skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, but that's extra boilerplate. Granted, it's only one line (two if you do both), but still. Reducing boilerplate is already an explicit goal for v8, so it seems like it's worthwhile to be consistent on that front.

Also, not all Perl files have a shebang, and not all files are invoked in a way that'd make a shebang useful. Modules are the obvious example here.

In any case, nothing precluding all three approaches from being supported in case Perl hackers really prefer a "use v8;" over changing the filename or vice versa.
Her father was charged in 2016, hired by her in 2017, and sentenced in 2018.

If she was not aware at the time about the horrible events taking place in her home, between 2016 and 2017 whenever she has spoken to her father there must have been an elephant of just enormous proportions in the room.

Did she talk to him about this at all before hiring him? Did she end up being fully convinced by him that the allegations are false? If she were, how come she did not make great noise about her father being put in jail despite being innocent and only claims that she didn’t know?

No matter how you spin it, legal system is never perfect and there are dark grey areas that aren’t captured by law—the reason vetting/background check processes exist.
It wasn't a deal breaker for her to hire him, and it wasn't a deal breaker for her to marry someone who posted about sex with children (though allegedly his account was "hacked").

Look I'm not saying we drive her out of town with pitchforks, just maybe that she isn't the best fit for a public role that involves a lot of judgement about what to allow and what to remove on Reddit. And the reddit posts are alleging that saying so while mentioning her name was enough to ban users to protect her from Doxxing - I get that, the internet mob gets out of hand very quickly. But it seems to have massively backfired here.
No, I'm not saying that, and the potential issue I have shared has nothing to do with the current takedown of the extension.
I appreciate your username, but really, is this the hill to die on? Being morally relativistic about this subject is beyond the pale.

And to make it obvious: yes, yes you should find this and the notion that someone would fantasize about it utterly gut wrenching.
Also, standard support is abysmal in Hermes, whereas full ES6 support is already there for QuickJS.
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Bald Eagles are HUGE.

You don't realize it until one drops out of a tree near you and flies off. Either that or you see them feeding on road kill deer.
Edit: this is wrong, see comments below.

The correct answer is water though, not air. Air only accounts for the Carbon content of the tree, which is a big part, but still a minority.

First, a live tree contains a lot of water (30-50%), that's why you need to let wood dry a lot before burning it.

And there's something else:

> Next we might look at water, but water is only made of hydrogen and oxygen, and the oxygen is released.

Not all oxygen is released. All oxygen contained in a plants molecule (mostly cellulose and hemicellulose, which are polymers of glucose, and lignin) comes from water. And there's a lot of it: there's as much Oxygen as Carbon in a glucose molecule.
Even so, in this very case the amps are higher than the watts(!) as the voltage is below 1V.
It's on their public roadmap: https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/94

Unfortunately it's marked as "Future," so it's still a ways out.
Wow. Truly disturbing.
Good suggestions above; here are two less mainstream ideas I haven't seen mentioned yet:

1) Embedded development. You're closer to the hardware and may be able to ignore the overwhelming mess of web frameworks.

2) Smart contracts. There's a lot of demand at the moment, the companies tend to be very remote friendly and since the specialization hasn't been around for long the playing field may be a bit more level.
My setup (the inside of which many of you have seen and experienced at PyCon):

thisisthebus.com
The thing is, it's not about forcing it, but about creating the opportunity. Maybe it wouldn't happen, but it certainly won't happen if the books aren't there
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"okay I'll invite you the next time you're at a bar or cafe to pay close attention to how many people look at their phone instead of focusing on the person they're with."

That seems like a personal problem you are trying to hoist on to me. If my friends engage in behavior I don't like I can tell them, or find different friends. But for me, this is rarely a problem.

"...a signal that disrupts focus and draws your mind away from relationships or things that matter."

Again, you seem determined to tell me what should matter to me, which will get you nowhere and seems like an oddly invasive way to engage with someone.

As for your last comment, I don't think you read my other comment as I suggested. Some niche communities organize online. Sometimes that online space is an established company like Facebook. You could create an alternative or try to migrate the existing community, but first and foremost you must meet the community where it is. Or, you miss out on that community. Maybe it's fine for some hobby you can take or leave. Maybe it's more difficult if that community is for a rare medical condition, for example.
I would suggest that referring to the (federal) State as "we" is somewhat naive. Perhaps you should say: "The best thing we could do... is try to force the US federal government to end Third Party Doctrine."

Unfortunately, the populace couldn't even get the government to cover treatment for Covid patients during an f'ing pandemic, or to update the minimum wage after well over a decade of erosion. Or to leave Afghanistan after 20 years. etc.
If you want to play with some of the UIs and apps, check out the devices postmarketOS supports [0]. Especially Snapdragon 410 (MSM8916) support is looking pretty good, and the devices are quite affordable used (low to middle double figures, or you may even have one already!).
Generally, postmarketOS is just awesome, the abilities of their pmbootstrap tool alone are amazing.

[0] https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices
I don't know. From my big subs to the smallest ones, it seems like the signal to noise ratio is at all time lows. Bots and spam really do pollute the site a great deal.
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From a product perspective, totally agree, but from a strategy perspective, Intel getting to a level of beating TSMC is very very far off. Currently they are funding the development of the next chip that will beat them elsewhere.

Personally, if Xe production funds TSMC's 3nm node that will be bought out by Apple and AMD then Intel probably should realize that the limited money they will make from GPUs will be dwarfed by the losses from improving their competition.
The stand-out thing to me is that the RTX 3070 only comes with 8GB of RAM. The GTX 1070 I bought five years ago with an MSRP $100 less than the 3070 (and that I was able to purchase at MSRP) has 8GB of RAM. The GPU I bought five years before that only had 1.28GB and before that 256MB. What the hell has the industry been doing for the last half decade?
It's not about the volume. There were issues shipping into particular countries that may actually check items on the border for more than just price matching the product so customs/VAT is not gamed, and the state gets their proper cut. Things like manual in the language of the country, certifications, etc.

My country is more on the "we just want the cut" side, but some people in Germany had trouble getting individual shipments into the country, for example.
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I think there are large room diy heat pumps. "diy mini split heat" found me this [0] for example.

Also, depending on your hackerness, you could adapt window air conditioners.

From what I've seen, solar PV for heat only really makes sense if you're using a heat pump. But solar thermal for heat can be good, though. http://builditsolar.com has a number of DIY heating projects for X,000 USD in materials.

[0]: https://hvacdirect.com/perfect-aire-12-000-btu-22-seer-quick...
I recently retired (before this drama) a 12-year-old Reddit account with close to a million combined karma. This line, that individual subreddits defy any concept of Reddit identity, needs to stop. The overlaps between moderator groups and users, as well as the impact to ALL subreddits from decisions by the administrators, mean it is completely fair game to talk about Reddit as a singular entity.

The notion that individual subreddits mean Reddit Is What You Make of It is useful only to distract just like you’re (unintentionally) doing here. It helps deflect some of these situations by having folks who unsub all defaults saying “looks great here!”
I'm exclusively on old.reddit.com too. The new interface was the start of the worst, and while we're not directly in the firing line in terms of viewing content and navigation on old.reddit.com we are at the mercy of the general winds of change over the site.
Maybe nightmare is a bit extreme, but it does seem open to abuse: https://twitter.com/44/status/1374737695444901891
Use of the word "cringe" is definitely the most "cringe" thing in this thread.
Who her husband is certainly isn't helping matters.

https://grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/something-rotten-at-the...
Read this and replace "web" with "desktop" and large parts are still spot on, wrt virus scanners and the likes. We work on a product of which the installation is a bit complicated because it needs to install a bunch of other things. 95% of the time that fails the reason is some overly active security tool which messes up (the other 5% mainly machines which haven't been updated for years) To the point that we've started wondering if we wouldn't just start requiring dedicated machines or at least without any of that software, or even just ship PCs with the application pre-installed as it would likely turn out cheaper. Unfortunately that is not really an option as a web dev, so that situation is even worse..
I pretty sure that response was as close to a post mortem as we are going to get.
I'm mixed on fixtures.

One one hand, I've been impressed with how they compose and have let me do some great things. For example, I had system tests that needed hardware identifiers. I had a `conftest.py` to add CLI args for them. I then made fixtures to wrap the lookup of these. In the fixture, I marked it as Skip if the arg was missing. This was then propagated to all of the tests, only running the ones the end-user had the hardware for.

On the other hand, when I need to vary the data between tests and that data is an input to something that I'd like to abstract the creation of, fixtures break down and I have to instead use a function call.
> I doubt reddit bots are that thorough as to scrape through linked articles.

I'll bet they are. The tactic of getting someone to make a coordinated blog post and then spamming it everywhere on reddit under the cover of "its public information now" is obvious. I'm reasonably certain that has happened to some other reddit employee in the past. That part is entirely believable.
The obvious difference is that US citizens elected its Congress representatives, while the PRC 'assigns' the majority of the electors in the Hong Kong parliament.

Also while the official death count is low, there are many protestors who simply vanished from HK.
I love this -- thank you!
Because the people in power are in different economic strata than you or I and openly spit on everyone below them. When people start realizing this en masse, we can start bringing out the guillotines again.
I don't know the specifics of the HN submission filter, but if you spend any time on /new you'll see how often the same content gets submitted over and over again, which often results in flags. Additionally, new accounts and low-reputation accounts also tend to have their submissions flagged by default, and require a "vouch" to be unflagged.

In other words, HN's submission filter is fairly aggressive, I doubt anything nefarious is taking place.
I think "plebes" back then had a tool to balance the dynamic: unions. I previously wasn't a union guy, but the more I read into it the more I realized two things about the union as an organization:

1. Unions provide negotiating power against elites.

2. Unions were the last remaining non-religious, working-class, political action organizations.

I think the second point is important and a underrated when it comes to union power, and more importantly might be more important than being able to negotiate wages. In the past, unions used to be actual voting blocs, so it provided a secondary mechanism for the working class to exert their political power. That is almost impossible now, and as a result our politicians answer more to wealthy PACs than anything else. Without unions, most people are politically inactive, or self-select into red/blue due to culture factors or team sports.

Without an organization it's literally impossible for any individual to overcome the system even if they realize the problems within; and it's hard to not get involved in identity politics when if you lose it means you lose your job/housing/opportunities.
That sounds like exactly the kind of meaningful information I’d be interested in.
Same. I left after The_Donald ban. Like Donald Trump or hate him, his supporters have a right to speak.
> If you're tired of working with legacy code without tests, most of your suggestions for improvements will be met by a shrug. We don't have time for that now. It's more important to deliver value to the customer.

This is what bothers me the most. Whether it's about tests or something else. Even clean slate "let's get everything right this time" projects degenerate into legacy code within weeks with this mindset. The "It's more important to deliver value to the customer" line is especially insulting, since it's not as if the developers are trying to sabotage the delivery of value by writing tests or sanitising input or whatever the conflict is about. We know that high quality code is faster and cheaper to build than low quality software, but it's counter-intuitive to most managers.

And you need sympathetic managers to get the software right. Business rules are rarely clear, orthogonal or consistent. Which is not actually a problem for humans, but until we have artificial general intelligence, it is an insurmountable one for computers. But unsympathetic managers will not want to have long, uncomfortable conversations about deducing what they actually need from what they think they want. So developers are instead forced turn messy rules into messy code as best as they can, and put out fires whenever they break out, which they will all the time.

And perhaps the most insidious thing of all, spending all the time putting out fires means they don't get real world experience they need to build a robust system on time. If managers let them try once it would just make them look incompetent. And if they quit, their experience putting out fires will be worth nothing to companies who actually value proper workmanship. Their only option would be to join another death march company.

I think this the biggest reason why most software, especially enterprise software, is so bad, and isn't likely to improve in the foreseeable future.
A guide by TuxPhones:

https://tuxphones.com/2021-everything-running-linux-smartpho...

And there's also:

https://linuxsmartphones.com/
It's not really a matter of being _owed_ anything, it's more that a lot of people aren't likely to pay for something unless they know they're going to use it, and 3 notes doesn't seem like enough to really see if it's sustainable. They don't have to have a free tier at all, and likewise no one has to try the product out. However just because we aren't "owed" anything, doesn't mean we should just accept _anything_.
> However, the reason for those requirements isn't, ostensibly, to make disruption difficult

Perhaps not. But public choice theory is chock full of unintended consequences.
Even AOSP hardcodes some reliance on Google servers. It is open source, but not independent of this dominant corporation as many privacy advocates would like.
You won’t have to imagine long, in Canada one can now be imprisoned for using the (in)correct pronoun of a relative, so the CCP model might be globalized sooner than we expected. Each country have his legalized taboos, and those we had in the West aren’t more ridiculous than the Chinese one. Free speech should prevail.
Yes, this approach can work, unless the system which Rails/mimemagic is deployed to has restricted network settings. Under a restricted network setting, I believe the only solution which will work is to use a different package offering similar behavior, under a non-GPL license, or to re-implement the existing behavior using the freedesktop.org.xml as an input/output specification, rather than a source for derived code.
| commondreams.org is behind the /r/AOC and /r/MurderedByAOC subreddits entirely.

Do you have evidence of that?
Many tech enthusiasts are stuck living in 1999 when the internet was this mythical paradise of unrestricted freedom.

The problem is, it's 2021, and the raging dumpster fire of social media platforms has created a world where extremist insanity has become mainstream public discourse. People who believe that reptiles posing as human beings run the earth are have a platform and some sort of earnest following!

People like to scream "censorship" and social media companies rally behind that and their protection from liability. Arguments are made that making editorial decisions about what gets purchased is a moral or legal risk. That's a bunk argument, because social platforms have no problem at all promoting dangerous, wrong or even illegal content to maximize engagement. Let's be real here -- for all of the weighty principles brought up here, a significant chunk of reddit engagement is porn.
>TSMC problem is that China might roll in tanks

TSMC have fab in China and currently building one in the US. TSMC is also opening an expansion in Japan. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-taiwan-tsmc/tsmc-to-raise...

the latest tech is probably going to stay in Taiwan but judging from all the recent moves by TSMC. it look like they are spreading their wings to reduce the risk.
>One unicorn every couple of years is all that YC needs

True, but there is no ongoing guarantee of that, no matter how many times it has happened in the past, and no matter who claims it[1], be it a Midas-list VC or a serial founder or whoever.

Past performance is not a sure predictor of future performance. Just see any company's statutory annual report, and the ifs and buts in the legalese therein.

[1] If anyone claims that, just ask them to put their money where their mouth is. E.g. by paying the predicted unicorn future value for the stock, but now. And then see the disclaimers and caveats flowing fast and freely from their mouths.
The point I'm making is that edge can't do much now in terms of "processing". Most data is centralized and you'll need to hit a centralized system to access it. Facilities needing lower latency are more likely to keep it on-prem. As of now, it's mostly dealing with CDNish workloads.

However, that changes with decentralized apps since they place a different set of architectural demands, and don't have centralized datasources. For instance, a search in p2p space might involve connecting to a lot of peers - latency matters. Data (often signed chains) might need to be fetched from dozens of different sources, combined and queried locally - again latency matters. Clusters of people who you talk to are often co-located, edge wins again.

Latency doesn't matter when it's a hand countable number of simultaneous queries (as in current apps). We can even work around it with approaches like batching, as with GraphQL.
> due to her connections to multiple pedophiles?

You mean, her own father? The article says her fiancee also had been accused of saying he feels attracted to children but they claim his account was hacked, which may be true as no one in their right mind would tweet something like that.
Yeah. He's pretty awful and when I find my myself even partially in agreement with his public statements I double check carefully.
Definitely. You can email us at contact@sawolabs.com or you can directly visit our website sawolabs.com and book a demo according to your convenience.
Last year, I wrote about the prisoner's dilemma of training your employees[0]. As Mark points out, many companies don't invest because they don't find it valuable. What I tried to point out was that big tech companies already _are_ investing heavily in their talent, and especially as these companies start pulling in less experienced people to train up, companies that don't invest are going to fall behind.

I don't know how convincing that argument is, but hopefully realizing how much investment the big tech companies are putting into their talent is eye-opening for some people.

(Note: I talked about investing in junior employees, but the idea applies to all your employees.)

[0] https://hiringfor.tech/2020/09/07/the-prisoners-dilemma-of-t...
> Green threads are great, right up until the moment you have to interoperate with something written in another language / using another VM

You mean like this? It's not a problem in elixir.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l848TOmI6LI
Sadly, my default guess here is that whoever approved the hire did so because they wanted to partake in whatever grooming or other illegal activities that the new admin could facilitate.
Sure.
During dinner with my in-laws (siblings and parents), my MIL brought up the now-removed phrase from the manifesto on BlackLivesMatter.com that says "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another...".
She and the rest of the table interpreted it as "BLM wants to abolish the family as a societal unit." I suggested the alternate, "unacceptable" interpretation that they are expanding the definition of family to include non-blood relatives and encourage caring communities. This was not received well, and I ended up getting texts about the incorrectness of my belief even after we had left that day.
So now I am scared to share my political beliefs for fear of being called out, even when I share something that I view as reasonable and "possibly acceptable".
But maybe you're looking for a bigger example.
They were all links to active threads. This is the first link to an article on the topic.