skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nuitka (nuitka.net) does that for python, and is very robust and compatible. It works way better than py2exe, cx_freeze, etx, and is cross platform.

However, the result, even for small scripts, is not what I would qualify as "small" :)

I also like pex (https://github.com/pantsbuild/pex) which allows to bundle a whole venv as a python script. Less heavy than nuitka, doesn't make it stand alone though, but very handy for quick and dirty scripts I want to one shot on my servers.

That doesn't remove any merit to nim. Such a cool project.
I'm a guy and I'd definitely press charges. Especially if that person close in proximity to me, I'd prefer to NOT be sexually harassed. Pressing charges hopefully would suppress this behavior.
Apologies if I don't take your drug taking anecdotes as any kind of fact.

If you knew that they were generics beforehand, and had preconceived beliefs about generics, your subjective experience of their recreational aspects is severely flawed.
I'd love to read your article about UBI - what's the link?
Java -> Go?

Not so much in the language design inspired by sense, but I see a lot of Go being used in places that were previously Java.

K8s was originally written in Java.

Personally very happy to operate fewer Java services...
Womanikin: A universal attachment to challenge biased CPR training
The enabling technology we need more of is electronics that can work at 500 C. People have demonstrated small-scale integrated circuits, but nothing like a microprocessor. https://science.nasa.gov/technology/technology-stories/elect...
It isn't exactly accurate. Rust is more like c++ and Nim is more like python+c+pascal.
But yeah "The future looks good."
Look at it from the other direction: How many people are in the top 1% of NW but fail to be in the top 1% of income? Surely some but I bet not a ton.

EDIT: I found this - https://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/measuring-the-...

"Some readers wondered if the 1 percent by wealth weren’t an entirely different group of people from the 1 percent by income. But there is substantial overlap: the Fed data suggests that about half of the top 1 percent of earners are also among the top 1 percent in the net worth category.

Almost all the rest of the top earners are still in the top 5 percent when it comes to net worth."
Agreed. It's higher than I remember. OP mentioned making 1% money, but he may be under the same delusion I am :). 1% is 750K, and that is exceedingly rare in tech. Aside from some niche cases like self-driving car engineers at Google, it probably only happens in senior management.
...which carcinogenic contaminants?
If anyone is looking to learn Nim, Exercism.io has a Nim track with a good number of exercises.

https://exercism.io/tracks/nim
You embed Python in Nim or build Nim as a Python extension.
That's an extra purchase fitting the "use case" exception mentioned above.
Ha. What rental market? What's left is either falling down or something only a Google employee can afford.
I would stick with the modern variants from Java, JavaScript and C# until the underlying platforms get rewritten in the guest languages.
If the issue is the quality of manufacture, why would there be an expectation that brand name drugs be manufactured with higher quality controls, or be made in the US (just following in the article's implication of a very US-centric view of big pharma). Couldn't big-pharma-company contract out manufacturing to whomever does it cheapest internationally?
It's an art-deco style, which is what the late 20s were made of. The entire book oozes that look.
Google Apps for Education says hi.
I think we have to question what "success" means here - all the complaints come from people who were satisfied customers of something with a user base that many startups would be happy to have. Is there no room for "not a world takeover but still fundamentally OK" products?
I agree. I’m from an upper-middle background and my parents always try to downplay it. They’ll say things like ”well, they say we’re rich but you know we don’t see how we could afford going abroad this year, you know with the renovations going on” and I’ll respond ”yeah, you do have less money after you spend it on a vacation home, a boat (with a luxurious boat house) and on fixing it up. I think everyone would agree that you can’t indulge yourself in luxuries like travelling abroad before you’ve covered your basics like you’re doing now”.

I’m very thankful for the economic position I was born into. I have a lot of personal problems with my parents but as I’ve listened to other people’s upbringing I have realized I owe a substantial part of my success to luck. If my kids ask me about our financial position I’ll tell them the truth and if they feel entitled to being spoiled then that’s a different problem entirely. Telling them that their good home, their schools and their health care are not indicators of wealth will give them the impression everyone has it, or that it comes easy. That is a really bad message.
At the very least, this story matters just the way general human interest stories matter, as entertainment.
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My theory is that the aggressive business practices and dark patterns are a sign of desperation in the face of a failing business model. Nobody wants the paywall, so authors don't put posts behind the paywall (most of them don't even blog to make money, they do it for publicity or for fun). You might sympathize with Medium here: they're hosting all this content for free and nobody wants to give them the money to pay their hosting costs!

But here's the thing: those hosting costs only become significant when they are centralized on a platform like Medium. If I want to go start my own blog site, I can set it up without any coding and host it for single-digit dollars a month. If most authors are blogging simply because they want to, they won't have a problem with paying that nominal fee, and suddenly huge server costs are spread out to the point that they become trivial. Medium is trying to solve a problem that didn't exist. That's why it's sinking.
and obviously

haskell -> haskell
We probably agree on an objective level. I would agree with you that nearly all of it works nearly all of the time.

But that's my idea of a nightmare - when things are suboptimal and you're often scrambling for solutions on a second-class platform. When I say "often" I don't mean "every day", but in my experience it happened enough to make me swear off Rails on Windows forever.

Of course maybe 5.x is different. My experience was in the late 3.x and early 4.x days
Not really. The problem with the Mars lander (not orbiter, it was a lander that crashed) was that they got some data from a defense contractor (Lockheed Martin I think) which was in imperial units, and then NASA assumed it to be in metric units. Both sides made a stupid mistake here: the contractor didn't even provide any units at all on the data sheet they provided, and NASA didn't bother to ask, and just assumed some units. IIRC, these weren't some simple 1-dimensional unit like meters or liters, they were some compound unit (like lb-ft/N-m), so it was a stupid mistake, because even if you have metric units, you don't know if, for instance, there's some prefix, such as kilograms instead of grams, kiloNewton-meters instead of N-m, etc. It was really unbelievable IMO that they just took a bunch of bare numbers and assumed them to have some units associated.
No, those are mostly fine, but a blog has different requirements than a text editor. I just find it a bit hard to read, because for example bright pictures really stand out, and I think he’s using different shades of white (or grey) for the font in different elements (like a paragraph or a quote).

I just discovered that it’s possible to switch to a light theme, which is much more readable. Still would’ve preferred a nice serif font, though.
> For our existing public cloud and private data center customers, adding scale, financial muscle, and Samsung as both a partner for innovation and as a large anchor tenant customer for Triton and Manta, will pay big dividends.

The tenant is now too large, please move out.
If inferior drugs are being imported into your country, that raises big questions about your regulator.

I think it's inarguable that generics have offered live-saving medication to millions, if not billions, around the world, much to the disgust of the pharmaceutical companies who would prefer a captive market like they've stitched up in the US.
I've seen more Ruby -> Go and Python -> Go myself. I think Go is just pretty well suited to breaking up large monoliths into microservices which is common across the industry.
Availability of packages, tooling, established best practices and skilled developers is just as important as the language itself.

Unfortunately that can be somewhat of a chicken and egg problem for new languages.
What is the "new evidence" mentioned in the headline?
After 7 years in the crypto space, I'm still not convinced of any particular Satoshi theory. That being said, Nick Szabo, Hal Finney, and Paul Le Roux all have decent evidence pointing to them.
Now how are the sorta-rich supposed to live out their ghoulish lifestyles? For shame.
That sure is a lot of assumptions and accusations.
The killer feature of Google Trips for me (and I'm sure many other users) was the offline support, so for us it may as well be dead.
Not really - we don't have to land on the surface of Venus to explore it.
https://www.space.com/29140-venus-airship-cloud-cities-incre...
Is this a good signal?
It matters as much as the new royal baby. People have a fixation with these things.
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How to build an eCommerce website for free
The async lib doesn't supports timeout, meaning not usable in production or any serious workload.
He would reach mythical status if he were found to have upended both the cryptographic industry and financial industry as well as run a multi-continental crime empire.
I don't know if I'd compare Nim to Python precisely; aside from the significant whitespace, I'd say Nim's syntax is directly descended from Pascal, and Nim's philosophy appears to hew more towards TIMTOWTDI than TSBOAPOOOWTDI (although I suppose we could debate whether modern Python still adheres all that closely to the latter). As a result it might appeal more to Rubyists.
Relatively easy to crawl. I did HTML -> Turndown (.md) -> Ghost.
I don't think anyone in Santa Cruz wants that. As a long-time Santa Cruz resident, the only people I know who want it to be more are tech people who have been pushed down here cause of shortages over the hill or just like to surf.
> the logical solution is to move to a different country that doesn't have these issues

You ignored the second part of my statement: many people don't have the means or skills needed to move to another city, let alone another country, or they are bound to the local area due to caring for an aging parent, etc.

If you are trapped in a difficult situation but your kids have a chance to break free, wouldn't you try to help them take advantage of that opportunity? I think most people would put their own children first, frankly. Not that sending them to a terrible school would help anyone!
There I was thinking that the scientific method involved falsifiable hypotheses - so how are they going to prove or disprove their respective beliefs? I'm getting string theory flashbacks where half of the physics community is into it, the other half is not, and no-one can prove anything, but they still have a grand old time arguing about it anyway.
Tell me more https://abot.app/blog/medium-blogging-platform-seo
>"Unlike American plants, which matured in an environment where constant oversight made shortcuts risky, the Indian industry evolved in a culture in which outwitting inefficient bureaucracies was an essential skill."

There is an interesting parallel here with the deterioration of regulatory oversight at Boeing that seems likely to have contributed to recent issues with the 737 Max. Similar to how the FDA was only visiting these foreign drug manufacturing operations once ever 11 years on average, the FAA was also resource constrained, to the point that Boeing was responsible for most of it's own oversight.

Maybe the story is just that at a certain point every company becomes rotten in the pursuit of profits (although that seems a contrived conclusion). A better analysis would maybe be what made these companies act in similar ways, skirting regulation at the cost of safety.
My first thought exactly. If the school "knew" about it and dismissed the alerts as a false positive I would have to imagine that opens them up to far greater liability than simply not knowing about the behavior in the first place.
The simplest thing would be to change how the driver app assigns jobs. Under certain conditions, when they look at the Uber driver app, drivers of gasoline cars would just not see jobs available where drivers of electric cars (in the same location at the same time) would.

Adjust conditions as necessary so that you hit your target (while also trying to minimize service disruption).

Because Uber drivers can't make money if they can't accept jobs, this creates an incentive for drivers to have an electric vehicle. They can get jobs others can't.

Eventually, the market should even work out the correct pricing. There's already a mechanism to pay more when drivers are in short supply. If the supply gets restricted because gasoline cars are sometimes ineligible, compensation has to go up (assuming Uber doesn't want to make customers wait forever for a ride).
You can already press criminal charges for someone exposing themselves to you sexually in public.

How is it any different whether it's in person or in pixels?

Do you honestly think you should be able to go up to anyone in public and wave your genitals in their face, that that should be legal? Because I don't see a big difference.

I believe that it's right and proper to maintain a certain level of public decency and enforce that by criminal law. And today in 2019 in New York City (where I live), that means being topless or dressing risque in public is OK... but that exposing yourself or having sex in public is not. That seems like a pretty reasonable line.
> “If we are paying attention to our environment, we are stimulating our hippocampus, and a bigger hippocampus seems to be protective against Alzheimer’s disease,” Bohbot told me in an email. “When we get lost, it activates the hippocampus, it gets us completely out of the habit mode. Getting lost is good!” Done safely, getting lost could be a good thing.

Is there a Betteridges headline law equivalent for Alzheimer's claims, something along the lines of if there's a claim of protection it's more likely than not to be spurious?

Bohbot's own research only hinted at some correlation between hippocampus gray matter volume and navigation strategy but put a reporter on the end of an email and the possibility that early stage dementia sufferers are unlikely to deploy cognition-dependent navigation strategies falls by the wayside.

Far better to take your GPS, completely avoid stressful and dangerous lost situations, and enjoy life.
This should be fairly easy to DOS
From the nim homepage:

> It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula.
You are converting (like many of us do) something tangible - let's say money, to something less tangible, let's say happines. To simplify things it's like reducing a fraction where you focus on numerator and I am saying that denominator has a role in the overall result as well.

You can work on achieving the desired numerator or consider that reducing the denominator can result in increased "happines" too.
I've always wondered why we don't seed it with some biology that can eat the components of the Venusian atmosphere (ie: sulfuric acid, carbon dioxide) to make a more habitable planet over time.
Still far far better than dealing with all of Medium's formatting and site practices.
Agreed that is where science starts. Speculation leads to generating testable hypotheses and experiments.
To be honest, getting blown apart by a cannon sounds great compared to any of these other ones, including the bull.
Pinterest, Reddit More Popular Than Twitter in the US
I cannot recall a source as I read it at multiple places and the math made sense. This was the first link that showed up when I googled just now.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/green-living-blog/20...
> I personally hate the modal that comes up every time if I'm not logged in and how much of my screen is take up by fixed bars.

Regarding this, you can block these UI elements using content blockers. I have used uBlock Origin to block these on my Safari Mac and AdGuard to block them on iOS. I am sure similar equivalents exist for other browsers too which you might use.

I shared a few examples on how to do that on a reddit post before:

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/av3frt/i_figured_out...

Here's one for Medium specifically:
https://www.reddit.com/r/ios/comments/av3jlw/i_figured_out_a...
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics?
I’m working on a new project that includes a RESTful API. I’d like to avoid Google Analytics, and track my API endpoints. Ideally I’d like to self host my analytics. Is there anything better than AWStats these days?
He only said it was beyond our understanding "for some unknown amount of time", or that it might end up being too complicated/incompatible with our existence.

His comment wasn't at all about giving up, honestly the exact opposite. It was about avoiding/managing the disturbed/dreadful feelings that commonly accompany the thoughts and work in this domain.
And said state will take off its hat, apologize and disappear? C'mon mate...
Instead of ditching programming, why not find a remote coding job that pays less but only requires you to work 20 hours a week to get everything done?
Although it raises an interesting question, because physics has a lot of issues with time. Just as in the computer example, why could we not imagine that our universe exists inside the space and time of larger superuniverse, and perhaps the phenomena that explain times arrow is easily observable in that universe, but not in ours.
> ...and didn't have the time.

If you didn't have the time, the police certainly don't either.
Python, Ruby -> Go. Nim and Crystal are pet project compare to other languages, no support, no community, no libraries, Crystal doesn't even supports Windows or threads. They are in pre alpha stage at best.
You're asking low income workers to suddenly front the bill for an entirely new vehicle. This isn't going to happen. What will happen is the same thing that did to people with the affordable care act in the united states: it becomes a regressive tax they pay because the alternative is simply too expensive. Better to pay the tax penalty than an unaffordable insurance requirement per month.
> When the government does something concrete [...]

Maybe this was interpreted literally...?
I imagine when you get to that point you focus in transforming x into y or just produce y independent of x.
Someone upthread made a good point that TripIt being for business travelers. There might be room for a simplified app for personal use.
>How about applying for a license before launching a website?

You don't have that, but in Germany and Austria you must include your full name and address in any website you publish, which creates sort of the same effect.
I estimate the cost to be 1 unit of national pride.
Wealth = freedom to do what you want.

For some people with minimal lifestyles in low cost areas of the US (or living internationally) that can be $30K.

I think the series does a good job covering principles such as leverage (software, capital, labour) which are rarely taught in school.

Most financial planners only talk about cutting costs, not making more money, because they don't know how... this is the opposite.
> There is also a theory there could be many other big bangs and universes next to our own, but they are all accelerating away from each other.

I speculate that there is. And I assert that for our universe to be meaningful, it must birth a sentience into life in the fourth dimension. That probably sounds very wishy washy but does anyone get what I mean and agree with me on this? I’ve never told anyone about this postulation before but I doubt that I am alone in thinking this.
> The undocumented #? strongSpaces parsing mode has been removed.

I remember seeing lots of controversy over this feature a previous time Nim was posted here. Hopefully, its removal will stop people from dismissing the language outright (which would be a shame given all the things Nim has going for it).

(That being said, if people still want to embrace Wadler's Law [0], there's the hot-button topic of case/underscore insensitivity to talk about. [1])

[0] https://wiki.haskell.org/Wadler%27s_Law
[1] https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/wiki/Unofficial-FAQ#why-is-i...
Researchers find a way to use minute samples to detect forged paintings
Interesting, I suppose.

But I wonder if Craig Wright does in fact have a bunch of FDE drives that he's trying to crack.

And if they are Le Roux's drives, I wonder what will go down if he ever gets released.
The ancient Romans apparently enjoyed drawing dicks in public toilets and such. We may think we're more civilized, but it's doubtful that we are.
> You can disable iMessage at any point and it works.

Maybe now, but there was a time when iMessage would continue to hijack your number and divert messages from your phone, even if you disabled it.

Also, have you ever tried extricating your photos from iCloud? It's ridiculously complicated, and Apple doesn't give a bulk "download all my photos and delete from your servers". You have to go photo by photo and download them.