skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wrote up a few of my own thoughts[0] on moving away from writing markdown to writing HTML directly. At this point I have a small bit of code to wrap things into an <article> tag include a <header>, <footer> with links to a home page and include some boilerplate like <meta> tags. I don't think I've sacrificed anything in terms of best practices and actually gained a few things in writing more semantic HTML which I think aid in assistive technologies[1]. I actually hope people will "view page source" on my pages anymore -- a big part of getting to where I am has been testing against alternative browsers like eww and w3m.

[0]: https://idle.nprescott.com/2020/why-bother-with-markdown.htm...

[1]: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-05-27-accessibility-through-...
As far as i know Java and PHP became popular later in the 90s / early 2000s. Javascript was browser only until 2010, Ruby only became popular after Rails came out mid-2000s. There is a decade gap there.
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Do they own your domain? Or just serve it. Were taking about domain owners not hosts
Very nice, thank you! Replacing the "backwards N with hacek" (not sure what the letter is called, sorry) with "i", "iy" or "j" all find him. Funny that his preferred romanization with just a "y" doesn't.
Are you planning to add a SQL database? I don't want nosql
Use the jOOQ Parser to translate any SQL statement(s) to a different dialect
Farming is not a sustainable use of land. The article of the author assumes the massive scales of land use for farming is an invariant, but it is a massive contributor to species extinction and global warming.

Vertical farming is as important as solar is to the future sustainability of the human race.
It is quite clearly marked as Beta. Betas don't last forever :((
I'll give you auto loans.

> mortgages values

Delinquency rates are lower than they were at 2000: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DRSFRMACBS

This means that for those increasingly few home owners out there, they actually are living within their means.

> home mortgages values

How are you going to wield the personal responsibility battering ram against people then blame them for grasping one of the one levers available that yield actual material wealth. Rising home values + lower delinquency rates = good for them for growing their wealth

You're wrong on this one.

> subscription to cable

You're really reaching for threads if you're going to bust someone's balls for wanting Netflix.

> Paycheck to paycheck is not a function of 'too little money' - but materialism and consumerism and ego.

Be kind, friend. There's no reason to hate the poor just because they're poor.
Washington state to require face masks after county runs out of hospital beds
Are they still renaming Perl 6? I think it is a tad confusing to have 5 and 7 being so similar, and the 6 in between so radically different. I can't be the only one.
This sounds like one of those platforms that's neat in concept, but will fall apart fast for complex requirements.
That must have been a hilarious return.
There's a subtle difference between being released in the 90s and maturing in the 90s.
Perl is still unmatched for one-liners, and by extension, one-liners that graduate to short scripts.
a = [1]

def f(b):

print(b)

f(a)

f(*a)
The astonishing variety of street trees in Hackney, London
It’s unconstitutional for cops to force phone unlocking, court rules
Agreed, I'm not saying we can currently assume they are responsible, but in some hypothetical future where reforms have been made and they can be trusted, I think it would be fine to use. I don't think we should use current bad actors to decide that a technology is completely off limits in the future.
Reversing Sherlock: Adventures in avoiding being Sherlock-ed by Apple
+1 to The Land Institute. To give others context, perennials require much less input than their annual cousins, both in terms of labor and also petrochemicals.

The other big benefit is carbon sequestration. Perennials typically root far deeper into the soil, giving prairies enormous amounts of (carbon sequestering) root mass. This also has benefits in terms of erosion control — soil loss is one of the biggest, not talked about threats to society.

Finally, perennials can help — again through extensive root systems — improve water capture, recharging aquifers.
Really interested to hear how you figured out the breakfast was fake
I don't understand what you mean exactly – couldn't you use any language, even javascript, exactly the same version as you use right now, in 2100? Why not?

Edit: nice tool, by the way!
But how does ongoing development work? You have changes, now you need to merge them into every branch.

Yes. That is exactly what you do.

How do you know which ones are going to break the build, how do you know which ones just aren't going to merge due to divergence?

You use tools like unit testing and continuous integration running on all of your key branches, just like you would on a single-master project.

I have a horror of this due to having experienced a strategy where the team took a new (subversion) branch every time they started a new project

That brings back painful memories. I think it's fair to say that in the area of branch management, modern VCSes are much easier to use than Subversion. Even if you're not using them as physically distributed, the same tools for readily transferring work across branches and tracking what has gone where are also useful in other scenarios such as the one we're talking about here.

I also am convinced through experience that you should have one single line of development

I guess this is just a case of everyone's experience being different. My experience has been that projects that try to keep everything on a single branch when the reality is that you will be making several significantly different types of build over the long term can become prohibitively expensive to manage. You don't necessarily have to use a multiple branch strategy to deal with that, or that strategy alone; I mentioned a couple of other useful options earlier on. But trying to use a single master and then make multiple types of build regularly using just informal processes or ad-hoc changes on release branches is a recipe for human error IME. Something has to systematically track and control the divergence or things get really messy.

They're a combination of a release branch and a feature branch - they take the Linux Kernel at a certain time, then add some patches on top. Those patches then usually get submitted (indirectly) back to Linus so that they join the master path of development.

This is exactly what typically happens in the situation I was describing as well.

You would presumably have some root with the common code, and then you maintain your per-target branches off that. Most development work still gets pushed to the common root as usual, and then all targets benefit unless they're specifically overriding the default code in that area (which is handled at the point of merging into the target-specific branch).

Any changes first made on target-specific branches can also be passed up and then back down onto other targets if it turns out that they are more widely useful, or transferred directly to one or more of the other target-specific branches but without applying the change to the common root. However, typically you would do anything like this via some sort of cherry-picking process; you would never normally transfer all of your changes back up by merging a target-specific branch back into the shared root.
> Gifts normally aren't taxed.

Sure they are, we just have an exemption before they kick in. Just like the inheritance tax does.

Why should my kids pay tax on gifts when I'm alive, but not when I die?
Framework for Covid-19 rehab needs following ICU
What incentive do parking and venue apps have to implement this? The audience is captive. They push the app because either they do not want to spend the engineering effort to make a usable website or they want to siphon data from their clients. In either case, they will not have an incentive to spend more engineering time to get less data from customers.
That’s exactly what an advocate of liberal democracy would say that they are doing.
OK, I doubt we disagree on much concretely. I'll happily cosign that this "requires a lot of work" to understand.

For context, this thread started with someone saying I believe that humans are essentially born as blank neural networks, so that's what I'm arguing against.
what advice would you offer to another developer that longs to get into agriculture?
So is this exactly like Google Play Instant Apps?

https://developer.android.com/topic/google-play-instant
I also quite enjoyed perl. There are a lot of us that cut their teeth on perl and know it well, even if we are currently working in other languages. We also tend to de-emphasize it on our resumes for obvious reasons. But if I had a contract opportunity to spend months or years on a large perl codebase, refactoring it or porting it to something else, I'd probably snap it up in a heartbeat.
I'm curious about the incentive that leads to this. If you're going to print and sell counterfeit textbooks, why not use the actual content? Surely nearly every copy with a random other book will be returned. Is it possible that they meant to include the right content, but they counterfeit lots of books and have low quality control? My best guess is that they can easily grab a copy of a book's cover online, but actually acquiring and scanning a copy of each book is cost prohibitive, so they just sell entirely fake ones and hope that they get at least some money out of it.
I guess I just heard a different tone in @jonax's post.

To me, his/her first question just showed interest in the perspective I'd posted.

I took @jonax's later questions as a kind of Socratic questioning. Which can come across as either a way to help sharpen one's position on a topic, or as an unwelcome display of skepticism, depending on the audience. I assumed the former.

If I had to criticize that post for something, it would be that it made wrong assumptions about how I'd answer that first question. So the subsequent questions weren't really on point.
I figure they thought they weren’t going to be always cheaper than AWS
Calory-dense foods are more economic to ship long distances though. From a 'power plant to plate' energy conversion viewpoint, leafy greens that don't ship well are probably the best things to grow in urban farms, assuming people will eat them anyway.
I don't order food from Amazon at all because I don't trust them not to send something counterfeit or expired. It's just not worth the risk/hassle, and a lot of the time they're not the best price anyway.

I'm also extremely cautious about electronics, but there are still certain categories (such as memory cards) that I won't even consider. Usually the only benefit from Amazon vs anywhere else is shipping, and saving $shipping is simply not worth the risk of using a fake card.

This is a step in the right direction to fixing the problem, but I'm not sure I'd trust anything -- even stuff sold by Amazon itself -- so long as they co-mingle inventory.
I wonder how much of a potential there is for abuse with this system, one thing I thought of during the keynote was:

1. Someone sticks a malicious NFC tag on one of those rental scooters that opens a malicious App Clip

2. The App Clip seems like it could be for the rental service

3. App Clip maliciously takes your money and runs.

Wonder how much something like that could become a problem or if Apple would be good enough about preventing/stopping it.
This is what happened in Soviet Russia (productive farmers were deemed class traitors, shipped off to siberia, and obviously net farming productivity collapsed), Ukraine leading up to the Holodomor (knock on effects from russia’s actions), and in Mao’s china (government mandated agricultural actions forced farmers away from their evolved / cultural practices and caused food production collapse).

Systems like this are more complex than the foolish give them credit for being!
Fair to say that the zeitgeist on the left broadly is scolding, censorship and dogma. It's illiberal and damaging to society precisely because it becomes the grounds of debate for opponents - sidelining discussion about the actual issues. We all lose when videos of protesters toppling abolitionist statues are all over.
I suspect we’re confusing two or more concepts here - publicly traded companies versus corporations with a single majority shareholder, and perhaps more, like small and multi-generational family businesses.

In most of those circumstances, “installing the boss’s kid” isn’t “nepotism”, at least not in the common usage of the word. Giving a business to your children is not favoritism because there is no reasonable expectation for it to be based on anything other than the owner’s will.

That point aside, I think my first paragraph illustrates a big barrier to discussion on this topic. It seems like many commenters here are envisioning a multi-millionaire setting up their kids with huge trust funds and giving them a “no-show” job on the board of one of more public companies. Others are envisioning a small family business being passed down between generations.

This is one of those situations where both sides are correct. The legal structure for a huge corporation isn’t that much different from the construction contracting company down the street. Especially in cases where the business requires a lot of capital investment (like construction or farming), a relatively small family business ends up falling under the same laws as the giant company.

It’s one thing to say that the giant company should come with a 15% tax passed on to an heir; it’s quite another to say that the family business should. In many cases, the family business simply doesn’t have enough capital on hand to absorb those taxes, and the only resort the heir has is to liquidate all or some of the business to pay them. This means that small, well-run, multi-generational businesses are damaged or even lost completely.

At the end of the day, the effect is regulatory capture. The owners of those giant companies hire accountants, take advantage of the tax code in every way they can, and just plain have enough cash on hand to make this a non-issue. The owners of the smaller businesses don’t. Over time, it means that the larger a company is, the less competition it faces.
The first paragraph answers your question:

> Vaccines save lives by preventing disease.

> Most people who get vaccines have no serious problems. Vaccines, like any medicines, can cause side effects, but most are very rare and very mild. Some health problems that follow vaccinations are not caused by vaccines.

> In very rare cases, a vaccine can cause a serious problem, such as a severe allergic reaction.

Unequivocally safe and effective != risk free. Everything has risks, and yes, sometimes you need to compensate people. My house is safe, but I still have insurance.
That's very cool. Do you have a good solution for inline math?
TMTOWTDI!
You don't control when, where, and how often you interact with the police in the same way that you control where you live and who your friends and co-workers are. If you are a middle class regardless of ethnicity your odds of being a homicide victim are pretty much approaching zero.

If you are middle class and non-white your odds of being hassled by the police are quite high and probably validated by experience. The odds of such an experience escalating into violence or death may be empirically small but each and every instance of interaction with authorities is an instance of greatly increased risk and a risk that is in large part out of your control. This is something worth being concerned about and that concern has an impact on your day-to-day behaviour and well-being.

Being more concerned about police violence than random violence makes perfect sense to me. I suspect that if you dig into it that concern is also empirically more rational.
How funny, I use tcc /all the time/ and I was just tinkering with one 'script' [0] the other day. Basically more often than not for me it's easier/quicker to write stuff in C than fighting with another script language that will break next time I want to use that 'script'. C works.

of course I could compile it, but really, it doesn't have to, and to develop/try that sort of small C tools, tcc is just unbeatable.

[0]: https://gist.github.com/buserror/227a7e64c92acece821ec8ee587...
I've been getting into making electronic music and figuring out a workflow that balances these constraints is really challenging.

The most powerful, expressive, flexible, and affordable way to make music, by far, is to do everything in a DAW inside a computer. Ableton + a few software synth plug-ins is a ridiculously powerful platform to make music in. You could produce albums for the rest of your life and never run out of inspiration. And the user interface for Ableton is just an absolute delight.

But it's so powerful that it takes me forever to get anything done. It's easy to spend three hours tweaking reverb settings and never finish anything.

The other approach is to do everything in dedicated hardware with real synthesizers. It's expensive to buy gear and a hassle to wire everything up. Decide that you want delay on your bass instead of the lead? That's five minutes of futzing with cables versus a single drag-and-drop in Ableton. Want two different reverb settings for the pad and the clap? Better shell out another $300 to buy a second reverb pedal. Undo? You're lucky if your sequencer supports it.

But because the set of options is so much narrower and the cost for rethinking choices is higher, the hardware environment pushes you forward and makes you want to finish things.

The tricky part is that, to a listener, the music made on hardware often just isn't as good in many ways as that made in a DAW. Listeners today are used to lots and lots of layers and very surgical production and mixing. That's easy (but time-consuming) in a DAW, but very difficult (and expensive) in hardware.

Finding the right balance here is hard.
The article suggests it might trigger type 1. You're mostly risking type 2.
> IMO that argument is meant to counter people disliking unearned wealth.

Well, sure, for a lot of people. I care less about unearned and more about unproductive.

Hedonistic consumption on the weekends/a few weeks in the summer/20 years at the end of your life so that you can go build something during the rest of your life is net productive in most cases. Hedonistic consumption 24/7 for a lifetime is probably totally unproductive.

> 1. It might encourage a longer time horizon. "Leaving something good for your grandchildren", etc - and in a lot of ways people not doing this is why we have issues fighting climate change.

I think a huge wealth tax would be better. People would probably not let all that go to the gov. They would probably donate quite a lot. Hopefully to causes that address our most important problems (like climate change, but also healthcare, mental health, organizations to promote community fabric to fight loneliness, education, etc.).

>2. If investment ability is correlated across generations (and I'll eat my hat if it's not) then giving the children of competent investors more capital than those of incompetent investors will lead to better investments overall, and thus faster economic growth. And economic growth is everything. (2% difference in annualized growth for a century is the difference between the US and Mexico)

Well, the alternative is taxation. That could mean direct wealth redistribution. Or, that could mean war. Or, that could mean reinvestment in infrastructure/research/etc.

Now the question becomes "do you trust the grandchildren of the rich more or less than you trust the people's government?"
Am I missing something, or by “crazier time” do you mean “standby while I advertise my product”?
Making Java Play Nice with Kubernetes
it's not reimplementing it from scratch. it's developing a runtime engine that can read the original diablo 2 files. It says right in the README with big letters. You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.

This thing is more like an emulator than a game.
Basically anyone thinking agriculture disruption should read about the Hutterites[1] rather than get caught up with some vert ag thing.

Hutterites have major capital expenses (unlike Amish), and yet they are farmers. Income-portion subscription model maybe doesn't so crazy if you consider employees can live off the surplus food on one hand, and so the subscription can largely go into capital and operational expenditures.

It sounds dual to "lifetime cut of earnings to pay for college", since education is considered the ultimate personal capex, and food the ultimate personal opex. But considering the rat-race nature of bullshit jobs, and the basic income studies, a lifetime free from fear starvation could well kick one up the hierarchy of needs enough to learn far more efficiently. So food indefinitely is actually pretty good personal capex from that perspective.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterites
Most likely terrible. You need to gather electricity in one place, send it to the farm, emit some light, plant will absorb 5% of that light, and then 5% of that 5% will end up in the final product.
Somewhere in a paper file I have the faxes that I exchanged with the office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu back in about 1995 trying to explain the value of their TLD and how my (little) company could help them monetize it. Embarrassingly, I just got busy with client projects and ghosted them... It's nice to see that they are seeing substantial revenue from the domain now, and stand to see more when their agreement with Verisign expires next year.
In the very late 80s, a co-worker of mine, a corporate-productions scriptwriter, gave up his Mac and started using a Neo2-like device -- it looked very similar and used AA batteries. I remember him crowing about how it was a game-changer for him, and that it made him a much more productive, and better, writer.

I also recall thinking he was nuts.
The theory behind making something people want
Krustlet: A Kubelet Written in Rust to Run WebAssembly Workloads in Kubernetes
Chrome has recently (within the last year) been repeatedly making me frustrated with its pdf issues. It feels like 40% of the time I open a pdf in chrome, I instead get an error message like "the plugin has crashed" or some bs. The only solution is to restart the browser entirely. Switched back to FF for this reason.
Yes, but why doesn't Google "run away with the show" themselves while in the lead?
30% of all food produced - approx 1 Trillion dollars worth - is lost in the supply chain, and contributes the equivalent of the third largest CO2 producer if it were a country.

I'm not sure how to describe that other than a disaster.

http://www.fao.org/3/a-bt300e.pdf
To be honest Perl 5 isn't really like Perl 4. They are quite different languages - Perl 4 didn't have objects, and Perl 5 places heavy emphasis on them.

Up to you to decide when you think it started, but I'd say the current language we think of as "Perl" started with the release of Perl 5.
Got the same feedback. NoSQL is great for some ideas. But not all of them!
The beast you mention is even more spec'd than my current main workstation, which has half the RAM, and the entire default install of Ubuntu fits in the cache after boot. The HDD is not to blame; there is something else wrong.
Outside of North Korea, humanity in 2020 has no shortage of calories.