skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, we’re debating the merits of a special syntax that allows the syntactic intermingling of executable code and static declarations. While experienced programmers can probably sift through this and identify which things are static and which are dynamic, not all programmers are experienced (note that the original claim was that the intermingled syntax is better for beginners) and further even experienced programmers may appreciate the explicit syntactic distinction between static and dynamic. Lastly, it also makes it easier to write static analysis tooling (linters, type checkers, compilers, etc) since the intermingled syntax is more complex to implement.

It’s fine if you don’t agree with the value judgments—for example, if you would rather save a handful of characters in “hello world” at the expense of some clarity or technical simplicity. I’m just giving the rationale.
> Don't pin the blame on a programming paradigm if your developers are clueless about basic software engineering principles.

You can write OO code without inheritance. Inheritance is syntactical sugar, essentially. You can accomplish the same things with interfaces and composition.

The difference between composition and inheritance is that a composed method is fully discoverable. I can see every statement. There's no secret parent method running before or after.
Hunter S. Thompson’s Letter on Finding Your Purpose
It's not the same thing. 'SELECT MAX(temperature) > 10 FROM ...' gets you all the datapoints, with a value of true or false. Moving it to the WHERE clause only gets you the datapoints where temperature is > 10. Yes, you can fill with 0 after the GROUP BY, but if all datapoints are less than 10, you get nothing back from the database. That's confusing: were all datapoints less than 10, or was there nothing registered in the time window I'm querying? Impossible to tell the difference. Not to mention some user interfaces just bailing: no data. I need to show a chart with a timeline of this condition being true or false.

Plus my actual use case is even more complex, not only do I need something like MAX(temperature) > 10, I need (MAX(temperature)) > 10 && (MAX(temperature) - MAX(dewpoint)) > 4.5).
Most of our users are using Reploy for the concept of "Preview Environments". That is, being able to view the environment before a merge happens.

In fact, in many cases, it doesn't make sense to do a full production deployment on every PR (either from a time or cost perspective).

I do, however, understand your hesitancy regarding having a different deployment structure for these previews. The reality is that if you want fast builds an experience that makes it easy to compare different commits, etc.. there is a tradeoff.
I too used to think so and that's how it was earlier. Check again.

For example, other day I found one post on Netflix tech blog was also behind paywall.. check posts from famous tech blogs of companies, you would find some of them behind paywall. I don't think big corporates want to make money from their tech blogs.
Skype for Business has always been an Office 365 install.
Is the debate about "D-wave isn't quantum computing its quantum annealing" still relevant?

I did a research project on the competitive landscape on QC few years ago and at least then it was a huge topic.

What are your thoughts?
Want a Covid-19 Test? It’s Much Easier to Get in Wealthier, Whiter Neighborhoods
An assessment of Earth's climate sensitivity using multiple lines of evidence https://doi.org/10.1029/2019RG000678

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019...
>> Nearly useless

Being able to catch a cancer early on because of increased surveillance is hugely valuable. Part of why cancer is so dangerous is because it often grows/spreads for years before you get any symptoms. If you're in the unlucky cohort of <50 years old and have an asymptomatic cancer, it might go decades before anyone thinks to check.

And mind, increased surveillance typically means once a year tests or scans, so it's not so overly onerous. It's possible even that generally being in frequent contact with doctors and more seriously minding your health could have net benefits in preventing other maladies as well.
Conquer with Inaction

Do not control the people with laws,
Nor violence nor espionage,
But conquer them with inaction.
For:
The more morals and taboos there are,
The more cruelty afflicts people;
The more guns and knives there are,
The more factions divide people;
The more arts and skills there are,
The more change obsoletes people;
The more laws and taxes there are,
The more theft corrupts people.
Yet take no action, and the people nurture eachother;
Make no laws, and the people deal fairly with eachother;
Own no interest, and the people cooperate with eachother;
Express no desire, and the people harmonize with eachother.
-- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching"
The FounderPool website specifically mentions:

> You contribute 1% of your equity into your pool.

My understanding is that if a founder owns 30% (say) of the company when they join the pool, they would contribute towards the pool a number of shares corresponding to 1% of that 30%, i.e. 0.3% of the company. Which will presumably get further diluted by the time the company exits.

Having founders contribute X% of their equity at the time they join the pool is more reasonable from a practical execution standpoint than having founders contribute X% of the company the time of exit.
I get a feeling that this applies to a lot of sciences.

I feel like in the field of computational complexity theory, people seem to find new ways of proving that a problem is NP-complete even though it's already been proved before.

Isn't this just about general curiosity, people just want to understand and explore a certain problem from different perspectives?
This was meant more descriptive than add a political view. In my opinion I would change the taxation rates for the .1% first, Will at the same time importing life quality for the bottom let’s say 60%. A lot of this is not in taxes but due to how society is organized.

This would indirectly change life for top 10% as you cannot as cheap hire people for services.
> The tricky thing is that it's relatively hard to precisely track identity and intentional authorship on the internet. It's also easy to imagine somebody losing their internet privileges, because some botnet hijacked their printer and used it to spread X-rated content. In the analogy, it's hard to disambiguate between drivers and vehicles.

This basically makes the entire plan unfeasible. Given the current general insecurity it would be entirely too trivial to somehow fuck up and have a botnet get you banned permanently from the "roads".

However, this could work if internet is only available using your digital ID. However, that is seriously actually dystopian and would brutally murder all of the privacy people have and in certain cases also the people.
Not saying it's not still ridiculous for your use case, but if you're using Apollo as your GraphQL server, you can still do your joins without data loaders. The 4th argument passed to your resolvers [0] allows you to check if children properties have been requested and then you can use joins to "pre fetch" those without data loaders. Haven't done it myself yet but someone told me about it on HN a while back.

0: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/data/resolv...
The infra is scheduled on k8s. Happy to answer other specifics!
>> Of course, those who make this assumption will probably thumb their nose at how 'unsophisticated' these new words are.

> For what it's worth I find language much more fun when I can stretch it to its (or rather my) fullest, appreciating the history and subtlety of words and phrases I employ, rather than wishing for language to be pedestrian and exclusively utilitarian.

Thanks for confirming my suspicion.

You're dismissing the ever-evolving lexicon as 'pedestrian' and 'utilitarian'? I mean, really?

"Pedestrian": the cup final was a pedestrian affair: dull, plodding, boring, tedious, monotonous, uneventful, unremarkable, tiresome, wearisome, uninspired, uncreative, unimaginative, unexciting, uninteresting, lifeless, dry; unvarying, unvaried, repetitive, repetitious, routine, commonplace, average, workaday; ordinary, everyday, unoriginal, derivative, mediocre, run-of-the-mill, flat, prosaic, matter-of-fact, turgid, stodgy, mundane, humdrum; informal OK, so-so, bog-standard, vanilla, plain vanilla, nothing to write home about, not so hot, not up to much

How does that describe the vibrant new words used all around us? "Lol" is old-skool at this point, perhaps, but it carries meaning that is very different from "Haha" or "That's funny". "old-skool" itself has kind of made a come-back, but not quite. it's confusing, but far from dull. I imagine anyone using it to be either a millennial or a Gen-X'er.

Then we've got 'woke', which is definitely not 'woke' anymore, but it was, and it means something specific.

That's not to mention how local slang may or may not break out onto the national stage. A word like 'matties' could be considered similar to 'buddies' or 'mates', but it's not. it's a bit more like 'brothers' or 'bros' but then it really isn't.

I fully respect and share your enjoyment of the history and subtlety of language. I probably look up etymologies of various words more than once a day. It excited me to find out what decimate meant once upon a time.

But holy fucking shit is it not possible to enjoy all that without being a snob? I can't even. Surely you can enjoy what has been without dismissing what is going on and what will come? I mean, are you like fifty and mad about it or some shit? Gosh!

(that last paragraph was me mashing together what I feel are generationally distinct expressions, more than me actually being really upset about all this)

My point is that I love the exact meanings of words but I really don't have any reason to believe language is becoming more impoverished as it evolves. If anything English is like the Borg assimilating all other cultures or languages. I'd love to hear anything but what seems to me to be plain pretentiousness or snobbishness as an argument to the contrary, though. Truly.
> It's not included with Windows

While it may not be included in the OS, it is certainly promoted in Windows. I saw a full-size pop-up ad in Windows telling me to install Teams. I did not have Office installed.
:O

This is huge. Not as a security device, but if this were the normal permission model on all iPhones (e.g. owners of devices get root on the devices they own... like a normal general purpose computing device) I could ditch my android and my mac and use an iPhone for everything.

I'm not saying this will ever happen, but in my mind this paints a bright picture of what the iPhone could be.

It's also a bit sobering as I'm quite concerned Apple is actually pushing the other direction in their shift from Intel to ARM.
That Office is for many people an objectively better and more powerful tool doesn't inform whether it holds monopoly status.
Google Will Disable Microsoft's RAM-Saving Feature for Chrome in Windows 10
Most importantly, there's a big difference between seeing someone being tortured to death and frequently seeing people being tortured to death every weekday.
And a Roth IRA for the kid as soon as they start working. Have them contribute 100% of their pay and then give them the same amount to use. I plan to do this with my kid.
Yeah this is the point, life in for example Germany has a very acceptable life quality for less money.
The dark side of the moon would be much better for a telescope array; given that the moon has no atmosphere and isn't seismically active, you could form a massive, scalable array with incredible resolution.
Ask HN: Any recommendations for a “Your browser is not supported” banner?
Now that Microsoft has released Edge on Windows 7 and 8, and recent versions of Edge are using Chromium, I'm finally going to drop support for IE 11 and Edge < 18. Ideally I'd like to show a banner that tells the user that their browser is unsupported, and wondering if there are any drop-in solutions for this. Ideally it would be lightweight, responsive, allow you to specify what versions of each browser you don't support, and link to a professional looking website to update the user's browser. Any recommendations?
> When I buy something and get some extra free crap-ware, is that actually free? As an example some internet companies here would offer you as a free bonus antivirus software - is that free or it is paid from our money and maybe with our data ? Is Amazon Prime free stuff free or it is paid from your pocket but in an indirect way.

The following step is logical: ban all advertisement and outreach. Because that is paid in the same way.
Legacy Architecture Modernisation with Strategic Domain-Driven Design
So I have to use Bluehost in order to use your service?
I'd like to take this a step further. If you pay for a "premium" health care service (One Medical) or have a concierge doctor, it's extremely easy to get a test.

In every case I've needed it (3 times now), I've been able to get a test scheduled same day, with results within a few days. Fully billed to insurance.

Meanwhile, acquaintances I know who are working class and thus can't afford "high end" healthcare are waiting in car lines for hours.

The discrepancy is disgusting and an indictment of the American health care system, IMO.
Somehow everybody overlooked the obvious solution of splitting the good events and bad events into separate decks?

That's not at all rare in other games.
For such an important bucket, they should have

a. adopted the resource into a Cloudformation stack & a1. Enabled drift detection.

b. Use an AWS config rule to monitor (appropriate) s3 buckets for any public access.
Ask HN: Why are election results shown at the end?
This is a question mainly for pro-democracy and free speech supporters, with the amount of growth in technology, why are election count results shown at the end? Why can we not have a counter right at the booth or on the ballet box that gives the count as soon as a vote is cast? To me this counting ballet box seems an outdated method, that's used only to change the results at the end. Does anyone have suggestions as to how can we improve the democratic election process where we truly can see in real-time as votes are cast? How can technology improve it?
But if they don't do any research they will kill their own careers as well.
This theory is actually proposed by Nick Lane et al - it says that microbial life is probably ubiqutuous and that complex life is not and was a happy accident on Earth, which means its very improbable on other planets. The prereqs for it happened only once on Earth, when one microbe swallowed another and the smaller one became mitochondria enabling complex cell structure and shape. Given that microbial life exist in extreme environments on Earth and that its prereq is just a hot molecular soup, its probable it exists everywhere. On the other hand, the 'happy incident' didn't repeat on Earth to create another complex cell form - all higher life uses the same cell structure.
I think the difference is that this form of 'cancel culture' is the attempt to not only boycott establishments, but to 'cancel' people for having differing opinions. You see this, especially in the twitter-verse, where if your opinion differs form the "popular" (read far-left) view of the world, the will attempt to silence you. Goya is one example on the establishment side of things, but you see it also with dox'ing people and things like that.
People who take huge financial risks are IMO much more likely to be just kinda stupid than rationally confident & committed. It strikes me as a really dumb way of filtering for smart people.
Seems like whataboutism to me. Other people and companies doing a bad thing doesn't make doing the bad thing ok. Stopping one entity from doing evil is still a good thing even if you haven't stopped all evil everywhere.

Rather than complaining about people doing a small thing to improve the world, we should consider how we can scale up the small thing into something bigger.

To be specific, technologists like the people on Hacker News need to take a stand against providing technology (or funds) to the military. The industry should unionize so that programmers taking a stand against providing technology to the military can protest without being fired. The industry should produce a code of ethics that includes not selling tech to the military, and we should hold corporations to ethical standards.
Ahh yes. We've spoken to some companies that have existing helm charts that they'd like to use with Reploy. Is this what you're referring to?

Regarding pricing, this is a good reason to use Reploy! Because all of the scheduling is happening behind the scenes, we have the flexibility to offer teams a more predictable pricing model.
This involves an interesting set of assumptions about the plausibility of deep-cover hacking operations.

> If you use the SRD to find, test, validate, verify, or confirm a vulnerability, you must promptly report it to Apple

But let's say you pass their review, get a device, find a vulnerability, and don't report it. Then what? You're breaching the contract, but they have no way to know that, so there's no consequence?
For what an AVR is actually capable of over VGA (with sound):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNCqrylNY-0

Its better than what most NES systems did at the time, even without a dedicated video / sound system.
I had a very similar reaction to learning that something like only 8 of the possible deals in the Windows version of FreeCell aren't winnable.
Nice, long time ago I made a "framework" to create this kind of terminal effect.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/oldTerminal

Never bothered with sound though. Nice job!
I think you should read The Black Swan. FAANG type companies are rare events. Nobody can plan a Unicorn company. They just happens. Look at the list of dead products that Google/Facebook creates every year. Even managers at FAANG don't know what is going to work.

You can focus on creating sustainable small software business. I don't know if you have read "Start small, Stay small" by Rob Wallings. It talks about creating a sustainable small business on the side.
Cool stuff! Seems to hook into tree-sitter?

Love seeing OCaml (or any functional language) :)
The author is conflating child care and work from home. While it might be the case that the pandemic has made children omnipresent in many homes thanks to remote schooling and the closing of childcare opportunities, this is clearly not the same thing at all as "working from home". I speak as a parent who has "worked from home" for more than 10 years.
> We need a new Arthur Miller.

100%

I'm convinced the only way to effectively fight it is through comedy.

It was noticeable and bad when I went through college around 2010. But now it's been intensified as the same people I saw in college (those storming university offices until speakers they found "dangerous" withdrew) begin moving into the urbane, bien-pensant, privileged stations at media institutions, etc.

This recent Ryan Long video really hit the right tone I think.

Laugh at the tyrants and they're disarmed.

https://twitter.com/ryanlongcomedy/status/128520849751747379...
I came here to say exactly this and I couldn't have said it better!
Theoretically at least, Google's App Store would have better pricing, thus giving Android a competitive advantage (unless Apple follows).

Realistically, I'm sure the advantage would be so small so as to not amount to anything.
Federal Cops Without Badges, Coming Soon to a City Near You?
> By the way, for anyone thinking this game isn't really for you, you might want to give it a chance anyway (watch a video at least). I don't usually care for Rogue-likes

...Slay the Spire has nothing in common with roguelikes?
I dont get the allure of this. As someone working in security, the phone is an extremely leaky thing and very bad for privacy to begin with. On top of that you want to remove all restrictions and make it a security nightmare too? I get that you want to install what you like. Sure, but I don't think the convenience is worth the security trade off.

Honestly the mac or desktop is where I enjoy the openness and do stuff I want to do. I would want to leave the phone untouched and as secure as possible.

I would like to hear your and others' take on it though.
And yet they both have tons of customers and increasing revenues... they must be doing something right, no?
I would suggest you to look at https://www.openvas.org/ which you can say is the open source version of Nessus.
Edge cases are hard. If you record law enforcement acting inappropriately, can you post that? Will you be less likely to do so if you feel you may be banned for doing so?
>College students heading into the fall semester should take a gap year. I know I would.

The problem with taking a gap year for current students (in the US) is that many of them have federal student loans whose interest is deferred as long as they are studying full time. A gap year means they will incur interest for the rest of their University time and have that much more to pay off at the end.
Why do you think there is something wrong with responding to a petition?
Using Windows as example, have a REPL (e.g. Powershell, C#/F# interactive) that interacts with the OS via COM/UWP, DLLs, OLE Automation.

So you can from the confort of your REPL get the text selected in e.g. Excel, and use it as input for a function that was actually imported from a DLL for data conversions, for example.

Very contrived example, just to show my point.
>The bill has to do with pre-funding of health (and similar) benefits and not pensions.

The law did a lot including:

Postal Civil Service Retirement and Health Benefits Funding Amendments of 2006 - (Sec. 802) Relieves the Postal Service of an obligation to contribute matching amounts to its employees' civil service retirement. Provides for a mechanism and an amortization schedule regarding the handling of any surplus or supplemental liability of the Postal Service regarding the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund. Transfers from the Postal Service to the Treasury certain retirement obligations related to military service of former Postal Service employees. Makes Office of Personnel Management (OPM) determinations on surplus or supplemental liability subject to PRC review if the Postal Service so requests

https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407

> Point (1) is incorrect as per thttps://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/house-bill/6407... numerous sources I provided already (including a direct quote from the Postmaster General)

I think you're confused here. Straight from the Postmaster general:

> we were forced to default on $33.9 billion in mandated prefunding payments for RHB for the years 2012 through 2016

https://about.usps.com/news/testimony/2019/pr19_pmg0430.htm

>the 2006 law requiring the pre-funding of health benefits for future retirees — not pensions — has put a financial strain on the Postal Service and hurt its ability to turn a profit in some recent years.

Sigh, and we're back to the same confusion. Pre-funding has ZERO impact on profit. If you incur a cost today it goes on your balance sheet. The fact that the actual cash doesn't leave the company for 30 years doesn't change that.
The fact that the oncaller has been notified without an actual issue in a production system, is an issue in itself - incorrect monitoring/alerting. And will be addressed an the next production meeting.
Companies exist to maximize some measure, and maximizing "social" isn't inherently a good thing. All the nonsense that happens on social media is the same as what happens in real life, but you can't monetize/optimize the real world in the same way.