skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their industrial might certainly is though. Africa doesn't really care about interhegemonic competition and its associated grandstanding, they care about who builds their airports, roads, dams and railways.
If you think most individuals coming from China bring a “commie mindset” with them here, you are sorely mistaken.
I don’t know a single person who uses “WhatsApp”. I have never had anyone, personally or professionally, give me a “whatsApp” username.

In the US, if you met someone via online dating and said “here’s my whatsapp” 99% of people would think you are a scammer or something.
I was really thrown by this parenthetical

> and analyzing the shortcomings like storage, which haven gotten better since ~2009

But then realised: it makes no sense. You’ve written “haven” — and I can’t tell if you meant to type “have” or “haven’t” … I mean “haven” falls right in between the two, your meaning is completely lost.

Overall the lecturer who relishes demolishing an idea… I grew up with that kind of intellectual attitude and had to do a lot more growing up before I realised that it’s a terrible habit in an educator. Taking actual joy in the debunking alone - that’s not the kind of joyful curiosity that a great educator would pass on, and it’s an abuse of young minds to act as if it is.
> Not sure if you read the rest of my comment, but I'm saying it wasn't a negative thing that he tried to get the project canceled and it seems like he was right about how it was going to go.

That's specious reasoning at best. It's absurd how you try to depict a Robber Baron move as a simplistic fiscally responsible stance. It's even sillier once you realize the only reason Elon Musk did his best to sabotage the program was because he believed it would be a success and thus a threat to his bottom line.

I really do not understand this corporate worship nonsense, specially when dealing with this specific corporation.
Drilling in on my data by month, it looks as if July or August, 2019, was the switch-over, with another big hit in Dec 2019 / Jan 2020:

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(July seems to be an annual slump in HN -- NYT submissions for some reason, which confounds analysis somewhat.)

(Apologies to mobile readers ;-)
The thing is, technology alone without taking care about ethics and politics as well can be extremely dangerous for society itself. Just look at Facebook, with Zuckerberg's infamous "the dumb fucks trust me" quote from its early days and later on the scandals about Cambridge Analytica or its role in getting Trump elected. Or Whatsapp and the series of lynchings resulting from the new feature of forwarding messages, leading to fake news spreading faster than the old "chain letters".

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2010/05/14/facebook_trust_dumb/
Street art can cut crashes involving pedestrians by half
The average (mean and median) for attorneys' fees in class actions typical lies between 20% and 25%, depending on the category of case and jurisdiction. https://www.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/theodore_eisenb... There's a pretty strong correlation with hours worked, too, so while it's a profitable occupation to be sure, there are not typically windfalls even with large cases.

By comparison, non-class action civil cases taken on contingency hover generally around 33%, though for factory line legal work (i.e. rote, high volume), like workers comp cases, it's usually much lower, IIRC, like 15%.
> Yes it does.

No, it doesn't.

def thread_function():

# thread may lose core here
value = store.get_value() # or anywhere inside get_value

# or here
update(value) # or anywhere inside update()

# or here
store.put_value(value) # or anywhere inside put_value()

The GIL only makes certain internal functionality atomic. It doesn't protect the implemented logic from causing a race condition.

So unless I protect store with a lock, I can already get a race condition, GIL or no GIL.
My opinion is that it's due to the backwardness of the Indian government rather than lack of enthusiasm in the Diaspora.
This is actually a funny joke it took me a couple of goes and a quick Google search.
While that's a very good point, I also wonder about other countries. Indian origin residents have had major impacts in countries throughout Europe, Africa and the Middle East as well, to an extent I believe greater than that of the Chinese. I don't think it's just the CCP baggage, there's got to be something more (maybe cultural).
Chinese influence has nothing to do with the quality of domestic life.

Whatever the CCP's effect on Chinese domestic life, their authoritarianism and Uyghur genocode have made China incredibly unpopular among the voters in the world's strongest economies, especially the US.

In fact, they're driving Western companies from China to India, which will hugely decrease their global influence.
Yet, often non-technical topics are upvoted massively, indicating big interest in HN community in this topic. So you are saying we should enforce the opposite, because 'this is Hacker news'? Not much of a difference to me as indifferent bystander, 2 extremists discussing whose side is more righteous if you ask me.

A random example - astronomy, my pet love, is discussed here often, yet rarely articles themselves have anything to do with 'hacking' or technology. I don't see much protests against that.
This highlights the need to distinguish "CCP baggage" into protectionist trade policy that is (today, not in the past with disasters like the Great Leap Forward) similar to what Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan used to grow their economies, and political repression, which is much worse in China.
The 40MHz 68040 would be a good one to use for comparison. This chip had block move instructions as did the 486 which greatly increases performance. Supposedly Motorola felt uncomfortable putting a heat sink on the CPU and thus they didn't increase the clock speed further...
Understanding the data now depends not just on having a schema to be found in a registry, but your schema registry, with the schemata registered in the same specific order you registered them in. If you want to port some data from prod back to staging, you need to rewrite the IDs. If you merge with some other company using serial IDs and want to share data, you need to rewrite the IDs. Etc.
Ancient 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck found off coast of Italy
Given the explanation above, it would need to be a funnel that is cheaper than paint. If the analysis above
Is accurate (I can’t vouch for it either way) then it’s hard to imagine a material strong enough at such a low price point.

It’s possible too that the proposed mechanism is related to electrostatic charge in which case funnelling would probably interfere.
If the track is built to HSR in the first place. You can't have crossings on HSR track because someone who carefully looks both ways before crossing will be kill by a train they didn't see.

Even then while it is possible it doesn't work well, as HSR will catch up to whatever else is on the track and then must slow down.. the cost to build HSR track is so high (even at world leading low prices) that you have to run several trains per hour on those tracks to pay for it, and so there isn't free space for lower speed trains in between.

Nobody makes a switch that can be crossed at high speeds so the slower train cannot just get out of the way no matter how much you might wish for that to wosk.
I think the parent comment was strictly limited to the USA which China views as an adversary and not a partner. Anyone who has travelled a bit in Africa, South East Asia or the Balkans in the past decade could tell that the influence of China is far larger than that of India and does rival the US in more and more places.

The Chinese diplomacy is very very good and hard working. Their diplomats are constantly travelling and that includes both major and small countries.
Apple demands app makers explain use of sensitive APIs
The main advantages of YC SAFE are:

1. standardization (and thus simplicty and familiarity to investors)

2. no or low legal fees comparing to priced rounds

3. postponing negations about valuation

4. non-debt instrument unlike convertible notes (no interest accumulation and/or replayment triggers)

Once you'll start customizing them, you will lose advantages ## 1 and 2.

By allowing secondary trading in SAFEs you basically trying to recreate shares or tokens, and you will have to hire a very expensive securities lawyers, and even then it will not guarantee that you're not breaking the law (at least in US).
In Wordpress those changes get persisted to a MySql database, and now... SQLite? Seems like a lateral move. If they were files, it would be at least possible to diff against the production server, and to abort if there's differences since the last 'snapshot' (forcing the developer to pull them down at a later snapshot position)
Very large countries are always much more difficult to govern. The best thing for your median Chinese would be to split to 5 to 50 different countries or at least more independent states
While your point is quite interesting (I didn't know Romanis originated from India!), they did emigrate around 1000 CE, or 1000 years ago. I'm not sure whether you can even call them of Indian origin anymore?
Where are their datacenter scale computing companies? How many decades did it take for that to arrive there? It will be the same story with AI.

European developer brain drain will continue with the brightest minds coming to America.
Ehh, a gripe online years later isn't the same as it living rent free in your head. I think that's our contrast here. I doubt that commenter's history is full of commenting about Costco. You have random events happen and certain topics can remind you, even decades later if you've otherwise forgotten.

> I might complain to management, but at the end of the day that one short interaction has so little bearing on my life that it's not worth constantly remembering and bringing it up.

Might not have much bearing, but it would be memorable. Experience varies but people simply don't yell at me. If the town is small enough you may simply want to avoid that interaction ever again and not bother stepping on eggshells.
I never said most. I only said they are less likely than the Indians to thrive as a comment to the article. Not sure why you intentionally misread my words
If you mean Tor Browser then of course, as it's the only widely used browser in the Tor network. It's still the most tested option, and is paired with reference Tor implementation, which is more complete than Brave's.
>Let different people shop at different stores depending on their preference for return policies or credit cards.

to be fair, the people did choose. I know it's out of vogue to blame the general populace for the actions of coporations, but at the end of the day corps can do this because it works. Every single time.

Not sure if anything can be done, but I think it's also worth considering WHY people don't consider much past their immediate convenience when shopping.
It would be fun is your feed could e recommended by other humans and or friends.

I find my Netflix feed to be complete trash so some other approach would be nice.
> The fact of the matter is that Python (already today) allows you to achieve parallelism across both IO-bound and CPU-bound workloads.

I also don't need to use goroutines. I could simply spin up my golang application as a couple of processes, and use pipes and other IPC to coordinate them.

"There is another way to do X" doesn't imply that other way is better.
> if you're working with people who randomly 'forget' things while they are doing development, then I guarantee that you're working with people who also write buggy code. In fact, in this case, it was ME who wrote that buggy code. I own it.

We all write bugs, we're human and it's hard to think of everything all of the time.

My point was, when we make a thinking error that causes us to write a bug, that same thinking error means we also don't write that test that could find it. If you had thought of writing a test for the disabled thing when you wrote the code, you also would have written it correctly because you would have had that case in mind then.

Now you have a test, but because someone reported the bug and you fixed it. Now it's almost certainly not useful to have anymore.

I believe in automated tests, but for tricky logic mostly.
I was going to say "how the brain works". Not the same, but a big overlap.
Is this real? Looks like the good old scam: Enter your payment method so that you can receive the money, we just have to charge you 20$ to verify your account.
I still have not been paid for my iPhone 6 battery.
This is very true but sometimes it’s worth it. I got over $3K from the price-fixing eye contact settlement. Normally signing up for these things takes less than 10min and sometimes you hit big. Though in this case I’m not expecting much.
> IF I DO NOTHING

> If you are a Settlement Class Member and you do nothing, you will give up the rights explained in Question 9, including your right to start a lawsuit, continue a lawsuit, or be part of any other lawsuit against the Defendant and the Released Parties about the legal issues or factual allegations resolved by this Settlement. In addition, you will not receive a payment from this Settlement

How can I give up my rights like this?, especially with regard to a case I may easily not have heard about. I'm in this class, but wouldn't know about it if it wasn't for this post.
First of all, Europe (which is in many respects not a single entity) has extensively acknowledged injustices done to Roma.

Second, no, there are not relevant historical ties there anymore. Otherwise you could argue that Italy has ties to Egypt due to the Romans or Greece has ties to India due to Alexander.

Perhaps India should acknowledge it‘s own history before lecturing Europe, which is a history of surpressing the scheduled castes - in many ways comparable to the Roma.
what more could be done to correct it? gypsie communities already receive great support without contributing anything.

gypsie communities are incredibly narrow minded, conservative and sexist, I find it perplexing that typical left wing people tend to support them. I guess they don't really know what's up because they've never met any.

gypsies actively shun their own that go to school. Not university or college. School.

they buy their wives from their parents.

they expect everything from the state/host society, and give nothing back.
I spent a year traveling around India early in the new millennium and of course being shocked by the overpopulation. But when I mentioned that overpopulation in conversations with locals as a bad thing, I was surprised to occasionally hear claims that no, that overpopulation would allow India to export more people and thus have a bigger impact on the world stage. Moreover, advocacy for population control was said to actually be a Pakistani and/or Chinese plot.
Yes sorry
The new official Scala build tool / compiler front end (scala-cli) is amazing,

https://scala-cli.virtuslab.org/

The thing that really struck me after years of python is how it lets you out dependencies directly in a comment on top of a script and it will download and run with them automatically, without poisoning any system settings. It's so simple!
Threads are cheap compared to the process-per-request model that came before. And they're easy to code for, you don't have to worry about blocking code or awaiting your futures in the correct way or things like that.
They're not optimal if you want to squeeze lots of concurrent requests into some memory-limited box. But on the other hand even dumb threading offers more throughput than python or node.
Extraordinary photos of July's extreme weather
They do share a common religion though - I think that might be the source for what we call "Indian culture"? Like Islamic culture is a thing, even though Muslims are all over the world and vary widely. In much the same way, I think "Indian culture" (Hindu culture) is recognisable, even if people speak different languages and belong to different races.
In the US, railroads were granted sections of land (1 square mile) alongside tracks.

I believe this was every other section, for each mile of track laid. One site I'm finding says that this extended 20 miles to either side of the track:

Approximately 16 percent of Nebraska’s total land mass was given to various railroad companies, either by the federal government or by the state. Along the lines of the state’s two major railroads, the Union Pacific and the Burlington, every other square mile of land (called a "section") went to the railroads. This checkerboard of land extended back twenty miles on both sides of the track. So, the railroads owned a total of twenty sections of land for each mile of road constructed.

<https://www.nebraskastudies.org/en/1850-1874/railroads-settl...>

There are some holdings that are still retained (or were until relatively recently). The UCSF extension along the San Francisco bayfront is on land that had belonged to the Santa Fe Railroad, for example.

How US High Speed Rail projects are utilising this approach I don't know. Much of the valuable land is, of course, presently owned.

I believe this was initially specified under the 1862 Pacific Railroad Act, and may have been later amended:

Section 3 [of the Act] granted an additional 10 square miles (26 km²) of public land for every mile of grade except where railroads ran through cities or crossed rivers. The method of apportioning these additional land grants was specified in the Act as being in the form of "five alternate sections per mile on each side of said railroad, on the line thereof, and within the limits of ten miles on each side" which thus provided the companies with a total of 6,400 acres (2,600 ha) for each mile of their railroad.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Railroad_Acts>
Did you just machine translate everything on the page or does Turkish syntax work too?
My local Costco is closer to the urban core than any comparable general goods store.
Ask HN: Bulk Download Voicemails?
Voicemails from dead loved ones are undeniably precious.

Usually they’re talking directly to you in a way other photos and videos aren’t.

They’re the kind of thing you want to save forever.

I can save a few voicemails by emailing them to myself or backing them up individually - but is there a method for bulk backing up voicemails to a cloud backup provider away from your carrier? My Google fu seems to say no so far..
> No need to draw everyone else into this

Please explain who exactly is "drawn into this"?

If you want to use async, this change doesn't affect your code.

If you want to use multiprocessing, this change doesn't affect your code.

Even if you already use threading, and do it correctly, this change doesn't actually affect your code.

So who is "drawn into this"? And please don't say library developers. a) Having to update libraries to have them remain relevant, is normal procedure, in all languages. b) a lot of the people who want this to change are library devs.
Yet twitter still has the worse DM experience of all platforms lol
Looks very interesting !
The authors talk about Numba, but does anyone know how it would compare to Codon ? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33908576)

edit: after trying quickly, it seems that lpython really requires type annotations everywhere, while codon is more permissive (or does type inference)
I'm Indian and I dont think "Europe" enslaved India. Britain did. But Britain is not Europe. France and portugal had some small colonies but none of the other european powers were too successful.

India has had a long history of trading with rome, greece and the rest of europe for at least 3500years.
I’m in the bay area and everyone uses whatsapp, and after that telegram or signal or insta
A lot of the response in India regarding overpopulation came about during the 1970s, when the Prime Minister's son, worried about overpopulation, started a Compulsory Sterilisation Program, the horrors off which I have heard a lot about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanjay_Gandhi#Compulsory_steri...
Son of a Typewriter
Why would they want to split up?
> What makes you think these "journalists" aren't just randoms themselves? They're not really any better than any person on this site.

It's pretty ridiculous to compare someone who has a university degree, years of training and experience, professional qualifications, and maybe a strong reputation, with a "random" posting on an internet forum.
Germany doesn't have much HSR either. They have some, but they are mostly running slower trains to reach all those small towns.
(I love the EU, I really do. That much, that I really care about its ability for innovation.)

As a European software engineer I'm calling BS on your statement, Mr Manager. EU legislation might not aim to stifle innovation (in contrast, they're always talking about a "level playing field") but their imprecise and vague regulation texts are like a loose cannon for whatever innovative business might come up if you have your first hire to be "the lawyer who gives legal advice in context of EU regulation".

Now, those people will just quietly move away to find a new home-market for scaling up and then eventually selling to EU countries. This is not "lagging behind" but an economical fiasco since the same laws only help local oligopolies of gatekeeper enterprises and (the ones they initially aimed for) Big Tech who can afford licenses and lawyers.

Two little examples (but there's more):

- What about the safe harbor thing? It's all a grey area now after court rulings decided that pretty much all US-EU IT biz is at least partially violating the EU regulations.

- We're now all happily clicking cookie banners and startups are getting sued by third-rate law firms. Some things were good with GDPR but did it help with Big Tech's (and meanwhile Tiktok's) way of collecting data? Nope.
Naturally, the deadline to opt out was 3 days ago.
Way over my head unfortunately
Is it really? India and China make up 40% of the world. Their “output” to the world is fraction of that. And that’s not gonna change due to culture.