skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Genuinely don't understand what exactly people think you take money for. If it's debt and you don't spend it, you're better off paying off the loan. If it's equity and you don't spend it, you're better off keeping the company. What else do you take money for except to spend it?

This isn't even an entrepreneur/VC/tech thing. You can get there from first principles without intelligence.

Obviously there's a subtlety to it wrt timing etc., but the point of the money is to use the money for some thing.
>How "inability to give a straight answer on anything" and "refusal to make any meaningful decisions" came to be considered good leadership traits is a mystery to me

I mean, it's fairly obvious that those are traits which contribute to building the social capital for obtaining a leadership position (which, from everything I've heard, tends to be more important than actually being a good fit for a given leadership role)

See also the Peter principle.
I've been blasé about VR/AR since FB bought Oculus (well, since VRML et. al. flopped, really.) This is the first project that I've gotten excited about. Like, "shut up and take my money!" excited. (Folks complaining about the price: C'mon!? $3K-$4K for a high-end workstation is de rigueur and it's for work so it's tax deductible.)
>You can also compile Java natively.

This is also misleading. You are implying that GraalVM isn't relatively new and that Java native compilation isn't rare. I've yet to see anyone deploy service or CLI tools that are natively compiled in Java. That statement is about as true as saying you can compile Python natively. Just because its possible doesn't mean the language is actually suited for it.
Can I return the favor and compliment your comment and writing style?
> As a translation for people with intellectual disabilities or people with minimal English skills that the article focuses on

Thanks for pointing it out. My bad. I missed this context. I thought the article was talking about good writing with plain English.
If they make a PS5 specific remaster, I'll buy that, too.
United is famous for its customer service. I have a few good ones myself, but won't bore you.
What happens to poor kids when you give parents money (2015)
Yeah, I've been trying to find solutions with George as to how to highlight we're a VR computer better. Getting the messaging right is tricky.
It depends on the use case, really.

Outside of gaming, I've not felt the need to upgrade for raw performance reasons since ~2012. That was the year I bought by first MacBook Pro. That's not to say that "Mac" was the turning point - that MBP was just the first laptop I've owned where the build quality was sufficient that it wasn't the limiting factor for device longevity. That particular laptop lasted me until late 2016, when my youngest daughter spilled a full glass of milk onto the keyboard. The one I bought to replace it was thinner and lighter, but only enough "faster" to be barely noticeable.

Most of my personal and professional computer use relates to development. There's a point where want I'm working on grow to be complex enough that _no_ laptop is going to be sufficient, and I switch to using some sort of hosted runtime. A powerful desktop would push that point a bit further, but again, not enough to be worth the added expense and inconvenience.

I use CLI tools 90% of the time or more; the only real use I have for a GUI is a web browser. As a result, I've used some pretty limited environments productively and without real issues - I used a Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) at home for a few months between "real computers" a couple of years ago, and went without a laptop for almost a year before that. I used an iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard and a remote developement environment (a Digital Ocean droplet running ArchLinux, using Blink+MOSH) and Safari was fine for checking incremental progress.

Lately I've become more active with my photography and have begun doing some videography as well with various drones. The M1 Macs are substantially better for that kind of work, but I don't see myself falling back into a frequent upgrade cycle.

TL;DR: My upgrade cycle doubled from ~12-18 months to 3+ years in ~2012 for general computing.
> shakespeare-to-modern-english translator because I feel that this is both beautiful and that I'm barely understanding it

But if you translate it then it won't be beautiful; not unless the ML is as good a writer as Shakespeare.

Anyway, Shakespeare really isn't that difficult. It should be read aloud, declaimed with passion. Then a lot of it will become clear, while some will remain ambiguous. Translating it will not, or ought not, remove the ambiguity.

Anyway there are already simplified versions of Shakespeare. Here is one of Macbeth: https://www.academia.edu/6555385/A_Simplified_and_Concise_Ve...
Yeah personally I find it more interesting as a study of the safety of relatively high doses of ivermectin.
Two major things:

1. It compiles statically down to machine code; there's no JIT or bytecode interpretation execution path.

2. It offers straightforward control over the memory layout of your data structures (it doesn't offer straightforward control over the lifecycle of your memory, which is the next step towards the metal that Rust takes).

The advantage is that casual Go code is generally going to be more efficient both in execution and memory usage than a casual program in a higher-level language. You can make Java do almost anything; the important thing is what languages make easy, not what they make possible.
(to complete what mustache_kimono wrote)

Which is not to say that Rust doesn't have a number of downsides. And I'm writing this as a Rust enthusiast and (very minor) contributor to the Rust compiler.
I think there will come a point when the traditional internet will also become diluted in artificiality, content from the procedural web will start to creep into the traditional web, and we won't be able to distinguish. It's interesting to think of it in terms of Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation.
I disagree this is the same road as Jim Crow. Jim Crow was refusing service based on color of skin. This is refusing service based on type of service.

> Anyway, in my original reply to you I mentioned a solution that prevents discrimination without compelling speech. If you feel you must discriminate in providing a service, then you can't provide that service.

In my opinion, that solution is a slippery slope that will quickly infringe on religious freedom. Soon: "Pastors/priests/bishops/etc. are no longer allowed to perform weddings unless they also perform gay weddings (against their beliefs). After all, if you feel you must discriminate in providing a service, then you can't provide that service."

So then you'd have lots of pastors refusing to perform any marriages to avoid doing something against their beliefs, which, in turn, would vindicate all the people opposed to gay marriage who were worried gay marriage would "infringe on the religious sanctity of marriage". Religious freedom down, social discord up.
Traditionally, and depending on the commodity, marginal cost can on rare occasions rise, sometimes stays flat, and often falls.

With this more modern phenomena for digital products, almost all the costs go into creating the very first product, and then with the production of the copy and subsequent copies the cost of subsequent products falls to near-nothing or nothing. It could be called marginal cost if so desired, but this phenomenon is new in terms of its weight within the economy.
Sweet. Yeah I am not talking from experience at all. Just think it would be C# or Unity or something cliche like that. Anyway I'm going to try out your Simula repo on my Index.
You asked for pub/sub functionality over HTTP. Pub/sub implemented on WebSockets is just that.
That's not what "relinquished" means.
I am mostly a Java guy, but when people claim that Java can also compile to binaries, I really don't like that.

It's kind of true... but with so many caveats it's almost a lie.

* it compiles so slowly even basic applications can take 10 minutes to compile. What the hell are they doing all that time?!? Go can compile to multiple OSs architectures on the same machine and it takes a couple of seconds even for large code bases!!

* you can't use most of the Java ecosystem as reflection is endemic... good luck manually declaring everywhere reflection will be used.

* the loss of the JIT hurts peak Java performance a lot. Java runs as fast as Go *once the JVM is warmed up*! Native-image peak performance tends to be some way behind.

Not saying GraalVM native-image is useless, it can be used if you have the energy and knowledge to get past the issues... but as someone who konws Go as well as Java, if I am going to the trouble of going native, I'd just use Go without a doubt.
Okay, was it "not stable" because they expected it to be ext3-like and when btrfs discovered that their system eats bytes and refuses to mount (and they would need to use the recovery mode, get a second disk and do a copy and then a proper restore) or it was not stable because they ran into a kernel oops/bug/deadlock/etc?
http://worrydream.com

Be sure to check out some of the other pages like http://worrydream.com/#!2/LadderOfAbstraction, there are interactive parts.
Zoom is widely used with the native clients and mobile apps, so I was talking about those. Not sure how good/not good Zoom on the web is/was.
Does the full version of this require Strong AI to truly replace the internet? What level of AI is necessary to convincingly replicate human understanding and explanation of information?
They've shoved all that functionality into the Gmail app. I actually uninstalled Gmail because it became the default app to open Google Meet video calls, even with Google Meet installed. I don't need my email app asking me for video and microphone permissions...
> An incumbent’s advantage when providing network goods doesn’t preclude better competitors, it precludes slightly better competitors. A new grocery concept that is 10% better can take over the world. A new social network that is 10% better is likely to languish in obscurity forever...I mean better is better, right? And if so, is there something we can do about it? First, in a world with finite ingenuity, attention, and passion—do we really want entrepreneurs looking for 10% better when 100% is possible?

How do actual people from the real world come to these conclusions? After 10-15 years of experiencing the nightmare that all of these network goods have created worldwide, how can you possibly say that it's actually good that these businesses are impossible to compete with, and that their competitors needing to vastly outperform them in ways that are not only currently inconceivable but have been inconceivable for a decade despite hundreds of billions of dollars worth of effort being placed into the matter is a feature rather than a bug? How many of those 10% improvements currently in the dustbin of some VC fund could compound to create something that's 100, 500, or 1000% better had they had any chance at adoption?

It seems intuitively obvious that these products stifle any reasonable innovation in the space they occupy by their continued remaining in private hands, and that waiting around for the mythical solutions that by sheer virtue of their goodness can depose the corporate titans whose business model is to corrode whatever social cohesion still remains is playing right into their hands.
Fixed to block or not block?
Interesting. Is that mostly because Americans are subject to laws and regulations non-Americans are not?

Is it mostly because of US anti-money-laundering laws?
"systems language" and "systems programming" are terms whose interpretations vary widely across the industry. At one extreme, it means kernels, drivers, and embedded, the stuff where you need to precisely manipulate bytes with no infrastructure and minimum overhead. At the other extreme, it means any software whose users are other programs rather than people, so API services and so on. My first job was as a "systems engineer", writing database middleware (kind of) in Java.

Go is not suitable for the kernels etc kind of systems programming, but it's highly suited to the API services kind.
It's unfortunate in discussions on handwriting that personal style is disregarded: such an opportunity for students to develop their capacity for self-expression! I exchange letters like the old fart I am, and all of my penpals utilize distinct cursive forms despite the fact that we all no doubt learned the same shapes and proportions in school. Some have very frantic strokes with long ascenders and descenders; some emphasize the curves and loops giving their sentences a bubbly look; and it seems everyone hates the "standard" majuscule "T", "F" and "Q" as I've seen several variants on that, including my own preferred (bastardized) versions. Block letters just aren't as evocative.
What's interesting is how much eventually migrated to text. The synchronous nature of phone calls is a big inconvenience. Especially with cell phones and unlimited plans, they became an incredibly low-friction way to interrupt someone's day in a way that a pre-telephone era would consider rude.
Banks were instructed to unfreeze accounts on Monday, Feb 21 (https://www.wsj.com/articles/canada-instructs-banks-to-unfre...). The Emergencies Act that kicked off the account freezes was enacted a week earlier, on Monday, Feb 15. If you were involved in an illegal blockade/occupation, would you honestly choose being arrested and charged with one or more crimes and run the risk of a prison sentence/criminal record, over having your bank account frozen for a week?
Go is "lower level" in the sense that it depends much less on the JVM to optimize things for you. Go code maps much more neatly and predictably to machine code because the optimizations are fewer and less aggressive (e.g., Go has semantics for memory layout). This doesn't imply that Go is inherently faster than Java, but it's easier to reason about the performance of Go code.
Seems interesting.

Would it be a lot of work to add a Lua interface? I think this tool could be very useful for indie devs working on LÖVE/LÖVR projects. I noticed Lua is not part of the roadmap.

I worked on a pong clone last year and it was quite a pain to get the networking reasonably right. It would have been nice if a tool like Hathora could have been used instead.

By the way, does Hathora support NAT hole punching?
CORBA and DCOM, then?
Hasura Announces $100M Series C funding
That's odd.

Where do you have these interactions? I'm frequently on the Rust forums and the few times I have seen something toxic brewing, someone has always stepped in to politely ask the fanbois (yes, they exist) to stop.
What lock-in are you referring to here?
I'd happily pay 5 bucks a month for a search engine searching only a curated list of sites.

Under such a system any company that begins producing spam could be removed, and we could go back to the lovely days of something simple like page rank being used to provide relevant results.
That's fair. Unions can be corrupt in the US too. If they get greedy, they can take down the company (manufacturing can only compensate up to a certain point depending on international compensation).

I have started believing in unions more over the years because I work for a company that is well known for doing the right thing and caring. Yet, I've repeatedly seen the company break its own policies and screws people over. So I feel the issue is pervasive if this is really a "good" company.

It could be that contracts without a union could fix my main complaint - not consistently following the rules. But the only way to force this is through legislation or unions. Unions seem to be more feasible.
It’s bizarre that one person said it and you’ve extrapolated that into the majority
Aspects of Political Skill – Political Savvy and Leadership Effectiveness
Web view apps can still work offline if they're designed for it.
It should be possible to train an upvote prediction model conditioned on submission title. This could then be used to optimize GPT-3-family models to produce text which had the highest predicted upvote response. It's a couple-weekend project and I'd be surprised if an AI-hobbiest hadn't done it already.
I'm surprised there would be that kind of integration between the United app and their on-board WiFi, which appears to be run by Panasonic.

It sounds like you're saying the United app noticed your phone was rooted, and somehow it notified the on-board WiFi to block your ip/mac? Or am I not reading this right?
If only podman, not really. Optiona are also lima and colima for a more native feel.

Seemd version 4.0 is a nice release.
> less weight on the plane, less fuel consumed

For a plane that's negligible.

Tbh, I don't want to sit on a 12hr flight watching a phone screen. I have to hold it on my hand, have nowhere to put it while eating, I have to plug it in to a charger as well (and it's never guaranteed there'll be a plug) + what the OP said about having to download more stuff to my phone I don't want or I might not have space for.
What argument(s) are unconvincing to you?

For more context let me add / point out the side-by-side samples (texti vs markdown vs latex vs wikipedia markup), see https://github.com/texti/texti.github.io/tree/master/samples using the Wikipedia article on markup as an real-world sample.
GP posted an article with carefully-made arguments and lots of citations. Your emotional anecdote is unconvincing in comparison and completely ignores GP's link. Do you have a better argument than using italics on the word "poison?"

GPs link:

https://junkscience.com/2018/06/flashback-fear-of-margarine-...
As did Geocities, Neopets, MySpace et al.
>If you fix all the bugs that could possibly page you

Then you need to either:

- add more features

- find bugs that "belong" to others, and work on them

- go work from beach

Or maybe all three :)
Colossal black holes locked in dance at heart of galaxy
Walking into an unfamiliar situation without training and potentially being confronted by known criminals does not sound like a great idea to me.

Sorry, but my property just isn’t worth the risk. It’s replaceable, I’m not.
It's also worth distinguishing between "has value types" and "uses value types". C# has them, but they aren't particularly idiomatic--they're regarded as an optimization.
I mean what are they going to do, call the cops?
At Hetzner, 1vCPU, 2GB RAM, 20GB HDD is 4.15 euro per month.

Still a bit cheaper than AWS Lightsail.
In my opinion it's more the contrast and the expectation.

I am waiting for something like the metaverse and I do realize that it will not happen as hoped.

I got 3D glasses in 2005 or so when I had a crt display and it was a fun novelty.

I watched 3D movies in the cinema and it's a nice novelty but I do prefer a brighter screen.

I watched 3D movie on a flat screen display and it was okay.

I got a HTC vive pro with wireless and valve index controllers and it's also a nice novelty so far.

VR is in my opinion a success if it becomes normal but no one really uses it day to day.

20 million devices? From a global company? In a market were 14 year old kids already own a 1000$ phone? Success I don't know.

People bought 3D televisions as well so that's that.

My personal expectation was that VR is going to be used for training people to drive, industriel training and lighthearted sports. But as something central like I imagined the metaverse or what ready player one proposed? We are far away from that.

That portable Linux VR headset will lay around at plenty of places of nerds having fun of it for a bit and then it becomes obsolete. An expensive toy.
> the company is not your friend, it is always going to pay you as little as it can that still keeps you working there happily.

You're right it's not a friend, however this model sets up all kinds of terrible ethical games. Am I also going to happily work for as many employers and fake as little work as possible to collect many pay checks? See the arms race we're setting up by choosing to play entirely selfishly. (Which economics would call rationally)
Flappy Birdle: Wordle Plus Flappy Bird – A Multitasking Challenge
In this case, ReiserFS was actually complicating an interface. But interestingly, a patch to resolve just that was published as a follow-up to the message this is all about.
These were all solved problems in the 90s already - we had plenty of high-level languages, including those with integrated IDEs and even databases (dBase comes to mind!). SQL was already around. 32Kb was something from another era.
I've seem some very advanced graphics demos by japanese developers, most of them untranslated. So probably learning Japanese could help you.
I agree with rsc about that study having problems, [1] but I'm not sure this part is accurate:

> Second, the summary of the Discord post about switching from Go to Rust is incredibly misleading. The original Discord post showed a single graph plotting both a Go server and the equivalent Rust server. The Rust line had more predictable performance and avoided the latency spikes in the Go line, but the lines were roughly comparable. Instead, the AWS post displayed the Go graph next to a graph of the Rust server after a significant rewrite to use new data structures and more RAM, circling “ms” vs “µs” time scales. This is either a complete misunderstanding of the Discord post or blatant dishonesty.

The discord post [2] says this:

> After the service ran successfully for a few days, we decided it was time to re-raise the LRU cache capacity. In the Go version, as mentioned above, raising the cap of the LRU cache resulted in longer garbage collections. We no longer had to deal with garbage collection, so we figured we could raise the cap of the cache and get even better performance. We increased the memory capacity for the boxes, optimized the data structure to use even less memory (for fun), and increased the cache capacity to 8 million Read States.

He paraphrased "optimized the data structures to use even less memory (for fun)" as "a significant rewrite to use new data structures". The post doesn't say how involved the optimization was, but I got the impression it might have been pretty trivial to shave a few bytes off the most common allocation or some such.

And as for increasing the cache capacity, that's something Rust allowed them to do without problems but Go 1.10 didn't, so I think it's entirely fair to include it in the comparison. Maybe Go 1.18 would also have been able to do this, but unless Discord dusts off their old server to aid people choosing a language in 2022, we're not going to really know...

[1] and even made a similar argument here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30313943

[2] https://discord.com/blog/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to...
> which would then create pressure to figure out how to make money off of wordle

Oh, you got me there! Definitely wouldn't want that to happen.

You make good points. It's true the solution to newspaper crosswords is usually on the same page, upside down.
Seems to be quite stable and well-documented: https://www.cloudflare.com/ips/

Edit: but yes, the tunnel ‘thing’ is exactly that! So would be even better.
I’ve gotten to know Harsh and we even built a game together with Hathora. We made a digital board game together in a week.

I’m a dev that makes web games (gomobo.app) but I’ve always wanted to spend more time building the game logic and UI and less on the networking and infrastructure stuff. I think Hathora is a great way to make your next game idea wayyy faster.
What's problematic with corvids. Do they wet their nests?
> I was immediately ip-blocked for having a rooted phone

What is wrong with using their app on a rooted phone?
> Go compiles insanely quick

Compared to Java?