skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Zig is trying to be a new C. Rust is trying to be a low-level ML. Sometimes people say that "Rust is trying to be the new C++" but this is only true in a more abstract sense that looks at use cases — it doesn't follow the same technical path C++ did.

You could probably make a reasonable analogy that Zig:Rust::Go:OCaml but this isn't perfect. Zig is simpler to work with but it doesn't have as many powerful features, like certain Rust safety guarantees, as you mentioned.
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MBA students are not a high bar to compete against.
The Garand paratrooper model kept my grandfather alive in the Army Air Corps. He had a deactivated one clutched by deer hooves on a plaque mounted near the ceiling.
No I did not.
As someone who liked to push my Lego creations to the limit when I was very young, the smell of friction-overheated ABS is very familiar to me.
Schemes: Performance, Conformance, Openness
On the original meaning, it was more because the actual result depended on what data you had, the value of your registers, what part of the processor pipeline encountered the problem, what other processes you had and what they were doing, and some other impossible to predict stuff.

Also, a lot of it could easily be promoted to implementation dependent (this is what you are describing) at the 90's without any problem.

But, of course, the modern interpretation is complete bullshit.
Arguably 48 == "48" should be true. If this doesn't work for you, stick to ===.
My bicycle never spied on me
I feel this is retrograde in several respects. Most notably due to wasted vertical space, there is now less information displayed than there was.

This might be fine if you are a very casual Github user with thin followings. But if you have interests in hundreds of projects, this is a disaster.
how can they write code ? real question
Yes its sad that an American city is having the same public restroom access issues as third world countries.
Are they free to use?
AFAIK, none.

MS makes a wired ergonomic keyboard, but IMO the keypress is much worse.

I tried every wired ergonomic option in the same price range on Amazon. Most of them were the exact same keyboard with miscellaneous different branding. None compared well to the MS sculpt, except for the benefits of being wired.
Same in Spain. There's an access code printed on the receipts. At least in the ones in tourist areas. Though you can wait till someone comes out or ask another customer.
Are you putting other people before your family, friends or neighbors?
A toy code remote runner in Go
A toy Go project to run code as a non-root user and some CPU/time/memory limits
While I agree with your general point, “are absolutely and clearly social conventions and have no reality outside of social convention” is overstating things. Differences in policies over time results in changes to the regions that would be clearly visible to aliens. (Guess where the border is: https://i.imgur.com/IW1JBAP.png)

No credit for saying “all signs of humans beings vanish”, the same logic applied to biology would suggest that life was a social construct, as if all signs of life were removed, there'd be no evidence of life.
Pay toilets used to be common in the US, they were banned in many US states after lawsuits alleging sexism and lobbying by the "Committee to End Pay Toilets in America", not making this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_to_End_Pay_Toilets_i...

See also https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2018/11/ma...
The process you are describing is for applying for an employment-based Green Card.
Rust is “a better C++” (for lack of a cleaner allegory).

Zig is “a better C”.

Understanding that makes it clear where Zig shines and Rust is less ergonomic.

Both are good, but I see them as complementary and not really adversarial or in competition.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style on HN? You can make your substantive points without it, and we're trying for something else here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There was in Canada, too, before the pandemic. But it was a fairly small amount in terms of actual housing units, and in 2020-2021 it was almost completely swallowed up by people leaving Toronto and Vancouver for places like the Maritimes and Vancouver Island. They could build more capacity, but the price of land has risen in advance of that.
In case anyone's interested in running their own benchmark across many LLMs, I've built a generic harness for this at https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo.

I encourage people considering LLM applications to test the models on their _own data and examples_ rather than extrapolating general benchmarks.

This library supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Llama and Codellama, any model on Replicate, and any model on Ollama, etc. out of the box. As an example, I wrote up an example benchmark comparing GPT model censorship with Llama models here: https://promptfoo.dev/docs/guides/llama2-uncensored-benchmar.... Hope this helps someone.
Some substances are pretty harmful, and some substances are pretty safe. It's kind of arbitrary which substances the USA has legalized and which ones have been outlawed. Alcohol and tobacco/nicotine can have dangerous health consequences, like various cancers. To make matters worse, they are addictive, so it's hard for someone to stop using alcohol or tobacco/nicotine even if they want to stop. Marijuana and psilocybin are usually not very addictive, and there's not much evidence of any serious medical issues when adults use these. In fact, there's some indications that marijuana and psilocybin can be helpful medical treatments, but that's not super well understood because it's very difficult for scientists to study the positive benefits of illegal substances (legalizing the substances would make it much easier to study).

The most dangerous things about these substances is that it's hard for a person to be sure what they're buying. If someone wants to purchase marijuana or psilocybin in a state where it is illegal, you have to go through shady channels to get it. Hopefully that psilocybin pill is just psilocybin, but maybe whoever made it laced it with something addictive, or maybe it wasn't processed in a sanitary way. Who knows? When these substances are legalized, their production can be regulated and inspected like anything else.

All that said, if an adult is caught with marijuana or psilocybin, they can face serious legal consequences and jail time right now, depending on where they happen to be in the country. That can ruin someone's life. And even though marijuana use doesn't vary that much by race, marijuana charges are overwhelmingly used to jail Black and Hispanic people, which just exacerbates race issues in the USA. Having these law on the books is doing way more harm than marijuana (or psilocybin) ever did. Let's get rid of them!
Kind of like people in developing countries who want to move to developed countries.
Another poster mentioned the BOM link, it's 6 NEMA 17s of various torque ratings.
The only harm to society is the tax burden in locking the person up.
The os module is less for fetching system info and more for performing system level actions.PlatformInfo is more similar to the platform library (which is part of the python stdlib) but my intention is for it to be more granular than the inbuilt platform library
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Can you recommend a good drone with an open source stack? I would very much like to buy one but it is unclear which are comparable or better than something I would buy from DJI.
Then your actual bet is that RISC-V based products will outperform products based on competing ISAs, no?
The humble house owner can already do that now under the current property tax regime (where they would pay less than under a LVT regime). The only change here is that their taxes go up and they're thus "encouraged" to sell. Seems bad from their POV!

The LVT would zero the tax on improvements, and accordingly the tax on land would have to increase to compensate.

A mansion owner for example may have 40% of their bill be related to the expensive mansion building. Some regular humble house owner may only pay 5% of their tax based on the value of the house. So when the portion of the houses are eliminated and the land tax between them normalized, the mansion owner now pays less and the humble house owner pays more.

Listen I like a LVT I'm just pointing out that it's a big time giveaway for the very rich if it's implemented in a very basic way.

The net result is relatively poor homeowners are shoo'd out of their homes and forced to capitulate and move due to high taxes, while mansion owners get a tax cut.

If we want to bring in a LVT then we should also be bringing in some progressive property taxes on the wealthy.
What types of things were you building? Presumably you were using the Technic sets?
ok???
:D
That's not how it works at all. People are paid as little as the company can get away with and as much as the employee is able to convince them to pay. It's a balance. Working from home saves both parties money, but most importantly it lowers the cost of living for employees so they are willing to work for less.

So home workers salaries will be lower in general.
Indeed!
From my understanding, they are going to make a bunch of very high density towers in north vancouver and kitsilano that should resolve a good chunk of these problems, or that's the hope.
What it’s like in Europe’s popular crypto haven Portugal as the U.S. cracks down
It would be interesting to see if writing "shell scripts" in ECL and compiling to small static binaries would work in terms of startup and execution speed.
It makes it more efficient by allowing the price to go more towards the natural price, which is high due to lack of inventory.

It keeps prices suppressed in the USA for exactly the reason you say -- old people won't sell their high end homes, which keeps the median price lower.
Well, for one, the Yukon territory suffers from extremely high housing prices.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/whitehorse-home-prices-...

Not to mention that food and transportation costs are also very high.
thanks, this is useful, let me ponder. obviously i am also a subject of severe cognitive bias, granted.

but ok, if not uart driver - what other direct comparison in r/xv6 kernel spaces you would use to show where rust shows a real hard edge over C?

not a loaded question, I’m seriously asking for a valid pointer (no pun intended)
That is a “what came first the chicken or the egg?” question. Folks opposed to many of the mitigation efforts would likely describe their attitudes as simply a pushback to what they perceived as an uncharacteristic overly authoritarian approach. Which in a lot of countries people are not just not used to such heavy handed government action. Couple that with very public examples of these same authorities who demanding the compliance and controls then disregarding them…then ice the whole damn cake with contradictory advice and outright lies and you have a pandemic that hard to manage because the folks in charge mismanaged it.
Until Musk decides that you dont get updates (& maybe airbags deployed) because you said something anti-russia/pro-union/anti-whatever-his-whim. Not sure I wanna get into anything he makes after the latest revelations on Ukraine. He is hardly the underdog he claims he was, not anymore.
You're sort of a broken record at this point.

You just say whatever you think with no supporting evidence.

Viewing ones unsupported opinions as more accurate than science (especially in a medical context) is considered delusional thinking by the psychiatric community and it's definitely indicative for a referral to a psychiatrist.
The rounded ones in GP's link are free to use, yes.

There are some public restrooms which aren't, mainly around tourist areas, but there's usually a sign and an attendant. The ones in GP's post are fully automated.
So it's inconvenient for you to open your house to anyone?
> There is also an abundant supply of weather.

That's the problem though. Unless you grew up with it, most people do not like the extreme weather in the midwest. Both too hot and too cold.
The end of the subscription era is coming
I would love something like HN for science, but this is not it.
Most crucially:

- login necessary

- All sorts of content that distracts from the main message (AI, job boards, you name it)
Nothing about these gains are imaginary. Imagine this person rented the entire time instead of buying. They did buy, so let's imagine they decided to sell today and rent instead. How did they just convert those imaginary gains into real ones?
> I believe the problem is airbnb, mega-corporations/banks buying up and renting out homes, homes that sit empty trying to get exorbitant rental rates, vacation homes and non-homestead homes that sit empty...

The number of owner-occupied housing units in the USA has gone from 70m in 2001 to 86m today [1]. The number of total housing units has gone from 118m to 145m over the same period [2]. 70/118 is 59.3%. 86/145 is ... also 59.3%!

I agree that it feels counterintuitive. I share the sense that there are more entities playing landlord than there used to be, but it doesn't seem to be borne out in data. A possible contributing factor is that AirBNBs are more prevalent in the cities that attract visitors, for free market reasons.

IMO an underrated part of the US housing crisis (in addition to construction's failure to keep up with population growth, which I think is most of the story) is the fact that the fraction of households consisting of only one person more than doubled from 1960 to 2020, from 13% to 27% [3]. That same article notes that 25% of LA households consist of one person.

[1] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/EOWNOCCUSQ176N

[2] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ETOTALUSQ176N

[3] https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2023/06/more-than-a-q...
I don't know. There's no link to the Transunion data set, so it's not possible to dig in. Even the sentence you quote is ambiguous because "maintaining" indicates an ongoing active state. Assuming that the dataset is a point-in-time snapshot, there are probably some repeat buyers classified as investors because of timing.
I've heard it referred to as the Curse of the Demo. Now available on VHS with HiFi!
Or perhaps they merely want to live near their jobs and their spouse’s jobs?
Not until they get rid of the indignity of open offices. A gilded cage is still a cage.

And FAANG is not all tech.
> encouraged homelessness

As if the only thing stopping me from trying homelessness as a lifestyle is the lack of public restrooms. "No restrooms? Damn! Guess I'll have to sleep at home then."
Ehh, not really.

- too much design (I like it)
- requires account to view more than homepage (don’t like this)
...and saying it would never replace you in your job because he talks like a baby
Let's be clear: none of the condo or homeowners "deserve" these economic gains, they are merely a wall that is raised ever higher to ensure that new entrants to the country are forced to pay their wages to existing homeowners' valuations.

Which is what makes complaints that it somehow doesn't benefit homeowners all the more outrageous: saying that "sure I'm on the other side of this wall, but I can only use my wealth to stay in this side of the wall" minimizes an absolutely huge unfair advantage you have over people unlucky enough to be born after you or not have wealthy parents.
Thank you, I'll stick to languages where you can't just compare numbers and strings without an explicit conversion.

Also, should 48 == "48.0" be true? How about "048", "48.", "0x30", " 48 ", "48foo", "3*16", "XLVIII", "forty-eight"?
The misinformation/talking-points ideology is bipartisan norm for Russia and China discourse. There are numerous articles and studies now claiming to measure disinformation purely based on alignment: rough alignment with “enemy” = dis/misinformation, with no justification or discussion.

The NYTimes ran one such article about a week ago on China. The “fact checking” done by orgs like VoxUkraine amounts to similar alignment tests as well. You would think the results showing widespread wrongthink by your own population would be an indication of disagreement rather than a disinformation campaign working on a citizenry already justifiably motivated against Russia: https://voxukraine.org/en/the-ability-of-ukrainians-to-disti...

> Research Results

> Overall, the majority of respondents, both in Ukraine and abroad, agreed with pro-Ukrainian messages and disagreed with pro-Russian ones. This indicates a general tendency of the population to distinguish Russian propaganda narratives. However, when analyzing each narrative separately, the following concerning signals were noticeable:

> 43% of respondents in Ukraine and 36% abroad disagreed with the statement “Nazi and/or neo-Nazi ideology is not widespread in Ukraine”;

> 29% of respondents in Ukraine and 35% abroad disagreed with the statement “The Revolution of Dignity in Ukraine in 2013-2014 was NOT a coup”;

> 26% of respondents in Ukraine and 29% abroad agreed with the statement “Russia is fighting against the West/NATO in Ukraine”;

> 25% of respondents in Ukraine and 29% abroad agreed with the statement “The West is using Ukraine for its own purposes in the war against Russia”;

> 32% of respondents abroad agreed with the statement “Russian speakers are oppressed in Ukraine”.

This is all to say that I think your optimism is misplaced.
I wonder how true that is. There are plenty of people who do know it when it starts happening, because it's not a sudden change - so they'll have bouts of complete clarity.

In Oregon, there is/was an effort/lawsuit by one person in early stages of Alzheimer's to allow for physician assisted suicide after diagnosis. Currently one of the requirements is such that it precludes being used by dementia patients. Just Googled it - she had to move to another country to get that assisted suicide.

There are other anecdotes of people being aware they're falling into dementia. I know a famous writer whose mother knew it and asked him to kill her before it got worse (he refused).

So I wonder what proportion do and what don't.
The BBC Global News podcast.

Well done summary of global events & current affairs.

[0]: https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5wb2RjYXN...
The only people who pee on the streets are drunks and they're not going to a public toilet anyway.
We're going to need a source on that.
I spend a lot of time in Morocco. I always wondered what an earthquake might do because they quite often build with simple cinderblock. The government actually sort of encourages it because official land ownership is not the norm and sometimes the government will raze buildings that were built without proper permits. Of course people couldn't really afford earthquake proof houses anyways. Sad situation all around. Was planning to go this winter, but I don't want to be a tourist in the midst of calamity.
>doesn’t have as many powerful features

comptime is easily one of the most powerful language features of any language in existence. Comptime gives you literally everything you get from macros and generics without the complexity of needing to know 3 separate Turing complete languages to get it.

Zig doesn’t need a horde of random highly complex differently rule bounded features all complexily interacting with one another because it has 1 easy to use feature that eliminates those needs.
Earthquakes in Africa is rather unusual - we get some but it is more due to underground mining activity than tectonics.

Looking it seems this were the Eurasian plate meets the African plate ???.
This is an alert that must be fixed immediately, with an escape hatch to fix it quickly in case you truly don’t have time to manage your actual files.

It is also trivial to set up, and does not require me to figure out how to set up an OS alert, or trust that whatever alert process is running. So it is an essentially fail proof alert that works the same on any OS.

What’s a good argument against it?
> PPTs are a cultural currency in Corporates.

Sure, but not always in a good way

Where I work it seems that for the execs the PPT is the product

They get credit for the PPT/presentation and zero demerits for not actually following through and delivering

For dev groups reporting up, you get more credit for a good PPT putting a spin on a shitty project than for a project well done.
In some areas of Spain, restaurants and bars that occupy the public space with terraces are obliged by law to provide bathrooms to anyone asking if I recall correctly

A counter-balance act
I wish HN had a visual design that good.
When the poop is literally falling out, you don't always have time to make a purchase.

Anyone with kids understands this plight well.
Why doesn’t someone need to be a landlord? Without landlords you gonna have a lot more homeless people.
Might be worth trying since Google is headquartered in the US. More complaints on the pile get more attention.
100% agree.

In the Southwest, I would say 95% of the places I visit have plenty of public restrooms if you count businesses that have unlocked bathrooms. Fast food, coffee shops, grocery stores, gas stations, restaurants… nearly every public business.

When my wife and I visited Scotland, we were flabbergasted at how difficult it could be to find a restroom when we were driving the countryside. Even when we would find signs of civilization, it was hard to find open businesses with restrooms.
I get an error message when trying to generate:

"We can't find the Internet. Attempting to reconnect"

Then it's back to the start page with no emoji.
In france you've public urinals by the beautiful siene lmao
Implicitly, this speaks volumes about how much worse life is in other countries.

If somebody is willing to leave their home country, immigrate to Canada, and work hard enough to afford the rent/mortgage of those prices, it must be much worse in their home countries.

I can’t really explain it otherwise. It is obvious that it must be the increase in population increasing those prices, and people born in Canada do not have that many kids.
I don't really understand what you're on about anymore. Fwiw, I am a consultant and do know the field.

Edit: Maybe you're unaware of the term https://www.lawinsider.com/dictionary/sole-contractor, I was talking about a single person consulting, not a contract developer or whatever
There's a Canadian specific nuance here.

In Canada for decades there has been virtually no construction of purpose built rental housing. The primary new rental housing that is being created is wholly through condos being built and people renting out their condos.

Accordingly the only new product being created for renters is being created by investors buying condos.

Like it's bad that this is the case and this should change, but I'm just pointing out the reality right now of this present environment.

There would need to be enormous systemic changes to the dynamics of the Canadian housing market if we wanted to start banning investors from buying and renting homes. Otherwise rental vacancy will plunge even further and rents will go up.
> and everybody looks down on WordPress devs.

Maybe because they have been actively sabotaging progress and dissing those pushing for progress? gophp5 in 2008 pushed everyone but Wordpress off PHP4 and some Wordpress core committers as recently as 2017 have called gophp5 an "abysmal failure" despite it was anything but.
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“shit happens” as they say
Voting online is risky. Hundreds of thousands are already doing it
What abides you from shitting first and buy later?