skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All programming environments do that for programmers. Not all do that for people who aren't software developers.

Case in point: Some of the finance people I work with build incredible spreadsheets. Formulas upon formulas that turn their special spreadsheet into what is really an application. They're programming, but that isn't how they think about it (I've asked). They're just Excel power users.

HyperCard aficionados were the same way. They were programming with the assumption that they just knew HyperCard really well.

You wouldn't be able to sit Douglas Adams (were he alive) in front of XCode and get the equivalent of his HyperCard stack out: https://archive.org/details/DouglasAdamsMegapode

The reason is that it requires a dramatically higher investment to create in XCode. "Just learn Swift" doesn't really cut it as an alternative.
Upwork founder goes all-remote in next startup
> ...government has no business injecting itself between me and the money I could make...

Prepare again for more nuance. My position wasn't about rights but about competency. And it's not niche for folks with libertarian leanings. Reagan famously said the nine most terrifying words are "I'm from the government and I'm here to help" when criticizing government overreach.

I think part of the problem is that your mental model of problem solving presumes individual actors can have a lasting impact in complex and bureaucratic contexts.

It's not the same getting a committee of folks to think through problems the same way and to maintain the same rational approach over time. Keep in mind that these folk are biased (maybe unconsciously) in different ways, particularly in favor of competant lobbyists and potential corporate employers.

So it might be simpler to presume simple mechanisms, even doing nothing, might be the sanest and most democratic approach. Often problems, like lack of progressive pricing, should just be solved directly, through minimum incomes for instance.
It's not the best example, I agree. But it is a somewhat common argument, and enough to make some people re-examine their beliefs.
This shows height by country. I’m assuming the rest of the body is also proportional.

Canada and Philippines has a 10cm difference for males. That’s about 6%.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_average_human_height_w...
Returns need to be associated with value creation. As the world has become more wealthy simply having assets and lending them out stopped creating significant value, thus lowering returns.

My completely unsecured credit card only charges 10%, and that’s before inflation.
If this were true, they would be easier to get done. Borrowing money to finance is fine, but a lot of these projects have to borrow a vet long way in the future, and the longer the term of the loan, the more interest rates eat into the real return from the project.

Secondarily, many prospective borrowers of these projects are already in debt, and have cash flows which are not growing fast enough to borrow more.
:) I am going to check the logs. I think I should be able to see the problem.
I really hate the new cars. Yay more standing room but now everywhere you stand you are awkwardly in the way. So happy I’m moving out of the bay and won’t have to ride them more than once or twice a year anymore.
NPM's size is first and foremost dependent on the popularity of JavaScript.

All other "modern" (where "modern" is "last 20 years") package managers have zero curation.

Perl, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, Dart, JavaScript.

You say: "if they had curation, they would be better".

I say: "if they had curation, they would have lost to a competitor that doesn't have curation".

People care about having more packages much more than abstract fears of security or quality of those packages.
IMO the ironic thing is that people like Trump is only acting like they don’t believe in what scientists says or measures while they are perfectly aware of the situation because that’s how they get elected.

So they are there because there are so many people to support that ill-minded attitude.

This may sound like a bit thin foil hat conspiracy theory but I’ve had my fair share from people like Trump and their supporters.
I'm sure there's some joke I'm not getting, but just in case, it's in reference to this:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etaoin_shrdlu
VBX or VBA?
I Started an Online Store Selling Backcountry Skis
It was a private non-profit company:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-34519184

https://theicct.org/mission-history
Selective disobedience in service animals is different than what you’re describing. That’s when a dog chooses to ignore commands it knows are dangerous - not just when it feels like it.
Isn't this distorted by the amount of unreported overtime? Anecdotally many of my friends in Japan work overtime but don't report it, or report a smaller overtime amount.
It is the contention of Mr Ford of Hollywood that every science denier must be shaken out of modern politics, as one would shake moths and dust off of an old coat. What does he imagine he will have left? If you rid the pool of electable candidates of scientific illiterates you will be left holding the empty air.
Except we don't need banks to store money now. We can use math and computer networks aka cryptocurrency.

Personally I think what's missing is a way to holistically track real world resources and consumption and tie them to digital money that can then be regulated in a fine grained way.

I think that is what is needed to change economics from a society of witch doctors into a technical and practical profession.
it could be. i don't know why they use a gif instead. i usually keep HN at 125% zoom and the vote arrows look really terrible.
70% is the bottom of C grade range. (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_grading_in_the_Unit...) Honestly I think this can explain a large part of D-K. People just aren't calibrated to imagine getting a 25% let alone a 0% even in something they are truly terrible at.
But the thing is that everyone knows it can be done cheaper and faster, it’s not a surprise to anyone.

But mentioning that such action exists in an article about craftsmanship comes out as discrediting their work. No matter how one says it.
People can inhibit their negative behavior when they are trying to get people to like them and gain social status. If they feel empowered by having some status or a promotion, they may begin to "punch down".
The regulatory world is also a world of calculated risks.

In any case. The result of the calculation will always be:

"crashing planes = not good for our company"
Ask HN: Do you have these pain points when consuming/building APIs?
Hey everyone,

I've experienced some pain as both an API consumer and provider. There are lots of consequential pains, these are the "main" ones IMO. I'm curious if anybody else resonates with these problems:

1. As a consumer and provider: Having to look at/manage different services for API docs, status, and change-logs.

2. As a consumer: Being able to subscribe to API statuses but typically not API docs (e.g. email me for a major API change).

3. As a provider: API documentation generation tools being heavy (cloning repos, running scripts, self-hosting, etc rather than having a nice hosted web UI) and inaccessible to non-engineers.
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/c...

cd without an argument will change directory to $HOME if $HOME is set and the value is non-empty as defined in the standard linked above. That’s not to say that all Unix-like systems do or even try to implement everything of that standard, but it’s a good indicator pointing to that a lot or most of them probably do.

As for cd ~, tilde expansion is done by the shell, not by cd. Same goes with any other command that you type ~ as the leading part of a path and provide as argument. (Also, in bash, among others, cd is a builtin command.) The shell will substitute the ~ for the path of your home dir when ~ is alone or followed by a slash and anything else. (And you probably know also that ~example would refer to the home dir of a user named “example”.)

I think you will sooner run into a system with a shell that doesn’t do tilde expansion, than you will run into a Unix system where plain cd without an argument doesn’t bring you to your home dir.
Or you’ll create space for younger, more honest, science-driven generation?
But the 32bit version of PyPy has supported Raspbian since 2.1 [0], so PyPy itself has been around for the Pi for quite a while - since 2013. [1]

[0] https://pypy.readthedocs.io/en/latest/release-2.1.0.html

[1] https://morepypy.blogspot.com/2013/08/pypy-21-considered-arm...
RISC Is Fundamentally Unscalable
I don't think we can change the fact that people generally listen to what actors (and other charismatic people) have to say.

This is nothing new. For a local example, San Francisco's John Reber, and the plan he pushed to turn the Bay into a freshwater lake (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i70wkxmumAw is a good video to watch). For a state (California) example, there's Arnold Schwarzenegger. For a national (US-level) example, there's Ronald Reagan.

For what it's worth, Harrison Ford seems to be a stand-up guy. For example, his reaction when he accidentally landed his private plane on an airport taxiway: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzy9jCFk0Iw

So, rather than saying "Stop listening to <insert charismatic group here>", it's better to engage with and educate them.
I have no interest in being remembered.

I have no interest in being famous.

Sometimes I create things; If people enjoy what I make I'm glad to have slightly improved their life. If not then I hope my existing didn't make it much worse.

I imagine that soon after I am dead, no one will remember my name. This brings me peace.
I only have experience with one FAANG (Amazon), but I think your numbers are misleading. There are different ranks of software engineers, and 250K is somewhere in the middle of the salary range for the second rank (SDE II). SDE Is are making six digits, but the first digit is almost certainly a 1.
Downward Mobility (1982)
npm should absolutely enforce 2FA imho.
Where's that money going though? It can only drive inflation if it's actually increasing demand, and I don't think that's happening. I think there's a fallacy of aggregation required to call it a mystery, if we disaggregate even slightly I think that argument falls apart.

eg, my anecdotal view is that:

1. the rich just put extra money into investment

2. the upper middle-class are just putting any extra money into paying down their debts: housing and student loans.

3. the lower-middle and lower classes are increasingly precarious; and they're not actually seeing any extra money.

4. big business are just doing stock-buybacks, and any profits are just going back into 1

5. small business are struggling because of 2 and 3

What is there in all that to drive inflation?

(edit to fix list)
I didn't reply to a point that was at all limited to regulated forestry in British Columbia.

The google search was relevant to illustrate that concerned organisations have been campaigning against clearfelling for decades.

Tasmanian rain forest is still be destroyed in the same manner today.

https://www.wilderness.org.au/news-events/end-rainforest-log...
It's a special case of a more general trend: the complete abandonment of what were once called RAD (rapid application development) tools.

Microsoft also killed WYSIWYG Visual Basic (pre-dotnet), quite possibly the most productive GUI builder ever made. Not quite as clean as hypercard, but another example of that bygone era when the user was the customer and not the product.

The only remaining representative of that era is the spreadsheet, and it seems pretty solidly locked in. Still I do see a push to replace spreadsheets with opaque SaaS tools that do specific things.
OK, that's very reasonable. I think you make some good points that constructors can be problematic. Maybe they need to be reinvented or something.

Just ditching them entirely as Rust does seems like an honest attempt at moving things forward, though I don't really see it as the long term solution because neither approach is all that great when you consider all the weaknesses that have been pointed out with both.
I'm generally friendly with people at work but I've noticed that there is a strange inverse in kindness to people's response to my kindness. When I'm more terse, they respond kinder. When I'm kind, they tend to be more terse.

For example, if they ask a question and I give a longer, more friendly response like, "No, I don't know the answer to that question. That's not really my department." They may just respond with, "Ok." But if I respond with something more terse like, "Don't know," they will respond with, "Ok, no problem. I'll figure it out."
What my first Silver Medal taught me about Text Classification and Kaggle in ge
What is up with the website? I felt like a <blink> tag was just a JS scroll away. Can we also drop the gosh-damned animations for text articles and just make it load quickly? What a mess. Some designer out there actually thinks they are clever when instead I didn’t even read the first paragraph.
When Hypercard was new, you could use it to create user interfaces that looked and felt exactly like all the other Macintosh applications of the era- within a reasonable margin, anyway.

Basic expectations are now higher. UIs are more visually complex and subtle. You can't just freehand them with a rectangle tool and a few canned textures. UIs are expected to reflow to devices with different screen sizes and dot pitches. Users expect their programs to give them up-to-the-minute information from the internet, with slick animation and nuanced typography. With flexibility comes inescapable complexity.

Could you make a tool as easy to use as Hypercard, and let modern users create useful applications for themselves? Sure, but the results wouldn't be nearly as nice as the applications built with conventional tools that live alongside them. I have a tremendous fondness for Hypercard, but I don't think you could ever make something today which was empowering and full-featured like Hypercard was for its day.
IMO, submarine PR should always be called out. I often times read something, and don't realize its a submarine.

That is the exact thing I like to use HN/reddit for.
Every time Trump tweets, this machine dispenses an ibuprofen pill
I'm not sure what problem this is solving, and the info on the website is sparse to say the least. Anyone care to explain?
You have not proved step 1 or step 2. In fact I'm quite sure your step two is false, and your step one would be quite hard to prove.
I guess it would all depend on the rules or how the contract is written. Certainly taking care to have the right incentives in place is a good idea, though I'm not sure it's always practiced.
You were taught wrong things. Most cultures value things outside of work much more and are therefore able to enjoy then more. Not to mention that discipline and hard work most often don't lead to success. There are many disciplined, hard workers working two or three minimum wage jobs. Hardly what anyone would call success, barely scraping by an existence let alone a life. People should question their culture and propaganda a lot more. Most of it is bullshit.
The point is that "space" is probably not the 7th most frequent character in English text.
There's a video of the dog with Neil Degrasse where she's fetching objects he asks her.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omaHv5sxiFI
It undermines his judgement. He makes sweeping, subjective arguments, which isn't inherently a bad thing but it means those arguments are more than just cold facts. The amount of heated emotion he apparently has around this subject means that his ability to draw conclusions from "soft" information is compromised.
That is freaking interesting, 115kbps may seem low compared to usual broadband connections, but it's a lot in the embedded world. Also it would be more than enough to get very high quality voice communications. Codec2 which already does wonders with a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of that rate comes to mind. How long before someone puts LoRa encrypted walkie talkies on the market?
You seperate out the variables and study people who can exercise, but don’t?
How does defining God a certain way lead to the idea that God must exist? That doesn't work for any other definitions. A lot is being packed into the words "greatest" and "better".

Premise 1: I define "Foo" to refer to the "blorgest" possible thing: a real situation where I'm the richest person alive.

Premise 2: A real "Foo" would be even "blorger" than a hypothetical "Foo".

We can imagine a hypothetical Foo, but a real Foo is blorger than an imaginary Foo, so if you accept the existence of hypothetical Foos, you also accept the even blorger real Foo. QED I'm the richest person alive.

The ability to conceive of something more extreme in some quality than what exists in reality can't obligate reality to change at all.
All sorts of non-techies were able to do that with Hypercard. I remember a shop that had some sort of stock control system the owner had built himself.

Things like PHP, VB and to some extent Excel had some success, but only by forcing the non-technical to become technical. In actuality they're just regular programming with a slightly less steep learning curve. Only Excel escapes this somewhat.

Most IDEs, and XCode have no pretence at catering to user-friendliness or the non-technical. Apart from anything else you have to search for, find, and install XCode from the app store - I know it's not hard, but that's not the point. The learning version of PyCharm for instance just integrates some tutorials. You still have to become a techie to succeed.

There's a distinct hole in the experience in not having Hypercard, or even the simple BASIC of 8 bits ready to go, with examples. It both reflects and reinforces the position as consumption device, and has distanced creation.
There is an implicit belief by many people that you're a failure if you're not trying to get super rich in life.
My first real software dev job was with Visual Basic 3.0, then Delphi 1.0. This World Wide Web thing was about to happen, but hadn't quite yet. Compuserve was where the cool kids hung out, and I ran a WildCat BBS with a buddy out of his basement.

RAD was rad, for a while.
For completeness, the above English translation preserving the word order and line breaks of the original, using the following conventions:

1. [†] indicates that a word present in the Greek has been moved in the English.

2. word[†] indicates the word moved from the space marked [†].

3. [word] indicates a word not present in the Greek, but necessary in the English.

Cyclops, if any [1] mortal man
[2] should ask you[1] about the shameful blinding of [your] eye[2],
declare Odysseus the city-sacker to have blinded [you],
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That’s a really cool idea! I’ve been wondering how to participate on Amazon ecosystem without having to engage in Adversarial Interoperability - and this is one neat way. Congrats on figuring it out!
I agree, and contrary to the two other responses, I can't separate the toxic emotion stuff from the supposed neutral argument underneath it. Why? Well, I have only vague memories of Hypercard (played with it as a kid), so when you read the arguments about it from someone who clearly knows a lot more, you're expected to take it on authority.

However, if that person is ranting and raving and calling people who disagree with him "autistic", it's impossible not to suspect that the guy has the 'thumb on the scale' even in the portion of the discussion that's apparently neutral. As someone pointed out in his comment section, he was just plain making stuff up about Jobs killing Hypercard (despite his attempts to back-and-fill on the issue).
I always think of this article when these things come up:

https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...
Patents are worthless unless you can execute on the business and can afford to police and prosecute said patents. Then someone comes around with an even better solution which they patent. They think patents (ideas) are worth money because they don't know better yet.

Don't undervalue your role in all this. I would leave of I were you, not worth the troubles. You will most definitely be happier working for someone else and also enjoy getting paid.
You can't just freehand them with a rectangle tool and a few canned textures.

I mean, why not? If I'm a small business, and I need a custom (in-house) app, AND I could do it myself with little training, I'd rather do that then not have the business. (Again) how many businesses run on Excel Spreadsheets? Not every business can hire a programming firm to make a boutique app that's used by 100 people.

But I'm also one of those, "Why did FileMaker Pro die?" kinda person. And I still write Perl. I'm a weirdo, but I'm a pragmatic weirdo that likes to get stuff done.
Why would anyone who owns a namespace be willing to leave a package that's moving to another maintainer within their own namespace? A namespace tends to come with a reputation, and if you give an outsider access to the namespace, the reputation can change without the owner's consent. No, I don't think I'd be allowing @delinka/ExcellentPackage to be maintained by someone else. They can fork it to @fredralphbob/ExcellentPackage and I'll turn off @delinka/ExcellentPackage when I'm done maintaining it. Yep, it'll break dependent installs, but that's the point: get dependents to move to the proper version. I think of a namespace like a domain. If I host a project at project.delinka.engineer, I'm definitely not transferring access to the subdomain to a new maintainer.

Yep, we still have people who would eschew best practice and go against my method above, but that happens everywhere. Just because a solution isn't perfect doesn't mean it's not an improvement.
There is no meaning in atheism. The simple answer is to become religious.
Setting Up Your Own Little Server at Your Home
Same I can’t find any details on the mechanical mechanism they remove the weeds with. That seems like as much if not bigger challenge than identifying the weeds.
15 years is the upper threshold for border collies. RIP.
HTML/Javascript get pretty close. Apples to Studebakers comparison, not withstanding.
The Republic of Molossia
I spent a lot of time as a 7 year old playing around with Hypercard. Gave me a lot of good early exposure to building interfaces.
You're right, I'm talking about the general concept of the dog making the decision to follow or not. For example, my dog will ignore me completely if he knows it's going to lead to a bath.

He clearly has determined what the outcome will be and decided not to do it, which is really interesting to watch, and very surprising the first time it happened.
Well, there is the story about how he appeared and talked to some of them during the course of a lengthy walk and they didn't recognise him until dinner time... ;)
>management says he or she is an ahole but do the most work and everything they say os true

Now the question is whether management has a clear picture of what is happening on the floor. Do they know who the top performers are or is management just taking whining and anti social behaviour as a false marker of diligence and competence. In my experience it is more often the later. A-holes tend to be better at sucking up and managing up rather than actually being good at the task.
Where are the examples? I skimmed the entire article and only found the veins example. What language in particular is the author even referring to? My own set of examples are the hand clapping emoji in between every word, “Im here for it” when you like something, the ubiquitous hold my beer meme in so many YT comments, “stanning”, and of course how could you forget using “toxic” or “cancer” for anything you vehemently disagree with.