skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Or just check everything in. It's a bit taboo when you have proper dependency management to also check in the dependency binaries but I've found this is the only sure fire way to get rock solid turn key builds.
I've been coding for 30 years and I've always considered programming just a means to an end. It's the tool you use to create that vision you have.

I was so happy to see that Rasmus feels exactly the same way. In the video he states that PHP alpha was created as a way to make his life easier to build dynamic websites rather than coding in C CGI.

I started out coding C in CGI and then moved to PERL. When I saw the PHP mail() function I was hooked. It enabled me to send an email with one line of code vs the 30+ it took in C or PERL.

Rasmus states himself, that he expected someone else to create a better competitor to PHP, and in his mind he was only going to use it for another 6 months until that new awesome project was released.

I felt exactly the same way!

But they kept updating PHP just as I was starting to think about new tools. Then Laravel came along and they also improved core performance of PHP.

So, now, PHP and Laravel are an absolutely beautiful (and comfortable) tool to work with and the performance is awesome.

Additionally, Laravel and PHP updates keep flowing freely and I can see no end in site of innovation from the amazing people behind these projects.
At my last job billions of dollars of revenue flowed through an ERP that had a problem: onboarding a reseller in it was a tedious, error prone process that if done improperly would cause the same system to grind to a screeching halt. Apparently a software company realized this and built a series of Excel sheets and macros that handled everything: a customizable interface if you wanted, bulk import, full validation and export - all in Excel.

It was probably the most loved part of the Oracle ERP implementation because it worked for everyone.

Excel files on a network drive will always be the lingua franca of business.
In some cases, AWS RDS snapshots work that way too.
Original source:

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2019/09/the-rise-...
Probably because you can easily get around any small scale carbon taxes by purchasing or operating key parts of your business that pollute heavily in another area and just ship it in. Carbon taxes are useless unless they apply equally to nearly everybody and give a level playing field.
Ah ok, I did not read carefully enough then, I got the impression, that you were implying, that powerful music, needs to be complex. But it seems, we agree, complex music can also be very powerful ..
The cumulative attendance of Burning Man since 1986 is around 1 million people, so that's about the maximum number of people that could have experienced it, if nobody went more than once - but of course, people have, so the real number of unique attendees is lower.

...that means more than 99.7% of the US, and 99.99% of the world has never gone and it is thoroughly alien to them. So a bemused anthropologist seems like the appropriate POV for a general audience.
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. These generic discussions are all the same and we're trying for something more interesting here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The amount of silicon in a microchip is tiny.
By contrast, single crystal metal alloys for modern turbo fans comprise a significant portion of their cost.
(I worked on the HealthCare.gov rescue team.)

You have it right. We didn't explicitly follow the agile manifesto (or any other manifesto), but we did focus on shipping working software incrementally.

There are successor organizations, like Nava and US Digital Service, that have encoded principals and playbooks:
https://playbook.cio.gov/
Not sure about hobbyists, and the price point.

Lasers are cheap, tracking for them is less so. To accurately read these grooves with sufficient resolution, you need 2 lasers (LPs are stereo), both looking at 45 degree inclination from different angles, and focused at the same point. That kind of accurate spatial + temporal sync ain’t trivial to accomplish. CDs/DVDs are much easier to implement. They don’t need similar resolution because digital, and they light their laser along the normal, only need to track 2 axes.

Even if you’ll manage to accurately focus both lasers, another problem is interference between left and right channel lasers.
so why do they care about many-worlds interpretation then?
Is that surprising? It would be a lot cheaper to make CAV players that CLV.
>It's easier to protect and backup digital audio samples than a fragile physical object.

A fragile physical object has more charm.
Oracle JDK downloads page now require an Oracle account
Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
> My startup recently closed a $20M computer vision deal with a Chinese customer related to person re-identification. Unethical? Probably to someone, yes.

So... helping the Chinese government surveil and repress its ethnic minorities?
Hey, as a fellow ADHD sufferer, I totally agree that fine-grained reminders and the "remind me again in X minutes" functionality is huge in a productivity app. I find that a reminders-based app needs to have a fairly specific level of forcefulness, or basically the ability to "nag" you. Too often, and it becomes noise. Too forceful, and I find myself hating the experience and it backfires.

That said, I'm actually getting a lot of mileage from a new one I'm trying "Due" (iOS/mac only. unfortunately). Really lightweight reminder system with a great snooze feature at its core. Recommend giving it a shot.

My current system is two-tiered. I have a traditional to-do manager (Omnifocus) for more abstract project tracking, and a lighter weight app (Due) for reminders. Not having it all in one system, or integrated between the two is kind of a plus for me in some ways. When I get a reminder, I don't have to "load" the full context (and emotional baggage) of the overall project/task in order to make a decision. It becomes more reflexive, with the easiest options being to just do it or pick another time for the reminder.
Oxymorons aren't based on etymology, but on meaning.

The casual and dictionary meaning of analogue today, in the context of vinyl and music technologies, is the opposite of digital (and technically that which "uses a continuous physical variable like voltage to represent data") not that which is simulating something else.

So "real analogue" just means "mechanism based on the actual use of a continuous physical variable like voltage to represent data" (as opposed to a digital version of such).
> Physical media is for when you want to really enjoy the music

You seem to have confused me with yourself.
Data classes are nice, but they are not a general substitution for Properties, which address the greater getter/setter boilerplate concern. That said, you can use project Lombok for that pretty straightforwardly. You can also use project Manifold[1] to add useful features many of which Scala lacks:

* Type-safe metaprogramming (like F# type providers)

* Structural Typing

* Extension methods

* String interpolation

* Templates

* Type-safe reflection

* [Un]Checked exceptions

[1]: https://github.com/manifold-systems/manifold
For a new grad, I recon you checkout the LLVM introduction and its pointers by Adrian Sampson for a primer and then look at the LLVM tutorials [0] about building a toy language. This will give you a feel about how 'modern' compiler development ties in with a programming language using the LLVM infrastructure.

If you are feeling for contributing to a real-world language, there are a few such as Go (very advanced), Rust, Swift, etc. For a beginner, my recommendation would be to checkout the Zig Programming Language [2] as a start and then look at the others.

If you can't choose, look at Awesome Compilers: [3]

This is the sort of question that I am very pleased to see on HN and we need more of.

[0] - https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/llvm.html

[1] - https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/

[2] - https://ziglang.org

[3] - https://github.com/aalhour/awesome-compilers
Sure, revenue != greatness.
But a small number of users who find a product should have a minimum viable set of high quality features to be useful can also be right.
Case in point : the iPhone. it's a ipod/a (crappy compared to a laptop) web browsing device/ a (big) phone (and a camera/a flashlight/a game console...) . And it was feature packed from day one. And more or less replaced the products it embodied (sometimes a bit worse but portable and "free" once you have it in your pocket)

Other case: a computer. It's so versatile and has so many uses and features its not even funny. Gaming, accounting, word processor, paint tablet. Each worse than a dedicated hardware at the start.
better than planned uncontrolled burns
I don't know how well they live up to it, but my understanding from advertising is that AirTable and SmartSheet describe themselves as doing this.
Honestly, I have mostly given up on recent science fiction so any recommendations are welcome.

Anyway, it feels like a cop out but The Martian by Andy Weir is worth the read. The most obvious issue is the opening storm would not have done much because the atmosphere is so thin, but it is generally ok on the science side.
> When you fly a drone, you still constitute a danger to other aircraft and the people in it, or people on the ground. Why should you be subject to fewer rules, just because you are not aboard the aircraft, and thus not at risk?

Because a drone is a lot smaller and thus constitutes a heavily reduced risk.

> Imagine remote controlled cars on the road. Should we allow some drunk kids without license on their computer at home to control cars on the road (and endanger everyone else), just because they are not in danger? Of course not.

So, to borrow your imagery here: A bicycle is a lot less risky to traffic and people than a car is and thus you are allow to drive it without a license and punishments for violations are in general lower than for cars.
Can't agree more. I was initially interested in academia and went pretty far down the graduate track but ultimately felt like the academic world just hangs professors out to dry when it comes to compensation (tenure is a poor substitute).
The method used to solve RH would almost certainly contribute substantially to our understanding of mathematics and give new directions to tackle other questions in mathematics. For example, the resolution of the Poincare Conjecture by Perelman involved making progress with the technique of "Ricci flow" which is still an active area of research both in itself and for tackling other problems. The Poincare Conjecture per se is often not involved in these Ricci flow questions even though the proof of the conjecture is used.
It sounds like you may not be familiar with Web Components as a group of web standards (HTML imports, shadow DOM, templates, and custom elements). The idea was to allow the creation of self-contained, abstracted UI components with their own HTML/JS/CSS that each exposed a carefully crafted public API but hide (and protect) their implementation from code on the rest of the page.

It was big news about 5 years ago but discussion has waned as browser vendors failed to agree on or implement varying parts of the group of standards.

Since then, polyfills and libraries have tried to fill in missing gaps, to varying degrees of success. Google’s Polymer was the most prominent.

The issue, for both browser APIs and libraries/polyfills, continues to be the lack of a mainstream or standard approach to implementing self-contained UI components.
People calculate probabilities with a sample size of zero, even.

For instance, people frequently talk about the probability a given voter will cast the deciding vote in an election.
How I decide between many programming languages
Love the Wunderlist sound! Check out this sound design study about it:

https://medium.com/@lexkon/sound-design-studies-wunderlist-3...
Government and Fortune 50 are similar in that they are big command economy type things that make decisions that don’t make any sense.

The only real differences are that leadership people generally won’t fuck you for personal financial gain, because everyone makes about the same at senior levels, and employees rarely get fired, just shuffled around.

If you’re a contractor and are smart, you stay friendly with everyone and always listen. Events that will get you purged are either procurement problems or bad political decisions with respect to the budget for whatever you do.

With employees, you need to do the dance of getting shit done while avoiding accountability. You need to get attention for performance without pisiing people off. It’s critical to find and attach yourself to a good leader.
Note that this is not a near-EOL thing. The Java JDK 12 download is also blocked without being logged into an account.

Ugh. Why oracle?
Militaries don't have magic, they just tend to have lots of money. Foreigners' deaths are profitable for capitalist sociopaths, and good for election prospects of political sociopaths.

Now, divert government money from death industries to battery research, and we'd be talking.
They were quite open about it: women were supposed to move out to make room for returning servicemen. Women were allowed to program because it was, ignorantly, considered a clerical task.
> 99.99% of the has never gone and it is thoroughly alien to them

Bit of a false dichotomy.

Surely there's a bunch of people who are familiar with Burning Man from photos and videos online but haven't attended personally.
Whence comes the desire to ridicule?
Ignoring the labor costs, the organic methods only use more energy if you completely ignore the chemical energy harvested from natural gas to produce artificial fertilizer. It is just taking a shortcut of using chemical energy directly as a reagent, rather than burning the fuel and using that energy to create the same reagents from electricity. But at the end of the day, you still pulled natural gas out of the ground and released it on the surface of the planet the same as burning it. Using an organic fertilizer however would just be recycling energy that was already on the earth's surface rather than letting it rot away uselessly.

All that said, our current practices and facilities cannot recycle or produce enough non-fossil fuel fertilizer to support or agricultural practices.

In order to produce fertilizer renewably in an artificial way, ie draw it from the air and water in a chemical facility, we need to increase our energy usage in making fertilizer 10x or more over. Which essentially means we need near the current entire world's worth of energy production produced again, renewably, for the sole production of fertilizer.
Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?
For example, "On The Shortness of Life" by Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65)
> the processor instruction set supported recursion

I think that's one of the most interesting parts. It would be interesting to see this implemented in a more general processor's instruction set (like x86). I wonder how much performance boost there would be in some algorithms if you could compile down to a set that included a recursive instruction?
As a non-musician, you don't really know what complexity sounds like and what is or isn't difficult to play. A guitarist can play a flurry of notes that looks ridiculously difficult to a lay person, but that a musician will immediately spot as a cheap trick; conversely, there are all sorts of incredibly subtle and difficult things that go completely un-noticed by 99% of the audience, but have a huge impact on the performance. You know what you like, but you don't have the training to know what's actually difficult.

I'd wager that you like a lot of very complex and difficult music without realising it. Bach was, in his day, a highly experimental composer who pushed the limits of music technology (e.g. The Well-Tempered Clavier) and is still regarded as one of the most sophisticated composers of all time. The Goldberg Variations involve some immensely difficult passages; the Chaccone from his Partitia in D Minor would have most violinists quaking in their boots.

Technical skill isn't a virtue in itself, but it's essential if your job is literally playing whatever is put in front of you, no questions asked.
On an automatic 'table, maybe. On a manual 'table I find the styli too easy to damage with it is mishandled or falls off the edge of a record.
Congressman: What's Good for Microsoft Is Good for America's Schoolchildren
Added a paragraph. Please Take Another Look. Although it may have been better with the unintended comedic element.
I personally couldn't get it to run, which was quite a disappointment!
Hilarious. Hobbyist projects for the win! In general it is helpful not to be completely ignorant of how the state-of-the art in your line of work is done and perhaps ask why it is done this way.

Its almost inconceivable to me how it is possible that a company, no matter how small, does all these things so utterly wrong that shit like this is possible.

Even as a child, when playing around with Delphi and Turbo Pascal, I made my backups dutifully onto an external drive. I did not use version control because I had no clue what that was (and, arguably anything is better than SVN), but at least I had backups of everything.
Yes, it includes the energy used in making fertilizer. It also includes all the fuel used on farms.

Here's a link for the numbers from 2014.

https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2017/januaryfebruary/en...

In that year, ag used 1.74% of US energy consumption. 29% of that was for fertilizer. As I said, the absolute amount of energy used in farming is really rather small, even for "energy intensive" agriculture. That's because the ag sector is such a small part of the US economy (< 1% of GDP).
>It's similar in some sense to the reasons why people go to see live concerts. The sound quality isn't better, it's just different, and feels "more real", although for concerts it is also helped by the fact that you're actually there

As I don't have thousands of dollars worth of stage speakers, amplifiers and audio equipment, there's a very noticable difference in sound quality between live shows and recorded music, depending on the venue.

You're also missing out a pretty big part of live shows, there's a difference between hearing a musician play a song live vs a recording. A recording is almost never one single take straight through and, depending on the artist, can be a fairly different rendition of the song.

An example, last concert I went to was cypress hill, they had a different DJ with them that mixed their tunes up pretty differently so the performance was.nothing like listening to one of their albums.
I Started a $5K/Month Backyard Plant Nursery Business
Is this article just complaining that nobody on HN noticed the fact that Apple used Web Components, and somebody should have because it's a big deal?
It's both intuitively obvious geometrically, and algebraically is conceptually tricky to grasp. Or, more precisely it's trivial to decide that arithmetic operations are commutative or not, but tricky to decide correctly for all operations a child knows.
In other words, Mars has no importance, because self-sufficient existence there is much harder than in Antarctica, or in the middle of Cheyenne Mountain, and no one sees any value in establishing a self-sufficient colony there.

The cloud tops of Venus are far from devoid of resources. Unlimited amounts of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, and sulfur would be at their fingertips, and ores of other elements are a short dip to the surface. An unshielded nuclear reactor could be operated suspended by a tether, with no worries about leakage.
What will happen when our sun dies, billions of years from now
Yeah, vinyl has a lot of love behind it because it has "object appeal" for the reasons you cite. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's a niche thing. As are cassettes (which ALSO are making a comeback of sorts, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EbJ4ZX4RIw)

None of these physical media are remotely comparable in terms of market-share to streaming, I expect.

It's just a thing, It won't last forever.

Good turntables are expensive and, let's face it, it's a pain in the ass to queue an LP.
People still say script kiddie?
Did they mean to write that the percentage of job seekers applying is dropping? because a lower percentage of people not applying means that more people are applying.
It depends on what company you are.

Some who administers some SAP thing for a huge supermarket chain tells me they do all of their upgrades on weekends because their users aren't at work.

Makes sense for them, but it would be a crazy thing to do the consumer-focused interweb company that I work for.
I'd imagine this is for non work based chats in a Slack
It depends on the type of ecosystem
In a very concrete way, the inability to apply hard-clipped brick-wall limiting and extreme compression is why vinyl often does sound better than CD - the physics of the needle-in-groove mean that there are limits to the amplitudes you can try to encode without bouncing the damn thing out.

So vinyl masters often (but not always) avoid the loudness war and have a wider dynamic range.
The world was once 8C to 14C hotter than it is now (during the Eocene) and it didn't run out of oxygen. In fact, this was the epoch when modern mammals took over the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#/m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eocene
> Same goes for majoring in oil painting after the arrival of Photoshop (or for that matter, after the arrival of photography)

Based on the books my kids read, illustration/painting is alive long after photography was invented. (Granted some illustrators "paint" digitally but that doesn't mean the computer is doing the creative work.)

Also the complexity and unpredictability of some media such as watercolours isn't even close to being replicated digitally. E.g., check out the work of master Melbourne watercolour artist Joseph Zbukvic at https://www.instagram.com/josephzbukvic/.
I wonder what they thought about the 1996 VW Harlequin Golf, which was several different colors from the factory. (but they did have an official "base" color)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfYcLxCIB_E
For the down voters, it is "The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel". It is distinctly not a Nobel prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Memorial_Prize_in_Econom...
From what I read (never been there), "unconditional" does not seem the right word. There seems to be a social rule that a camp is expected to gift. So everyone there is gifting on the condition that everyone else is gifting too.
Math should be a spectator sport! ;)
Thanks for the understanding of what I am trying to get at.

I'd just like to add that for an athiest, I am a great believer in redemption.

I don't think that it is time reversible however, that theory was thouroughly tested during the crusades with the system of automatic indulgences and by all accounts it did not go well.

Also, redemption is unfortunately rare enough that you shouldn't cut people much slack over anything genuinely serious, while waiting for them to get around to redeeming themselves.
I have the book they wrote up about this machine.

I keep meaning to go back and look at it and see how practical it would be to write up an emulator or an implementation on FPGA. But the absence of any software to run on it for testing would make it tricky.
Just wait until somebody think it's a good idea to declare war, based on the advice of an AI. That scares me more than anything.

Or launching nuclear weapons based on the advice of AI (or allowing AI to control them altogether). All out nuclear war has so far been avoided multiple times, because of an actual human making a split second decision at the right moment.
How Technical Recruiting Works
which documentary was that?