skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rust that solved the async and abstracting over keywords/reference types.

So future Rust.
They should really be banned/controlled, but they won't be. :/
The fedora-tipping is strong in this one.
What do you need a ruby script for? Please enlighten me.
Ah, but java seems to go out of its way to make you make so very many objects. It's almost as though it tries to rub your face in the fact that you don't have to remember to delete objects, by needlessly making you make them. Iterators for example. Why (why!) should it be necessary to incur memory thrash, just to traverse a collection? Why not allow a class that has a collection also have a reusable iterator? Just a simple .reset() method would work wonders for many of these "disposable" objects. And if .reset() offended anyone, they could always ignore it and continue to blithely throw candy wrappers out the car window, as it were.
I don’t think you read the article then. It’s definitely a little clickbaity but at no point did it describe a PM
Heh. Well, a Serbian SAM commander brought down an F117 by somehow tricking his radar into using the _lack_ of signal reflection to get a target lock. (mightve been a primary factor in the retirement of that aircraft)

The B2 isn't super-sonic but there are a few more image sats up than before.

Little light on their background summary, though.

The B2 was an unadjusted $2 billion aircraft when it was first put into service in the late 80's. I don't know (or care) what that translates to in 2022 dollars but it would have a somewhat larger price tag.
My consumer 3060 does 7.2 it/s, which is 5x faster than the M2.

Sorry, Apple is nowhere close yet.
The problem is that that (bad) thing, is the core idea of their project. So from their view you're basically saying "Yo, your project sucks. Make a better one."...
Math is not limited to what your brain can come up with on its own. The most important part of math, in my opinion, is that other people (or, other entities, if we include AI), can come up with insights (because of their superior brain power and/or expertise) you would never be capable of conceiving yourself, and package them up in a nice theory for you.
Compensation is competitive now? Last I looked (couple years), anywhere outside London was really low.
I read the article, and this is what I found:

>>"So far, there has not been any concrete evidence that points to Niemann cheating."

So question is, did you read the article?
I had written two implementations of the same program in both Ruby in Crystal that need parallel (not threads!) jobs to be run. It did some more or less heavy computation on large data sets. Almost no difference in terms time execution. Crystal is nice, but if Ruby is the same, what's the point? Only thing I don't like about Ruby now is how they implemented types (in separate files... no, thank you).

But generally speaking, after 14 years of Ruby... and also trying many more languages - I do know what I want. It's not speed. It's not memory safety. It's not paradigms. It's not static or dynamic typing. It's not the packages and the community. Nope.

I want easy code navigation. I only currently know of one language, that hasn't even been fully released yet, that achieves this task to a degree. But even then, it's only 30% there.
That's really hard to quantify. I've had many discussion with friends where I though the code was decent only for them to say it's the worst thing in the world.

The reverse is also true. I've seen terrible code where others don't react as strongly as me.

It really depends on what you consider terrible. Eg: Bad maintainability, complexity, no documentation, convoluted, etc.

I guess there's also the question of what do you consider a great product? Little bugs? Does it need to be modern? Does the design matter? What do you mean cruftiness? That it's old?

For me it's about doing the job it needs to do. WordPress for all its flaws still is my go to ecommerce platform (w/ Woocommerce) since it just works.
Not sure I understand your comment, but I can assure you, math involves a lot of active contemplation.
Firstly it would be persistent - so you'd never need to write SQL or file handling code again. Want to save a map or list or object of some kind? Just reference it from the root object (can be indirectly) and it is magically there the next time you start your program.

Secondly, it would be as easy to program in as Python but have some way to be more efficient when that was strictly necessary. Might be JIT or the ability to embed a lower level language or some kind of type hints that made it more efficient or who knows. One wouldn't need to spend too much time on crap like "build systems" or package management or whatever to make it work.

Thirdly: It would work very well with concurrent/asynchronous situations and have powerful abstractions for them like channels, continuations etc that would make them as simple as they could be.
edit: The page also contains the stronger statement wmanley quoted, so it wasn't a misleading quote as I initially assumed. I counted a total of 5 committers in the last year, so it does indeed look like SQLite does not accept outside contributions at all, even with a public domain dedication.

That page says:

> the project does not accept patches from people who have not submitted an affidavit dedicating their contribution into the public domain

which is quite different from your shortened quote. This sounds similar to the CLA many projects require for contributions.

How many outside contributions does SQLite accept in practice?
> I've seen a bug in handle convert function* in Warcraft 3 that resulted in bunch of maps, some singleplayer, some coop, some MP that lead to crashes (E can't find much material about it).

Crashes that didn't cause a lot of damage. Using a language like Rust could add way more overhead than it's worth. The GP's point was that some applications just don't require complete safety, a crash or two won't kill anyone (which could happen literally in a hospital computer for example).
I feel like this is written by a bot...
China discovers a new lunar mineral that may be a future energy source
>Saturday Night Live nodded to this nagging cultural endurance in a sketch six years earlier.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpWbTogEEhg
Unfortunately for me, I realised the beauty of it after graduating from university. Mathematics can be really beautiful and painful at the same time.
Mainly because USA developed multiple geographic clusters where software developers are in high demand (Bay Area for consumer tech, New York for finance etc.) and the funding ecosystem is both deep-pocketed and culturally supports paying for talent. Traditionally European VCs and founders both operated under the assumption that startups need to save money rather than spend to get the best. And consequently those startups don’t grow into big companies that would pay for talent.

It’s worth noting that the meteoric rise of Bay Area software engineer salaries is a fairly new phenomenon. In the mid 2000s, salaries were actively suppressed by a wage cartel that included Steve Jobs. The companies paid out a $324M settlement to employees [1].

Mark Zuckerberg is often said to have been the crucial CEO who broke the cartel. Facebook started paying higher salaries and hiring aggressively from Google and others who had been suppressing wages.

[1] http://www.equitablegrowth.org/aftermath-wage-collusion-sili...
Perhaps the app should have a paperclip that pops up...
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL

I think you could make a good case that like all things going up and up the past years, it is just money printed at the FED. Thinking long and hard on the implications of that can inform your moves in the coming decade.
They have unfairly infringed his constitutional right to continue to play games on chess.com after he admitted to cheating on there in the past.
Oof. I guess I should at least 16GB on my next Mac (I've been very happy with 8GB on my M1 Air for just about everything else, though).
For most sites you do not need to switch away from sqlite for production. It is fast enough.
What's the prepared queries equivalent of this?
I'm afraid that a language that was an agglutination of features of those three languages would be horrible to work with. Omitting features that aren't pulling their weight is key in making a good language. My instinct is to prefer a language with a minimal and orthogonal feature set. Tastes differ and some languages have a good reputation despite putting in all the bells and whistles (C# goes against all my minimalist impulses in language design, yet I find it very pleasant to work with).

Minimalist languages face their own challenges, the Lua mailing list is besieged by people who love the minimalism of it and only want to put in just one little feature that would make it perfect for them. If there wasn't a strong filter, it would have hundreds of those little features and not be so minimal anymore.

Anyway, tooling is great, but what I want to see most of all is simplicity, and not simplicity in the sense of Go, with masochistic manual error handling and all that imperative boilerplate. I'd like simplicity like Scheme or SML, omitting what isn't needed or can be relegated to a library. With great tooling, of course.

So, what I most of all want is for SML to become popular. Which isn't going to happen. So all I can do is to argue for replacing C++ with Rust at work (there's not much resistance actually, more than finding resources to do the actual work, which is problematic).

Anyway, I have fooled around with making my own language, but I don't think it's a good idea anymore (but damn would it be good if there was a modern SASL, think Scheme with ML syntax[0]). Because you correctly identified that it's tooling that is the decider these days. So if you want to make a difference, find an underappreciated language that is close enough to your ideal (there will be several, unless you have really wild ideas) and put in work on tooling for it instead.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150402133901/http://www.eis.md...
I really want to build this. Is it possible to prevent frequent screen updates?
Ask HN: Anyone hosting their own videos?
Hello,

I am preparing to soon upload all new video's I produce on to my own website instead of a platform.

I am asking if there is any one else who has done such a thing, so that I can look into subscribing to their RSS feeds and having things to watch that are not hosted on YouTube.
It may actually be the dumbest way to solve any problem. It's not a bad way to create a maze though.
It depends entirely on the reason for that 1/10 times.

E.g. I had a test that hit a 3rd party sandbox that would go down occasionally. I could have mocked it to avoid this but I had way bigger fish to fry. The flakiness triggered a very specific error that we felt safe ignoring (other kinds of flakiness we would not ignore). The corresponding prod API never had issues.

Sometimes it's a select statement without an order by in which case even if it's not strictly a bug but just quickly adding an order by solves the flakiness forever so you might as well.

Sometimes it's a pretty terrifying race condition in the code that will absolutely crop up in prod.
> Being invaluable to the team gives you negotiating leverage.

A firm I know fired their lasts Perl developer, purely to cut costs. Their payments system was written in Perl. When it stopped working, they
asked my friend to step in.

He refused, said management should take responsebility for their decisions, and his manager got all pissy. Soon my friend left the firm too. The management is still earning bonuses and promotions. Nobody cares.
This I can affirm as well after years of personal study. Some are self-aware and humble, others, well, let them have their little reality distortion field. As long as it doesn’t seep into my “you know back in 1990 when I was alive and sentient there was still the threat of global nuclear war” context of history at any given point in time.
Is that built in to the display unit? It can't be loaded (from your own non-volatile(/battery or cap backed) memory) prior to triggering display update? (I've never used one.)
I take the ESR view here: math is only unreasonably effective to describe your field because you have chosen to study a field that is effectively described by math.

For example, consistent science-like theories of history are very suspicious to say the least.

By and large, nature doesn't give a damn. E.g. the most natural and mathematically elegant way to describe space is euclidean geometry, which happens to be a "wrong" model.

On some level, model selection is influenced by aesthetic considerations.
Why did Uber send REAL GOONS after this man?
Europe is resisting the con. We see the corruption first-hand, especially those of us within spitting distance of war refugees. Europe will fracture over the Ukraine issue, and when it does - demand will change.
A few ideas:

- colocate it with the service itself

- use (for example) fly.io where you can host a tiny one for free next to your service.

- use sqlite so you don't even have a separate service

- run aurora serverless https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/serverless/
Correct, the term has been diluted. There were only four or five true professions until modern language usage made it generic.
Ha ha, spot on. Could be java too.
Thank you. Looking at the dissertation, it does seem though like the author was attempting to summarize of Plato and his contemporaries.
I think the technical term is `kerning` (though also not a typography person).
> Cost of Living Comparison Between Seoul and San Francisco, CA

> You would need around 12,056,794.18₩ (8,727.42$) in San Francisco, CA to maintain the same standard of life that you can have with 6,600,000.00₩ in Seoul (assuming you rent in both cities). This calculation uses our Cost of Living Plus Rent Index to compare cost of living. This assumes net earnings (after income tax). You can change the amount in this calculation.

Seoul San Francisco, CA
Preschool Full Day, Private, Monthly : 509,352.94 ₩ ( 368.70 $) 3,160,145.20 ₩ (2,287.50 $) +520.42 %
Apartment (1 bedroom) in City Centre : 1,063,680.37 ₩ ( 769.95 $) 4,542,563.97 ₩ (3,288.18 $) +327.06 %
Apartment (3 bedrooms) in City Centre : 3,410,888.38 ₩ (2,469.00 $) 8,160,113.43 ₩ (5,906.77 $) +139.24 %

https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cou...

Basically - in some parts of US people would be homeless and starve to death on the pay of the most European citizens. And if you don't know - there are way too many homeless people in US for a developed nation.
A lot of the principles of team success in business also apply to success in a collaborative music environment. Such as a rock band. I’ve been in both and can safely say the “business” can mean “the business of whatever the heck you’re trying to accomplish” and it kind of works too!
>which puts off people from contributing to it

Never cared about it, nor do now, neither do the thousands of major products and companies that embed it in their apps, code, etc. (from Gooogle Chrome to Apple's stuff to Adobe Lightroom to Dropbox, FOSS distros, hardware devices like routers, and countless others).

Nor does it bother contributors, to any degree that impacts this being one of the most well maintained, regularly updated, thoroughly tested and bugfixed, and stable FOSS of all time - if not the best in most of those regards (which is also the reason of its huge mission-critical adoption from the biggest names in the industry).

If this indeed has ever bothered anyone, it's still one of the most inconsequential bothers of all time...
I’ll assume you are talking about the average, which is a bit above $100k. You have probably seen plenty of eye-popping FAANG salaries, but those are basically outliers from monopoly companies in a top talent Cold War.

There are some currency effects due to status of the USD as one of the most stable shelters of risk. But I don’t believe this is accounts for most of the difference.

Mainly, the US does not have a high enough supply of tech workers. Other professions are not particularly well paid in comparison to the cost of living. But for tech, the size of the US tech industry combined with a restrictive immigration policy means that companies will pay a lot for most technical talent. Companies try to hire abroad as much as they can, but there are enough disadvantages to outsourcing that there will always be reasons to hire within the US.

The tech industry fights against this high pay by encouraging more people to study IT degrees, lobbying for immigration reform, and even in the past by anti-poaching agreements that amounted to price fixing.
Many reasons, but the most basic factor is topline revenue: American tech companies earn revenue from both their local market as well as a huge swathe of the world. Without large enough topline revenue, the companies wouldn't have the ability to offer high wages to engineers.

If you work for companies with smaller or less wealthy target markets, they simply won't be able to pay you as much (even if they wanted to).

There's also the culture of compensating talent well, the dynamic startup scene that drives demand for tech workers, and high costs of living in key tech hubs driving up baseline pay. Those help justify paying out a greater chunk of overall revenue to tech workers.
import "C"
import "Unsafe"

is all you need for manual memory management and pointer arithmetic with Go.

Since the GC is fairly light and snappy, I find it's best of both world to only resort to Unsafe for the performance critical parts, and leave the GC deal with the rest.

For more serious performance requirements, consider using jemalloc:
https://dgraph.io/blog/post/manual-memory-management-golang-...
Important UX lessons I learned from video games
> I'm bald and wear glasses. That's quite unfair.

Kidnap, restrain and shave the competition. Make the whole world bald!
I know this isn't an answer to the question, but an observation I'm seeing and experiencing personally.

I spent my 20s and 30s gathering wealth in the US, helped built 2.5 unicorns, and saved enough for an early retirement.

In my 40s, I'm living in Europe and enjoying more family-focused cultures.
Because it's expensive as hell to live in the US..
Health insurance and rent alone is the typical salary in another country. And don't even think about having a major illness, it will bankrupt you. We have shitty public transportation so one needs a car. And we have shitty safety net so a huge chunk of your money goes to retirement or savings to avoid homelessness at all stages of life. We also have numerous levels of taxation, Fed, State, City, Municipal, Local, Sales, Property. We also have massive insurance requirements on everything from health to cars to housing which is almost like another tax. Then we have to pay for our college which is the most expensive in the world, or get massive loans to repay.

After taxes rent utilities insurance car payment gas groceries savings retirement student loan you're looking at take home of like 20% of advertised salary.

Then the average person spends 8 to 10 hours working and another 30 minutes to an hour commuting with like 2 weeks of vacation a year average.
We’ve known that the heaviest cars are the safest for a long time. It’s the reason why, in the 1970’s and 80’s, parents bought big heavy cars for their college-bound children.
It's painful while you're doing it.
But you do include credit card fees, which is something that should be more explicit.
One factor for a minority of jobs is extreme profitability of large American companies, (FAANG mostly), but the bigger portion is that they need to pay that much.

Friends I know in the US who make about 40k more than I do actually don't come out ahead because they pay thousands for private schooling (for a school on par with public education over here), daycare, two cars, high rent and so on.

When I stayed in the US I paid 3.5k in rent for a one bedroom apartment, in a trendy part of Berlin you pay half that. Cost of living in the US where the popular jobs are is high. People seem to be unable to save a lot even if they earn 100k+ salaries. In many other countries social security, education, loans, healthcare etc is simply priced in publicly.
So Elon Musk calling that guy a pedophile was an opinion and therefore shouldn't have been considered defamatory?

Realistically any opinion based comment could be taken offence to and then whether it is defamatory or not depends on the evidence that individual has for having said opinion.
infrastructure, it pays but we also have to pay for it
No, I'm saying the suffering happened because of her reign. She was the direct cause - as a heinously racist, totalitarian monarch sovereign - of endless policies that caused calamity and suffering across the globe.

There are literally millions of people who see her as the criminal she truly was.
I live in London. Developed a persistent headache which goes on for a few months already. Just got appointment to a neurologist for August 2023. Today is September 2022. Although, is UK in Europe?...
A better battery may help, http://www.davehylands.com/Machinist/Caliper-Batteries/

> LR44 starting voltage is about 1.500 Volts. SR44 starting voltage is about 1.550 Volts. Both are rated as 150 mA hours, but the discharge curves give very different operational life depending on the required voltage for the application. The LR44 voltage drops over the duration of usage. The SR44 remains flat (and above 1.5V) for most of its useful life. The calipers need at least 1.25 to operate.

> The LR44 drops below 1.3 Volts after about 50% usage. The SR44 drops below 1.5 Volts after about 95% usage. The SR44 start at a slightly higher voltage, and their flat discharge curve makes them far superior for low power, long operational life applications, like a caliper.
> They have a 401K.

What would you prefer? Defined-benefits, dependent on your company managing your pension? Most people would rather it was independent and invested.
I don't think there are any opinionated words there.

The definition of 'drastic' does not necessarily mean quick (although it can). Definitions of drastic include (collected variously from Oxford, Cambridge, and Merriam-Webster dictionaries): 'having very noticeable effects', 'likely to have a strong or far-reaching effect', and 'extreme in effect [...]'.

I think Brexit fits this definition.

With regards to your opinionated sentence, you are entitled to your opinion that the EU is an 'abomination', although it is just an opinion without any support, and it's provably incorrect that Britain 'IS' better off (although an argument can be made that the potential long term benefits of Brexit may outweigh the current short term negative impact, it's far from being certain, and definitely should not be discussed in the present tense).
> How many outside contributions does SQLite accept in practice?

Zero, afaik.
In terms of political, public and commercial repercussions, which is what the discussion is about? Not much difference at all.
That's wealth though. OP is asking about income.
I work at a company that has been operating remotely since a decade. In our weekly syncs (or 1:1 with manager), there's little to no small talk, and the meeting gets called off if there's not much agenda. For socials, we have a monthly sync, that is voluntary. Both don't get mixed.
Most coders don't work in tech or startups, but in regular businesses. An yet, they still make more in the US than in Europe. Perhaps it falls in line with general lower compensation in Europe - I mean, for example there are plenty job offers for accountants in London (super-expensive city) which advertise sub 30k pounds pay per year. I don't think there are a lot of accountants in NYC who would take a job for the equivalent $35k...
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Could it simply have leaves on downward-growing repurposed roots?
Some beekeepers have been known to add food coloring to sugar water, not for attention, but so they can better identify real honey that their bees produce vs “honey” that the bees have stored from the sugar water.