skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
particularly relevant context for this post is that Nim v2 is expected to be released within 2022, with the main change being the arc/orc memory management discussed in the blogpost.

For a general review of what nim v2 will be about:

- Nim 2 video by Araq at https://nim-lang.org/nimconf2022/

- all the details about the goals of v2 are in the roadmap RFC "Cylons are here" https://github.com/nim-lang/RFCs/issues/437
> I recall, more hazily, that the previous federal election (so several prime ministers ago)

The most recent federal election was this year. The previous federal election was 2019. There were no changes of prime minister in that time; Scott Morrison was the prime minister going into the 2019 election, and Scott Morrison was the prime minister going into the 2022 election. I realise this takes a bit of getting used to, since the last prime minister to get from one election to another was John Howard.

> a lot of ersatz democracies where only two realistic options are presented to the population to pick from.

Only the US has two realistic options, or else your statement is meaningless. Come up with a countexample.

In the UK and Canada there are three parties who regularly win general seats namely the Tories, Labour and the Lib Dems, or the Tories, the Liberals and the NDP. They both also have Greens who can win certain seats. Moreover they also have various regional parties e.g. Bloc Quebecois or the SNP who compete against the general parties in their regions of interest. In such a system, there might only be two realistic possible governments foreseen by observers, but voters act as if there's more than two realistic options to vote for, and they vote for more than two options, and more than two options get seats.

Various other countries have two-bloc politics where you can give your vote to a left coalition or a right coalition, and to a certain party within that coalition. For instance, in NZ you can vote for Labour or the Greens if you like the left, and you can vote for National or ACT if you like the right (notice how the Greens got a ministry after the last election, even though Labour got a majority in their own right). But in such a situation there's clearly more than two realistic options to vote for, even if there's only two possible governments foreseen.

(Not to mention that you can also get the situation where no precommitments are made, or the precommitmentments are rendered vain by results, and coalitions have to be formed after the election. But I assume this is regarded as the ideal.)

Fundamentally the way people choose to describe a political system depends on the conclusions they intend to draw from it. The UK and Canada are substantially similar, but people want to praise Canada in comparison to its neighbor, and criticise the UK in comparison to its neighbors, so the UK gets called a "two-party system" and Canada gets called a "multi-party democracy". (Both are also sometimes describe as having proportional voting, since minor parties win: but this is false. Neither Canada, nor the UK, nor France have proportional voting.)
I really like Jetbrains Mono.
So, technically, they probably meant: "unauthorized modification of a security-related system, device or process in order to gain unauthorized access". This being the jargon definition for 'compromised'. You probably should have instead posted something like: "You probably should have instead posted something like: compromised instead of comprised".

Now, I know what you're thinking: "Yeah, the definition of 'compromised' is what I meant when I said 'You mean "compromised"?'. Why do you have to be so pedantic?"

Perhaps you are correct. Maybe it's better to not correct people on the internet when what they were saying is technically incorrect, but otherwise understandable.
Sure. Survivorship bias is a thing. But for every billionaire, there are likely thousands of millionaires, and for every millionaire there are likely thousands of financially comfortable people. Some people give up before start, and I see that mentality more and more often, even here on HN, over the last ten years. Not sure if it's a generational thing or something else. Curious.
YouTube has been unusable for the last 3-4 years. All the outdoors, ASMR, and cooking content has been invaded by naked girls trying to sell their OnlyFans or irrelevant videos.
you have to be wrong as Google is the leading developer of AI technology globally </irony>
A long time ago I used to really enjoy scsh (https://scsh.net), for writing scripting applications with scheme. You can get a lot done with it once you get the feel.

The last release was 2006 however, and though some folks have ported it to work 64bit, I've completely lost track of how to set that up.

Wondering how Zuo and Gerbil stack up to scsh or if anyone here has any opinions to share.
Pretty neat! How do you run it for free?
Or maybe you guys are too obsessed with your domestic life? It's pretty common for people to reach 50 years old and realize they haven't cultivated a vibrant social life outside their marriage. And that's also not ideal.
Laika is memorialized in the form of a statue and plaque at Star City, the Russian Cosmonaut training facility.

https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/08/b...

The Monument to the Conquerors of Space in Moscow, constructed in 1964, also includes Laika!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Conquerors_of_...
Not that I think work should be where people find relationships

Work relationships used to be not only completely normal, but expected and accepted.

I met my wife of 20 years at work. There were whole universities that had reputations as places where people went to get enough education to land an office job so they could find a spouse.

It is only in the last ten years it so that work relationships have become taboo, as HR departments seem to completely eliminate the risk of inappropriate relationships caused by a minuscule minority of bad bosses and the accompanying legal and financial response from eager lawyers.
This is the perfect moment to create a library of YouTube links with metadata. After they remove more search options, or search al together, you would still be able to search in this meta-youtube
Fraud in the service of effective altruism is unacceptable
The worst thing about Shorts is they’re all in the wrong orientation.
That’s great. Hope you are in the clear!
It’s part of the NSA’s mission to secure American businesses, communications, and infrastructure against foreign attack.
Rate Your Music: “one of the largest music communities online”
In any real-world application of socialism I've seen, it is indeed the government deciding how much one is given. I can't think of any implementation where the government asks the citizen how large of a slice of the pie they'd like.

I'm happy to be proved wrong, and maybe someday there'll be a successful communist state, but until then I look to history.
5) Most countries do not have access to them for political reasons, and this will not change, ever. A few government will even mass murder their people if they try to do it without authorization.
> not directly elected by the general populace
Why does this matter? A Prime minister is the result of a general populace choice.
The best managers I've ever had have always felt like they were genuine advocates for me towards the rest of the business. To push to pay me more, promote me, and share my concerns and other thoughts to the rest of the company.

It doesn't sound like you're a great advocate for your reports.
This is important, he can fund it but not forever. He’s owned it what 2 weeks now? In the current market I’m lucky if I can order paint for a small building and have it arrive in 2 weeks - these days it takes more like 3-6 months. He appears to be moving at lightning speed with these changes. The thing is, when you are moving 10 times as fast as normal you can trip up 10 times as much and still arrive on time.
Use local history in any JetBrains IDE.
That tells me they’re absolutely freaked out over TikTok. Ridiculous. Like an F150 trying to masquerade as a Miata.
What they should really do is collect book recommendations from ALL founders right when they start up (make it a required field in the incorporation paperwork, lol), then after N years, group them into the recommendations by failed founders and the recommendations by successful founders, and use a Chi-square test or something to select the most significant differences between the two sets of recommendations.
Vim supports this out of the box with :earlier and :later
For an entity that keeps posturing how they want to organize the worlds data, Google is really falling apart at the seams when it comes to making all that information, knowledge and content that people entrusted them with available in a basic, organized way. Especially when it comes to Youtube.

Hiding dislikes made entire genres on Youtube worthless and gave so much room to grifters. Now that you're forced to do your own curation, they make that harder, too. That's on top of the fact that the recommended sidebar has been a failed experiment at best for a decade and a half now, subscriptions at some point became nothing more than a soft recommendation unless you manually go through each and every one of them and subscribe to their notifications. The homepage is really just... sad.

I do not doubt for one second that Youtube is a beast among beasts to keep alive and the fact that it still exists is a feat itself.

But man, some of these decisions of the past few years, especially, really make it tough to look at the timeline of how that platform developed and keep a positive image of Google. I can only conclude that Google would rather be just-another-attention-parasite than a company that brings value to the world, if it means marginally more profit.
It could be a nice side effect, but it's probably not the primary reason. Zoomers and gen alpha users are fickle consumers, and engagement drops when they are presented with "old" content.

Google has the competence to build a good product, they just don't have the leadership to do it while maximizing data collection and ads.
Salaries don't just (or even) follow the labour market or the cost of living. They are upper bounded by the value an employer assigns a role, and lower bounded by the price an employee is willing to accept to do a role.

Within those two bounds, labour markets can play, but the cost of living going up doesn't automatically make more salary money available.
Interesting to see more focus on embedded systems. This is definitely good news for Ratel!
Don't forget Félicette, the first, and so far the ONLY, cat launched into space: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%A9licette

She also survived.
The Bad Time was bad. But it was also bad when, a while later, at least one smearing server got into the public NTP pool, causing regrettable loss of time sync. (How do I know this? One of my servers caught the contagion and disagreed with my other servers by about a second. This can happen regardless of whether I’m trying to use smeared time myself.)

I find it quite regrettable that, 8 years later, large fleets and their unwitting customers use various, not necessarily compatible smears, and that they kludge it in via NTP. IMO a much better solution would be to make all this explicit:

Define UTCS as smeared UTC. Get everyone to agree at to exactly how it is smeared. Publish an RFC or similar. (Getting general purpose software to be aware of UTC vs UTCS is not necessarily required.)

Get all the major software vendors to implement UTCS by default, chrony-style.

Have the major cloud NTP servers continue to report UTC. Make the major NTP software implementations understand this all well enough so a server can run UTCS on its system clock but still report UTC to its own NTP clients.
Holy C is the only CIA safe language.
Agreed.

When I write "foobar", delete the last three characters (so that now I have "foo", then I write a "t", I would like to be able to undo the previous deletion (giving me "footbar"), not just adding the last character.

Seems to me that would work especially well in editors that have the concept of verbs + objects, like vim's "delete until the end of the line" or "replace current word with...", but maybe it would work with all kinds of editors?
> (population growth is) the primary driver of increased consumption

I disagree. My suspicion is that the primary driver is marketing, telling people that happiness and self-realizations comes from what you buy rather than what you give/create.

My argument is better made by Adam Curtis in "The Century of the Self"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self
which documents marketing over the 20th century.

The basic thesis is that the industrial revolution was so successful at producing goods that it produced more than people were willing to buy. It took tremendous effort to convince people that they should consume more.
If I use YouTube on mobile, I access by opening a new tab in Brave.

I deleted the app well over a year ago.

I am never force fed anything by Shorts.
Hope you are kidding with this statement :)
My sister (a doctor) told us of a few rather unsavory incidents that happened with body parts during her time at medical school.

Its pretty common tbh.
Instantly. By not having one. I paid in full.

Mathematically it was not the best decision. Housing was cheap and rates were good. The stock market had big gains in the following years. But I would do the same thing again as I love having a baseline of stability that is permanent. And true ownership.

There's a good feeling having all your income free and clear with no debts.
When I say the exact same plane I mean the same plane, not one with fancier avionics.
I don’t negotiate. I’ve found it’s usually a waste of time and I’m still negotiating around the margins. It has been much easier to just get another job.
Yeah, that's the core point.
I live in Finland now and use Wolt (a Doordash subsidiary). They store my credit card and are able to always charge without the authentication flow.

So it’s certainly possible in countries where strong authentication is the norm.
> Just want to point out that lists like these do suffer from <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias>.

Worse. These books are like porn. They are not real but a mimic the real act. No one I know and is rich can thank their success to reading these types of books. It's like people living to 100 when asked what helped them live that long and they come up with all sorts of made up reasons.
Is there any standard to meet the requirements of being "memory safe" or is it enough for the language to just feature GC and automatic memory management? I thought only Rust and Ada (which is surprisingly not mentioned in the list) were stringent about memory safety as a language feature ... (perhaps Go too?).
Why level down?
Thinking that working less than 40hs = being royal is that terrible work culture Americans have to make themselves feel better about not being effective and efficient. Some think that being in an office longer equals putting out more product when in reality they are just farting around the office wasting time and keeping everyone else hostage of their poor time management. If I get my project done in 30hs and want to go home, am I royal? Just work harder, smarter, not longer.
The Computer Chronicles – MIDI Music (1986)
If you can't learn Go, you're going to have a bad time with Rust.
> Did you come straight outta 1850?
> This is not destroying is at all

Your outcome comes from two things: from productivity vs payment. That is the same today and in 1850. No law is going to stop that.

So, if they are not there yet but they will be and they work more, you can see the outcome? We are quite better at communication IMHO in the westerner world in working environments. And still more productive. But the distance is narrowing.

In a scenario where they do not have all those laws and they still keep the "1850 mindset" they will eventually have better products at lower prices.

> Middle class jobs don't get more productive when you do them 80 hours a week rather than 40.

Data taken from? Of course this depends on the activity, but no matter what you do, there will still be first, secondary and tertiary sectors. Mostly tertiary for developed countries, but you still support from the others...

I am not proposing to work 80 hours per week, in fact. I am just giving you awareness of what is coming right now. As long as we have something else to offer it will be ok (I do not think we have much more to offer anymore, that can be sustained in the next 20-30 years unless we do a shift in mindset). The distance is narrowing a lot and that means that at some point... did you see how many strategic sectors around all Europe chinese bought? From harbours to business, etc.?
“Salary Compression and Inversion”
One thing that should raise an obvious flag is that if the bank lends your bank account balance, why isn't it telling you that you cannot withdraw or spend it? After all, that money is supposed to be in your or someone else's bank account! It can't be in both simultaneously.
The only conclusion is that your bank account isn't actually your money but a bank's promise to pay you money and those promises are obviously created by the bank. The only confusion is over whether highly regulated promises that people use in their day to day activity as money substitute can be considered money or not.

The classic "bank takes your deposit and lends it out" only applies to certificates of deposit, after all, you have no access to that money. You can't transfer or withdraw it until the agreed date.
> Lack of docs, broken and confusing functionality, limited language features, bizarre operations.

You are painting with a pretty broad brush, can you provide a concrete example of these?
My recommendations (stick almost exclusively to autobiography):

- My Father Marconi (degna marconi)

- Made in Japan (sony founder)

- Made in America (walmart founder)

- How to win friends and influence people (though I hear all 4 of N Hill's books are worth their weight in gold). Alternatively I read "Never Eat Alone" which is similar and also great.

- Autobiography of Ben Franklin
I remember spotify was pirating torrents at the very beginning. Saw that in some documentary
Report back after you get a lump sump to allocate between the various people on your team for 2023 raises. That should be an exciting new growth opportunity for you.
Well, the interviews are from successful founders only for now.
I expect that in 5-10 years, the Internet will be unusable without scripts and browser extensions
Heard good stuff about this one too.
> This idea that you need to have your lights on all night is rather recent. For a very very long time people survived by following the natural rythms of daylight.

People have used fire, candles for a very very long time to provide light at night.
The recommendations have gotten far worse too. Once upon a time they were filled with interesting things I wanted to watch, now as of a few months ago they are filled with garbage I’d never watch. No amount of saying I’m not interested fixes this.

If there’s 100 videos I scroll through at this point 1 might be worth clicking.
I've had this happen to me in the Android version, but I judged it to be a bug due to its inconsistent behavior.
I find it kind of sad that's all you get out of your job to be honest.
Second worst thing. Worst thing was that up until very recently a portrait 1080p monitor did not render Shorts correctly and cut off the like/dislike/comment buttons. I literally had the correct hardware to watch Shorts on a desktop but nobody bothered to test for it!
> subscriptions at some point become nothing more than a soft recommendation

The subscription feed isn't 100% rock solid, but I've used it pretty consistently, almost every day for at least the past decade, and find it quite reliable. It's reliable to the point that I don't think this is even a legitimate criticism: if you want videos from channels you've subscribed to, go to the page that is both easily accessible and expressly for that purpose. https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions
Once we have mostly decarbonized there are many techniques for capturing carbon if you have enough energy
I built Homechart using Go and documented why/how here: https://homechart.app/blog/tech-stack-api/
There is no difference in Canada for public hospitals. All billing rates are set by the government.
You can do this with a tree-based persistent/functional data-structure, too.

For instance the single writer (per resource) in the evolutionary, append-only database system[1], I'm working on in my spare time, can simply revert the whole resource (resource is like a table in the relational DB jargon) to a past revision. Once a new commit is issued a new revision gets appended and the whole history in-between is preserved. Thus, you can, for instance, retrieve individual changes and cherry pick these from the revisions in-between.

[1] https://github.com/sirixdb
What are you talking about? Americans are proud of being overworked. They complain-brag about working 50hs and not seeing their kids. They use it both as “look at me I’m NEEDED at work for 800hs a day” and as an excuse to not do healthier things.
Yes :). I'm just saying that it could theoretically be done properly in a way that addresses GP's criticisms, but it would be impractical.
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