skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's another intriguing compiler suite I came across in the past [1].

For both elements, embarcadero and freepascal the promise of easy cross compilation is the most attractive feature in my eyes.

I started programming in Turbo Pascal 20 years ago or so, but I don't know... coming back to the language these days doesn't sound like the most efficient use of my time.

1: https://www.elementscompiler.com/elements/oxygene/
Right, but you wouldn't need defensive patents if patents didn't exist... this would be like arguing "I am glad we invented guns, because we need them to defend ourselves against people with guns"
Sure, I can imagine all kinds of websocket applications and their economic tradeoffs, just not ones that have ever enjoyed a million connections against a single server instance.
No one is stopping anyone from building modern nuclear reactors except debt markets and utilities. The problem is that no one wants them (compared to other generation technologies).

Timoth3y in another thread explains it extensively: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19168057
Reading through these is amazing. It’s like an alternate reality...

There’s a whole article about whales attacking boats and posing a threat to shipping.

My days as a novelist are numbered.
Hi,

I'm interested in learning more about the opportunities you have available in regards to the Python Developer and Backend roles. Do you have a contact email to reach you? Thanks
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One factor is that NY pays 5-10 times more than comparable cities to build its mass transit: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/28/nyregion/new-york-subway-...
> which is the only site I know of where people sell or barter side projects.

I'm a bit surprised you haven't heard about this one: https://flippa.com
Interesting that HN is just hearing about this, it made the front page of reddit back in October when a youtuber named wubbey "investigated" it.

His video is both funny and hard to watch due to the extremely awkward sexual undertones. So to answer your question, is this sexual?

Yes, and that seems to be the intent of whoever is running that channel.

See for yourself: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M78rlxEMBxk
The distinction to me is software; if it runs Linux or such, it's a computer. If I have to provide "firmware" then it is a microcontroller.
Wow, I love the look & feel of the preview. I would actually use this not just for slides but general markdown writing. I love how the text starts off in the center of the page.
About the first one: I had to tweak the search for a while until I got a meaningful set of results. Sometimes it's no easy.
Depends on the scale of this online store, if it saw 0.1% the amount of traffic as Amazon then it is justified.
Unlikely.

> The country [China] has the capacity to build 10 to 12 nuclear reactors a year. But though reactors begun several years ago are still coming online, the industry has not broken ground on a new plant in China since late 2016, according to a recent World Nuclear Industry Status Report.

> Officially China still sees nuclear power as a must-have. But unofficially, the technology is on a death watch. Experts, including some with links to the government, see China’s nuclear sector succumbing to the same problems affecting the West: the technology is too expensive, and the public doesn’t want it.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612564/chinas-losing-its-... (China’s losing its taste for nuclear power. That’s bad news.)
Great, succinct points. Also worth noting that a different Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors think-tank (of which the Breakthrough Institute is a subsidiary-ish entity) agrees with your economic analysis regarding nuclear power plants startup/op costs versus LNG, wind, and solar (https://climatenexus.org/climate-issues/energy/nuclear-energ...).
People who don't come in on H-1Bs are eligible to apply for green cards too. Being on H-1B does not make you eligible in any special way.
I'm pretty unconvinced. I don't see any reason to believe your line of reasoning; that the original poster is a hyperbolic vegan. Do you have anything beyond your assertion?
I'm under the impression that Amazon has never been a big taxpayer.
This all makes really good sense. For now I think this is a workable strategy, but I bet you can do better (take that as a challenge ;) ).

Anyways, this is really cool, and smart idea. I'll be printing these out and bringing them to my next tourney. Excited to see how it goes! How do I send you direct feedback?
I think the main benefit is that you can easily reuse these slides for documentation, inside git[hub/lab] or a wiki.
This is absolutely great. And 100% the direction we should be taking programming. Easy, practical, just works.

Thanks Guys
They would have had to remove it anyway, VPNSecure was breaking the 2015 law by publishing a canary in the first place:
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/03/australia_out...

Section 182A of the new law says that a person commits an offense if he or she discloses or uses information about "the existence or non-existence of such a [journalist information] warrant." The penalty upon conviction is two years imprisonment.

'straya. If ya got keys, we want em, and stfu
Saving $24 a month with solar panels seems hardly worth the effort. Why not just build nuclear plants and dispense with the tedium of house installed solar? Dealing with solar panels seems like such a such a pain.
The "Stripe Delaware LLC" scheme comes with quite a few pitfalls: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18870886
I wish journalists would at least try to understand how a technology works before working about it.
I think you mean Poe. Finn is more parallel to C3PO.
For some reason, it doesnt surprise me that Amazon is not very committed to hiring the kind of people that want to live in New York. While they're probably not enjoying their PR, I can't believe this is their biggest lost.
it bothered me too, but this site was IMO a case where the illustration made up for it.
In some senses, this is what all the JVM languages are, or the WASM languages, or C FFI. You can build compatible layers between any languages, but at the end of the day, most people want to be able to read the libraries and other source code they’re working with.

Scala, Kotlin, and Java can all interop with each other, but at the end of the day much of the libraries get rewritten between the languages.
You may find OCaml interesting, here's a comprehensive article explaining the benefits relative to Python, from someone who actually ported a significant Python project over to it: http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain...
I would say it's worth it. It's an opportunity to learn and connect with the right people. The only tweak I suggest is introduce yourself as a business owner not a freelancer even if you are flying solo.

You can easily start an internet company within few days with stripe atlas: https://stripe.com/atlas
> France: 44 Billion would be saved by investing in rewables instead of nuclear

>link

I can't read French so I can't comment on this report. I'm not saying it is wrong or your conclusions are wrong. But I would say that there's an unfortunate thing happening and it is that bad information and research is being done. In fact we don't have to go far back in HN history to find this post

> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18950154

All I'm saying is that you have to be wary of these things (and a lot of people are upset about this, because that's not what science should be. It also gives cannon fodder to global warming deniers...)

But to comment on France specifically, they are basically the only European country making good climate decisions

https://www.electricitymap.org/?wind=false&solar=false&page=...

Sweden has a great advantage of a lot of natural hydro sources. But something to pay attention to in these countries is how their electricity is generated over the course of a day. You may also want to look at how different countries have fared over time (not including China because you can't make fair comparisons with it).

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?end=2014...

> The last few completed plants in the US (that didn't get canceled) were 20-30 years in the making - and typically over budget and schedule by more than 2x. With some of the cancelled projects over budget by 3-4x.

This is honestly a HUGE problem. And I think everyone pro nuclear agrees with you. There's a lot of reasons why. It isn't just, as others have mentioned, the NRC requiring essentially complete designs. But there are a lot of things that could be fixed by policy changes.

You do also have to consider the cost of human life. Safety is a great concern with energy:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

But here's an interesting perspective (I don't think any sane person is arguing for 100% nuclear, or even 50%, but the perspective is interesting).

https://medium.com/@Jorisvandorp/how-much-would-a-100-nuclea...

But I think there is one argument that stands out with nuclear. It is the question of how we transition to "all renewable" or "renewable + fusion". We don't have the technology to handle the storage capacity of solar and wind for periods when there are no solar or wind. I mean we hear a lot about Germany's renewable feats, but look back at that world bank data and you'll notice that between 2009-2014 the trend is flat. So while I think we should sink a lot of R&D money into battery technology (and sequestration), you also need to have a contingency plan. While nuclear is expensive, it is clearly less expensive than what happens if we don't reduce our carbon footprint. The thing is just that we don't have time anymore. We can argue all we want, but with existing technology, the only option is nuclear. And we need to act NOW, not tomorrow. NOW. (now is even too late)
When you can't attack the idea, just attack the person.
You are 100% wrong. And your insult is obvious and not welcome here.
Micro switch daily maintenance work
The micro switch is used in daily use, which is basically used every day. Then the problem comes. Generally, when the micro switch is pressed, do not wet the button, so that it will easily cause some accidents such as electric shock. Secondly, if the water inadvertently enters the inside of the switch, it will also cause micro-motion. Some short-circuit problems with the switch caused the switch to be damaged. I will tell you about the daily maintenance of the micro switch.
Micro switch daily maintenance work
Note one
The micro switch is used in daily use, which is basically used every day. Then the problem comes. Generally, when the micro switch is pressed, do not wet the button, so that it will easily cause some accidents such as electric shock. Secondly, if the water inadvertently enters the inside of the switch, it will also cause micro-motion. Some short-circuit problems with the switch caused the switch to be damaged.
Note two
There is also the problem of the feel of the micro switch. Generally, everyone has responded to this situation. The same switch product is different for the operation of the button. We all know that the feel of the switch and the button force are controlled by the shrapnel. And the material of the shrapnel is divided into two types, namely, the material of the shrapnel is divided into phosphor bronze shrapnel and stainless steel shrapnel. Generally, the material of the phosphor bronze shrapnel will change after the temperature of the furnace, and the shrinkage is serious, which may result in a bad feeling of operating the button switch. However, the use of stainless steel shrapnel will not cause this problem, so why the same specification switch products will be different prices. Therefore, when purchasing a switch, it is recommended that you can buy a micro switch with a stainless steel shrapnel.
Google’s Sidewalk Labs wants a share of Toronto neighborhood's property tax
I disagree.

You're right that the effects of our actions on the climate are not directly observable by laypeople. And that the scale of the problem is daunting.

But it is _critical_ that we fix the underlying problem in the next couple of decades. The scale of the problem means we can't fix it without help and motivation from the government, so we need to agitate now, today, for the government to put a price on carbon emissions.

There's even a bill for a carbon fee-and-divident right now. But it will never pass as long as we're all not focusing on climate change.

When it does pass, the incentives will suddenly be right for us to solve the problem.
We do have a very simple large-scale storage system that's already in use across the world: pumping water uphill. It's just not as economical as rain when you factor in the efficiency losses from generating and transferring power twice.
my main reasons to split are the following:

- security - minimize privilege escalation and access to infrastructure

- scalability - different workloads need different metrics to scale(CPU bounds vs connection bound)

- dependencies - why burden devs with all dependencies especially some that are more difficult to setup dev environments for

- service per backend dbs/etc (overlaps with the above)

- domain - can place domain specific skills on a team
You’d need 0.6% of the continental US land mass for solar panels, and 1 mile by 1 mile of batteries to power the entire US off of solar.

This doesn’t include tens of thousands of EVs sold each month, which is rapidly increasing the aggregate amount of distributed energy storage available to the grid.
Amazon avoids paying taxes
Well, Microsoft is a good illustration. They imposed a ribbon on all customer UIs, except of course the one software that their developers actually use (Visual Studio).
That might be good criteria. But it still depends on your application. Most web apps don't have hardly any overhead when under load. So it's essentially just as efficient to load the whole codebase as a monolith into each node as you scale up.
> I've used superbuy.com with much success but there are loads of options out there to pick up deals from Taobao and have them sent out of mainland China.

Please do tell more! I just made a Superbuy account but can't for the life of me figure out how to use it.

I'm somewhat fluent in Mandarin (my reading's a little rusty), so if that opens up additional options I'd love to know of them.
I'm aware, I've used Postmark for years. My point is that building your own microservice to send emails is ridiculous overkill.
Climate is a matter of economics though. The difference is that the cost is in the future. That's why the poster was talking about the cost of climate and if you consider it an existential crisis. I guess it also matters if you care about current costs vs future costs.
I've said this before, software & tech companies are enabling this sort of authoritarian transition in countries and enabling the powerful to stifle voices of dissent.

It is more than likely that the connected world wide web will fraction itself off into regional entities soon enough. With things like data analytics and AI, controlling populations is even easier. The Chinese model will succeed.

In India, a Russian style klepto-plutocracy is slowly taking over. It's only natural that they would want this transition kept hidden.
See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.lang.lisp/wr3ekiL...
Stardew Valley is a weird example because the guy spent four and a half years working 12-hour days and did _everything_ themselves.. not sure that's the comparison you want here.
(and their family/girlfriend supported them, they did work as a theatre usher occasionally apparently, but their "day job" was largely the game above even normal standards)
NYC is not exactly desperate. NYC is the anchor of an enormous economy that houses dozens upon dozens of large corporate offices and a vast number of jobs at all pay levels. NYC can afford to not deal with a corporation that is known for its poor working conditions and that did not even conduct its search in good faith.

Other cities are not so fortunate, but Amazon has no interest in truly desperate cities (or even cities that are not so desperate but could use the boost, like Newark and Baltimore).
Hong Kong seems an odd choice. Or at least a short sighted choice. Right now its an ok place to operate but given the slow erosion of Hong Kong's independence will it still be in 1 year? 5 years?
Man, this is a frustrating and shallow criticism. Obviously this is over-engineered. It's a demonstration of how these patterns would fit together in an application that required them.
Email is already a queue.
What is the situation regarding storage and grid instability due to increasing renewables?

This is my main question every time. Storage seems to be lagging behind generation.
Endianness is not the same, it's a standard part of the architecture.

And the extensions could be tested for based on ISA version. Most of ARM's history is non-divergent.
Yes, I send emails async using Django-RQ (previously Celery).

It's still a one-liner once you've configured your async task handler. Which makes the example custom email sending microservice even more ridiculous when it can be done trivially by configuring proven off-the-shelf components and third party email delivery services.
Anyone remember Borland C++ Builder? I migrated away from Delphi to C++ Builder as soon as it came out. It still used DCUs tho from memory. Thems were the days
Finn is consistently less popular than Grand Moff Tarkin and Boba Fett. I've even seen him ranked below Darth Maul, who doesn't even really have a personality at all.

It's a poster. You take it to a printing press and ask for a few thousand new ones, it's NBD. If they didn't already have several alternate designs from before they selected this one, it's like an hour of mucking around in adobe CS to make Finn smaller and droids bigger, less if you have the original images on hand.
Okay? You have... A thing? Probably a similar thing? If you must spam your own thing, at least tell us why we should care about your thing in contrast to the actual subject of the thread.
True about LIC already undergoing gentrification. But it’s still kind of affordable, at least to young white collar workers who are priced out of Manhattan or the expensive parts of Brooklyn. Amazon execs are paid big bucks. My friends who work there left behind multi-million dollar salaries without missing a beat. Having that kind of money fall into a developing area would ensure that even the baby bankers and lawyers were sent packing to the Bronx or Newark or wherever.
And pumping water uphill is a regional solution that requires specific regional geography, to me that does not class as "scalable".

I should be more specific in that to me "scalable" is a solution that can be deployed anywhere without require specific regional properties. Maybe you think this is unneeded and that a lot of region specific solutions can cover the storage requirements.

However another posted did point out that 1 mile by 1 mile of batteries is apparently enough to store US energy requirements.
You asked for it.
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This issue comes up all the time: is it sexual per se, ie for everyone, or does the viewer make it sexual? Balloons are not sexual. They only become so in the mind of certain viewers. Is asmr always sexual, or does it only become so because a kid is involved? That might say more about the viewer than the material.

Without clarity, if there is room for debate, i side with not restricting the speech rights of these kids.
Why is gcc dependency a good thing for the kernel?
Robinhood app of crypto
So if they don't communicate with each other, what makes it collusion? How is collusion defined here, and what are the algorithms actually doing?

Surely it takes more than just "not getting into a price war" to call it collusion.
Java ? Hell no.
Java is the worst language + build system i've seen. It killed my brain than anything else.
You need to remove two things: Docker and Java from this stack before it's really cloud-native.
How the heck did we get here as an industry. The complexity is ridiculous.
Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Convicted
I guess the huge Citigroup office does not count? Also when last I looked a bunch of high rises were going up near Sunnyside Yard which is pretty far from the waterfront.

When I was 16 LIC was a pretty sketchy place, but as of a few years ago when I lived there it was completely different. There is still some light industry related to food trucks and taxi cabs, but you have to walk pretty far to get to anything more significant. The only sketchy area I can think of is the Queensbridge projects but that is north of the 59th st. bridge and pretty far from the rest of the neighborhood.
The article states that "every individual has approximately 8 hours [per day] to allocate to 'me time'" which is clearly not the case for many. It seems reasonable to point this out in discussion.
A weaker statement than a flat out "nuclear power is cost prohibitive": current-gen nuclear power seems to be having serious cost problems, even in countries that previously successfully built out nuclear, and even where there is a relatively favorable political environment. Whether this is due to fundamental reasons or not is of course another question.

One example is the new-generation Électricité de France EPR design, where the first unit scheduled to be completed, at Flamanville, is way late and over budget. France has almost 100% nuclear power and has both a good safety and cost record historically, so the seeming lack of success of this project has dismayed many people: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-edf-flamanville/edfs-flam...

It's not quite as positive a political environment overall, but Westinghouse also had strong local and state-level support for its new unit in Georgia (the U.S. state), but ended up going bankrupt after cost overruns: https://www.ajc.com/business/power-seeks-best-path-forward-p...

Obviously cost overruns at two plants is a very small sample size, so it could be due to non-fundamental features, like severe mismanagement. But given that there aren't that many large-scale projects going on, the two biggest Western ones both running into major trouble has really hurt prospects for more funding/support. If even one of these had been a clear success, the outlook would be much better.
split any thing that can

kafka ->process message -> kafka
When you split off a team to work on something, you can consider splitting it off into a microservice.
Compare Sunspring (2016).

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/06/an-ai-wrote-this-movi...
140KB+ for that simple app even in 1995 would've been an insane level of bloat, considering that the Windows 3.1 Program Manager (PROGMAN.EXE) also shown in the screenshots is only 112KB, and it certainly has much more functionality. The File Manager, WINFILE.EXE, is 167KB. As an experienced native Win32 programmer, the same thing in pure Win32 would be <2KB. (Edit: I mean the app with 3 controls on a dialog, not the File Manager...)

What's even more disturbing is the fact that an app which does the same thing in 2019, using a newer version of the programming environment, now takes nearly 6MB or 30MB, depending on which field of the newer versions' dialog you're looking at ("code size" or "file size").

My first experience with a Delphi application was similarly disappointing: I distinctly remember a 300KB binary whose only function was drawing a few lines on the screen (to act as a ruler), and disassembling it in an attempt to figure out why.
Is it a cost vs convenience tradeoff? I'd rather travel point to point, but if the A380 is undercuts that because it's more cost-effective, many people would put up with it to save money.
Matt Miller – Trends, challenge, and shifts in software vulnerability mitigation
To migrate gradually (and gain performance along the way) is exactly why they chose Rust. Go and Crystal have a runtime and thus can’t be easily cross-language called as they need to be run separately and communicate over network or other type of IPC, whereas it’s just a function call (and type conversion) in case of Rust FFI.