skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You've managed to ignore all possible context and depth in your sarcastic answer.

The question is not "Could Facebook be replaced?". The question is "What happens were it to disappear one day". They're different questions with very different answers.
I wonder whether this study was not careful enough to distinguish those who grew up with technology vs. wrestled with exposure late in life. Looking at people in their 60's, you have early adopters from their youth as well as those who were set in their careers before being exposed (probably via the IBM PC and its clones if at all). After net chats and other ancient technology, IRC and then video chats, my only stress with the technology was 'net overloads and dodgy software. I would think that's similar for others who started as kids. The only problem with phones was the cost of long-distance and things like MCI solved that one.
WebAssembly is a game changer. Why? Because it removes the need for JS, and is more performant. Couple that with a secure sand box to run your apps and you have a new distribution model, somewhere between a full native app and a completely online web app.

You have also removed the shackles of JS and provided an environment to which you can compile and you get the ability to port a lot of libraries and code to the new platform. How does this help? One, you can use other languages to write apps for the web. Two, you can use existing libraries to help develop your app. Three, by having a permission system to access system resources in a secure way, you can incorporate native application features and performance into your web app. Think about stuff like direct printer access, USB access, etc.
It's loosely inspired by Rupert Murdoch but mostly King Lear.
Care to elaborate? I'm actually seriously considering moving from the tech side to product side.
This is the kind of echo chamber I am okay with.
npm install updates the lock file when you have changed a dependency in package.json, which is reasonable behavior.
Thank you for the detailed and quick answer! And thanks for the advice.
It is even worst when your App isn't actually the content owner but a shell or client to existing services.

Which means you cant add Apple Login, and that also means the end of your App.
A version of [1] with the pictures working: https://web.archive.org/web/20120211141906/http://stevehanov...
Agree. It's made me sign up for many services that I never would have otherwise.
I can't explain with words how similar this is to my life experience thus far! Granted, I've only been "fired" once due to a really poor fit, however the focus issue got incredibly worse with covid and WFH.
That store should have let you try on stock at your leisure, let you pick colors, styles, etc, then facilitated delivery overnight to your home with an in store return option with 1 year discounted upgrade / trade in. No more out of stock BS.

It's a comedy of uncreative errors that leads us to zero in store competition with Amazon. Target isn't bad!
> But I'm sure 2022 will be "the year of Linux on the desktop", finally :)

With the Steamdeck running Arch Linux, I'm sure you're right. :)
“I am Cornholio…” still cracks me up all these years later.
> We're heading towards a world where most work is done by machines, and only a handful of people will own, control and profit from them

People keep saying that but we are no closer than we were 50 years ago. A lot of jobs have been replaced but new jobs have been created and society has absorbed the increased productivity (cheaper goods, foods, and much more complex high end goods (iPhone, airplanes, etc).
Same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28011431
> justifiably given its 10 day gestation

God, I hate this meme.
I'm attracted to women and it honestly baffles me to see unfortunately many straight men be so wildly inappropriate any and everywhere. It's...not even that hard to not do that?

Then again I (and most other wlw I know) have had a lifetime's practice of being conscientious about who, when and how we express that attraction, which makes the "but what about lesbians" retort to the question of the male gaze both sad and rather annoying.
I home owners insurance that wasn’t a terrible waste of money would be good. Maybe allow for homeowner ratings on services rendered.

Currently home warranties are bad because they provide the worst, cheapest repairs possible; slowly; and reject many things. I would like to have a real home warranty, but tried three companies and they were not good. My favorite was they just couldn’t repair my hvac and said I had to keep paying $75 to send out different repairmen to try to fix it.
Going to preface with I think the vaccines are useful and important, and we should all be vaccinated with the current vaccines.

That said, current vaccines don't provoke the exact same response as an actual infection, particularly in that they don't fully stimulate an immune response in the mucous membranes of the upper repository tract. Here's an Scientific American round-up article (from back in March): https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/to-beat-covid-we-...
Those warehouses have to go somewhere and politicians are much more likely to initiate a shakedown when non of their constituents benefit.
Those advocating for length+pointer should really write it up, including showing all the time and memory complexity for all operations and pointing out its cons as well.

There are numerous safe-string libraries for C. I don't think anyone uses them much.

To me, null-terminated strings look like admirable restraint from Thompson, Kernighan and Ritchie.
> In a large organization there would be too many people trying to make conflicting changes

Ideally, even in a large organization, it should still be structured down into small teams that can self-manage. You'll end up with Conway's Law taking effect, but you'll also alleviate the O(n^2) communication problem. In my experience, it works a lot smoother than 50 person teams where everyone's tripping over each other all the time.
Linus disproves his point. First he claims that sizeof behaves like a function, then in the next breath, realizing the flaw in his logic, proceeds to describe and excuse the counterpoint: sizeof(*p)->member.

This is classic Linus--too emotionally invested in a preference. Except in this case it's particularly pointless and unjustified.

sizeof is an operator. Period. The point of not using parentheses is to continually drive that point home. It's praxis. Of course, it's not unreasonable to prefer using parentheses. And there's a middle ground: most C styles nestle function identifiers and opening parentheses in a function invocation, whereas they require a space between operators and binary operands. So if you prefer using parentheses, whether all the time or just in a particular circumstance, you can do:

sizeof (*p)->member

or

sizeof ((*p)->member)

That's not entirely consistent. sizeof is a unary operator, and style guides tend to prefer nestling unary operators while spacing binary operators. But nobody is trying to be pedantic here. The issue is readability, minimizing typos, and dealing with the fact that the sizeof operator, while defined as and behaving exactly like a unary operator, doesn't look like one.

Also, it's worth pointing out that not only does the C standard itself literally define sizeof as a unary operator, all the code examples in the standard put a space between sizeof and its operand. It's a stylistic convention, but hardly arbitrary.

By contrast, there are other constructs, like _Generic, where the code examples do NOT use spacing. _Generic is a specialized construct altogether, but syntactically it behaves somewhat like a macro, and it's customary to style macro invocations like function invocations.
NoCom Minecraft Exploit
"Web" means that WebAssembly was originally designed for web browsers.

That's a high bar. It needs to be portable to everywhere web browsers run, and it needs to be sandboxed so that it's safe to run downloaded code.

WebAssembly is now widely used outside of web browsers as well. The article linked here is not about web browsers; Lunatic runs on a server.
94% natural resistance plus more with zero symptoms...0.2% death rate...

This is what we've destroyed the world for.
Is the db in memory?
Leetcode to help you jump through hoops, books/courses/degrees and non-trivial projects/real-world experience to help you actually do the work.

I'd like to think that a course sequence in algorithms and/or preparing for an algorithms qualifying exam would enable you to ace leetcode and whiteboard interviews, but I'm not entirely sure that is the case. Leetcode and whiteboard interviews seem a lot closer to so-called programming competitions.
You can use curl if you don't like browsers. It just needs a lot of imagination to get an idea on how the site is supposed to look like.
Both of them pay low wages but retail stores have to pay rent for their facilities. Amazon doesn’t.
Jupyter extension Text2Code converts English queries into Python code
Headline on Slide 17 in the deck:

Delta variant vaccine breakthrough cases may be as transmissible as unvaccinated case
I have a Patreon page and a recipe in Zappier that sends new Patreons to Mailchimp. It seems Patreon allows to Login with Apple, because a few of my Patreons used it but never received any newsletter (it's one of the perks). I checked and it was because the email address that Patreon received and tried to send to Mailchimp failed. I lost a few Patreons because of this, because they thought I never sent the newsletter to them.
It’s the “interested party” part that’s hard. He might be a collector of rare works in the area, but it doesn’t sound like it. So it’s likely the value of the collection as a collection lies with the name attached to it. But trust me: People thousands of times more famous than him have trouble with this.

But I’m reacting more to his certainty that he will have so many people wanting to pay for his books, that he’ll actually be trying to decide whether this or that library will have the privilege (and that he’s being magnanimous by not charging for it). Again, he really doesn’t understand the book market.

It would have been wiser to ask a local bookseller to take a look (and tell him the brutal truth) before posting his “offer.”
The problem with that is that the UK had been one of the first Western nations to recognise PRC, all the way back in 1950.

I think in hindsight, this was a big mistake on UK's part. Not that they shouldn't have recognised PRC eventually, but they should have held off doing so and extracted greater concessions in exchange. They gave away one of their biggest pieces of leverage at the very start of the game.
And if you're interested in audio programming, follow this thread and the links/references therein :-)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27273706
That's a false choice. There's also:

- Technology not suitable or adequate for this use case.

I mean, we've been to the "AI over-promises and under-delivers" rodeo before.
Now can we have the non-hyped up version?

As someone who doesn't mind the "shackles" of JS, from what I have seen so far, apps written in WebAssembly are up to two times slower than their JS counterparts. DOM access is abysmal, and from what I've seen in the wild, no one has written a serious business critical application using it yet.

What does webassembly do today, and what experience does it provide over javascript? I get the sandbox and distribution, but again, those advantages mostly apply to JS as well.
How does it do for performance if you throw the whole 43GB into RAM? Plenty of very affordable workstation systems out there today gently used with 128GB in them.
"Vaccines change that dynamic."

Any more than natural immunity?
We don't have to kill them. Instead, we just have to recognize where they are wrong, and oppose them as much as is feasible.

If there was a modern day nazi nation, that was genoiciding people en mass, that had nukes, such that invasion was impossible/mutually destructive, the answer would be the same.

Yes, sometimes it is difficult to stop all the bad things that evil people are doing. But that does not change the fact that those actions are still clearly evil and should be opposed where possible.
This is really interesting, thanks. As an academic working on gradual typing and dynamic checks, the sorbet experience is extremely valuable. (I've cited the threshold someone on your team mentioned for when the cost of checks gets too high.) So I'd love to see the blog post.

It sounds like you're taking an approach fairly similar to what Facebook is doing with Hack these days: Dynamic checks implied by types help catch bugs and can be often optimized away, and static types are hints but not trusted, but the type checker means that using the hint is almost always a good idea. Is that accurate?
AI tools cannot catch covid. Only humans can.
There are other interpretations/courses of action:

- people who are vulnerable should take the vaccine but those who are not shouldn’t; vulnerable need to take boosters every 6 months

- masks forever

- back to normal and live with it

A question is how much protection getting COVID-19 confers vs the vaccines. The hilarious thing would be if getting COVID-19 confers more protection.

- Then we should ban people who haven’t gotten COVID-19 from work, public spaces, etc… even if they have been vaccinated as certain people want to do to the unvaccinated.
So you are saying that you have seen AOF fail multiple times to create a durable record, or fail in an adverse event to persist everything?
It always blows my mind when I compare the value of my company's MacBook Pros to the salaries of our offshore developers.

Having said that, when I look at a fully spec'd out Mac Pro, it comes out to $54,000. Add in a fully spec'd out Pro Display XDR, which is another $7k, and that's $61k.

According to levels.fyi, L3/E3/ICT2 SWEs at Google/Facebook/Apple get a salary of ~$130k, so just under 6 months of an American junior developer FAANG salary.
Lol, privacy? You think that's what it is?

Apple forces you to use in-app purchases, Apple forces you to stick with their crippled browser ecosystem, it has no compatibility outside of Apple. Their protocols for messaging and device interop are closed-source; they have tech that tracks all your devices + these new beacons, and all your devices are those beacons too.

You are more heavily tracked under Apple than you are in any other system. Did you think your iphone would be a location tracker for another device?
That's a very different conversation - what is the value of having managers. Are you suggesting that companies do not need managers?
There are so much rules, yet for some reasons apps that are free to download but require a subscription at $30/month to do any action (so, not even a freemium model and arguably qualifiable of scam) are present in the store...

Edit for the downvoters: I'm speaking of apps doing local data manipulation (in my case, I tried few photo collage apps), not something linked to a web service. Those should be one time purchase, not subscription based.
If you get bored of the polling, there is a tool that does this in an event driven way:

https://github.com/haimgel/display-switch/
https://haim.dev/posts/2020-07-28-dual-monitor-kvm/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24357308
I think it's funny humanity decided even seeing stars is less important than high speed internet.

Like we're supposed to have hope for the future, but shit like this makes that increasingly difficult.
>As far as western TV cartoons went, prior to those late 80's, early 90's shows, there wasn't really any like them.

Virtually all those shows creators credit Bakshi as an influence though. Hell, the asshole co-creator of Ren and Stimpy worked with him on Mighty Mouse.

They likely needed cable to be able to successfully move to television, but I don't see how they disrupted cable.

edit they changed the title to "upended animation." While I stil think it's a slight overstatement, that title at least represents what the article is about.
Yep, that's accurate. If anything, there aren't enough hints in Stripe's codebase, so much so that I'd love people to add more!

When I'm looking at a production performance profile result, trying to figure out why the compiler didn't speed something up, the first thing I do is add or improve types. It has never slowed down the resulting compiled code, and usually speeds it up substantially.
It's not anti-HN. But consider using a separate gmail address. I had one for awhile and lots of people reached out.

Nowadays no one seems to reach out because I've become super boring. :) But it can be fun when it happens.

EDIT: Oh. I didn't have my email in my profile. Welp, that'd do it too.
Is that due to yarn v2 including a zipped version of all the dependencies that you can check into the repo?

Because that is what I plan to do. Such a pain when some random dependency 50 packages deep is broken or even pulled from npm and so we can't even finish a deployment build until fixed. Especially for older projects.
Webassembly is a language-agnostic, non-proprietary bytecode, intended both to be used online and natively.

Like Flash, Silverlight and Java, it allows the embedding and running of binary applications in the browser (although currently this also requires a Javascript shim to allow access to the DOM.) Unlike those, however, Webassembly is not intended to be used only by a single language. You can compile C, C++, Rust, and many other languages to Webassembly and run them both in the browser and as native applications.
Seems like we keep discovering new versions, to ensure everyone "gets it"...which then leads to more control.
There is an unofficial Linux kernel module that allows userspace control of brightness (in a similar way to how laptop brightness is controllable):

https://gitlab.com/ddcci-driver-linux/ddcci-driver-linux
>I checked and it was because the email address that Patreon received and tried to send to Mailchimp failed. I lost a few Patreons because of this, because they thought I never sent the newsletter to them.

AFAIK apple's private relay only accepts mail signed by the corresponding developer. In other words, no third party can use the private relay address.

edit: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/120112
Apple App Store fees are a de facto global tax on the Internet
https://www.google.com/search?q=macos+send+ethernet+frames&h...

if you have root access, you should be allowed to have raw device access. the problem seems to be that apple no longer believes in users owning their computers, if it ever did.
The commentary was really funny and provided absurd juxtaposition to the animated part of the show.

Many episodes, I liked the videos best. Especially the Crowbar videos, and when they would be negative and make fun.
Yes there is, model and view are dumb roles which makes controller do everything under the sun
100s of models that all make the same wrong assumptions are going to be equally worthless.

You can make all the models about phlogiston you want, none of them are going to accurately explain fire.
Note that ddcutil usually isn't usable without root, so that GNOME extension seems unlikely to work.
Haven’t been able to secure a job through out my programming career . A good job
>. It might well be the case that relativity is just one of the parts of a bigger "theory of everything" that does in fact allow FTL travel and/or communication.

There's no evidence of that, though. Even gravity was recently proven to be limited to the speed of light. In prior cases, observable anomalies suggested fundamental flaws in existing models, and that eventually led to better theories and more accurate models. While it's obvious relativity is incomplete in its incompatibility with quantum mechanics, there is no evidence that the speed of light is variant, or that FTL communication is possible.

So chances are that even if an Alcubierre drive were possible, at best it would allow travel at or near the speed of light, but not more. Same with wormholes. Same with everything.

And then you have the Fermi Paradox. If we're not alone in the universe, then all it takes is for one civilization to discover FTL and colonize or mine a significant enough amount of the galaxy to be noticeable. We're still burning dinosaur carcasses for heat and we've got theoretical models and math, surely someone a million years ahead of us should have expanded into a galactic empire by now.

So (setting aside the countless other solutions to the Fermi Paradox) two possibilites remain - FTL cannot exist, or it's so expensive no civilization has ever bothered.

And we're back to square one, the question of debate. The only reason to believe FTL is possible is a desire to live in a science fiction universe. It's a religious question, a matter of faith, you either believe it or you don't. These discussions always go in circles (fun, but unproductive recursion nonetheless) because one can't really debate faith versus science.
Remember "The Brothers Grunt" from the same cartoon block? A cartoon about five constipated trolls with drinking problems searching for their lost brother. That was probably the weirdest thing I ever saw on TV until I encountered Lexx on the sci-fi channel -- the epic tale of a security guard, a sex slave, a dead assassin, and a robot head flying around the universe in a giant bug while trying to find something to eat. Including links to prove I'm not making these up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brothers_Grunt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexx
Yeah and if I made the rule, I'd be okay with that.

Talking about work, that's fine.

It's just the nature of providing a forum/ medium so prone to problems that I would not want to do.
Love this work! From what I’ve heard the Hack/HHVM team has been heading in this general direction too, in their case using the typechecker to improve the IR.
https://briarproject.org/
RAID5 will help quite a bit with large media collections.
I think that moved to GitHub:

https://github.com/ddccontrol/ddccontrol
Credit abuse is subjective - accessibility to credit for all parties equally mean that it will continue to be profitable for property investors to buy up more and more of the housing supply without constraint.

Building 'more' housing is not the answer. Preventing people from holding real estate as assets is the solution. We don't privatise ownership of water or air - two basic resources for humans to survive. Privatisation of basic human necessities is dangerous and we'll see in the future how large scale private property ownership will continue to drive social issues. It's really just the beginning...
Other than shipping damage, I don't regularly get misleading or broken items from other retailers, especially small ones. This only happens with third-party Amazon retailers, who mostly sell trash and hope you don't care enough to return it because it was so cheap.
https://www.everlane.com/products/womens-forever-platform-sn...

Everlane shoe on sale for $35, with the actual cost breakdown at the bottom for info. $7.02 materials, $2.16 hardware, $6.35 labor, $3.11 duties, $3.00 transport. (true cost, $21.64)

They even give you a description of the factory. https://www.everlane.com/factories/forever-sneaker
You think a 100% failure rate on the hottest topic in the world right now is likely?
If so then you're absolutely right. If there ever a small % offering 100% and a larger % offering hybrid, that could be the lever that shifts the boulder.
you can crosscompile from other languages to wasm. so you could have a codebase written in C for example, you crosscompile + bind to a minimal JS part. now your app works in a browser.
They perfected and introduced a lot of concepts that are now part of the genre of competitive FPSs. As much as I thought it was just a me-too kind of game before playing it, once I did manage to play it, I had to admit they went beyond what would be expected. They tried a lot of novel things.

I do think Activision-Blizzard is a shell of what it once was, but that game was definitely a positive, not something they just phoned in.