skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it has a borrow checker which restricts some valid code and occasionally makes you jump through hoops and write in a different style.

Also, a garbage collector that is state of the art (bump allocation, generational, and compacting) is faster overall typically (throughput-wise, but with less predictable latency) than naïve Rc/Arc all over the place (due to usage of "free list" allocator and counter bumps). That isn't to say blisteringly fast Rust isn't possible to write, and in fact it is pretty easy to write by avoiding Rc/Arc except where necessary and using the stack with the borrow checker, but this entails a writing style that is more "low level" and thus takes a bit more thinking.
Yes. Articles on Turkey or India are likely to be positive. They are Qatar's most strategic regional allies.
I believe their logic would be to take the total emissions of a given flight and divide it by the number of passengers.
If that's your target then we've been there for pretty close to a decade.

I set up my mother on Linux mint in 2013~ and she genuinely didn't have issues with it (until the hardware finally kicked the bucket).

She had much more issues going from Windows XP to Windows 8, which was something she had to do around the same time for work.

This is a reminder that Windows 8 is coming up on 11 years old. :D
I think this is the key takeaway for me at least. If we don't blow ourselves up first, the sun will basically blast us into the stone-age every 6000 years at best or 200 years at worst.
One of the most interesting facts I've read in breast cancer studies is that not breast feeding in twenties seems be a pretty high risk factor for developing breast cancer.
Pedantic:

Technically KCG didn't exist yet. NITE, aka Knight Capital Group lost ~$460 million. Getco bought NITE forming KCG (Beating out Virtu's bid which later purchased KCG) and now is called Virtu Financial (VIRT).
After going through 3 typical dishwashers in less than that many years, I decided to try a high end one to see if was any different. I researched and Bosch and Miele seemed to be rated high for reliability. I picked Miele 5 years ago and damn, this thing is a tank. I do 2 loads a day and it cleans as well as the first day I bought it still.
A 1 percent chance of happening in the next decade. It's the inevitability of it that's most terrifying, society will fundamentally collapse, there's no way we could prepare for how rapidly our lives would be changed, and absolutely nothing we can do to to stop it.

Only hope is that for when it happens it's far enough down the road for technology to have adapted to bring enough resiliency and/or redundancy into the grid such that we are not so completely vulnerable
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Kotlin ticks all of your boxes, plus you benefit from the vast ecosystem of the JVM.
the funny thing is: it doesn't. never did

you only believe that because it was advertised, by the company who is the number one for advertisement, who would have though?

i workedv with JavaScript performance at a top10 alexa site when that was talked about. chrome and firefox (and ie, heh) were always close. but all the chrome promoters focused on the aspects chrome was better... which changed monthly btw. today chrome string concatenation was fast. tomorrow firefox using string array mergers, etc.

anyway, just created an account to point this wrong assumption out, even if it was posted as a joke. and i did have to solve a challenge (captcha) by the very advertising company we are talking about. sigh.
Does a refrigerator heat up your kitchen?
The business model is simply selling the game (typically in a $10-60 range), and sometimes additional DLC (downloadable content).

There are many games by independent developers on consoles, too. For example, Nintendo regularly releases "Indie World Showcase" promotional videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brNLmMMB-J4
Sadly the issue with this is that you can offset both the cost and the carbon impact in just few years. (I say sadly because of course I'd much rather people would reuse than put working hardware to trash)
From the article: "In France, half of all flights are taken by just 2% of people. In the U.K., 15% of travelers take 70% of flights and 8% of the Dutch take 42%."

I wouldn't expect i.e. these 2% (!) of people in France who make up 50% (!) of all trips to change their traveling habits just because the minimum price was raised. They likely pay significantly more on traveling each month already.

Sounds like a commercial aviation fuel tax would be more effective, with those 2% of people then paying 50% of all aviation fuel, instead of lower-income occasional travelers randomly paying more...
SteamOS came was indeed a failure, but I would have said it would fail in 2015. Anyone who’s been into games or software since the 70s or 80s would see this.

Steamdeck, however, came out last year and it was a sensible choice by Valve to support Wine and Proton and here’s what’s different.

Steamdeck is a platform that happens to run Linux as a full OS and Platform, and Wine in 2023 basically makes Linux (or at least Steamdeck) as another device driver.

Steamdeck is also a poor platform for PC gaming; but why is Microsoft is getting involved and helping? Perhaps its because PC gaming is a drop in the bucket compared to handheld and mobile.

If Valve remains committed with dedicated hardware and marketing—-and this is a big if—then it becomes another power console and platform.

The difference here is maybe Linux will get some of the crumbs and benefits.
Tried Kotlin native?

- sum types via sealed classes (not great, admittedly)

- enum "when" expressions are exhaustive

- option type via built-in nullable types (honestly the superior solution)
It's unsurprising when you consider that there are often several magnitudes of difference in code between what code grows to when you have the capacity and time and compounding user requests, and what a meaningful starting point that provides useful functionality above and beyond what you had without it looks like.

As an extreme example here[1] is an article by Brian Kernighan about a basic regexp matcher by Rob Pike. The code, with comments, is 35 lines of C.

Meanwhile, the regexp engine in Ruby 3.2.2, not even including the Regexp class visible to the language, is ~20597 lines excluding the headers.

They are not reasonably comparable, of course. Pike's code provides a very basic syntax which doesn't even support character classes, and does nothing to speed up the matching. The latter supports a very much more complex syntax, and is far faster for repeated or long matches.

But while Ruby's regexp engine is 588 times large than Pike's code, you of course get a vastly higher boost in overall system capability from those first 35 lines of code (from no regexp matching to some regexp matching) than the last 35 lines of code, or indeed the second 35 lines.

So if you have a small system and a small team, you work with that and start small and it won't be that surprising when you get a lot done in few lines of code, even though you have a long list of things you'll add when you can justify the extra resources (like those missing language classes, and a billion other features)

(Then you get a larger system, and you'll very soon find yourself wondering how you could manage with so little)

I think it's mostly surprising because most developers today aren't used to thinking about capacity constraints of small systems, and so starts designing for lots of features from the start (can't have regexps without character classes, and capture groups, and back-references, and ...).

[1] https://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/spr09/cos333/be...
> Is it nonsense if half of Americans believe it?

They don't though and there are way more sensible reasons which would explain US support for Israel.
Exactly. If everyone took the plane to work, and every one of those flights were fully booked we'd have the best "CO2 per passenger" for airlines ever. And we'd kill the environment.

I'd rather have 10 flights per day with 1 person on each flight, than 20 full ones.
Nah. I wanted a mechanical one. The one you have to wind by hand.

But, yeah, you reminded me of another thing I forgot to mention: the "hybrids". Devices that can be plugged into the wall and also use battery. A lot of these work by using the battery all the time and charging it while plugged. Which obviously significantly reduces battery life.

My work laptop is like that (some Dell Experion model). After two years I had to throw the battery away (and now only use it when plugged into the wall). A bunch of cell phones are like that too. Bet there's more of that.
You're correct, it is objectively better than third-party cookies.
Yeah I was wondering if they even know about it :D You'd have to listen to users (at least accidentally) or do some specific data analysis to find out I guess, if nobody on that team uses Edge.
Now you gave me an idea: We gonna launch a start-up working on an AI-based reminder calendar app. And in order to improve the invest... ahm, user experience we gonna track them across the web to enable our AI to propose futire reminders!
It might be the answer on Reddit where any meaningful discussion is usually impossible and the most absurd sounding claims are upvoted.

Do we also have to do it here?
> Certainly not Italy

When was the last time you’ve taken a train in Italy? There’s an impressive high-speed network these days.
Also I never know which button to press. Sometimes the big button is the one to press because UX people say it's the most visible, so that produces the smaller flush. If you want a bigger flush, use the smaller button. Sometimes (more logically) big button = big flush.

With a single control, it's more commonly hold for short flush, release for long flush, which is just madness.
Can you post a link to this video? Sounds interesting
What does racism have to do with something that is so obviously an economic based power struggle? Preventing Chinese researchers is not racist. There seems to be no problems allowing any other Asians in. It's a uniquely China issue, and for good reason given the extent of the IP theft and threats against US interests.
By "Western University in Ontario" they must mean "The University of Western Ontario". Feels like an overzealous editor at work.
The Streisand effect works when people try to hide information, I'm not so sure it will work against companies as big as Facebook
You would be surprised at what breaks. It also prevents local storage (not just cookies) from working at all when inside an iframe. That took me a long time at work to debug.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67645164/cross-domain-lo...
We have some laws that enforce that at least part of a rental complex is meant to be for the general public, but you can legally set the rent higher than the welfare payment people receive when they are out of jobs. The laws are from the 70ies, and they worked well until about the 00’s, but these days they might as well not be there.

> institutional landlords prefer to leave an apartment empty for a couple of years and then rent it out at a lower rent.

Not exactly. They don’t plan on ever lowering the rent. They’ll even let you live rent free for 3 months if you move into some of the apartments no strings attached. The point is to keep the prospect earnings as high as possible, because that’s what they’re selling to investors. There is more than enough income from other areas to cover for the empty rentals. Ideally you don’t want that, but for some projects it’s even tied directly into the project loans, meaning it would actually be more expensive to rent out apartments at lower rates than having them sit empty.

> state-funded competition for apartments

The state is too busy selling off it’s real estate and land to make that happen. I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but as long as people keep voting for politicians who are also our investors, well… I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I think another wonderful rabbit hole to look at when talking about coffee in a can is the ongoing quest for the self-heating drink can.

https://theconversation.com/self-heating-drinks-cans-return-...
I am interested in reading more about their methodology. They seek to rank by “popularity” but thats a very fuzzy term. I expected to see Javascript #1 based on how common it is. Which owes itself to being the only option (outside of the WASM niche) for front end web development, in addition to being fairly general purpose (node, electron, mobile). So im surprised to see it at #5 and less than half the score of python.

For example, search Indeed for software engineer jobs and filter by programming languages. Last I checked JavaScript had far and away the most results. And it becomes clear why - basically any web development position requires it. Python + JS, C# + JS, Ruby + JS, JS (node, ts, etc) + JS, etc.

Again, it depends on how you define “popular.”
That, combined with more widespread, accurate, and centralized systems of medical recording are almost certainly the reason for purported "rise", though there are probably specific cancers that are really more prevalent now, like colon cancer.
Don't know about dishwashers. But I recently tried to repair a washing machine from LG and in the process learned that Miele machines are considered to be very reliable and fixable.
hello,

i'm using hardware security-tokens as my 2nd-factor wherever its possible ... and i'm a big fan of them: they are pretty cheap & i don't need to have a mobile device at hand.

last but not least: imho. they are more secure than mobile devices, which are prone to lots of spy-/malware etc. :)

just my 0.02€

ps. ah, alternative to github ...

selfhosted git!?

with some interface if necessary

* gitweb - easy, fast, "just enough" for a technical person

* cgit - same same

* gitea

* ...
> moving from a GC’d language

Rust was never actually a GC’d language. It had a smart pointer called Gc (and before that @), but that was only ever implemented as refcounting (according to the changelogs some preliminary work had been done towards a precise GC but AFAIK there was no followup).

This is in large part why it was dropped: it was technically redundant with Arc, and could give users the wrong impression, and could always be added back later if that made sense.
I have no reason to think that the number of people who believe that "strong Israeli state will hasten the rapture" is not in the single digits (%) or more likely even way less than that.
> Does that pass for journalism?

I think it passes for a press release disguised as a news article.
Perhaps once they've built a bridge/tunnel from France to Ireland.
The End of September 11th?
I noticed this morning in The NY Times that there was nothing aside from the date to indicate that it was the anniversary of September 11th - one of the most impactful days of most people's lives - killing thousands on the day and launching decades of reverberations.

It strikes me that it's the first time with absolutely no commemoration from the Times (or the WSJ, Daily News, etc...) - 22 years later.

What are other people's experiences today? What are other people's memories?
Or alternatively you could give as a short summary of why you posted the link?
Isn't AppleScript effectively dead ? Apple disbanded the Mac Automation team back in 2016 and even fired the product manager AFAIK. At some point in time, it will be removed from the macOS stack and very few people will even notice.
The wealthy in Europe go by private jets. The upper middle class travels by business class (some of them fly via rented private jet too, if they have an expensive hobby, or if they're flying as part of work), and don't really care for the price either. It's the middle middle class who will be shafted once again.

Just observations of my circle of private flyers. This proposal is bullshit of the Eurocrat variety, since it's meant to put all the blame on the middle class, instead of on the former.

France could have proposed shifting all the EU entities in Strasbourg to Brussels, which will have an immediate positive environmental impact. But obviously the canards in the French govt and the EU won't.
Yes. You can also disable the new Google topics system.
hizb ut tahrir.
Pentagon’s shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam
First build a Europe wide bullet train network, then make flights unaffordable.
Europe needs travel infrastructure, and the world needs less pollution. You cannot pick one, solve both.
Rust just took C++ std::unique and std::shared ptr and made those integrated directly in the language, and the only option for allocation. Which is awesome.

It would be nice to see if we can have a sub set of C++ that forces us to only use std::make_unique or std::make_shared calls.
It's actually worth reading the article to the end, because otherwise you'd be missing the amazing final paragraph:

> Lastly, it’s good to remember nothing truly comes for free. Software costs money to develop. If you’re not paying towards that, then it’s likely you – or your data – are the product. We need to revolutionise how we think about our own data and what value it truly holds.

Ignoring the fact that this is not how it works - there are plenty of services where you pay and still are the product - the last sentence makes it clear that the author sees privacy as the problem, not tracking.
If they are a normal bike and packed, then American, Quantas, Delta, BA, Nippon, Delta, Emirates to name a few.
Not correct.

"You can't judge a theory just by reading about it."
This wouldn't be the first time that they've lost a major mission due to a similarly simple root cause: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyus_(spacecraft)
The U.S. set the stage for a coup in Chile. It had unintended consequences at home

https://www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1193755188/chile-coup-50-year...
In Denmark, the difference in interest is 1.5-2.5% between a fixed interest loan and a variable one. Historically it has always been a good idea with a variable interest loan, but that changed after covid.
If I'm using Chrome only to test how websites render in it, what are the alternatives? Use another Chromium based browser or do they have the same issues as Chrome? Use a browser testing suite such as BrowserStack? Or will using a user-agent switcher in Firefox achieve the same effect as using Chrome?
Chrome is scheduled to drop third-party cookies mid-2024.
I think attributing blame to a single place can be difficult in complex situations.

It's a set of failures in a system that all had to happen for the failure to occur.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
It's unfortunate that Kotlin lacks pattern matching, especially now that Java has it. I can only hope that the release of the new compiler will spur further language features.
Technically from CS point of view, refcounting is a GC implementation algorithm.
Of course you can. It does mean that you need cooperation between the child and parent thread (to set up the signal handler so that resources are cleaned up) though. That's easy in a framework, kind of a pain in the ass if you're just trying to get some opaque client you were passed to do something in <10 seconds.

And that's just for IO. I mentioned elsewhere that you may want to cancel pure compute work.

You can see my point, I assume, that when your userspace program can cancel tasks natively it's much easier to work with?
The fast program takes 30 minutes and works fine, I've used it once or twice maybe in the last four years.
Which is better for the environment? 1 private jet or 1 Boeing 787? The per-passenger emissions are irrelevant, all that matters is total emissions.
Takbir! Advertising is haram.
Any programmable ones with an RTC can be programmed to

Mine is a Casio CG50 and this tool can do it: https://github.com/gbl08ma/utilities
"consciousness" is just a tiny goal-setting and evaluation layer on top of a a gigantic stack of "unconscious" processes

that was the point of what I wrote, for more details please re-read
This tool does have it's appeals to folks that run web applications behind web servers in containers.

For example, in this project we use nginx + php-fpm to serve some PHP app:

https://github.com/PrivateBin/docker-nginx-fpm-alpine

It uses s6 to handle nginx + php-fpm services, meaning we have to maintain configuration for s6 services (written in execline), nginx webserver configuration files (nginx proprietary format) and php-fpm (INI format).

I've created a fork that replaces that stack with nginx unit:

https://github.com/PrivateBin/docker-unit-alpine

No need for a service manager and both webserver and php configuration are in one file[1]. What is not well documented IMHO is that you don't have to load the config at runtime - if you place the JSON file in the (compile time changeable) /var/lib/unit directory it will be loaded on startup, similar to a traditional /etc config file. But it also will get updated at runtime, if configuration is uploaded on the config socket, making it persist service restarts, hence /var is more appropriate than /etc.

[1] https://github.com/PrivateBin/docker-unit-alpine/blob/master...
What makes this era common?
So I'm not alone! Once worked for a Apple-only company using only Apple hardware and even their office and cloud stuff. Thought there can't possibly be a lot of those.

To give Microsoft some credit, at least you can run Windows in a VM pretty seamlessly. Low bar, I know, but Apple doesn't allow you to run macOS on non-Apple hardware IIRC. Using a Windows VM for a client that has a Windows-only (for now :P) stack, and the experience is a lot better than at that Apple-only place back then.
What data do you have to back up that statement?

We've seen the opposite for networking related activities especially when there are 100's of requests that can happen on certain screens. We've tried using Hermes but didn't see any differences other than the app bundle increasing in size.
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I totally appreciate the desire not to want an advertising profile build for you at all! I think that in practice, interest-based-advertising is going to happen, and I think if chrome can provide a way for it to be done without involving so many sketchy third-parties then I'm for that.

I don't know a huge amount about the wider ecosystem here, but I can imagine that if chrome were to disable third-party cookies without providing an alternative, then advertisers will go to fairly great lengths to fingerprint you to build a profile.

Right now my guess is that Firefox users benefit from the fact that it's probably not worth investing all that much in alternative tracking techniques since you capture the vast majority of people with techniques which work in chromium browsers.

Again, I really don't know that much about all this, but my feeling is that this is moving in the right direction, even if it's not the solution I'd ultimately prefer as an individual user.
The right to data ownership is the only way to take on Big Tech
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Chrome are limiting fingerprinting too, including reducing the User-Agent header. https://developer.chrome.com/en/docs/privacy-sandbox/user-ag...
I have only ever used chrome if it was mandated by work, and even then I have argued to be allowed to use Firefox, such as at my current employer.

on edit: admittedly this was because I was too lazy to change, but later on that laziness started looking like moral backbone!
Brave gives me a strong negative gut reaction. I really doubt crypto goes well with ethics. Looking at some of Brave's past transgressions confirms it for me. Sure, you can turn it off, just like you can remove the pineapple from pizza, the pizza is still ruined though.