skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
C++ allows you to control your memory allocations.

You can use mark and sweep, you can us reference counting, you can use arenas, you can use local stack, you can use shared memory, you can have custom allocators for any object, you can avoid memory allocations altogether, and any combination of these.

C is the same. Java can do some of this, if you twist it hard enough. Go cannot. That's ok -- often, even most of the time, you don't care, and then Go is a fine language.

But C++ is useful in a much wider set of domains than many people think, because it offers a level of control that many other languages don't.

My favourite analogy? Go (etc) is like an Apple product: smooth, and shiny, and tries to be idiot-proof, but you can only do it the Go way. C++ is more Linux: a mess of incompatible, incomplete, infuriating things that let you do absolutely anything you want, if you invest the effort.
It was originally a factor for purely internal reasons—whether a story is kept in RAM or not—but I think it actually makes sense to keep.
It’s a difference between thinking of dogs as a species and dogs as individuals. I wouldn’t want “my” dog on the barbie, but generally don’t have a problem with the idea of “dogs” on the barbie if we didn’t have better choices (I/we do).

There’s also a hierarchy of value: I love you and I love my dog. I you were starving, I’d feed you my dog. If my dog were starving, it’s curtains for the dog.

It also improves understanding to differentiate between the act of killing “an” animal for food, and the specialization in a society to do that at scale. Criticizing the excesses of esp. modern industrialization need not mandate rejection of using animals for food in principle. Those are two separate issues to my way of thinking. Raising and killing an animal for food is not in itself cruel unless the methods to do so are such - in other words it need not be done cruelly. The opinion that raising and killing animals at an industrial scale crosses the line seems then a question of degree (what would it take to make industrial scale less cruel?). This is of course balanced with what our tribe needs to thrive efficiently. We allow a lot of cruelty for our convenience - just look at how your iPhone or Nikes are made (and food has to be a whole lot more affordable than iPhones). Doing anything at industrial scale exploits resources (human or otherwise). Fighting for better conditions in industry doesn’t require abstention from eating meat unless perhaps that’s your only way to get meat. I say perhaps because there’s also this idea of fixing the truck while we’re driving it - complete abolition of an industry is not a necessary step (or arguably a wise one) to improve it.

If you just broadly reject the idea of eating meat because it represents the death of another life form to sustain your own existence, that’s a tough corner to be in with any consistency.
> British people love to complain about the state of their railways

When British people go to Switzerland or Japan its like they've died and woken up in heaven.

Japanese rail in particular is pure heaven compared to the UK. Trains are always punctual. Trains are always clean. Trains are always frequent.

And that's before we start talking about the amazing food stores that are attached to main Japanese stations. In the UK you get a filthy station full of greasy horrible fast-food stores.
I always thought it would make sense to have 52 weeks (364 days) and then a special New Years day and then repeat 52 weeks.

This way every year is the same. It's always the same day of the week on April's 13th. No moving holidays. Easier to plan. No adjusting schedules. No problem with leap seconds/days (just as them to the special day whenever).

It just seems like a simple and superior solution. What were those guys thinking...
It would essentially be an ISS mission with a few extra rocket burn stages and a different view.
It's bad because the ultimate truth that's been proven over the entirety of human history is that a small group of people simply do not possess the knowledge required to operate economies & plan peoples' lives.

That knowledge is often only available to individuals themselves (their preferences!).
You seem to think kthe left wants to ban guns. Nope.
the historical record of someone named Jesus existing isn't debated by any historical scholar

It is debated by people like Richard Carrier https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=mAEB&search_query=richard... who says that (IIRC) while it's not unlikely that one or several people with similar messages preached in Judea 2000 years ago, the Jesus of the Bible looks like a literary invention when you go back to all the earliest records in Christian and non-Christian (e.g. Roman) sources.

*Edit* now that I got downvoted for mentioning Richard Carrier I'd very much like to hear about substantialized criticism about his work. Any pointers?
As the other poster suggested, AutoSleep is amazing.

I've found if my watch is too loose it won't record sleep well.

It's also a known problem that Apple watches "backup" bugs (which I've experienced twice now). If the problem still continues, I'd recommend you fully unpair/reset your watch and setup it up as a new watch (do not restore from backup).
Not sure what that has to do with calendars. Fortnight is just one of many measurements that aren't used a lot in the US (among other places) these days so I wouldn't expect the average person on the street to immediately recognize what it means. There are a ton of imperial measurements that aren't widely used like pecks, bushels, rods, etc.

(I'd also avoid terminology like bi-monthly and semi-monthly as it's a predictable point of confusion.)
>"YOUR CALENDAR IS BASED ON A RELIGIOUS LEADER THAT NOT EVERYONE BELIEVES IN?"

Instead of taking the opportunity to make a holier-than-thou twitter rant the would-be probee would do better to reply to this by explaining that almost every religion and many cultures have one or more of their own.
Just because some clever PR campaign launched by the copyright lobby succeeded in equating harmless act of copying files to a violent dangerous crime, it doesn't mean we should perpetrate forever this substitution of concepts.
It's very easy to try! Just plug that URL here: https://huggingface.co/spaces/impira/docquery.

I tried a few questions:

What is the development date? -> June 20, 2017
What is the medicine? -> SPINRAZA® (nusinersen)
How many doses -> 5 doses
Did the patient meet the review criteria? -> Patient met initial review criteria.
Is the patient treated with Evrysdi? -> not
It is remarkably high- maybe even more than 20%. I just ran a quick analysis and it came out more like 40% but I feel like "that can't be right"™ so I'd need to dig into it.

I still want to figure out how to build software for everyone to participate in this system, but have been stuck for years on "how would that not just be a clone of the upvoting system". That said, anyone who wants to nominate a story for a second chance is welcome to email us at hn@ycombinator.com. People do this, and we always take a look and usually put the submission in the pool.

The only thing that's kind of a bummer is that well over 90% of the time, people are just asking for their own material to be put in the second-chance pool. That's fine to ask, and we're fine to do it if the article passes muster, but it's not really in the spirit of the thing to use it for promotional purposes. I always feel better when people email about an article they have no personal stake in, but just found interesting.
septem, octo, novem, decimus is latin for the numbers 7, 8, 9, 10.
I'm an outlier: I thought it was a re-implementation of Adobe Photoshop 5 using Oberon programming language.

(Tidbit: Photoshop was first written in Pascal, the ancestor of Oberon)
The US media (in particular) has a very weird bias in favor of Iran. It's quite disturbing.

Saudi Arabia murdered Khashoggi - one man - and it was a prominent story for years (to be clear, I dislike the theocracies in both Iran and Saudi Arabia, they're both vile authoritarian systems). Iran's government genocided thousands of civilians by shooting them in the streets during the protests right before the pandemic, and it was covered for weeks in the US media and then the media forgot it ever happened. Why doesn't that get the attention of eg Tiananmen Square? Media bias is the sole good explanation.
Aliens are taking notes
That's an implementation detail. Do we first agree that the system proposed would lead to a better society? Would lead to the pie growing by a lot? Would stop heaps of wasteful processes?

Since people already give away information for free - see open source software, wikipedia, all sorts of other sources, you wouldn't need to be even close to accurate to start with. Can we agree that Wikipedia provides at least $1b/year in value? Great, give them $100m/year and we'll work from there. Linux? Let's go with another $100m. Firefox? Stable Diffusion? That guy in Nebraska[0]?

I'm sure someone else can come up with a better implementation, but a way is through a very small subset of people, when trying to download a book or use other information, they get entered into an auction shared by some others who also want to use that information. Anyone who bids more than the median gets to use the information and pays the median, anyone who bids less than the median doesn't - but gets the median value in return.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/2347/
Are you suggesting that engineering management just needs to have stricter guidance in terms of scope?

With HN it's not uncommon to see somebody jump on the latest bandwagon/buzz right after a post picks up traction.
That sounds like a lot of words to say, “we should create whatever pretext we need to invade Iran like we invaded Iraq in 2003”.

I’m not sure Iraq is far enough away in the collective US memory for your comment to be received positively.
See also May 35th.
Was 2019 so I expect so unless they replaced them since.
This is why September, October, November and December are named after the numbers 7, 8, 9 and 10: they are the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th month if you start the year in March, like we used to.
Out of curiosity, why has the original article title been edited ?
> It's not a question of "don't ever knock down a fence" or "always knock down fences".

Exactly my point. "Tradition is smarter than you" implies that I won't be able to out-think it. When, in fact, tradition is overturned quite regularly and quite often with extremely good reasoning.

Always doing the same thing is dumb -- be that holding or throwing out tradition. Mindless adherence to tradition is just as stupid as mindlessly discarding tradition. Tradition is not smarter than me, tradition is mindless. Critical thinking wins.
What is wrong with saying everything is an approximation and is made as a means for convenience that is not supposed to be perfect.
We do both but writing some code is a requirement. After you do that we talk (with the more senior people) about their approaches to solving bigger problems.
Many, many, many of those people you mention "dont agree with" maths, science, history, languages and much more.

If they had their way, children graduating from high school would be functionally retarded.
If you knew anything about radar, you'd understand that the chasm between what would be needed to show what you think it shows, and what it actually shows is pretty vast.
> In the U.S., are there any books that are really banned, e.g. unable to be sold, purchased, possessed?

How is that a useful definition? The term is vague, so don’t pick a definition that doesn’t contribute any useful understanding.
>Simply progressively gimping ad blockers

The goal is not to gimp ad blockers and Google is open to working with adblock extension developers so that they can continuing functioning with the new API.

>I do not use Chrome. I use Mozilla Firefox, since it supports a better webRequest API so that uBlock can block ads despite things like CNAME cloaking.

Chrome supports / is planning to support forwarding the domain of the CNAME record. This means that CNAME cloaking would no longer be a thing.
I doubt many people are paying 20%+ of net income to commute in

you'd have to be on minimum wage and a reasonable distance out (in which case you might as well just work locally)

10% however I can believe
Depends, in the northern hemisphere this would be when spring is starting, so when the whole nature comes to life full power. Might be more appropriate, as a start of a new year, instead of choosing the time when the cold starts..
Any chance this will touch the bay area prices?
Consistency is for small minds. I expect aliens to have much broader issues with time keeping.

Rotations of different galaxies? Weird alien rulers imposing their names like "X Æ A-12" for 3rd rotation even if 12 is in the name.

Having video calls scheduling is hard between Earth time zones - good luck scheduling video call between two galaxies.
Mirror them to a external 2TB hard drive?
It’s a near tie between the anal probe and explaining our calendar
I was just trying to find "The Search for the Elements" by Asimov.

It's annoying to me that obscure 1980s children's books from authors no one's heard to are out of print and hard to find, but here's a science history book by one of the most famous authors around, and it's out of print with no ebook ever published. I can buy a used trade paperback for $35, use OpenLibrary, or pirate a PDF.
What a valuable comment...
It sounds to me like the problems with a "portable" AC or heat-pump. They are freestanding units that look a bit like a room air purifier and are similarly meant for a single, small room. These are something one might buy online or at retail with the idea that there is no installation. It is worse than a window unit because both heat exchangers sit inside the conditioned space, and only a temporary/portable ducting arrangement connects the "outside" loop to the outside. They are also low power because they plug into a regular 15/20A power outlet.

We bought such a portable AC unit as an emergency measure during an extended heatwave and wildfire smoke event in the past. We bought the better kind of unit that has intake and exhaust hoses for the "outside" loop. Astonishingly, there are even worse products on the market that lack an intake hose. So they, by design, draw conditioned air through the output loop and then through the exhaust hose! You can imagine how inefficient that is, to be pumping air out of the conditioned space and create a negative pressure across whatever other leaky paths can refill the room.

Our portable unit with intake and exhaust hoses still does not work very well and leaks a lot of outside air into the conditioned space, obviously reducing indoor air quality when used on those smoky days. We had to hack together a big intake filtration box to keep the smoke out by drawing the intake air through a set of MERV 12+ furnace filters. We also added fiberglass insulated sleeves to the air hoses, which improved thermal and noise comfort.
AutoSleep – Automatically track your sleep from your Apple Watch
> As far as I know, they have never permanently lost even one byte of consumer data.

Back in the aughts Google was infamous for disappearing mail, if not entire accounts just disappearing into thin air.

https://techcrunch.com/2006/12/28/gmail-disaster-reports-of-...

https://www.theinternetpatrol.com/has-your-gmail-email-disap...

Years later:

http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/03/01/gmail.lost.found/inde...
You might also have hit a cliff in sales as a function of time after publishing. You can't really extrapolate from your sample size of 1.

Most book authors simply don't make money from books. Especially if it's a technical book.
Ah yes, the issue only Apple had somehow couldn't be avoided, and yet fanboys like you defend

> What exactly would you expect in this case?

Not pretending it's the user's fault they built the phone wrong. That's just extreme arrogance on their side.
> My understanding is that the chronology of all eyewitness accounts for the missile have been after the airframe was known to have broken up

This statement is absurd on its face unless all the witnesses were simultaneously staring at the seconds ticking on a nuclear clock as they witnessed the plane explode. The whole thing would've transpired in less than a minute. There's no way they could pinpoint the timing of witnesses observations that accurately.
Yeah seeing this today is funny given today begins Rosh Hashanah, the Hebrew new year. But I imagine _most_ countries of the world use the gregorian, especially those on english-speaking sites
There is one defining difference between us, and aliens that visit earth.

They managed interstellar travel, we did not. That inherently puts them at an advantage to us. Definitely a technological advantage. Hence it makes sense to assume (with medium confidence) that such aliens will be better at science than us. Assuming that they will therefore be more rational than us is not much of a leap.
Does Google Photos or ente actually use Flutter?

edit: RTFA, guess ente does - https://github.com/ente-io
In Japan, clubs will announce opening times like "Friday 22:00〜27:00" meaning 10PM to 3AM the following day
Evidence for this is September October November and December are named as seventh eighth ninth and tenth months which matches with a year starting in March obviously intentionally at the spring equinox but calendar inaccuracies lost that.

Quarters should begin and end with equinoxes and solstices and be equivalent with seasons, major holidays aligned with quarter transitions and solar milestones make sense.
2021 report:
https://humana.gcs-web.com/static-files/78c99040-2eed-4231-8...

Net income: 2.9B USD

HOWEVER:

1. They paid 3.6B USD in dividends in 2021

2. They paid 10B in operating costs and receieve ~70B in premiums on top of other streams

3. They increased their interest expense for the KAH acquisition

4. They hold $44B in assets and $28B in liabilities

The story they are clearly telling investors is they are seeking to consolidate Payers with Providers to improve efficiencies, which ignores that they they could improve operational efficiencies today.
I'll bet the aliens have something similar that is based on historical changes and habits and isn't purely logical.
This is absolutely hilarious, and despite being long form, fits Twitter format very well, with each chunk funnier than the last :)

A few notes:

- Per my knowledge US is the only country which stubbornly (and illogically) considers Sunday to be the first day of the week;

- US (and maybe one or two English-speaking countries) are the only ones using 12h time, the rest of the world uses 24hrs, however 12h _sometimes_ is used conversationally;

- May be the author got tired (or whatever he took started to wear off) but I consider omitting the whole DST thing a major missed opportunity. :)

Also, for those interested, look up Swatch time invented in late 90s and touted as more logical replacement of the mess that we have. I believe they still maintain some Internet presence but mostly gave up on promoting it. Good luck breaking 1000+yo habits.
Surprisingly, I like that as an informal system
If you looked at the data, in india it's 15/1000 people.
Cloudflare’s 2022 Annual Founders’ Letter
Wait until someone notices that _base 11_ is the natural base for a being with 10 fingers. A separate symbol for 10 is base 11, not base 10. Base 10 only has separate symbols for up to and including 9.
Yeah india was 15/1000 people have computers
I use Houdahspot on MacOS for this. You can either invoke it globally with a custom hotkey (I use hyper ‘s’, for “search”), or from within a specific directory via an icon it adds to the top right corner of Finder.
I've seen code that solves it using a `retval` variable, a typical case of code that is written to avoid breaking MISRA rules instead reimplementing the problem that the MISRA rule tries to avoid except with less idiomatic code and more bugs.
"The Origin Of The Word 'Earth' is an English/German name which simply means the ground. It comes from the Old English words ‘eor(th)e’ and ‘ertha’ ."
I'm not quite sure what exactly the authors definition of "Art" is, but I'd assume it also would exclude lots of other works widely considered art, which also involve some variant of "artist feeds 'system' with input until they like the result"? Because that's really not a new concept.
The federal government spends quite a bit on infrastructure at the state level. But, yes, the federal government also prioritizes certain spending related to foreign policy over other spending that's related to domestic policy (and vice versa).
There have been multiple mass-deletion events and Google has admitted to at least one of them - the infamous "only 0.02% of our users" incident, for example - but only because so many people were affected, the press picked up on it and google's PR firms couldn't keep it quiet.
It’s exactly what happens when someone who’s experienced the “biweekly paycheck lifestyle” hits it big on a non-salaried income source and expects the music to keep going forever.

YouTube videos that hit ~1M views famously rarely keep up the pace beyond a week or a month. Hard to find data, but what I’ve heard is that after a year or two, looking back, most popular videos get 75-85% of their views in their first month after release.

Unless you have a contract to be regularly paid $X, or constantly put out new and engaging content, you really can’t get mad when your income peaks and then nosedives.
Why it would need such common updates tho ?

And why it couldn't load that data for say month ahead ?
> but many parents don't want their taxes to be put towards exposing children to ideas that they don't agree with

Speaking of vagueness, perhaps we might elaborate on what books are being banned and what is so wrong about them. Presumably you brought up pornography because it is a fitting comparison, so let's flesh out the pornographic angle more concretely.

Many here are interested in asking whether Cloudflare censors; under the context of these discussions it is not overly vague to ask whether Texas or Florida is banning. One is a company (market cap 17.8 billion) and the other is a state with monopoly power. It is not that people refuse to allow tax money to fund books; these books are simply not permitted in public libraries and schools. The source of funding is a distracting argument when some people simply want these books gone whether or not they're donated.
How I Finally Learned My Name
Not something to be proud of when you have less half a million customers. Literally half the terminals are e-waste because you can't pause service or pass the terminal on to someone else to use.
You occasionally see times like 24:15 on European railway timetables. If the train runs only on weekdays, it might make it clearer that there isn't one at 00:15 on Monday.

I haven't noticed 25:00, but I don't often look at printed/PDF timetables nowadays.
RISC wasn't even a thing when the 6502 was designed, but in terms of complexity it was definitely at the reduced/simple instruction set end of the spectrum, as evidenced by it's transistor count.

I never had the conversation with Wilson/Furber, but I'm assuming that CISC was essentially off the table in the first place. Both had zero CPU design experience, so to have any hope for success it had to be simple. The 6502 provided plenty of validation that simple could be fast, and no-one at Acorn had been impressed with next-gen 16/32-bit CISC designs anyway. No doubt other early RISC designs were an influence, but I don't believe there was any RISC vs CISC religion involved.

It's amusing how today's worldwide domination of the processor market by ARM is really based on design decisions that were born of necessity for a chip that was really targeted for desktop use. It had to be simple, hence the die was small and cheap. It had to use low cost plastic packaging, so it had to be low power to avoid overheating. Low cost and low power is what led to ARM's mobile success.