the case here.

The same algorithm not going to run faster in Rust than tuned C, period. Just like C is never going to run faster than tuned Assembly. I wish we could move on to discussing something that matters.
It's true. The wet coast of Canada is like the west coast of the ISA. Ontario is more like New York and Quebec like New England.
OP asked for good projects to read. I think the code quality is very high, the documentation is great, it's been a joy to use, and it's been more than fast enough for my purposes.

I didn't make that speed claim, though I am aware that tidbit is controversial.
This is one of the precorded ones, but if oyu check one of the sister comments you can see that a guy hooked up his MIDI keyboard to it. So I guess something like that :-)
A province in Vietnam suspended the Pfizer vaccine after 100+ 15-17yo got sick:

https://e.vnexpress.net/news/news/120-children-hospitalized-...
This is a true loss.
I agree with you, and I don't think that's the assertion that Harari makes in his book. He first widens the definition of religion to include other belief systems such as money, commercial organisations, economic systems, and polytheistic religions, and acknowledges that many of these aren't directly bound to any sense of morality (which isn't to say they're immoral either).
Using this band is only an aviation problem if you're in the middle of an approach (approximately 20 miles from a runway, but not a big circle). Hence the location and power limitations.
As they say, what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I don't really smoke cigarettes, but I do subscribe to punk rock ideology.
For C++ wouldn't Manticore, the Sphinx Search fork be a better example?
E.O. Wilson comes up when you get into the "actor model"[0], especially with this quote:

>“A colony of ants is more than just an aggregate of insects that are living together. One ant is no ant.”

Many publications and articles on the topic of actors reference it at some point.

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actor_model
Making of the Atomic Bomb is excellent, highly recommended.
Arizona Senate candidate brings NFTs to politics
How is this as a definition of spiritual? “The practice of engaging with the unknown for practical effect.”
The version [of a dependency] starts to matter if it blocks upgrade to a version of the platform that would allow to control a specific new capability.
Mankind is one species with about 7 billion specimen. Insects an entire class with in the million species and 10 quintillion specimen. Not really a fair comparison. If all mammals would dissapear there'd also be chaos. Even just whale poop has a big impact.
2021's Top Stories About AI
You are insinuating astroturfing with no evidence other than "I work at Microsoft" and your personal, albeit somewhat justified, belief of "MS bad". It's not a constructive comment.
I visited Kanazawa once, to me these spaces gave me this really lonely energy, not entirely bad, just seems like a once great city which is struggling to survive or at least keep its identity.

I think about what circumstances would turn things around for Kanazawa but couldn’t imagine a time when people would flock back to live there. At least in the near future.

So many incredibly quiet yet beautiful neighbourhoods either abandoned or waiting to be.

Almost worth a visit if in Japan just to experience it. There is a list of beautiful things to see there.

I wonder if anyone else who’s been there felt the same ? I couldn’t tell if the author was trying to convey a similar feeling or not. Maybe the following comes close.

> Seidenberg’s photographs depict this city as storied and imperiled, poised between decline and revival.
Azure Container Apps: Build and Deploy with Bicep and GitHub Actions
Yes this is typesetting basics. I used named styles, so e.g. I can change the format of level 2 headings.
Surprising Things I learned in 2021
OP here. Great question! I've never journaled or recorded emotional variables partly because that takes much more time and partly because they're harder to analyze.

For example, I could record stress on a 1-10 scale. Do I just put 11 for a day of unprecedented stress? Or should 10 always represent the global maximum thus far? More generally, how do I ensure consistency with myself?

I do vividly remember the stressful times in my life and can see their effects in the blog post's charts. I figured it's probably best to preserve at least some of my own privacy, although I did touch on this a bit when discussing music.

All that said, I have friends who journal and I might end up trying it too out of fear of losing data (even if it's squishy). Maybe once a week would be a sustainable cadence?
You already need a compute unit in the headset to do the sensor fusion / tracking. The chip in my smartphone can't handle the number of cameras needed. I guess is that the cost of upgrading that chip to one that can support playing the VR content is worth it.

I'm not sure what part of having a separate smartphone as a compute unit makes it any easier. It might even be harder to do.
Bulgaria has a very low vaccination rate (27%) and the curve doesn't look that much different from the US's: https://www.google.com/search?q=bulgaria+covid

It does seem better, but can we know for sure to what this can be attributed? Usually places that had an easier time in 2020 got worse this year, and vice-versa, which makes sense...
Do you actually need to wear glasses? I guess maybe it depends on your prescription.

To me it seems for those who are nearsighted, wouldn't need glasses as the screen is very close to your face.
I use hooks in a large codebase and I don't like them. I've found function components to gain us no benefits over classes and are harder to reason about. There are hardly any calls to useState because you require a state management library to do anything non-trivial. It's crazy we've come so far with computing and React Native is the best we can do for cross-platform software. We've looked at Qt but the licensing is $4k/year/dev.
One of the reasons they're still around in Common Lisp is to serve as a baseline for the set of cadr functions it provides.

Never use them myself, but I suspect once they're part of muscle memory they make dealing with lists very convenient.

clhs.lisp.se/Body/f_car_c.htm
This is a beautiful response to the question and has given me some new layers to add to my own practice. I, like you, have found that focusing on seeing beautiful things, recognizing their beauty, and saying prayers of gratitude for being able to see beauty has really opened up some new doors in my relationship with God.

Thank you for your thoughtful and beautiful response to the original question.