skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My experience after a couple of weeks:

Pros:
Extremely good C and C++ interop
Significant indentation
Very good performance
Quick compilation
Terse, but readable
Easy cross platform
Powerful macros and close to trivial DSL construction
Very little code to do a lot of stuff
Incoming future features look very promising

Cons:
Hard to predict and control program performance, LTO does a lot of heavy lifting
Immature ecosystem, because only few users. Many libraries have bugs, missing features or just a very clunky API. Or maybe they are deprecated or abandoned all together.
Many different ways to do the same thing
everyThingIsCamelCase, ambiguous variable names (subjective)
Documentation and tutorials is mostly reading through the code and googling forum posts outside the core language
You compile either for C or C++, some libraries simply won't work without C++ compilation
Plus you can land in a situation where a user might associate bad experiences with an unofficial client with the actual service and thus leave with a bad impression overall.
And a commissioner appointed by Trump, no less.
My tax was 50% higher in 1988 than in 2020. Did taxes really come down to this extend over the past 30 years?
The closest thing I've seen is actually skyscrapers built out of wood. Same idea but actually useful
How do you see top posts?
You don’t buy phones or computers?
This. I only really started using Office about a year ago (after decades of being off Windows)… and… what a mess. I remember the ribbon being touted as “the next big thing” in UI design when it came out but I just don’t see how that makes any sense.
There is no digital ownership. Not anymore at least. When everything you created is in the cloud, good luck owning it. Games from 15 years ago still work because they need just a computer. Now the games need half of internet to start.
Nice one of the projects I want to work on is a simple text editor that lets you build and run. I think back to some of my favorite niche languages like Processing and Racket although I dont use them a ton when I do I love their interactive editors.

I am getting ahead of myself since I am still learning the language but I am coming from Python and various other languages so it has not been a complex transition.
On the other hand, war is actually very bad and avoidable.
SLA is simply an intent to provide a level of service. If that can't be met, then there'd be an agreement on what the consequence of that was. Don't meet an availability SLA and maybe you get some credit back. You can't offer a best effort for non-repudiation of data. It either is or it isn't.

Maybe trust is the wrong word. Like - yes they might say they intend to provide this level of service, but the only way they can actually guarantee that level of non-repudiation of data is with cryptographic proofs and decentralized consensus and now you've basically got a cryptographic ledger.

PoW Blockchain isn't the only technology to accomplish this, either. There's a whole host of blockchain and post-blockchain technologies seeking to corner that market - a more efficient blockchain. Hedera for example uses the hashgraph algorithm.
I've just developed such a hatred for Facebook and Instagram at this point, really all of the US social networks, that I like TikTok out of spite. and it's fun, to me, in a way the others just aren't.

I see the national security angle, but I want Meta to burn.
Never said she deserved to be bullied.
I figured the candy coding might make it taste better?

I naively would expect if I were paying a lot for a pill I would have a trustworthy chain set up but probably that is not the case.
Historically, taxes fluctuated quite a bit.

IIUC, income taxes have been unusually stable the last ~20 years.
You're drawing a huge false equivalence here. The idea that we can deploy renewables at scale within even two or three decades sufficient to reach net zero is patently false.
I mean, that's fine, though, right? If they don't have the headcount to sell support contracts, and that's not the kind of company they want to build, that's their choice. I sympathize; running a company like that doesn't sound particularly pleasant. You quickly lose focus on building the actual technology and spend too much time on enterprise sales. And if they don't want to give away their software under terms that let people put it behind a web service without releasing changes, that's also their choice.
You should contact them and ask to remove the script, or you will unsubscribe. If no one tells them, they cannot justify internally to remove the script.
Seriously? Does that mean any other provisioning method isn't able to estimate a cost without licensing this? E.g cloudformation?
You're absolutely right. We were at war in 1945, we are at war now, and will be in the future. The world is a savage place and will destroy you. Fact. Now, let's talk about abortion.. yawn life is good you see.
Important Update on Email Vendor Security Incident
@dang: Again, automatically removing "How..." from the title has changed the meaning. It's an often confusing and unhelpful change. Why not just leave them as they are?
How do we know how many percent of people paid tax during these times
> In any case, I didn't make the choice casually, thoughtlessly, or from ignorance.

Obviously, and if you got the idea that I thought you did then I apologize for that.

Anyway, the git docs aren't exactly known for getting the nuances of its own concepts right, which adds to the general confusion.

That said, I think I see your point now: it's the same as how a reference to a linked list is actually just the head of the linked list, but you still call it a list and not a head.

I have to admit that maybe I didn't see the forest for the trees.
> CandyCodes could play an important role in the fight against fraud in pharmaceuticals and many other products.

One wonders if these other products include recreational substances and black market branding, as it would be a fun project to write the openCV code to extract a Vornoi map of the image of the pill and determine if a hash of its matrix were found on something like public ledger. Perhaps using a Bloom filter. Phone cameras are good enough that you could use these maintain some integrity in a reliable black market brand.

I actually like this candy version better than other PUF proposals because a person can reason about it and prove it to themselves, whereas other opaque methods like crystals and chemistry reduce to "Trust us! I didn't quite catch your affiliation..." As a standalone product, I don't see this candy tech flying, but as a solution with open implementations, I could see it being useful.
“More wealthy”?

100K in 1980 was sufficient to build and compound your wealth. That’s wealthy.
Being a puppet state of Putin with a terrible human rights record is one thing. Doing a good job at protecting law-abiding citizens from bums is another. Belarus is a safe country to live in.

And no, they don't just send every bum they catch to prison. They have a sorting and distribution system in place that directs them to either mental hospitals, rehabs, or prisons (most go to rehabs for alcoholics), after that, they provide them jobs (usually shitty jobs on useless state-owned factories, or cleaning streets) and housing (dormitory rooms), and check on them on a regular basis to prevent relapse, if caught again bumming or avoiding work, yes then they go to prison.

A state exists for the benefit or tax-paying, law-abiding public, and one of it's goals is to protect them from everyone else. And no, bums are sent to prison not to "fix" them, or even isolate, but to deter potential other ones from bumming (and it does a great job, because number of bums in prison is very low, and there are almost 0 bums in the streets). Prison must be hell and even bums should be scared to death at the prospect of getting there.

Subsidised housing - that can't work in a country like USA. Because if you give housing to bums, all housing in the vicinity becomes a lot cheaper and the value lost, and property taxes lost, will become so unbearably high it's better to leave them in the streets.

There must be no bums. People must know that staying out in the street is a very bad idea. Now they only do because they can.
Appreciate your taking time to reply!
Unveiling Transformers with Lego
Why does this comment read like someone asked an AI what the solution to ransomware was?
How is it avoidable? If it can't be 100% avoided we still have to be prepared, just in case.
The USA has an agreement with Taiwan which promises that we help them in some way.

The act further stipulates that the United States will "consider any effort to determine the future of Taiwan by other than peaceful means, including by boycotts or embargoes, a threat to the peace and security of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States".

The act requires the United States to have a policy "to provide Taiwan with arms of a defensive character", and "to maintain the capacity of the United States to resist any resort to force or other forms of coercion that would jeopardize the security, or the social or economic system, of the people on Taiwan." Successive U.S. administrations have sold arms to Taiwan in compliance with the Taiwan Relations Act despite demands from the PRC that the U.S. follow the legally non-binding Three Joint Communiques and the U.S. government's proclaimed One-China policy (which differs from the PRC's interpretation of its one-China principle).

Obviously, it's not something as strong as NATO but we will definitely get involved.
>Oftentimes, intuition is not correct.

However oftentimes statistical data is not AVAILABLE. Thus you must make a claim with available evidence.

>Similarly, simply because you believe that ebook sales reduce print book sales intuitively does not mean that this be so.

No but given the logic of how humans prefer to get free things then pay for things, and given the fact that I myself prefer this you can make a best possible conclusion.

> In fact, based on other studies, it seems that piracy actually increases sales [0].

There are studies that show piracy decreases sales as well rendering even statistics ineffective and contradictory. Additionally the MAJORITY of studies indicate the opposite of your cherry picked source; further indicating that "sources" alone can't even be trusted: https://corsearch.com/does-piracy-impact-sales-a-look-at-the...

>Second, just because you pirate does not mean everyone does.

No but if one person does, it's possible that other people do to. 1 person is 1 data point which is better than zero. Anecdotal data matters. Do I need a scientific study to prove that hitting someone with a car can potentially injure them? No. I don't. Intuition is valid evidence for me to follow so I don't go around running people over with my car.

>All in all, you have no source except intuition that can be shown to be wrong.

https://corsearch.com/does-piracy-impact-sales-a-look-at-the...

The site above shows your conclusion and your study to be wrong and contradictory. It says 22 out of 25 studies show that piracy harms sales.

Now the above is a scientific study, but before I even found that study I already knew intuitively that piracy harms sales. I made that claim BEFORE I had scientific evidence. I made that claim off of INTUITION.

I'm assuming your claim of Increased Sales was based off of you coming to a conclusion based off of that study you linked. Well we both arrived at conclusions. You arrived at your conclusion based off of a scientific study, mine off of intuition and the link I showed you above shows that MY INTUITION beat your SCIENCE.

This shows that there's a high amount of unreliable data and bias in science and that you cannot place your full trust into "studies" and "sources" Often times intuition can beat out these studies because there's so many flaws in science in practice that a lot of these studies are just as flawed as intuition.
Mostly from reports of witnesses. Even if the murder goes unsolved, the witnesses can provide a description.
Has anyone thought to run the experiment, and then examine the structure of the ice after it’s frozen?

Maybe the hot water is somehow more able to align its molecules in a crystal structure faster, and this somehow causes it to freeze first?
There is the mass murder question of trees for books that never get sold and are eventually thrown into a dump, alongside the chemicals used in the publishing process.
script style languages specifically designed with modern concepts and to be highly performant.

V8 is likely the fastest interpreter (javascript) for a script style language but these languages should be a step above and beyond v8 in terms of performance.
A commodity doesn't promise a return for holding it, a security does. If I buy a gold bar, in a year I have a gold bar, same with a bushel of wheat, or 1million yen.

Securities use resources to try and generate a return -- companies try to sell a product, bonds generate interest, etc.
It won't work.
1. Are they requiring users to check authenticity?
2. Have they taken into account stuff like 3d printers and fake verification software?
> Cherry-pick is just applying a delta from a commit and then re-committing.

That’s trivially not true from its conflict resolution abilities. A cherrypick is a merge which does not create a merge commit, it’s a lot “smarter” that “git show -p | git patch”
Problem with that theory:

1. Temperature is monotonically related to energy content. A warmer system has more energy than a colder one, all else being equal.

2. To cool, a system must release energy. The rate at which a system can release energy is monotonically related to the difference in temperature between the cooling system and the cold sink to which its energy is being released. The bigger the temperature difference, the higher the rate of energy release (all else being equal).

For the Mbemba effect to be real, one of those two premises must be false. Which one is wrong?
Thank you for this! I enjoyed the exercises. Speaking for myself, I liked the pressure of the timed task.

An enhancement I'd like is being able to scroll in the editor box when "Show required" is enabled. Right now, the latter overlays the editor and hides much of the text until it's disabled (possibly a small-screen problem - mine is 768px height).
This is really the truth of the matter, isn't it. All major payment processors permit merchants to refund. Each merchant in this case can revoke licence keys, if only they were to connect refunds to revocations in their store.

This isn't a "can't do", it's a "we don't want to do" situation.
Waiting for a fast linux sbc with actual software support (mainline)
This is really cool, but I have to say that sliders are the absolute worst way to input income and benefits. Why not just use a simple textbox?
Probably, a lesson for all of us here, to include this scenario in our Disaster Recovery strategy for such important components.
Don't get me wrong I likely the movie, but I found it hard to follow. As someone who didn't know much if anything about Dune prior to watching.
Nim also needs lots of example code for people to learn from. Even if people don't use Nexus, it's at least one more Nim project out there.
There isn't, no, and there's no particular harm in self-hosted web fonts when it comes to long-term stability. Not only is it relatively unlikely that future browsers will deprecate web fonts but not anything else in current CSS (in which case there's a bigger issue than your fonts), it's even less likely that they'll do so in an entirely incompatible fashion. Assuming you've designed your font stack with decent fallbacks -- which you should -- then it's just like any other font stack, e.g., you may not be presenting in the typeface that you really want to, but nothing's going to break.

("Web fonts are okay, actually" is evidently the windmill I will keep tilting at on Hacker News.)
A slider for inputting multi digit numbers? Pain.
Working from a Tropical Island Is the New Working from Home
You can switch to text boxes via the gear at the top right.
While technically a better term for assets than income, we'll continue to use "wealthy".

You should realize that multiple things can be wealthy.

$380k is wealthy and $20M is also wealthy. $20M is wealthier than $380k.

Im the US, an income of $380k is the 99th percentile.

In a higher COL state of California, an income of $380k is still in the 99th percentile.

And for the very high COL city of San Francisco, an income of $380k is still just about the 99th percentile

If a person is making $380k, regardless of what they may believe, they are absolutely not middle class in any way shape or form. They are "wealthy".
Interesting! It seems some of Scalar from late 2021 has already made it into the official git project's contrib dir [0]. It looks like Scalar is mostly an opinionated way to configure git [1] using git partial-clone among other features.

Git partial-clone looks almost perfect, except it only downloads and displays files explicitly added to the git sparse-checkout list. I want some "magic" vfs shenanigans that lets me view and browse the full repo exactly as if the full repo where checked out, but when I open a directory or file the contents are downloaded on-demand.

[0]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/scalar

[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/vfs-2.37.0/Documentati...
Even worse is when it is put into passive language to intentionally remove the subject - which is done in political speeches to address negative outcomes. It has the subtle effect of shifting blame from the subject. Examples [1].

"We are unable to provide refunds or exchanges for mistaken purchases" becomes "Refunds or exchanges for mistaken purchases are unable to be provided."

[1] https://www.ranker.com/list/times-politicians-used-passive-v...
At the time, a militia was a whole-community thing. The town would have an armory, and the town militia would get together for exercises, check out weapons, and put them back, after. Carrying a gun around on daily business, you would be thought deeply peculiar, unless you needed it for work. "Concealed carry" would have seriously creeped people out.

And yes, the armory would have had cannon that would be practiced on.
An emacs slack client maybe: https://github.com/yuya373/emacs-slack?
>You can read a print book without wasting electricity

You don't 'waste' electricity, you waste your money. And in many places electricity is (much) cheaper than (good) paper.

>toxic materials used to produce a e-reader.

Surely you realise that different chemicals are used during paper production too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_sulfide and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium_hydroxide for example. And this depends on paper type too.

>Reading print is still a much more enjoyable experience

And this is entirely subjective.

>I can't defend ebooks compared to the reading, sharing, and the later selling

While I 100% agree with selling option, sharing is at least as easy with epub. Unless we are talking about a book from Amazon or something. In most cases you can just send a file over your preferred messenger.
Extremely good point, and one that I unfortunately can't see changing under the current Discord architecture. It's a shame how Discord "servers" are so insular the way they've created them.
Exchange traded futures are not exotic derivatives, you can trade /BTC on a phone app with ~$30-50,000 of margin, depending on your broker.

CME Bitcoin futures are cash settled, it doesn’t settle in actual BTC.
I’ve got qualms with just about all of the big tech companies in one way or another.

My 2c is that one of the unambiguously positive externalities of the tech mega-corp trend is all the great OSS we get as a by-product of their operations.

I mean, I don’t exactly love how iPhones get made, but I’m pretty stoked that clang kicks ass now.
Well written and insightful comment, thank you.
IIRC archive.org does save the JS and things it downloads, so you can replay them when you visit the archived site later.
At least 50% of show HN posts are just HN clones with mobile friendly upvote buttons.
Why am I unable to find a single good video on the internet demonstrating the mpemba effect occuring? If people were really heating their water before freezing it in Aristotle's time, then this shouldn't require any precise technology to reproduce. The article addresses the fact that this seems very easy to test, but then doesn't explain why no one's reproduced it on camera.
I can't even take discord seriously as an alternative to forums.
Abolitionism started in the colonies? Citation needed.
I take it you haven't visited Australia recently?
FAANGs are more powerful than state-controlled in many cases. They can change politicians, change economics easily.
I'm still upset with them: A couple of years ago, Linux support for Rust (the game) was discontinued and the publisher said that all Linux users would get a refund on Steam, regardless of play time. I tried several times but all my attempts at getting a refund were rejected.

Not much you can do - if the machines decide you don't get a refund, well, then you don't. I haven't bought anything on Steam since.
“ Therefore, the legislation of the Republic of Belarus does not contain prohibitions on eating, sleeping, or performing personal hygienic activities in public places. The only exception is begging, which is unacceptable in cases where children or adolescents are involved in it, slave labor of beggars is used or beggars are trafficked. The laws does not imply tougher penalties for those who are unable to pay the fine as well” [1] [2]

[1] https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-03/BelarusHel...

[2] https://www.ohchr.org/en/calls-for-input/2021/call-input-dec...

Is there a link to a page where I can read about this Belarusian law?
Is China going to save Americans from the theocratic authoritarianism destroying our freedom?
Part of business continuity is factoring and planning for risks.

We plan for the possibility that an earthquake might happen, or the building burns down.

By the same merit, if you're locked into a cloud provider or service, it's your responsibility to ensure that there's a plan in place to migrate away if necessary.
I had skipped the video, I went back and watched it, and I agree, it's brilliant.
> The average European doesn't know what Taiwan is, where Taiwan is, and couldn't care less if China invaded it, as long as they keep buying expensive German cars and luxury French handbags.

How many Europeans have you met personally? Just trying to figure out the sample size for your ”average”, lol.

Your comment reads like Russian jealousy. Russians really like expensive German cars and luxury French handbags… :)
I suspect you will receive some downvotes and some "how dare you" type comments, but I completely agree. This problem is getting worse and worse, it's ruining entire cities at this point, and whatever policies we have now clearly aren't working. Expand the housing projects, create jobs programs, make it as easy as possible for these people to become responsible citizens, but don't tolerate crazy people living on the streets doing hard drugs and harassing and assaulting normal citizens.