skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> these are all beyond hard

I seem to remember some guy saying something about that.

We’ve never let the fact that something doesn’t exist yet stop us. We are a species of inventors. We didn’t stay huddled naked in caves because they work and we got them for free. We aren’t meant to be like the rest of the ecosystem that mutely accepts its fate. We know we can die but we also reject the natural order of succumbing to predation, famine, disease and exposure. This planet is a cradle that we cannot lie in forever. Some day it will be dust and we will have to learn to walk amongst the stars.
They actively warned about Honey Security Issues, but haven't mentioned Keepa at all.
doubler :: Num a => [a] -> [a]
doubler xs = take 2 xs

Passes the type checker, thanks type system! /s

I like static typing, but static typing advocates seriously overstate how much protection the type system gives you. Hickey really said it best: "We used to say 'If it compiles it works' and that's as true now as it was then."

As for dynamic typing "helping find code to write tests", that's not a feature, it's a huge downside. Neither side is perfect, but in my experience the benefits of the static checker are overblown since I need to write tests anyways. And also like you say, there's a variety of great static analysis tools you should be using as well.
On an account with exactly one email?

A new one shows up and takes over the account, permanently locking out the old one. All in 20 minutes?
Just want to add another advice for “brother” as well as any other brand laser printers.

If your printer says it cant print any more as the ink is gone, just go search
to internet to find how to reset the cartridge counter, and then the same (wink) “empty” cartridge will print for another couple 100 to 1000 sheets of paper.

For me that meant 3 more years of printing and still going on reportedly “empty” cartridges.

What These companies are doing is criminal and no different than dieselgate. Mis-reporting wrongly to throw cartridges to landfills.
Oh at last, I can feel slightly less ashamed of being part of the Israeli technology scene.
Also: https://archive.is/txqqK
We used MM in the past and switched to Zulip. The docker upgrade path of MM is a pain and lacks support. (They switched to a new postgres version without providing any upgrade tutorial.) But honestly if you like to use a team chat to get work done Zulip works the best. The thread tagging inside a group and the keyboard support makes it easy to follow different conversations in a stream.
Yeah, but that was an executive decision, not a developer decision. It's absolutely the reason I'm never going to buy an Oculus, but it's a bit unfair to blame it on developers who had no influence on this decision. (Only a bit unfair, because those developers still choose to work there.)
> a new way of thinking began to predominate in the US that was not really liberal

And that isn't even about the discrepancy of definition between the US and Europe. This is something completely different.

> This new way of thinking was more hostile to freedom of speech, and its adherents began the process of chasing deviant thinkers out of academia that began in the late 1960s and would massively reduce political diversity by the 21st century

Today people call them woke or progressives, but it is not restricted to that. Still, many people cherishing freedom feel displaced when their closest political allies are suddenly economic liberals (more in the EU sense here now). They aren't the brightest stars in the night sky when it comes to determine what is necessary for a healthy society, but you take what you can get.

One of the fathers of the theoretical framework some of their ideas are based on wrote an interesting book. Fear of freedom, Erich Fromm, so it is surprising where they stand today. Or not, given the analysis of authoritarians or what can be the source of such ambitions. Yes, it is psychoanalysis, take it with a grain of salt and some eggs while you are at it, but still worth a read in my opinion. As for why they don't follow their own ideas critically and reflect on their stance towards freedom of speech, opinion and self-determination? Educational degradation, I guess.

That said, I don't believe the US will succumb to communism anytime soon. The arguments are kind of funny though. I heard there was an ex-soldier that accused the US military of being Marxist. Yes, the US military. The military that spend decades of really trying hard to be exactly not that and has put so much effort in it. I don't know why they discharged him exactly, maybe they were just extremely offended. The US military is Marxist... I guess it must be true or do US soldiers own their own tanks? See? Maybe he was onto something...

> This did not lead to a brotherhood of man, amazingly.

I have explained to progressives that this is actually a tactic toxic middle management uses against its "minions". They weren't too open to the idea.
> Whilst most finance deals are scams, there are good ones.

It's hard to get these though. You need a combination of good credit scores, a lot of time, math knowledge and car knowledge and insider connections for that. Everyone else will get ripped off.

> Most independents are cheaper

I admit I'm a bit clueless about the US situation, but here in Germany if you have a new car it will lose resale value if checkups haven't been done at an authorized dealership in the prescribed intervals ("scheckheftgepflegt").
> Unless of course you don’t consider the information collected here personal.

I don’t. The author even goes out of their way to point out that these requests aren’t generated by the user and so there’s no latent interest information there. I agree that they should cover this behavior in the privacy policy explicitly, but there’s a tone of moral outrage in this piece that seems unearned.
Yup.

Every single REST API in the world has been a part of at least one "is this RESTful" argument.

Exactly zero (zilch, nada) SOAP APIs in the world have been a part of a "is this SOAPful" argument.

Similarly there's no such arguments when using GraphQL or gRPC.

Therefore all conversations about "REST vs. GraphQL/SOAP/gRPC" make no sense, it's like comparing apples and recipe books.
One advantage is that there's a schema describing service that can be used to automatically generate the client code. However, getting data in and out of the auto-generated objects doesn't seem any easier than getting it in and out of JSON, so I'm not sure that's much of an advantage.

Recently I ran into an issue where the SOAP client library I was using escaped values like you normally would in XML: <xml>1 &lt; 2 &amp cetera</xml> ... but the SOAP server required CDATA syntax, like this: <xml><![CDATA[1 < 2 & cetera]]></xml>, so the schema didn't help much there either.
$500 million of spending documented per page (avg) doesn't seem unreasonable?
The overwhelming majority of illegally owned guns you'll find somewhere like Chicago, NYC or Boston are stolen.

The reason they come from places like Indiana, Pennsylvania or New Hampshire is basic economics. There is no market there since guns are so readily available legally. Even if you're a prohibited person a straw purchase is much more accessible and less of a liability to all involved than a stolen gun so the market for stolen guns moves to wherever straw purchases are much less practical. Because guns are more available legally you get a much broader cross section of society owning them which means more get stolen. Supply and demand works is magic and they all wind up over the border where they can be sold.
C++ is getting timezone database access in stdlib soon too
A lot of great comments here.

The closest community to what you are asking for here is probably the DDD/CQRS/ES[1] Slack[2]. Google groups are pretty much dead at this point.

[1]: https://github.com/ddd-cqrs-es
[2]: https://ddd-cqrs-es.slack.com/
Sales taxes are regressive and affect the poorest the most. Income taxes (can be) progressive.

Progressive taxation benefits society at large.
I’d imagine that GitHub will end up re-training Copilot, excluding any “copyleft” licensed code. Not because what they do is legally tainted, but to avoid being berated by the FSF and the bad press that ensues.

Once again though, the FSF makes “free software” less relevant and harder to use. Who will want to use such software for anything when being threatened with costly litigation and bad press?
> There is nothing to rebut.

And yet nothing in any response so far counters my claim that capital expenditure on space projects will likely increase exponentially. The only claim I made, and the one I was downvoted for.

> I would argue that Starship is even more ecological than the other rockets

Methalox combusts to CO2. As the burgeoning space industry scales up exponentially, so will the emissions.

https://everydayastronaut.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Roc...

> If we manage to bootstrap space manufacturing, benefits for ecology, biology and material science are also self-evident.

Not 100% self-evident. Apart from how infeasible this is from the outset, once deployed at scale it would require transporting millions of tons of goods and raw materials back and forth against the gravity of the earth.

Not my domain, but I'm not sure there's a combustible fuel that could have the energy density to do this and not pollute the atmosphere (happy to be corrected on this). It seems we need to find a completely new means of propulsion (or offsetting with carbon capture) before we could have a green space industry.
WiFi printing feels like an essential feature to me. Being able to print directly from a phone or tablet is huge.
Decentralized Gits:

- Git over SSB
https://git.scuttlebot.io/%25n92DiQh7ietE%2BR%2BX%2FI403LQoy...

- Git over IPFS : https://docs.radicle.xyz/docs/what-is-radicle.html

- Git over dat: https://github.com/substack/git-dat
We use Json in our Python projects and Avro in our Java projects. We have considered Avro, CSV, Protobuff or CapnProto for the Python projects but it's never been enough of a win for us to prioritize it. We switched to Pydantic from dictionaries.
> For a large user base, inferior design and implementation don't matter as much, as PHP has demonstrated amply, so why should they matter here for a similarly large number of people?

I find this dismissive attitude so tiring. Given the huge number of people actually shipping useful code in languages with “inferior design”, perhaps you’re just wrong about what’s good design?

Either way, implying that Lisp is so much better than what the unwashed masses use is not persuasive, and has a tendency to turn off other people.
> So until that changes, running your own planet - the one you got for free, and which was working fine already - as if you're trying to test it to destruction to find out just how stable it really is, is an unbelievably dumb thing to do.

Note that unstated in the quoted text is a strong assumption or implication that we are "trying to test [the planet] to destruction ..." with our 8bn people. It's hard escape a soupçon that when someone says or implies that, they really resent most of that 8bn people, maybe to the point where they'd be ecstatic if they got wiped out. I'm not saying you do, but it's a pretty gross feeling I get when I see that line of argument.

And look, if fertility rates for the whole world were 8 and trending upwards with the current 8bn, then I think I would be panicking myself, and agreeing with you, and predicting ecological disaster, terrible wars, etc. But we're not.

Almost throughout the entire world, fertility rates have crashed below replacement rate. Some cases are fairly surprising, like Iran's, which had a fertility rate of 8 in 1978 and has been below replacement rate for a number of years.

The reasons for fertility rates spiking in the 20th century and then dropping so far so fast are very, very well understood. It even used to be fashionable to talk about that around here, but not now -- now the Malthusian narrative seems to be in full swing without regard to the actual facts of global population pyramid (why??):

- enormous technological and medical advances lowered child mortality rates and increased life expectancy very quickly in the 20th century

- but it took time for the number of children people had in suddenly wealthy countries to drop to match the new reality

- political changes (and possibly pushing even remotely close to the planet's carrying capacity) have caused economic pressures that have driven young people to reduce their fertility, postpone family formation, or forgo family formation altogether

- those add up to us now being about to enter a negative population growth regime

For an example of political changes that have caused such pressures see Social Security and programs like it around the world. Because those programs make caring for the current generation of retirees the burden of the current generations of workers, that puts a not-neglible economic pressure on the working generations, and as fertility rates drop, that pressure increases -- a vicious (or perhaps virtuous, if you like) cycle.
GameStop to Rebrand EB Games in Canada
Considering the huge environmental damage created by e.g. oil companies (and many others), one could say the same about them?

The only difference is what these people do is illegal while what the companies do is not: the damage, though, is arguably on the same scale, if not lower for ransomware attacks depending on which infrastructure is attacked.
That's funny when putting it through the lens of the store I worked at. Our door greeter was a 70 year old frail woman who was a little out-spoken. I can actually see her running out the door after a shop-lifter, but I can't see it end well. (I'm just not sure for whom)
Ask Me AnyFin with Zion Schum: Community-Powered Innovation in Crypto Economy
But when policing is reduced in these communities, the crime rate skyrockets. There's a much deeper problem that isn't being addressed by "defund the police".

Indeed, that's why disproportionate targeting still exists. We've forgotten that the police policy that BLM objects to now was supported not long ago by Democrats and black community leaders, because crime was a major problem, but now we're starting to remember.
The technology is perfectly sound and in its original blueprint it was never meant to be "traded" or denominated in an actual mainstream or fiat or government currency. So if centralized elements (i.e. major exchanges) are the cancer, then regulations such as these are the scalpel.

If adopted, a cryptocurrency can perfectly serve an ecosystem as an exchange of value, without ever crossing the barrier to the mainstream monetary systems. I.e. a loaf of bread for a certain fraction of a Bitcoin.
Another link to a story about the Megapack fire, with photos:

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/30/22602411/neoen-tesla-mega...
But of course, same with horse carriages and Flash applets.
The real answer is you should store the timezone with the timestamp

So you store "the meeting is at 10am London time".

This will work, always...except for when you repeat an hour due to the DST shift but that's usually in the middle of the night on a Sunday
It is amazing to see how so many so-called programmers can make a living without even reading the freaking documentation. And when I cide the docs on some topic they look at me as if I was performing a magic trick.
It's a worse API. In that situation, you have trusted parties. You don't need a blockchain, and the absolutely crippling tradeoffs it brings with it.
Peter Park – Software Engineer – ONSITE – HTTPS://www.peter-park.de/about/career
Peter Park is a thriving and fast growing B2B-startup based in Munich. As Germany’s leading developer of a SaaS parking solution, our goal is to replace old fashioned barriers, paper tickets and parking discs with free flow and seamless payment solutions. We are looking for Developers who want to join us in expanding our smart IoT infrastructure and conquer the European market.
We foster talent and appreciate excellence. As such, we strongly encourage initiative, innovative thinking, openness to learning and intellectual curiosity. We are looking for proactive and success-driven people to complete our striving international team. English is mandatory.

Please use the application sheet within the respective job description.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Open positions (m/f/d):

Senior Backend Developer: https://peter-park.jobs.personio.de/job/399436

Backend Developer: https://peter-park.jobs.personio.de/job/399445

Working Student Backend Developer: https://peter-park.jobs.personio.de/job/399425

Frontend Developer: https://peter-park.jobs.personio.de/job/399446

Senior Fullstack Developer: https://peter-park.jobs.personio.de/job/399447
Thanks for the feedback, we're big on transparency :)

For what it's worth we are planning on bringing more junior members on in ~9-12 months. Either way, we're looking for the right people, not just to fill these roles. Feel free to send me an email if what we're doing interests you.
Maybe we should introduce a tradition similar to how a captain should go down with his ship, except in this case, have the CEO remain in his high rise office and then demolish the building from the bottom up.

Of course I'm joking. I would never wish such an abhorent thing on the cleanup squad as to have to deal with Wenig's remains.
Murder is not unlawful killing.

Murder is a killing that is not just.

There have been many legal murders.
(Look at the Ruby ridge incident for a non recent example)
As a counterpoint to Ebay's horribleness: back in the day at Etsy, we were very grateful for Ina's blog and her participation with the Etsy seller community. She was an important and respected voice in ecommerce, especially for small business owners who often struggled to choose between different online platforms. When she offered critique to a particular platform, it was always measured, well-reasoned, and fair.

All the Etsians that I'm still in touch with were horrified and outraged when we learned of this story.
Who's paying for the transition? The customer or Tesla?

Funny this got downvoted. Was this comment controversial in any way?
A voice of reason. Thank you.

Indeed, when we lived in caves, there were only so many of them. We totally blew past the cave sustainability model thousands of years ago.

I'm not saying we should be cavalier about pushing current limits, but I also wouldn't be cavalier about doing things to hurt today's humans due to fears that are not well founded (because, again, negative population growth is now baked in to the world population pyramid, so that soon we won't be pushing the planet's limits any longer).
Whats stopping them from erecting a barrier around the battery in question and just burying it in sand?
A very fundamental security flaw could maybe cause it to "go to zero", couldn't it?
Murder is a killing that is not justified. Having a state’s blessing does not make it correct.

There is such a thing as legal murder.
Well, at least I bet that it's definitely more profitable to mine Bitcoins than do the same with coal.
The experiences you describe are such a bummer. I've both witnessed similar situations and, as a man, unintentionally participated over the years while still growing up and maturing my professional "self".

Keep seeing something and saying something with articles like these. The culture is changing, even if it doesn't feel like it some days, and talking about it in the open is part of what fuels that change.
Sweet Tech AS | https://thehandy.com | Oslo, Norway | ONSITE, VISA | Full-time | DevOps Engineer, Frontend Developer

Sweet Tech is the company behind The Handy automatic penis stroker. The Handy is an online-connected device that can sync up with adult videos, be controlled by a partner over the Internet, and connect to live-synchronized cam shows.

We're growing our engineering team to expand our connected platform and scale our infrastructure to meet our growing userbase.

We believe in improving the sexual experience and spreading sex positivity. If you're interested in joining a diverse and fast-growing team in a fun industry, we'd love to hear from you.

We're based in Oslo, Norway, and we offer relocation assistance.

We're currently hiring for:

- DevOps Engineer: https://avantgardesearch.teamtailor.com/jobs/1252644-devops-...

- Frontend Developer: https://jobs.thehandy.com/jobs/1286174-frontend-developer
This will be for future Megapack orders/installations/deliveries.
I think the issue is rural areas aren’t viable, even tourism is proving too labor intensive.

I’m “summering” in a rural part of NY and Dollar General is a bigger messier version of a sundries shop. They don’t have the value-size packages of items but they do have various price points of trash bags for instance.

Probably due to competition from big box stores at the distributor level it’s expensive/competitive to get product across vast depopulated areas to stores so there are few of them. And the local economy can’t support enough stores to cover the land mass.

Dollar General tackles this and prices it in but also cuts the overhead of a full-service grocers like a deli counter, butchers and produce.

There are a few full-service grocers for the affluent business owners, tourists and people at their lakehouses. They’re usually near a few fine dining restaurants and a weekly farmer’s market.

Propane delivery companies probably look predatory if you look at the areas they serve. No telling how fast they will consolidate nationally like retail has.
LOVEHONEY - WEBSITE OPTIMISATION EXECUTIVE - REMOTE UK

At Lovehoney, it’s our teams of innovative and dedicated people from all kinds of backgrounds who have made us one of the world’s largest and award-winning online adult toy retailers.

With nine regional websites serving customers across the globe; warehouses and call centres in Brisbane, Atlanta and Bath, we are growing rapidly as an international retailer, manufacturer and distributor.

We are expanding our Digital Product Team with a Website Optimisation Executive, to assist the Optimisation Manager with the end-to-end execution of experiment and CRO initiatives across our portfolio of websites. You’ll be liaising with internal and external suppliers to manage the workflow from hypothesis, to design ideation, planning, execution and communication of results to the business.

Fantastic opportunity for a graduate in Statistics or Science or anyone who is passionate about digital experiences and confident exploring data.

Find out more here - https://www.lovehoneygroup.com/jobs/
Yes you are correct. Cryptocurrency at the moment is used for speculation, drug sales, scams, and evading financial regulation.

Those are huge valuable use cases. However it doesn’t follow that we should necessarily facilitate those uses.
Anyone can upload anything to PyPI. This is kind of like saying that you detected malicious packages on GitHub - the question is whether anyone actually ran it.

They say that the packages were downloaded 30,000 times, but automated processes like mirrors can easily inflate this. (As can people doing the exact sort of research they were doing - they themselves downloaded the files from PyPI!) Quoting PyPI maintainer Dustin Ingram https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1421415135743254533 :

> *And here's your daily reminder that download statistics for PyPI are hugely inflated by mirrors & scrapers. Publish a new package today and you'll get 1000 'downloads' in 24 hours without even telling anyone about it.*
AppSweep, mobile application scanning for developers
Good! The sooner cryptocurrencies die, the better. The damage they are doing to society right now is immense, and it will only grow larger if they are not stopped.
The Germans are so spooked by debt they rather hand the debt to weaker countries even though the German economy can sustain much higher debt levels than their neighbors. It's completely backwards.
They have, they just did not realize that is what they were doing when placing those Spring annotations, or compiler plugins invoked via Maven dependencies.