skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> More specifically perhaps, are there so few GCed pointers that a faster collector cannot recuperate that 1%?

Of course, it depends on your coding style, but yes, that is generally true.
> This tells me no humans are in the loop on any of this.

At that scale, it's very hard to achieve. 500M tweet a day. Let's suppose 1% of the tweets are flagged by users or by keyword, that would be 5M of tweets a day to review. Let suppose that one person can review 1000 tweets a day, that would be 5000 people working full time. And even with humans, there'll always be some flagging that will be contested.

Besides, different countries have different legislation regarding what can be be published on the web. It's a hard problem to solve, even with the best intent.

I don't think Musk is going to fix this. I think it'll be more about reinstating people like Trump on the platform.
I assume they meant that say "* Tensorflow is a trademark owned by a third party and has no affiliation with Intel"
We have an interesting situation at work. We’ve got two monoliths, both quite nice in terms of code quality, test coverage, etc. One is for the main site with listings and one is the “customer platform” that deals with offices, organizations, invoice management, etc. The split made sense at one point in time but today our most frequent developer complaint is that keeping the two states in sync is difficult. We now want to merge the two but it’s a huge project. It’s architectural debt.
Yanking crates makes them entirely unavailable for downstream users unless they've already locked the yanked version locally. This breaks dependencies and unlocked builds. Yanking crates is a last resort measure (a fundamentally broken release or a release for which you've issued a security advisory) and not something which should be done trivially regardless of whether or not it breaks all of your users for reasons related only to one's own conflicts of interest (i.e. You won't support it because the person asking you doesn't have a support contract). The author is most certainly entitled to be blunt about their support policy. They are not entitled to disregard community conventions when using community provided package hosting services.
If partnering with an existing org, Software Freedom Conservancy would seem like the right one.

https://sfconservancy.org/
Probably this thread is going to have some anecdotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33374770

It's already got ~1,600 comments.
I haven't looked into those, but I'm happily using SQLite already, and this would mean I won't have to swap it for something else to achieve the same thing.
Twitter has always been a failed business, which he bought, so...?
NT 3.5 and 4.0 on 4 (IIRC) and 8 processors machines required to be compiled from source on the target host, the shipping kernel only supporting 2 processors and cross-compilation not being an option. Fun times :)
I’m not sure the latter two are actually counterexamples. The internet has some pretty dark places and e2e encrypted messaging isn’t visible enough for us to really know what goes on in there.
It was a legal dispute over billions of dollars, nobody was telling the truth it is all a game to win a case and a negotiation tactic to get a favorable deal. It wasn’t an opportunity for an honest conversation with internet commentators with no actual stake in what happened.

There are legal arguments and then there is being deceitful, there’s quite a lot of distance between the two.
Monetary velocity is defined as the price level times real output over the money supply. There is a mechanical relation with inflation (which is the delta of the price level), but saying that's a unidirectional casual link is a disingenuous interpretation.
Doesn't seem to work in https enabled websites.
Interesting to see BearSSL mentioned today because I have just started to replace OpenSSL with BearSSL in my webserver.
The reason for that is that the server and the computer I develop on run different versions of Debian that have different versions of OpenSSL,
so the server suddenly stopped working because the program linked dynamically to a newer version of OpenSSL that the server didn't have.
I tried to link OpenSSL statically but at that point i thought it was better to move to BearSSL.
Filippo Valsorda(FiloSottile), who is the maintainer of Go's cryptography libraries said on Go's slack channel that the patch is unrelated.

See screenshot of the slack conversation: https://paste.pics/f5622033ae711b36e0bbcda393a67866
Almost at the end of the 4th in the series. While I'm in complete agreement that none of them (so far) can hold a candle to the first - the 2nd was the worst for me. The series does seem to be getting stranger and stranger too.
Yes, in much the same fashion as with template functions: multiple definitions are generated, and callers are rewritten to target the appropriate specialisation.
Apple never did release everything that their compilers do, that is why cppreference has a column for Apple's clang, and why watchOS can use bitcode as binary format, even though the official LLVM bitcode isn't stable.
Elon purchased Twitter to fire Vijaya.
it's unrelated; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33382369
Yep, would be nice to filter by "name brands".
For sure. I love writing, and it's less screen time, plus cognitively better. I have an armchair for reading research papers etc. But I just clean up afterwards. I think Tablets are an unnecessary environmental cost. I bought a 32" 4k display and optimized my PDF reader with shortcuts for margin notes, highlighting etc. to not need to print paper out. But when I do, I'd rather do a paper print-out than stare at another portal of distraction. Even a Remarkable tablet or something sounds excessive to me.
William Poundstone,
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street

Scott Patterson,
The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It
> plan

Plan?

You say "i don't what his plan is", and then "this was a mastermind move for him to execute his plan".
We Built a Git Client for Windows
Magnus Carlsen's Endgame vs. Hikaru Nakamura's Speed [video, 2014]
Good for them, seems like a good move. I always get nervous when I see one of these titles from a well respected charity: I assume that it'll be the announcement of a new direction for the organization, or the establishment of a for-profit arm. This is just lichess growing to give better benefits for donors, among other things. They deserve it.
I once took a golf lesson when I was a kid and, in learning about the divot removal tool, was told a similar one about the way to operate on a golf course:

"Leave it better than you found it."

I couldn't care less about golf, but this one stuck with me because it speaks to environmental stewardship. It's like a constructive riff on the mantra for when you're out in Nature: "Don't leave a trace."
May be worth posting this from Blackblaze 2017[1].

[1] Hard Drive Cost Per Gigabyte

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/
People who don't like him really downplay his past achievements. I currently don't like him, but he's been involved in PayPal, Tesla and Space X, all companies which had/have a big impact in our world.

Some will say he bought some of these, or the engineers did the real work, or he got government and family funding. But so what? Lots of companies with funding and good engineers don't get anywhere. So I don't know what, but he's been doing somethings right for a very long time.

More recently? Only crap shots, in my opinion. The boring tunnel sucks. Self driving will likely never become a reality. The Twitter deal feels off. I miss the visionary Mars seeking Musk, what we have now is the libertarian boomer Musk and he's disappointing.
Hard Drive Cost per Gigabyte (2017)
I have never seen so resource-hungry no-js webpage.
You're living in a fantasy world if you think Twitter is being moderated in any way by communists
Better title: Ziv Nedivi landed an F-15 without a wing

Plane didn't land itself.
IIRC Altium Designer can embed a complete PCB with their components rendered in 3D. Pretty useful to being able to see the model without having to open the software or even having it installed at all
Are you sure? Because it looks like a lot of these guys wanted to use and see racial slurs on social media...
Because it's "optional". Some of D's features (https://dlang.org/spec/garbage.html#op_involving_gc) depend on it. It's optional in terms of you cannot use those. But if it's to never use them, why they even exist?
The wider philosophical point is, if a man has gender dysphoria, does that mean he is a woman, or just wants to be a woman?

If the latter, there should be no issue in a satirical publication making the point that a man who wants to be a woman getting awarded a "Woman of the Year" accolade is nonsensical.
Without the wing and the fuel, it was probably like flying a blimp.
> It's not a stock problem; it's a flow problem.

It's arguably both a stock problem and a flow problem (MV = PQ). If the stock is constant and the flow increases, you get inflation. If the flow is constant and the stock increases, you get inflation.

> Inflation is always, everywhere, a lack of effective competition. In situations of excess supply you have very little to no inflation.

Excess supply at a given price level almost by definition means prices should trend downwards (it is price that ultimately balances supply and demand, and therefore it is too high a price that causes the relative excess of supply/lack of demand).

The price of commodities around the world is going up, by definition this cannot be due to a lack of competition - there must be something else at play.
Om is a novel, maximally-simple concatenative language
In that case why not release about 0700UTC on a Saturday, pretty much everywhere has the weekend going either then or starting within a few hours
Maybe it depends on which European country, but overall that's a lot lower than anything I've seen in any European countries the last 3-4 years.

Minimum seems to be $70K/year, while the normal seems to be $80-85K, pre-tax.
Standard for someone with about 1 year of exp.

Its extremely low for someone with such a high skill level after tax it'll be about 35-40k euro not counting VAT on all the products you buy in EU (avg 18-23%).
Isn't that what these planes basically are? They aren't very aerodynamic so they can maneuver quickly, so they need tons of thrust to stay aloft.

I heard one described as "a brick with a jet engine strapped to it".
When I execute an ldd at /usr/bin/ssh I get

libssl.so.10 => /lib64/libssl.so.10
libssl3.so => /lib64/libssl3.so
libnss3.so => /lib64/libnss3.so

What puzzles me is that I am using libssl.so.10 and libssl3.so at the same time. libssl3.so belongs to the nss package and not to the openssl package. Am I affected?
Here's my question: I'm wondering why the shells were made to explode directly in front of the advancing troops. There were no targets there, except for barbed wire. Did the exploding shells conceal the advancing troops? But then surely they should've used smoke grenades. If the point was to destroy the barbed wire, they could've done that ahead of time without the risk of killing their own soldiers with their own artillery. So I am as confused as ever.
Put your phone down and tell your mom that you love her
If you take the Drake equation and start speculating on a conservative way, the one in a thousand galaxies estimation is very probable. It could be mitochondria, or it could be that the universe is still too young to be safe for life on a mass scale. We're just lucky to be one of the first.
How about we just print capital letter the "BOT" on automated accounts? And then just add a optional filter for comments/likes/shares?
> while fighting for free speech mostly in the American context (and that too, just online)

Like the Texas social media law that twitter is fighting (though industry lobby groups) in the supreme court?

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/10/courts-decision-uphold...
How does that help? Unless bearssl has a perfectly stable api aren't you just trading one library for another?
Do you think CA (and others) are restricted by API or non-API? A missing API hurts developers the most, not huge companies who can access the data either way.
That is when I had my UNIX zealot phase, starting with Xenix, DG/UX,...., but then I got to discover the parallel universe from Xerox PARC, and felt sad that UNIX has won.

Specially because many insist in using their systems as if UNIX V6 was released yesterday, NextSTEP and macOS being the exception, which isn't any surprise given how Steve Jobs looked at UNIX workstations.
Nice tool, especially when looking at refurbished disks.
But for new disks, in Germany you can use geizhals [0] to cover many more shops than just Amazon:
Cheapest new disk on Amazon.de is 18.43€/TB (the 15€ unit is refurbished) while geizhals lists 16.24€/TB shipped.

Also available in AT, PL and UK, though I don't know how well these are covered.

[0] https://geizhals.de/?cat=hde7s&sort=r&hloc=at&hloc=de&v=e&t=...
I’ve always had friction renaming files in rider. Never would have thought of that shortcut
I actually find it easier to leak with gc than without. Gc effectively hides the problem well, while non-gc is easy to debug with tools like valgrind.
I know programmers are prone to legal hacks that don't make sense, but I'm curious whether the following would work.

As I understand it, it's ok to reference a Pantone Color by name without a license (nominative fair use), but that gives you no idea how to use or display it. So photoshop files could store both the pantone color name (for printing and profressional color matching purposes) and a substitute color for display on screen when unlicensed.

The UI would either prompt users for the substitute color, or automatically fill it if they did have a license at the time they selected the color. That way files wouldn't break quite so horribly when licenses expire.
It would seem that Elon Musk might know that cash is needed for the internal revamp of infrastructure to move and transition from social graph to AI graph feeds in that behind the scenes is making an attempt to cut costs to get an amount of cash needed for such a transition.

What that would do:

1. Attract top creators back as it is more money revenue speculative in revenue one could gain as a creator.
2. Creators coming back would then attract advertisers

His issue with free speech was always a red herring as he has stated many times that h wants free speech under what the law requires which some includes even
the voluntary items twitter has to do to meet the congress lawful section they have to follow that was passed by congress for all sm platforms and all internet platforms in general.

But then again this is conjecture as taking it private will close certain inquiry angles until Elon desires some PR and becomes somewhat forthcoming.

Should be interesting to see the switch to AI feeds if Elon is able to pull it off.
The purpose of a BOT tag isn’t to indicate quality or intent, it’s not even necessarily derogatory. Real people can be asinine and bots can be useful and informative. It’s to indicate the source was a bot. That’s still useful information.
James Webb Space Telescope snaps new, super-spooky image of Pillars of Creation
This is so true, I started a digital business in 2014 and grew it until 2016. Then I had some personal emergency and slowed down for a bit. Then GST came, and I literally had to "beg" my existing chartered accountant "with folded hands" to take care of my GST filings - even after I would pay him anything he wanted. They were so overloaded with constant changes, bad portal, etc that my small work was "negligible".

Over a period of 5-6 years, I brushed up with so much corruption that it sickens me to the core. I tried approaching the ACB(anti-corruption-bureau), and faced even more harassment. I believe their job is to protect corrupt officers who pay dues to their higher ups. And the supreme leaders are changing rules that are empowering such corrupt officers. If we talk about it to public - we are termed anti-nationals.

I grew up with "real goons and mafia" when I was a kid, but even those guys had better ethics relative to what most govt officers exhibit today.

In India, I used to have mild panic attacks when my mobile rang. I had sleepless nights and my work suffered so much.

I left India with my business just recently and came to UAE (because it was the shortest path). The freedom from stress was so good that I slept like a baby for a few days. (And I am an Hindu for the record). The only worry I have here is higher cost of living which leaves less savings, but I make enough. I have so much invested in India that I want to sell off, but I do not want to go back even for a moment. I have extended family back there, but I don't want to see them.

There are a few things I've realised over the past 20 years, and more so in the past 8 years. I may be wrong - but this is what I think, based on my own experiences:

1. GST is a HUGE RISK to any business in India. There are some businesses that actually benefit from GST - but they deal with "arbitrary ruling risk". Then there are other bureaucratic departments. India's GST was not successful in doing "one-nation-one-tax", but it became successful in bringing multiple levels of corruption and goonism together.

2. All taxation and govt departments are departments of white-collar greedy goons. No matter what people say about part of the system being corrupt. They are all corrupt goons because they work in unison.

3. Corruption in India is not like "some bad fish in water", but it is like a "glass of highly toxic liquid that has contaminated the container". Even if you put in multiple glasses of "clean water", the system stays "toxic" - you basically need to replace the container completely. And that really requires a big breaking change - which people of India will not support.

4. Indian govt officers (even the clerks) think of private Indian citizens as "slaves" and use divide-and-counquer policies. If we think India is a democracy, think again. The supreme "elected" leaders cannot do a lot, because they need them.
The rule does make sense from a public safety point, because untrained people can do a lot of mistakes in electrical wiring. If you as the homeowner fuck it up and cause a fire, well that's on your own fault. If a licensed electrician fucks it up, their insurance pays for damages. If Joe Random fucks up their neighbor's electrical wiring, chances are high he has no insurance and now the homeowner is stuck with a burnt-down house.
Did you have a lot of followers? Im guessing manual and auto moderation approach differ based on follower count?
Is anyone aware of IRIX source code actually available somewhere?
Probably not a classic for the ages, but I enjoyed the new Max Brooks novel, Devolution. It does for Bigfoot what World War Z (the book, not the film) did for zombies by injecting a bit of versimilitude and detail stolen from reality.

Freeze Frame Revolution by Peter Watts combines epic mind bending ideas with some hard sci-fi details.

Piranesi by Susanna Clark was very Iain (M) Banks style epic fantasy.
Saved my ass on an embedded project years ago, when I couldn’t spare a few KB for the TLS buffers. Great library, well designed.
"Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances."
> IMO framing it as "get rid of the bots" is the wrong way to solve the problem because it's unsolvable,

I think it's super simple actually. Wanna get a blue check-mark to prove you are human? Here, pay us 10$ pledge. You'll lose it, if you break the "rulez". Add financial frictions to the game, and bots strategy won't scale...
Free, Most Popular, Perfect Moderation might be a pick 2?
GCs don't eliminate leaking, they eliminate use-after-free, and can also be used together with other language design choices to eliminate any kind of memory corruption (like in Java).
i would say godot
"How Bad are Bananas" by Mike Berners-lee (Tims brother). A great and easy read with the aim of putting the carbon footprint of things into perspective.

"Immune" by Philipp Dettmer (founder of Kurzgesagt). Deep dives into aspects of the immune system, particularly of interest after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Are we looking at the same page? The majority of these are just a person frothing mad about a grand conspiracy of teachers who will stop at nothing until they have "trans"-ed all kids. They're completely unhinged
I can't speak for JamesBarney's reasons, but agree with them that it's probably minimal.

Facebook and Twitter have better funded research groups focusing just on the sub-task of knowing what my current state is (a necessary part of being able to tell if you've changed my preferences), and for advertising purposes I am categorised as being into nouns I don't recognise, foods and sports which repulse me, and so on.

I expect the three letter agencies to mix me up with the horror film director I share a name with, and also to confuse me with three pet dogs and two pet cats.
What's the 'best' way to find out if there are binaries in which libssl is statically linked?
Code bloat comes with its own performance problems (code caching).

Besides, I seriously doubt that there's much gold in unambiguously recognizing stack pointers. I try to put as much as possible on the stack, but it just doesn't seem like much. The more stack allocation you manage to do, the more code bloat gets generated. Any malloc'd pointer will look just like a GC pointer, so you'll be paying the penalty for all of those.

How these tradeoffs play out will be difficult to determine in advance. If you've the confidence that it will work out favorably, by all means, give it a try.

Of course, one could add user annotations, but annotations are generally disliked.
>> If the flow is constant and the stock increases, you get inflation

That seems like it’s missing a variable to describe when increased supply is spent vs when it is saved.

If stock increases but is not channeled through flow, i.e. i take a loan at 2% to save in my bank’s savings offer of 5.25% then flow stays the same (i still spend on the same things each month) but money supply went up and inflation remained uninfluenced by my activities as supply slowly regresses to almost prior state while i pay off each month. Not quite prior stage because i get to save the extra from interest rate arbitrage.
It did happen before, X Windows Athena and Motif used layouts, because no two X Windows Thin Clients were alike.

Same applies to Tcl/Tk and Java Swing that build on the same principles.

On Windows side, Windows Forms introduced layout manager, Delphi and C++ builder did the same with VCL.

Qt and wxWindows also have layout managers since the early days.

What happens is that people cargo cult how native programming used to be like, and youger generations only care about Web and mobile.
I don't think you have to claim to know what his plan is, to know what it is not. Why would he pay $50 billion dollars to buy Twitter only to leave the same people in charge of what he thinks was a broken platform?
That's a desk that no-one works at.
On of the most punishing games I've ever played. If you've lost your upgrades it's basically game over.
malloc() and free() also do work. Depending on the workload, a GC can do more or less work than manual memory management.
If I'm going to link statically, I prefer a smaller library, both for size and security reasons.
I was also getting some issues when linking OpenSSL statically and I think (or hope) that will be easier to do with BearSSL.
I wonder if the strength was to help pin down struggling prey. The small arms would then be designed for aerodynamics -- to not slow the T. rex down when running toward its prey -- but also help out when capturing it. That would prevent them diminishing further over time and find that optimal length for both competing requirements.