skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see where you are coming from.
Eventually, CryptoTask will be seen as a regular freelance platform with low fees and accent on security for onsite deals.
Technology, which does scare away potential clients, provides that.
In case of a dispute, you won't spend days / weeks resolving the issue, it'll be automated and the outcome will be decided by real users.
> Function builders are a really awkward unnecessary feature that was implemented so that SwiftUI could have a decent looking DSL.

Ugh. I agree. I haven't actually used SwiftUI in anger yet, so I try to reserve my judgement, but the whole thing seems like a lot of magic and complexity to me (not to mention reports of some performance issues/gotchas).

Didn't they also add some weird dynamic JavaScripty property getters or something?
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I see a nose; looks like it sticks out about 6" past the bottom of the windshield? And the wikipedia article makes it sound like that is exactly the portion used as a "defomation area" to protect the legs of those in the front of the cab?
If you were a blender user, you would understand.
The fact that every nightly news program includes a report on the stock market (which they invariably conflate with "the economy") but not any of the things you mention is kind of my point. We used to glorify that work. Now the best we can hope for is that it gets ignored lest some senator notice and cut their funding to "eliminate government waste".
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> How many people do you think are gonna go out and buy it [...] because it loads faster

Probably not a lot, although this game is still selling at a staggering 20M copies a year, so there is probably something to be said here.

> How many people do you think are gonna [...] spend more on microtransactions - because it loads faster?

Probably a lot. GTA is raking an enormous amount of cash from microtranscations, more than 500M$ a year and it is still growing.
That 2% of the population already bought the game is irrelevant, what really matters is what percentage of the current player base will come back, or simply play more thanks to this patch?
Even if you think it's just 1%, that's a huge boost in mostly recurring revenues, and I would bet hard that there isn't just 1 gamer over 100 that would be bothered by 3-7 minutes loading time to the point of not (or barely) playing anymore, I know I cannot stand that.

You can also do a search on the GTA Online subreddit for anything related to loading complaints, you will drown in results.

So yes, I think this is worth a fuck ton of money.
That was docker's real value add, making it easy and developer centric. Previous containerization technologies were heavily ops-centric. I come from an ops background and I remember thinking at the time that Docker was in some ways a developer workaround to barriers that ops set up to limit what they could do and protect them from themselves.
Additionally to everything else in this thread it'd be nice to see better support for monorepos in the github UI as well.

Something like the ability to have github.com/<org>/<repo>/<subproject>/issues be a shard of all the issues for a subproject.

You can do that with tagging, but that's a bit of a PITA because that's all fairly bad and unscalable of a UI.
There is good advice here. Only key point missing: wear sunscreen
What Did Sun’s OSPO Do?
But that’s the great thing about java, it is still a pretty lean language even with its age.
The R packages plyr/reshape2 and subsequently dplyr/tidyr. Data manipulation in base R can be pretty painful (awk arguably even more so, and Pandas didn't exist yet), and going from that to an environment that's syntactically the nicest option available today for complicated manipulations of tabular data was a game changer. I know it's become fashionable to hate on the Tidyverse lately, but IMO it's the single biggest reason (though there's also a very long list of smaller reasons) that R is still relevant in industry.
Their software defined networking & virtualization was a big deal too. Many of the primitives of on-prem or "LAN" networking were translated into the cloud.
It's not the percentage of intact mRNA that's the problem, it's what the other bits of mRNA happen to do.
Except the primary design goal of a laptop remains portability to some extent. And not having a screen would make it an incomplete device.
I moved from Macbook to a ThinkPad (trackpoint+trackpad+mouse buttons+trackpad buttons).

I never used gestures. But I seriously miss inertia scrolling. You never realize how much a pain in the ass it is scrolling web pages until you don't have it. Firefox has it, but you have to turn on an environment variable to get it and it feels a bit weird to me. Chrome does not have it all on Linux. And the way they are implementing it means that every app has to reimplement inertia scrolling on its own. Sigh. At least you can hold down the middle mouse and use the trackpoint to swiftly scroll.
As stated in the essay, they now operate as "International Exhibitions", not "World's Fairs." There's some nuance to this, but the problem is still the same. These events are national branding exercises & architecture competitions, not a place where the future becomes real.
Property values generally rise because an area has a very attractive jobs market. Overall, it's a benefit to society to incentivize people with no income to move out an area with a lower cost of living. This incentivizes more people move there and do productive work, which can be taxed and distributed.
And you make that trade by using another browser (or Internet search service, email service, etc).
Well... yeah, it wasn't very good. I realize now "latter part" wasn't clear - I meant just the bit about 3 tabs.

But heck... it even had Flash.
I take this one for granted. I can't wait until they add the same thing for emails.
Perhaps because you can buy a separate numpad if you want one, and then have the best of both worlds: both a numpad and a centered keyboard?
Google will cut Play Store fees for the majority of Android developers
Is there not an open APK repository anyone can submit to? It could be a community run endeavor and research project even. We could develop software to detect APKs which exhibit possible malicious behavior and give them scores.
> IMO the real win is getting the 99% to be 100% more productive (and not via more hours!)

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. If you only talk about productivity and nothing else, the benefits of productivity increase will go 100% to the employer and nowhere else.

If an employee produces two gizmos in the time they used to need for one gizmo, but there is no change in hourly pay or total hours worked, then the employer gets two gizmos for the price of one, and that's all. Neither the employee nor the state gain anything from this. (In many cases, the increase in productivity comes with a more stressful or hazardous working environment, so there is even some risk this is a net loss for the employee)

To pass on the benefits more fairly, you'd have to also raise taxes on employee wages and mandate pay rises and higher minimum wages. And I'm sure, as soon as someone would try that, a hundred blog posts like this one would pop up to argue why this is the worst thing imaginable. (Also, you could ask, why do you need the productivity increase at all? Why not just raise taxes and mandate pay rises right now?)

Finally, why a 100% productivity increase? Why not 50% or 200% or 1000%? If we're talking in terms of "days the federal government is funded", how many days of funding would a 1% increase cover?
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They do sell them without built in screens too - Mac Mini for example.
D has a prototype borrow checker now. I'll be talking about it at the April NWCPP meeting.
"We're living in the perpetual present, and that is dangerous."

I love the idea of version control for the internet. We are forced to use updates, even if we don't want them. The idea of being able to use a site's specific version is very attractive. It becomes even more interesting when you think of the internet over a much longer time horizon, say 200 years in the future where historians can go through all of our historical records. Much of this might be lost if we keep it in walled gardens as it might be lost forever unless the owners of that data release it.
Heck, GMaps is slow and clunky for me, but it's still 10x better than anything else I've ever used. I'm pretty sure it'll be the last GOOG service I manage to get myself off. Is there even a single OSM-based alternative that offers competitive POI search?
I agree on the simplification. No such thing as "safe", only "safe enough" which assumes every one's scale of safety is the same. That seems presumptuous.
> Tuition and fees plus room and board for a four-year private college averaged $50,770 in the 2020-21 school year; at four-year, in-state public colleges, it was $22,180

I don't see people continuing to justify the absurd cost increases much longer. We should start promoting going to Europe for college: get a good education and life experience for far less money - what's not to like?
Depends on when they expired, could be anywhere from $0 to $100k.
Given the inventions the author wanted to showcase, the United States seems like the obvious place. While US global dominance has been challenged, it is still very much home to a lot of innovation. My biggest fear is that the fair could wind up being killed by a political squabble about globalism.
> we can implement a correct version of transfer(amount:to:)

// Safe: this operation is the only one that has access to the actor's isolated
// state right now, and there have not been any suspension points between
// the place where we checked for sufficient funds and here.
balance = balance - amount

// Safe: the deposit operation is placed in the `other` actor's mailbox; when
// that actor retrieves the operation from its mailbox to execute it, the
// other account's balance will get updated.
await other.deposit(amount: amount)

Am I correct in thinking that the system temporarily destroys money here (and hopes to recreate it if the receiver doesn't crash?)

If I have a closed system of actors constantly transferring money among themselves, and I poll to see the total amount of money in the system, will it fluctuate?
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The difference is that further elections & governmental procedure occurred in Venezuela and the EU is simply updating their recognition in light of that. They aren't timidly walking back their earlier recognition as if they were caught supporting the wrong guy.
I think it's hinting. Zoom in or view it on mobile—it's probably a fine font for print, just not at default zoom on a low DPI display.
shareX is a godsend, I wish MacOS had as good as it
Talking about bets after the roulette wheel has stopped is not very interesting. Anyone can see after the fact that the ball stopped on red 12, or the price of something has increased.

So can you tell me what I should invest this new stimulus in to get 8x returns?
Twitter is going all-in on security keys
I bought invites on eBay for myself and a few family members. Maybe $5 each. Although I thought it was closer to 2004.
I haven't seen any pricing on the CMP cards yet. Are you sure they're more expensive?
How many times can one person perform a miracle?
Yeah.I would say the Swift ecosystem is too detached from different platforms than iOS/macOS.

It's a nice language but useless if you want to use it as a generic purpose tool.
DDG will still have a hard time competing with Google in both search quality and revenue even if only keyword-based ads is allowed and used in future. Privacy is a nice feature to have, but not sufficient.
Persistently near-exponential growth over multiple decades isn’t impressive to you? If this carries on, peak PV output alone will exceed 100% of current total power demand by 2030.

(Naturally this means I think the growth seen since 1992 won’t last until 2030, but the point remains)
> On macOS, it is now impossible to distribute a VPN or a virtualization software without permission from Apple

No it’s not. It’s impossible if you don’t want to require your customers to change some security settings.

We can have a discussion about whether that’s practical for a developer, but either way, the user has control over their Mac. Completely different situation from iOS.
I don't think the US government has any moral obligation to foreigners in this regard. Don't get me wrong: it would be wonderful to provide open access to all, but I don't see an ethical problem with drawing the line at "those who paid for it", which is to say "those who pay taxes in the US.

And of course, feel free to substitute US with $COUNTRY.
I follow the first 3 points, but not the latter 2.

1) employee / employer relations are not "human relations"; Actual human relationships involve transactions that are more than just monetary. A corporation offering jobs in a location is not otherwise involved in the economics of that place.

2) "The most effective techniques at causing change involve at least some appeals to emotion or outrage"

What techniques/changes? political?

Plenty techniques involving emotion or outrage are among the least effective too.
No mention of Expo 2010, which had representation from 65 different countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expo_2010_pavilions. I didn't go, but the photos of the architecture from the different countries were beautiful.

> After the six-month run, the Expo had attracted well over 70 million visitors. The Expo 2010 is also the most expensive fair in the history of World's Fair, with more than 45 billion US dollars invested from the Chinese Government
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Its okish on ubuntu and wsl but windows still lag hard.
Worst think is very narrowed libaries working only on apple devices even most cool open source projects are just locked and are looking only on apple ecosystem (dont get me wrong its huge enough to just ignore other ecosystem at the moment sadly)
Since immigrants are much poorer on average, they spend less than the native population, and often cost more in welfare etc. So the costs of immigration are borne by taxpayers and native low wage workers, while large corporations and business owners reap the benefits.
Was the shared data as a result of a lawful request? Any company would have to comply in that case.
Thx for your comment. To be clear, the TRU Score is not limited to the trading of shares in your profile. It is an input, but not necessarily the one that weighs most heavily in the determination of a members TRU Score.

SELLFF offers multiple ways to support other members. You can write a review and go into details of your connection with another member. Buying shares of another member is an additional, low-friction way to show support. It's fast, easy and provides the added benefit that your investment might increase in value. Any investments you make are an input to your TRU Score. So, if you make good investments in other members your TRU Score will increase...even if your profile shares are not being traded.
I read some time ago (I think as a link here) the following: https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2012/04/economist-meets-physicist...

One of my takeaways is that growth cannot exist forever; there is a thermal bound to how much energy (economy = energy consumption, if you reduce it enough) we can produce and consume. Another commenter posted that if you zoom out enough, economic growth is exponential. I tend to agree, at least backwards-looking, so I think of intervals of economic progress as "doubling" (ie, logarithmic instead of linear).

We only have a few more doublings before we hit some serious thermal discomfort. The "AI Revolution" as dreamed in the OP I think is largely impossible: if the AI/Robots/Whatever get sufficiently advanced they will require orders of magnitude more energy than we already consume, which would run the risk of cooking us all.

I would rather see someone or someones trying to break the economy = energy paradigm. At some point, we will be unable to generate more useful energy; I'd like to see us do more with less.
I did work experience for a week for my IT course when I was about 15 in the offices of a petroleum-selling company. I spent a day or two in the accounts department absolutely amazed by the ~50 year old lady who was showing me how she input numeral data into the old green-screen workstation, fingers flying over the numpad inputting quantities and prices. As someone who even then felt I was 'good' with computers, I was stunned and thought I'd never get to that level.

Now I feel crippled whenever I'm on my laptop, which doesn't have a numpad, my own fingers flailing uselessly over numbers that whilst in mind are not available to my right hand.

I should probably get one of those external numpad USB things, but I much prefer a whinge.
I've had better luck with fractional scaling on Windows over Linux. Can be hit or miss if any given Linux application will handle fractional scaling well, but the desktop environment (KDE Plasma on Ubuntu) does fine with it.
Exactly.

Sometimes I think about the advice on how to carve a figure in stone - chip away anything that is not part of the figure.

The same applies to programming. Easy to say, hard to do.
Look at the Dolphin blog posts for loads of examples of where minor math errors add up to completely break a game.
should have went the SPAC route

Or issued Doggercoin
HN rule: Don't snark.
Yep, property wrappers: https://nshipster.com/propertywrapper/
Almost two years ago it was MUCH easier for me to learn how to deploy on DO-managed Kubernetes than ECS or Fargate.

Probably didn't need it, but whatever, it worked and I had to learn something new anyways.
By that logic we should either stop training scientists or prevent people with Ph.Ds from working for non-US institutions.
The most recent one I've experienced is ElasticSearch + Kibana + FileBeat/MetricBeat. I've gone from munging through log files in a text editor or maybe LogParser to being able to quickly visualize issues in charts and dashboards, but then zoom into log-level details in seconds. It may not be fair to call notepad the "second best option", but for open source log (and more) analysis, Elastic+Kibana definitely stands out among competition.
In high-demand cities, the land is the expensive part—not the house on top of it.
Java is not commonly used for consumer desktop applications, where it often is necessary/desirable to invest in fully native apps for Windows and MacOS. But desktop Java is quite common in business desktop applications, for example, medical devices (like radiology image viewers).
From the "The Simpsons" episode "Bart the Mother"[1] in which Springfield is overrun w/ Bolivian tree lizards, which are eating the town's pigeons:

Principal Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.

Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?

Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.

Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?

Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.

Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!

Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY
> Today, World's Fairs have been rebranded as "International Expositions" that occur every 5 years, and are a hollow shell of their former glory. They no longer showcase the promise of the future or celebrate achievement. Instead, they serve as national branding exercises, infrastructure development projects masquerading as innovation, architecture competitions, and an opportunity to promote tourism.

I don't know enough about Expo2020 to agree or disagree, but I assumed the author's assessment above was in reference to the series of which the Dubai exhibition is a part.
I have yet to see a database migration system as elegant and easy to use as the one that comes with Rails.

Check out:
https://github.com/thuss/standalone-migrations
I've had similar issues. It's rare but a nightmare to debug when it happens. One thing which consistently caused problems was OOM errors on compilers (fairly easy to encounter during a parallel yocto build). This was suprisingly effective at poisoning the state of the system (I'm not sure why this compared to any other failure was so problematic).
I have not been following the "live in NY but not too long" mantra, for sure
Strong argument.
I was expecting the whitepaper to explain how the technology works, but it seems to just be a business plan with very little detail on what the system actually does.
dbt [1] is a tool that is deceptively simple, but kind of created a new job role: analytics engineer. It allow you to define tables using SQL plus Jinja2, so you can add loops and variables to create your SQL code. It might sound complicated, but it's a pleasure to work with.

This improvement was only possible because of other improvements in cloud databases and reductions in storage costs, which allowed us to go from ETL, where we transform the data outside of the database, to ELT, where we load the raw data in the DB and transform it using SQL.

All these improvements taken together allows a single person to do a job that required a small team not many years ago.

[1] https://www.getdbt.com/
The OP said they opened their position 5 years ago, when the price of NVDA was 20 times less. So they probably only invested about $15K out of that median $120K net worth.
+1 for Uber/Lyft. I remember being SO excited for them to come to my area, as they are so much better than taxis.
I'm not sure that over 10 years later is "as soon as they could". NetGate has made a huge number of open source releases, and while they have not held exactly to the platonic ideal of open source (literally every bit on the disc comes from an open repo) I think we can all agree that the vast majority of the existing CE code remains open. I also think that they get a lot of shade because some of their developers have been some of the loudest jerks in open source.

In my opinion, at the moment we have Schrodinger's open source: in the box there's a future pfSense CE which is well-maintained but differentiated from their commercial offering of pfSense Plus, and there's a pfSense CE which languishes from a lack of new features and slowly accrues an ever-larger trail of closed-won't-fix bugs.

At this time, which future will develop is anyone's guess; I suspect even NetGate don't really know. Even if they're planning on effectively abandoning CE in place, a backlash in the community could cause that to reverse.
Switzerland? The Nordic countries? Even the UK hasn't annoyed most countries to the point we wouldn't welcome guests for something like this.

It's basically the equivalent of the Olympics of the business and science world; of you are granted the honour of hosting, you go out of your way to extend an olive branch.
I think there was a GhostScript PS/PDF viewer for DOS.

https://www.nomdo.nl/psview.htm

https://www.nomdo.nl/gs.htm
Not just a GB. It was also constantly increasing in size, with a live counter to show how much storage you had available. Super gimmicky, but fun.

I guess there are probably a lot of people here who are too young to have ever used those early versions. You also had to scrounge forums for an invite code.
> it'll be automated and the outcome will be decided by real users

I don't understand how both these things can hold. Unless the "real users" are automated?