skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He's already promised something too good to be true and it turned out to be a lie. From wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20190520021931/https://vlang.io/...: "(Work in progress) There's no garbage collection or reference counting. V cleans everything up during compilation. If your V program compiles, it's guaranteed that it's going to be leak free."

I was excited for that. We were all excited for that. Then it wasn't true. I would forgive him but he seems to be continuing.

Then he walks that promise back, pretends he never said it and suddenly invents this magical "autofree" system but gives no details on how it works. Rust was never that secretive, it was based on published theory.

He claims it removes 90% of reference counting but if that was possible then Swift or Python or anyone else would have done it.

If it was based on solid precedent, or there was any research, or he published anything about how it works, or he didn't take donations, or it wasn't advertised on the website, it would be fine. But that's not the case.
Well, I have, but those were anti-viruses and are commonly understood to be crap outside of enterprise endpoint protection (And usually even then too) :)
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Also just pruning projects, products and divisions that aren’t panning out as well as others. In simple economic turns, when interest rates are low, investments with relatively low returns can make sense. So initiatives get staffed even if the expected value of their payoff is marginal.

When interest rates go up, there are low risk ways to get those same returns, so business expectations of ROI go up.

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Lol, no issues/comments are removed.

One and only time a github comment was removed was before the open source release and I just started this new job of an open source maintainer.

Actually, sorry, I did remove one issue recently. It said "Delete this project, it's a joke".
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Nazi parafernalia as image search results for 'desk ornament'
Because most people who wanted to play it, already played it.
>Groningen is a city in the Netherlands, which is the biggest distributor of child sex abuse images in the world.

How does a city of only 200,000 people earn this title?
> This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age.

And encourage the insurance company to want you dead.

I like the thought exploration and fear the incentives.
It's not a case of opinion. One is better or worse for each relevant attribute, like thermal efficiency, cost, dangers, enviornmental concern, lifespan, etc

I often hear that r12 cools better but that's not true at all according to thus Perdue study. There may be other factors though.

https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D...
Sounds like an arbitrage opportunity - shouldn't they pay out roughly the same?
every region can declare itself a hotspot and make masks mandatory. beyond that they don't serve any purpose except being a nuisance.
Why can't they just have some Spacex falcon 9's outfitted with multiple small missiles as payload? The falcon can boost the missiles and upon release they can easily go hypersonic while the falcon comes back for more?
Much of that is dependent on the wet bulb temp, which is where some people are crying about high humidity at lower temps. But in most deserts the humidity also tends to be quite low, so the wet bulb temp can be fairly low at air temps quite a bit higher than 100F because sweat evaporates quickly.

But yah, motorcycles at speed are another thing entirely because sweat/etc can just as easily blow off as evaporate. And so, you can't drink/sweat enough to be cooled. Combined with the need to wear protective gear which also tends to stop evaporation is a deadly combination. I ride mountain bikes in 100F+ weather and its another set of dangers, and one of the best feelings is dumping cold water through the vents in a helmet and feeling the burning hot water flush down your face and be replaced by the cool. But again, i'm basically carrying a significant quantity of <40F water intended to be sprayed on my already sweaty self, along with a 32F water i'm drinking not for hydration but as coolant.
You're looking for magnetocaloric refrigeration and the giant magnetocaloric effect:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007964251...
not surprising in the slightest. corporate security's gonna corporate security
In the pacific northwest you can find bear families walking around cities and taking a swim in backyard pools.

There is a local mountain called cougar mountain, during the mid 00s housing boom it underwent a lot of development and some of the new locals started complaining to their local government that there were, gasp cougars living at cougar mountain and some residents even requested that the cougars be removed.

From what I understand, such requests were promptly ignored.
This. Not only what you said, but also even being the part of a certain generation as that generation grows up and creates a shared culture enables one to socialize much later. Having played similar games that a generation played, having listened to same songs, having played with the same toys etc.
There was a specific technical capability that they used to reserve the right to use, and I believe they no longer need to use that capability. Obviously this would only be the case if they have some alternative capability. But I forget the name of the feature so I am having trouble looking up sources. I obviously do not take the government at its word, but I can believe that a technical capability developed in the 1980's might no longer be the most useful counter measure. Especially since there are now 5 GNSS constellation systems, with GPS only being one of them, and low cost off the shelf receivers can read all of them.
> Same about 1990s Russia: the west hoped a new economic system would lead to political freedom. Wishful thinking?

> The exact same kind of thinking the led US to invade Irak.

Encouraging (maybe there's a better word to use) a different way of running a foreign economy to bring about political change is not the exact same kind of thinking as overthrowing a foreign government to bring about political change. Yeah, there is the belief that political change needs to happen, but in practice these things are very different.
"Zero major tech innovation happening in Europe so long as you exclude every tech innovator in Europe."

https://www.failory.com/startups/european-unicorns
Create a will that gives all your money to a bunch of charities, but not enough that they would kill for it.

Then give your loved ones gifts while you are alive.
I'm not sure I believe this. There is an entire industry that revolves around video essays of how George Lucas personally ruined childhoods. The difference is that George Lucas lives behind a wall between creator and audience.

The difference with video games is that developers themselves build parasocial communities for their games. Playtesting and marketing are so interlinked.
Yes and with that ideological opposition came, strangely, a form of mutual respect that is today absent.

It seems that the replacement ideology for totalitarians is essentially a crude nationalism, which claims that "we" are a proud independent people whose history and culture are superior; "our" only problem is that we are beset and undermined by the horrible machinations of the US and its puppets. That's certainly the essence of Putinism, although China is perhaps a little more nuanced.
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Would appreciate an anecdote.
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You haven't driven in the same places I did then :)
> This would encourage your loved ones to keep you alive until you reach that age.

Why would they need external encouragement for that?
Naive or not, there wasn't really an alternative for Britain anyway. China had made it clear that they wanted HK back, and would get it back one way or the other. The best they could do was sign an agreement that offered as much protection to the city for as long as possible and then hope things would change in China over time.
Its been awhile since I've read up on that part of Russia, so I could very well be wrong. But it seemed like Russia was doomed from the beginning because almost at the onset, control was pretty much consolidated into Oligarchs.
Design lessons from guitar pedals
No, I understand that. It's just that even countries that are despotic are no longer bidding for the Olympics. I think if 5-10 major countries are willing to collude they could tip the scales in their favor. Say France, USA, Japan, Brazil, and Australia want to host the summer Olympics and Canada, Norway, Austria, Italy, and the USA want to host the winter Olympics for the next 100 years and will not bid against one another, who else is going to host the games?

Countries are already withdrawing their bids. Brisbane was the only city vying for the games in 2032.
This is one of those places in science where you can defend almost any arbitrary combination of nature vs. nuture not just with a paper here and a paper there, but with a slew of papers supporting your chosen position. It's just there's a slew of papers supporting all the other positions, too.

At this point, about all I'd say based on the science is that it clearly isn't 0% or 100% of either, but the data to make any grand pronouncements based on science beyond that in any direction just isn't solid enough. I'd be comfortable saying "it's more complicated" but I'm not convinced enough of any particular summary of the "more complicated" to bank on it.
I personally have never found the "socialization" argument persuasive. Public school is, in fact, a highly artificial and non-representative environment. You have a group of kids, all within 12 months of the same age, and an authority figure to boss them around.

As far as I know, that kind of "society" is not replicated anywhere, with the possible exception of military boot camp.

Real societies have a mixture of people from infancy to old age. Real workplaces have a mixture of people from entry level to retirement age. Even prison has a mixture of ages!

The model of education used in most of the United States was designed in the 19th century with the purpose of cranking out factory workers who would remain on-task until a bell rang -- so even its original purpose is largely obsolete.
Fun, if barely relevant, fact: Miyamoto himself wanted to change the art style during development, according to recently-translated interviews. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwUBIjbYYNg
Not sure what you mean by "not even decriminalized". If the basic status of cannabis in the NL as I understand it -- it's technical illegal, but obviously tolerated (and penalties are never enforced unless you really step out of line) -- then what other word would you use? Leg uit alstublieft.
Very much this. Effects of current levels of variation in parenting practice ≠ effects of potential variation. Here’s the argument in full: https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/no-wait-stop-parents-do-m...
I know a lot of people that are super heavily influenced by traumas inflicted by their parents.
Homeschooling someone is a lot different then your average lifestyle (that possibly wasn't that different between the adopted families)
Ah yes, Sprint - for when having a 5kt bomb go off over your city is the good outcome.

Terminal ballistic missile defense is hard!
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I mean to be fair you sound like the type that if they made homosexuality illegal that you'd be the first to start reporting people cause you don't care of the crime makes sense only that it is illegal.
I am hoping I can teach mine to be sufficiently literate and good at reading to prefer scanning through text rather than watch video. I assume many others have thought the same, who knows if I will be successful.
Eh it's also a polite way of saying that they're getting rid of the worst performers. There's a balance. Firing bad employees can improve productivity and morale of those that remain. I'd say at most of the companies I've worked for there's been at least 4% of employees that we'd have been better off firing and rolling the dice finding a replacement.
No, no I wouldn't disagree they should be involved, I maybe misunderstood and believed you'd make the kid do the whole cleaning as a lesson.
You don't need to create a front company if you can simply buy the data. That's shrewd, not stupid and helpless.
Not sure why "diversity of thought" is axiomatically a Good Thing. When extremely religious parents homeschool their children because they want to pass on those values, that's bad for society. Some things are heterodox for a reason.
Does it work with really large files? Like, >100mb or so. I was considering making something similar but with sqlite.js [1], but the problem with it is that it loads everything in memory, so I wasn't entirely sure how it will deal with larger workloads.

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I wasn't aware that Unity was a startup. Mighty long runway, those 17 years. When is Unity going to take off?
Trying to workout how this relates to the core product of this startup (3D game UX analytics).
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For the love of God, if you have one of these don't drink liquids while you're unmuted.
The “starve the beast” legislators underfund the EPA to the point that there is no money for enforcement, and enforcement at the technician level is going to be really unpopular with lots of “The government fined me out of business” stories. The path I used to acquire refrigerant is a break in the chain that has been operating for years in the open and probably moved >100 tons of refrigerant. I was unreasonably disappointed that I didn’t have to provide my brand new EPA card number.
What something like this: https://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts

I find blocking at the DNS level breaks some sites, which is why in uBlock Origin you can whitelist a domain that is causing problems.
Because they were less amenable to blindly accepting orders from arbitrary authority figures?
Can you explain briefly in what way you could tell?
Where does a 225-year-old working warship get its parts?
Ohh I want that. I was wondering if I could just get rehired at my company to get lower priced RSUs
> Why does it matter what order the strikes are in?

If you know where the other nation's leader is, first strike allows you a better chance at eliminating them. It's a marginal benefit. And Russia is more vulnerable to it. (Putin disappearing could create a violent scramble for power that diminishes its military's retaliatory capabilities in a way that taking out the President and say half the Cabinet would not.)
basically back to USSR

So, mostly unlicensed copies of Western designs.
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Exactly. Regulated, not banned.
Well, define "we" first.

How much American TV watch people in South America? How much English TV watches a German for example, or Italian? I would say, close to zero. So the first issue is that Western media landscape is fragmented. So it is difficult to project such possible attack to outside.

Second issue is media freedom. Media is truly privately owned and there is strong culture of press freedom. Still, there is probably also some level of cooperation with the government. So we should always pay attention if the government is trying to sell us something through media.
They also know how to program and never started on Scratch so their definition of a programming language is different.
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31947212

> OP claims V has "huge promises it hasn't kept". V is version 0.3. This seems wildly unfair.

Keep in mind that V didn't start out as a v0.1 with an ambitious roadmap, it popped up as website with a bunch of exciting features that made it seem further along than it actually was (https://web.archive.org/web/20190315194630/https://vlang.io/ and https://web.archive.org/web/20190315173156/https://volt-app....). I suspect that's what OP is referring to. Incidentally, this is also what prompted articles like "V is for Vaporware".

>> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31946715

> OP kicks a conversation in poor faith with "Wanna know something funnier also posted in previous thread?" about a V bug - which HN turns a blind eye to - and then suddenly the HN community pounces on the V maintainer when he gets frustrated in return? What?

I specifically linked to the_duke's comment offering some good-faith feedback.

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But I digress. My intention isn't to argue that V is bad, just to provide context to why it's such a divisive topic.
TikTok's response to republican senators [pdf]
> Probably because in most of the US recycling is fake and it all ends up in the landfill anyway, or the amount of energy spent recycling outweighs the savings.

> Recycling is something the oil companies came up with to whitewash their image, and justify single use plastics, it doesn’t work, has never worked and it’s hard to see how it would work.

No, it's because he's an idiot whose brain is turned to mush from obsessing about culture war politics.

The plastic recycling history is vaguely interesting for some plastics and completely irrelevant for glass and metals which are profitably recycled due to the economics of recycling them vs. creating them from scratch.

In any case, the local waste plant recycles what they can and then burns the rest for energy so I'll let them make the call on what's profitable to process.