skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://metacpan.org/pod/Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun

use Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun;

<<'u' nuqneH!\n>> tIghItlh!

{
wa' yIQong!
Dotlh 'oH yIHoH yInob
qoj <mIw Sambe'> 'oH yIHegh jay'!
<Qapla'!\n> yIghItlh!
} jaghmey tIqel!

Perl makes me smile more than any other language I've poked at. There's an absurd amount of flexibility available.
“America's permanent war-time footing exists because of the lobbying practices of interest groups and horse-trading among members of the Congress and Senate”

Please elaborate. Genuinely interested on your take on this.
Presently located in Launceston, typically have my heat pumps at home set to 19 while I’m awake, 17 when I sleep.

I work in a workshop, so it’s both colder and warmer for longer depending on the season.

The -4 degree mornings don’t effect my cognitive not physical abilities, but the 30+ degree days certainly do. I have to constantly remind myself to slow down.
React hook usePosition() for fetching and following a browser geolocation
This is very far from the truth. Roughly 2% of the generation in China comes from nuclear, over 50% comes from coal. Are you perhaps thinking of France?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China
Henry George had some interesting ideas about the Land Value Tax.
Facebook to make jobs, credit ads searchable for US users
I’m a big free-market person, and generally skeptical of regulation and government programs.

That being said, I think there are conditions when a free market can fail, and one of those conditions is when you don’t have supply and demand working rationally for one reason or another.

I’ve come to see healthcare as one of those cases.

If a doctor says the cost of your life, or your child’s life, is X... who is going to shrug that off and refuse to pay? Thus in an unregulated market, medical practitioners can very nearly charge whatever a patient is capable of paying, and in my experience that’s exactly what they do.

Simple reforms that I think could help:

1) Published prices for all medical services offered. You should be able to get an exact price quote and comparison shop.

2) A ban on drug advertisements. Only the US and New Zealand allow this in the first place.

3) A cap on drug prices based on their age and manufacturing cost. I understand that the actual cost of a new drug is much more R&D than manufacturing, but that doesn’t justify pharma company. Given a reasonable and predictable price cap formula, pharma will adapt.

There are a lot of other interesting and more radical ideas out there, but these seem to me like relatively straightforward starting points that would help remove some of the worst opacity in the US healthcare system, which should in turn create more accountability.
> After all, a pointer can point one element past the end of an array.

Hmm, I wouldn’t put it that way, since sizeof(array[1]) would work just as well. I like to think of sizeof running the type checker on the expression provided and then looking up the size of the type of the expression: this makes it clear that the thing inside can be completely bogus as long as it is syntactically correct.
While agrobacterium directed growth is a leading cause of plant tumors, the mechanism is one of positive feedback: plant hormones, xylem, etc. are upregulated in tumorous growths, causing them to grow faster. I'm not a botanist, but I'd be surprised if these didn't arise spontaneously due to random events.

While it's true that plants grow much differently than animal tissues, and that the rate of spontaneous cancer development is much greater in animals as a consequence, it is factually incorrect to say that plants don't die from cancers. We must also remember that a large number of human cancers are promoted by infectious agents.
People who "people who froth over this" instead of "looking at why this was done" can vary wildly depending on what "this" is and who the person is. You may not see standing during the anthem to be a big deal; someone else might.

To take it to an extreme, consider the act of killing someone to push forth an agenda. A dictator, to save lives. A senator, to change the politics of something. You may think one of those is ok but not the other, or both. Someone else may believe differently.
I'm not sure what you mean about no U.S. city building its way out of an affordability crisis...but cities like Dallas and Houston have reasonable housing prices at $245K and $185K median home price respectively. Price is a function of supply and demand.
What is the role of small towns in Japan?
Universal healthcare would be a great boon for employers, as then they would no longer have to worry about providing and paying for it as part of employee compensation.
> At minimum a refrigerator uses 150 watts and averages over 200.

That's only when the compressor is running though, which it only does when the temperature is above the setting. For a well-insulated modern refrigerator, that is far from continuously. In an unheated space in a cold climate it would be rare. In a heated space the net effect of installing the refrigerator may be to slightly reduce energy consumption because you end up partially heating the space with a high efficiency heat pump rather than a less efficient resistive or oil/gas based heating system.

Obviously it isn't the typical case, but a refrigerator consuming less net power than a phone is a thing that can happen under some circumstances that actually occur in real life.
USB-C is most of the reason I could never go back, the amount of flash drives, cables and connectors that use USB-C pretty much seals the deal for me. I dont want to buy a million adapters when all I need is one port for everything.
> 3- Chromebook is a thing, despite it sound stupid: A OS that is just a browser.

It's not really "just a browser" these days. Runs Android apps, and regular old GNU/Linux desktop apps.
Where do you live exactly? What is the source of this heat energy?
Quite a few, anchoring is pretty interesting and can often be completely subconscious.
Any criticism of China is marked as flame bait.
Fines and Fees Criminalize Poverty: Explained – The Appeal
#5 got me after almost three decades of programming in various languages. I initialized a future in the argument list, but the second time I called the function, python told me I set the result of the future twice. AFAIK no language behaves this way.

Rest of the points I was already familiar with from various experiences. To me, they are just filler for the article.
It’s a sensible move. Vancouver BC is studying moving to allowing fourplexes on most detached residential lots too, and I hope that city takes steps toward implementing that.

A great outcome from this is that now that cities are finally implementing these policies, we can study their impacts.

At this point in YIMBY urbanist circles policies like this have taken on somewhat of a mythical panacea quality, so it’d be good to finally be able to ground the affordable housing discussion with hard data.
> Programming uses the same words as regular English

Let us be clear that this is US English and not British, but I agree with your sentiment: that the keywords are more a linguistic jargon than anything.

Although the main topic here is about other languages, there are also nuances within the two main streams of English that it's also a little wierd sometimes.

For me, I spell color with a U: ie. colour, but when coding, it's always been the US variant. I've typed this word so much that when I need to type it in my variant, that colour just looks wrong, even though it's the correct spelling in (my area).

Occasionally, when skimming British code, I've come across colour variables and it looks wrong. Similarly, I've looked at French code and there are similar strange things that leak out. The same for Russian and Japanese code I've encountered, eg:

> function <insert_diacritic_or_kanji_here>(char p)...*

The purist in me really wants to state: "everyone should type US English", but the more accepting part of me concedes that maybe keywords should be internationalised (/internationalized) too. Maybe a preprocessor system would suffice (eg somecode.c.jp -> somecode.c), but as you state: it doesn't seem right because of the 'jargon' nature of it.

The good news is that machine code and punch cards have no language, so maybe we could revert to using that and then we can neatly skip over this issue entirely ;-)
Kids in cages and tariffs...
Most people here live in the first world...
I get that now. I didn’t understand it for a long time.

While a government-run universal care program doesn’t thrill me, I find the current employer-based system to be borderline immoral.

The more I deal with the system the more it strikes me as a corrupt, crony deal to make workers more dependent on their employer, depress wages, and drive up medical industry profits.
I just spent the weekend in Nob Hill in NW Portland (just off 23rd and Flanders), and had no trouble finding parking even though it was a dense residential area and had a ton of businesses nearby. Felt much easier to park there than in Capitol Hill in Seattle.
I heard good things about Flutter from a couple of friends so I'm going to take it for a spin.
"Plants don't die from cancer" for the same reason "plants don't scream": These are human created concepts that are rooted in humanocentric mental models and plants fail to conform to our conceptual framework. It's much the way sexism, racism etc work.

Reality: Plants give off a pulse when attacked. Human ears don't "hear" it, so we don't count it as "screaming." They also communicate chemically with nearby plants when they get infested with hostile insects. You could say they put out the word and nearby plants of the same species act to protect themselves.
More context on this: https://twitter.com/jslaternyc/status/1144483586042548225
It can be tough to compare cities directly. Often apples and oranges.

Houston for example sprawls out to the horizon, which surely makes new development simpler, but this isn’t a path than most NW cities such as Vancouver BC, Seattle and Portland would follow.
Why not play the national anthem? The whole song is about the war of 1812 with Great Britain, and it's a ceremony of unison just before a competitive game. It's a reminder that we're on the same team even though we're rooting for different teams.

It's also laughable to say that a very rich NFL star's only platform is the national anthem. Especially in 2019, when even unheard of people go viral via Twitter and YouTube.
Except we are actually discussing a technical legal matter. When discussing a technical legal matter, definitions are important. You can say you're upset about metadata collection, but that is a distinct issue from wiretapping. Trying to justify imprecise terminology on the grounds that "people are upset" is simply a tactic for muddying the waters. If your point is good, you can be precise about it.
That is a much better way to look at it, thanks!
If universal healthcare were to be implemented, they'd probably copy what most other countries do: financing it through taxes paid by employers for each employee.

In France, if you want to spend 120k euros on an employee, you'd pay about 40k towards healthcare and the national retirement plan (and a few other things). The employee gets paid 80k, and then pays income tax on that. Income tax is quite lower than in the US though. All in all, my experience has been that the taxation levels in France are comparable to what you'd pay if you lived in New York City.
"it has always been our practice to transfer the domain to the restaurant as soon as they request it"

This is a form of financial blackmail. Transferring a domain usually requires paying for one year's additional registration to a new registrar and, sometimes, a transfer fee on top of that and, most times, a hosting fee to redirect it. So, to summarize simply, in story form (to make very explicit how much of a scam this is for a business owner):

<GrubHub> We've speculatively registered 50 domains at a cost of $500 to mislead people into using our order form, which at 20% commission* at $25 per order average (that we take out of what we would have paid to you) will pay itself back entirely in 100 orders placed.

<Restaurant> What?! Stop it.

<GrubHub> Hey, no sweat, we're happy to transfer those domains to you. All you need to do is initiate transfers for all of those domains, at the cost of at least $500 out of the revenue that we've been reducing by 20% for every order placed through these sites, and we'll be happy to transfer those domains to you. Also you'll have to find someone to host the redirects for you, and clean up the SEO damage we did. Best of luck with that!

<Restaurant> I don't have $500 because you've been cutting my revenue by 20%!

<GrubHub> Please rate your GrubHub Support experience by filling out a 5 minute survey.

* "Marketing commission": https://ghlearnprod.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/...
"Our proprietary locking product will replace the now common standard and open way of doing it"

No thanks
> Portland's mass transit is a joke (I can bike downtown end-to-end faster than MAX can crawl through it)

TriMet is currently looking into moving MAX into a tunnel downtown, and with fewer stops [1]. Part of the reason it's _so slow_ right now through downtown is all the stops, and because it has to stop at lights.

[1] https://www.oregonmetro.gov/public-projects/max-tunnel-study
The problem people don't want to address is these neighborhoods were not designed to handle this many people. They don't have the power, water, natural gas, sewerage, parking, etc to handle these many people. As a result everyone's quality of life is degraded.

The city loves the taxes though.
This exactly. I have complete access to any resource I could imagine for my job by spinning up what I need in our dev AWS account or at home with my personal hobby AWS account (which admittedly I hardly ever use). I have unlimited data and tethering (albeit slow 512Kbps.

I’ve even used AWS Workspace app in a pinch with my iPad.
Ask HN: Which CA do you use for S/MIME?
With the recent (https://www.storageforum.net/forum/threads/psa-sectigo-formally-comodo-ca-free-s-mime-certificates.11444/) change from Comodo, there are no longer any realistically usable sources of free S/MIME certificates.

So, for those who use S/MIME, where do you buy your certs?

I had a discussion with a sales rep from DigiCert a couple of years ago. My company is small, and they wouldn't sell me just a handful of S/MIME certs (minimum order is 50), unless I also bought a regular server (or EV etc) cert.

Does anyone have any leads on good/not-a-PITA-to-issue-or-renew S/MIME certs? I don't mind paying, if it's reasonable.
I needed to have a metal plate taken out of my ankle a year after it was broken.

After comparing prices around the world, I realised that the cheapest option would be to fly to Taiwan for ~500 USD and have the surgery done without insurance for ~300 USD. The total is less than what it would cost with insurance in other countries.

There's a recurring meme saying "Don't call an ambulance, get an Uber to take me to hospital instead". Tangentially related, there's plenty of discussion here on HN that led me to conclude that it's best to never talk to police, even if something bad happens.

I have the greatest respect for firefighters, because they seem to be the only emergency service that aren't yet horrifically corrupt.
Where in the US? I saw more Airpods during my 8 hour stopover in SF than I had seen in my entire life prior in Australia. It's a different world.
Writing this via MB as I, err, write. No complaints here, either! :)
We once had a Cisco phone setup that didn’t really have a test-system, and I was tasked with automating phone creation/updates for around 5000 employees. The documentation for the API wasn’t very good at explaining what each setting was, and I got one of them wrong. It wasn’t wrong for those of us whom I tested it on, but it was wrong for quite a lot of people. As a result a few hundred people in the city of Skanderborg where I work, had their phones deleted. Which is sort of a big issue. Because it was weakly testet we rolled it out mostly to departments we knew, but one of those was IT, and suddenly the phone support for 5000ish employees was out.

The head of IT wasn’t happy when I told him, but his reaction was perfect. I was pretty new and I think he could tell that I was down about the situation. He told me that we all make mistakes, but it’s the people who own up to them that are useful. It’s some of the best advice I’ve ever gotten, and today I can’t even imagine working in a culture where mistakes aren’t allowed.

I don’t think you should test your phone-automation software in production. You really shouldn’t, unless it’s the only option you have and the reward far outweigh the risks. Because after my mistake, I got the settings right, and the automation saved thousands of man hours.
What a street looks like 39 years after legalizing fourplexes
I had a coworker who came from Facebook and told me similar stories.

We all hear about the exciting engineering projects and stories coming out of Facebook. But the IT side of their org is held together with various off the shelf enterprise products and Windows stuff.
That's such a cop out. Do you imagine Manhattan and Tokyo went from being uninhabited wilderness to concrete jungles in one go? No, it was constant iteration over decades.

These are all solved problems. We know how to build denser cities, we just need the political will to do so.
They are equivalent according to this: https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/9385/reduction-of...
So it's just a pop-out mouse attached to the side? Is there anything else special about it? Can you pull it away from the side of the laptop? It looks hard to use attached like that.

I was hoping to be amazeballed, but unless there's more to it, so far I'm not amazeballed.
Windows VMs in Azure are significantly more expensive than Linux VMs because Microsoft still charges for the licenses. Only if your organization has already purchased a lot of them it can use the Hybrid benefit to get similar, but still higher prices.

Seems like a bad strategy for Windows Server in the long run, but they may have decided that it is already dead.
Self-Proclaimed Bitcoin Inventor Says Fortune Inaccessible
It’s extremely silly that you (and others) are trying to say Tim Cook did something wrong when the actual article says he bent over backward to keep Jony in control.
That's because finding people unfamiliar with the terminal that are willing to spend an entire hour in front of a terminal learning how to use it is the hard part.
Same author :-)

He worked his ass off - like a lot of people - to get this passed.
I guess we both want managers who know enough about our work to judge it, but I prefer if they get that knowledge by observation instead of hearsay.
I think whoever is responsible for such a waste of resources should be held accountable for severe damage to the environment and the climate system.
If you're doing big uploads, I would probably just set the screen lock to "never" and stick it on a charger. I've done that before with a long-running Pythonista script and it works great.

Sorry to hear about the family purchase stuff. How does family purchasing work on Google? Is it easy to switch owners there?
Pull the boundaries in. Provide all of the enterprise services through the web. Provide hardened VMs for those services that can't be migrated. Suddenly your workstations are thin clients, and it doesn't really matter anymore if someone decides they want BYOD.

Now you can get after the actual interesting problem of intellectual property theft and corporate espionage. Things which the firewalls of old did nothing to prevent but provide a layer of obfuscation.
We do have the technology to stack dwellings vertically, and not just sprawl.
Thanks for this tweet link I was going to forward this in WhatsApp to my family but decided not to after reading these tweets.
Plants are quite alien compared to us it seems.
Right. Remember when the radio eliminated the need for books, magazines and newspapers?
They hit 1.0 in April of last year.

https://www.cappuccino.dev/blog/
Ah, I overlooked that line, sorry. Of course a few details how they came to that conclusion would still be good, as the other commitments here are discussing.
If you remove a core civic function from the public's control, they are no longer sovereign over it.

The argument given is this process empowers the public and gives them choices.

But it's usually instrumented through monopolies: cartels, m&a, patent protection, natural & geographic monopolies or some mechanism where the choice remains merely theoretical.

For example, the organization discussed here.

So the public gives up control, never gets the choice, and usually weirdly enough still pays for it - the profits just get funneled out of the system.

For instance, in high speed internet, the infrastructure is usually built by tax dollars and those same consumers pay a second time for service on the platform they just paid to build.

This is usually justified by the fact that it's expensive to build the infrastructure conveniently ignoring the source of the funds. The public usually isn't careful enough to deconstruct this rationale.. Really.

It's wacky when you think about it. Fluffy marketing words like "small government" and "free market" which seems to always strangely lead to the most expensive option with the least public control and oversight.

It's a giant hustle, like back when taxpayers built sports stadiums for tax revenue from tax-exempt NFL teams. Without exception all it did was blow huge holes in the city books with the phantom returns never coming. It's a hoodwink operation. Nothing more.

Instead, let the government own some for-profits and cut taxes that way. Like the public bank of North Dakota, municipal internet or the collectors editions from the US mint. If taxpayers build the stadium, taxpayers own the team, simple.

There's no logical reason the public has to be left just with the stinkers that lose money while the winners get privatized away. We'll be paying someone to run the stuff we paid to build, might at well be ourselves
Why paying is a worry? it is just a deduction from the total salary no? Also in universal healthcare they have to pay it, as a tax to the government or directly to the person insurer, depends on the system.
Google internet balloon spinoff Loon still looking for its wings
_Generic is something of a misnomer; it's more like a special form of overloading than a general way of adding type parameters.

C++ is a bit better with templates, but lacks type erasure (hence long compile times) and existential generics (so OOP isn't just syntactic sugar).
> U of Illinois even has an insurance that if the number of international students declines too much...it would get compensated by the insurance company.

Whoa. I had no idea this was a thing.

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/11/29/university-il...
This is great in another way that isn't talked about much. As housing prices and commute times go up so does the price of everything that involves human labor. Bus drivers, plumbers, wait staff, etc all have to be paid enough to live in the city or suffer a long commute. So anyone struggling to make ends meet has it even harder.
It will also benefit lower income employees and consumers who will see good wage/price changes relative to taxes.

Another possibility is a cap on drug profits declining with drug age. This will allow enough market to avoid having to guess production costs in advance and set them in stone. The drawback is incentives to efficiency. Perhaps a mixture of price cap and profit cap would hit the sweet spot.