skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the Tacoma is a very hot product

As is the old pre-2007 Tundra, which are basically the same sized truck as the "new" Tacoma.

I had an old Tundra, got totaled via minor frame deformity in a rear-end about 4 years ago.

Insurances first offer was almost 25% higher than the highest bluebook, which sounded great, especially since the truck was middle of the road, condition-wise (parked it 20' from salt water for years).

But then I found out real-world price for me to replace it would be closer to 135%.

Had it been the 4-door 4wd, it would have been over 200%, if you could even find one. Closer to 250%, if you needed one sitting on the market "today".

Even paying 35% over bluebook, my 2006 trucks value has gone up everytime I've checked it or had offers on it.

Which is happening now with many vehicles, but like you said, this was happening years before covid with the Toyota trucks.

Tangent: This is also why I'm convinced that the trend toward bigger trucks and SUVs is 95% complying with EPA and safety standards, and maybe 5% market driven. But don't claim that in any of the "you-don't-need-that"/ 'murica-hating threads.
I'm not an Apple user, so I couldn't possibly care any less, but like....come on. Maintaining old hardware platforms costs time and money.

"There is no non-evil reason"

The reason is that someone needs to sit down, open up Xcode, and compile it for the old hardware, fix all the compilation issues that crop up, and then that OS needs to be tested on every variation of that hardware that was ever released anywhere in the world.

If you don't want to do that because the userbase is dwindling and you aren't running a charity and/or open source project.....how is that evil??? Cheap, maybe even greedy - but evil??
The one I was thinking of was SCA. Define the interface and implement the backend, either as a service or library, and the SCA layer in between would handle how to call it.
Calling me “knowledgeable” on this stuff might be a bit of a stretch, but then my standard of “knowledgeable” here is probably somewhere around “did a thesis on it”.

The people on #haskell at Freenode (nowadays Libera) were extremely friendly and helpful when I frequented it about five to ten years ago, although of course there are a subtle but important limits to initiating discussions that are interesting to people on the channel but not strictly on topic for it.

My more general advice is (for a double combo of both trite and condescending) read a book. Specifically, read Pierce’s “Types and programming languages”. I usually cherry-pick paragraphs and sections from books rather than read them from start to finish, but this particular book I basically gulped down in two sittings on two-hour flights (being trapped in economy seating helps) and found extremely enlightening both in that it dissolved the mystery around some lofty-sounding words I was always afraid of (“corecursion” and “coinduction”, “terminating” vs “productive”) and in that it contained completely elementary mathematical insights that have previously passed me by (Tarski fixed point theorem and order theory in general).

While I did have an advantage of having encountered, if not understood, basically all of the words inside it beforehand, I still believe it might be helpful even if you have absolutely no background in type systems. And don’t be put off by the use of Java in the case study, it is genuinely on point there.

For a more practical and yet more advanced (dependent types!) view, you can try “Type-driven programming in Idris” and “The little typer”, but I haven’t studied the former as carefully and have only skimmed the latter, so can’t recommend either with the same degree of certainty. I guess just follow the general advice on difficult literature: look around, follow references, don’t hesitate to put down things that don’t work for you, and if all else fails, let it stew for a week before trying again.
Or maybe installing the latest upcoming version of OSX on a mid-2014 Macbook Pro, which if I'm not mistaken, will not work.
You know this? As far as I can tell, it's still possible to find weird little sub-sub-sub-culture groups on the internet if you actually want to, and curious kids can do it. Maybe most kids aren't, but I don't think there was ever a time when most kids were exploring the full possibilities of the internet either. Put another way, maybe the fraction of internet-using kids doing stuff we'd think is cool was higher back in the day, but I think the fraction of kids in general doing stuff we'd think is cooler is higher now.
What a great man he is, When a niche site like this gets multiple accounts from people whose lives were positively impacted by him especially on a slow day(HN visits are low during weekends).
"Islamic cuisine". Interesting choice of words. Does the religion prescribe a certain type of cuisine? Not aside from a small number of rules about things that are forbidden, afaik.
"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them."

You can't tell me the bibles moral framework is reasonable when it says to kill gay people.
Not always! When the Library of Ashurbanipal burned in 612 BC, it fired and consequently preserved all the clay tablets inside. Ironically, we might not be able to read the tablets today if the library hadn't burned.
The price is off the wall high a 377% increase. Inflation isn't 377% its 4.2%. The price of lumber spiked nearly 100x faster than inflation. Actual inflation is such a small component of the spike that it would be hard to see through the noise.
I'd add Crux to this... it's document-oriented, but still generates attribute-level indices, and is also Datalog based. It can be used on top of RocksDB, LMDB, or many other (more scalable) backends (Kafka being the canonical one).

It's really awesome, and the team behind it are super responsive and helpful.
Tons of lumber piling up in lumber yards.
Easy answer this is market manipulation by a few big players.
Reprehensible during a global pandemic.
It's very refreshing to see someone suggest you do a good thing because it's good and not for some transactional reason like "you may need their support someday" or "word gets around that you're a dick".
It’s usually a convertible security that can convert to claims of tokens and/or equity

Sometimes it is an investment directly for a premine

Other time it is a secondary offering of the issuing organizations tokens

Your statement is reductive only because most everything in the market involves pre generated stakes in the network. The market tolerates that because it has since the 1600s joint stock company. Crypto ideology can just be dropped, there is no standard that makes a crypto better just because it can’t be purchased to launch.
Absolutely spot on. And this is not a New York thing, it's true of every dense, rich environment. I remember swapping notes with another denizen of uk.local.london back in the day, and finding that we both had a dozen things in the West End that we treasured, there was no commonality between them. It's almost as if there were two completely separate cities overlapping in space.
What high level of production? Please cite your source for this. The production is still lower than it was prior to the last recession and they're ramping to match pre-COVID levels. It may be high relative to the last decade or pre-COVID but in the long run, it hasn't recovered to the pre-recession levels. (https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/wood-production-hits...)

In other words, you have to include past levels when you say it is very high level, it isn't high relative to last year nor last decade either.

Inflation on its own doesn't explain ~100-400% price hike in the past year. Inflation hasn't even broken 10% yet.

It also doesn't explain that this started long before COVID as well.

This is mostly a supply and demand issue; the supply has taken a huge hit since the recession and lot of companies went out of business since then. COVID didn't help the matter.
Ask HN: 40 years old full time dev day job, how it's going?
Curious, how's the life of devs who is above 40 years old these days. What's your story, what keeps you motivated & inspired, what's your role & responsbility surrounded by younger coders.

Hoping to hear some real career path examples.

Thanks.
I can’t speak for who you’re replying to but having to maintain my phone like that sounds awful. I have my computer that I can endlessly tinker with—I want my phone to be a phone and just work.
Founder types love Ayn Rand
Don't go and claim the vast majority of top projects are essentially scams, that's just spreading false information.
(To quote Speer: "I didn't know, I could have known, I should have known." He's been vilified but I haven't seen anything to paint him as a liar as far as this is concerned.)

Read Gitta Sereny's "Albert Speer, his battle with the truth". It's a thick book, but fascinating. She casts serious doubt on Speer's assertion that he didn't know about the death camps, or that Jews were systematically being exterminated.
Effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccines against the B.1.617.2 variant
Could you post a link to the client?
> These results might suggest that the first vaccination induces immunogenicity but not sterile immunity.

I looked up those terms.

Immunogenicity means that it provokes an immune response.

Sterile immunity against a virus means that your immune system will stop the virus from replicating in your body.

Some vaccines, such as the inactivated polio vaccine, protect against the disease but do not produce sterilizing immunity. If you get the virus it can reproduce in your body but your immune system will be able to limit it enough that you don't get sick.
Freak accidents happen. If you start drawing conclusions about the risk of various activities and animals from literally one incident, you’ll end up with all kinds of erroneous and silly opinions about what is dangerous and what is not.

Focusing in on Stingrays, the number of confirmed deaths by stingrays is maybe as high as 30 ever. Yes, Steve Irwin was one of them, but that doesn’t magically move the statistics, it just makes it more salient.

For comparison, coconuts kill 150 or so people per year. In a real, measurable way, taking a nap under a coconut tree is more dangerous than swimming with a stingray.
I used this book and I found it to be excellent.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007R3U9W2/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

It is mainly geared toward MacOS development but there is a section specifically about iOS for things like Audio Session. You will probably still need to keep the Apple docs open for iOS specific stuff here and there but in general the book does a GREAT job of bridging audio theory, with apple's architectural decisions, with low level implementation details. IMO thats the great strength of books, they tie it all together and this one - for me at least - checked all the boxes.
> I think modern "Docker"'s security properties are underrated†

100% agree.

The docker/CRI-de-jour (by default) strips off many "dangerous" system capabilities. By default a pid on linux gets something like over one hundred system capabilities, and most container runtimes strip that down to around 50. Those number are not exact.

Stripping down the system level capabilities of your workload is assuredly a security improvement over running that workload "bare metal" on the system.

Ref: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/secure-your-containers-one-we...
I thought the implication of the article, though, based on their research, was that this plant did not use all of the extra CO2 to grow, but used some of it to produce more growth inhibitor which then cause crops to not grow. i.e. the experiment showed that the extra CO2 does not impact all plants in the same way, and does not necessarily impact plants in a way that is to the benefit of crops.
In the protobuf library, there are some protections against cases like this. For example, they add extra enum values that are explicitly labeled as "do not use" to prevent switch statements from assuming that an enum is complete and future-proof. https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/blob/master/src/...
> Interestingly, this also describes all of math, logic, and philosophy.

Which is totally fine, as long as people accept that God exists the same way math exists.
I just want to remind you that a family of four muslims was run over by a bigot in London, Ontario in the last week. And that in 2015, Harper and the CPC traded in a dog whistle for a bullhorn when he talked about “old-stock Canadians” and proposed a “barbaric cultural practices hotline” - and that party has just spent 10+ years leading the country!

Canada has some major problems with racism, and a lot of news media (particularly in the PostMedia family) is fanning those flames.
Sure —- in situations where time is critical, for example, fast, suboptimal decisions can be more effective than slow, optimized decisions. So having something general drilled into your head can, in those cases, be preferable.
I'm currently using Doppler (https://www.doppler.com/) but I'm not sure if it sidesteps the issues outlined in the article.
Does/did anyone else have a hard time understanding classes and how to use them?
Yep, no deadlines when you don’t do due diligence.
I'm a games developer working on some AAA xbox productions and I don't think I agree. My #1 impression with Microsoft documentation is that you run into a message "error occurred, click here to open documentation page", you click on it, only to be redirected to a 404 page or simply to MSDN's main website.

Like, yes, the pages that exist are usually very well written and detailed. But jesus christ, their links even just between MSDN pages are constantly broken, if you find an article older than 12 months you can be 100% certain nothing on the page will work when clicked on. It's like there is a wealth of knowledge there, but whoever is in charge of maintaining MSDN makes a point of redesiging the entire website every year and breaking literally every link in the process.
DIWHY

(Incredible talent shown though)
> The whole country was much more dangerous in the 70s-80s than it was in the 2000s.

Was that an overall trend in that rural and suburban areas were equally more dangerous, or was it concentrated in cities?
I cannot believe this is true:

14. In 1973, when the same class was resurveyed, the differences between the goal setters and everyone else were stunning. The 13 percent who had goals that were not in writing were earning, on average, twice as much as the 84 percent of students who had no goals at all. But most surprising of all, the 3 percent who had written their goals down were earning, on average, ten times as much as the other 97 percent of graduates combined!

It might make a difference, but not 10x in 20 years.
It hasn’t devalued 35%, more like 10%. You’re pretty close on which currencies though. It has devalued against a basket of the first three currencies in your list, plus Euro, CAD, and Swedish krona: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Dollar_Index

US Dollar Index chart: https://www.cnbc.com/quotes/.DXY
Past comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27486706
The difficulties mentioned in the article with passing secrets on the command line is one of the reasons why we wrote encpass.sh (https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh). We had a similar need for a lightweight solution for managing secrets for simple shell scripts on our local workstations and in restricted environments. Bonus, it can be easily customized with extension scripts to adapt functions for your own specific needs. See our keybase extension for an example -> https://github.com/plyint/encpass.sh/blob/master/extensions/...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/wood-production-hits...

They talk about opening new sawmills because a huge number of them went out of business since the last great recession.

It's a supply/demand issue and the production relative to COVID or last recession hasn't recovered.
This is a highly complex problem. One reason to run below capacity is that many of the trees that have grown in the souther US were left standing to grow longer during persuades of low demand in the last decade. Now that there is high demand it has become apparent that not many sawmills in the south of the UD have the capacity to saw larger trees, and many of the bigger mills that can are in Canada which is being impacted by tariffs that make shipping them back and forth not so economic.
#techrights have migrated to their own server and are bridging to Freenode.
I'm an Android user for the ability to do this exact thing, but there's a huge difference in unofficial vs official software support. While you can certainly flash a custom ROM to an Android phone when software update support ends, clearly first party updates would be preferred, at least from a security perspective.
Thanks for pointing that out; I stopped reading at that point. They kind of buried the lede.
I'm totally with you. Most of these lamentations are not people missing the old internet but their old selves, when everything was new and exciting. The OP rues the loss of Geocities but most of those sites were terrible and hard to read.
Guinea-Bissau’s cashew farmers survive tough times
Basically every other programming language has already had something like this for a long time, e.g., Javadoc and Doxygen. Is there a particular reason you'd rather use DocC than these well-established alternatives?
'I miss airline meals so much I make them at home'
Using porn to fix loneliness is like using a screwdriver as a hammer. It's not the intent of the tool, nor can you be upset with the screwdriver for being a poor hammer. The issue lies with the maker, not the tool.
> I'm saying you have two separate moral measuring tapes here, one for the West, and one for the rest.

I do not. Literally the first post I had in this thread said “better than China”. Please do not make up what I’m saying and argue against it. It is extremely annoying, and eventually I’ll come to the conclusion that you’re just acting in bad faith.

My point is not that the US is worse than China, my point is that the definition of freedom isn’t relative; saying “we’re not as bad as China” is not the same as saying “we’ve protected freedom”. Such a relativistic view of human rights is exactly how you justify a lot of bad shit.
Here is a feature that I'd like: curate articles by a user. Meaning if I were to, for example subscribe to all articles posted by "bengtan", then I should be able to get a list of posts that he has written, along with posts form other users that I may have subscribed to.
this was also the case with the internet. the world wide web was just an experiment for a long time. applications and their base layers take time to develop. can't rule it out yet.

tokens and shitcoins as get rich quick schemes are detracting from the true innovation imo
Yet BTC is trailing inflation by over 30% the last month alone?
It’s not different than a direct listing for $100B and dumping shares on everyone as fast as you can

Which was obvious Coinbase was going to do and did in their own stock market listing, to me

You sell into liquidity, liquidity comes from people wanting financial exposure, people wanting financial exposure comes from buzz and marketing

When things are actually under SEC purview, the only difference between fraud and not fraud is disclosure. If you tell people and they only watch youtubers instead of reading, you are fine

No, tokens typically are not under SEC purview and they’ve gotten better at ensuring that
> They’re a small but mighty team that’s constantly overwhelmed

I think this is an incredibly common situation. Personally speaking, I find that to be an excuse. If a woefully understaffed team of tech writers got the budget for 15 new tech writers, that usually wouldn't solve the problem.

The main issue is developers who don't believe documentation is highly important.

The "we generate documentation, so we're covered" is exactly the attitude I'd describe as highly unproductive. Of course that's great, but auto-generated docs are a small part of what should be your overall documentation suite. It shouldn't become the developers' excuse for not spending more time on documentation.

Tech writers will very rarely write docs from zero. I wouldn't even be surprised if the tech writers at Apple had no access to the source code, in which case they can't possibly write the docs from zero.
> Timeouts, retries, and resilience

At a previous employer I was responsible for a critical service that was starting to show strain as traffic ramped up. It used Hystrix as the circuit breaker for calls to backend services, including the DB, and at peak times the thread pool would fill and start rejecting additional requests. I was tasked with fixing that.

There's a very simple formula for tuning the number of threads:

> requests per second at peak when healthy × 99th percentile latency in seconds + some breathing room

The catch is that getting good RPS and latency numbers is in a distributed system deployed across three geographically separated datacenters is the opposite of simple. In particular, the legacy of the system meant that we had one write instance of the DB, in one datacenter, meaning that latency was different depending on which DC was the source of the call, so there was no one setting that worked for all instances.
The video where he does search&replace on the images using OCR shows how much effort went into this. Just wild, haha.
>It's the exact reason why you see some SWE guys with attractive women even though they may not be attractive or seem autistic on the social specturm. They've achieved something and continually work at it. It's a subtle vetting process that states "I don't give up at the first sign of weakness and I am extremely motivated."

I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying that simply being an SWE is enough to signal that "I don't give up at the first sign of weakness and I am extremely motivated." and that this is enough to be with attractive women?
Lumber production at all time high, as easily found in many articles.

It's called demand pull inflation. Suddenly populace has many more dollars, and thus can buy out supply of whatever... In this case, new housing stock. Or it could be driven simply by changes in preferences... The exact breakdown can't be known.

Whether it persists or not is the important question.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/fortune.com/2021/06/10/lumber-p...

A lot of people handwave away shortages as a supply side issue, but an increase in demand leading to a shortage is not supply side at all. The distinction is subtle but important.
I agree, and yet I think it's important not to focus too much on pleasure. Not just for the sake of productivity, but for the sake of one's own happiness. Caring about more than pleasure makes it easier to be happy. The Buddha had a lot to say about that.

Then again maybe that boils down to a mere alternate definition of pleasure. Newcomers to exercise find it painful, and that feeling never really goes away, but some learn to enjoy it.
alias nano="micro"
How much data was the Library of Alexandria? A gigabyte? I ask because I see sites disappearing off the net all the time. I've even seen sites being shut down because of the pandemic. Some people got COVID and were financially drained and couldn't afford the $15.00 it takes to renew a domain along with a bare minimum hosting bundle. It's very sad to witness. Archive.org's Wayback Machine is doing a great job, but even that is problematic since we don't know how long even that will be around, and we might need an archival site that backs up Wayback!
How to retry fails automation tests
Is There Anything Good About Men? (2007)
But we already have banks. Seems like nobody is aware of exactly what problems they're trying to solve here.

"crypto has the potential to be more efficient and secure" Sounds charmingly vague.