skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> for platforms without file systems, or operating systems or where bytes aren't 8 bits, that doesn't use ASCI or Unicode, where NULL isn't on address 0 and so on.

This seems totally misconceived to me as a basis for standardizing a language in 2022. You are optimizing for the few at the expense of the many.

I get that these strange architectures need a language. Why does it have to be C or C++? They can use a nonstandardized variant of C, but why hobble the language that is 99% used on normal hardware with misfeatures that are justified by trule obscure platforms.
Oh! I'm not sure why I thought you might have been implying something else.
So they host articles that complain about being banned on Twitter, but are ok with banning entire countries?
It really amazes me how often I see this fallacy.

The total amount of supply doesn't matter much. What matters (both for the employer and the job-seeker) is the ratio of supply to demand.

E.g., let's say JavaScript has the most demand of any language and there are 2 zillion job openings. This sounds great for job seekers initially, but what if there are 5 zillion JS devs seeking jobs? In that case job hunting might be very difficult. Similarly if there are 100 remote positions open in Pony, but only 10 Pony devs available to fill them, job hunting might not be so difficult.

There are some liquidity advantages in absolute scale, but for the most part it's the ratio of supply to demand that matters and not the raw numbers.
I think this is true, but writing code in certain languages (e.g. Java 8) drives me a bit crazy. It’s like running a race with your arms tied to your sides.

I put certain languages in a general negatives bucket along with noisy offices, stack ranking, heavy process, etc.
You can use other file managers even in a gnome environment. For example, use Nemo.
The warning is *NOT* exaggerated. It is incredibly easy to damage your eyes with these tools.
> The world itself has reached, or is approaching, "peak baby" - though this will be a long plateau.

How did you arrive at the strange idea that we are approaching "peak baby"? Barring some cataclysm, the only plausible mechanism to reach "peak baby" is hitting permanent Malthusian limits.
SOP?
I think the issue is that it’s no longer “recommendations”, instead it’s now “here’s the things which we can make the most money off you buying based on your recent spending”.
yeah... tbh it's looking like a bodge on my part :(

It's scraped data from four UK jobs boards, de-duped where possible but as above it's rough.

Having just searched the jobs boards manually, I can see "nim" comes back with "National Intelligence Model (NIM)", so for sure that will be a false positive.

Sorry :(
Also FB private groups that may be of interest to the user.

For example many football club-related groups are private for obvious reasons, and, as such, getting kicked out of FB also means getting kicked out of your local supporters' forum where the online discussions happen. Yes, people from that group also meet irl, but not all of them attend those meetings and those meetings happen, at most, once every week (after the football season starts). For example we're out-season now but this is also the time of some of the most heated and interesting discussions, because right now we're in the middle of the transfer season.
"All Rights Reserved."
Bold thinking NFTs will make it more than 5 years
In the world we live in now.

I knew a guy who was having serious financial trouble, and couldn’t afford to keep a phone line active. He relied on Facebook to stay in contact with his wife and son because he at least had access to WiFi.

You can make a similar argument about phones. People can just reach each other via mail, or physically visit each other…but this doesn’t exactly constitute a healthy state of interaction.

Use email you say! Almost every big email provider requires verification via phone or another email address these days.

It’s legitimately getting harder and harder to communicate in these other ways.

> Who only communicates with colleagues over Twitter?

I don’t use Twitter much these days, but for a period of time, it was by far the easiest way to get/stay in touch with the communities I was organizing. I did dev advocacy, and if I ran a meet up somewhere, I didn’t want to just hand my phone number to a room full of people, but did want the option to stay in contact.

Could I have found another solution? Yeah sure. But at the time, this seems pretty reasonable, and Twitter wasn’t yet banning people for inane things.

If I lost that account now, it’d sever an entire community. Could I work around that? Sure.

But downplaying the significance of these things seems short sighted.

I rarely touch social media these days for many other reasons, but that is definitely an isolating choice to make in 2022.
This is far from the main discussion, but I used to be a "stinker" like the author describes, and I have a touch of unsolicited advice. Life is much happier if you save your obstinate streak for very limited, important occasions. Otherwise, you live your life ensnared in the negativity of trivial violations of your personal expectations about values and behavior.
There are many "public squares" in the world owned by corporations -- 592 in New York City alone including 168 plazas. They don't have the same protections for their users that a true public square has, but they're cheaper for the average voter, and that's what we care about.
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I'm in Miami, I very very rarely see anyone wearing a mask except senior citizens. The way it should be because they are at higher risk of not only covid but flu etc.

got attacked as a

fool with no care whatshoever for the public health
TL;DR This is a plug for Red panda.

If you're going to look at Kafka inside of Kubernetes at all just look at running Apache Pulsar in K8s.

One of the main arguments in this article is worry about exposing the broker but in Pulsar there is a proxy for this and the helm chart supports ingress public endpoint by just enabling a flag.
They also generally desire to harm the other party more than get assets for themselves. If just one part is willing to spend a dollar to make the other party lose a dollar, you’re gonna have a bad time.
> Overnight, I received a response that my appeal had been denied. So a human being, someone who works at Twitter dot com, looked at that video, looked back at the rule it was breaking, looked once again at the video, and went “Yeah, this all checks out.”

Of course not. "Appeals" are certainly not reviewed by human beings; maybe by another AI, or more probably by the same AI with higher thresholds. This is all automated stupidity.

Twitter does have a "bot problem", except that the bots are inside, not outside.
From https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/a-good-tip-for-peopl...

The following countries have been blocked from accessing any of the websites owned and operated by ZAM Network, LLC DBA Fanbyte (the owner of Wowhead. com):

China
Indonesia
Philippines
Thailand
Turkey
Serbia
India
This decision is ultimately due to legal compliance and liability issues with respect to these countries and their laws/regulations. This action was not based on any specific law or regulation in any one or more of the listed countries. Our decision was due to the legal costs involved with reviewing the laws and regulations of the listed countries, in contrast with the amount of visitors/revenue earned from them. As a result of this analysis, we decided not to pursue a legal review and to mitigate our liability in these countries, we opted to block access entirely. This is an indefinite decision. I and the rest of the Wowhead staff genuinely apologize for the inconvenience this will cause you. It was a tough decision but one that we ultimately had to accept.
Hard to elaborate since I've been blocked and can't see anything except for literally just that message
Don’t worry, I switched to XFCE and Thunar years ago.
I saw a post on Reddit where a user was denied service, because the thermal pad left a spot that looked like it could be liquid.

Apple refused to service it due to liquid damage.

It was probably the glue residue. So perhaps it would be better to stick it to the lid and not the heat sink.
I chalk it up to a cost benefit calculation. Google clearly isn't trying to eliminate all spam in search. It's not their goal. They are not trying to optimize for the user experience. They're trying to optimize revenue.
If I am interpreting this correctly, and I may not be, it seems like you are saying "The online world does not contain public squares, and that is because we need to change what everyone else in the world considers a public square."

If I am interpreting that correctly, I don't know what I can add here. I don't necessarily disagree, but I think we have moved past that possibility. How many of us know our neighbors and talk to them? I've lived in my home for a few years and I don't even know their names fully. But, I now know yours and the fact we (at least slightly) disagree.

Right or wrong, I think humanity has moved on and we are now connected.
No JavaScript VM is implemented in C. They are all written in a language that's a bit like C++ but has no exceptions and relies on lots of compiler behaviour that is not defined by the C++ standard.
I totally agree. It’ soo much like urban planning and management especially in the microservice world
Interestingly we also see the first generation in recent history with less wealth than their parents.
Better on what dimensions? Quite the sweeping claim. Is C# better than JS for writing a web front end? It’s possible but it’s hardly better.
> told me this form was non-ideal and it was worth voting against (and that they’d want the pure, beautiful C++ version only[1])

I heard about #embed, but I didn't hear about std::embed before. After looking at the proposal, to me it does look a lot better than #embed, because reading binary data and converting it to text, only to then convert it to binary again seems needlessly complex and wasteful. I also don't like that it extends the preprocessor, when IMHO the preprocessor should at worst be left as is, and at best be slowly deprecated in favour of features which compose well with C proper.

Going beyond the gut reaction and moving on to hard data, as you can expect from this design, std::embed of course is faster during compilation than #embed for bigger files (comparable for moderately-sized files, and a bit slower for tiny files).

I'm not a huge fan of C++, but the fact that C++ removed trigraphs in C++17 and that it's generally adding features replacing the preprocessor scores a point with me.

[1]: <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2020/p10...>
When you say moderate without AI are you suggesting human moderation? This is not really a good solution to this problem either. Paying people to traumatize themselves by watching video after video or reading tweet after tweet of the worst content society has to offer is dehumanizing.
Another thing to consider is that "sentience" is a loaded word. You're all just arguing over vocabulary and the definition of a word.

Simply put, sentience is just a combination of thousands attributes such that if something has all those attributes it is "sentient."

The attributes are so many that it's hard to write down all the attributes, additionally nobody fully agrees what those attributes are. So it is actually the definition of a word that is very complex here. But that's all it is. There isn't really a profound concept going on here.

All these arguments are going in circles because the debate focuses around vocabulary. What is the one true definition of "sentience." Sort of like what is the definition of the color green? Where exactly does green turn to blue on the color gradient? The argument is about vocabulary and the definition of green, that's it... nothing profound here at all.
You're right, no racism. I'm used to such statements including some hatred towards specifically white men, but they didn't go there. Sorry.
The Wikipedia entry quotes Dawkins:

The evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins remarks that ring species "are only showing us in the spatial dimension something that must always happen in the time dimension".
I have a very sensitive stomach; I get an upset stomach (watery stools) and pimples all over my forehead and head when I have coffee. With cold brew, (if made properly), I do not get any of this. So there is definitely some difference in the chemical constituents of hot-coffee vs cold-brew-coffee. Some other papers state less caffeic acid and less quinic acid.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-34392-w
F# has the backing of Microsoft and the big ecosystems of .NET and JS (via Fable). This makes it the best supported niche language and a great pick.
> Are you saying norms established before our current moral sensibilities it goes under our current radar?

Yes. That's clearly something that happens in human society. For instance, many of the US founding fathers were aware that slavery contradicted the principles they were fighting for. However, slavery was so ingrained in their society that most didn't advocate for abolition, or even free their own slaves.

> We still eat pigs and chickens because we've culturally decided as a society that having the luxury of eating meat ranks higher than our moral sensibilities towards preserving sentient life in our list of priorities.

If that's the case, then why do most Westerners object to eating dogs and whales? As far as I can tell, it's just because we have an established norm of eating pigs and chickens but not dogs or whales.

> Instead we've just chosen to minimize the suffering leading to the loss of life

99% of meat is produced in factory farms. It's legal and routine for chickens to have their beaks cut off to prevent them from packing each other to death, which they're prone to do when confined to tiny cages. Most consumers object to such practices when asked, but meat consumption is so ingrained in our culture that most people just choose not to think about.
Oh, so they'd have to spend a bunch of money to treat people like human beings?

Boo fucking hoo.

The money is the problem here. We should require them to spend that money, and if they can't remain profitable while employing sufficient human moderators to not be a net detriment to society, they should not be allowed to keep operating.

We've gotten way too far down the rabbit hole of "any company that can conceivably exist must be allowed to exist, so long as they can make a profit."

We really need to get back to companies having to provide some meaningful net benefit to society, rather than just making scads of money for their owners.
> I happen to like coffee with fruit and citrus tones.

That would likely be seeds of Coffea arabica - one of three coffee plants. Those tones come from a specific plant rather than a brewing method or temperature.

The other popular is C. canephora (robusta coffee) which is almost globally (outside espresso world) considered as inferior to arabica and cheaper. Robusta has some chocolate and nut aromas but some people would say that it resembles burned rubber stench.

The third plant - C. liberica - is very rare in comparison. To me it has a somewhat woody/smoky/fruity aftertaste but I have only tasted beans from two roasters so far.

Most of store-bought ground coffee are arabica/robusta blends so people can enjoy full taste spectrum but aren't discouraged by the burned rubber thing.

I, on the other hand, LOVE robusta and my morning ritual of throwing mainly robusta roast (currently from Harley Estate in India) with 5-25% arabica seeds of choice into coffee blender is the best and most benefiting first decision making process I can imagine in the early morning.
this story only makes sense because the town was in a state where all the debts cancelled out

the $100 bill appearing didn't do anything but help them realize that

if they sat down at a whiteboard and drew it out they could have figured it out.

if they didn't cancel out, the $100 bill would stop before it got back to the inn keeper and he'd be in trouble
That's putting it mildly: <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3017.htm#i...>
I'm surprised to hear there's that much regulation in Thailand (if it's true). I do know a couple porn sites are blocked here though

I own a site that's monetized primarily off display ads and I can tell you that advertising revenue in those countries is abysmally low so they probably just don't want to expend any effort to support those countries
It's getting harder to "run your own website" without the risk of the hosting provider pulling you down if you generate too many complaints and are too much trouble for them.
Good luck and stay safe! You will have a blast.
There is at least one registrar that gives away .it domains (and apparently .eu
domains? WTF?) for free for one year[1], with no major strings attached (as long as you cancel after the first year) as far as I read, correct me if I'm wrong.

Why they decided to ".xyz the TLD", I don't know. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1] https://www.register.it/?lang=en
You're confusing two different pantheons from two different parts of Europe. Zeus != Odin
Basic Post Scarcity Q&A
Is there somewhere a real list of pros of cons of pulsar vs kafka ( or redpanda) , from people having real life experience of the two ( and not just reading the documentation) ?
Um, using a private server for official correspondences doesn't really require a subpoena to be illegal.

GW had one, and his Admin said he was going to be murdered shortly before his private plane crashed.

Nothing new here. Politics, as usual.
Don't smoke heroin, try Oxycontin!

Sorry for the snark but I'm nursing a hangover created in the company of a important friend who's promising to quit drinking after moving state next month, so this is a rather timely paper. However if my friend were to merely substitute another intoxicant I'd lose my mind and probably my wonderful friend. So I personally wouldn't suggest alternative habits at least.

Edit: punctuation
Tesla supply chain struggles forced it to sell 75% of its Bitcoin (at a loss)
In my family, all the elders apparently became doctors around the ages of 50 to 60, but without having to do any of the reading or working or math credentialed doctors have to do.

It is also funny seeing them grapple with daughter in laws having leverage now that they all earn hefty incomes and have no dependency on the elders.
These maintenance tasks are exactly what this discussion is about.

You will do major work on roof or facades every 50 years or so. This is exactly the opportunity where you pretty much get insulation for free.

After 100 years the house will have been all but structurally rebuilt once, just for upkeep reasons. You perform energetic renovations together with the upkeep tasks.

And when the house is old enough, the monument protection agency will even force you to do it by that time.
That's cool. Didn't know Safari had dev tools on ipad. I did try blink. I wanted to get vscode running via SSH plugin from a vps but didn't have patience to figure it out. Then I realised I should just use my laptop.
Surprised they didn’t mention hail suppression, which definitely does happen. I would guess it’s not as visible as contrails.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/cloud-seeding-hail-se...
I used to think this way and wound up completely exhausted in my career. Coming from web dev, I used to volunteer to dive into a Objective C repo to fix some random bug in a mobile app and then a week later my boss would ask me to build a big feature in that app. I'd spend a few weeks getting up to speed on the language and build the feature, and then I would never use what I learned again. My boss would ask me to dive into another tool I don't really know and the cycle would repeat ad nauseum. In hindsight, I've wasted so much time digging into tools that I've never used again.

I definitely learned some good lessons and recognized some patterns along the way, but I think the "just pick it up and learn it" attitude contributes to poor code quality in a commercial context since jobs usually time-box things. I'm a fan of picking something up that I can get expert feedback from, which there again, requires expertise.
See, I think you got into the area that I am troubled by.

I will state two things I consider to be true that are mutually exclusive:

* Online spaces (facebook, twitter, etc), when they reach a certain level, are de-facto public spaces and excluding people from it by big tech is harmful to humanity.
* Online spaces owned by a private corporation is for their benefit, not humanities, and forcing them to keep others on them is an infringement of property rights.

... I am a human and I can simultaneously hold views that exclude each other. I wish I knew a way to make these consistent.
Yes, it is difficult and I don't think it is possible to come up with a solution that fits all. What limited I can say: Insurance for the PV is cheaper than insurance for the insulation. That is because more problems with insulation can appear (e.g. fire damage, moisture) than with PV. Insulation of old houses is also far more complex than PV (someone pointed that our here).

.. it was mentioned somewhere here, too: For some, the best solution will be to focus on reducing energy consumption; for other, the better option will be to focus on increasing local energy production. And a combination of both might be best for most.
The problem is that people, including credentialed experts, have quick and easy answers to what makes a person a person, and really good language models expose a few of the weaknesses in those definitions. People still want to derive an "ought" from an "is".
Similar/same approach here.. I break the job down into individual tasks, estimate min + max for each of those, then multiply subtotals by (usually) 1.5 for "unknown unknowns". Initially the "max" total is almost always 3-4x the "min" total, which is a sign I need to go back and get requirements nailed down better. I ask questions and tweak numbers until "max" is <2x "min" and at that point I consider the estimate finished.

Whoever needs the estimate can then make a decision based on those best and worst case scenarios. I do these numerous times a year for bits of work which are usually from a few weeks to a few months long, and they end up being accurate to the degree intended.
It doesn't have to be C, but as of today there is no other option. No one is coming up with new languages with these kinds of features so C it is. People should, but language designers today are more interested in memory safety and clever syntax, than portability.

I would like to caution you against thinking that these weird platforms are old machines from the 60s that only run in museums. For instance many DSPs have 32bit bytes (smallest memory unit that can be individually addressed), so if you have a pair of new fancy noise canceling headphones, then its not unlikely you are wearing a platform like that on your head everyday.
Some comments from a few months ago, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30667022
I'm aware of that, I just wanted them removed from the public view.
Honestly I'm usually very wary of additions to C, as one of its greatest strengths (to me) is how rather straightforward it is as a language in terms of conceptual simplicity. There just aren't that many big concepts to understand in the language. (On the other hand there's _many_ footguns but that's another issue.)

That said, to me this seems like a great addition to the language. It's very single-purpose in its usage (so it doesn't seem to add much conceptual complexity to the language) and it replaces something genuinely painful (arcane linker hacks). I'm very much looking forward to using this as I often make single-executable programs in C. The only thing that's unfortunate is I'm sure it'll take decades before proprietary embedded toolchains add support for this.