skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have plenty of meaning and community outside of work. Unfortunately no one wants to pay me to do dumb shit at work, probably because I’m too expensive.
I agree with everything you said and I think you contributed a lot to what I said making things much more clear.

> I'll tell you what this benchmark tells me really though: C# is seriously impressive.

The C# team has done some really great work in recent years. I personally hate working with it and it's "magic", but it's certainly in a very good place as far as trusting the CLR to "just work".

Hilariously I also found the Python benchmark to be rather impressive. I was expecting much worse. Not knowing Python well enough, however, makes it hard to really "trust" the benchmark. A talented Python team might be capable of reducing memory usage as much as following every step of the Go concurrency tour would for Go.
> And the cost to a woman’s body, during and after pregnancy, including risks?

Is very real, but significantly lower for later pregnancies, and was generally not something that put people off in more prosperous times, even when medical care was less advanced.
This urge is as old as statistics. And I dare to say that most people after reading the article in question are well prepared to use the results for what they are.
The big difference here is that there is an established network of 3rd parties who you can engage to put a new compressor in your fridge after the warranty expires.

No such supply chain exists to patch proprietary firmware/software after the support period.
There's an inordinate amount of nonsense being espoused in this thread, when the answer is in that first link. I can only assume it's the miseducation that economics textbooks perpetuate.
Singles were a thing though. I think they were priced at like a fifth of an album?
You can still do chargebacks if you pay with a credit card from a German or other European bank (experience of course might vary but you can just switch to one that offers better customer service)
Women only gained rights recently, how could one know that?

There is a 100% correlation with total fertility rates dropping and women’s independence.
While all the guesswork ? They explain clearly why this is happening. And it seems fair.

"With the new tariff structure, we want to make conditions for our customers around the world as fair as possible. To do that, we will calculate our prices based on local conditions in Europe, Singapore, and the USA. Until this change, customers who have used fewer resources have covered the costs, in a way, for other customers who have used much more resources. We want to make things more balanced. The new prices will give our customers the best possible price for the resources they use."
Just wait for the refugee crises yet to come. We have seen nothing so far.
Smells like a way to collect addresses to me.
Yep, a time when things were getting generally better, not worse.
I suspect those numbers are for filling the tub to the brim? Is that normal?
70% of the surface of the Earth is covered by water. That turns out to mean little. Have you seen this?

https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/all-earths-water-a-single-...
the systems I’ve worked on that use your design end up in a state I call “the zoo” - because you never actually have simple transactions like you’re imagining. You end up with one object for credit card payments with stripe fees, another one for purchases with taxes, another one for ACH payouts, all meaning different things

double entry is actually the simplest projection of any possible billing system because anything that moves money can be described as a bundle of credits and debits that happen simultaneously and sum to zero. so you get accounts for taxes collected and fees charged automatically and don’t have to write custom logic for each thing
I am pretty sure you are a outlier.

"stuff related to getting paid for things I invented…."
That's how metas buck2 works
It’s well known that TikTok uses human curation and weighting to a far greater extent than other social media platforms. The others primarily try to hide and remove unwanted content, but TikTok actively picks what gets shown.

(Twitter apparently now has a patchwork of hacks like the famous “author_is_elon” multiplier that slipped into their public source code release, but that’s nothing like TikTok’s meticulous selection process for algorithmic boosting.)

It would be good to have more visibility into this process because it wields massive influence among the 13-28 demographic, roughly.
I rather doubt under-16s ever watched any news corpos and the new corpos are more than likely aware of this from their own research so I don't think fighting over viewership is a factor in this.
single entry is like a receipt at a store, is says what you owed and what you paid, but there’s no “other side” that is getting credited or debited the same amount
> [...] the easier it is to process the water at your sewage treatment plant, if your waste water is treated.

It's easier to process per litre, but it is easier to process in absolute numbers?
It's nothing new. Chinese companies (mainland and Taiwan) have always courted "returnees" and "foreign experts" to develop their own capabilities.

Famous case in point is the very founder of TSMC, Morris Chang, who was convinced to move to Taiwan from the US to lead a research institute, which ultimately led to him starting TSMC.

Of course, as criticality increases so does the number of zeroes on the offer.
Erlang is likely going to have about the same or greater starting overhead as Go here from what I measured[0] with Elixir. Each Erlang process carries its own independent GC which allows it to isolate allocation impact, contributing to the robustness of its implementation. I assume this is where the cost comes from. If you do measure Erlang - please post the numbers.

Processes in Erlang, Goroutines in Go and Virtual Threads in Java do not fully replace lightweight asynchronous state machines - many small highly granular concurrent operations is their strength.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/neon-sunset/8fcc31d6853ebcde3b45dc7a... (disclaimer: as pointed out in a sibling comment it uses Elixir's Task abstraction which adds overhead on top of the processes)
In my experience, they’re lots of fun... in a straight line, to a point. I haven’t driven one that turns or stops as well or as “connectedly” as pretty much any enthusiast ICE car. And yes they have instant torque off the line with very good traction control, which makes them much faster at drag strips than most ICE cars, until you get to purpose-built dragsters that are putting down just as fast 60 foots making the same (or more) power but while weighing a few thousand pounds less. Until batteries get waaaaay lighter (like, 2-3 orders of magnitude), I really don’t see them as the future of fun cars.
That is a fair point. But the car manufacturers have no influence over whether the charging spots are going to be built or not.

Even if there is no mandate to have them at the apartment buildings, the customers will naturally prefer those dwellings that do have them. Which in turn will create pressure on the building owners to have them installed.
The parenthesis are a strength that allows for faster editing and easier parsing. Although I respect every en-devour to have fun with code, I hope people don't run with this as a serious option. It would be better to have editor extensions that emulate this with regular Clojure code; that! I could get behind.
You should look at 'Murielle Peniquot'. Only 2 people on at least 84 refused to rape her when asked to. And only 50 of the 84 were caught.
As an Australian parent this is really pleasing to see. It's clearly inspired heavily by the work of Jon Haidt and Jean Twenge et al. The kids are not okay and the main thing stopping a worried parent from addressing it is that "all the other kids are on it". If you have an addicted/bullied child would you make them a social pariah and create interminable arguments by taking away their devices? Collective action is needed and this is what it looks like.

We don't need watertight compliance, verification or enforcement - just raise the level of difficulty for kids to get on and create a culture among kids, parents and schools that social media is not allowed. This will be enough breathing room for parents to say no and kids not to feel like they're the only ones missing out.
Yes and it has done so successfully for years.

An interesting high profile example:
https://meet-global.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/47800?
Hah. We're already way behind the tech curve on anything physical. Propping up oil doesn't help, but it isn't the problem by a long shot. China props up coal and it certainly doesn't hurt their manufacturing.

The problem is that we can't build anything in this country, with a handful of very expensive exceptions. If the US wants to change that, we have to send a planeload of senators to Shenzhen and copy fucking everything. Take detailed notes and copy JLCPCB, LCSC, Alibaba, Foxconn, all the raw material suppliers, all the chemical suppliers. Build a new EEZ near NYC or SF and invest $1 trillion over 10 years (5% of discretionary spending.) Write up a few laws: every business must have fast turnaround, thin margins, and instant quotes. In a decade every product in the world would be made in America.

It wouldn't even be hard; that number is ~10% of military spending and all of those companies will voluntarily give you a detailed tour. It's not like we don't understand any of this stuff. Etching a PCB or running a warehouse or spot-welding some crap is relatively simple.

Everyone thinks China leads the world in manufacturing because of labor costs. Ha, no. China's far richer now. It started out as the labor costs, but now it's the vertical integration. You can go from prototype to product in a month in China. Try doing that in the US; it'll take a month just to get your calls returned, and you'll find that we don't and we can't make shit. At scale, we can't make foam, we can't mold plastic, and we can't make PCBs. More to the original subject, at scale we can't coat electrodes, we can't process chemicals, and we can't work metal; put that all together and we sure as shit can't make batteries.
If you carefully study the so-called regime oppression, you will find that in the end, nothing happened, and there were no large-scale deaths. But it was massively exaggerated by CNN and BBC only because of the appearance of weapons.
I don’t know where you base your claim on. Do you own an electric car in Europe?

I live in Europe and own an electric car. There are fast chargers everywhere and also some slow chargers near my house. I mostly drive in the Netherlands and Germany. Charging infrastructure is not a problem at all!

If there is a problem though, it’s German electricity prices. Charging is almost as expensive as refueling a car per km.
> Have we reached peak data privacy paranoia? Harmless lil projects that harken back to the good ol' days of the internet are somehow actually devious PII honeypots?

Safe assumptions with most any "tech" industry company or individual now are that they will behave completely like sociopaths when it comes to personal data.

It's so baked into "tech" culture now, even people who may be ethically inclined don't recognize it as a problem.

So I object to blaming the victim, or gaslighting, suggesting that people who are aware of this crisis of widespread antisocial behavior are being paranoid.
The JS version can quickly be improved to use less memory (~10%).

async function main() {
const numTasks = parseInt(process.argv[2], 10);
const taskDuration = 10000; // 10 seconds

const tasks = Array.from({ length: numTasks }, () =>
new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, taskDuration))
);

await Promise.all(tasks); // Wait for all tasks to resolve
console.log("All tasks completed.");
}

main().catch(err => {
console.error("Error occurred:", err);
});
I'm merely saying how democracy works. If democracy fails because the people who have the voting power are too unintelligent (your words, not mine) then that's a flaw in the political system.

Personally I think people are plenty intelligent. (OK, there are a few morons, and they get good TV time, but for the most part people are smart enough.)

Blaming the electorate is not victim blaming. Since they hold the power they can't be victims.

It is the goal, and function, of politicians to persuade the people. If the people choose to follow one source of media, that is up to them.

Trumps lies are easily debunked to anyone who cares. Lots of voters don't care that he lies. Lots of voters believe whatever they want. Democracy, as a system of govt explicitly puts the power in these peoples hands. That's not a bug, it's the killer feature.

Trump was very clear in his goals. Tarrifs, deportation, abortion ban, IVF under threat. No support for Ukraine. 100% for Israel, pro Palestinian support suppressed. Ignore climate change. Demonize minorities. He ran on these policies, the majority voted for them, he'll do what they asked for.

Look, all systems are fine and dandy when the politicians have good intentions. Equally all systems fail when bad actors come onto the stage. But hey, democracy is the best option right?
I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
Now let's apply an age restriction to books too. This is fucking stupid.
I am left wondering what happens at 4194305
Then it is fair to compare the memory usage of a stackful coroutine to a stack less one as they are the idiomatic way to perform async task on each language.
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The "liabilities" aren't subtracted from the deposit amount when counted as M1 supply. (Actually loans are accounted for as assets and deposits are liabilities, but that's beside the point).

If customer A deposits $100 in cash, and customer B borrows $100 from the bank and deposits it back in the bank, M1 goes up because there are now two checking accounts with $100 in it. That the bank's internal bookkeeping balances doesn't change the fact that the Fed considers that more money exists.
At the times I've read the Daemon series, I also enjoyed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nexus_Trilogy by Ramez Naam shortly afterwards.
Yes. That’s how it was taught to me years ago, that’s how it’s understood in the banking industry as well, incl the private sector.

From a large eurozone bank :
https://group.bnpparibas/en/news/money-creation-work
Worm mentioned wooooo

amazing how a niche webserial from 10 years ago is still being read and having an impact

also, the ride doesn't have to end, lots of Worm fanfictions out there, some of them are really good
Slightly off-topic, but I’ve been searching for a long time for something like this, but for text chat: go to a website; create a room; share a code/link with others; people join and chat; then at some point in the future the room simply disappears (you can save a log if you want). Ideally anonymous with the best possible cryptographic implementation.

Has anyone stumbled upon something similar? I hate having to register and login to every chat platform, especially bloated ones like Discord and Slack. The closest one to what I want is gitter but it requires a GitHub signin.
The screenshot on your homepage looks very similar to plausible's https://plausible.io/ which is also open-source analytics software. Is it based on it? What are the differences?

Edit: Just noticed the feature comparison in the readme.
It works though
Yes and no.

If that memory isn't being used and other things need the memory then the OS will very quickly dump it into swap, and as it's never being touched the OS will never need to bring it back in to physical memory. So while it's allocated it doesn't tie up the physical RAM.
I can’t say I share your optimism. I’ve seen plenty of developers point to graphs like these as a reason for why they picked a language or framework for a problem. And it comes down to the benchmark how good of a proxy it actually is for such problems. I just hope that with enough feedback the author would consider making the benchmark more nuanced to paint a picture of why these differences in languages exist (as opposed to saying which languages “lose” or “win”).
> If you don't know what fascism is or what a Nazi is, then I can't help you.

My point is that I already know what those things are; the people calling others "Nazi" or "Fascist" apparently don't know what those terms mean.

> Your "99.999%" statement is patently false.

How so? It wasn't an assertion, it was a request:

>>> Okay, when you get 99.999% of the population to agree on the definition of those terms and who they apply to, then sure ... let's take their voices away.

Let me re-iterate: If almost half the voters who do not agree with the minority are getting called Nazis or Fascists by that minority (probably less than 10%), then those terms are watered down and meaningless.
I guess the lesson here is to not bank with an a16z company. I have been using Wise for years. Very very happy.
Even worse is that you can't even follow any one top flight football team now without paying multiple suppliers in the UK. It works out at about 7-8 hours/month of minimum wage to pay the 3 providers required, using figures from last year [1]. A day's wages every monty to watch a single team play the national sport from your own home, using your own internet connection on your own TV while still being subjected to constant adverts is absurd.

[1] https://www.planetfootball.com/quick-reads/football-costs-ev...
For mobile I find google meet the best, I think even Whatsapp is now allowing to screen share.
I too yearn for the day where my parents webbrowser can run Win+R and delete their System32 directory after they clicked "Ok" on a prompt whose message they wouldn't be able to tell me if I paid them a billion Euros for it.
"to address the concerns of a few"

lol
I don't like people who refer to government regulation as "nanny state policies".
It is amazing to me that the markets are rewarding an audio streaming business that has yet to publish an annual profit after 20 years:

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SPOT/spotify-techn...

https://companiesmarketcap.com/spotify/marketcap/

One would think Spotify’s potential is capped by their expenses (in the hands of the music owners - Universal/Warner/Sony), and the pricing of their competitors, with the deepest pockets in the world (Apple/Alphabet/Amazon).
If they step into Nato territory it's obviously a different discussion. If you want to call me ignorant for stating obvious facts, you do you.
Have you tried just adding an invisible-to-people honeypot input and discarding all submissions where it has a value? That often works
Ahh thanks so much, that clears it up for me! Every description of double entry I'd seen so far seemed to have the notion of keeping a running balance for each account (and then having a separate transaction for each one where they all sum to zero) as a central feature, so I thought avoiding that would make it no longer double-entry, and it always puzzled me why that was so crucial. Your comment made me see that wasn't actually the point!
>Kids understand when you say it's against the law.

Jesus, were you born 40? I don't know a single person who didn't willingly pirate media, games and break other laws (usual suspects like trespassing, underage + public drinking...) as kids and teens. They will not care about the law if they want to do something it limits.
I have had an EV in Switzerland for four years. It’s not impossible but is hard. And no we don’t have as many as you think because half the time the ones that purport to be available don’t work.

If you drive tons that would be another story. Most trips are shorter so EVs are more viable.

I also could have asked to charge from the wall in our building but haven’t had to due to other charging options.
There is no right-click on phones.
You don’t need to disable it at all for distributions that support secure boot.
>These liabilities subtract from the overall balance stored (reserved) at the bank. The bank is not printing money new money

Hi, this is factually incorrect and you should educate yourself before attempting any further condescending comments on Hacker News.
Great article. I have an observation to the "engineers should know this and do good engineering" though: I work for a payments company and there is a fundamental career problem with becoming the ledger ninja: It's not enough work, and it's eventually done!

I've seen the following major phases of this work: 1) Build the ledger (correctly), and it will work well for a while. 2) Add convenience code for the callers, assist finance in doing reports/journaling, fix some minor bugs, take care of the operational bits (keep the database up). 3) Reach the scaling limits of your initial approach, but there are some obvious (not trivial) things to do: re-implement the transaction creation directly in the database (10x perf gain), maybe sharding, maybe putting old tx into colder storage, etc.

This is spread out over a while, so I haven't seen it be a full-time job, even at real startup-level (+10% MoM) growth. Even if it was, that's one person, not a whole team. I understand engineers that instead are pulled towards projects where they are in higher demand.

In another comment somebody said ledger systems are trivial when done right and super hard when done wrong - so if you did a good job it kinda looks like you just created 3 tables and some code. That seems thankless, and job searching as this type of specialist is harder than just being a generalist.
But kindergarten kids know there are tons of bugs on everything.

(The dirty little rugrats don't give a damn, but they know).
>And her given first name [...] is Lantian, meaning blue sky in Mandarin

I love this
Counter anecdote, I’ve never been asked for id when voting in South Australia or NSW in my 20 year voting history
I mean even now, there is ITAR, which makes working on unauthorized technologies in foreign countries illegal.
> Does your reasoning also apply for laws which ban underage smoking or underage alcohol consumption?

Up to a point, but AIUI there is credible medical evidence for those being disproportionately harmful (in physical, objectively verifiable ways) to the young. I think setting the same standard of harm and applying it to all ages is reasonable; maybe this law is based on some claim that social media harms children in a way it doesn't harm adults, but bluntly given how much the topic is biased and politicised I just don't trust today's social science establishment enough to justify this kind of law.
I absolutely sympathise with Ukraine and want them to win, but for now all the talk about Russia attacking Nato is just talk. Nato is a defensive alliance, nothing more. To preemptively attack Russia because we think they might attack us, is not what the alliance was set up to do.