skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Being the COBOL guy of the future doesn't sound too bad.

This is where I arrived for different reasons. It seems that Rust might become an important language, career-wise, so I learned it to the level of basic competency. In the course of doing that, I learned that I really hate Rust. Not on technical grounds, but I find the language itself unpleasant, and I dislike much of the tooling around the language (crates, etc.)

Rust wouldn't be the first language I've learned and dislike, but this time, I decided to just take a pass. Even if Rust becomes the predominant language, there will always be work in other languages. I'll be content with that.
That's one view. There are others.

I would never begrudge someone with a terminal degenerative illness choosing the manner of their exit.

And there are states of mind which, had you ever experienced them, would have you pleading for a swift end to things. You are lucky to have never known them.

Good and evil don't necessarily come into it at all, except for in a judgmental observer's mind. Some people call abortions evil (even if they're terminal, or a result of rape, etc). Yet they feel different when it's their abortion.

Many people felt gay marriage was so evil that it would end society as we know it. Same with cannabis; same with left handedness.

Sometimes suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem; sometimes it's a mercy. What qualifies you to judge someone else's decision and label them evil, without so much as having met them?
That’s simply not true. There are three spots on my way to work that both autopilot and fsd freak out and start braking for no reason. Ford blue cruise handles the spots without issue.

Maybe Tesla is ahead in Silicon Valley, they aren’t anywhere else in my experience. On paper does FSD “do more”? Sure, but that’s because other manufacturers aren’t willing to risk killing their customers and hoping their usage policy will protect them.
In my experience, even Russians that are avoiding Russia have the mindset that the US/West pissed Putin off and this is the explanation for anything that befalls Ukraine, with of course the idea that Ukraine and the US can end it by giving Putin the taken territory as if its a troll toll

pervasive victim blaming that never acknowledges the choice that the aggressor made, its his “special military operation”
I also think there was an article on how it's possible to produce energy with sea water. Sailors got electrocuted because of iron nails in the wood and copper castings against mussels
You can avoid profit indefinitely - just ask uber. That's if we're sticking to the customary definition of "profit".

So that you know, the practice in question is to open a line of credit on the value of your stock. This enables you to put large amounts of money in your pocket without "realising" your gains. It's a blatant tax dodge. "going into debt" lol no. Close the loophole.
The bandwidth reductions look like they bring the US in line with Singapore, i.e. typically 20TB of bandwidth in the EU and 1TB in Singapore, US moving from 20 to 1.

I wonder if their cost base has changed significantly. Singapore having just 1TB included makes sense because in Singapore traffic is charged differently and costs a huge amount for all companies. I wonder if the colo provider for Hetzner in the US has screwed them over in some way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data-oriented_design
Only tangentially related, but just yesterday I learned of Lego's defunct "Modulex" brand, and the serious and apparently widely popular Lego-brick-based project management display boards from the '60s to the '90s.

The small size and comforting pastel colors seemed especially inviting to me.

It makes me yearn for more tactile and actually pleasant-to-work-with computer UIs.
Well, we haven't seen the data.
The AI title and descriptions are lovely too:

> https://www.coloringsai.com/en/coloring-page/10-10-beautiful...

> Sexy Cartoon Woman Coloring Page

> A coloring page of a woman in a cartoon style, with adult themes, ideal for kids who love drawing sexy characters.
I can speak to personally witnessing most of the ag families I've known in the last 50 years selling out to large ag conglomerates because the family ran out of generations willing to spend their entire life skirting bankruptcy. If the claim that this is predominantly ag workers and not owners outright committing suicide is accurate I'd probably counter something along the lines of in generations past before big ag strangled the life out of smallholding farmers most of those workers would very likely have been farm owners.
by Tariq Rashid

https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Neural-Network-ebook/dp/B01EER4Z4G
https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-First-GAN-PyTorch-ebook/dp/B085Z96M9P
It's a fire extinguisher feature; for when the thread has too many, too fast replies.
But the tome's weight is borne up by the table, whereas throwing any light in your face will affect your eyes. Possibly dawn and twilight gazing are quite beneficial.
And yet socialist countries starved millions, and their only periods of relative prosperity were when they loosened their ideology and allowed limited market reforms.
Note that the total tax burden has, at least seemingly, increased significantly under the current government [1]. So the conditions may have changed

[1] https://www.nho.no/tema/privat-eierskap/ny-menon-rapport-kra...
A credit card? That... makes some sense, then. I'd be wary if anyone trying to pay with one of those as well; they're much too rare, and I've heard it's easy to unilaterally reverse charges.

Hetzner is a German company. Credit cards may be common in the USA, but they're not anywhere else.
The crypto bit is an interesting filter. Wether the developers you found are true believers, grifters in on the scam, or just mercenaries for hire welding crates, they can't not have an opinion on cryptocurrency so my question to you is how much of that do they bring to work? Are there coffee chats about Ayn Rand and politics or do they steer clear of any of that.
Uh no, I'm watching it play out in realtime in local real estate markets. It's fucking with my retirement plans.
What trade-offs are you typically evaluating with the prototype?

Have you ever found that decision harder to make because of shortcuts etc taken during prototype?
I didn’t know it had a Russian crew. That’s pretty damning inmediately.
I agree with most of this, but I'd argue that the "products that meet demands will [win]" part is specious: marketing / sales often target a business demographic of people who consider themselves technical but aren't.
> I have more important things to think about in my code than when I switch between two dialects of the language.

Granted. The example I gave was just to demonstrate that switching between the styles is not a problem and can be fluid, if you need it to be.

> It's only fluid because you've had XX years of infix notation caused brain damage to make you think that.

No, infix is just easier to read and understand, it matches up better with the hardware in our brains for language. If that is different for you, well ... you mentioned brain damage first.
For sure, we can debate the timeline, we can debate what language will replace C++. The way I read stefanos82's reply is that they don't believe C++ code will ever be rewritten, which is obviously not true.

COBOL running the financial sector is a myth in my opinion. There are still companies running aspects of their business on it, but calling it the 'backbone' is an overstatement. If you tallied up lines of code by language in the sector, I would wager COBOL makes up less than 1%.
Without reading the actual wording sent, and knowing which culture the sender was from, this is all just speculation. I'm more interested in challenging the assumptions that we have about our own expectations in customer service being universal. From the rest of this thread it sounds like there is a commonly held opinion that Hetzner customer service is blunt, and my point is that that may be fine and maybe customers should not expect to be treated in a particular way all the time.
> If people there are OK with these taxes and don't vote them out it's their choice. My point is that it's a bad and wrong solution with bad consequences.

Norway has had this tax for decades, and done just fine.

> There is data about this: https://www.gemconsortium.org/data

I don't see any data that gives any useful indication about this there.

> And also check how many big companies have been started in the last 10 years in EU.

Norway isn't in the EU, and the EU doesn't have wealth taxes, so it doesn't seem awfully relevant.
>Doesn't that depend on how one decides to "score" a language?

Not as much, because not all ways of scoring a language are as good either, and in the ways of scoring that matter, English is better than Esperanto.
Staying competitive swings both ways.
I agree that what most people call respect falls far short of what is required by universal compassion. What Wisdom calls respect has to be doled out by the person such that it does not violate the Paradox of Tolerance.

This ability is called discernment, and is a given gift that must then be developed further within and by the journeyer on the Path of Love.

For those not deliberately evil-minded and -hearted -- for the merely confused and noncommittal -- respect for their being a human being with a mother, wants, and needs, successes and failures, is a necessary act of loving kindness for the student of love. It is indeed a primary purpose of the Path of Love for we are information processors who rely upon verbal teachings to absorb and communicate ideas.

Once we begin becoming embued with such a love, we are spurred on to help others choose the better path for both their and others' happinesss, due to our growing gratitude for the universe's blessings of Wisdom and the happiness accompanying it. Discernment then helps keep us from wasting too much time on the bitter, selfish fools of this troubled world.

Another perspective is that the evil-minded and -hearted people will not want to sit at the Guru's table, even if they were invited. They become allergic to such lovingkindness, for their inner master is loathe to let them be reminded of what they could be should they exercise their free will and instead choose the Way.
Yeah, suspension seatposts can provide 20mm of vertical compliance (varies for different models) which is more than you'd get with 28mm width tyres. I have tried a split stem suspension seatpost, but found that that particular design wasn't great as it was difficult to set the saddle up so that it didn't end up tilting as the two parts of the seatpost moved within the frame. I currently use just a standard carbon fibre seatpost that provides some compliance, but isn't a "suspension" type.
Yes, so tragic really. The few people out there not just churning out disposable crap, are not even getting the business of people like you and me, because we know so few can be trusted that we just buy the cheapest thing.
How do I better organize these notes on Event Driven Architecture?
To complete the legal analysis a bit more rigorously, mostly because I’m drunk and bored on Thanksgiving:

- The service name “continue and persist” is probably trademarkable by them if they wanted (assuming it’s not already in use). And as you point out, formal registration wouldn’t be necessary, although it does come with various benefits. Doing so could block someone from creating a similar service with the same or confusingly similar name.

- For copyright, reproduction doesn’t have to be verbatim to infringe. The standard is typically substantial similarity. So you couldn’t just change a few words here or there in the letter.

- Publicly disclosed concepts can be protected under US law, but you have to go through patent law. Haven’t done a prior art search, but seems unlikely that there’s much patentable here. There is also the section 101 (abstract idea) issue, but that is hard to evaluate without looking at the exact patent claims at issue.
RGG Studio shared some Infinite Wealth's source for aspiring programmers
I've always wondered how ratios like that are supposed to work. Surely the ratio has to be 1.0, averaged over all users.
> I don't think the goal of Rust has to be to unseat C++

Agreed, but it's also true at the same time that projects you would choose C++ for are also very legitimate candidates for Rust. So they are competing, even if that's not the goal of both communities.

> be a language that users and non-users believe is better

Well, lately one person that contributes Rust to the Linux kernel got attacked with ridiculous screaming like "you will never force us to use Rust!" -- and he never did that. So he (or was he somebody else? can't remember now) basically stepped down because it turned out that nobody could challenge his technical work so they started attacking him on every other platform. Inevitably, you get enough of this and want to be left alone. Sad... but that's humans apparently.

As for non-users, even more difficult. But having studies like those of Microsoft and Google that clearly demonstrate that between 60% to 75% of all CVEs are due to memory unsafety, helps a lot.

> be a language that people learn things in before entering the industry

That one is needlessly difficult because a lot of professors are stuck in the early 2000s. Read: they only know Python or JS or Java or C# and they will never learn anything else. Young minds are impressionable so these fossils only perpetuate the problem of indoctrinating people and preventing them from utilizing the innovations in the PL area.

> be a language for solving important problems, if not every problem

Too generic to work, I am afraid. :/

You'll find people on HN arguing that you can solve every problem in the CS area just fine with Brainfuck and that we are all brainless lemmings for not seeing the light. Now replace that language with literally every other and you'll still find people saying the exact same thing...

> if a billionaire buys C++ and makes it terrible, be an alternative

That one is not so bad IMO, be it Rust or any other language really. If this happens the community will still push to do things like they want to, ultimately resulting in a fork if the buyer is stubborn enough.

No money in the world can make people suddenly write terrible code if they are passionate about doing the opposite.
A book sticks with you, but reels phase through you like light through a window. Once the book is finished, your mind races with ideas about the book; good or bad.

Instagram reels leave you with nothing. Once the next reel passes, the previous one is flushed down the memory, as if these last 28 seconds were nothingness.

While the humble reel only demands a vague trance-like state and your eyes turned to the phone, the books needs your full attention and mental capacity to be enjoyed completely.

Note that none of this is specific to books. Shows, movies, (solo) games. They're all about something. The point of instagram reel is being about nothing at all. Watching it to fill your head with void. A silent, temporary death. "Psychological obliteration" is particularly apt here.
I wholeheartedly agree: Monster truck stadium shows are once-in-a-lifetime events—as in, see one, and you’re good for life. That said, they’re hugely entertaining, and I’m glad I went.

Other things I would recommend in the “see at least once and you’re good” category:

1/ A major sporting event where the fans believe something is at stake, like the run-up to the playoffs. In the U.S., baseball tickets can be had for reasonable prices in small markets late in the season, and the seats don’t matter. You want to experience the emotion and energy firsthand. Unlikely to turn you into a fan, but the experience will be one you think on for years to come.

2/ A live sporting event where the outcome makes no difference, like your local minor league team. Again, seats don’t matter—you want to feel the buzz and sense of community.

3/ Amateur musical theatre. The on-stage talent is often top-tier, while the rest of the production is endearingly amateurish. But the enthusiasm, honesty, and agenda-free earnestness of the production will make you love people a little more.

4/ Opera…

You get the point. Any endeavor where a group of people dedicate huge energy—often their lives—into making a show, along with their incredibly enthusiastic fans, is worth your time. Also, sometimes you can get corn dogs or drink wine out of a plastic cup.
Swift uses garbage collection (I know, arc, but that's still garbage collection), so it more or less is in the same category as Go. And I don't see people choosing Swift over Go any time soon.

C++ and Rust are a different thing.
So I actually just went ahead and made the thing[1] for Bluesky.

https://blucerne.app
You have a CPU? Or a core, that is 1 of many cores on a system where your VM can be and will be pre-empted by the host node’s scheduler without your VM having any control or insight into the process?
"Physical books don't run out of battery" type energy.
I encourage you to float this hypothetical to your mechanic the next time your vehicle is in for service. Their response is certain to be educational.
Seems legit.

Linked commit contains code for rotating tagged floats so bits 60..62 go to the least significant positions, and a comment about a range of unboxed floats between 1.7...e-77 and 1.7...e77, plus special casing 0.0.
You say that as if it isn't warranted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine
DataPacket, ReliableSite, HiVelocity, and FDCServers among others have great bandwidth prices.
What's a CRDT? Yeah... I guess a better start for the article would have been to explain the terminology and what that even is and what is used for. Because I have no idea what I just read
I thought their description of Tesla was also strange.

So are they claiming that all the other (at least SAE 2) systems don’t ask you to wiggle the steering or pay attention every 30 seconds?

Very strange mincing of words and doesn’t smell right to me.
Structural monitoring in engineering for example. You need high quality pictures and have lots of drone data and files need to move to hyper scaler or on premise for GPU processing.

Cloudflare is not trustworthy and you don't always need to pay the "protection" fee. I.e. B2B where a day offline doesn't matter.

Cloud pricing is insane compared to Hetzner with regards to storage and CPU power. If you have some Linux knowledge it's perfectly stable. Support is top notch.

For 50€ per box you get 10gbe which is also nice.
Not everyone needs 100% IaC like the big hyper scaler offer or geo redundancy etc.pp... even Hetzner has an API and you can even terraform their dedicated servers to some degree. It's 15 to 30 minutes vs. seconds but who cares.
> At their worst, they can come out with some unexpected things, like swearing at you ...

Sounds like they've screened the residents for bad behaviour.

Some people with dementia are much worse. ie: extremely aggressive, and can be pretty violent. :( :( :(
>This is particularly tricky when the answer is actually "no".

If the answer is actually "no", then the customer service person will tell you it's "a little difficult". You're supposed to understand that that means "no, we can't do it". Of course, many foreigners don't get this, so then they'll change gears and just say "it's impossible".

>If you're used to American customer service, you may find European customer service to be blunt or curt

I don't see accusing your customer of fraud as simple bluntness or curtness.

>Again, if they aren't trying to win every customer, this isn't really a problem.

If they don't want to expand their business outside of Europe, I guess that approach is OK.
Looks like your new here, let me help out.

Language is not defined by a dictionary or MLA guides or whatever. Language is defined by culture. Go ask any linguist if your in doubt. They’ll gladly talk your ear off about how language evolves and cliques form and how there’s in and out language which people can often identify others in their “tribe” by. Like respect for any culture, don’t come in and try to tell people what’s right or wrong. At least not until you can speak the language first.

We use [0] because it’s how you index an array.

More general to internet culture there’s also OP = original poster and we refer to comments above us like family relationships. Parent (you’re this comments parent), GP (the grandparent, one who used the [0] that triggered you), GGP, G..GP, there’s siblings/sister (everyone who replied to you) and so on. Generally people don’t say cousins, aunts, dust removed and so on but you might see it). RTFM = read the fucking Manual (RTFA for article). And many others.

Welcome to the internet and Hacker News.
In another comment, this user links a CRuby commit that they claim adds it. It seems legit.

Linked commit contains code for rotating tagged floats so bits 60..62 go to the least significant positions, and a comment about a range of unboxed floats between 1.7...e-77 and 1.7...e77, plus special casing 0.0

e.g. this excerpt:

#if USE_FLONUM
#define RUBY_BIT_ROTL(v, n) (((v) << (n)) | ((v) >> ((sizeof(v) * 8) - n)))
#define RUBY_BIT_ROTR(v, n) (((v) >> (n)) | ((v) << ((sizeof(v) * 8) - n)))

static inline double
rb_float_value(VALUE v)
{
if (FLONUM_P(v)) {
if (v == (VALUE)0x8000000000000002) {
return 0.0;
}
else {
union {
double d;
VALUE v;
} t;

VALUE b63 = (v >> 63);
/* e: xx1... -> 011... */
/* xx0... -> 100... */
/* ^b63 */
t.v = RUBY_BIT_ROTR(((b63 ^ 1) << 1) | b63 | (v & ~0x03), 3);
return t.d;
}
}
else {
return ((struct RFloat *)v)->float_value;
}
}
Please note that the main criticism in the Norwegian debate is currently how this kind of taxation discriminates Norwegian ownership and gives a disadvantage in terms of competition, in comparison to foreign business owners
Same :) I started down the rabbit hole of abstracting CUDA for our robotics framework, but it’s not really something I want to maintain right now.
Can vouch for HiVelocity under the previous owners anyway, not sure what's going on over there now. My companies launch was bandwidth and compute intensive and they handled it well.
Probably more likely has something to do with increased energy costs.
Couldn't you just buy a used decent PC and run this on its CPU + GPU and get faster/better results?
Though even in your quote, it’s clearly working in a more nuanced way than suppressing introversion. Being better able to understand others’ emotional state, and reduced anxiety, seem to be obvious improvements