skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> As an experienced Perl programmer, what's your opinion of Raku?

Perl5 still works fine, and is maintained.

> Is it a worthwhile replacement or too little too late?

False dichotomy - see above.
Proving Determinism: A Thought Experiment
I would simply say if you're planning on making changes to the script you probably shouldn't write it in bash. Or to be a little more rigorous, don't use bash if you couldn't rewrite the entire script, correctly, from scratch, in an hour.

Although I think all of these things are just complicated ways of saying "please seriously reconsider writing it in bash."

But I write bash scripts all the time, I just try to keep them as short and simple as possible.
How long can a bomb remain potentially dangerous though?
They also float, it really depends on the buoyancy. I think I heard that most of the microplastics are suspending within 5 meters of the surface.
Stuff like this does a huge amount of unintentional damage. Every crappy company in the world thinks they're Google and tries to copy them. Google-caliber people might be able to be reasonable about this, but ordinary employees come across something like this and interpret it to mean "bash is evil" and ostracize everyone who tries to write a bash script for anything, no matter how sensible.

At work lately, there's been a spate of contorted "just why?" Python scripts that could've been accomplished elegantly in a handful of lines of shell. While no one would select shell languages as the ideal for a lot of complex logic, data parsing, etc., there's no competition for a shell when you need to do what shells are meant to do: chaining invocations, gluing and piping output, and so on.
The answer is a question: Do you know of a successful mp3 product that came after iPod and took its market?
That depends a lot on the article and the views from reports on reddit/twitter/facebook/linkedin. 100k is rather toward the top of the curve.

Here I've published stats on my few posts that reached first page on HN. https://thehftguy.com/2017/09/26/hitting-hacker-news-front-p...
My bullshit theory is crimes have three potential 'against's'

Against a person. Against a community. And against the state.

Mass shootings check all three boxes hard.
While I totally agree with everything you’re saying, I think they are right about it being annoying to initialize structs/records when all fields must be defined upfront. For one, it becomes harder to incrementally build a record in generic way. And if you decide to make a bunch of fields optional, then that optionality is carried with it forever, long after it’s obvious that the data exists for that field. Those are legitimately annoying things to deal with.

To avoid that annoyance, you almost have to rethink the problem. You can’t do it the imperative way, at least not without all that pain. Instead, if you don’t yet have the data, you should simply assign the field with a function call or an expression which gets that data for you. In other words, the record initialization should be pushed to a higher level of the call graph. If you do that, then every record initialization is complete.

Other solutions are more language-specific. TypeScript has implicit structural typing, so incremental construction is pretty easy. You just can’t try to tell the compiler that it belongs to the type you’re constructing, unless it actually does include all the necessary data.

In OCaml, you can define constructor functions which take all the data as named parameters. Since function currying is part of the language, you can just partially apply that function to each new piece of data, as you incrementally accumulate it. Then you finally initialize the record when the function is fully applied.

Suffice it to say that there are plenty of solutions to this problem.
No one made that argument. I said:

> Not everyone who went there is guilty, but given everything we now know it's not unfair to question their presence in Epstein's orbit.

That's it. I'd also argue that 1. doesn't exist because Epstein and his properties highly advertised his lifestyle.

> This is unreasonable, and it makes you kind of dumb.

You're responding to an argument no one has made.
One thing I like Ruby for over Python is the function chaining, which is quite shell-pipe-ish.

I'll stick to Python, but Ruby is worth a look.
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If you're not on partner track at a good firm it doesn't grow that quickly.

The friends and family I have that are lawyers and are 5 years and some change out have not cracked 100k yet except for one.
I guess I should have explicitly said "some" faceblind people. It wasn't intended to implicitly suggest "all" by not saying that.

Edit: Can people not downvote that comment? I'm pretty confident it wasn't intended to be fighty. It was just a faceblind person wanting to talk about a topic they know personally. Goodness.

I'm having a shit day. Blame Me instead.

Thank you.
Ta11y – modern website accessibility as a service
From my experience, small scale local fishermen are very invested in not losing nets. They are a big investments. Most would actually be very happy if nets had some form of fingerprint identification in order to combat theft and illegal fishing, especially if the police could look it up in a central register.

Regulation in this area would be a win-win for almost everyone involved.
We have a special institution for dealing with that:

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kampfmittelr%C3%A4umdienst
A quick calculation suggests they would need 10,000 of their river Interceptors, assuming each interceptor can fill a garbage truck worth of plastic daily. That would reduce the amount of plastic dumped in the sea by the 1000 most polluted rivers by about half.

Building, maintaining, and operating 10,000 Interceptors is a huge undertaking, and it requires their full effort and attention.

To my knowledge they currently only have a few prototype Interceptors that don't work very well. They're certainly nowhere near the point where they can build river trash interceptors at scale. Prototypes are relatively easy. Building big machines that work all day every day without breaking down is super hard.
This article reminded me of this clip from Iron Sky 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEERq5tLiOY
Megan Phelbs-Roper on JRE
“Search” or “look up.” Don’t beholden yourself to any brand name.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22025181
So this probably isn't quite what you're looking for, but my favourite podcast discovery in 2019 was Off Book: The Improvised Musical Podcast.

Each week Jess McKenna, Zach Reino, and their band are joined by a special guest and together they improvised an entire hour-long musical from scratch without anything prepared ahead of time, including the music.

It's just utterly remarkable how good and clever and funny it is given it's entirely improvised and off the cuff. In my opinion it's one of the most astonishing demonstrations of human creativity I've ever seen, and it's doubly impressive when you remember they do it every single week and still never run out of ideas.

http://www.earwolf.com/show/off-book/

I would also HIGHLY recommend the Futility Closet podcast and website. The podcast is described as "forgotten stories from the pages of history" but it's so much more than that, and so is the website. Anyone who enjoys logic puzzles, mathematics, chess, history, old books, and interesting stories will love it.

https://futilitycloset.com

https://futilitycloset.com/podcast/
The explosive doesn't really rot... it tends to get more dangerous, not less.
Somebody should make a script that takes some info about your product and auto submits them to each one of these.
If college tuition cost around $500, that might work. But good luck finding somewhere which will provide $50k of unsecured debt to an unemployed 18 year old.
This is Cliff Stoll’s bread and butter now: https://kleinbottle.com/
Estimations I've read are that around one tenth of bombs dropped in WW2 didn't explode (which leaves open how many were cleared quickly though)
Love this, but on the phone the podcast art takes up a lot of real estate and leaves little room for the podcast title.

I’d rather see an even more stripped down UI that leaves more room for the informational content.

Then again, I guess not all podcast episodes have informative and encompassing titles, like articles often do.
Very cool! I maintain a similar tool: sqlc https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc

In addition to catching SQL errors, it generates type-safe Go wrapping code. Right now it supports PostgreSQL and MySQL.

I’m (obviously) a huge fan of the SQL first approach and hope more people adopt it for their own projects.
I made a similar list at https://submit.co a while ago.

The idea was to provide a definitive resource which was more user friendly than just a bullet list of links.

If you did come across it, I’m curious to hear if you have any suggestions on how to improve it.
What does "changes" mean in this context and what constitutes a reasonable reverse break-up fee?

Also in #2, does "probe interest" mean getting them to sign a LOI?
Thanks for posting this. I'm getting close to needing this for a new offering I'm building and have collected a few in my own notes. This is much more comprehensive than what I would have gotten on my own.
How often are people killed in Germany by old ordnance?
Developers pick their own priorities as most are donating their time. Those that are not are following the wishes of their employers. People make an effort to ensure that bug fixes are MFC'd back to supported releases and for security fixes we have a stronger policy. Otherwise it should be no surprise that we focus on future releases. The release process has a certain organizational cost for validation and running them too frequently burns out project volunteers.

Many companies who use linux also effectively maintain their own forks that are gradually updated and tested. This is not a unique problem to FreeBSD. We unfortunately don't have a redhat equivalent although there are now several companies offering paid FreeBSD support if you need that for your enterprise.

I think you also got quite a lot of very reasonable replies in your thread on hackers. You need to realize that your fundamental request is for people who are giving up their free time to do something interesting to change their plans so that you can run your enterprise while providing no help or financial incentive.

When there are reasonable proposals it may catch someone's eye and prompt action. I can't even really tell what your proposal is besides changing release frequency. What are _you_ willing to do to support that?
What consequences are appropriate for someone acting badly enough to get specifically, independently targeted by that many major local businesses and two massive transnational corporations?
Is it really? Looking for Calibre libraries is basically considered meme-level effort in places like /r/opendirectories ...
Explanation from an article referenced by the linked article[1]:

Most of the digits were fixed while the rest could be brute-forced using some useful properties.

[1] https://www.futilitycloset.com/2017/09/10/trinity-hall-prime...
Note that you can either run Aurora Serverless constantly (at a cost of about $43 a month) or have ~30 second startup times if the instance has timed out (~15 minutes).
The explosive doesn't rot, but the trigger mechanism does. When the trigger is good, at least its behavior is predictable and a technican knows the precise condition that the bomb will detonate, but in the worst case, of which the trigger is completed damaged, it's unpredictable - they don't spontaneously detonate, until the slightest disturbance.
There's also this[1], although some of the links now 404.

[1]: https://github.com/mmccaff/PlacesToPostYourStartup/blob/mast...
In fairness to his lenders, a lot of this debt was for getting his law degree, but then he decided not to become a lawyer. That is, the assumption was he would have a (relatively) high paying job to pay back his loans, but, by his choice, he did not.

Note, though, that lenders still loan multiple 10s of thousands of dollars for students going to cookie school or getting art degrees, largely because discharging student loans is so difficult.
Years ago, maybe twenty or more, I heard that due to faulty triggers, almost half of the ordinance dropped on France in WWII is unaccounted for, as in “could still be a couple feet underground in your yard/field”. Farmers were still discovering them relatively often.

I wonder if that fraction has moved much. Wikipedia in the subject of the Ardennes, Verdun, and Unexploded Ordinance (UXOs):

> In the Ardennes region of France, large-scale citizen evacuations were necessary during MEC removal operations in 2001. In the forests of Verdun French government "démineurs" working for the Département du Déminage still hunt for poisonous, volatile, and/or explosive munitions and recover about 900 tons every year. The most feared are corroded artillery shells containing chemical warfare agents such as mustard gas. French and Flemish farmers still find many UXOs when ploughing their fields, the so-called "iron harvest".

I know these are often big bombs but 900 tonnes a year‽
Forgive my ignorance but if a buyer indicates interest, is it ok for the seller to ask for a LOI?

Or if the buyer doesn't mention it explicitly, does it mean that they're not serious enough?

Who should mention the first amount of money first, buyer or seller?
> Well yes, given infinite time, you could write a program to generate every possible sentence. If I saved those sentences on an infinitely large hard drive, yes, I would expect to own the rights to each one.

No, you should not expect it. Because the process wasn't creative. And there is no incentive needed for it either, because it's automated. Check again the definition of copyright, and why it's given in the first place. That should be the way to analyze, whether it's applicable or not.
Ingo Swann, the super-psychic whom I posted about meeting [0], wrote a book about his observations of people's sexual energies: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/psychic-sexuality-the-bio-p...

My understanding is that premature ejaculation is strongly related to imbalances in the kidney meridian. I had a female friend who taught me a lot about women's predicaments; she didn't do the "relationship" thing at the time, due to her being traumatized by earlier relationships. I fixed her computer, she bought me dinner, I misheard her say something, and observed her rapidly became "horny". We went back to her house 'cause I'd borrowed her camera earlier in the day...

After first and second base she disappeared into the bathroom. I used the opportunity to hold the kidney meridian's sedating points on my toes and feet. When she came back we had a good time, and I was surprised at myself. The last time we got together I didn't normalize my kidney energies, and I did not last as long as I/she might've liked.

It was a very traumatic not-a-breakup for me (sabotaged by my jealous friend) -- she'd just allowed herself to like me almost like a boyfriend, then she was blindsided by the jealousy. After I determined there was no recovering, I told her that I thought she did actually want a family, even though she'd given up on that hope. I stopped going to the places I thought I'd see her. I think she's doing well now, maybe 10 years later. I see her ever so often (still has the same car). She has the kid she always wanted, maybe 5 years old...

Exploration of the non-physical aspects of human sexuality will be the downfall of materialism, and the mechanical approach to medicine. While this inventor's patch should be relatively innocuous, many are harmed by materialist medicine: https://twitter.com/TaxiCabJesus/status/1215685567121199104

edit: [0] link to my earlier comment about Mr. Swann: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17238552
Educational funding has not been cut in the slightest. It’s grown rapidly for decades, even in terms of “constant” (inflation adjusted) dollars — from ~$3,000 per pupil in the 60s to about $14,000 per pupil today for primary and secondary education. [1]

Research “cost disease”.

[1] - https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d17/tables/dt17_236.55.a...
No, there's an understanding that nobody works 'purely for the public good' because we have no selfless angels that we can assign to run the government.

Since we only have selfish humans, they'll always work for their own good - whether it's profit motive in an open market, or political power and attached financial benefits.

Jeez, imagine how easy society would be if we could actually create government programs 'purely for the public good'. I'd love to live in a world where everything didn't become as corrupt as it structurally can.
No, it cannot be used like lead. Radiation shielding of high intensity photons (X-rays, gamma, ...) works by attenuation. Attenuation is (almost) purely a function of how much material you have in between and how dense it is.

You can block alpha with anything, beta with any metal surface. I'm wondering if it's purely just nonsense as I suspect or if there's some aspect I'm not considering. I mean it does work against beta, so it's useful in that you don't need an additional surface, but that's pretty stretching.
You can generate these from any image here:
https://geonnave.github.io/primg/
As an illusory example only, and definitely not as an endorsement, and chosen only because it is the extremes of acceptable speach that are most likely to be censured; consider these search results for "Daily Stormer"

https://www.google.com/search?q=daily+stormer&oq=daily+storm...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=daily+stormer

DDG provides the link to the site as their first result; Google provides links to information about the site.

Again, I am not endorsing the site; it is simply an obvious example of search result differentiation between DDG and Google.
I don’t really have any stats to support either view but the key point is this, if accurate

> It's much cheaper to prevent plastic reaching the ocean than cleaning it up

We may have 7.7 billion people but less than 0.1% are free and down to work on climate clean up so that doesn’t matter. If one activity is relatively inefficient then it probably shouldn’t be done. The argument here is that you can bail water with a teaspoon or you can plug the hole in the boat. Detractors are saying don’t waste your time with the tea spoon, and you’re saying “well at least it helps!”

Similar arguments apply to whether we should burn garbage or not depending on the price of natural gas, or whether or not we should use energy to pull carbon from the sky. Again I don’t know if the detractors are correct but I wouldn’t be shocked if true.
In my setup it was slower and more resource intensive. SyncThing is open source, though.
For those who are not aware of the issue, the Smithsonian Magazine has a comprehensive introduction of this issue, I recommend to read it.

* There Are Still Thousands of Tons of Unexploded Bombs in Germany, Left Over From World War II

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/seventy-years-world-w...
New theory of quantum mechanics shows matter is not in the eye of the observer
Netlify's stupid-easy for small projects. You just point it at a Github repo and it does the rest. As long as you're staying under its usage caps, and you can run all the server code in lambda functions, it seems like the best choice.

Once you exceed the free tier, though, no doubt it's much more expensive than GCP/AWS.
Isn't the fact that you can go bankrupt in the first place displaying a problem in our financial system? The system should be such to protect the citizens from going bankrupt, at least with efforts comparable to what lengths government go through to save banks from bankruptcy.
A few years ago I set up a $5 DO droplet with the Dokku image they provide. Years later it's still running all of my side projects in production, even though I moved from the $5/mo plan to the $20/mo plan as my business grew and my needs increased.

I have 15 containers connected to 10 Postgres instances running right now handling tens of thousands of views per month for $20/mo, AND I have Heroku-like convenience to deploy with a "git push dokku master", without having to pay a minimum of $7/mo for each app I deploy. I can deploy a new app at no extra cost

Sure, I have to patch my own OS (minimal effort but still effort) and backups/DR/HA is on me to provide, so it might not be for everyone. But I have a mantra that all my side projects combined need to be able to pay for all my side projects combined to keep me from spending too much, so keeping costs low is important. And that $20/mo would be over $100/mo on Heroku. For me it was a no-brainer. One low-revenue side project pays the bills for all my just-for-fun projects.
Why do you say "for the browser"? Unless you are working on a system with a ludicrous amount of effective DRM (which I hope we all hate for other reasons, and which means we are only really talking about consoles: the closest casual gaming platform you are going to get to "locked down system owned by the manufacturer" is an iPhone, and in practice they don't go quite far enough), players are always going to be able to modify your code: you can't prevent a user "cheating" (which I put in quotes, as I feel like you need to really question whether the environment you set up where that matters isn't somehow itself broken; maybe you are already doing that by "source-like networking", but I don't know the terminology context).
Probably not the thorough and detailed answer you are looking for but... Student loans are dischargeable, it's just typically extremely difficult to get them discharged. Partly because the method and law regarding when they may discharged and the process to prove/show they should be discharged isn't clearly defined and the determination is quite subjective.
Out of curiosity, how are people thinking about GCP platform risk after the '2023 deadline fiasco'[1]? Is it still a good idea to use GCP at all in the aftermath of them articulating that it could experience budgets cuts or even be axed entirely (though that latter seems much less likely)?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
People charged by feds in $300M call center scam
Reminds me of this classic number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime

Basically: DeCSS source code (illegal) → compress → pad → add constant to make it prime.
Landfills... are lined... so.. they don't... leach... into... groundwater..
I recall someone discovering that the kind or color of plants growing near landmines can help identify some of them. They leak a little nitrogen and the plants grab it. The researchers were proposing seed bombing affected areas to speed the removal process.

But I dunno what would be worse. Clearing unidentified mines from hardscrabble or trying to dig located mines out from under roots (especially when they won’t locate every last one of them)
I think it extends to more than just walking. I snowboard as much as I can during the winter, and I can reliably pick out people I know from extreme distances just by how they ride. The posture, size of the person, and other traits all add together to be a fairly unique signature.
The Roman Mars Mazda Virus from Reply All and 99% Invisible.

This joint episode is an engaging and hilarious tale of debugging an overly ‘smart’ car stereo, as well as going above and beyond the call of duty out of sheer love for podcasting.

https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/brh8jm
This isn't tomorrow. This is today. This is what I live daily when talking to others as a DevOps engineer. Everyone thinks everything just works, and doesn't under why you still need SSH access to things for debugging.