skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which, I would argue, says at least as much about the HN crowd as it does about whoever posted the article under this specific title.

EDIT: more specifically .. it's rather ironic how judgmental (and honestly: pretty darn pretentiously) so many here instantly get, yet how there is this implied assumption that the collective wisdom and judgement of this community is above criticism itself, somehow. It might say far more about HN, that nobody appears to be discussing the article's content itself, than it says about the (mis)use of alphabets.

I can read Cyrillic fluently, and a bit of Greek too, yet I'm not in the least bit upset about this pun. If this does upset anyone, maybe it's time for some seriously self-reflection for those people, about what they decide to get upset about and what not.
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It's not single threaded. There is `PHP_CLI_SERVER_WORKERS`.
Against cell phones At the truck wheel: soon video controls in Lower Saxony
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Courtesy of Google Translate:

Hanover

The misuse of smartphones in road traffic is to be countered in the future throughout Lower Saxony, among other things with video controls by the police. "We are convinced of this traffic monitoring technology and we will therefore use this technology promptly throughout Lower Saxony," said State Police President Axel Brockmann on Monday in Hanover. So far, only the Oldenburg police have been using HD camera technology to transfer and instruct drivers of trucks and vans who type. According to Brockmann, an exact time for the nationwide introduction has not yet been determined.
They’re separate in a lot of places
You can argue it is not React's fault as usual, but this is how:

<Button styles={[...]}
onPress={() => setState('active')} />

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
active: { backgroundColor: 'purple' }
})

progressing into:

<Button styles={[...]}
onPress={() => setState('active')}
onHover={() => setState('hover')} />

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
active: { backgroundColor: 'purple' }
hover: { backgroundColor: 'blue' }
})

which is frictionless and 'clean', vs the alternative:

const styles = StyleSheet.create({
button: {
'&:hover': { backgroundColor: 'blue' }
}
})

The states here doesn't make a lot of sense, but I think it illustrates the idioms involved and how you end up focused on JS. This is so common I bet most devs who entered the market using React will see absolutely no issue in that.

Another familiar case is not having direct control over a parent/child component's styles, only their state, making it impossible to do it with CSS. Not exposing `style` is very common in component libraries, and using CSS-in-JS means you can't easily target them with CSS selectors.
Yikes, racist undertones.
Researchers document first case of Covid-19 reinfection
Yup. This is the difference between high art cinema and entertainment films. I think a lot of people see films that are generally seen as art (such as Wes Anderson films, Lost in Translation, Spike Jonze's Her) as 'pretentious' because they don't see cinema as something that can be taken seriously and are looking for something else out of films. To them, seeing a film ask something of them is bizarre and uncomfortable, like being asked by a performer to come up on stage.
Paris is best in July and August, when the locals leave.
> react let’s you do pretty much whatever you want

Ok, so I haven't gotten around to learning React yet, but I understand it to be the next iteration of what Angular, which I have learned, was trying to be. Angular "let you do whatever you wanted", too, which made me wonder why it was even there in the first place. Javascript lets me do whatever I want, I just have to write a lot of code to do that. In theory, a framework ought to reduce the amount of code I had to write, but I found that I was actually writing more code to work around the 90% of things Angular didn't do than I would if I just used Javascript and DOM manipulation. Frameworks that "let you do whatever you want" usually end up being the thing they're supposed to replace with extra steps.
Is that stable?
>>> "... Farnam Street’s tips on remembering what you read. ... writing your notes on the book itself ..."

Almost all of what I read is not on paper. If I'm reading something that I'm serious about remembering, I'll create a precis ("a concise summary of essential points, statements, or facts" [1]). My goal is to reduce the size of the content by 90% or more (10 page article becomes a 1 page precis, 200 page book becomes 20 page (or smaller) precis. The process of creating the precis seems to enhance my recall of the important information, and if I need to refresh my memory of the material, I can do it in a tenth of the time.

[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pr%C3%A9cis
The browser does have this effect on Linux systems with pulseaudio. You will hear lots of static in your speakers, and after that the audio will be distorted until you restart pulseaudio.

What I cannot confirm is the relation of this to the speech-to-text engine. Reader mode most likely utilizes text to speech.
> because marriage is not something you "do", it's something you make.

This is a bold assumption that will not hold in many countries and regions that consider marriage as something that is "done", especially if the act that proclaims it as "done" it's performed in the presence of some holy man, in a holy building, and if the marriage is, in any way, legally or morally "irreversible" or impossible to effectively unmake even for strongest and most plausible reasons to do so.

Such rules, counter-intuitively, make it much harder for marriages to be happy. If a marriage is "done", then there's no point in trying to "make" it - whether it means to make it better, make it worthwhile, or even make it happen with someone better-suited for the role.
If it's still in production, it's most likely still getting some level of maintenance attention as well. When I was an undergrad I did some coding for some of the professors at the college. A lot of scientific programming is stuff that gets written and run once and never run again. Try dusting off some 10-year-old C++ and try compiling it with the current version of your compiler.
I use zettr app for note taking.
A private slack (with friends) for para.
Took the udemy superblearning course a few years ago and picked up a lot of great tips from that too.
It's just apples and oranges. Web pages should never even consider using React. Maybe a bit of vanilla JS/jQuery here and there for whatever interactivity you need, and then server side rendering for the content. Building web applications on the other hand, has been revolutionized by the use of React. I would never seriously consider any other UI rendering library right now because of the sheer volume of support and active development around it and its' ecosystem. And hand rolling vanilla JS in a large scale web application quickly becomes a maintainability nightmare. The alternative of doing things old school with server side templates is ok, but it massively slows down your iteration speed through reliance on tight coupling between backend and frontend.
It's interesting that it's often easier to get something 25+ years old running because I need fewer things. Not so hard to find, say "DosBox" and and old version of Turbo Pascal.
I would actually have said that Bar Harbor and the Old Port area of Portland were more alike than different other than the surrounding small city in Portland's case where tourists don't generally go. And Bar Harbor has cruise ships although they've continued to fight off actually building a pier for them.
The last few holidays I've had I make a point to look up whether the towns we're staying in have any second hand bookshops, and to damn well visit them - with the ever present chance of slight frustration due to some odd opening hours that seem unique to second hand bookstores in such a way as to appear to be saying "you must earn your visit by rescheduling your holiday around me".

It's possible to be correct in three guesses what the owner will look like just by knowing the opening hours.
I mean, Python 2->3 alone is gonna kill this challenge for most people.
What make you keep learning Go once you've tasted C# delights?
I'm extremely glad to see that Microsoft is publicly stating in court what many indie developers already thought: Apple is throwing millions of unrelated game companies under the bus, just to get their revenge on Epic.

In my opinion, it doesn't get any more retaliatory than that, which means Apple is most likely very far down the wrong side of antitrust law.
Scientific programming is a perfect storm of extremely smart people, with strong abilities to do it themselves, distain for the subject matter, and no direct experience with the price of failing to write portable code. In some circumstances, even parameterizing scripts so that they aren't re-edited with new values for every experiment is an uphill fight, never mind having promotion through environments.
It's worth remembering that while his tech stack is low tech stuff, the methods Pieter used to build a community is basically the marketing equivalent of using React, powered by a microservices architecture using multiple languages and feeding data from a sharded database with multiple points of redundancy and cache layers.
Optimally, one would leave before S truly HTF. In that case, you would have access to your BTC elsewhere. A few decades ago, Gold sewn into clothes served the same purpose.

I don't understand your money math there, btw. If 1 oz. of Gold will buy you a say tailored suit before SHTF, historically it will still buy you that suit after SHTF. That's one of the reasons there are Gold bugs (not I) out there. Conversely, your $2000.00 will buy you that suit today, but may only be enough to buy a carton of milk after SHTF.
Mkws(1): fast, simple static site generator based on sh
> pumping out features with no regard for how they will be maintained

That doesn't seem to be the position that's being advanced here. TFA, for example, starts out talking all about the author fell in love with React for its easy maintainability, before moving on to the need to make some tweaks for the sake of user experience, and finally ending by proposing a design that is based on a fairly principled set of design tradeoffs.

And the parent commenter, at least to my reading, isn't saying, "phooey, who cares about maintainability," they're saying that, while they don't like React, they do have to acknowledge that there is pragmatic value in it not being so rigid that you can't just grind out the code when business realities mean that that's what you need to do.

Long story short, if what you're trying to advocate is a flexible, middle-path-type approach, I don't know that this is the best place to go searching for a debate on the subject.
Arguably, data is just as important. Academics hoard their data and try to milk out every paper they can from it. The reward system is based on publishing as many papers as possible rather than just making a meaningful contribution.
> What do you mean "defaults to GNOME"? Server defaults to no DE at all I thought (been a year or two since I've used it) and Fedora defaults to GNOME anyway.

The "workstation" version uses GNOME.
Kashgar Destroyed: A Metaphor for China and the World
No, there is no different approach. You are misunderstanding what is being addressed in the article. This is not about bare metal vs cloud or autoscaling vs no-autoscaling/overscaling or developer time vs resource costs.

The article talks about injecting failures at various points in the system, understanding how the system behaves under this stress, putting in counter-measures for the resulting problems, and eventually re-running this to validate those counter-measures.
Virtual Clusters for Kubernetes – Benefits and Use Cases
I agree that DC seems more unique to me than other cities. It's done a good job of retaining it's historical architecture almost everywhere. The Navy Yard is the only area I can think of that's switched over to the modern glass style, but even there the height restrictions result in buildings that look a bit different from the glass skyscrapers of other cities.
Boston is rather distinct from most other cities, even those in the northeast megalopolis, as a function of its age. Boston's been officially around for 380 years, and it shows.

Boston's Back Bay is very distinctly French influenced, down to its Academic-style townhouses. Beacon Hill is an eclectic mix of multiple old American styles (Colonial Revival, Greek Revival and Federal). Charlestown is very distinctly Colonial. Downtown's largest influence was Art Deco of the early to mid-20th century, though there are still distinct remnants of Georgian architecture and Colonial architecture about the fringes, and the obvious example of Classical Revival that is South Station. You have places like Jamaica Plains with its fens and string of parks referred to as, "the Emerald Necklace." It has a seaport district, and neighborhoods which were distinctly built around fishing. The Leather District is Romanesque. Dorchester has its Italianate mansards, as does the South End with its additional Greek Revival and Late Victorian buildings. Mission Hill is both Colonial Revival and Late Victorian. ... and on, and on.

Then throughout you have the triple-decker tenement, which is a staple of New England and the northeast in general. It's why Boston and the immediate surrounding area is as dense as it is, with cities like Cambridge at nearly 17,000 people per square mile, and Somerville at 19,300 people per square mile.

Then you have things like the tree under which George Washington founded the U.S. Army (Brattle Park in Cambridge, just outside Harvard Square), with surrounding cemeteries with 400+ year old gravestones. Or windmills built in the early 18th century converted into powder houses prior to the Revolutionary War. Old 18th century mill buildings (including the one where the American flag was sewn). Random gravestones dotting sidewalks of busy and popular neighborhoods noting where people died, with gritty epitaphs like: X, a minuteman, was slain by the British. "I am too old to run."

Boston's nickname is, "The Athens of America". Everyone who goes there agrees that it lives up to its nickname.
I'm sure large volume sellers don't pay 30 cents per transaction.

Also, if you think a bit no one's going to order just one channel. You could also charge for a year in advance if it's that cheap.

Why do you care about Hollywood's profits anyway?
I don’t know if I’m missing something because I’m on mobile or have ads blocked but this article seems devoid of content.

We keep going through this. COVID rates spike, people see death rates don’t immediately spike and make all sorts of claims about policy (we should open schools! In person dining!) then death rates do spike because they always lag tests by a month for a variety of reasons. In the U.S. there’s also the impact of the states (Texas, Florida, Georgia) that have chosen to stop reporting accurate data at all. Out of sight out of mind.

And don’t forget many of the (even young) people who aren’t dying are going through weeks or months of hell and may have debilitating symptoms for an indeterminate length of time.

The only sane policy is to shut everything nonessential down until every case can be thoroughly traced and testing capacity is such that anyone can get a test at any time for any reason. If the U.S. had done that in March this would be over already and going out in public wouldn’t be paying Russian roulette with your future.
Well, that's not very different from what I'm saying. Working for a year, getting fired then coasting half a year on minimum welfare plus a bit of savings - this sounds plausible (if not very comfortable) based on what you're saying as well.
The fundamental problem here, as you note, is that scientists are rarely also engineers, and don't really share our desiderata. The point is to develop and publish a result, and engineering analysis code for resiliency is of secondary concern at best when that code isn't likely to need to be used again once the paper is finished.

The "Software Carpentry" movement [1] has in the past decade tried to address this, as I recall. It's very much in the vein of the "basic literacy" course you suggest. I can't say how far they've gotten, and I'm no longer adjacent to academia, but based on what I do still see of academics' code, there's a long way still to go.

[1] https://software-carpentry.org/
This article brings up scientific code from 10 years ago, but how about code from .. right now? Scientists really need to publish their code artifacts, and we can no longer just say "Well they're scientists or mathematicians" and allow that as an excuse for terrible code with no testing specs. Take this for example:

https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/blob/e8f7864ad150f40022...

This was used by the Imperial College for COVID-19 predictions. It has race conditions, seeds the model multiple times, and therefore has totally non-deterministic results[0]. Also, this is the cleaned up repo. The original is not available[1].

A lot of my homework from over 10 years ago still runs (Some require the right Docker container: https://github.com/sumdog/assignments/). If journals really care about the reproducibility crisis, artifact reviews need to be part of the editorial process. Scientific code needs to have tests, a minimal amount of test coverage, and code/data used really need to be published and run by volunteers/editors in the same way papers are reviewed, even for non-computer science journals.

[0] https://lockdownsceptics.org/code-review-of-fergusons-model/

[1] https://github.com/mrc-ide/covid-sim/issues/179
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Missing a last name: "Anatomy of Lisp by John Allen".
Collective action, especially purchase preferences, are notoriously hard to change but that's where the action comes from. The trend of putting every dollar into square footage, number of bedrooms/bathrooms, didn't come from nowhere. They are easily quantifiable metrics about a house that sorta-kinda-if-you-squint give you an impression of livability and they're what every house searching tool gives users to filter on and $/sq. ft is the most prominently displayed metric for "value." Worse, even if you don't care about playing stupid games, you still likely have to play if you ever want to sell your house.

Changing how we evaluate the quality of a house changes how they're built.
Would make SEO much easier, and I guess would increase the amount of spam on Google. Any website can return the search results that it would like.

I guess search engines could apply a score to each site so that those who spam, get down-graded, but then how would they do the scoring? By crawling? Then you still need a crawler and might as well build your own index.
Ask HN: What would happen if we prevented the creation of billionaires?
What would be the fallout, under the hypothetical assumption that we manage to outlaw having a net worth above a billion minus one (or any scientifically determined stopping point for net worth)? I think the narrative of inequality is very much wealth driven, though there are other forms as well. Would it have a major impact on the way the world works? Would we instead have much more millionaires, with very little impact on the bottom of the pyramid?

The poorest section should have the maximum utility from additional income. However, is there any form of benefit the society can derive from individuals controlling wealth at scale?
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Making this mandatory might have bad downstream effects like prohibiting publication of some research at all (GPT-X I am looking at you)
New World’s Fastest Internet Can Download Entire ‘Netflix’ in One Second
True, it's not the same as masses of workers picketing factories. Not everything transfers from one case to the other. But the fact is that today app developers, or restaurants, are as fungible as factory workers used to be in the nineteenth century. Don't like the pay and the hours? F.. off then, there's the queue at the gates of the factory of people trying to be hired for the day. You can look for a job somewhere else (I'm sorry if the factories are all mine here).

Granted, it might not work. But it could be tried, and it would need to be enforced by regulation as workers right were. Where's the right to strike and to let the reasons for the strike be known, in these environments? Can I force Apple to stop and restart the sales of my app at will, without consequences? Can I inform my customers of the reasons I did it? Can the restaurants of a city organize and stop deliveries in a coordinated way for a week?
> I spend most of my free time consuming literature, films and music. Trying to assimilate as much of the canon as I can is what makes me feel alive and in touch with the beauty of the world. Consequently, if a person doesn't share my tastes, then that means that they don’t share my life, and that seems like a bad foundation for any relationship. I do miss companionship, but I would rather refrain from entering into a marriage than into a marriage that would be an exercise in mutual frustration or force me to give up that which gives my life meaning and purpose.

Perhaps I'm unique in this sense, but for me pursuing my own self-satisfaction has never left me feeling that happy or fulfilled. In fact, I suspect it's what fueled my depression throughout most of my twenties.

I always thought if I had enough money, or if I started a successful enough business maybe I'd be happy. But every time I achieved a goal I always felt more empty and confused. I might feel happiness for a little while, but then I needed something else and so the struggle started again.

Something I slowly started to realise in my late twenties was that these goals of mine gave me some surface level meaning, but the deepest meaning came from doing things for others, especially those I love.

I think this is what a lot of people misunderstand about children and relationships today. It's very hard to find deeper meaning from an enjoyment of literature or music. I'm not saying these thing can't bring enjoyment or enrich your life, but they don't typically give someone a reason to wake up in the morning either.

Today people too often think that partying, casual sex or other selfish pursuits will make them happy, but I suspect it has the exact opposite effect. Finding someone who isn't perfect but who you can love and dedicate yourself to, or having children and giving everything you can for them, these are things that can bring us true meaning.
I'm continuously surprised that Code Review isn't a part of the review process for journal acceptance. The majority of academic code for a given paper isn't particularly large - and the benefits are significant.
On hacker news, can we please submit https link instead of http. An S goes a long way in this hostile internet environment now days.
You can always run old Python2 stuff in a Docker container, so long as the dependencies haven't disappeared.
I still use Windows binaries daily which I wrote and last modified over 20 years ago. I don't expect that to change in the next ten years either.
Apparently this was the operating system that python was originally developed for.
>but obviously people are different, and are operating under a number of different incentives and pressures.

Most people are not that different... I'd say, from my experience, there's a limited number of stereotypes most peoples lives/character etc falls into, and most of the variation is in lesser details...
ahh that explains it, very good to know, thank you.