jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
It would have been nice if the library conformed to http.Handler. That has nothing to do with routing yet whenever a new router comes out, it's non-idiomatic. I'll take free performance anyday but not if I have to rewrite code.
The comments make me die a little...

Curving the rail straight up? Building an Orion? What was done to high-school Physics teachers?
The whole food delivery sector looks like it’s on the verge of collapse. Incredibly unsustainable for everyone.
Why would it be 2 or 3 times more? Apple phones are between 10 and 15 times the price of the cheapest Android alternatives (iPhone 12 $999 from Apple, Samsung Galaxy A01 $55 from Amazon). Apple could, and probably would, sell a $4000 television.
Much as their adware laden TVs drive me crazy, I have to admit that their remote is absolutely amazing. A nice piece of aluminum with a minimum number of buttons, and yet you can control Netflix, Prime, TV etc
What I find astonishing, is how much things have changed in a mere 30 years.

Back then, I was working at a local pizza place. I'd worked there for 6 years, both in high school, as a delivery person, and eventually as the main cook/whatnot, in College.

We made as much as we could from scratch. Many pizza places order everything pre-made, pre-cut, including sauce and dough. We made our own dough, sauce, tonnes of home-made prep.

Anyhow, back in the day... we used this thing called "cash". It worked perfectly fine, too.

People would place orders, then show up and pay with .... cash!

People would place delivery orders, and pay with ... cash!

Out of 500+ orders a night, maybe... perhaps once a week, rarely twice a week, we'd have one customer not pick up their order. And... we'd eat it!

Problem solved.

There were no charge backs. No concept of someone showing ID?! To buy food?! No worries about losing 2-5% to the bank/cards. No online ordering.

No one had any issues with this, because this was how everyone did it. Everywhere. If there was a large order, people would pre-pay for some of it. I'm taking, 20 pizzas + chicken+spaghetti dinners or some such.

Per-paying for large orders upset no one, it was logical and sensible.

I get that today, as everyone has "bought in" to the idea of using credit cards, that people have little choice. One must compete with other restaurants, or lose money.

And even I, I strong advocate for cash, tends to carry less of it.

But I still wonder ; just who has won here, and who as lost?

Have the restaurants won? Well, no. They pay more, have to have additional hardware, have issues with chargebacks, and more.

And do customers benefit? Not really, for everyone is paying 3 to 5% more for food, just to cover charge costs and losses, and then many of the people paying?

Are sometimes paying 25%, or even double, once they get around to paying off their card a year later.

No one wins. Except the banks.
Same for me. My MBTI personality portrait is so spot on that the feeling is that the test really is providing more information than you put in by answering the questions.

That said, a lot of people who took it didn't have that instant of perfect self-recognition- the results are often mixed.
Depends, on the projects I work on, it usually goes with either Oracle or SQL Server.

Occasionally PostgreSQL gets used, as kind of staging database for small teams on a department level, with a db link for the big boy database used at corporate level.
Mysql 8 supports atomic ddl, which means if you drop two tables in a single DROP TABLE query either both are deleted or none. But it does not support postgresql‘s transactional ddl feature where you can start a transaction change the structure of multiple tables, change some data etc. and commit at the end.

Mysql 8 males ddl changes atomic, but does not support transactional mode where you could rollback them.
The best option that I know of today (in terms of resulting usabilty and long term reliability) is using a dumb computer monitor and roll the rest yourself with a Raspi.

While this option is certainly not available to all, it is the only thing that will really fit your needs. I completely gave up on finding anything decent in that market.
I had that phone too and I vaguely recall that wasn't HTC's decision to cripple the IR but rather the result of HTC infringing someone else's (because naturally someone would have a patent about something as obvious as using a smart phone as an IR remote....)
Needs more Bahamas :P
Now if only the majority of people use a browser that supports Websockets maybe it'll become actually useful.
Wordpress really presents itself as a generic "publishing platform" these days, it just mostly gets used for blogs.

When I was looking around for a new WP theme for projectgus.com (which only gets updated once every couple of months on average), I found quite a few "long form oriented" themes that were intended for people with the kind of use cases you describe.

I didn't choose one because I think the traditional blog format works for me, but they certainly exist.

If you want to go pure PG-style then you could just use some CSS and plain old HTML.

(FWIW, many of my favourite "tech bloggers" only post a few times a year. Those posts are worth waiting for. Mind you, they don't label themselves as "tech bloggers". Ech, what a horrible term. ;).)
So they treat engineers and designers better than MBAs?

Oh noes!
Keep in mind that you've learned some important lessons only for yourself. Extrapolations you make to other people--the minutia of how their bodies work, what sort of impulses and urges they have, how easy or difficult those urges are to control--are basically speculative. And judgments based just on speculation aren't really worth very much.
Re: “There are no wires in the human mind. So it can’t be ‘rewired’ Get a grip.”

Agreed. Totally idiotic thing to say. Ever heard of a metaphor, Einstein?
closed platform dominance from facebook/google/zynga/apple. if you build something they want, they will duplicate the functionality quickly

Facebook: founded 2004
Google: founded 1998
Zynga (!): founded 2007
Apple: founded 1976, but current resurgence began perhaps with the introduction of the iPhone in 2007.

I think it's pretty difficult to argue that it's a problem if a company formed in 2007 is now dominant enough that you list it instead of traditional heavyweights like Microsoft or IBM.

lack of monetizing opportunities, as most people still don't like to pay for things online.

Facebook, Google and Zynga all seem to have made it work...
Clickable: http://www.mashape.com
You can make offline apps for ChromeOS/Chrome
I have one of the older HP workstations under me at work. I agree they are quite nice. It is definitely an option but with the prices about the same, I am a little biased towards apple.
btw, I'm not sure if it'll amount to anything big. My hope is someone will find it useful.

for me personally, it's a lot of fun to work on machine learning and algorithms. i had soooo much fun building it.

if anyone has any feedback, let me know.
When I was learning to fly complex high-performance single-engine aircraft, my instructor took me aside after one of our first flights and said, "Good news, Markham, you won't have to worry about being in a wreck in this airplane"

"Really?"

"Yep. You're so far behind the plane that you won't show up to the accident until ten minutes after it happens"

Ouch.

It's a great phrase. I think flying is absolutely the best hobby anybody can have. I could read stories like OP all day long.
I'm getting no animations in 7.0.517.44.
Will Google also sell it at Walgreens? Because if not, the people who are enticed by low-end gadgets sold at Walgreens will not know about it.
At what point does a site become "big enough" that it becomes a marketplace monopoly which is not legally permitted to discriminate?

Obviously all sites have a right to control/filter content, but I wonder if there is some law that a giant site must abide by some stricter rules of equal participation ..
Jeff thanks so much for your input, I really appreciate this. It's probably going to guide me for this long haul in getting my iPhone game out there.

Looks like I'm going to buy my copy of Balsamiq today!
The funny thing is that competitive bearding is a sport: http://www.worldbeardchampionships.com/
A measurement like "Profit per Employee" is a measurement i prefer. It cuts to the heart of what most businesses are trying to do - make money while keeping headcount (costs) down.

In times of expansion, your profit per employee will decrease, but this should be temporary as you increase your ability to do more business.

Then, as you reach a larger scale, you can focus on increasing your profit per employee through efficiencies.

It's not a perfect measurement because it doesn't account for varying employee salaries, but it's better than "How many people do you have" or "How much have you raised"
PIA has never done me wrong, it's cheap, they support a ton of VPN protocols and OSes, multiple simultaneous clients (up to 5?), and at least one of the guys who runs it is a HN regular.

More in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6345520

Not affiliated in any way, just a happy customer.
If I wanted to learn more about web development in Java, what's a good starting point? Something that can give me a high-level overview, current best practices, and perhaps a simple "Hello World" example.

I currently work with Django and Wordpress, so I'm not totally new here. But last time I dived into this world, I could not make heads or tails of it.

Java seems like a powerful tool to have in your toolbox, but from what I've found it does not lend itself to be easily picked up.
You generally wont get professionals unless they're feeling charitable. They're busy with paid work and don't need credit. You also won't insult anybody if you're a non-profit. It's for-profit companies who offer t-shirts that get criticism.
> Can you draw pictures of things without consulting a present example?

On a scale of 1-10, my drawing ability is, generously, a 1.

> If only slightly or very abstractly, have you ever tried improving this skill?

"Improve drawing ability" is sort of on my back burner of things I should do - think, "I should buy a boat" cat meme. Even if I were consulting a present example, though, my ability to draw something would be very poor, so maybe it's just lack of training?

> If I were to ask you what's the color of Santa Claus's outfit, I suspect you could answer. Is that simply because you remember written or verbal communication naming that color?

I know it's red, but it's a purely verbal phenomenon. Thinking about it now it does sound strange - I know red when I see it, but I honestly cannot conjure up an image of "red", or any other color besides black, if I close my eyes.

> Do any other aspects of Santa's usual depiction come to mind at the same time, simply as a side effect of being asked about the outfit color?

Not unbidden, but if I think about it - grandfatherly, big white beard, ruddy cheeks, white-fur fringed red suit, black boots, portly. It's not necessarily from remembering written or spoken descriptions, though - it's more like my visual memories get encoded verbally.

FWIW I've always done exceptionally well on tests of verbal ability (perfect score on SAT and GRE verbal sections, for example) so maybe the part of my brain that should be doing visualizations is doing word stuff instead? Or, maybe since I lack that component I've had to make up for it by becoming better at language? I'm not sure.
No, the statement isn't nonsense. If variables always had the same value and "never changed" in Haskell, they wouldn't be variables. They could be hard-coded literals.

You're just mistaking a claim about variables that change each time a program is run (which means they are initialized to a different value each time, whether mutable or immutable) vs. changing during the execution of a single run, which would require mutability.

The quote was referring to the former, not claiming that mutability is required.
You have insurance for major appliances ? Or do you mean a warranty?
> The Kurdish language and traditional garb were banned

How about nowadays? Nothing is banned yet we still see PKK bombing public buses in our cities. Seriously, when can we call these guys "terrorist"?

These problems were real, yes, Kurdish language was banned, people couldn't say they were Kurdish without any pressure back then but these days are no more. Does "cultural ban happened in the past" justify what PKK is doing now?
Facebook has so much power with censoring only one side of the extremists. A good experiment would be if you could find a Christian priest to report, and check whether their response is weighted differently.
GitKraken, Insomnia, Postman, Mongo Compass, Mingo, Mockoon, Notion (yes it's slow AF to load, but that's not due to electron), LosslessCut, Gitify
I think it's a pretty common situation for someone to come up to your desk to talk about something they sent you earlier. Not rare for me at all.
I always roll my eyes whenever another hard-left politician such as AOC or Corbyn comes over and does the whole big talk about how corporations ought to be taxed fairly and all. And later, when they are in power, they call for actions such as (favorable) censorship and what not, while doing zero about big corporations because it's easier to control (and pander to) one big entity than multiple single entities. As long as corporate entities are allowed to donate to political parties, and as long as fundraising remains some kind of race in the eyes of the media, expect this nonsense to continue.

Politicians don't care about taxing corporations that they like. You'll see them do the whole dance against Big Oil or Walmart or whatever, but when it comes to Big Tech, boy do they love their Apple toys and Google Internet.
40000USD!? Must be one hell of a roof. Where I live it’s less than a quarter of that unless you live in a McMansion.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24361469 - 'Modern C' is this one?
While I agree that de Raadt sounds bitter, I also agree with the sentiment. When I look at the software development scene these days (may it be compilers or libraries) it genuinely feels like there is more advocacy than substance.

I am not going to blame Rust for that. Rust is a language I have been meaning to look into and they have a need to be heard over the ruckus. Yet the preponderance of propaganda begs the question: is this real or is it going to be yet another language that fails to reflect the claims? While learning something new is wonderful, I would rather expend my energy on a language that has something genuinely interesting to offer.
Uhm. I grew up reading in bed at night so I'm just very strong.
Yes, this reek of fake news. If Doctor really had to make the tough choice of who to keep alive, it wouldn’t be just an age cutoff (and definitely not such a young age), but a spectrum of input, including life expectancy and quality of life expectancy for the patient.
I now have a desk and a separate work computer that I don’t use for social media. I’ve been trying to all keep my phone elsewhere and physically move to browse social media. Partial success.
I think my concern would only be if he believes using that info could give him an edge. There are plenty of people, including many professional investment advisers, who believe that the obvious use of public info can give you the ability to outperform. If he's just explaining the relationship between economic output and pollution it's all good.
That only happens if you're not logged in. So it's a dark pattern designed to frustrate you into logging in.
Malaysia like all predominantly Muslim countries have some incredibly barbaric and backward laws such as death penalty for being gay, using drugs, or insulting those in power. The mere accusation of sodomy[1] is enough in all of these places to spend life in prison, a labor camp or worse.

> The article could have explored that regions' strictness more

quick googling or Wikipedia has you covered[2].

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_Ibrahim_sodomy_trials

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_in_Malaysia
I didn't know much of anything about ASL, but seeing David Cowan at some press conferences in Georgia made me a bit curious. There's a nice video of him on Youtube[1] where he explains that deaf people's native language is ASL, and not English. That was absolutely flabbergasting to me, because I had always imagine, like you said, that it was just "do this gesture to mean this word and this gesture for this other word".

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd5JGN1jno8
As someone with limited experience with containers, how does K8s allow you to move away from things like Puppet for configuration management? Does it offer some substitute that alleviates the need for something like Puppet or Ansible?
I think it’s neat how this acknowledges the reality that the actual meat of the machine code is identical for every x86_64 target— all that's different is the OS interface. So unlike other "fat binary" schemes where there's a lot of duplication, this one has a single main program and then small shims to provide the Linux ABI on MacOS and Windows.
Though this post was from a while ago, I now realize I was confusing The Washington Post with The Wall Street Journal.

Not sure how I made that mistake, but that would explain the "change in viewpoint"...
Much smaller. We need smaller cars.
Because the US system is adversarial. DAs work with the police to try and convict people. DAs are often very politically motivated in their decisions of who to prosecute and for what charges (throwing the book at people).

Judges are independent from that. They’re supposed to act as a check against the excesses of the DA office.
> 2) Impressive hammer demo.

Honestly, I was a little annoyed by the hammer demo. The guy swinging was clearly loosening his grip/effort just before impact, compared to him actually putting effort into the previous white door he hit.
>Is that our only metric for success now? Putting people in prison? Might as well shred the constitution

You just threw that straw man straight down a slippery slope.

>apparently we're ready to burn everything it stood for to prevent people from getting high

This falls under "punching Nazis". Do you want some guy going around punching people? No, of course not. But if he's punching Nazis, then hey, let him do his thing, man. Same logic here, except it's "tracking meth dealers".

>I know I sound dramatic

I was thinking "moral grandstanding"

I'm okay with the police catching a meth dealer and putting him away. Good job. Keep up the good work.
Yeah by the way which is the biggest news, the truck or the ATV?
Or both?
Personnally I would by wildy interested by the Tesla ATV and less by the truck
Looks like from an 80ties 3D racing game
Because all the people that grew up reading/watching sci-fi ended up as CEOs and important people in business.
The compiler and most of the standard library are written in Erlang, the VM and key components of the standard library are written in C.

The first versions were written in Prolog.
I never see any base model pickup trucks in farming country and even fewer in ranching country. You can see many old beaters, but they're outnumbered by the fancy ones.
My 2 year old and 5 year old will be clicking this button like crazy. I'll come home one day and find 20 boxes of Tide and Toilet paper and a bill for $900.

"Button! Must Click it! What does it do? I don't know! Click it again!"
It will be interesting to see how this evolves; hopefully it will make it easier to build a userland TCP/IP stack, and maybe even to make it easier to ship a new transport protocol (this might make it easier to push for HTTP over SCTP instead of TCP, which makes far more sense, really). Also this will be nice if it allows userland applications to utilize ICMP (traceroute/nmap would no longer be nerfed without root access). NUSE alone should be incredibly handy.
People who appear to be coddled through their education may just have taken the easy way out and cheated:

http://chronicle.com/article/article-content/125329/
Both of those products also handle other kinds of package repositories as well. You're right that they don't cover the full spectrum, however.
Just because someone is "one of the most talented developers" doesn't mean that it's good for them to be part of the community.

One of the best things that ever happened to glibc was Ulrich Drepper, far and away glibc's most talented developer, leaving. glibc is a better project for having multiple good people run it instead of one, brilliant, impossible-to-work-with developer in charge.
If you can find an underserved market that would benefit from such a service then yes, you quite clearly could make money doing that. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
How about loading the whole page on each click, and front caching the parts of the page (nav etc.) that are repeated on each page. This would have really good performance, and be simpler than building a single page app when one isn't really required.
And why not SVG?
Bubbles BURST when everyone says "we're in a bubble."
This doesn't sound remotely right. If n is the number of elements, k is the number of distinct elements, and its O(n + k) as the author describes, k is trivially bounded by n (you can't have more distinct elements than you do elements). Resulting in O(n) complexity, how did you get O(n^2)?
I was told this, but only in the context of an essay.
Here's the part that sounds like a break-through convenience to me:

>a next-generation Wi-Fi print architecture that dramatically

>simplifies printing by completely eliminating printer drivers
Financial independence is the only independence in a patriarchal society. Dutch society is pretty liberal, so it may be the case that financial dependence on men does not impinge upon the sense of freedom and well-being for Dutch women. I wonder if the same would hold true in a more conservative country like the US.
FDR? Well, yes and no. The Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the Germans, without really needing to, went ahead and declared war a couple of days later.

And North Korea went ahead and invaded the south even though everybody knew that Harry Truman had OKed dropping atomic weapons...
OK, point taken. But it's very different kinds of information that you can pick up in an interview vs. some kind of metric (Be it SO score or diplomas).
This is true but the “curse of knowledge” from the article explains why this can happen. It is easy for outsiders like you and me to see the value of such things but as an insider you can become blinded by your knowledge.
I don't think that's always possible as it's a browser security limitation. The referring domain can decide to pass on only the domain, not the full URL.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
This has a very specific name in economics: structural unemployment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural_unemployment

To my surprise, the author made no use of that term.

Worth checking out the Wiki if your interested in reading more on the phenomenon.