skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“We still have no plans to IPO,” Collison said. [1]

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-15/stripe-sa...
I see the hypocrisy. But you didn't mean to downplay the the very real human rights violations of the Belarusian regime, right?
No, the "pen" in "penguin" means "head" - it's from Welsh. English spelling is a lot easier if you know the languages it was derived from or influenced by.

An advantage of non-phonetic spelling is that it doesn't privilege any one accent over any other, so allowing a polycentric acrolect with each variety picking up accent and vocabulary from the local dialect, but maintaining mutual comprehension in writing.
Better from ecology point of view. More trees are cut than planted (also new trees are very small / often dont survive).
I thought this was not entirely without merit.

The approach this applies is to feed you leading questions, where the questions suppose that you're successful and ask you why this is.

The article dismisses protests of “but I'm not successful” by inviting you to write any old aspirational guff, and then points out that there's probably a nugget of truth in there somewhere.

I haven't come across this approach before, and I think it could be a neat trick to get out of a funk.
Or you could just edit the accepted answer if it’s wrong? I’ve seen a few posts where the top contains an “UPDATE” that, in summary, links to another answer.
Well, they have to recoup somehow the dollars they given to SA for oil....

The europeans are doing it smarter by selling them cars and nice clothing with "high value" brand names on it....
> natural defenses

Not really. While China improved its “natural defenses” by very unnaturally invading and subjugating Tibet it is still ringed by hostile countries or, in the case of Russia and North Korea, highly temperamental countries with very few natural barriers apart from the Himalayas which only covers one side. This is the reason the Great Wall was built.
I'm not sure that the idea that their population is aging follows the data. Their population age bubbles are younger than the US's. Their two bubbles are what are our older gen x and middle of the road millennials.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1101677/population-distr...

Additionally, they have a different retirement system that doesn't dry up for individuals the same way. If it's important for China that older citizens continue being consumers, they'll make that happen.
I am confused and amazed at the same time.

What is this sorcery?
The kids learn the fastest.

(though it's good to have them study a bit before. But with Youtube, Duolingo, etc it's not that hard)
> We are very sorry!
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> Thank you very much for your understanding.

Oh noes! Hope they reopen soon!
Yet again I have an excuse to recommend https://obsidian.md/

I have tried a gazillion ways to sort out my stuff, but this one stuck :)
It is so beautifully made, how many artists worked on this, how big is the team? What kind of tools have you used?
Try lifting weights. Becoming tougher physically made me tougher mentally. Was no longer afraid or feeling too weak to “do what is necessary now..”
I doubt any attacker is going to think "oh no, no PHP here, going to have to use Python!". If your security relies on not having an interpreter installed, something is badly wrong.
As a side gig I teach an intro to web development class online. Every semester I get students asking for help about why their code isn’t working. Nine times out of ten, they are trying to use some jQuery code they copied from stackoverflow because it is the accepted answer. They don’t yet know enough to recognize that it isn’t vanilla JavaScript (which they are required to use).
With the jargon-free version of this concept I can think of an example. To recompute the sum of the elements of a vector when one of the elements change you just add the new - old value to the sum. I'm I right?
Thanks for sharing.I found a lot of interesting information here. A really good post, very thankful and hopeful that you will write many more posts like this one. https://www.tellthebell.app/
I was curious and look up Square, they dont tend to go on news headline as much as stripe in tech circle.

I didn't know they went IPO, and they have a market cap of ~$100B. Wow.
Why learn anything at all then? Why bother learning OOP paradigms if procedural just works? Why bother ...? Do you see the flaw in your argument?
Certainly. I think this is, to me, the clearest case for why the US has a moral imperative to contribute to mitigating the ensuing problems in that region (just as western Europe has one for much of the MENA region, ...), including hosting refugees and asylum seekers seeking protection in the US, providing aid when it is done accountably and constructively, etc.
Impossible for those with kids.

Also if you want to have some "life" during week (gym? hobbies?) it is problematic.

I dont say that this is bad, but one of the things that works for young, single people.

I had to work 5x10 (then add 1 more for travel..) and even basic stuff like buying and cooking food could become a problem, especially if some day was 12h.
What does this meant for mRNA vaccine?
Ivermectin is far more effective.
Argentina found 100% effectiveness when used prophylactically.
I'll be the one to say that I find monitoring searches and website visits by your son incredibly disturbing.
Improving Open-Source Software Security for Java Developers
C is just implicit about how it pushes each function-local variable onto the stack. No amount of compiler optimization can hide it completely -- recurse too much or use up all the space, and you'll get a stack overflow. And just below C, all mainstream ABIs are designed around a stack too (with a designated stack pointer register, etc).
I think the HN codebase is mostly frozen.
That does tend to be what happens when your back is against a wall while another party tries to exterminate you.
Does Google FLoC track your porn preferences using the ad blocking EasyList?
I originally wanted to create "Elm with unions instead of ADTs, that compiles to wasm", but I had recently discovered Factor and Forth and found I enjoyed the syntax and semantics better than ML.

I'm a minimalist, I'm not fond of languages that grow and grow and grow with features. So my goal is to create the smallest language that is still flexible enough to solve most of my day-to-day problems (I use Elm and Kotlin for work), and a language which is easy to reason about.

For more on how Elm inspired Stabel, read this: https://fossils.stabel-lang.org/compiler/wiki?name=How+Elm+i...

Note: It's Stabel, not Stable. Stabel is norwegian and means stack.
so BTC would be real work because a lot of people care about those numbers, right?
Sorry, who's trying to exterminate whom?
The original doesn't have types, but the modified version of humanReadableByteCount() uses a "long bytes" and as such will fail if the file size is (Long.MAX_VALUE+1) because it cannot even accept the correct size as its argument in the first place. Implementing these edge cases makes adds one more working case to 2^63 (2^64 if negative file sizes are valid) when the bigger problem is using the type "long" when files of that size are possible on the target system.
The technical cost/effort for someone like you or me to do that is minimal. The expensive part is the ongoing social maintenance fee aka moderation. As evident by the stack overflow drama re: Monica, it’s an unsolved (non-technical) problem that you could make your own mint to print money on, if you were able to fix any tiny part of it.
Yes, we could have wide support for inline svg by now.
It's a saying that you do not have to be a genius to understand it. For example the em edtior (editor for mere mortals) where you could see what you wrote on the screen instead of having to keep it all in your head... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi
> On whether I am rational or not, I'll just say this: Einstein believed what I believe. Newton believed what I believe. That doesn't mean I am right but I am certainly in good company.

No, they did not [1] [2]. The two believed such diametrically opposed things that I can't believe anyone could claim to be in the company of both at the same time.

Please leave the condescension at the door. It does not reflect well on your beliefs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_and_philosophical_vi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Isaac_Newto...
WASM isn't specifically meant to be JIT and there is no compelling reason to. One prime use is ahead of time native compilation from easy to translate intermediate representation.
I’ve being waiting for a product like this for some time now, I think there is a huge (not yet served) market for this. I’ve tried to implement something using Cloudflare workers, but failed, also tried to use Apollo Cloud trough a Apollo Federation server in front of my (non Apollo Server) API, failed too.

Some questions:

How it compares with Apollo Cloud on feature set terms?

My graphql server load is like 20 request/s average. At first the pricing looks a little bit intimidating for me, but running the numbers it looks like $500/m, is that right? Hopefully it will offset some of my origin servers costs.

What count as a request? Just request coming from the “outside” or also calls to purge for example?

I’ll be trying GraphCDN soon, maybe even today.

Good luck
The App Store profits and user privacy are two different issues. It's not all doublespeak:

Since an i-device is restricted to Apple's app store it's Apple who can make the call what kind of app behaviour is permitted. They communicate this very clearly and sell devices where the user can expect apps don't try to deceive them. (yes, this is fallible, but the App store is curated and offenders can be and are removed).

Allowing sideloaded apps will make it very easy to break these promises since users don't read the small print and will install whatever social app their friends are using. Already Facebook has expressed disagreement about the new app privacy labels, so I fully expect them to jump to sideloading as soon as Apple allows this (or is forced to allow this).

Consequence is users have no choice then to install Facebook apps from a non-privacy respecting source since there will be no messaging apps with privacy guarantees on the app store. At the least Facebook will have more leverage to press for less user protection.
I see this as a loss for users (like myself). I like having at least a bit of privacy protection and until there are other ways to guarantee this I will accept the App store model as the lesser evil.
See Veritasium's video, he goes into depth about Godel's theorems:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeQX2HjkcNo
Well, don't keep us hanging. Please explain what the offences were.
That sounds like an exciting idea!

Though, personally I'm not sure how far one could get and staying true to the spirit, or the deliciousness of go, namely the interweaving quality of different ever-status-changing groups and also considering that stones have somewhat global effects (ladder).
Perhaps the AI could also make helpful annotations to player why the move was important. Or suggest that this and that group should be strengthened. Or if player makes a move that first selects a region, then give some options to choose from.

I love abstract aspects of go (e.g. reading attack and defence, direction of play) but often situations involve local context that are too interesting to ignore, and thus tesujis. It would definitely would be fun to see how a game like you are suggesting would feel like.

One thing I really liked about go is that learning from a book, or trying out puzzles, is much easier than for example in Chess due to much less destructive change in the board.

(I'm ranked online perhaps 3-5 kyu, so take my take with a grain of salt).

Wrt. teaching absolute beginners, here's a nice but not that experimentally-minded blog post by a European player that became professional in Japan: https://www.nordicgodojo.eu/post/9/how-should-we-teach-go-to...
I'm the OP of the DBA StackExchange post, and while yes, it does technically work in this case, you do lose some abilities. For one, its much harder to `count(*)` rows with `DISTINCT`. Also, `DISTINCT` uses a totally different mode in planning that requires first retrieving all the rows and then finally filtering them. This is _much_ slower and generally not very fun to deal with!
-My setup is zim for saving stuff, lists, etc and Remarkable 2 for raw thinking. I'd really like to find a good way to combine the two.
The solution is to allow users to use their own svg libraries when sending messages, and the ability to manage these libraries by copying inline symbols from messages sent by others.

This would promote an open culture of creating inline symbols. E.g. where is our "covid" symbol, and why do we have to wait for the Unicode consortium to define it for us, and app makers to implement it??
saudi arabia can do whatever they want because of the petrodollar. i’m surprised they don’t take advantage of that more often thsn they do.
Frankly, effectively both sides. Just two chimp groups fighting over territory.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War

My guess is that like in the above case, one side will wipe out the other. That is why both sides are playing for keeps. I don’t think you can carve out a tenable country out of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Israel without the West Bank probably doesn’t work either.
A tangential question: for someone who has tried to listen to Jazz and Classical music but always found it sort of.. pretentious(?) would you have any advice or recommendations? I find myself less interested in music these days, although I'd say I would be more of a fan of the blues genre. I would really like to be able to listen to something (maybe only in the background) and enjoy it.
Yes back in the day whenever I used php it never had all the modules I wanted.

Not a big miss.

Brew install php
According to the video, it is end to end encrypted. So I could see it easier on PCI compliance if my phone never actually gets unencrypted credit card numbers.
Why can I accomplish anything I set my mind to?

> When I have time to focus on my interests

Why are there objective limits to what I can accomplish?

> Wage slavery

Think about it.
Chinese crewed spaceship docks with new space station
This is the prompt I got running php in macOS11:

$ php --version
WARNING: PHP is not recommended
PHP is included in macOS for compatibility with legacy software.
Future versions of macOS will not include PHP.
PHP 7.3.24-(to be removed in future macOS) (cli) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.3.24, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
Not sure why I was downvoted, this was a genuine question.

I understand the idea of having decentralised currency to specifically avoid being "controlled" by central banks but the example of BitCoin has not worked and I wonder if this is purely a technical issue specifically with Bitcoin (slow ledger, associated with crime, instability) or whether it is even possible to get the stability and value from any system that is not anchored to anything tangible.

Is the jury still out or do we know it can work?
You don't need a queue to protect from Svix downtime. It can be as simple as logging failures to svix (when they happen), and replaying these events. Though as I said elsewhere, this scenario is something you'd need to deal with Twilio and SendGrid too.

As for what this service does that is not basically a curl loop with an error check: see the rest of the comments. People chimed him from their experience better than I could have said it myself. Or even look at https://svix.com and see what we offer, you'll see that there's much more nuance. :)

We know that people underestimate webhooks, it's a challenge we need to overcome, but there really is more to it than just a POST request.
people who actually experienced a communist state probably won’t laugh at that joke
Plugging my setup which works fantastically for me after a very long time searching: https://www.mtsolitary.com/20210309194647-my-org-mode-setup/
Based on emacs org-mode, org-roam and Hugo.
(1931)
This is old news.
In France, as a "cadre" (most tech people are cadre for some reason) you're paid by the day and not by the hour, hence there's no cap to 35h.

You do however get RTT (basically paid holidays) to get back the hours that you do above 35h (usually half a day a week to compensate for the 40h classical work week)
How the forgotten tricks of 'letterlocking' shaped history
I'm reading your reply in Ben Shapiro's voice
SignWriting, a writing system for Signed Languages, would need something like this, because rotation and location of the graphemes matter. Imagine the letter a being rotated by 45 degrees and moved to the upper left corner of the drawing area. How would you encode this?

There's a symbol for the torso, for the fist, for touch and for the strongness of touch. If you hit your own shoulder with a fist with the knuckles facing upwards, you rotate the symbol for the fist, paint the torso and the fist next to each other and put the touch symbol approximately where the shoulder would be.

https://signwriting.org/
Regarding Perl, rather than removing it Apple actually upgraded it – from 5.28 to 5.30 – in Big Sur 11.3. I wasn't the only one briefly surprised and bitten by it:

• https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/10127#issuecomment-8...

• https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/11275
Crucial Keys to Create a Data-First Company Culture
Script execution is blocked by default unless you turn off Gatekeeper.
The original idea of blockchains might be simple(shallow) but it is still technically a very deep and interesting topic. Do you think proof of stake is the ultimate invention which resolves all current and future trust and scaling issues? Do you think the current implantation of smart contracts is the epitome of engineering? There isn't even (to my knowledge) a blockchain which enables a smart marketplace for compute time. (The computecoins I investigated fell very short of the promise of being a serverless AWS competitor).
Dolphin bites 6yr old boy's hand, watch scary viral video from Ukraine
You will never have piece in the Middle East when there are people who want to kill all the Jews, and Jews who don't want to be killed.
PHP is not recommended... wait, what? I can somehow understand the lowercase version / command, as in - we're phasing it out. Get it somewhere else. But giving the thumbs down to one of the most popular web dev languages out there is - I'm at a loss for words really.
Lots of conjecture and inferences made from the study with no backing evidence.

Implying flu deaths are correlated with vaccination, when there's no data about overall flu numbers during that time.

Fear mongering about spike proteins. Claiming they're dangerous on their own without the rest of the virus, again with no evidence.

Oh and a bonus crackpot anti vax YouTube video at the bottom.

Lots of anti-vax articles are written under the guise of "just asking questions". A stance which allows you to post "theories" with little to no evidence. This article is no exception
The people who believe this think we have constant secret inflation in the US, except they also think we don't have inflation because the "petrodollar" forces everyone else to absorb USD, except they also don't explain why other countries like Japan printing JPY doesn't cause inflation.

I don't think a mere thing like what currency you use stops the FBI from assuming everything in the world is their jurisdiction.
Hmm, not sure but if you search for "steve-o ceiling fan" you should find it pretty quick.
What if someone else, with all the context necessary and whose sole focus was on doing code reviews, did them for you?
I personally am a a pretty strong capitalist but this argument is a bit tired. Communism was never reached in any of the countries known for 'Communism'. They were all authoritarian regimes, mostly some form of dictatorship
A glance at what could have been, showing us how lucky we really got with >3 working vaccines deployed within a year.
To prove a stablecoin was backed you'd probably do the following:

1) review the processes and controls which operate the business to check they were operating correctly for the period under review

2) interview the various key stakeholders to assess competence and get representations

3) perform substantive testing over the collateral balance for the whole period. Eg daily bank reconciliations. Get third party confirmations for EVERYTHING.

4) perform a contingent liabilities review and a legal review.

5) see if there are any related party transactions

6) do a going concern assessment

The key thing would be to check existence, completeness and valuation of collateral and existence and completeness of liabilities (issued tokens).

Depending on what the assets are that would entail different procedures. For tether I would want to see their whole CP portfolio to perform a thorough credit risk and systemic risk assessment. Do some modelling to understand valuation implications under various scenarios.

Is worth noting that it's not feasible to do this on a monthly basis because it's so onerous. Hence why probably they just do monthly attestations. I would expect that the legal entity which issues the tokens and holds the collateral is audited at least once a year.

Never knew my audit knowledge would ever be useful/interesting :)

Cheers
I wonder if they'll remove wish. I always thought it was really cool that you could just sit down at any mac and hack out a quick app prototype in vim/wish without installing anything.
I love PHP but this makes good sense. Better to install it afterwards and get the package/version you want. Reduce footprint of OS.
It's just a generic "this is deprecated and will be removed, don't rely on it" message, not a comment on the language...
Using Monday.com's project manager as a command and control server
I used it as a quick html server as an alternative to the Python “simple” ones, which always had some issues for me.

Useful when coding small demos:

php -S localhost:8000
As a person who also hates the stupid split screen, I think you will like https://bangle.io , it is WYSIWYG
local note taking app.

It saves notes in markdown but provides you with a pretty interface. The goal of this project is to provide a nice interface like notion while keeping the data in users machine in a human readable format.
I'm using Roam and quite happy, though I'm growing kind of frustrated that it's pretty much impossible to get anything in there quickly on an iPhone other than opening Roam in Safari, waiting for the spinner to finish, then paste, and an iOS Shortcuts workflow on their site that's broken.

But other than that, it's the first notes app that really clicks for me. It's very fast (they do lots of things in the local browser, I think), plus I've never been able to work with categories or folders, everytime I try I quickly end up with such a lot of categories that they're not really useful anymore, and I find myself wasting time and energy figuring out the best category for a particular item, and then I still don't find it again. With Roam I don't have to do any of that, as it's just a graph, I just dump things in my Daily Notes, add a bunch of hashtags, and it'll show up on all the hashtag pages and in search. It can do a lot more that I haven't looked into yet (some kind of graph search I think?), but that alone is a total game changer for me.
Looks like the same is said for Python, Ruby, Perl and all other scripting languages on MacOS too.

Apparently Apple prefers compiled binary for everything.

Am not complaining. The included Apache/MySQL servers were too old and I had to install those anew. But that always collided with the stock installed one.

It's good that Apple getting rid of those. Install what you need afresh.