skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't that come down to what the view of what someone's 'normal' palette is? We say that someone's judgement is impaired under the influence of alcohol, but say the opposite when the use of SSRI's is applied, with the only difference to force someone to conforming And at least from where I sit, the methods strike parallels to what an abuser or cultists use. The only difference I can tell is intent, but that drags into question whether or not the ends justify the means.

>I'm speaking up on behalf of the people in your life that you're currently telling yourself will be better off without you. Because they won't be better off, and they'll carry the pain of your absence as a wound that doesn't heal.

I think you underestimate the resiliency of most people. A death is a death irregardless of the cause; ultimately whether they'd want to or not, practicality forces someone to move on and the adapt to the absence as the new normal.

That said for me personally, you'd made a reasonable but incorrect assumption in this case; most cases you'd be correct. There's three people that I can name that could be directly impacted. The first one's feelings, I do not care about about. The second lives 2000 miles away and we have very sparse communication. It would be years, likely decades before that one is potentially suspicious enough to investigate more closely. The third is growing old with a family history of dementia.

I have only work acquaintances aside of those three and they have never contacted or interacted with me outside of work. But there's little reason for them to discover anything given that I would resign normally with a forward means of contact; such an action isn't out of character for me. And I have no friends. Quite literally, actually. My parents forbade friendship as a child until after I graduated university, and there was little need to change things after that.

FWIW also; yours and my experiences with anti depressants differ greatly. Three different SSRI's (prozac, paxil, and zoloft) of various doses been tried for years and as far as I can tell changed nothing except for the experience of withdrawal symptoms when I finally grew tired of the RX dance.

This isn't something that occurred over a period of years. For the part I just don't think about it, there were enough demands from me academically and professionally. And it's always been a comfort to me, know that no matter how terrible things seemed that there was at least one thing I could do.

...I just spent the last 20 minutes staring at the screen trying put into words why I went out and solidified my plans but truth be told: I don't know why; objectively there's little in my life to explain it. I just did, and I felt better once it was done.

.........

Let's say, hypothetically for a moment, your peer's alchemy kit works. What happens when they take that core piece of who I am away from me, and there is nothing else left? What then?
Grandma's hate IRC. The text is just too damn small! How can ya see anything?!
It's not like most of us are completely helpless when it comes to crossing streets. We know when it might be unsafe, and if a bus is approaching and you tell me to go, I wouldn't. But it might help a lot to actually reach the right street/find the second inaccessible traffic light/etc. You could also make sure that you describe the potential route to be taken, which might make it safer still. Sometimes a "A little left" or "You're turning onto another road" can be very helpful, which I assume was more or less the case. :)
PHP has calmed quite down over the years. The framework wars have been mostly decided between a handful of them, we dont have much in the way of package management issues and you dont have to compile it.
Jeezus, that's a lot of code to get a decent console. On Mac I just install iTerm. Does everything have to be long-winded and verbose with C#?
Apple should make the edges less sharp as well. I just got the 13 inch M1 Pro, it's too sharp. The 2014-2015 Pro case is just perfect.
I think it's very unlikely they don't play a huge role. Accessibility of all kind is essential, and the bar can never be low enough. I think the age of the internet has taught us this much.
> I mean it was the language that was perfectly dominant and acceptable at the time

No. Java never was what you're claiming.
I wonder if the author of the article would agree with you on that. He made a distinction between specialized services and general web applications, which reminded me of this article about why Go isn't necessarily a good fit for the latter: https://chadaustin.me/2016/04/two-kinds-of-servers/
Interesting! Any suggestions for where to start?
I just get stuck in an infinite cloudflare loop :(
Went the other way, from Linux to the Mac. Don't have a lot of problems with permissions and whatnot getting in the way of what I'm doing. When I used Linux (it's been a while), I got tired of having problems doing basic things like setting up wifi so I just switched and haven't regretted it yet.
Not just bay area, I grew up using it 250 miles north of there
Re-introducing Hash Indexes in PostgreSQL
Using Standard Web APIs to Mix P2P Protocols [video]
If you run it in a directory that contains a file named `thing`, the command will not execute. You should be marking thing as `.PHONY`.

It's really easy to specify things incorrectly in a Makefile and not notice for a very long time.
> They're insignificant in comparison to the fossil fuel alternative.

Weighing options is a good stance, but i'm pretty sure "insignificant" is not the word to describe problems caused by the nuclear industry. I don't want to sound judgy, but feel free to do some reading on the topic.

Also, you seem to dismiss my central point that nuclear doesn't work without considerable amounts of fossil fuel. Even if that were the case, what is it powering? Almost all these electric devices use lithium which also takes a lot of fossil fuel to extract and refine.

It would be interesting to read a full study on the requirements on fossil fuel to produce an electric car and feed it over its lifetime (accounting for the short life of electric batteries), depending on how energy is produced. I'm not entirely sure, but it may be just as bad as a combustion car. For hybrids, it's not even a debate as they get the environmental downsides of both worlds.
It’s also one of the things that was satirized in the SNL “Californians” skits:

https://youtu.be/Tt-tG6ufH90
As with all software languages and frameworks - they are good for some things, bad for everything else.
If someone is making a static business informational page, it’s significantly more likely that they’re using WordPress and jQuery than e.g. React [1]. Like, significantly significantly — 20x more likely to be using jQuery (which is on a full 83% of all webpages) than React, and 30x more likely to be using WordPress than Gatsby or whatever.

People on HN talk about React and friends because they’re building client-side apps that deserve full frameworks. But it’s absolutely not representative of most web development.

[1] https://css-tricks.com/how-the-web-is-really-built/
There was never, and shall never be, a particular reason to anoint Java - or any other development environment - as some kind of universal panacea “one true language”, and demanding everyone’s attention for your own pet preference is beyond hubris and into the realms of absurdity.

> All those kiddies

You chose the wrong venue for this remark.
This is an outstanding piece and the reason so many hard working, well-principled people of all persuasions feel under great stress.
You're conflating the monstrosity of J2EE (which admittedly was a mess, and completely unrelated to Java itself) with the "Java Language" by which I mean the syntax of the language itself.

Yes the younger/newer generation took a look at all the XML files in J2EE and said "Isn't there something simpler", and so now today we ended up with JavaScript running on the server side (NodeJS). TypeScript came to the rescue over the last 5 years, but now we have a world with TS and Java. The solution should have been to make Java run in the Browser, and not JavaScript, but I understand the history, and how, when, why that occurred. I've been coding 30ish years myself, like you.
Rust is a lot easier than C++, although there is an initial slightly steeper learning curve.
> you can even update a prop at the top of the component tree and it won't re-render children that didn't actually change

That's true; the upside of immutability was supposed to be more efficiency when doing reconciliation. But in reality every large React app I've ever seen re-renders entire swaths of the component tree unnecessarily due to complexity - especially now with Context, nullifying that.

It seems that a whole lot of people actually prefer mutability. See the popularity of MobX, and even libraries like seamless-immutable actually have the goal of offering a mutation interface that generates immutable objects underneath. If you can have mutations and correctness, sounds like a good deal. I've been using Svelte a lot recently, and it's a breathe of fresh air to not worry about component lifecycle.

On top of that, React doesn't do inequality checks unless you explicitly use PureComponent, or wrap function components in memo(), so you need a lot of manual work to actually get that benefit. It's basically the inverse of having to call `rerender` everywhere.
Ah, PayPal URLs without a country code specified defaults to only showing or returning search results for the country they geolocate you to.

Non-American users can access the Signal PayPal page at Paypal’s US site: https://www.paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/3675786

Not sure what the logistics of sending money to the USA PayPal Giving Fund are for non-Americans.
City Councilor: "Petition denied!"

(5 minutes later, on cell phone)

"Okay son I held him off for a few more weeks. How's it going out there with the metal detector?"
I am a big Rust enthusiast and I agree. It will be efficient and fast but it will he harder than using C#/Go etc
I mean we, as members of the privacy-conscious technically-savvy group of internet users, are concerned. That doesn't provide much data on how many actual end-users are freaked out. It could be that when this is all over WhatsApp isn't too bad off.
search for "design flaw" on the issue tracker
With untyped languages, essentially everything is a (shitty) sum type because of runtime tagging. Tags <-> sum type.
> Patents are for non-obvious inventions

IIUC, the standard is regrettably non-obvious to someone of ordinary skill in the art. "Sure it obvious to her, but she's an expert!" can be a valid defense of patent non-obviousness. :/
In the 1970s, Marc Okrand, who later created the Klingon language, taught an introductory course in linguistics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. As an exercise to make students aware of language variation, he distributed a questionnaire that asked what terms the students used for various concepts. It also asked where the students were from. I was a TA for the course and helped to compile the students’ responses.

As I recall, some of the questions were about well-known differences within American English, such as soft drink vs. soda vs. pop or sneakers vs. tennis shoes. But a few were specific to California and were intended to show differences between the dialects of the northern and southern parts of the state.

For example, to the question “If you’re going to the city, where are you going?,” most southern Californians responded “to a city” or something similar, while northern Californians responded “to San Francisco.” There might have been one or two East Coasters who answered “to New York City.”

Another question was “Name a freeway.” The northern Californians almost invariably gave a number (“101,” “5”), while southern Californians gave a name (“the Harbor Freeway,” “the Golden State”).

I moved away from California a couple of years later and have lost track of linguistic trends there. Have southern Californians shifted away from using names for freeways to using numbers?
That’s why we have an easy way - just pull up IntelliJ, select Express App, and be done with it.
If you don't think side channel attacks are a threat vector on your single tenancy system... (you can leverage these vectors to gain access to privileged data/etc. through unprivileged processes). They're differently threatening to you on your own metal, but as long as your systems take user input somewhere, they're a threat vector.

As to KPIs: there are significant cultural differences between providers. That was extremely evident while evaluating them. The differences in approach, thought, consideration and priorities between even the big 3 was substantial.

I'm curious as to why AWS doesn't run a bug bounty, although I could probably guess (lots of their sec teams have background in the intelligence community, etc.).

I'd also like to re-iterate that this is not 'cloud', but specific cloud providers. There were quite a few I looked at that were...unaware that security might be a thing (full push-to-prod creds on every developers laptop, working from cafes around the world, etc.).
Perhaps, I've only seen front end projects at FAANG and personal projects. That said, my front projects have at least an eslint config and usually a CI/CD deployment strategy if not full on tests.
> I don't mean Java was perfect from day one and forevermore.

Neither do I. My point was that your comment didn't use any features specific to Java, so if you replaced "Java" with literally any other language you'd have the exact same argument. The details you added here like that it was "perfectly dominant and acceptable" help in that regard (not that I agree with where you're going), but your original comment would have been equally valid with literally any programming language.
But will the rescue sub work in Martian caves?
Yup! That's why Haskell is still the best language for business logic. Rust is for programmers at large companies trying to avoid the business (logic). I'm quite sympathetic, I would be doing that too at one of those. But when I need to program something a non-programmer actually cares about, Haskell is the way to go.
This is a very good intiative from Tesla despite the fact that Elon has been in denial and insisted for a long time that stereo vision is all we need for autonomous driving since human can perform autonomous navigation with mainly using stereo vision.
Go is amazing, probably my favourite language I've ever learned. The rate of development is insane I find, you can just bang out straight forward easy to read code and everything you'd ever need to write a web API is there in the standard library.

Where I work we've shipped Go APIs using just the standard library running on like 1/10 of the hardware we were using in the .NET (not core) world and handling 10,000s requests per second. Perhaps that was just because we had really old shitty .NET code though.
Lol. I'm well aware many users on HackerNews are very young and very left-wing, and they take offense at the drop of a hat, while sitting in safe spaces petting kittens. It's ok. I don't mind.
Will they avoid the Transparent Comparator fudge that C++ has because the allocator is part of the type?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20317413/what-are-transp...
Facebook blocks a wide spectrum of users from posting in groups
> ...most people who start companies become self-made millionaires, which was the premise of your original post.

This is a complete fabrication. I never said that, directly or indirectly. In fact, I've said multiple times in this thread that 9/10 startups fail and that startup life is a "lottery" but people still choose to do it for reasons X, Y, or Z.
Going Passwordless
Something being Electron doesn't mean it's ready to be a web app it means the UI is web and the rest of the app is somewhere between "the standard web sandbox" and "a native app" in terms of what it has access to do.
You don't want anything from me, yet you accuse me of not being emphatic. Or you just want to help me to communicate better, but then, how about reading other people's comments without prejudice?

The correct way to show empathy to you seems to be to show pity or say "oh my god it is so bad, I could never understand it, because I have it undeservedly so much better than you", or something along those lines?

"You constantly ask "What is the point?" Why do you think the woman wrote about her spoon theory? What is her point? Do you really think padolsey wrote the comment on relativistic thinking to play thought police?"

Indeed, I asked myself the question, I think it is a valid one. I thought her description was interesting and I therefore upvoted it. But I also resented her for the "you are all so clueless and could never understand how hard it is for me" vibes. To be honest, I get some "identity politics" vibes from that, it reminds me of the "white people can never know how bad it is for black people" or "men can never know how bad it is for women" nonsense, boiling down to "I'm so special". I don't like it also because it is so self-defeating. The spoon woman seems to think everybody else has unlimited spoons, which is of course not true.

And the relativistic thinking comment - I don't know? Maybe he wants us to be aware at all times, and make everything we have our privileged access to, also accessible to people with severe illnesses? Why did he make the comment?
How does this happen? You can kind of see your usage quickly run to 100% right? I’d think this is one of those moments that someone is permanently observing the usage to increase capacity when necessary.

Also, why can’t I send a message any time, instead of just sometimes?
Note, the effect of this is actually block a wide swath of users from posting on FB groups entirely. It's an extremely "broad brush" action.
I think you're craving a 21st century version of Emacs, where the development environment is baked into the product. I agree it's awesome, and I think the browser comes the closest, but you're right, it's not there yet. I fear the reason is mostly security: browsers are used by billions, but Emacs benefits from relative obscurity.
corrected, thanks.
I'm using Brext now!
He's a terrorist and needs to be eliminated off the web, big tech is complicit in actively supporting a seditious and evil president. Zuckerberg has is causing unimaginable damage. Sad day
> They do exactly the same as your `rerender` function here, it's just nicely hidden

That's the whole point. React does this for you in the background. You don't have to think about it.

> There will be no more of a mess of event listeners than you'd get using React.

There will be more of a mess because you have to programmatically update elements.

With React, I can alter global state and every single element that uses that state gets re-rendered. That isn't possible with this framework.
I switched to Brext. Happy so far!
Actually, JSX is the thing that keeps me from using React ;-)

I prefer the template syntax of .vue files or similar to the one riot.js uses. They use basically the same syntax html uses, just on a smaller scale and limited to a single component. That way you don't have to invent new was of embedding markup in code.
Mostly use other languages for back-end systems, but I will definitely be checking out NestJS soon.

With regards to TS, generally, it takes a lot of effort to get it to work. More often than not, getting to that point in a way that is actually useful/practical and cost effective, requires yet another library to be installed.

Just look at the TSLint/ESLint migration problems, the popularity of all those TS runners such as ts-node/ts-node-dev/tsx-watch/ts-babel/etc., the complete lack of interoperability between all those separate pieces.

Many issues and even proposed fixes to parts of the TS ecosystem - which is all community ran - are either ignored, left open because no one seems to be able to figure it out, or deemed to be out of scope.

I don't know how to fix this honestly. Some leadership from Microsoft would be a good start.
Except that your children are >1460 days old and >2190 days old.

You count age from 0 in most English-speaking countries (there are places where "1 year old" means 0<=x<365 days old). When you are less than 1, we count with smaller units.

So, my N=3 sample (you and your two children) says we use 0-based counting.

Thank you for making my point. :)
> Texas has a huge map of vaccination locations across the whole state, with the ones with availability highlighted.

Texas also has an “accessibility version” of this, that is an Excel file that is being constantly updated and is far more navigable. It can be sorted in ascending/descending order by primary/secondary/tertiary criteria (Excel columns), like “date last updated”, “time last updated”, and “number of vaccines available”.

Nevertheless, rollout is a mess in Texas. I probably spent 20+ hours this week trying to get a vaccine for my elderly family members.

In a lot of states, it’s nearly impossible for somebody 65+ at this point to get a vaccine slot without their children/nieces/nephews looking near constantly and perpetually.

Some of the signup websites also have messed up APIs. If the young person signing up their relatives is not very technical for their age group and is not extremely vigilant, then it is unlikely that they will be successful at this point.

While Texas is not doing super terribly at releasing its vaccine reserve, as of yesterday it was the #48 state in terms of vaccinated people per capita.
C++ didn't have variadic templates so passing along a stream with an operator was more ergonomic enough and typesafe.
Yeah, dump it with a note that it's just for yourself and that you have no interest in maintaining it. Someone might take over! Otherwise, it may at least be an inspiration.
On the BBC there was an episode where CRON was discussed. It showed a man who peeled an apple threw away the apple and ate the peelings. It seems bizarre but I think this will be a trend in a few years. It ticks boxes of less food waste, less bulk, high nutrition, ultra low calories. Whether it works or not who knows since many diets tend to be for status not health; veganism with its absence of B12, Atkins with its high fat, Paleo based on inaccurate pre-history.
The actual non-obvious test is not a child, but "a person skilled in the art" (of software in this case).

You also are talking about the idea, not the invention. The idea was not patented, the technical invention (effectively flow-charts for how to have a button click trigger an auth cookie check, have databases retrieve credit card numbers, etc), which is not obvious to a child.

But, I would argue, the details of the invention would be clear enough to someone skilled in the art, another competent programmer.
Perhaps you have this forum confused with Reddit. By my estimation, everyone here is over forty, either in body or in soul, and by way of particularly cringeworthy example the correspondent you most unfortunately chose to rag on was already a computer scientist of international note twenty-five years ago. Many, if not most, of the designers of the new programming languages and paradigms under discussion are of similar breadth and depth of experience.

There is no monopoly on the grumpy old fart act; there is only a difference in their willingness to continue pushing back the boundaries of ignorance.

All of which is notwithstanding the necessary and essential vigour of youthful perspectives, c.f. Seymour Cray’s notable preference for working with recently graduated engineers both for their energy and their fresh ideas.
Ok I'm sorry but that's what the money is for.
Firing an abusive client reinforces how much you care for your employees. Put their needs first and you’ll be repaid with their loyalty and trust.

I would rather have no business than one that needs abusive clients. Luckily we’re blessed in this field with many employment options.
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