skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History knows multiple examples when people had a theory about something and it agreed with their observations, but then they observed a discrepancy, and then another one, and tried to rectify them by adding more and more rather arbitrary conditions or exceptions to their theory. Until it was proven completely wrong and a much better, and much simpler, explanation was found.

One example is this "phlogiston theory"[1] describing how and why things burn before we knew about atoms and molecules. It did its job and explained people's observations about the process of combustion. But then it was found out that for some substances, their weight increases after they've been burnt. This was explained by phlogiston having negative weight... sometimes. Or being lighter than air, also sometimes.

Another one is how we first thought that the universe revolves around the earth. And then we had complex formulas that described the motion of celestial bodies as we see them on the sky. And guess what? It turned out to be much simpler than we thought.

And then our current theories can't explain redshift, so we assume that the universe must be expanding. And they can't explain how outer parts of galaxies spin faster than they should be spinning, so we invent dark matter to reconcile that. See a pattern?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlogiston_theory
Most teams I have encountered so far don't have an anyone that experienced with scalable database systems. So you have to choose the best you can do at that moment without loosing your momentum. When more users come more funding will come and you can hire someone who can repay the technical dept chosen before.
I think appreciating value is a bad quality in something that seeks to be a currency because it would naturally encourage runaway inequality and disinvestment if it were adopted for the purpose.
agreed, but to add: it’s framed as a race problem because the media over proportionately report on interracial violence.
When I was in HS, I wish my school had used books like Serge Lang's or even Gelfand instead the terrible textbooks we were forced to use. I ended up needing to use Saxon Math to review, which was better because it always builds on previous skills instead of moving on to the next topic and never revisiting what you've already learned again.
>One can easily write an email to abuse@hoster.example.com and usually these people do not want garbage on their networks. CF is making it impossible to do notify them, and they refuse to implement an alternative procedure.

But that's exactly what CF does. They forward your abuse complaints to the abuse contact of the IP address hosting the content.
Open Sourcing Direct3D 9 on 12
> All the languages you listed worked fine to develop complex applications using "tabular data".

Point is, it's not a native representation for them. If you just wanted to serialize a portion of a program's heap, independently of the program (which is presumably the "very convenient" part of it), it would be a graph of records or objects, not a bunch of tables. For example, no word processor to my knowledge represents the document being edited as a bunch of tables outside of the language's native data model. That's why document databases don't use tables for documents.
Fire use: The first signal of widespread cultural diffusion in human evolution
Nitpick: Most manure used in agriculture is primarily composed of animal feces, which isn't strictly made of just plant matter.
Given where it is now, I dream of seeing it go the next step towards what Alexia Massalin's Synthesis kernel did, and start JIT'ing across the user/kernel boundary. Of course, there be dragons.
I’m not sure if it would work for everyone, but we keep all our sensitive data in an entirely separate schema, and everything is to be built to assume the sensitive rows can suddenly not exist at any time.

This way we only need to restore the insensitive schema to staging areas, and have different backup policies, keeping the insensitive far longer.
I would add to what you said by saying that coding (that is, actually writing the code) may be easy enough and you can even get useful stuff made easily enough, but as I said in the github copilot discussions, writing code is usually the least important aspect of my job as a programmer and only a small chunk of what I spend my time on.

So, writing code might not be hard, but its also a kinda mechanical process. Most of the coding effort comes from translating your thoughts into what the language understands. Teenage me managed just fine, many kids start even younger. Writing code that does interesting things isn't, for many people and definitely shouldn't be for a professional programmer.

However, as a programmer, I spend much more time on other tasks: figuring out what the requirements even are, refining them, figuring out what that even means in terms of code, figuring out the overall architecture, how it fits in with other systems or existing code, what data formats it uses, how it handles faults, persistence, scale, security. The data model (what data I have, what shape does it have, how can I transform it, where does it live/is it stored, who or what owns it, who or what is allowed to modify it/add to it/delete from it, what is its lifecycle, are there any legal requirements around storage or retention). How it interfaces with the outside world (UI or API).

Besides the application code itself, I also spend a lot of my time on writing tests and on writing documentation.

All of these tasks are, in my opinion, a lot harder and more time consuming than actually writing the code.
I mean as long it is not a special alloy, eating iron rust is completely harmless.
Most likely inspired by DXVK - the Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11.

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
Startup Designed 'Ear 1s' to Beat AirPods
On the subject of options, I seem to remember being able to alter how toasted the toast was!
Immigration is an action, it isn’t an inherent quality or protected by law in most countries. Not that this matters, but if you think it does: I’m an immigrant.
Optimizing Remote Direct Memory Access for a faster, more robust internet
Just because the average consumer doesn't understand browser engines, doesn't mean that those who do should have that option removed. Hide it in developer settings behind three warning prompts for all I care but make the option available to those who want it.

And drop the ad hominem rhethoric please.
It's not as good, but the history is pretty useful: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
Is mathematics hard?

Well it depends, are you doing high school level mathematics, or are you trying to solve highly complex mathematical problems and/or devise new theorems?

In general, the aspect of programming where you write the code is not especially hard, at least not that much more so than basic writing.

However, like trying to write a decent quality full length novel, competently programming a large complicated system as part of a large team is definitely quite hard.

Although there are occasionally some very hard algorithmic challenges in programming, for the vast majority of programmers, their projects tend to fail for project management reasons. So, while solo programming on a small scale is by and large quite easy compared to many things (such as mastering a musical instrument, being a world class athlete, understanding complex physics, etc), working on a large programming project is certainly very hard and failure is quite regular in our industry.

As I've gotten older, I've come to realize that any type of work which requires many people to complete (things such as large construction projects, feature length movies, television series, large aeronautical projects, etc) is hard to complete on time and within budget for the same general reasons, management of a lots of tasks and coordinating lots of people effectively. The most valued programmers in the industry tend to be those that manage to make large scale projects succeed.

Programming a little solo project is not "hard", but successfully programming large complex systems is absolutely "very hard".
Ask HN: Is digital privacy still achievable without sacrificing the convenience?
Commit to creating high-quality content, says Kent C Dodds
Shooting from the hip here, but this ("\xb0\x04\x00") could be interpreted as a protobuf with this IDL:

message Foo {
optional int32 bar = 70;
}

that decodes to the following value:

bar: 0

(or bar could be bool of value false, or enum at value 0/UNSPECIFIED, or int of any other size)

But with such a short message and without other samples it's difficult to prove or disprove that this is indeed a protobuf :).

One could try to set &pp=sAQB (bar = true/1), &pp=sAQP (bar = 15), ... and observe what happens.
The Dos applications in production are probably delivered by floppy or CD.

But hey absolutely with you, i "updated" a warehouse management machine ~7 years ago with FreeDOS and new Industrial-grade Hardware and automated email backup (haha take that cloud!), we had just one little problem with the infrared reader, but we found one with USB and DOS drivers and and everything was fine, so there's definitely a use-case for FreeDOS.
I think they have no bearing on the quality of the actual product. If anything they are Easter eggs that promote discussions like this one which is free marketing in itself.
I don't see how it is an anti elite invention. Deflation scales with your networth. The bigger your networth the bigger the income from deflation. The only difference is that the system is new and the elites haven't established themselves yet but it is starting to get old. Give it another 10 years and it will be just as bad as everything else.

Inflation scales with your networth too but it doesn't reward you. You'll have to find an income source to cover the loss. Most inflation protected income streams rely on employing humans.

If you were to pay out a fixed UBI to all people and finance it with inflation then basically people with above average deposits would see the value of their bank account decrease and approach average wealth and people with below average deposits would see the value of their bank account increase and approach average wealth as well.

Assuming inflation = low unemployment holds then incomes would rise vs wealth which would be a reasonable approximation of the theoretical UBI I proposed above.
Screensavers are a thing again on modern TV because OLEDs have a pretty serious burn-in problem apparently. Not much creativity there, probably because it should not be annoying, so it's stuff like art galleries or subtle fireworks effects that also 'train' the pixels.

Best screensaver I used to have was the BSOD one from xscreensaver, so many people fell for it.

Second best is the nyan cat screensaver.

Currently have an Apple image gallery of space themed pictures.
Playing devil's advocate, the parent comment didn't mention "synfuels" at all, it mentioned "renewable fuel", which includes things like sugarcane alcohol, which is very common here in Brazil as a car fuel; many cars come out of the factory with flex fuel engines which can run on either gasoline or alcohol, and every fueling station I've ever seen always has at least one pump for alcohol.
> All the Unix vendors (except Sun)

cough IBM cough

They were never going to ditch power... Did they ever even have an Itanium product? I know they've had x86/x86_64, all sorts of power variants like Cell and god knows what.

I did briefly work on an Itanium system at IBM, but it was an HP box.
So many saying it's a supply issue...

If it's a supply issue, more people would be homeless and without a place to live.

It's an affordability issue with a small portion of 'housing investors' pricing out renters from ever buying.
These guys also make a version of flying toasters for macOS (it’s what I use as my screen saver):
https://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/afterdarkclassicset/upgra...
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Well, probably also that technically Microsoft had a monopoly in desktop operating systems (apparently 97% of desktop computers in 2000 according to an article I found), whereas Apple’s smartphone market share in Europe is just less than 30%.
According to same presentation, substantial immune waning after six months for natural infections.
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There are two reasons I see for this based on my experience.

First, as the other commenter mentioned, Java was targeted at large enterprise. I remember hearing about Java Beans, and Java Enterprise this and that. It fit with the model of development many were seeing in the late 90s as well- UML diagrams written by some middle manager. There were even tools like Rational Rose that would transform your UML into Java outlines.

Python was an academic language for the most part and so it took time to catch up.

This is the same time period, where Linux was dismissed as a toy or hacker's tool. Serious people worked on Sun Microsystems computers, or Windows NT. Sun and NT were "Real tools for business" and Linux was for people like me- kids in their dorm rooms.

It took time for the industry to catch up, which it did largely out of necessity. A company like Google could run thousands of computers for a fraction of the cost of doing so with NT or Sun, and that gave them a competitive advantage.

With Python, the advantage was different- it wasn't the cost as much as it was the simple convenience and network effect of libraries and a robust community.

Sun could throw money towards documentation, education and marketing. Python was a grass roots movement that only later had a foundation and corporate involvement.
Jan Marsalek
I thought that the baby boomer population was significantly larger than their inheritants, however, it seems GenX is only slighter lower in population size. So my theory doesn't hold.
Umm they can? What is PayPal and the like if not exactly that? I don't enter my CC every single time I buy online with PayPal. I just login and choose the card/address I want. The only thing Apple Pay offers is the ability to login with TouchID/FaceID.
It's expensive enough that the first thing I do when diagnosing slow software is to break out "strace -c", because shockingly often the cause is someone who thought syscalls wouldn't be that expensive.

You're right, they're not that expensive, but once who end up triggering multiple syscalls in a tight loop where a tiny fraction of them were needed, it often does totally kill performance.

Especially because while the call itself is not that expensive, you rarely call something that does no work. So the goal should be not just to remove the syscall, but to remove the reason why someone made lots of syscalls in the first instance.

E.g. pet peeve of mine: People who call read() with size 1 because they don't know the length of remaining data instead of doing async reads into a userspace buffer. Have cut CPU use drastically so many times because of applications that did that. The problem then is of course not just the context switch, but the massive number of read calls.
You're totally right! I think you could have flying fish too!
It still doesn't say how much it will be able to carry. They'll sell some for the marketing value, but no company will replace their diesel fleet with it
The absolute future of a proprietary service-specific history.
these sort of clueless comments come up in every single thread. approximately everyone in australia lives in six fairly dense cities.
How? Milk from a big scale industrial farm is taken pretty much directly from the udder into a sterilised tank, and then directly into cartons/bottles from there. Large scale butchers also follow strict hygiene procedures. Like, ok, maybe an insect could be somewhere in the process, but everything about milk and meat processing should almost guarantee lack of insects anywhere. As compared to things like wheat where insects will always be in flour and we can't do anything about it.
The article indicates that there is scientific evidence (and specific study) of wasp biomass in the fig.
In my teenage years when McDonalds used to do those Monopoly scratch cards (UK), we used to go into the local McDonalds, order the cheapest hamburger on the menu, rob a whole bunch of scratch cards and then hand out the winning ones to local homeless people. Good times.
I miss the worms which ate the screen. Very Pink Floyd.
Or to paraphrase some sayings / one-liners, "a little copying is better than the wrong abstraction".
It depends of the country. In my country-side town in Europe, I would have no issue.

Now I am in Hong-Kong, and it's really hard to find a place that have enough place for a desk in a bedroom / place in the living room, without breaking your bank account. I heard that it's the same for Singapore.
> Well you don't know the long term effects.

To put it accurately, there is absolutely no indication that any vaccine has any long-term effect whatsoever.

Doesn't this mean you are trying to analyze tradeoffs of a problem that does not exist in the plane of reality?
I'm sure there a quite a few seamstresses that would disagree with you on that one.
Let's then also hope that the anti-trust judiciary understands that a closed-loop Web where the browser, the so-called "standards", the content/ads, and gatekeeping are made by the same party, is antithetical to what made the Web successful and got public spending behind in the first place. And that solving an economic problem of the software industry (nobody wanting to install your app, and nobody wanting to buy it either when everything is "free" as long you accept erosion of your privacy) isn't the job of the web, especially when it clearly is detrimental to the original purpose of the web as a medium for easy self-publishing.
Someone need to add a comment to the page so the misconception does not spread.

I would but Discuss does not like me.
why do people with no idea about what's happening bother to comment at all?

australia's use of a few lockdowns and draconian border resitrictions eliminated covid within the country and meant there's been little restrictions for anyone for most of the pandemic.
They started collecting data on foreign purchasers and it’s maybe a few single percentage points. Canadians are house horny and willing to borrow from parents and absolutely max out payments to own a house.

Does domestic money laundering and illegal money have an impact? Absolutely, but blaming foreigners is laughable considering number of them.
I was intending to reply saying that it's not something that we're constantly, or really ever, on alert for, primarily because I live in suburbia.

However, and I don't think this is entirely representative, we live across the road from a gully (and the other side of the gully is a big main road, we're not out in the sticks or anything) and a couple of our neighbours have seen brown snakes in their backyards. Brown snake may be a boring name, but they're no joke [0]. One neighbor lost a dog to a brown snake, and have since moved because of that.

Thankfully, we've never seen one in our yard. We do have a couple of blue tongue lizards though, but they're beautiful[1].

Coincidentally, my daughter, right just now while I was writing this, pointed out a huntsman spider on the outside of the kitchen window[2] - don't often see them out and about in winter.

Seriously though, these animals don't factor in to the average Australian's daily life - even as a parent. The mortgage and school and sport fees, they're the universal killers.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_brown_snake

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_skink

[2]: https://imgur.com/gallery/aWwz3zx
I used to take sick days for that reason when I worked in an open office space. Then, I realized how dumb that was and quit that job.
How do you expect to update in the case of vulnerabilities? Do you just hope you'll find out about it?
It's missing the music! I still remember the Flying Toasters music 20 years later...
They spent their USD and got something in exchange or they didn't because they waited so long that the something no longer existed and thus the value of the USD disappeared.
I dislike Tailwind's choice of inlined styles in html, but I agree that the advice in the book is very good.
Why yes I did, so I did some more work on it and submitted it elsewhere. Sometimes it was accepted, sometimes it wasn't, in the latter case maybe the original review was justified.

What I didn't do was kvetch about it on a public forum.
I think that small teams with high throughput communication can work in place and remote. In place the high communication is there by default where the default remote position would probably be lower communication / more isolation. It doesn't have to be this way of course, but it would require the remote high communication model to be put into action intentionally.

It's worth remembering that this high communication method isn't really scalable too, and that larger teams trying to follow it will find themselves dedicating a larger % of their time to noise. It would take some intentional actions to move away from it as the team grows.
Google (WHATWG) putting "HTML living standard", "URL standard", etc. as heading on their their phone-book-sized monstrosities and calling it a day, then leveraging their power over Mozilla to bless it, then putting pressure over others as the media powerhouse they are, thereby driving browser vendors out of business, can hardly be described as "standard" or other process of finding consensus.
Your retard is showing.
Show HN: A Telegram bot teaches you how to curse in any language
There's also https://tailkit.com/, the markup is pretty reasonable. It was designed by someone who has been making themes for ~10 years.

I did a review of Tailkit in general here: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/reviewing-tailkit-300-tailwin...
What fraction of the YouTube userbase do you imagine manually edits URLs?
Is that true for e.g. ethanol too? I mean sure, it is true for H2-gas made with electricity but when making ethanol you are starting with lower grade energy.

Ethanol is made from wood or grain and any losses during the harvesting etc for the end product is comparable to the wind losses around the turbine (note that it is a bad comparison, since wasting wind is kind of no cost ...) or comparable with burning wood to power a steam machine generator to power EVs.

I.e. the degenerate case is using gasoline do power a powerplant to power a EV. You would be better off just using it in an ICE car. My point is turning wood into ethanol might be a good supplement to solar and wind EVs. E.g. for wood ethanol 1J product requires 0.6J input (except the wood of course) [1].

https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/ethanol_fuel_basics.html
https://ilsr.org/wp-content/uploads/files/ethanolnetenergy.p... (table 1)
Not as much as I'd like. I think losing the tactile idea of physically how far into a book something is loses a signal.

On the other hand I think there are potential opportunities there in more strongly visually signalling position in ways you can't with physical books (e.g. by strongly visually signposting locations in various ways), that I wish someone would experiment with.
I’ve been mentoring two juniors at work and I prefer zoom actually. It’s a lot easier for me to share my screen with the both of them than it is to all huddle around my desk. If they run into a problem they ping me on slack and we hop on a call together. It’s not any harder than strolling over to my desk.
> Considering that the English-language web is almost completely occupied by USians, it would be hilarious if they were required to finally declare that they speak ‘American’ and not ‘English’.

For what it's worth, I have always described the language I speak as 'American', and it confuses people no end. ("Don't you mean 'English'?")
Review: Jon Bodner's 'Learning Go'
>Web interface to MVS when?

Already there with :)

https://github.com/hercules-390/hyperion

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQMF1p-...

Sorry for the bad screenshot.
They still heat the resale market