skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl has really fallen out of favor in bioinformatics. I inherited a bunch of Perl scripts that have been running basically for over 10 years. The input data is the same so they keep working. I’m not great at Perl and I do find them hard to read. While I get the goals I’m not super happy to have these scripts end up on the continuous upgrade as the language changes path.

The goals seem good. A language needs users, and fewer and fewer are using it lately. Error messages can be obtuse, the package system while powerful is confusing..

Out cluster upgraded the os a couple years ago. Once you figure out how to a missing Perl library installed everything kept working. (The cpan installation story isn’t easy for a novice). the fact that it hasn’t changed much is kind of nice compared to some other language where a lot of scripts needed a fair amount of touch up when the language had a lot of breaking changes.
Without a promised based on source code escrow, it's just not worth anything to me. I VERY much support this sort of thing, though.
You didn't actually post any evidence of allegedly inexcusable behaviour around women.
Is there any performance comparison with the "default" js engine of react native?
I didn’t think that “natural” conversation was an actual goal on HN. You see this particularly in the way that humour (among other things) is often downvoted and discouraged.
You wouldn't catch RMS advocating free software on twitter...
Yes, pretty good alternative. But you will still need to hire "frontend" devs who can code in JS/TS. Go will perhaps have a more performant backend. So plus one and minus one. Also, not sure how easy / hard it is to hire experienced Go developers.
I learned Perl in the late 90's and I still use Perl 5 all the time. The semiconductor industry is held together with thousands of lines of Tcl and Perl code.

Every day I have to parse some new type of text file and Perl is great for that. Everyone else I work with are also in the same age range and everyone already knows Perl. Introducing a new language doesn't seem worth it.
Can you give me a list of such women?
I don't get the coverage for this, he obviously recognised it was a mistake and at the end of the day it wasn't in public, and don't we all say stupid stuff sometimes?

I really hate the whole "gotcha" mentality of modern mainstream media.
1. Given code is words, words and deeds would be the same thing

2. Someone who's good at code might be terrible at being a public figure, or indeed a human being other people would want to be around
And with "React Native for Windows" and "React Native for macOS" (both are still experimental): https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/docs/hermes
and if it was smaller the planets would be invisible.
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No. Vw and Renault sell most of the EV cars in Europe now which is the second biggest market after China. Tesla fan boys won't like it but the US EV market is smaller than Germany lol
So, fellow Europeans, prepare for a longer delivery time for most of your items starting from, I don't know, 10 days from now? What's the buffer size for most of the products in, say, an Amazon Fulfillment facility?
If dominance is termed as units shipped then it's somewhat of a foregone conclusion that Tesla will, relative to other market players, slip. However, no company has appeared on the horizon that matches Tesla in terms of perceived and actual innovation.
Heroku might work for you
> One could say we are compressors that experience the world and compress it to loose what we don't care about.

That's how lossy compression works but this competition is about lossless compression. Makes me wonder if the competition should really be about lossy compression, as it's pretty obvious our minds aren't lossless compressors.
ID.3, ID.4, ID.5 and ID.buzz are fully electric. VW is serious about electric cars, now.
> In the UK in a landslide election, about 70% of MPs retain their seats.

If 30% are voted out then that suggests more (perhaps 60%?) were at risk of being voted out to the point where it would influence their decisions.

> The only threat to the majority of Tory and Labour MPs at a given election is the threat of deselection by about 300 local party members.

Which is again a big improvement in accountability over what MEPs face.

> Depending on the country there may be a party list system, but in somewhere like Ireland you vote for the individual members via a very democratic STV.

By which you mean every country in the EU except Ireland and Belgium uses a party list system, and even the Belgian system is mostly party list based (just split by language as well).
> no sqlite, no postgresql support?

Sadly not. We haven't made the jump to PDO (yet) and still use some MySQL-specific database features, such as ordering by FIELD. Once we wean the core code off that and schedule in the migration to PDO with all the prepare/execute goodness that brings, we'll support whatever database engines that PHP offer under PDO.
spark.sparkContext.range(1_000_000, numSlices=200).take(20)
Virtually visualize every U.S. company's international supply chain
Why would you exchange BTC to something that quickly deprecates? This feels similar to when colonisators offered worthless bling to locals in exchange for gold.
Sure it is a great move to legitimise Bitcoin, but I can imagine only people really wanting that Tesla will not hodl.
In my experience, ddg is often better, but many people have a hard time changing their entrenched habits.
Manganese-rich cathode chemistries: The once and future king?
Tesla themselves do not even believe in these wild fantasies which is why their R&D has been stuck for the past 3-4 years.
Um...the source is my first link above. Rich countries eat the most meat, but their consumption has been steady over the past 50 years. Meanwhile:

> Growth in per capita meat consumption has been most marked in countries who have underwent a strong economic transition – per capita consumption in China has grown approximately 15-fold since 1961; rates in Brazil have nearly quadrupled. The major exception to this pattern has been India

If you disagree, what is your source?
Uhm, CGI? Those are not at all impressive metrics.
It’s pretty crazy that there are still people out there who can defend RMS for his contributions but are perfectly capable of conveniently IGNORING his vile comments about women, Epstein and related accusations while spouting “bullying” and “cancel culture.”
Yes, but only by techie-social convention. Outside of web servers, the party hidden by the proxy is conveyed in context.
Hi Raju. We'll definitely put a pricing plan in place at some point. It will likely be something around $10/month for professionals. But we will almost certainly keep a free plan. I can't guarantee it because we are still at the beginning but it is likely.
Didn't think of that, but it could work. If you only provided the perl8 alias, you'd still need to add a use declaration to modules, whereas that could be absorbed into the file extension...
It was my first programming language I got things done with
- until I discovered ruby. After a ride into lisp/scheme/racket world I'm on ruby again.

I have good memories with it, but I wouldn't jump train again.
Turn a Google Sheet into a REST API
Tesla killers have been promoted by media since Model S in 2012. But I can see how this time it is different. VW seems to be boldly all in and that's a very good thing.

Although around 2025 to 2028 we may start to see full scale deployment of self driving technology. VW will not be ahead unless they go all in on that too.
Economics is key to social engineering. Many concepts and core ideas of different schools of thought are completely loved and sponsored by actors interested in an agenda (say, maintaining their status quo or inflation https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/).

For example, we have the Keynesians saying that government spending is good. Guess who is going to sponsor this point-of-view? People who benefit from making the state spend or who believe the state has utter importance in defining society (as they call it, economic planning).

Others will downfall resort to mathematical formulations as they were absolute truth, and their premisses might contain a lot of prejudice.

I myself love the Austrian School of economics (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_School) approach of the likes of Carl Menger and Mises, and their approach based on praxeology or individualism, and I never thought it could be abused for interest groups until I started seeing how many people are abusing its idea of subject value to promote Bitcoin as the solution to everything (when I believe Bitcoin with its proof-of-work strategy has more issues than benefits).
Didn't Churchill have fascist sympathies as well. Do you think he should have been shot as well?

And what about the billions of people that sees the US as a fascistic imperialistic hydra? Would it be cool to pick of Obama as well?

What if these guys are falsely accused for being fascists by teenagers who never read a history book in their life.

That being said posts like this doesn't belong on HN and cries for murder most definitely don't. A real shame might as well head over to reddit or 4chan for this parroting of slogans.
how do you combine this approach with some external services (i.e. databases aren't run in docker but AWS RDS or some part of the setup is using AWS lambdas)?
Cancelling is an exercise of power.

What we're seeing these days it how social media can be used to easily create a large angry mob and focus it upon someone by attacking their family, their friends, their employer and anyone associated with them with the intent of silencing or hurting that individual, regardless of any collateral damage. And I really believe the instigators do it because they get off on that exercise of power.

There's nothing good about it, as it can only lead to a chilling effect as no one will feel free to say anything counter to what is a very small minority (a 1%) who are vocal.

As attributed to Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU: "You don’t stop hateful acts by censoring speech. You do so with more speech."
A better link would be https://rms-open-letter.github.io/

Edit: I don't agree with this, however I'm uninformed on what RMS has done and have no say.
I think its related to body being a distraction all the time for the mind. The action of walking, riding a bicycle or just keeping your hands busy with sufficiently automated work, keeps your mind free of the bodily distractions, since body is already busy.
Yes, Node is not perfect but (with TypeScript added) tell me a development platform that can run under 100 MB of memory, handle most requests under 50 ms, can spin up a http service in a day or so and still perform well under load (and scales horizontally with ease).

Its probably a rhetorical question, but I would suggest Go as another alternative.

Naturally, you wouldn't want to write the frontend in Go and it also has the "not perfect" quality.
I’ll sell the puts to you when they’re available one week after IPO :)
The ability to walk away with enough money to fund multiple lifetimes of obscene gluttony long before that point?
I can link you some examples, but a complete list is impossible.
In the middle of this article: https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
I admit I don’t know the personal views of the guy but if his views are so repugnant how did he get back onto the FSF board?
So this comes back to my statement about proper equipment and proper thresholds.

obviously 37 practically isn't a fever, and 32 is ridiculous.

But let's accept it on face value, so it gave you a false positive, which caused you to pause for a second reading, and then a true negative (well, unless you count the 32 as a false positive for hypothermia) and you went in.

That temp checks create false readings isn't really news: for me the question is so they create statistically significantly better outcomes. As a statistics guy, my head says they do. The objections I hear to them sound to me like the objections to bmi: that it's not universally perfect is not reason to dismiss it. This seems to me like the perfect being the enemy of the good enough.
It doesn't work out of the box without extra effort. It needs some tinkering, that's for sure
I don't understand this logic. You can use the same argument against any Vertical integration.
His xanatos gambit will pay off either way, transportation will be decarbonized.
Also, I expect this kind of stop will cause the ships to be lining up in the unloading facilities in e.g. Rotterdam, so there will be secondary obstructions beyond the time the canal is blocked.
>>Although around 2025 to 2028 we may start to see full scale deployment of self driving technology

I honestly don't understand how anyone can actually believe that. Actual self-driving(not just a fancy cruise control) seems about 50 years away if not more. There will be "self driving" systems which work on nice american streets and motorways, but a general use self driving system that can be sold worldwide? Not a chance in the next few decades.
Ferris Fetch – system info tool for the Rust programming language
It's kind of shocking the damage bad economics can do or has done too. It's not something relatively harmless like astrology.
this is dangerous hogwash and conspiracy theory crap. DO NOT read into this beyond level of an "Onion" - it's total nonsense. If you don't want to vaxx, don't but do not follow this dangerous rhetoric.
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Could you please quote his "vile comments" about Epstein?
Actually the problem is that funding agencies and universities started to implement success metrics. I mean you are trying to measure something which is inherently difficult to impossible to measure (what is good science).

Moreover, you essentially make the career of some very intelligent people depend on this arbitrary metric that you have created, what do you expect to happen? Obviously they will work to that metric, which then people complain about they are gaming the system. No, they actually work toward the metric that you (not you personally obviously) have created.
Probably because those who scream the loudest influence the view on the following group. Is this different than any other situation such as Trump and his supporters?
You'll find that on apple computers too.

.com.apple.<something>.plist
I watched a great video about this a few days ago:

https://youtu.be/4DiXRCo7eBs
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> It is just freaky, I don't know if it is good or bad to be associated with such an incident.

I think it's not good because of the potential to become politicly charged. Add some "cyber" and it has NatSec types reeling. There is a scenario in Ghost Fleet[1] where a vessel sailing under a Chinese flag blocks the Panama canal in a theater of war with the West. Not going to issue any spoilers but it's a brilliant (fiction) novel for hypothetical future war scenario's.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Fleet_(novel)
The standard on public behavior doesn't stop at what's legal or not. At least I would hope so.
thank you, I learned about service worker lately while doing some web development(not my usual cup of tea) and I backed off and used a rss feed instead because I found modern web too intrusive/google centric. Just disabled service worker in my firefox (+no script)
Ironically, this is currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26565861. Calling for both RMS and those who allowed him to rejoin the board of the FSF to be removed.
Do customers care about who is the best innovator?

They want cars, which are electric, and BMW et. al. will give them tons of those and that's it.

The other 'nice things' Telsa has are niche feature offers; nice, but not going to change the world.

Elon is betting that he can automate manufacturing better than other companies, that remains to be seen.

===== EDIT:

There's a broad belief in the US that "Tesla has change the world" ... which really isn't true.

If we wanted to attribute it to a car, it's probably the Nissan Leaf though that wouldn't be right either.

I think the 'Tesla Myth' is borne out of pop culture instinct, not really industry reality or data.

Here are the facts [1] (EV sales historical)

Tesla has never been an important EV maker - in terms of volume.

The major manufacturers have always been innovating, tweaking, and out-selling Tesla on EV's by a wide margin.

If Tesla were not on that chart, it wouldn't have changed a thing.

Tesla is a niche player and boldly entered into a locked up market, and helped some pop culture trends and some points of innovation - all of that is meaningful and they deserve credit - they are a great company.

But they didn't move the needle that much and we'd be in roughly the same position otherwise.

[1] https://afdc.energy.gov/data/10567
I have to say there are SaaS solututions that work just fine to be priced per seat. For example JIRA where it is part of job of each person to handle tickets/tasks and they have to have separate accounts. There is also basically no feasible way to abuse JIRA unless one does not care about who did what and when so throwing tracability/accountability out of the window.

For solutions like Adobe Photoshop as an example, I would not care who used it in our company, I just care about the result. Managing licenses for it is just annoying burden and I can see how people would like to have one account and pay for usage. It is also quite easy to abuse because output is not tied to person work as in accountability/who changed what/ way.

I would say one has to understand his product and how it is used instead of "never do X" advices.
He’s 100% right though.

People who are buying EVs right now are classic early adopters: Western, middle to upper class, willing to overlook inadequate charging infrastructure and good but not great range.

To get the other 90% to move is going to require governments spending billions in infrastructure. Which is challenging when most are running large deficits and at every turn are up against a powerful coalition of oil and gas interests. Not to mention the myriad of logistical and technical challenges eg. can grids support EVs.
2000 years? Think about how frequently we're hampered by limitations set 13.8 billion years ago...
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Awful! I didn't know about this extension, but love the idea!

I'm not too much into using extensions, but this is definitely a positive one.

I hope you get this reverted.
Could it be that hacktivists align themselves with the progressive and anti-authoritarian left as they value individual freedom and mutual aid?

That is much more plausible than assuming they are a leftist criminal arm. Actually, had that been the case, we would have seen hacktivists that support both sides, because, as you said, they are 'just a criminal arm' and can be bought.
seriously, read through some of the quotes this guy has made over time. https://rms-open-letter.github.io/appendix

originally i thought the reason he left FSF was just because of the Minsky thing, which maybe can be excused as poor phrasing but theres such a long history of this behavior that its hard to ignore.

I know a lot of people on here strongly support RMS and want him back on the FSF, but im struggling to understand why?

What benefit will he bring to the FSF? from my pount of view it just seems like this is an argument between two opposing sports teams. some people are fans of RMS and therefore want to see him on the FSF without really considering what benefit he'd even bring.

sure he made great, useful software and is a strong voice for open source, but at this point im not sure how him being on the FSF benefits anyone but himself?

I think him being back on the FSF only benefits himself, and I dont see why we should cheer for him
Reusing Standard RDF Vocabularies – Part 2
I'm only just starting with Elixir, but my impression so far is that I will be refactoring a lot less, due to the way Elixir encourages simple and elegant approaches to many of the common problems a programmer faces.

In node for example, I'm refactoring constantly (or, at least, should be...) because I keep backing myself into cognitive and developmental corners by using a kind of brick-by-brick approach that is perhaps encouraged not only by the language but by the eco-system.

I'm not finding this with Elixir, possibly because many of the more important architectural decisions have already been made for me at the language level, and apparently been made very well.

The hurdle becomes more understanding how to best do something, rather than figuring out how to do something at all.

A big part of this also may be Elixir's REPL. It has help for everything built-in. Whereas in node for example I find I'm constantly searching online and piecing together things from many different parts, in Elixir I almost never am, it's all just right there.
Please remove log from own eye first. Will review after that.
Must be nice to have such an informed audience. I have to call it "the lock icon" with my team. They don't really get security, but they do get client perceptions of security.
Seems like a young product. If anything, it should be paid.
Best way to kill your product early on is to give it for free.
Tesla cars can be bought in Bitcoin
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The Cult of Elon is alive and well.

He is a pop culture icon now, and that's marketing that money can't buy.
This looks great. Though it is a shame I can't use it as it's Mac only. I switch between OS's a lot, to have a web app version of your product would really make the difference.

Do you have any plans towards building Routine in that direction?
Awesome to see more people work on integrated productivity spaces! I work on something very similar at Life (https://life.so).

Since you decided to include notes into your bundling as well (which I did not so far) I am curious: How do you expect people to switch their note-writing habits from Notion, Roam, etc. to your project? It seemed to me that the notes market is extremely competitive already.

The design looks clean and beautiful. Congratulations to your launch and I will try to sign up for early access later.
"critics are like eunuchs, they know all about how to do it, but they can't do it"

Could you provide some data at least when you give any sort of predition on the future ? Otherwise it's meaningless. anyone can have a "feeling" or an "opinion"
> The job of the regulators isn't to just kill off specific companies that got too powerful - it's to create conditions where disruption is possible.

Broadly speaking, the big regulations tend to create conditions where disruption is harder. Regulatory compliance is often a substantial investment, and a rather big one, thus a barrier to entry; it's a lot easier for big, profitable Google to hire a team of regulatory compliance officers and GDPR architects and the like than it is for a small startup.
How bout a person be judged by both their words and their deeds?

Also, this quasi-poetic, we-we-we, silent-majority, US vs THEM, argument comes off as "all developers must support RMS" saber-rattling.

I don't have a twitter (or any social media) and I've been a software engineer long enough that I worry about ageism. I definitely think RMS has been using his celebrity to avoid dealing with a bunch of unchecked personal demons. I also think MM relationship with JE was highly suspect.

All that said, kicking RMS out the FSF was organized publicity move because someone sensed a chink in the armor, not because they cared about MM accusers.
From what I recall they wanted to sell apples to the Egyptians, but the government refused. The crew ended up throwing the cargo overboard before it could perish.

I heard about this originally from a great German podcast "Geschichten aus der Geschichte": https://www.geschichte.fm/podcast/zs180/