skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real issue for the postal service is that the law was changed so that the USPS would start funding their retirement health care costs since they are promised to the workers and the projected costs had exploded:

>...Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>Prior to 2006, the Service simply paid retirees’ health benefit premiums when they came due. The Service put aside no money when it promised the future benefits. Paying benefits when they come due rather than funding them in advance is known as the pay-as-you-go or unfunded approach.

>Early this century, Congress, the Administration, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), and a bipartisan presidential commission expressed concern about the lack of funding. Although retiree health benefits are often unfunded or poorly funded, two considerations suggested the Service’s retiree health care obligations should be funded: they are as firm a commitment as the Service’s pensions, and they had become enormous (about $75 billion by 2006). In 2003, the presidential commission suggested establishing a reserve fund for these obligations, and the Postal Service itself sent Congress a proposal for creating such a fund.

>In 2002-2003, it was discovered that the Service was contributing far more than necessary to fully fund its pensions, and Congress allowed the Service to contribute less. Congress decided the pension “savings” could help patch the retiree health benefit underfunding. In 2006, as part of the Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act (PAEA), the Postal Service Retirement Health Benefits Fund (RHBF) was established. Most of the Service’s contributions to the new fund could be paid using the pension “savings.” PAEA was bipartisan legislation with broad support.

https://taxfoundation.org/primer-postal-service-retiree-heal...
> I was trying to find a year on it and couldn’t, but agree it seems newer.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html#CONF... says POSIX.1-2001, so I'm guessing between 1998 and 2002 (according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#2001... it started development in 1998 and was released in 2002). That man page also says "since glibc 2.2", which according to Wikipedia was released November 2000.
Some people just love to dive into the deep end of the Turing Tarpit, because their point is to be as wasteful and inefficient as possible. Thus my point about buying gum with Bitcoin and rolling coal to trigger the libs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

>54. Beware of the Turing tar-pit in which everything is possible but nothing of interest is easy.

But I think that most people who use bash simply have no clue how expensive forking another process is, and not enough experience to realize that software always ends up growing up to be much more complex than they originally expected, and think that "1+1" is as much arithmetic as they will ever need.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule

>Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Principles

>Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
These fluctuations have been a part of Bitcoin for a few years now. And while most people think it's no big deal I think it's absolutely fatal.

It's fatal because bitcoin isn't supposed to be some kind of stock that you buy, sell and speculate on. It's supposed to be a currency and that's where it's supposed to get its value from. Unfortunately that's not how it's being used because unfortunately it's not a very good currency.

Nobody wants to use a means of exchange that fluctuates widely from day to day. No one wants to accept $ 1 in bitcoin for a loaf of bread if that $ 1 could be worth ten cents tomorrow. Currencies need to be stable for them to be usable as a means of exchange.

Unfortunately this sort of instability seems to be a feature of bitcoin rather than a bug. Unlimited anonymous transactions means the system will be easy to manipulate.

That said the dream of bitcoin could be one that saves humanity from the financial tyranny imposed by governments. This is particularly true for people who live in third world countries where governments play fast and loose with their currencies and their money can quickly become devalued.

It is also to an extent true for richer nations where government control of the currency led to things like the great depression the great stagflation of the 70s and heaven knows what ill effects it's causing today that economists of tomorrow will learn about.

It is clear to me that having independent currencies will result in a freer more prosperous world. I think what's needed is an alternative to bitcoin that is set up to actually work like a currency rather than a share or forex market with people buying currency that they don't plan to use.

I think the solution is to learn from paypal which also set out to create it's own currency and almost succeeded. Create an alt coin and brand it as a currency and have it be used that way. Maybe go to ebay top sellers or etsy top sellers and convince them to accept your alt coin. Have rules and tracking mechanisms in place to prevent manipulation of the money supply. And most importantly a widespread currency can't have anonymity. I'm not saying anonymity shouldn't be allowed in a currency. But widespread use of a currency requires being able to manually undo transactions that were done through fraud, the way banks and credit card companies can. This is why people tend to avoid making large payments in cash, they want a paper trail so it can be undone if necessary.
Precision, magnanimity, equanimity, honesty, competence, loyalty, charity, etc. If you don't think these are skills, see what happens when we don't practice them. :)

I really don't think it needs unpacking because everyone else on the thread seems to understand. However, using the pretext of a misinterpretation to legitimize a critical view is a good example of a political dynamic. "It's unclear, clarify it to me and I'll signal understanding when it aligns with my view," is a way of patronizing the topic and isn't an honest inquiry. The form of the question positions the questioner as a performative gatekeeper instead of an inquirer. I think the kids call it "sealioning," these days.
They wash their hands. What's so gross about them going extra lengths to cleanse themselves? Its not like they're going to then ignore their very hands, considering for many, its a religious law to be clean.

It seems like bidet fear but 10x. For no good reason.
I use Google Voice.
I grew up using bidets and as an adult moved to a bidet-less country. I've installed handheld bidet sprays in all bathrooms in my house and they work great.

Here's a pretty affordable one: https://www.amazon.com/Abedoe-Upgraded-Handheld-Sprayer-Oper...
> What kills Python here is that it is most commonly bundled with the linux distribution or the OS (true also on mac)

It doesn't kill it, quite the contrary, rather makes it ubiquitous. If you want another version you just install virtualenv. It's the same with Perl. We use the Perl version shipped with the distribution (openSuSE) and deploy to that. It's older but it's stable and it works. On our dev environment (mac) we have the same version with all of the modules installed in plenv. We also chose a framework with as little deoendencies as possible (Mojolicious). It looks like it was a great choice.
Moon by 2024
Rich recently addressed this:

https://youtu.be/AdNJ3fydeao?t=1128
I wouldn't criticize anyone for posting code snippets for educational purposes without confounding the learner with all of the error checking. Pedagogy vs pedantry.
> You complain about strawmen, then launch a straw giant like that?

This was more a rhetorical "obviously this is false" statement than a genuine articulation of your position.

> If you also oppose discrimination and exclusion, why are you trying so hard to pick a fight here?

You're the one accusing me of... I am not even sure anymore. Of somehow aligning with the current US president over inflating wages which you do like but you don't like but you do think should be done but maybe not because it's not sustainable.

I get the impression you have not carefully formulated an articulate form of your beliefs and then tried to convey it to others. I showed this conversation to a few other folks just to see if I've got a blind spot. I didn't discover one, sadly, because they agreed that it seems like you're arguing against yourself at least as much as you're expressing antipathy towards whatever ideas you think I have.

The only thing I "discriminate" against (besides my sorting algorithms ;) is the notion of hyper-concentration of capital into individuals.
Do you think hyper-specializing might be a solution? Right now I see many physicians end up only working within a narrow sub field of the field they trained in. For example, a neurologist goes through 4 years of general neurology training and then ends up only working in an epilepsy clinic and after a few years probably forgot how to manage myasthenia gravis. Or a neurosurgeon that ends up only doing spine cases. Wouldn't it be better if we just had shorter but more specialized residencies? If people are going to end up forgetting half their training anyway...
Hopefully the Fed can inflate away >50% of real pension liabilities.
Some folks simply don't want to use a build system, whether it be for experimentation or not wanting to deal with the overhead of tooling.

Others are looking for options that might minimize overall script / JS size (which is a hallmark of Jason Miller, author of both Preact and HTM).

Another might be to make this easier for beginners. For example, the React docs link to an example HTML page that uses the `babel-standalone` build [0] as a way to try out JSX syntax. However, that's a hefty piece of JS, and it's not at all advisable for real use. HTM might be a good alternative to that.

[0] https://reactjs.org/docs/add-react-to-a-website.html#quickly...
Wow, this looks great, thanks for sharing!

You mention this book as targetting pentesters. Do you have any advice on tools or skills to know for a software engineer to transition to a pentesting role?

I ask because there are many resources for pentesting, but not any that I have found to reflect what happens in industry.

Thank you again!
"let's pay this guy $800/hr to approve $110 purchases"
When I first started dating in the late 90s, internet dating was already a thing.

I had a 'relationship' with someone from another college about 100 miles away where we talked online every day for a couple of years before actually meeting. I wanted to meet much earlier, but would get excuse after excuse or our plans would get cancelled.

When we met in person, I quickly realized that the person had a completely different personality online and we actually weren't really that compatible. I tried to make it work, because we both had put so much time into it..but it just didn't work out in the end.

I learned a valuable lesson after this and in all future online dating, I would setup an in-person date within a week or two. If there were continuing excuses, I would move on. This worked out pretty well for me.

Something I noticed is that some women just want someone for emotional support and really aren't looking for a date, even when they are on a dating site, and they will gladly string someone along for attention, adulation, and a self-esteem boost without any intention of starting a real relationship.

I'm glad I'm married and don't have to deal with the current online dating trends.
pip install pytest

Kidding aside, most of the problem with the fake libraries could be solved if pypi namespace them per author, like GitHub does for repos.
Yeah for numerical stuff but for network stuff which Erlang and its VM was created for it's great for web application. Having the option to write Rust, C, etc.. with NIF is a good compromise.
This is how I remember things as well. The Virtual DOM was a huge improvement compared to other contemporary frameworks because it consolidated multiple changes into a single DOM operation.

For one thing, all the frameworks at the time we’re doing 2 way bindings. Which meant that the smallest change could end up triggering a bunch of computeds and observables, to the point where any change would trigger a bunch of re renders.

React bundled all of those into a single rerender. Further, and I may be mistaken about this, react helped dispel 2 way binding and show that 2 way binding was a performance and reasoning disaster. If that was the case, I’d suppose eliminatin g 2 way binding also likely played a large role in the performance improvements which may potentially have been incorrectly attributed to the VDom.
It's more like interpreting machine code. Looks like this:

...
Row 20: sl 1, k9, ssk, k1, turn.
Row 21: sl 1, p3, p2tog, p1, turn.
Row 22: sl 1, k4, ssk, k1, turn.
Row 23: sl 1, p5, p2tog, p1, turn.
Row 24: sl 1, k6, ssk, k1, turn.
Row 25: sl 1, p7, p2tog, p1, turn.
Row 26: sl 1, k9, ssk, turn.
Row 27: sl 1, p8, p2tog.

That's part of the code to make a sock.
They allow you to use anything you want, as long as it's not React?

I am very curious about this kind of decision. I realize you may not be able to share details, but whatever you can share would certainly be interesting.
I was under the impression it was because the city finally collected on it, but I might be wrong.
Perl has stars on MetaCPAN and every version has a test counter. Download counter is unreliable.
But McDonalds has much smaller overheads than other restaurants because the food is largely prepared and the prep work that does need to be done has been engineered to be easy
I published a technical book in the late 90s and the publisher (Pearson) opted to have it translated into a number of other (non-English) languages. I was never told anything about the translations. My assumption was that they used some sort of "contract translation people/service" and just "crank them out". My guess is they aren't that focused on quality. When my book was first published, technical books were much more profitable, but since then publishers have really struggled. The publisher I worked with was fantastic at the time, but since then has repeatedly stated they just want to "get books out there" regardless of the quality. And, I think the market was already tanking by the time my book was translated, so I'm pretty sure quality wasn't a priority for them. They sent me an after-the-fact sample copy of 2-3 of the languages it was translated into, but it was a total surprise to me and I never received any information about the process or that it was happening. In fact, it was so hands off that I have no idea if they translated it into more languages and never sent me a copy.

Another factor why the authors the OP contacted may not care could be that the royalty rates were dramatically lower for International sales -- at least that was the case for my book -- I essentially made nothing. I'm not saying people write books only for profit, but the combination of "not even knowing they were translated" with "zero profit motive" makes a potent combination. :-)

That being said, I don't believe anyone every contacted me with errata on a translated edition... I guess I should consider myself lucky. :-)
amazing that a $30 million selloff translates to $21 billion market cap drop. held up by toothpicks
I think you have answered your own question: it's one less thing to worry about in your stack.

If you're targeting modern evergreen browsers you already have a lot of modern features at your disposal, including ES6 modules, async/await, string interpolation, but we're not using them.

In fact, I'd say that it's way more than "one thing" that you can stop worrying about: you won't need Webpack/Rollup/etc, Babel, NPM/Yarn, Node.js itself, etc.
Perhaps I am ignorant. I've only gone through one translation of The Art of War, perhaps others are better, but for all such texts there are always motivated translators purposefully not capturing what was originally written in order to make it seem more broadly applicable.

This discussion has reminded me that your oft-quoted "quote" doesn't seem to originate from any actual translation, but is a rephrasing of a bit of chapter 1, where it says "Therefore, when able, seem to be unable;" followed by a lot of other things. It's also worth pointing out what immediately precedes the 'therefore', which is: "Warfare is the art of deceit."

That simple line left out of the version you quoted is crucial. Context matters, and applies for quotes even when the original is in English (see the full context of Knuth's premature optimization quote for instance). The context here is about deception in war. At best you could extrapolate it to situations where deception against your foes is needed in general, but even that is stretching things, and certainly doesn't apply all that much to publicly traded companies like Tesla. The closest analog for them is guarding trade secrets. Besides, deception is usually frowned upon outside of armed conflict, and if a public company deceives the wrong people about the wrong things, and gets called on it, then the company and its higher ups aren't going to have a good time. For example, cooking the books to 'appear strong' would be a rather egregious deception.

Some forms of deception can have a more legitimate purpose in certain business dealings, it's true, as I'm now reminded of Gates' love of poker and some of his great bluffs in MS's early days. Though the consequences of failure wouldn't have been beheading. I'll quote the rest of the paragraph from my translation though and let you decide if Sun Tzu has anything to say about this narrow form at the poker table or when trying to arrange multi-party business dealings promising future deliveries:

"when nearby, seem far away; and when far away, seem near. If the enemy seeks some advantage, entice him with it. If he is in disorder, attack him and take him. If he is formidable, prepare against him. If he is strong, evade him. If he is incensed, provoke him. If he is humble, encourage his arrogance. If he is rested, wear him down. If he is internally harmonious, sow divisiveness in his ranks. Attack where he is not prepared; go by way of places where it would never occur to him you would go. These are the military strategist's calculations for victory--they cannot be settled in advance."
i've noticed a lot of banks/hedge funds will invest in property tax certificates with a typical return of 18%, and then pay out a lower interest rate back to the customer... its alot safer to do it that way than to invest in randomly performing stocks or mutual funds.
Why is everyone so worried about a Tesla not surviving? Their stock price (although a little down), is still way above it's initial IPO price.
Too late to edit!
I meant to write "the Max Lange attack".
You kid, but I recently found out that the Jack in the Box “2 tacos” are actually meatless. (I think... it was hard to get a straight answer out of the person I spoke to, but so far as I can tell they both “do not contain meat” and “are not vegetarian”)
How do you figure? A blind flood of money breaks most markets.
You don't need scientific papers for this.

Just look at the end scores of ultra-marathons.
Putting code into the standard library doesn't magically create developer resources to maintain it. Indeed, Amber Brown is saying that many libraries in the Python standard library aren't properly maintained. So it's not clear that standard library policy is relevant to the Rust issues you have.
>By some people, sure, but separating state and business logic from presentation and rendering logic was a well-known idea many, many years before React was around.

My claim is that this isn't a good representation of the FE culture as a whole - even if there were islands of enlightment out there. Hell, just about all of the enterprise codebases I get contracted to work on are STILL do state management the old way.

So no - I don't agree the basic premise of the article is correct.

>The important development with React that hadn’t previously been widely seen in front-end, JS-based web development wasn’t the virtual DOM, it was the declarative description of the rendered content — building it in absolute terms from the current state, not in relative terms from the current and previous state.

You are ignoring that fact that the VDOM was the imperative implementation they used under the hood to make the declarative api work. It's the VDOM that allowed them to take state management out of the DOM - and thus why they claimed that the VDOM was faster than the DOM.

Sure - if other folks are finding other implementation approaches that allow one to keep state out of the DOM in even better ways - that's great. That doesn't mean it wasn't reasonable at the time to identify the VDOM with that central innovation since there wasn't many other people doing it in other ways.

>This doesn’t change the fact that the declare-and-diff strategy is extremely expensive compared to actively observing only necessary changes in the underlying state and making only necessary local updates in the (real) DOM.

I'm not arguing this case one way or another... I don't claim to know. The OP is certainly welcome by me to try to continue making that case. I think that's a good contribution to make.

I'm saying that OP could do this without crapping all over React's contribution - which tbh honest smells like a status move in order to obtain more market share. Wanting more market share is fine - but it should be enough to just compare the performance between the two to make that case. Don't straw man a "meme" to attack a competitor's status.
I think you’re overestimating FSD current vs. sunk costs. They’re not betting the farm unless you mean the model 3 lease return but that can always change.
Have you ever got poop on your hands? That smell does not go away with just soap and water.
Interesting, I know nothing about publishing but this some good insight to having your text manipulated by said publishers. Thanks for comment
First of all PVC can't be used on the drinking side, only drain. Second of all, not all types of plastic used in plumbing have stood the test of time.
Exactly. This seems more like a way to advertise that the GIL is gone while not actually having shared memory parallelism via threads.

It reminds me of how python advertising tricks people into thinking python has real parallelism by talking about ayncio and import multiprocessing; people then actually try those out only to discover the sad state of affairs.
>That a trade that small would cause the market to crash by double digit percentage points is absolutely a sign of a thin market.

It was only the market on a single exchange, Bitstamp, which is extremelly illiquid compared to the largest exchanges. The problem was that Bitmex, a much more liquid exchange, bases the settlement price of its popular perpetual Bitcoin swap on an index of just two exchanges, Bitstamp and one other, so manipulating the price on illiquid Bitstamp also screws with the price on liquid Bitmex.
What does "sound design" mean? If you'd said vfork is error prone, I might have agreed --- but lacking soundness suggests that it's not possible to use vfork correctly, and, well, it is possible to use vfork correctly.
I went 6 for 8 -- two times it convinced me that Faux Joe Rogan was real.
I've found the built-in Windows 10 ssh client has trouble with tunneling, so I still use the ssh client included with git.
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