skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This stuff honestly goes over my head and beyond my current skillset, but it's useful to know that there is no "speed limit" in the hands of someone who knows what they're doing.

My experience has been with basically translating Python and shell scripts into Nim, and occasionally comparing them with my own feeble attempts at doing the same in C.
Firefox is mostly old (i.e. pre-modern) C++. And even relies on a great deal of C code. Like Chromium.
I cannot answer your subcomment I believe the thread might be too deep ?

Anyway sadly no Cloudflare isn't ok, it's specifically one of the three provider that got Shopify convicted in the parent article (other two being Cloudfront and Fastly).
Two words: Liz Truss
Movies that I want to see made:

- A David Lynch biopic on Terry Davis.
From what I've seen, any language using GC, gets less respect (overall) on HN. Kind of like, "Real men don't use GC." To include even if the GC is optional. But the kind of funny thing about that is the NSA is recommending various GC languages. Go figure.
There is you just don't care to learn and are stuck in your own ways. That's fine, but don't act like it's not possible because it is and it's not hard.
Opening the North American charging standard
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll try B&H next time.
Also speaking from first hand I remember quite a bit of "disrespect". Jokes were outright common. The vast majority of interactions were respectful of course -- its hard work studying anatomy after all. But TBH many folks in medicine can be quite callous, which I find not unrelated to the task at hand (i.e. dealing with the crazy and brutal facts of us all being mushy living creatures at a much higher rate than most people). Standing in a room full of dead bodies being dissected... isn't really normal. And it takes a toll.
Batman actor Kevin Conroy dies at 66
> he's bankrupt and deeply in debt.

is he? sounds like his various corporate frauds have destroyed a lot of companies and led to corporate bankruptcies, but what information is there about how much he scooped out before?
Based on Musk's Gigafactory Shanghai (China) and Musk's aluminum deal with Russia.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/14/tesla-has-bought-aluminum-fr...

And the whole turning Starlink off over Crimea thing too, directly contradiction Ukrainian requests.
It's a mixture of allocation, copying, and reclamation. You can actually side-step a lot of such issues in a mostly mm-agnostic way with a `var` like interface in Nim -- sticking to one initial allocation like the common pattern of caller-allocated storage in C. These days on three-level cache server CPUs the real cost of hitting virgin, uncached memory is probably worse than other pieces..DRAM latency is >10x L3, but almost everything "depends on..".
> He's causing the EU to fracture a bit more as Hungary and Poland break with the EU on boycotting Russian gas/oil.

Nonsense. Temporary disruption and disagreement over energy politics will not lead to a long term break in the fundamental political alignment of Poland and Hungary and will certainty not break the EU.

> Plus, if you look at the way Musk got played recently to spread Russian talking points about Ukraine in order to protect his precious Starlink from weapons Russia probably doesn't even have, it becomes somewhat more obvious how the comparison breaks down.

You seem to love to make lots of assumptions without evidence.

First of all, not everybody who doesn't support war until all parts of Ukraine are recovered is a Russian tool. Most wars end on compromise and both sides usually try to shoot down anybody who suggest a compromise.

And if you really think he did this to protect Starlink you have a series lack of understanding of space politics and relative capability.
what do you see as the "revolutionary potential" in blockchain? Genuinely curious.
Edit: before you jump on me, yes I know Indian food has spices. But the animal products are what add the richness and savoriness to the food
i didnt hate the book at all, i just didnt think deserves to show up in this list.
It’s just a weird argument to hear someone argue “does GC buy you enough to balance out the complexity…”

Isn’t the whole argument rust vs C++ that rust gives you memory safety even though it’s more complex?

Like if you can tolerate memory issues all of the sudden to avoid complexity then there was no argument against C++ in the first place.
Why would someone want use FeatureBase vs a traditional RDBMS?
And then when you're done, the lithium in the battery is recycled into a new one.
Microsoft “irreparably damaging” EU’s cloud ecosystem, industry group claims
Isn't this just a very small % of their holdings? The fund is >$100B right? This would be a drop in the bucket. They have taken much larger BILLION dollar losses on other investments.

Edit: This seems to be similar to the Sequoia story as well where while the numerical loss seems high, it represents a very small part of the overall fund, and doesn't really even move them from their profitable state (can't speak to Softbank, but email leaked from Sequoia shows the fund is very positive even with their loss.)
Society seems to be degrading along multiple axes, from non enforcement of regulations against false advertising, rampant street crime that is furthered and facilitated by not prosecuting the offenders, breakdown in the education system teaching stuff far kookier than young earth creationism, the massive ineptness and exploitation in the handling of the virus situation, the virus thing was such a massive clusterf@#k its hard to even describe or see the full extent at present, wrapping cloth around children’s faces for hours and hours at a time for months maybe years on end, injecting them with this mRNA nonsense, damaging their hearts for life, if not worse, this was all utterly despicable and insane given the known facts.

And all that barely scratches the surface.

Some people see all that and they say “hey what the heck is going on? Why don’t we stick to the system of science and the system of laws and governance that have been serving us pretty well for several hundred years?”

Some other people hear that and for some reason respond by hurling epithets that don’t even make sense, have just become all-purpose verbal tar and feathering coinages. “Racist!” “Conspiracy theorist!”

So yeah, lot to unpack there, as they say.
Here are some driving tips and tricks for female riders who own a motorcycle or are considering owning one in the future. It does not matter whether you are riding as a professional, hobbyist, or for the first time.

As a female motorcycle rider who has been on the road for several years, I can confidently assert that I have picked several tricks along the way. I believe my advice will be helpful to many female motorcycle riders, whether beginner or advanced.
We could upcycle agricultural waste by returning it to the earth. Let it decompose and return nutrients to the soil.
Watch gensler’s crypto class at mit. He is a bitcoiner. He’s doing as much as he can to pump his stack and play down the competition. But as the author of this blog points out, his agency is much less powerful than in the 50’s so he only picks on the small and weak who are unable to fight back.
Napoleon, at (e.g.) Borodino. (Whatever happened to him?)

I'm struggling to think of great decisions that didn't amount to standing on the shoulders of giants.
What do you mean? They do not appear to be quoting anyone.
> I think the main reason we don’t hear more about just how goddamn efficient a bowl of lentils and rice is, or oatmeal, is because it’s not sexy.

I consider food that can be mass-produced in those 71% of the world's surface that cannot grow lentils or rice quite sexy indeed.
Thank you for those points!
Understanding Total Cost of Ownership of Serverless and Container Applications
Winners are simply people who don't let their doubts, insecurities, angst, and worries about what other people think get in their way.

It's not that they don't have such thoughts. They just override them.
Also interested, I've always wondered what "the book" would be to learn to make a nice proper industrial control cabinet (PLCs, wiring, components etc.)
Yeah, I thought Data(contentsOf:) already do that, but it appears not (tested, indeed allocated all the memory to load the data). Adding `mapIfSafe` in the reading options solved this.
The state has a monopoly on the use of force. It can tax, expropriate, conscript, regulate, and otherwise redirect resources however it wants, and it can demand payments in any currency it chooses. The wishful thinking involved in trying to "separate" money and states is absurd. Even under a gold standard, the government can acquire resources from the public at will. The entire goal is nonsense. The root desire there is the urge to not have a government, which is just yet more wishful thinking.
FTX's UI was way faster and better. I will miss that. Coinbase UI is very laggy, slow, and even more of a memory hog.
Question: What’s the easiest way to watch a channel in chronological order? The “sort by oldest” option helps for the first couple of videos, but once you’re in the middle of a hundreds-of-videos channel neither sort option is practical.
There's a form of leverage not mentioned here:

You promise you'll fix Johnny's roof for $200. He hooks you up with a computer for $300. You pay him the difference of $100. You have transacted for $500 but only circulated money of $100. That's 5:1 leverage.

Futures markets work on this principle, among many other things.
As a fellow Canadian I f*cking HATE it. Hereditary monarchies are pure unabashed evil. Monarchs only hold their positions because some ancestor of theirs was a better murderer than everyone else. They have massive wealth / land holdings, huge incomes and tremendous influence in politics and other spheres, despite not being elected nor actually earning any of their ill-gotten gains.

That being said, I agree with you wholeheartedly about the benefits our current system affords, though there's precisely ZERO reason those functions need to be performed by a monarch. There are other ways to achieve the same results without needing to prop up and pander to the spoilt, entitled children of some long dead yet highly effective murderer.
Show HN: A silly JavaScript-free web browser in the browser
This is a browser front-end (ultra simple) for Chrome, built using puppeteer. I like it because it provides a usable single browser tab (that conveniently crashes on certificate errors (thanks to puppeteers default flags which I haven't altered here)), without using any JS scripting on the client side.

There's some clever hacks to get that to work, including stylesheet media queries (to zero in on the correct viewport dimensions), and MJPEG, a crazy HTTP keep-alive way to stream JPEG frames of a video, favored by old-style CCTV/security/web cameras allegedly.

I noticed it went from 18 to 19 stars yesterday so I decided to fire it up again to see what all the fuss was about, and do the minimum to fix the tiniest number of bugs to improve the install process for folks wanting to check it out (removing the default sudo install scripts in the npm postinstall was a good idea, heh).

I plan to set up a silly demo of this sometime, so all can join in the fun on a server. It's just really ridiculous to see a modern web site "render" with a ridiculous UI controlled by: URL bar, Down button (scroll down), Up button (scroll up), "Enter text" field (that only pops up when a text control is focused ~~ wow, if I say so myself ;p ;) xx ;P )

I almost forgot the URL: https://github.com/crisdosyago/puppetromium
$20K buys closer 30kWh these days, and they last more like 10 years instead of 5, so $8k/year is a wild overestimate.

That strengths your point.

However, 30kWh isn’t quite enough for heating and cooling an all-electric off-grid house, unless you carefully monitor battery capacity, etc.
I went to medical school. I saw this firsthand many times. It's neither unexpected nor surprising. You are dissecting dead bodies, in a giant room full of dead bodies and you are there for months.

EDIT: I realize I should clarify based on some of the sibling comments... nobody was doing anything obscene with body parts. I'm referring to commentary, jokes, dark humor.
Perl may have managed memory, but it is a great language for introducing bugs.
There’s a well known wreck (SS Kamloops) popular among divers that has a body in the engine room. Divers call it “Whitey” because it has saponified, and thus appears similar to a bar of soap.
I think that would only explain $4B or so, they said their hole was $10B. Or do we think the FTT leverage multiplied the exposure?
Anywhere you read suggests margins are a lot higher on cafes than restaurants so my point stands I think. I've also been seeing figures like 80 cents thrown around for the true cost of a latte with $7lb beans and $3gal milk, cup included, not rent though. All businesses bear overhead costs, but at least you can sell your used espresso machine for the price you paid for it when your cafe tanks and can get away with staffing one or two people for most of your working hours. 70 orders a day would be easy to hit I would think for a cafe; from my cursory research independent cafes average 250-300 cups a day while your starbucks or places as busy as them might be pushing 600 cups a day.
I'd appreciate less click & bait headlines.
You are equating IQ with intelligence and "smartness".
> I have no idea how they would know that the Metaverse is a terrible idea.

Metaverses are a great idea. We've had metaverses for decades. A metaverse is just a virtual location where pseudonymous users can interact in a persistent space. Even HN is a metaverse.

What we don't need is an all-encompassing VR metaverse. And no, I'm not saying that VR is useless. VR will find its place. It's in Zuck's own interest to try to conflate "VR" and "metaverse" together into "capital-M Metaverse", in a vain attempt to frame himself as the visionary Tim Berners-Lee of the century while simultaneously capturing all the value of VR gaming via Facebook's walled gardens. Don't fall for it.
Not a recruiter, but have had experience on both sides of the table in good and bad economies.

First things first, take a deep breath and realize it will all work out one way or another. The worst thing you can do right now is lock up, so put together a plan and just put one foot in front of the other.

Right now, start talking to everyone you can, leverage your personal network and hit up everyone you can to see if they have open gigs. That guy that you worked with 10 years back, hit them up. Ask them if they know anyone who is hiring and if they can intro you to them. The person you met at a conference last year, hit them up too.

If you are getting laid off, just think of your new job as finding something new, gaining new skills to be more marketable and connecting with as many people as you can.

As someone who is looking at the moment, straight up, it isn’t a great time to be looking for something new, but you will find something eventually, even if it’s just a placeholder until the market comes back around.
I think "shell shock" vs. "PTSD" is a poor example of euphemistic language. The name "shell shock" is just inaccurate and misleading. It's a product of the poor understanding we had at the time. It would be confusing to explain how someone got shell shock from sexual assault, for example.

The intermediate names Carlin mentions, however, are absolute euphemistic bullshit. "Battle fatigue" and "operational exhaustion" were strictly rebrands with the intent of minimizing the problem.
(micro)-algae can be a really good source of long-chain omega-3's (EPA/DHA), which are otherwise difficult to get in a plant-based diet.

While beans and rice are pretty damn good (or what I tend to do, beans and potatoes) it definitely isn't complete nutritionally and there is pretty important stuff that's missing or there isn't enough of (EPA/DHA, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12, etc).

Variety is also good just because of allergies and oversensitivites to certain foods and even just taste preference. Just about anything is better for the planet than meat!
Golang does have an excellent built-in data race detector, which shows exactly which threads (and functions) are colliding.

https://go.dev/doc/articles/race_detector

Caveats are that it requires cgo, and it might have lower performance, so enable it during development but not during production. Also detection requires actually triggering the data race, so you need good tests to try to exercise those areas of code.

Although Rust prevents them outright, that does seem to come at the expense at some flexibility, and the actual security risk of a data race in Golang seems to be moot. For example, if you know that a shared object will only be used when the program is starting up and in single-threaded mode, then you can safely use it then without a mutex.

Even when Golang does have a data race, the race causes the program (or at least the thread) to panic and thus is probably not directly exploitable, unlike older languages.

In other words, golang changes the risk of a data race from being a vulnerability to just a program-crashing bug. [EDIT: please see comments below which indicates that this may not be true in all cases, especially if you're trying to sandbox untrusted code!]

Beyond that, Go provides special capabilities (channels) to allow communications across goroutines (which are analogous to threads but can also automatically use different cores, unlike regular threads). Channels are like a vastly improved version of Erlang's mailboxes, and are the best way to pass information between goroutines.

So, rather than use mutexes, channels are Golang's idiomatic way to eliminate data races entirely. You can pass any complex object through a channel to another listener (blocking or non-blocking) on the other side. This excellent video is actually what convinced me to switch to Go for concurrent coding (which is the only place where you run into data races anyway):

https://go.dev/blog/waza-talk
As someone with a similar-ish position to yours, I think by the time someone figures out how to build something useful with this technology, the terminology of cryptocurrencies (blockchain, "defi", NFTs and whatever a "web3" is) will be so tightly associated with scams, that this new useful thing will use completely different terms to describe itself.
To my knowledge Amazon (via Twitch), Meta (via Facebook), and Microsoft (live streaming only, via Mixer) have all played with user-generated video with limited success
overall balance and flexibility: https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/The-main-sell-point-of-G...
> There is a reason we went from high pressure steam power to a lower pressure oil and gas based economy after the Victorian era.

First, steam is not a fuel. Second, where did you get the idea that steam pressure is higher than what we see with oil and gas fueled machines?
You don't need to be smart to do that; big muscles and a baseball bat helps, though.
> The whole point of bankruptcy is to mitigate things like contract terminations

Except in this case both parties involved will want the contract to be terminated.
Interesting! I first saw it at a state fair in the US. They mentioned Swedish immigrants too, but didn't say whether they invented the technique.

I was skeptical but...it's actually great.
If you're in America, you've got no such excuses. You're not going to die if your business fails. There are tons of businesses you can start with zero capital.
> The lucky country indeed

Great book. Written in the 60s but it still holds today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lucky_Country
There is no language named ADA. Never was, unlike (say) FORTRAN or COBOL.
Every non-modal editor I’ve used is significantly slower at editing text than Vim
I also pay a great cost when a huge number of other people are stuck paying down debts they probably should never have taken on and/or became bad after the economy shifted and their income potential flattened out. It's not that different from bailing out a bank, except that the banks usually don't deserve the bailout on a moral level, while people with student loans generally do.
In Obama's memoirs he talks about this. How when he was a community level, then city, then state, then federal level politician how he kept expecting the quality of people/decisions to improve in the big leagues, but that instead it was the same (poor quality) at each level.
I thought leverage implied borrowing money. This is just bartering.

EDIT: Never mind, I missed where you said that the roof fixing will happen later in the future.
> How viable is the "watch this clown show!" strategy for driving engagement with Twitter

I'm wondering this myself, My gut would say it's an expensive proposition and people don't want to pay for a clown show, but I do in a weird way think the dismissal of advertisers is part of the strategy. I think Elon is drawing a line in the sand and saying, here's the vision, if you can't handle a little chaos, we don't want you, as customers or advertisers, and banking on the fact that people want a social network that is less restrictive.

I mean, maybe it's true and if he just pushes this vision long enough he can reshape our idea of what a public square should be. There was probably a time when "brand safety" meant anything that's not christian.
> a form of leverage not mentioned here

You're alluding to operating leverage [1]. The carrying cost of the computer and cost of services for the labor being working capital constituents.

This is distinct from the financial leverage, which deals with explicit borrowing. (Futures markets do not work on operating leverage. They work on offsetting financially-levered claims.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_leverage
I tried to remove the expectation that supercomputer applications would load their libraries dynamically and that became one of the single most hated aspects of that product line

people really hate having their expectations violated - even if its an expectation of a fork in the eye
Do you prefer "opt out"?
I am optimistic as well but let's not forget the asphalt (major pollutant during construction and repair), breaking and tire degradation that each contribute to this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D5PcagsgDQ
Eat the bugs, live in a pod, own nothing and be happy
> People care about it because the language has the Bell Labs "feel"

I'm not attacking, I am honestly asking: What does that mean? That it feels C-like? Or something different? A lot of languages are C-like in syntax, so Go is not exactly unique in that aspect.
I assume a tip jar sitting at the front of the house goes to the front of the house staff, honestly. Especially at bakeries, the baker comes in at midnight and is gone by 4am, there's no sense you are interacting with the baker nor any guarantees that the front of house staff will leave a pile of money behind for the bakers at midnight to distribute amongst themselves.
Apple will pull the plug on things that aren't panning out too though. The MacBook Pro's Touch Bar came and went in a pretty short period of time, for example.

Though I suppose in that specific example at least, the people whose trust was damaged are mainly developers who invested in building for it, and probably less so users who invested in learning it or relying on it. Maybe there are better, more Google-like examples where user/community trust bears the brunt of it.
That may be true, but don't underestimate the value of subject matter expertise. This is an issue I see a lot - smart people thinking they have expertise and downplaying the expertise and experience of others.

You want people with expertise and experience making your most important decisions.
My personal hypothesis is that people keep attributing the successes of SBF to his intellect rather than a mix of intellect and luck, like the rest of us mere mortal. That list could as well include SBF himself. One can be lucky often but not forever, and sooner or later the "prodigies" see the fault in their impeccable algorithms.