skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I see the advantages and really enjoy this type of work (and the ones like Nix and OS-as-an-image efforts), I don't think it would be a one-true-solution in a one-size-fits-all construction.

Sometimes you want a single filesystem, sometimes you want multiple filesystems, sometimes you want an image copied into RAM and nothing more, sometimes you don't have the resources to even load something like FUSE.

I believe that if we are to make anything better we have to be able to either switch or combine the many ways one can make a modular or composable system.

We can already swap bootloaders, kernels, desktop environments, transplant storage from one system to another and continue working. It should be just a feasible to switch filesystem/package models.
I filtered Walmart.com by in store availability near my zipcode. What a new parent would find on the shelves if they walked into a local store earlier today and probably what they would find on the shelves at 2am tomorrow after deciding a baby monitor solves their problems. The fact that $100 is a normal price for a baby monitor even at Walmart suggests market inefficiencies. The plausibility of the arbitrage described in your comment is premised on market inefficiencies.

Please keep in mind that I described a feasible answer to "what problem does it solve?" That doesn't mean the OP's business is viable or likely to experience hockey stick growth. It's just that after a little reflection, I realized the basis for my initial dismissal was mostly "a $100 baby monitor isn't a big deal for most people I know well." They tend to have bank accounts and Visa cards and internet access.

They tend to be better off than many people I see in Walmart.
Frankly, this is what I don't understand in this whole charade. IWG has a decent 2.5 billion yearly revenue and wringes a paltry 0.1B net income out of it. I mean, good for you, employing near 10 000 people and still being profitable but still, a 4% profit margin. That's razor thin and it's not immediately visible what WE is going to do so much better -- or better at all.
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In no sense promoting climate denialism this part of the world has been dealing with sea level rise and storm surges for a long time. London too: the south east is sinking under both geology and water table shifts apart from sea level rise, and geotechnical engineering for the London barrage is not new. Nor in Venice.

What I might take from this is a sense of optimism about point problems, places which can build dykes and sea walls and gates will make adjustments for the next period but some places like parts of the US eastern seaboard are intractable at a price the US economy wants to pay, or Bangladesh which has hundreds of millions of people at risk in a delta floodplain.
Hi, sorry about the confusion, I think we emailed you back. At the moment we're only doing one-time orders, you'll have to re-order each week.
Talktalk's boxes have the WPA passcode on a removable plastic fob attached to the back of the box.

Great until, like our neighbours, you place the box in your windowsil facing into the room.
So the problem is that a normal road costs on the order of $3 million per mile, and a solar road costs... 10 times as much. And it doesn't last as long.

It just does not make sense.
> I remember when this was switched on. Larry Wall tried it out on the entire spectest suite, and nothing broke (or at most one random thing broke), because basically people already put whitespace around their infix operators.

Larry Wall seems hilariously easy-going for a language BDFL!
How big is your laboratory? Is it a space you rent out, or is it all the known Universe and all of its history?

We’ve been learning things by trial and error a lot longer than we’ve been practicing the Scientific Method. You don’t always get the data you want. You don’t always get someone to summarize the data in a nicely formatted paper published in a respected journal. You get what you get and if not quite like it, make do.

If this sort of thing, Solar Roads, doesn’t interest you, that is fine too. Maybe you even have credible reasons to be Anti-Solar Roads. It’s certainly shaky enough ground to start on, but I wouldn’t discredit this road in France as a useful experiment simply because there wasn’t a paper at the end. Thunderstorms and fallen leaves! Maybe they should have known, but they didn’t, and because they didn’t consider that, it’s exciting because now how can we go about addressing the problem if we wish to try this again? Maybe someone can build a road and let it get hit by Thunderstorms just to analyze the rate of fire, so to speak. Maybe someone can build one somewhere else to figure out how it differs from one location to another. Maybe we build a third, and start figuring if a solar road is more likely to attract strikes from a storm than other types of roads? Can we mitigate this with some kind of lightning rod? How many do we need and how spaced apart should they be? Can we capture the energy from the lightning or are they too infrequent even in the vicinity of the solar roads to be worth the bother?

A lot of those questions might already be answered or answerable without having to build all of those roads to figure it out, but at the very least, a little roadway in France can spark a lot of questions that are worth answering for anyone trying this anywhere else.
On the one hand I understand how it might be harder to read -char cmdline flags. But it does save keystrokes. Nobody does

for (int iterator; iterator++; iterator < some_val)

That would be quite silly.
wow the Google Play fee is only $25 one time ever? That's nuts!
Architects shouldn't be dictating your class structure or code choices. That's a code concern and not of the system. If the system has fundamental issues around performance, scalability, extension, or security, then it's probably on the architect.

This attitude seems to be the default "holier than though" attitude about architects. I think it's more likely that you would encounter pragmatism when the company culture is healthy. Unhealthy company or engineering team and there's no way to tell whether it would be good or bad
Just got my first report from Project Wren! Loved it so much I copied and pasted it here so I can share it:

https://www.notion.so/chrislu/Project-Wren-August-17th-Updat...
Then there's the fact that requirements do change, and do change often, and of course there are bugs and emergent design issues.
people often think that what they're used to is beautiful. If you lived somewhere your whole life and all of a sudden it changed drastically, it's pretty easy to see how the old way could be thought of as beauty.
> If Apple said their iPhone can fly you to the moon, and you bought it on that basis, you were defrauded.

Or possibly, if you sued Apple for that, your suit would be dismissed because Apple's statement was "mere puffery": an advertising claim so outlandish that no reasonable person would be expected to take it seriously.

A famous example is Leonard v. Pepsico, Inc., where a Pepsi TV commercial showed some of the things you could get by redeeming Pepsi Points that you earned with your purchases. It begins with:

T-SHIRT
75 PEPSI POINTS

and ends with a high school student vertically landing a Harrier fighter jet in the school yard, opening the cockpit with no helmet on but a Pepsi in hand, and laughing "Sure beats the bus!"

HARRIER FIGHTER
7,000,000 PEPSI POINTS

You could also buy extra Pepsi Points for ten cents each if you didn't have enough for the prize you wanted.

John Leonard wanted that Harrier, so he sent PepsiCo a certified check for $700,000, minus $1.50 for the 15 Pepsi Points he already had, plus $10 shipping and handling.

When PepsiCo returned the check instead of sending his jet, he sued. Here's the commercial and the rest of the story:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdackF2H7Qc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_v._Pepsico,_Inc.

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

(I'm not commenting on WeWork, only on the lunar iPhone example.)
Hinduism is a religion in modern times, defining it as culture of India is one of the stated aims of Hindu Nationalist movement. Culture is a pluralistic adventure, and winds across religious divide. Defining it as Indian culture means subjugating other religions, which is a Hindutva endeavour. In Punjab, after Aryan migration Punjabis didn’t have any stated religion until Islam and Sikh religion came along, co-opting the no religion stance before as Hinduism is a grave stance to take.
Flywheel effect is a jeff bezos/jim collins (good to great) reference: https://medium.com/swlh/the-amazing-flywheel-effect-80a0a21a...
As I grew up working with both Linux and a bunch of legacy UNIX systems as well (Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, Tru64), over the years I've ended up using only a subset of vi commands that work with both SVR3/SVR4 style systems (tradional vi) and Linux (vim). A similar thing happened with my shell scripting style; I'm prone to writing shell scripts that exclude bash-isms and conform more to standard Bourne shell syntax, since I know that they will work pretty much anywhere.

Its a trade-off; I'm less efficient with vim than I could be, since it has so many more powerful features over standard vi. The flip side is that I can go back to those older systems and feel comfortable within a couple of minutes, without getting frustrated at the installed vi editor missing the vim features that I otherwise would have come to depend upon. I traded off using powerful features that could speed coding (if I would just memorize them all), for the flexibility to be able to jump between (similar, but different) systems much more easily.

Of course, those systems are not as in as much common use anymore due to the end of the UNIX wars, so the value of that style of working is now resulting in diminishing returns.

I'd like to be able to change, but like many older programmers, we often like to stick to what we know, as long
as we can get the job done quickly and with minimum fuss.
Exactly. All code I write must pass -Wall -Werror -Wextra and there's always a debugging phase once you have written the code since there are syntax errors and whatnot, a lot.
Slightly off-topic, but do you happen to know what Google uses to draw those flow charts? I've seen that format all over but I never figured what they use to draw them.
Why does the language that it's written in matter? For most users, it's a compiled binary sitting on your system.

EDIT: Parent comment edited his post, leaving out his personal preference of language.
Hyphens and question marks in identifiers is actually the biggest feature I wish other languages would steal from Lisp. It does help that lisp doesn’t suffer from the “is it an infix operator?” parsing problem, which exists for both programmatic and meat-based compilers.
Exactly. We have plenty of room for solar panels.
You'll get downvoted but it's true. Anyone who thinks a city is better off without the visual pollution of billboards and LED signs has obviously never been to downtown Sao Paulo.
It can, check the -n and -P arguments.
Business signs are still allowed. The only thing the law does to them is stipulate how big they can be.

For storefronts less than 10m, there can be a single sign of at most 1.5m².

For storefronts from 10m to 100m, there can be a single sign of up to 4m².

For storefronts above 100m, there can be two signs, each up to 10m², placed at least 40m apart.
-P sets parallelism, -n number of arguments for each execution. Those are my main weapons. (-i is usually also necessary, and can allow for some pretty creative situations)
The biggest problem with parallel is not the implementation but the command line options specification. The shell has no generic way of defining multiple streams feeding multiple placeholders, so parallel ends up using its own syntax which has to be different in order not to interfere with the base shell syntax. If the same functionality was integrated directly into the shell, it could be less complicated and more generic.
Not really. And they are asking for the terms of an agreement made in 1997 to actually be honored. It's not like they are coming out of nowhere with original demands here. The demands boil down to something akin to: stop trying to fuck us over on the promises you made to us and the world!
Certainly distri isn’t suitable for all environments, but I think the general concept can be very resource-efficient.

A few thoughts inline:

> Sometimes you want a single filesystem, sometimes you want multiple filesystems

distri presents packages in a single file system (mounted at /ro). The fact that there are many images underneath remains an implementation detail to the user.

> sometimes you don't have the resources to even load something like FUSE.

I suppose in those environments you just can’t have package management, then, given how light-weight FUSE is.

> We can already swap bootloaders, kernels, desktop environments, transplant storage from one system to another and continue working. It should be just a feasible to switch filesystem/package models.

Supporting more than one packaging model seems like an enormous task to me. I think distributions are better off not blowing up their test matrix like that :)
I am a little fuzzy on the difference between saag and palak. I frequently order something with one or the other in the name at a restaurant, and it's generally ok, but some places I like it much better than others. Some recipes seem like they must have more cream or butter, and some are darker and more oily and have more spinach. I prefer the latter, but I'm not sure what ingredients this is reflective of or if it has to do with saag vs. palak.
If solar panel roads cause more waste and carbon emissions, while supplying less actual power, I certainly hope we give up on them. The ecological calculation requires science and engineering, not vague feelings about what's probably good.
Advertising saves lives? Of all the bad things happening in your culture, you attribute it to lack of bill boards?
Individual unique IDs and /changes lists all the IDs that might have changed. One good thing about IMAP is that there's a fair bit of data which is immutable, and JMAP retains that - emails with the same ID must have the same content, so there's a limited amount of metadata that you need to resync.

I wrote something about how you fix UID clashes in a split brain while staying within the IMAP data model many years ago...

https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/pipermail/cyrus-devel/2010-July...
A portfolio of four stocks is as good as a single random stock. Diversify more, there's a reason why the S&P500 is 500.
xargs can do both and it rocks. https://www.google.com/search?q=xargs+parallel
That's the city's responsibility.
Ok, whichever language.
Hmm...

Can we just applaud that people are trying something new?

Or are we going to shoot it down because of pessimism?

If you know so well what works, then do your best and make it happen or write a guide on how to do experiments that almost always lead to success.

They didn’t fail fast, but they failed with relatively little costs. What is 5 million to the national GDP of France?

It seems to me they were trying something new, were brave and paid the price. In most cases you get nothing back.
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If there's one thing you probably shouldn't lecture France about, it's nuclear electricity production and its environmental impact : https://www.electricitymap.org
I've tried it now and got 22k, which seems not so bad for a foreigner ("Top 6.53% Your vocabulary is at the level of professional white-collars in the US!"), but I feel like I cheated: most of the more fancy English words are just misspelled Latin, and having even a modest Latin vocabulary (I'd don't think I know more than 4k Latin words) makes their meanings pretty obvious.
Yep, I came here to update my comment. Thanks for replying!
maybe that was an easily avoidable problem to plan for, but i would humbly suggest that maybe a solution would be to install public lighting instead of return the advertisements in order to get proper lighting?

just to be clear, i’m not arguing for or against advertising in the open, just replying to the first point
100 years? Won't most of the lenders would already die by that moment?
This is a non result. Of course picking singular stocks yourself with little understanding of the financial market or the companies in question is a terrible idea. The real question is: Does this approach perform better than a maximally diversified index fund?
this is how it works in finance - but doesn't carry over into tech for some reason
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I'm surprised by all the naysayers popping up in this comment thread. Back when I still lived in São Paulo I remember that the Cidade Limpa law was extremely, almost universally popular.
Colorful paint is on display in the photos.
Like placing the panels above roads, for example. It helps to get optimal inclination of panels too, and reduce stress levels, and eliminates losses from cars' shadows, and simplifies maintenance, and reduces pavement costs.

Some ideas are just plain stupid.
Most roads are in rural areas with plenty of room next to them. The inventors were very aware of this, being from Sandpoint, Idaho.
Put another way, if it tasted absolutely terrible then it should never have grown to it’s current size.
I’m surprised HN is so hostile toward IT architecture. I work in the public sector in Denmark, and enterprise architecture is vital for us. We’re 98 municipalities that each operate around 300 different IT systems. These need to interact with each other, as well as major IT systems on the regional and state level (citizen base data, healthcare, taxes and so on). They’re build/maintained by 50 major vendors and a few thousand small ones. Sometimes a system changes hands through public procurement. The longest running systems are from the 70ies, and have several layers of modern APIs build on top of each other.

Imagine doing all that by letting thousands of random developers run completely free. I mean, I don’t have to imagine because we didn’t actually involve architects early enough, and it’s cost us billions to correct that mistake.
What? Why? Seriously getting fed up with the Rust lovers in Hacker News. It makes me hate Rust even though I actually really like it as a modern replacement for C++. Memory safety is only one aspect of proving program correctness. It's also less of an issue for garbage collected languages, and tracing GCs are fairly performant.

You don't see Coq users crapping on other languages for not proving their programs correct according to a formally defined specification.
I tend to have dozens of tabs open at the same time. However, only a few of them usually have video elements and Chrome could probably discard the media cache for all of them - except for the currently active one.

My assumption here is that the media cache is mainly used for uninterrupted playback in case my network is briefly unavailable (e.g. when on a mobile network).
I'm in this situation now and it's not bad. It's really important for everyone to have a nothing-personal policy about being like "Hey, this is my area and not yours, let me take over." (And it goes both ways).

It does lead to a lot of "Black Triangle" [0] situations though. Where you spend a long time with no "real" actionable results to show management, and then after an annoyingly long amount of time present what looks like an insignificant joke to a non-programmer.

[0] https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745
Any chance for chicken tikka masala as a future menu option?
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indeed, we've all read that history. And we all know how much JavasSript has to do with "JavaScript Object Notation", too right? Basically everything?
That's what gets me about it. They don't seem to be lying. I've always thought WeWork was more some kind of odd way for VCs to get exposure to Real Estate and have it look like a tech investment.
Elon Musk wants to nuke mars
It is already being done by HFTs. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4205379-robinhood-making-mi...

The reason why this doesn't work for the average person is because they don't have the infrastructure for it or they don't trade enough to get the commissions down to make it profitable. Shorting comes with additional fees.
Yeah, that was my point. Saying it has to be a compiler is arbitrary.
That was my thought, Sagg Panner is normally a side dish
Pretty accurate. And if you ever get asked "why do we have to do that useless thing you said?" and you reply using expressions like "futureproofing" or "anticipation", eyes might get rolled at you and you might even get management to disagree for the sake of tight deadlines or yagni.
By now that paint has probably peeled off and is covered with ugly graffiti.

This is how it actually looks like: https://img.jovempan.uol.com.br/uploads/2017/04/2021588876-p...
Local credit union for checking, mostly because I’ve had it forever. I am a big discover bank fan, as they’re keep their high yield savings rates in the top 5 consistently. Mobile check deposits are super easy too. I recently made the switch to Wealthfront savings accounts due to their savings rate but keep all my accounts open.

I pay for everything with a rewards credit card, and use the ATM (or cash in general) maybe once or twice a year so ATM fees aren’t a concern for me.
In the world of web development, and devops etc. this is probably very true.

However there are a lots of non-web orientated systems out there; banks, emergency services as an example. I fall into the latter, and have also worked in the former. In those kind of environments we often have an architect (who is indeed quite a talented and hands on coder), but the hairy implementation details of the architect's design tend to be worked out either by dedicated designers, or some other form of implementer (systems administrators/programmers).
I have no idea, sorry! Could it be OmniGraffle?
Love GloFX, bringing several of their products to Burning Man. They have been good construction and held up well over the years.

If anyone from GloFX read this, please make glasses that work for those of us who do not have pronounced nose bridges. The kaleidoscope glasses in particular tend to slide off :(
I doubt that average greenlander will ever see any of this wealth. So they better take Trump's or Chinese money.
Except that JSON doesn't have anything like processing directives or even comments.
lets not start a language war here
Saag is the generic term for a curry of leafy vegetables (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saag), and Palak means spinach. Saag Paneer and Palak Paneer are often used interchangeably in the US.

The quality of these dishes does vary widely from establishment to establishment, despite sharing the same basic construction.

If you want a more oil-based Saag, take a look at our Saag tofu, which is dairy-free.
-XX is for implementation specific VM flags an generally uses + or -

-D is for system property and uses key value

so it would either be

-XX:+VerboseRuntime

or

-Djdk.runtime.verbose=true
Animal movies promote awareness, not harm, say researchers
Not how it works. It's not enough to try something, you have to share the knowledge with the community, otherwise there will be no progress until someone else willing to share the knowledge tries the same thing again. So, it's as good as didn't happen if there is no paper and no data (doesn't have to be a peer reviewed paper or anything like that).
The Rust community is the main reason why I don't use Rust.
Exactly. The implementation is fine, it’s the interface that isn’t great.
I have listened to it many many years ago. It's filled with propaganda and misinformation to incite disorder/riot and distrust of the government.

Another fun fact:

The intent of the legislation in 1948 was to protect the American public from propaganda actions by their own government and to have no competition with private American companies.

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