skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the main reasons Zig was interesting to me was the fact that I could drop it in as an alternative to a C/C++ compiler. On Windows, my friends have mentioned how it is easier to install Zig as a C/C++ compiler than any other alternative.

If this proposal is accepted, I personally think Zig will drop to the popularity level of Hare or other extremely niche languages. Getting my colleagues to even try Zig out required me sending them articles about how Uber was using it in production. There is no way my colleagues would even have given it a second thought if it didn't have immediate value to their existing projects.

But I get where the proposal is coming from. LLVM compile times can seem awful, and there's lots of neat optimization tricks you could implement with your own byte code. And dealing with bugs in LLVM is basically a no-go, I've seen this happen in the Julia ecosystem as well.

If my recommendations are worth anything, I think Zig should

1. Use a custom bytecode for debug builds - fast build times, fast debug times etc
2. Use LLVM for release builds - fast runtime performance, slow release performance

If they can manage 1.) while still maintaining support for cross compiling C/C++ (just pass that part off to LLVM?) I think that might be the best of all worlds, with the tradeoff that there's additional backend code to maintain.
I think it is more than one person.

And with the amount of vitriol directed at the account you can't blame them for being shirty. At the end of the day, it is Reddit's way or the highway. And people are having trouble accepting that.
I forget, but what was that C++ parser test suite that almost no compiler passed?

I bet you'll solve P=NP before finishing that C++ parser.
Your baseless claim that my argument is incomplete is itself without ground.

I need to see proof to be convinced that your claim has any merit

And your ad hominem attacks do not make your claim any more credible (I did go to ivy btw)
Very apt that they used Midjourney to create an uncopyrightable image of him. I wonder how legal that is, but I guess he qualifies as a public figure?
I think you are subconsciously filtering out most of the world. In fact, the most violent countries in the world have strict (nominal) gun control laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation...

I'm in no way implying that open-carry discourages civil war or whatever, I'm just saying that there are HUGE swathes of the world where the gun laws on the books are not respected whatsoever.
I'm very confused - how did LowEndBox get involved at all? I thought it was just a place to promote & discuss cheap VPS hosting, self-hosted software, and other technical topics?
" YouTube users will have only two options: to disable their ad blocker and allow ads or subscribe to YouTube Premium to get rid of all advertisements."

Or Vimeo, or Facebook, or TikTok, or ...
Yep, exactly right. It's like Chicago's gun control efforts when Gary is only a short drive away. Something like 70% of cartel guns recovered came from US manufacturers (Mexican government claims 90%) - but either way, they smuggle drugs north and cash / guns South.

https://www.thetrace.org/2022/10/how-many-american-guns-mexi...
Were you trying to reply to someone else?
Coding for Crosswords: A free online course that teaches you how to program
There was time today's big distros were small and they mostly took from community, packaged it and sold support for it. Rocky is small now so needs to take more from community. If it becomes big later it can also contribute back.

That's one of the benefits of open source. It helps small guys to get started and make it big. Once they become big, they can contribute back.
How exactly do investigations into attorney misconduct work? Everything is supposed to be confidential.

Do investigators have the ability to look into protected documents? Does the client have to sign something?
Engines don't work on unleaded fuel.
Yes, I am-- very-- well aware of what a representative sample means, and made my comment specifically with that knowledge in mind when I responded.
I agree that it's probably impossible to write something that is orders of magnitude faster than LLVM and better than LLVM at optimizing, but I don't see that claim in the original text.

It seems like a lot of work but also doable to create something that is orders of magnitude faster than LLVM for unoptimized debug builds. Furthermore, the Zig compiler might be an easier thing to work with than LLVM/Clang for doing productionizing of optimization research.
Personally I would like it if a certain amount of membership / superchats would give you the ability to block ads or unlock YouTube premium.
> when black people call the police, there's the non-zero chance that they're the ones who end up getting shot.

As an absolute number, more white people are shot by police than black. [1]

As a percentage of population, the rate is higher in the black population, however that's a very complex analysis when you break it down by homicides by region and the populations (many urban areas are majority black, or Hispanic).

> You've got to try to make things right.

Discrimination based on race doesn't strike me as a very good strategy for making things right. It seems to me like it will just foster increased racial tensions, resentment and problems without solving anything.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-de...
Maybe it's just me but I hate the word "creative". I don't like that engineers are refered to by the same word that describes actors, poets etc. Problem solving is subposed to be rational/unsurprising, most of the time you follow a logical flow and a consistent methodology to come up with solutions that make the most sense. "Innovation" is supposed to be a side effect of that.
It's shocking how far guns can travel from the southern US border.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation

> Article 3 of Colombia's firearm law states that civilians may possess firearms only via permit issued at discretion of the competent authority.[45]

> In 1993, Colombia legislated gun ownership, effectively establishing a government licensing monopoly. In 2016, president of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos signed an executive order suspending civilians from carrying firearms, with some exceptions including security details, hunting, private defense and collection. It was extended in 2018 by newly elected president Ivan Duque, albeit with the added stipulation: "for reasons of emergency or security ... taking into consideration among other factors, the particular circumstances of each application".

> Gun laws in Honduras are stated in the Act on the Control of Firearms, Ammunition, Explosives and Other Related Material of 2000.[199] In April 2002, the National Arms Registry was formed, requiring all citizens to register their firearms with the Ministry of Defense.[200]

> In 2003, a ban on certain "assault rifles" was passed, restricting citizens from possessing military-style rifles such as the AK-47 and the M-16.[201] In 2007, an additional decree suspended the right to openly carry and conceal carry a firearm in public, and limited the number of firearms a person can possess.[202]
Insane that this is legal and that professionals can be so easily bought. You would think there would be some kind of legal protection or incentive to not have watchdogs hired by potentially criminal businesses. I’m sure Amazon is at least 5xing their government salaries, so I understand the government simply can’t compete with that, but it’s a real huge flaw in our democracy that we underpay those that defend us from corporations.
> Trying to paywall gpl software is simply theft

No, it's not, and I've seen your comments elsewhere. I don't think you even know what the "free" in "free software" means.

You are COMPLETELY allowed to SELL free software. "Actually, we encourage people who redistribute free software to charge as much as they wish or can." See: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.en.html

Red Hat is still distributing full corresponding source code to anyone they distribute a binary to. That is what the GPL class of licenses require, and that is what they are doing.

You are free to get the software elsewhere. You don't have to get it from Red Hat. And if Red Hat wants to charge you for it, you can take it or leave it.
I need to write something that uses yt-dlp to download videos and play as they download, then delete after it is no longer needed.
I feel this was the inevitable outcome of the increased availability/popularity/awareness of ad blockers - a tragedy of the commons scenario that's set us on an escalating feedback loop that won't end well for anyone involved.

EDIT: I do wonder if the price point of youtube premium is too high to capture an audience that simply doesn't want ads but doesn't care about any other features. $6/mo feels higher than the typical per-user ad revenue.

EDIT2: While I don't know youtube's average revenue per user, both Facebook and Google's ARPU for the NA segment is ~$100-$200/y, which would put $6/mo quite close to the replacement cost of lost ads revenue.
Amen. AA benefits middle and upper-class black kids far more than it does kids in the inner city. You can't convince me that Ivy Blue Carter (Beyonce and Jay-Z's daughter) has faced more hardship and prejudice in her life than a white kid who grew up in a trailer park.
Why? Math is "just" a domain specific language with funny symbols.
Not really. Selection is a zero sum game. If you add more Ukrainian refugees, you need to remove some other kids from the running. Needs based discrimination makes different choices than race based discrimination. More of one means less of the other.
Airbnb Disputes ‘Collapse’ in Host Revenue, Sees Strong Demand
They write low-quality "articles" for clicks.
https://archive.ph/CFP6i
Ask HN: Burner email address to send an email
I am looking for a burner email address to send an email but I don't want it to go to spam. Any suggestions?
IBM/RHEL doesn't make most of RHEL either. It's repackaged FOSS projects. Some they contribute to themselves as well, but most not.
Zig wants to be the world new C not so much the worlds new C++. You’ll note that C cross compilation would still be supported under this proposal.

I think this might be the right choice. C is currently used heavily in the embedded world, and that’s a space where llvm is not good. If I was Zig, I’d want to be able to target all the microcontrollers and this is the only real way to achieve that.
Verus – Verified Rust for low-level systems code [video]
Drugs give peaks, but take away from the baseline. The result is less enjoyment in total.
Thank you for telling everyone that you are not even remotely involved in water treatment, especially for those that are. No matter the treatment method, absolutely purified water can encounter pathogens. The water treatment process uses various methods to make water safe for consumption but the distribution system requires a residual for any biological contaminants that can enter, or be harbored within, and low concentrations of free chlorine (<2 ppm) provide that while carrying very little risk. Especially compared to most risks in modern life, like being in a passenger vehicle. Safe drinking water, partially due to chlorination is the greatest public health achievement of humanity so far. You are spreading misinformation.
Ask HN: How do I stop my iPhone addiction?
I’m spending hours and hours a day wasting time on my phone - twitter, Facebook, random googling.

It feels like my brain has been completely hijacked by a dopamine hit dynamic. Feels identical to alcoholism or drug abuse.

Every time I step away from my phone, I feel this urge to “drink” and start doom scrolling again.

This probably shaves 4-5 hours of every work day.

Have you found any apps, hacks, or methods to stop this cycle?
Also the reference to Taylor Swift. I had to re-read that paragraph to see if it was a good thing or a bad thing. Could've used, you know, Eminem or M.O.P or something.

> we prevent any Taylor Swifts from ascending

So... success?
The DMCA is about a photograph. One that shows both Ross AND HIS GIRLFRIEND.

How stupid is LowEndBox? Just remove the photograph.
So does this mean YT will stop demonetizing creators I watch?
Preserving Bach’s Manuscripts
> It's the simple realization that good journalism requires good money, and that the current balance between news organizations and internet brokers isn't up to the task. It is also true of other type of content creators, by the way: there is a structural imbalance between content creators and content brokers. This is even more true with Google's zero-click efforts.

then why were most news publications as bad as they are now 20 years ago? maybe they just suck. I learn more from HN that some news site ever did.

When I read american aerticles about my country, they are just plain WRONG.
They're going to break yt-dlp aren't they.
Also "The lost art of structure packing" is a good read

https://www.catb.org/esr/structure-packing/
Several media players will do that in the background for you, 'mpv' and 'vlc' come to mind. 'mpv' even has a sponsorblock script that will skip the sponsored segments if you so chose.

I occasionally use this for convenience, even though I pay for YT Premium.
What about the Pixel lineup isn't fulfilling your tastes?
Looking at their articles they seem to be reasonable quality writings about digital culture.

A lot better than half the stuff that gets posted here at least.

Example:

https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-weird-world-of-usb-dead-drops...
Regardless of your opinion on Ross, the facts of the case are excessively strange:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/former-secret-service-a...

The agent investigating him extorted him for bitcoins! This doesn’t even factor in any of the parallel construction conspiracies.

I think he has served enough time. I don’t see why keeping him in jail helps society at this point.

https://freeross.org/
Which ideas are so dangerous or offensive that they must be censored because they would permanently "damage" children?

I would say K-8 shouldn't have erotic or romance novels, religion, conspiracy theories, violent or racist ideologies. It seems petty and pointless virtue signaling of the very weak to ban books about nontraditional identities and lifestyle choices. Kids probably won't care about them except out of curiosity. No book is going to turn a kid gay just as conversion therapy isn't feasible or humane.

At the high school level, don't ban a book unless it provides zero educational value and it falls under one of the categories above. There is educational value in dissecting radical violent ideological manifestos to expose the historical failures. And Fahrenheit 451 should be assigned reading. Students need to be enlightened as to the tricks and devices of how charismatic leaders convinced people to murder one another.
It's actually a replacement for mindfulness. We think this will help, bring us more to the "present moment", let us enjoy moment to moment experience of life more. All things that we do that is optional to life is basically like this. Smoking as well.

When one develops mindfulness a bit this becomes quite apparent.
Correct, unlimited for $10/mo is what we are trying to get to.
What is secret about infrastructure?
YouTube needs a history-less mode. I want to watch random videos without them impacting my recommendations. I have Premium, but I'll use ad blocker in a private browsing session specifically for this.
I'm okay with this if it means more platforms start to offer paid access with no ads. There are so many ad supported services out there that don't even have a paid option.
Computer! do thing I want from in my brain head!
ChatGPT or whoever use these data for training should have

1. Asked for licence
2. Pay
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36517238.
I’m white, and my ancestors suffered through slavery and genocide.

How much am I owed in reparations?
> But we’re so enamoured with the idea of ourselves as “elite hackers” that clock in / clock out programmers can’t give up the mantle. I get it. But it’s stupid.

Damn, that burns. It’s true though.
I know he "attempted to murder people" but that was 100% an FBI sting operation intended to achieve that. Never would have happened if it weren't for the feds.
You weren't kidding. Eeesh.
"his individual eventually returned the company laptop, which was bent in half. they told me that they had smoked enough DMT to understand that they had created their own god and that if my org needed further investment, to reach out to them."

I guess they were a rock star in the "Led Zepplin trashing a hotel room" sense.
At least one of the authors of this article is a political activist with an axe to grind.

The original report is more informative and worth the read.
no i don't notice that, and i moved back to my suburban hometown where everyone is pushing a stroller.

STAHP love connecting with adults to... talk about their kids.
Are there ways for the adblockers to make another move and be more discrete in a way youtube can't see?
Another "eggs are bad" article. Wake me when there's something other than a nothingburger here.
It's only superconducting magnets and 100M degree plasma, how hard could it be?
Turns out that Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS has a library out of sync.[1] No Wayland use of Vulkan on LTS until mid-2024. Apparently fixed in Ubuntu 22.10.

Back to Xorg for now.

[1] https://github.com/NVIDIA/egl-wayland/issues/80
Seems like your site is dead.
Yes! [1] (Hey, you asked.)

The ridiculousness of the reply enhances your argument though.

[1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bir_Tawil
> Getting flown as an undergrad to SF in 2009 for an interview at Facebook, put in a hotel, served free food, all because you could code? You felt cool

Sorry, you drank too much of the kool aid. Let me clear it up for you: you're a cost center that the corp would rather not have.
I'm curious about that myself. We dropped our Youtube premium family plan when they upped the price to $22. We just recently got an email that Paramount was doubling our Paramount+ subscription price and "adding" Showtime. I don't want showtime. I just want to pay a small price to be ad free. The lower price tier is with Ads.

The trouble is apparently that Ads are worth more to these companies than ad-free subscribers.
In case anyone is wondering, that quote is from https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23778879/youtube-videos-d... - we merged the other thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36526224) hither
Andrew Kelley even referenced this in the proposal:

> In exchange, Zig gains these benefits:

> - All our bugs are belong to us.

> - …
Care to provide verifiable details and a timeline for "look like North Korea and China"?

Because otherwise this smells like sensationalism to me. Hate is already defined in Canadian law wrt hate crimes, btw, and that predates the Trudeau-monster by decades.
Buying an iPad Pro for coding was a mistake
Throw it in the trash.
Did you mean 74 hours?

You can lose 10 pounds in 35 days by just eating at a healthy calorie deficit.
There's no such thing as a perfect third in music theory, only perfect 4ths and 5ths, which explains the 4:5 ratio. There's major/minor (imperfect) thirds.

Interesting test of LLMs, this one failed.
Or tivo/dvr'ing our own computers.

It's just a big stupid farce when technology is used to bluntly cudgel users. Even if the user intents arent what corporations want.
If you’re into maths, you’d know convergence behavior dominates initial conditions:

A system which fails to converge because of purposeful injustice with lagging feedback is worse than a system that converges toward an equal outcome — no matter the initial conditions.

That’s the problem with racial programs: you’re institutionalizing racism with no end, which causes the system to “ring” between modes of racism rather than converge on an equal outcome. So-called “systems thinking” consistently fails to account for control lag, convergence, and stability of the system — revealing that it’s a shallow pretense.

But you’re not the first bigot to pretend science justifies their racism.
Yeah that happened 10 years ago
> how comes they can't get this fusion thing to work?

Fusion energy involves conjuring physics which don’t exist in that form in the known universe. (Stellar fusion happens at lower rates than what we’re targeting. The only reason it works is because stars are so huge.)
This is very cool. I have a possible use case for this: spaced repetition for learning new vocabulary. If you could easily generate crosswords for the words someone is learning (plus some filler words that the learner already knows), it would be much more entertaining than reviewing Anki cards.

I think the constraints are more relaxed for this use case. The grid really doesn't need to look as neat as an NYT crossword puzzle.

I bet you can already market this to ESL teachers, and perhaps make some $$$ off your hobby project. Good luck with that! (Of course, I mean it sincerely, not ironically :-))
I don’t have anything formal to add.

Both my parents were drug addicts, lived separately, beat me, and didn’t pay for my college. Dad was in jail.

I am Hispanic and was lucky enough to go to the University of Chicago. I did do very well in school, nearly perfect scores with tons of extracurriculars, but I never knew if I belonged.

By the end of my college experience, I did just as well as anyone else in my university, and I have a good job and met lovely and supportive people.

I don’t know if I got in because of affirmative action, but if I did, it has forever changed my life
It was low-quality humor. I figured the midi-chlorian reference gave it away, due to the high density of Star Wars fandom on this site. Sorry to trigger you. I added a joke indicator, and I hope your blood pressure will decrease.

https://www.starwars.com/news/so-what-the-heck-are-midi-chlo...
> it is turning that energy into electricity that's the hard part

It’s creating a stable, recurring reaction that’s the hard part.
{0} is standard C. {} is currently a (common) compiler extension but will be standard C23: https://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n2900.htm
Some context for anyone who doesn't know who that commenter is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Cantwell
There is one exception to the rule.

https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-mondragon-be...
For things like doctor's appointments and being at home for tradespeople, I just put them in my work Outlook calendar as 'private' appointments. I may also make an alarm on my phone for 10-20 minutes beforehand, just in case I'm away from my desk. Nothing beyond that.
What’s wrong with python on Mac? I’ve mostly dabbled with it via Ubuntu in the past
WARNING: This location contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm.

Prop 65. It's everywhere in California and it's completely useless.
I briefly worked at a company that monetized videos with advertisements. The company would basically bundle many sites and get them video ads that the small sites wouldn’t otherwise get.

The company used GVP to provide ads to the site owners. Many of the sites were straight up serving pirated content monetized directly with gvp.

The way this was “allowed” was that the company would receive a DMCA request for the pirated content and we’d have to take it down… within 5 days. So we would wait 5 days and take it down.

In that delta, everyone made money. For the 5 days everyone made enough to stay in business and still “comply with the law”. Most of the company’s operating capital was sourced through this takedown period. 100’s of thousands a month.

It actually made the content more valuable because it introduced scarcity. The content was mostly Indian cricket matches and the only way to watch them online was pirated in this manner.

So justify it however you want, gvp and google ads in general are totally trash. Oh and we had frequent issues with advertising metrics being wrong between 5-25%. When I inquired… that’s just how they do it. It’s an “estimate.