skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that doesn't sound like a very good idea to me. legislation is not complex only because of pork; there are always edgecases and loopholes to be handled. I highly doubt a reasonable solution to any of the problems you listed could be described in a mere ten pages.

take student debt for instance. imo there's a decent case for erasing undergrad debt under a certain threshold, but if you took on a six figure debt to attend a fancy liberal arts college, that's on you to unfuck. similarly, people like lawyers and doctors take on a lot of education debt, but that's also priced into their respective salaries. a professional paying off an outsized debt with an outsized salary doesn't need or deserve the assistance of the median taxpayer. a naive implementation of such could potentially be net regressive.

obviously you might disagree with some of that, my point is just to show that "abolish student debt" is controversial and complex even among people that agree at a high level.
“Animal minds are simple, and therefore sharp. Animals never spend time dividing experience into little bits and speculating about all the bits they've missed. The whole panoply of the universe has been neatly expressed to them as things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks. This frees the mind from unnecessary thoughts and gives it a cutting edge where it matters. Your normal animal, in fact, never tries to walk and chew gum at the same time."

— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
could you elaborate please - is all of youtube including the streaming, all python?
I felt this pretty viscerally recently. I did Advent of Code 2021 in python last year. My day job is programming in Python so I didn't really think about the execution speed of my solutions much.

As a fun exercise this year I've been doing Advent of Code 2020 in C, and my god it's crazy how much faster my solutions seem to execute. These are just little toy problems, but even still the speed difference is night and day.

Although, I still find Python much easier to read and maintain, but that may just be I'm more experienced with the language.
I hope nobody takes your idea seriously. Most people aren't super-spies who can go undercover and save society from a cult. Just go to law enforcement, report it and listen to what they have to say.
It’s all this, and I’m dealing with it today.

Mother I law bought a machine with 4GB of ram, which was fine before windows 10. Now it spends all day doing page/sysfile swap from its mechanical hard drive. Basically unusable.

So here in my pocket is an 8GB stick of DDR3 sodimm for later.
>...But if you ever want to have a dialogue with Russian as opposed to war...

As opposed to the war ...indeed.

Here it goes again, everyone still needs to learn how to treat russians.

Well, finally, the world has figured it out and summarized it succintly in the manner russia treats the rest of the world:

"Russian ship go f...!"
Think the keyword here is transgender people.
1. Mitigate risk

2. Corollary of #1: never take a client providing over 10% of your annual revenue, or table personal assets to grow

3. keep your legal positions clear: talk with contract, copyright and trademark lawyers early

4. keep your tax strategy clear: talk with regional corporate accountants, and customs brokers early

5. Prioritize revenue: without a profit-mode your project is not a business

6. Corollary of #5: provide _paying_ customers value they are happy with, or cull the project

7. Manage or be managed: you are running a business, and not a charity. There are several styles for doing this, and no way is perfect. Often hiring friends is a mistake, as when serious money starts to flow people often revert to their primordial rodent brains.

8. Marketing: your conversion rate is below 1.7% ? than adapt/cull the project…

9. low hanging fruit is usually rotten: if it is something some kids can _appear_ to copy to make a quick buck, than the market will quickly fragment. a.k.a. “chasing the long tail” of market distributions is financial suicide

10. admit you can’t know every scam, and accept as a business there are always losses. As a small entity you are vulnerable to all sorts of legal, technological, and personal attacks. Technical people often think being smart somehow immunizes them from cons some sociopaths mastered... it doesn’t... talk with people, and you will see this is a very common bias.

11. With shareholders one must acknowledge the structures of power:
https://www.amazon.com/Dictators-Handbook-Behavior-Almost-Po...

12. post failed projects on your website as bait, so when the business-intelligence people show-up looking for soft-targets... they too can enjoy the losses... nothing more enjoyable than watching irrationally competitive opportunists go bankrupt pumping money into something you wisely abandoned. ;-)

I wouldn’t call my entities successful by “startup” standards, but they have remained profitable for over 14 years... and they are mine.
Good! We'll get to see Twitter overrun by spam, bots, pr0n and neo-nazi propaganda!

There's a TikTok-like opportunity for a new platform. Will anyone see the need?
It's really the silent majority of everyone. Very few people exhibit themselves on social media.
This is exactly what I was dealing last year, some particular costumer came to meeting with the idea developers has to be aware of making the code Inclusive and sustainable... We told them that we must set priorities on the performance and the literal result from the operation (a transaction development from an integration)

Nothing really happened at the end but it's a funny history in the office
They didn't mention font size ("moved a little fast" was a comment for example), but I appreciated that you did. :-)
I hope one day latency in general will be "back to normal".

I still remember how fast console based computing, an old gameboy or a 90's macintosh would be - click a button and stuff would show up instantly.

There was a tactility present with computers that's gone today.

Today everything feels sluggish - just writing this comment on my $3000 Macbook Pro and i can feel the latency, sometimes there's even small pauses. A little when i write stuff, a lot when i drag windows.

Hopefully the focus on 100hz+ screens in tech in general will put more focus on latency from click to screen print - now when resolution and interface graphics in general are close to biological limits.
I saw the other branches when I made the comment.

The commit count is — usually — the commit count from the currently selected ref.

E.g., on a sample repo, "master" displays as 29,474 commits. "master^" displays as 29,473.
yes I was one of the authors of the report :)
What Business Problems Does WebAssembly Solve?
> They literally have no legal requirement to even tell you as much as they did.

Is ‘fulfilling legal requirements’ all you look for in a business relationship?

A restaurant has no legal requirement to make this food tasty but it’s what I’m looking for when choosing where to go.
We are addressing some of the page rendering issues discussed in the comments below and hope to have them resolved soon. Sorry about that!
Censorship of search results by the founder have something to do with this decline?
Win32 is so really, really fast. And with Tiny C Compiler the program compiles and boots faster than the Win10 calculator app takes to start.
cornell was well known for this, given the combination of lots of snow and a big hillside.
I liked Pascal. Depending on the dialect, it wouldn't take more money at all. In fact, I'd rather do that than Rust/Scala etc.

COBOL - probably a lot, but not due to the language - it'd be 30 years of accreted bad programming that would suck.

Fortran - depends, like Pascal, on dialect. The most recent ones are quite reasonable.
Memory safe languages!!!!!
I wonder if this includes users who opted out of the redesign through settings. I use reddit.com instead of old.reddit.com, but I am on the old site due to this setting.
I am 100% sure plenty of failed founders do all this and much more. I understand the logic and emotions where this wish list comes from, but reality tends to be more complex. People, and companies change.

Ie being a dick at right moment may allow you to push through situation that would make weaker / more moral ones fail. And about gazillions of other possible examples that may be counterintuitive.
Parts of Python are implemented in C. For example the standard for loop using `range`. So when comparing Python's performance with other languages using just one simple benchmark can lead to unexpected results depending on what the program does.
I've used Nim for about 2 years now. It's a wonderful language but it's desperately lacking a proper web framework and a proper ORM. If such a thing existed I would probably drop Elixir for Nim career-wise.
> A significant anti nuclear movement has existed for maybe 40 years and it has clearly not been influencial until maybe the last 20 years.

O_o There's been a significant and influential anti-nuclear movement for the last 60 years...
Police are effectively unbound by the laws they claim to uphold - unless the case is egregious, there is an extreme amount of public outrage, and the DA has a spine. As the damage they cause is attributed to "the state" rather than their personal decisions, they have little incentive to keep that damage to a minimum. Essentially, for any situation involving "the police" you should be asking yourself what would happen to a non-police citizen who did the same thing.
Can somebody tell me if I'm wrong on my take but this bug/issue means:

- a github app which had read permission on issues could elevate its permission to write

- a github app which had read permissions to discussions could elevate its permissions to write.

So far if the org/user would have been compromise they would have seen with issues or conversations containing content from the app.

Since these are only examples, I can imagine the case with major impact would be a contents:read elevate to content write. But again with commit signing, this would also be caught by the user.
What did I miss where the impact would have not been visible to the end user/org ?
I think I saw this on here recently but not findingly the link right now... it was an article arguing pretty convincingly that the Romans did know about lead poisoning, and it was most likely very rare rather than widespread.
YMMV, but when you have 100k+ employees - you're gonna have more than "generic corporate sleaze" somewhere in the system.
Vukovar was the parallel I was thinking of. And Osijek, and other towns.

Surrounded by invading Serbian forces (which taken over the assets of the 5th largest army in Europe), shelled mercilessly - the worst destruction since WW2. Then the defeat, and massacres - and mass rapes.

And an arms embargo on Croatia! Which effectively prevented any sort of defense.

Europe has conveniently forgotten...
FeLV has a vaccine.
Also I guess it’s regional, here not that many cases.
Also have personally seen multiple cats live well past 10 with FIV, with no treatment as they are none. 2-3 years seems super short from what I’ve seen so I wouldn’t blame FIV only.
(I am an European vet)
But they’re completely reusable. You can technically use one for the rest of your life.
Please don't write programs in bare C. Use Go if you're looking for something very simple and fast-enough for most uses; it's even memory safe as long as you avoid shared-state concurrency.
Maybe that depends on the OS? Firefox on Linux does a normal refresh for me when doing CTRL+R but a hard refresh (without any cache) when I do CTRL+SHIFT+R.
Fortran continues to have new standards, with compilers implementing those standards, with Fortran 2018 being the latest and Fortran 2023 planned. Fortran 2018 is not obsolete.

Some fraction of Fortran programming is still done in FORTRAN 77. I would demand more to program in FORTRAN 77, maybe 100K-200K more, than to program in Fortran 2018.
If this is a real opinion - I don't think you're doing very much with macOS.

Hell - just the KEXT changes break about 20 different things in my workflow.

honestly, as someone who uses a mix of all three major OSes (Windows/Linux/Mac), Mac has been the least pleasant dealing with upgrades - they make as many breaking changes as linux, and they have dogshite docs.
Work I would like to do and being paid accordingly (being originally a COBOL programmer myself)

Money is money after all

I would be less inclined to take a MUMPS gig than a Forth one. Part of the issue would be the environment. Developing Pascal on a modern unix environment with docker and all the nice tools is one thing. Having to go back to Turbo Pascal on MSDOS 3 would be a different proposition
Nearly everything that is open-source depends on people doing work for free that is used by other people who use it for profit. Maybe OP is making profit through the software they're writing using C#. Should Microsoft charge them for C# usage? Microsoft is the ones paying for development costs after all.

The purpose of open-source software is to be able to fix problems for your use case and continue using the improved software. OP could have just chosen not to upstream their changes (I'm assuming you'd be okay with that since Microsoft doesn't get their hand on the fix) but then they wouldn't be able to easily update their compiler.

I guess the only real option here is to use a community-developed language with no for-profit company behind it. Then write all the libraries that Microsoft wrote for C# and published for _free_. Hmm.

I wonder what percentage of popular languages / libraries out there have the level of reliability & support that C# and other open-source software with big corps behind them has.
Male sperm counts have dropped by half in the last 5 decades. This is an existential level threat more relevant than climate change by a large factor, I don't understand why studying it is on a back burner.
Well, not everywhere in Europe.
In Germany people don't, probably because people violating are either tolerated or not punished much compared to other countries. Also controls aren't really common
>> As I grow older, I see a huge divide between those who have/had parental support vs those who don't/didn't.

This really gets lost in the traditional nuclear family argument. From personal experience, having both biological parents in the same house doesn't mean a healthy family environment, and no amount of moralizing is going to wish it into being.

Also overlooked is the impact one can have through simple acts of support and empowerment.

Had a High School teacher that let me into a photojournalism class that was already full (the school admins denied my schedule transfer after we had moved to the 'correct' side of the street (literally) and into an upper middle class school district). This teacher simply allowed me to be socially-weird-awkward-me and set a basic structure to thrive in (eventually winning state and national awards with the school newspaper). By giving me (and others) a chance to show we belonged and could compete helped build my self-esteem after it had been consistently torn down at home.

Didn't know it then, and doubt that teacher has any idea, but it changed the course of my life. I think I'm more a practical realist or even a cynic about life and society than I am optimistic - still, that experience reminds me to try and build others up and pay that empowerment forward
These statements of "longer" and "shorter" actually refers to probabilities. So it makes sense to state when something is not "longer", then it is "shorter". So I disagree, OP's statements about the Lindy effect makes sense.

Also someone commented about COBOL. Of course no one thinks COBOL "is around", what also means statistics about usage. COBOL is declining and almost no one uses it anymore, so it is safe to say "it is almost not around".
When thinking about other regions, you’re probably discounting churches that turn to just one or a few charismatic pastors to help them understand Christian faith and history.

These are ultimately as idiosyncratic and subject to community abuse as the 20th century belief communities that syncretize “Eastern” faiths, materialist philosophies, and various other post-globalization sources.

They may look different to you because the front-door teachings superficially make more sense in one than the other from your perspective, but they’re operationally pretty similar.
Except they aren't seeking out good candidates. The vast majority are spamming every email they can scrape, buy, or steal.
That was my first thought as well. If it can support Fennel as a first-class citizen, then I might just switch wholesale to using Redbean for any application development.
The Lindy effect states that the expected lifetime of a thing is proportional to its current age.

That includes the expectation that something young will be (on average) half way through its lifespan.
Of course Microsoft only include functionality they want. Just like any other platform only include what they want. It is entirely their prerogative. Just because they don't include anything and everything other people want, it does not make them less open source.

We are entirely free to fork the project, embed the change and compile our own binaries. You don't have to strongarm a change into upstream for that.
Thanks! And yeah Tauri is pretty nice, and seems to be rapidly improving.
> Throw in more RAM and Windows 10 will likely feel snappier than Windows 7 did.

It doesn't and never will. I've used them side by side for a few years and went back to W7 for productivity.

Interestingly enough, Lubuntu LXQt feels snappier than either system.
Fog looks a lot like smoke. I’m not sure that’s what you want to see coming from the server room…
Into the core – squeezing Haskell into nine constructors
> The latency on multiplication (register input to register output) is 5-clock ticks

3

https://www.agner.org/optimize/instruction_tables.pdf
Come on!

Pedestrians don’t respect red lights in Paris and habitually cross them. Motorists and cars frequently pass the red lights, sometimes maneuvering with front wheel raised off the ground (which seems to be a French thing). The driving in EU is violent, even in Germany where racing and high speed driving is in culture. On the contrary, lack of respect for rules is part of the French identity AFAIK

https://www.reddit.com/r/fuckcars/comments/vb99j1/france_is_...

There are many factors for accidents, a few of them discussed in the article.
If it's the feeling of the hardware alone then the Thinkpad could be used as a thin client to access a modern, more powerful system. Personally I'm curious about the "many things" the C2D with Ubuntu 10 can do that the new one can't - is it some legacy software that can't run on a newer os, or something else?
It took me almost 15 years to find swimming. Whenever I feel life is starting to get away from me I make sure to go to the pool 5 times a week.

I don't swim very far. Just 1000-2500m.
Ironically, Elon is one of the few famous business people that regularly points out that all money is worthless, and that the real economy is goods and services not entries in a database.
I'm running Ubuntu Mate on a low-end brand-new laptop that couldn't handle the Windows OS it shipped with. Couldn't be happier.
Which “accelerated” libraries for matrix operations are you talking about?

Try writing a matmul operation in C++ and profile it against the same thing done in Numpy/Pytorch/TensorFlow/Jax. You’ll be surprised.
Drag & Drop is an action I had to consciously work to start using when I switched to macOS, a little over a decade ago. Windows and Linux had trained me never to use it, aside from moving files around in Explorer or whatever, because it so often caused crashes, did the wrong thing, or made programs glitch out in weird ways (that last one was mostly Linux). Sure enough, I found a repeatable drag & drop application crash in KDE in my first few minutes of use, last time I poked my head into the desktop Linux world (Ubuntu, in this case) again, a couple years back.
> Great concept

I'm not sure it is.
> it's frustrating to hear this view being shared flippantly after such a long time. It's of course fine to have various views as to whether or not the project is worthwhile or not, but a blithe dismissal as a "vanity project" means you've not really seriously considered it.

I wouldn't say it was blithe dismissal. See my later comment up-thread

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31770221
Why would they study something that makes the plan look bad?
Interesting that you would attribute anger at being subjected to dangerous driving as the fault of the victim.

The mistake here is expecting everyone else to do your driving for you, and claiming they are being too sensitive when they pull you up on your poor habits.
It's true but the same thing is true for almost every open source project. Instead of Microsoft it's usually a single guy or perhaps a duo who has the ultimate say. Everyone else's word is just a suggestion. It's a rarity for an open source project to work under some sort of democracy where random developers have a say.
Yep. Not the same in most of EU where proof of efficiency is most often required. Which also explains why some people need to go to the US for treatment
Imagine working so hard to work at Google and then…

> Members are typically required to give 10 percent of their monthly earnings to the organization.

> one member described being fined $1,500 for having sex with a woman when they weren’t married.
Should be called Visual React then!
Exactly. Users are subsidizing the software provider with CPU cycles and employee time.

Assume it costs $800 for an engineer-day. Assume your software has 10,000 daily users and that the wasted time cost is 20 seconds (assume this is actual wasted time when an employee is actively waiting and not completing some other task). Assume the employees using the software earn on average 1/8 of what the engineer makes. It would take less than 4 days to make up for the employee's time. That $800 would save about $80,000 per year.

Obviously, this is a contrived example, but I think it's a conservative one. I'm overpaying the engineer (on average) and probably under-estimating time wasted and user cost.
Either way, Russia ruins everything.
HTTP has some strange rules about using stale caches so usually you want to add must-revalidate to your cache-control header. That ensures that the browser must revalidate once the cache goes stale.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...

Personally I've opted for "stale only" caching, so everything is served with Cache-Control: max-age=0,must-revalidate and a Last-Modified header and the browser will always make corresponding If-Modified-Since requests. This means significantly more requests per page, even if the responses are mostly 304 Not Modified, but getting to avoid all forms of cache busting makes developing a lot nicer.
You can fool some of the people all of the time. Especially when you've got an industry devoted to the problem.

What's more remarkable, perhaps, is that so many people seem content to let others believe it. Not every gun owner rushes out to buy more guns. But when the social media groups start saying "They're going to ban your guns for real this time!", there doesn't seem to be anybody saying "No, they didn't any of the last 10 times, either."

It is expedient for them to let everybody believe that it's about to happen -- not so that they'll buy more guns, but to ensure that gun rights are the top voting priority. The purchase of even more guns is just a side effect.
I wonder sometimes if people having smaller families, delaying children, and spending more time away from home is then projecting some people's nannying instincts and hand-wringing about behavior that used to be focused inside a family upon everyone else.
Why not? https://github.com/vrld/imap4.lua/blob/master/example.lua