skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The essence of OO, from the standpoint you describe, is a struct containing a pointer to an array of function pointers. Such an object is what, in kernel memory, a file descriptor in Unix locates; read() on a file descriptor calls through one of those pointers. Syntax this, "private" that, "this" the other are window dressing. You obviously can cobble that together by hand, as has been done in Unixy kernels forever. But, as a language feature, it is always done exactly right, with no distracting apparatus. You never need to check if it is really meant for what it seems to be, or if it really does exactly what it seems meant to do.

It is the same for other powerful features. You might, in principle, write code by hand to do the same thing, but in practice no one has enough spare time and attention, so you do something more crude, instead. A destructor is not something sneaky going on behind your back: you scheduled it explicitly when you called the constructor, certain it will run at exactly the right time, every time, with no possibility of a mistake. You never need to check up on it, or wonder if it was missed this one time.

The destructor is still the single most powerful run-time feature of C++. It was the only instance of deterministic automation in any language, ever, until D and Rust adapted it. Most of the other powerful features in C++, as in other powerful languages, direct action at compile time. The closest analogs usable in C are cpp, yacc, and lex. You can't cobble up your own without abusing macros or making other programs like yacc. The world has not been kind to attempts at those. But build systems see no problem with powerful language built-ins.

Static types are far more powerful than what C does with them, just checking that function calls match declarations. (Function declarations, BTW, were copied into C from C++.) A powerful language puts types to work to do what you could never afford to do by hand.
I tough you're referring to their recent outage event (yesterday). Doesn't make sense to have such events at their level. Or is it something fishy there..
Yeah, or what composites of them tend to look like. Maybe a computer vision program given a map like this could generate a guess for how much time the user spent on which program.
> I've felt for a while that you truly become an adult when you forgive your parents for fucking up your childhood.

This is absolutely, voraciously bad advice and no one should listen to it.

You are absolutely an adult when you're an adult. You can cut those people right out of your life and that is an adult and valid thing to do. You are under no obligations to forgive or have a relationship with them. If they only bring bad feelings into your life then don't let them in.
You've got "natural" in quotes there, but I honestly don't understand your intent. Do you think ternaries are unnatural? Do think they can't be used generate branchless code? Something else?
Experts may want to cast an eye over the open-access paper Buser, Kajari & Schleich, "Visualization of the Gödel universe", 2013 New J. Phys. 15 013063 <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/01...>.

Be sure to also see the supplementary data, which contains several videos of their ray-tracing and schematic animations <https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/01...>. (I think movie 11 is the most interesting, and props to anyone who (with the computational resources available a decade after this visualization) substitutes in a ball of a gamma-decaying substance, tracing out the evolution of its emissions.)
Spoken like someone whose parents never did anything that most find unforgivable.

https://www.amazon.com/Singing-Songs-Meg-Tilly/dp/0929636627 is beautifully told story about growing up in an abusive family, written by a movie star. Who happens to be my sister. She eventually admitted that it was autobiographical. She didn't have to admit to anyone in the family though. It was hard not to put the real names back on the people I knew well.

Maturity for me meant understanding and having sympathy for why my parents acted as they did. To find in myself how it is possible to become the monsters that they were. Which I have to be able to see clearly to avoid carrying on the pattern.

But I do not forgive them. Nor could I ask for forgiveness if I had acted as they did.
* South Korea’s Korean Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter (KPLO)

Good. Carry on.

* Japan’s SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating the Moon)

No! Please stop!

* India’s Chandrayaan-3

Good. Carry on.

* Russia’s Luna-2

Good. Carry on.

* United Arab Emirates ... with a rover called Rashid

Good. Carry on.

What a shame Japan had no history or mythology to fall back on when naming its moon lander and had to adopt the excruciating American convention of trying to shoe-horn in some ridiculous 'acro-bbreviation' instead.
ridiculously much or little?
I can't even begin to understand the twisted ethics that drive someone to create a service like this.
Yet most of these killers choose guns. The fact that this 18 year old kid was able to order so much ammunition online is so ridiculous
How many firefights do you expect a civilian gun owner to get into?
AR-15s are also effective for self-defense purposes.

You can also build an AR-15 with a block of metal, a CNC machine, and plans that are freely available on the Internet. There is no effective means by which you could prevent an AR-15 from ending up in peoples' hands.
SNI has nothing to do with proxies. Essentially all HTTPS connections provide SNI, regardless of whether there's a proxy or not.

A MITM can sniff the SNI. There's a draft standard to encrypt the SNI. I don't think it's been widely adopted.
The Czech rules don't sound that different from where I live (California). Permits are for 5 years, and require a written test. You have to take the hands-on safety test for every gun you buy. There are checks for mental health and criminal records, although IIRC the mental health check only covers involuntary commitments.
The linker can usually merge identical functions, and the compiler does this too.
You'll only get different copies if they are relevant, and usually the branch elimination is more than enough to compensate.

Another aspect about this is that the cache will hold the _hot_ stuff. In most systems, even if you have three copies of a function, it will likely only have one of those that is hot.
I would suggest your comment belies the fact you know anything about addiction.
I feel like the fact big porn hasn't poached talent and jumped all over this suggest at least 10s of millions. That said some for profit no-rules deepfake service for disinformation and illegal content has to be in the works.
Because you save very few lives with such restrictions. They are relevant to only a tiny fraction of shootings.
Do criminals who aren't mass/school shooters actually use larger magazines and illegal attachments?

And does the requirement to steal/import/manufacture/buy on the black market make it easier to buy on impulse, or harder?
Hah, exactly!
>add a URL that points

This works really well until it doesn't. I have seen so, so, so many videos have linked content in the description that links to sites which don't work anymore.
Such as school shootings?
To use your analogy here, France should determine how much they should pay back to Haiti for taking their wealth after long hardship as a colony? I'm just trying to make sure I don't build a strawman here.

France doesn't care. They're not going to pay. They still have colonies for that matter. Their museums aren't going to be losing plundered artifacts any time soon. But it's interesting that the argument against Haiti being able to ever rise out of its colonial mire was the fact they nationalized the plantations where they had been enslaved and doled them out to Haitians.

Maybe the fact the US sent marines to seize assets from the Haitian treasury (to ensure France got those payments) impacted their ability to adopt new technologies as they became available. Who's to say?

"If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there." — Malcolm X
Go Goto Statements
4% - 6% overall query time improvement?
That is absolutely an actual problem that is very attractive to solve.

You'll see database people jump through far bigger hoops to get much smaller improvements.
List of Tech company layoffs in Europe
Exactly, general rule of thumb: One shouldn't deal in absolutes ;).
Does anyone actually want porn of fake, AI generated “people”? Seems like most of the demand would be deepfakes of real people, which is both highly unethical and a good way to get your business sued out of existence.
I thought we were talking about mass shootings?

But murder rates are only 3x the US v Canada.

See the importance of the right statistics?

1000x more firearm deaths, but only 8x more firearm homicides but then 3x more murders.

I would definitely agree the US has a worse murder problem than Canada, but making is purely a gun problem misses the point. Do guns play a role? Sure.
So what are people supposed to use? Chrome? Rofl.
Haha, I have watched that documentary multiple times, it is great and deserves to be turned into a film.

Someone's earlier point about hiring as a growth indicator to VC's reminds me of the point made by the CEO in the documentary about how VCs told him he needed to have 100 employees in order to boost the value of the company, so they ended up hiring people off the street, spouses and family members.

Crazy story.
Statistically, around 0.005 per year (note that there's a HUGE range of estimates for how common defensive gun use is, so there's definitely some error bars there). However that's still many orders of magnitude more than the average number of mass shootings that the average civilian gun owner is involved with.
A golf club is also effective for self defence purposes. In any case, those same tools are available globally and AR15s simply aren't ending up in people's hands, or the hands of school shooters.
> it’ll be an end of an era

I don’t think it will, but even a 1-2 year recession is enough to destroy these companies. The leverage in / structure of the current financial system makes it extremely hard to not decrease interest rates again.
You forgive them not for them, but for yourself.
If it requires predicting the future isn’t that by definition riskier?

The potential outcomes if you spend money you have are that you recover your money (break even), lose the money, or make a profit.

The outcomes if you take a loan are that you break even, make a profit, or acquire a debt that you by definition weren’t really able to afford in the first place (or you would have just used the resources you have to fund the exercise).

I feel sorry for anyone who was hoping they were young and had tons of upside potential, who now needs to service a loan that they will never see a corresponding asset for, who is about to face a quite difficult job market for juniors.
> Asian culture simply adopted American and English culture in this regard

Since the OP mentioned China specifically, I think it’s good to note that the Chinese elite have venerated art for millennia. Poetry writing, singing, and playing musical instruments were a staple of every young nobles education during the times of the Imperial dynasties.

It’s not at all something simply copied from the British during colonization.
> Carefully curating a list of quality X

That is the only way to use any social media, for me at least.
I'm very worried. I've been reading about layoffs lately and I'm worried that I'll be the next one.
We should all learn from this and understand that if we don't fight for and uphold our liberties they will be taken away from us. Every fight matters and if it wasn't for the US constitution this might have gone down very differently.
A reward system is something nice for new contributors in my opinion. I am currently thinking of something similar for the Debian project to incentivize new contributors with a bit of opt-in gamification.

However I did not understood why NFTs were necessary. We had badge systems way before NFT became fashionable, on forums for example.
Less than a 2x burn multiple. If you don’t know what a burn multiple is, read this → https://sacks.substack.com/p/the-burn-multiple-51a7e43cb200?...
These aren't the choice you'd use for a planned mass shooting. The problem is gang bangers killing more innocent bystanders with the latest gun fashion.
I started using Meteor again and OMG it’s so fun I just can’t stop building stuff
> In the United States circa 1950s and 1960s it was very common for children to be taking piano lessons, and owning a piano was also relatively common.

Growing up in Scotland in the 1970s and 1980s my friends and I all thought it was a bit weird that some people we know *didn't* have various musical instruments scattered about the house. My son was about six months old when he discovered that guitars make a noise, and since then my "living room" guitar has been tuned to open D ;-)
So realistically the actual need for a large capacity magazine is zero?
I always thought Uber could be a nice billion plus business modernizing the taxi business and providing software to run it, but no, they had to grow so much to legally fight whole countries and upset regulations
Not exactly true. It gives access to the computer you are running the tunnel on. Your computer still has to forward packets to others (if you can compromise another service on another computer without any two-way communication) and others still have to know how to route packets back to 10.101.0.1 that this service uses.
This! I talked about it in my comment but it ended up with me rambling about my idea of the game. I'd definitely be the slow ritual kind of guy haha.
I don't know how I sound saying this but I think airsoft is a great hobby. It's basically guns with every scary features, except it can't cause physical harm. I think it could be employed to create a gradient of lethality proportional to population density.
What if they mounted BE-4 engines on those drones?
Absolutely. Same as with the train — I don't buy a ticket, because that enables fast travel. I just climb aboard and travel. I remember the first time I stayed on the train for the whole journey, it was a whole experience. Such an impressive world. Rockstar could do so much with it, but they just focus on making it into GTA of the Wild West, sadly.
I'm a huge fan of KinD for development and testing clusters. It's also relatively easy to customize cluster configuration or node image, so you can create clusters for custom scenarios.
I still prefer old.reddit.com with the Reddit Enhancement Suite extension;

Primarily it's easier to toggle comments.
Ah, the 90s. Such a great time for, "hey kid, let me show you something."

I remember getting semi-private, and slightly off-the-official-track tour of a nuclear power plant by my Dad. His company was involved in servicing the plant during an outage. It was open for organized public tours during that time (an idea that just seems bonkers now). My brothers and I got to see that part, and even a little bit more.

I was pre-teen at the time and unfortunately he has passed. I really wish I could get more details from him on this and other stories.
I am on Android 9. And can block per app basis. Its been a feature for sometime now.
Even though you are being snarky and intentionally obnoxious: I even thought about that, yes. If unicode would allow to use red and green as skin tone modifiers, I would've done it. Except I probably wouldn't have used red and green, but red and blue or something. Because color blindness is a thing.

Look, I accept the criticism that the table is a bit hard to read. I thought about it and it's still the way I like it best. And it's the most low-stakes thing possible. It doesn't matter if it is slightly hard to read. It's my personal blog. "I like it best this way" is enough said.
Also https://www.deviantart.com/samhainvenom/art/Mousepath-159163...

Everything old is new again, apparently.
Hiring and building fast can lead to huge costs, loads of bugs and performance issues

Hiring and building slow leads to multiple rounds of performance tuning early on, which can also lead to lower costs, and gives you a chance to focus on improving the product by focusing on your user experience because you're not in panic mode to raise funds, overhire and conquer the world

We could have many more good software products if companies were focused on long term quality and didn't obsess over growth
Geoblock / other asshattery: https://archive.ph/qsLmv
I mean, I feel like you're being purposefully obtuse in trying to make some kind of "see! There's limits to all rights" point. I gave you what I believe is a reasonable and straightforward philosophical approach to the 2nd amendment.

What does a typical modern day infantryman carry as part of a standard kit?

Not Javelins and anti-personnel mines, those are application- and mission-specific. A soldier doesn't just show up at the armory and load up with whatever high explosives they want; they have a standard issued set of gear, and then mission specific gear divided up among the squad.

Armored infantry transport with mounted machine gun and or cannon turret? Anti-air counter measures? I have no idea how that fits in an individual soldier's kit. At a minimum, they're not bearable arms.

It doesn't mean all those other specific items aren't protected, but if you want an answer on an item-by-item basis, I don't know what to tell you.
Throughout history, there have been notable inventors known as the Fathers of Modern Technology who have changed the world for the better. As a society, we hold them in high regard and regard them as geniuses. Today let us remember a few of the men who have made significant contributions in reshaping the IT sector through ground-breaking inventions.
Sorry I meant to add this statistic (updated now):

"The most recent statistics show that on a per-capita basis Czechs own about one-tenth the number of guns Americans."

The Czech Republic has 10% the per capita gun ownership of the US, and some moderate controls on ownership, and suffers from occasional mass shootings. That seems to me consistent with the idea there's a relationship between gun ownership, and its lax regulation, and mass shootings.

The Czech Republic has less ownership, a bit more regulation, so has less mas shootings. But it still has them because those values are not 0.
Fantastic.

Somewhat related, friend use to had setup that automatically downloads YT subtitles, lowbit rate audio and video preview thumbnails to create searchable archive that doesn't use much space. Found it very useful for his studies but thumbnails wasn't great for slides.
Others have covered much of this but the biggest issues I've run into with low code solutions are:

- Lack of good versioning / source control

- Poor support for 'schema changes' / data migrations

- Running into limitations that prevent you doing something you really need to do and not offering a good 'escape hatch' to extend with custom code

- Poor / missing support for testing and things like staging / production environments

- Lack of support for 'metadata' - things like comments, commit messages, seeing who changed what and when, especially when multiple people get involved (this is maybe another way of saying 'version control')

- Pricing plans that make it very expensive when you cross certain usage thresholds or require certain features, or simply hard limits on usage that you run into and are hard to work around

- Vendor lock in and difficulty hiring/training people to maintain and extend the solutions.

All this is not to say that some of these tools don't have value, we still use some, but over time these limitations become greater relative to the benefits you see early on in terms of ease of use and speed getting something basic up and running.
Microsoft Flight Simulator – Top Gun: Maverick Expansion
Have I got the show for you...

https://g.co/kgs/KhN9J9
> That's the thing, even at its fastest setting, zstd is still slower than lz4. So clearly, it's not the right answer if you're serializing from a fast medium.

It really depends on what you want to do, as decompression speeds can be meaningless and irrelevant in some applications, if not practically all of them.

Can you provide a specific example where you feel lz4 is hands down the best option?
> a criminal will just get illegal attachments or larger magazines anyways

The point is to frustrate those efforts.

> I’d imagine it’s pretty easy to find some online from overseas.

Good! Now you've added new points of failure. It would just be terrible if that high-capacity magazine they bought from a sketchy vendor were to jam in the field.

> criminals can steal them from legitimate places.

...which increases the risk of getting caught before anything worse happens.
Yea, I hate Mercadolibre for that. And it's even more annoying/impossible to use if you are not a resident or national.
that's what big organisations do, it' their DNA to flood and exhaust smaller ones. They just don't care about anybody not their scale. Ignorant egoists.
At what point is there something beyond a framework - a SaaS in a box perhaps, that just avoids many of these basic problems (oh and the HR, legal, etc problems) of starting a startup. Startups are not snowflakes apart from that one little core competency. In short most serial founders say the second one was easier, simply because they followed the template ground out in the first.

Would it be easier to start with that template?
Can you link to these studies, I'm genuinely interested.
https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/microsoft-flight-simulator

Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Flight_Simulator

/? "Microsoft Flight Simulator – Top Gun: Maverick Expansion"
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Microsoft+Flight+Simulato...
I'd guess they wanted to hold the stock for 1 year after exercise to qualify for long term capital gains, but this would likely trigger AMT. Not sure if this has been the case back in the day though.
I never got on with Linux for a workstation, though I've tried. I used to use Windows XP for my workstation, and I had Gentoo running on an older computer for my home server. This was around 2001/2002, as I remember being on IRC during everything that followed 9/11, and it was during that time that I was learning to compile Linux. Strange time, lots of mixed memories, but also, such a sense of wonder — the internet, Linux, programming, Windows XP.
> The advantage is that the blocking is total. Web Blocking only blocks HTTP and HTTPS. DNS blocks all protocols.

eh, DNS is an address lookup service. It doesn't block anything.

1. Install any of the many "virtual hosts file" addons in Chrome/Firefox. (or simply edit /etc/hosts if you're on Unix)

2. Use one of the many online dig GUIs to find the the IP address for, say, blockedsite.com (eg https://toolbox.googleapps.com/apps/dig/)

3. Access blockedsite.com in the browser without any DNS lookups
In hindsight this is probably a lot easier.
The Natty Guard = "well regulated malitia" argument is not compelling at all to me. If it was, the fact the guard can be nationalized and that states don't appoint officers unilaterally would be in strict contravention of how the constitution says the militias should be run.

On top of that, the Bill of Rights is focused on rights of the people and states. IIRC there's nothing in it about protecting the "rights" of the federal government. Why would it need to explicitly give itself the right to arm its own standing army?
I don't know but pressured is not technically equal to forced.

Not saying what she did is okay, but it's not "forcing"
All languages in the world are agglutinative, except afroasiatic and indoeuropean. These two families share a few more unique features in addition to the inflection.
Is there a new Mission Impossible game?
Global automakers face electric shock in China