skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not sure most people use this technique, but when I was using RC-based systems, I would often assert that an object's refcount was 1 just before I let go of that last reference. Suddenly, we have RAII-like predictable destruction.

I even built it into Vale as one of its memory management options called "constraint references" [0] though later switched to generational references which gave us RAII without the halts. I sometimes wonder how far I could have taken that RC + assert model.

In my experience, the vast majority of objects even in an RC'd language do have strong refcount = 1. Perhaps we were in different domains though, I was mostly in game dev and app dev.

[0] https://verdagon.dev/blog/raii-next-steps
Were these test results reported in the official stats ?
Now that Windows and Mac got bad enough, and Linux got good enough, it's no longer always 100% quackenbarkers to say "switch to Linux" to ordinary minor grievances, so those people had to go somewhere.
Aquatic: High-performance open BitTorrent tracker
NetNewsWire (iOS)
Tiny-Tiny-RSS on a self hosted server
if you're mid-30s you probably had an extra enamel coating applied to your teeth at some point that may be doing some pretty awesome work protecting your molars
I can envisage Civil use;

as emergency power-plants for both 'National Disaster' power-outages, and Desalination plants for Water security.

Edit-Adds:

Project Pele : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pele

Nuclear Micro-Reactor : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_microreactor
The stories are in the NY Times Magazine and not the mainline NY Times and are a 'reframing' of historical event viewed in the context of slavery. I get that this is a sensitive topic and often is interpreted as an attempt to make Americans feel guilty about their nation's past. How Germany approaches study of their Nazi history in schools is surprisingly less problematic, apparently because of this history's unequivocal evil.

Still, you suggest that the NY Times is revising history and you call it a 'fraud'. I suppose you wouldn't mind offering some examples of the misstatements made in the 1619 Project stories.
A code review tool should display warnings, and reviewers should expect fixes for real problems that show up that way (and suppression of false positives).
I don't think it's that simple. In a setting where there is little concentration of wealth, and where it is also hard or impossible to borrow money for productive purposes, I can easily imagine giving money to the "supply side" leading to large gains that "lift all boats" compared to not giving that money.

With the benefit of hindsight, I don't think we've been in a situation that resembles that (at least in the US) at any point since "supply side economics" was formulated. I don't know what I would have thought at the time; I expect it was less obvious than it feels now.

There's remains the possibility that, even in a situation like that, some other approach would work even better, although naively pumping money into the "demand side" probably isn't that approach.
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Feedly is what I'm currently using. It's fine, but I really only use the basic functionality.
Humans communicate via audio. Actually seeing a person's face doesn't seem to add much to comprehension in my opinion. As an absurd example to illustrate this point, consider a cameras on, mics off meeting to get a sense of what proportion of information is communicated by audio vs video. As a second example, consider a meeting with cameras and audio but with a 1 second delay in audio - this would almost be as bad as the first.

I don't mind having cameras on at all really but they don't add much - it is largely just a novelty. Audio is everything.
In addition to I bonds you can also buy up to $10K in EE bonds per year as well. These double in value, but you have to hold on to them for 20 years until they mature. I treat this as as retirement savings.

For example, if you buy them when you are between 40 and 50 years old, you will have $200K of risk free money by age 70.

Also, both I bonds and EE bonds are tied to the individual. If you are married your spouse can also buy $20K in bonds per year as well.
sfeed_curses. It works just well enough that I haven't tried to replace it, but not well enough that I don't think about replacing it. I don't automatically update my feeds, sync across devices, or maintain a central repo, just manually update in the morning when I check the news.
There used to be a "purity test for programmers" which asked if you could solve the Towers of Hanoi using troff.

I wanted to get that point, so I learned enough troff to write a solution to Towers of Hanoi with it

http://www.loyalty.org/~schoen/troff-hanoi.txt
that's a recipe for gastric cancer
>And more often than not, technique is what helps people prevail in fights, not strength.

Find me a credible source that claims this. After all, we certainly don't group wrestlers into weight categories because of differences in technique?

>The claim is that women can be as strong as men, and that isn’t totally false. Maybe not the strongest men, but certainly a lot of them, and especially if they train well.

That claim is simply false. The most extreme female athletes come close to achieving parity with an average untrained man. There are almost none of these - certainly not "a lot of them". The vast majority of women are much weaker than even the weakest men.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17186303/
"Less expected was the gender related distribution of hand-grip strength: 90% of females produced less force than 95% of males. Though female athletes were significantly stronger (444 N) than their untrained female counterparts, this value corresponded to only the 25th percentile of the male subjects."

"The results of female national elite athletes even indicate that the strength level attainable by extremely high training will rarely surpass the 50th percentile of untrained or not specifically trained men."

>Also, there seems to be a thin veil of sexism in your claim,

I appreciate your candor.

> as though women aren’t capable of thinking for themselves

The problem is that everyone (men and women) thinks of themselves as the special snowflake who can "beat the odds". I think that the message to women "You are very likely weaker than the weakest men you know" avoids much more harm (case 1 direct harm) than the "good" generated by: "it's extremely unlikely but with good genetics and training it's a possibility that some extreme athlete women could become nearly as strong as a below-average man".
We use Discord at a small startup. It's nice because we can easily get our external clients on and make rooms for giving them customer support without going through the janky slack process. We also have public channels so people can come by and report bugs or ask for help. Highly recommend Discord. It's a great product.
The one they built, apparently.
Docker, and I think it is the one most dumb af. You are fxxking sandbox another sandbox system mean to control the data storage and resources assignment from the rest of system resources?? How do I suppose to use it? It waste me 30 minutes wondering why dir mounting didn't work and it turns out it is packed into snap package.
I mean... No. It misses 1, 2, arguably 3, 5, usually 7, 8, 10, and 12. That's over half the list, while QAnon checks all 14, or close.
Arizona is already a place that is uninhabitable to humans for 4 months of the year without a cooling chain (air conditioned house to air conditioned car to air conditioned work).

Basic survival there already requires artificial means; adding water to the requirements list only makes sense.
My grandma had all her teeth at 97 or so when she passed, and never saw a dentist, and I saw her use this tobacco toothpaste 3x per day for 25 years, until she died.

https://image.slidesharecdn.com/stfactsheetcombined10-23-02-...

I assume she had a combination of good genes, frequent teeth cleaning right after meals, low sugar intake, and no soda/alcohol.

I have never had a cavity as of mid 30s, and I only started going to dentist at 23 or so. I don’t eat much, if any, sweets/junk food/soda.
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There's an analogous concept to Nash equilibria in transport engineering known as Wardrop's First Principle. In essence, at equilibrium no user has an incentive to change their behaviour by choosing an alternative route. A 'central routing algorithm' that optimises over the system is in essence Wardrop's Second Principle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glen_Wardrop
If we posted one of these a day on HN - I wonder how long before anyone noticed they weren't real...
The downside of the EE bonds is they don't grow linearly. They are guaranteed to be worth double their original value via a one-time adjustment at the 20 year mark if they haven't already doubled -- and at today's rates they definitely won't double until then. If you need to sell them before the 20th anniversary they will barely be worth more than their original value, and in real terms they will be worth far less because of inflation.
It is pretty easy to turn this on. The ability to alter settings is much greater for the average android user than in 2015.
I, for one, appreciated the humor here. But I also understand why others did not.
Upload to print shop via ZMODEM...
Hans Reiser used to charge $25 to ask any kernel related question. I used it once since I was having trouble creating a partition table for a >2TB drive back when GPT partition tables were in their infancy. Needless to say I didn't get a satisfactory answer. But for $25 it wasn't a big deal.
NetNewsWire on macOS. It's just such a well polished Mac app that it makes me happy. Plus, RSS is just cool.
Microsoft Dynamics tries to be a no-code platform (although you can add DLLs if you want to) and it's a nightmare. Your entire app is built into a giant XML file. It can take 45 minutes for this XML to be imported. In the repo, the XML is taken apart into thousands of small XML files. Any change to the app has to be done as follows:

1. build the giant XML file 2. import it into the platform 3. make the change (e.g. update a form or database column) 4. export as XML 5. shred it into thousands of little XML files

Then you discover that one simple change in the app has turned into dozens of changes in XML files. And you have to figure out which of those changes to include in your commit. If you guess wrong, then unpredictable things can happen.

If you're tempted to bypass all this by just editing the XML directly - sometimes it works, and sometimes the whole thing is deemed invalid, which you discover when importing it and you get an extremely unhelpful error message.

The original idea was that you can define a data model, forms, and some business logic in a no-code manner. But it's a nightmare when you have a team of software developers working on an app.
Yes the article does mention that TASC was written Applesoft

> Even if you hadn’t made it that deep into the manual, you could have figured out that TASC was used to compile itself because TASC used its own runtime library.
Faces are helpful for communicating around emotionally nuanced issues, which is usually not part of routine communications. So if it's a potentially emotionally charged conversation, maybe that should be the signal it's time to require cameras on.
> Best case, check out your code, bump the version number, touch up your copyright date,

You missed one step: buy a new mac because the current version of xcode will not run on your old one.
What's the state of implementations suitable for real-time systems?
Turning a dump of wikipedia (the kind you get on dumps.wikimedia.org) into a running instance of wikipedia that you can browse is actually insanely hard. I put considerable effort into it a few years back and gave up. Don't know what the state of this is right now. So unless the servers that survive are the ones running wikipedia in production now, archaeologists will be out of luck.

But those won't survive, the simple reason being that the people running them now are making continuous changes to them now and there is no guarantee that those changes preserve whatever information future archaeologists will find of value (which we can't really know now).

And this is true for much simpler mediums than software as well. Take film for example. For film printed on celluloid, all you need is for a good copy of each reel of each film to survive and you've got pretty much a guarantee that this piece of culture will be preserved somehow. Nowadays films are digital thingamajigs rather than celluloid artefacts and the institutions tasked with looking after that digital cultural heritage go about it with an editorializing rather than archival mindset. (e.g. taxpayer-funded BBC removed an old episode of Fawlty Towers, itself a taxpayer-funded BBC production, from their streaming platform for being racist after the George Floyd incident [1]).

Besides: With virtualization and the various forms of infrastructure abstraction in combination with encryption-based security models, even a hypothetical scenario where all human life ceases to exist but all servers somehow survive on the bare metal layer would probably fail to preserve our digitual cultural artefacts.

Hard disks owned by private individuals with a "digital hoarder" mindset would probably make for a more useful archaeological find than servers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Germans
Sure... until the day you want to set up a group chat
High definition audio is great. That said, upwards of 90% of human communication is non-verbal, including body language and facial expressions. One benefit of high-quality audio vs text is that we include intonation. But it doesn't encapsulate everything.

This isn't to say we've cracked that nut with the current state of internet-transmitted video. A blanket "humans communicate via audio neglects these other channels of communication.
While it is unfortunately ill-timed, it's not like an expired discount code - it's still usable next year.
Calcium helps make strong bones and teeth. So milk drinkers had good teeth. Norway is northern Europe where they have the gene to digest milk.
Dumb question: why don't they do this from the factory?
When you have big games not on the appstore like Fornite it teaches a new generation how to do this. The warning becomes meaningless.
Reason? Maybe. A good one? I don't think so.
It's so strange to see my first name attached to someone else!
Let's point it out to them immediately. If they apologize, we respond that apologies are not needed, and all that is required is that they only make sites that they can keep up and that they meet all the agreements they make. If the website admin continues to fail at these, there is only one consequence that makes sense: they can no longer be part of the company.
What you describe...

Those persons give my address all over the place. Don't you understand the implication?

Also using unverified addresses by Paypal and other assholes is irresponsible and honestly I can't see why it isn't spam.

Edit: Add Netflix to the assholes list. I've just reset the password for another idiot.
By this metric, something like a bee is faster than a jet fighter.

A bee: 0.02m, 5 m/s -> 250 self lengths.
A fighter: 20m, 500 m/s -> 25 self lengths.
War always results in death. My claim is the differential from losing GPS is less than that of losing power.
This is not correct. Masks don’t work like a sieve, where everything that is smaller than the gaps slips through. ie filtering.

At the sizes we’re talking about, it’s not filtering that is the most effective form of keeping out/in particles. What happens instead is that the particles don’t move in a straight line but have a more random motion, and if the particle in that motion happens to hit a mask fiber, it will almost certainly attach itself to it.

In fact, smaller/lighter particles are even more likely to be blocked by masks because their movmeembt is more random and they are more likely to lodge themselves into mask fibers they may hit.

Surgical and N95 masks make this even more likely because their fibers are electrostatically charged. Cloth masks try and make up for the lack of electrostatic charge with more layers and a better fit.

That’s why if you’re unable to wear an N95 or equivalent mask, the next best recommendation was double masking with a cloth mask and surgical mask, where the surgical mask provided the electrostatic charge, while the cloth mask placed over the surgical mask improved the fit.
This one gave me a good chuckle.

>TinderSwindler is a system developed by Facebook to analyze mobile phone location data in order to catch potential cheaters. TinderSwindler leverages Al technology to automatically identify relationships between people based on their movements over a period of time. TinderSwindler was released by Facebook in January 2018.
Doesn't seem to say there's a functional human trial. https://patents.google.com/patent/US9040302B2/en suggests patent expires 2031.
Being able to plug your ears and call a field apolitical is a matter of your position in society or in your sub community. There's the joke that goes "what are the two sexes? Male and political", and it really does have a grain of truth to it.
Firefox "Reader View" works nicely on that site. I assume there is something similar for Chrome if that's what you're using.
That seems like a very pedantic distinction. Large scale investment and a leadership position within the first 9 month of company creation seems like a “founder” to me.
I have to ask: did you truly print some beautiful typeset piece?

I don't get what you mean: most people I know, when they print something, expect it to be of some quality. Sure maybe the typesetting isn't great, but the actual ppi (I think that's the term), they definitely care for.

I would say you did witness a revolution! But let's remember what came before it, and for most consumers, even the earliest technologies "did the job". Anything beyond "does the job" is gravy, and will likely not be recognized unless you begin to commercialize your work, where people expect beyond "did the job".
I don't think it's quite deterministic because a simple variable going out of a scope can trigger deallocation of a random object tree (which can be large), which you cannot always predict locally (as a programmer) and which can affect performance on a critical path or introduce side effects at unpredictable times, plus the overall possibility of having uncollected cycles - so in the end for a programmer -- who's not willing to manually trace ownerships themselves to understand the behavior in every detail -- it has quite same disadvantages as a tracing GC (deallocation may kick in at "unpredictable" times) with the additional disadvantages such as: fragmentation and poorer memory locality in the long term (no compaction), possible memory leaks (due to object islands), temporary young generation objects being as expensive as old generation objects (no bump pointer allocation in a nursery), excessive RC increments/decrements can trash performance (and if it's atomic it can IIRC force cache invalidation, which also makes the behavior less deterministic).

So I don't think it's a silver bullet, it's just a different kind of GC with its own set of disadvantages. I think most of the time RC is chosen because it's simple to implement or because there's a legacy system where RC is the only choice, and all the other "benefits" are just afterthoughts to further justify the choice.
The specific case of SR-71 to F-117 seems incredibly unlikely - at least based on my memory of Ben Rich's (was an engineer at Lockheed Skunkworks who worked on the A-12/SR-71 program and then was Director/President for F-117 program) memoirs.

What did happen was that some of the program managers who initiated the stealth fighter program were not aware initially aware of the stealth characteristics of SR-71. This was rectified.
Facebook made fake accounts scraped from their school athletic websites. reddit initially made fake accounts to seem like they had more users. Ashleymadison made fake profiles to lure users (I'm sure almost all dating sites do this). These are just the ones I know of off the top of my head.

"Fake it until you make it" works in social circles and social networks.
"...reassure her that VCRs don't execute code from tape"

That's were a good education comes in. A good education gives one an inquiring mind and thus she'd know from computers of that time that programs on tapes require computers and back then VCRs, at best, had dedicated controllers that had no way of running such a program (they could barely play video let alone do anything else).

Moreover, a reality check would come into play. How would any and every brand of VCR be able to respond such a program made after VCRs were designed - that feature having never been mentioned in the handbooks or elsewhere?

Even then and even if VCRs had the potential to do so, she'd ask herself the obvious question 'if this were true then everyone would be talking about it by now so why haven't I heard about it?'

Right, nothing's impossible, pigs may fly but I've yet to see one (the corollary being the gullible are easily fooled).
I must admit I’m one of those always-on people and everyone in our team does so. For those speaking I feel it is quite rude to not give them any visual cue on how they are doing: I’m I understood? Are my points appreciated? Do I bore people? Are people even listening?

Personally, I think the only good reasons to turn off a camera are either technical issues or if you indeed briefly want to send the message “I am distracted for a short while, but will be back with full focus in a while”

To your other points:

- Don’t like your own image: turn self-view off

- Messy background: enable blurring (or an alternative background)
I'm tickled by the "Molecule jump onto the [STM] tip" - did they have a Symbiote[1] in the race?

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbiote_(comics)
It's not a very good form of energy storage or transport. It's not dense either as a gas or as a liquid, so it'd be difficult to use in all the places gasoline, propane, etc. are used now. It also burns very hot in a combustion engine and causes nitrogen dioxide pollution in the process. It's a solution, sure, but not a great one.
I worked on postscript drivers for a few years. Escaping the sandbox was a feature!

You could usually exitserver with a default password, then set global state to do annoying things. Imagine every print job being rotated five degrees, or having a weird dead spot somewhere on the page.

I really enjoyed writing postscript. Fun language
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Elon Musk: 'the woke mind virus' is making Netflix unwatchable
Emacs and elfeed!
3. I misunderstood this one, and now I agree with you.

7. The patriarchy, institutional racism, rape culture. The extent to which these are comparable to conspiracy theories is a matter of perspective and proportion. But it seems obvious that as a group they portray themselves as perpetually besieged, no matter what.

8. Oppressors who are nevertheless exhibiting white or male ‘fragility’
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I know nothing about your story, but based on what you said it sounds like it’s optimized already and the line-use fees+admin overhead pretty much explains why no one can offer better pricing. Again I know only what you wrote here, but that’s my uninformed opinion.