skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And 2005-2016 saw a sufficient deterioration of conditions for the US public to vote in Donald Trump (!) on a platform of ... there wasn't a lot of agreement on what the platform was, but "the economy is terrible and you're all getting screwed, it must be foreigners ripping us off!" was certainly an element of it.

There are signs that the energy-lite economy growing isn't as useful to people as the old energy-connected one.
Is that even posible? I mean, I do forex trading for a living but I've never heard about anything like that. If you're interested in the topic I use FxStreeetLive's website to check out about exclusive information on cryptocurrency trading https://www.fxstreetlive.com/ , the stock market, euro exchange rates, extensive broker reviews and more!
And rightfully so. iOS 7 upgrade turned my iPhone 4S from blazing fast to a slow molasses, and there was no way back. At least you can downgrade most OSes (not sure about macOS).
There is no need to argue with you anymore. First you say that all vaccines are safe. Then when I find examples of them being unsafe, you say it was a manufacturing mistake from 60 years ago. Then when I find another from 1998 you argue that bowel obstructions are not long term and that it was 3 decades ago. Then I find another from only 4 years ago and you say that it is only one example. Then I go and find two more. Keep on walking back your claims.

Note that many of these vaccines were already approved and not under emergency use authorization. Ever wonder how many side effects vaccines under trial have and how many never make it out of trials?
Objective-C adopted some syntactic "quirks" from smalltalk, but they are not similar at a semantic level.
If the underlying RSS technology still works just fine and has momentum, then saying it is dying is going to kill that momentum. This sounds like a marketing problem more than anything else.

Which is to say: It is a problem to be solved with communication and coordination tools kinda like this (but much lower urgency)

https://www.kalzumeus.com/2014/04/09/what-heartbleed-can-tea...
Developers will go to and target where the users are. Despite the archaic coupling apple puts in place between MacOS versions and Xcode, developers still buy new macs every few years to target iOS because that's where the money and the users are.
How would this work?

You're trying to soften it up with a phrase like "professional alias" but all you're doing is giving a fake name when applying for jobs. What happens when someone hires you and you need to provide your personal details for HR and payroll? What about every day at the job - what name do people call you?
FfOS would have been a great alternative. I kinda still hope that a similar software setup (boot to browser, sandbox all the things to there) will one day be flashable to any generic handheld device, like older Android phones or the Pinephone.
When given the possibility, I always use the web version over a native app. I do not want to install as few software as possible on my device, and (at least for the time being) the security model of the browser is well-known and customizable (to an extent).
There are 189 "<font" and 189 "font>" on that page. This is not the problem. Its the h3 being rendered without automagic IE auto closing fixes prevalen in pre 2000 internet to F@@@ with Netscape users. Pages written by amateurs/idiots/generated with bad tools(/1) would render fine in IE despite not being valid HTML.

and guess what, this page was made with

<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
At not point he mention that the code is faster to read or understand though, just that it's easier to write "expressive code", whatever that means. He also lies a bit by saying "You’ve just seen 80% or so of the syntax of Clojure.": https://clojure.org/guides/weird_characters.

> Ideas are good if they are good ideas, not good because of who said them.

You're right about that, I always insist a bit more with Robert Martin because there is a lot of cargo culting around what he says. Clean code and TDD are other good examples of that.
Have you seen the concrete 3D printers? They printed weird looking houses with them. Very nifty. There are even people living in them.
it was really just copy/paste from the algoila search with a bit of cleanup and adding the discussion links. took only a few minutes. would have been possible to automate the editing with a few vim commands.
An elected Public Defender isn't valuable background for other elected positions (unlike an elected D.A.), especially in moderate-to-conservative polities, so the kind of people interested in running for election usually don't want the job, and the kind of people who would want the job won't want for election (unless the election is pro forma because it is uncontested.)
Static types are small-time unittests so no.
The author's revenge seems to be against his users who opted to used Sign In with Apple. Since they will be the one suffering because they trusted to use the particular app.
I can find merit in complaining about apple's restriction in accessing payments. But SignIn with Apple, as a user I will always opt for that given my email won't be available with a third party forever for them to spam or sell.
I have integrated SignIn with Apple both in an app and backend. I never felt it was particularly difficult or under-documented.
> You're saying that a belief that has near total consensus among the experts is "simply false"

Yes, or at least aren't approaching the problem as others are, namely, what the actual effect of their theories would be in practice. We've seen multiple times how much higher rents get with market rents, and how the common man will be kicked out of their homes. Not sure why you keep denying it when the facts are there.

> Because economics is a difficult subject to understand

So yes, you really think people are too stupid to understand that they will actually benefit. Shameless.

> YES! They're renters.

That's putting profits over people and just plainly unethical and is precisely the kind of outcome that justifies rent controls.

> We also need to be giving investors the incentive to invest in new housing

No, we don't. The state can build housing according to need, like other infrastructure. That way, we don't need to kick out the poor folks from their homes. It's already been done in the past, and is being done in for example Wien, Austria.

> This is basic economics.

It's basic and shallow alright. The world isn't some sandbox for trying naive free market models. It's more complicated than that.
> ...though they’re still far from the oldest unopened bottles of wine in the world. That honor goes to the Speyer wine bottle, a jug of wine that, before its disinterment in contemporary Germany, sat in a Roman tomb for more than 1500 years. The Speyer wine is probably still safe to drink, though scientists say it likely wouldn’t taste good.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/can-wine-survive-shipw...
Simple Systems Have Less Downtime (2020)
Thanks, spot on
This is obviously over-dramatic and an arguably false point of view. A third-hand diesel VW is probably a great choice for anyone who cares about the climate or has any personality whatsoever.

Also, a few charging stations being troublesome is not equivalent to a gas station pump being out of order. It takes awhile, and any spaces filled will be filled for a while. At the pump, you can wait for 5 min and a space will be free, and you can continue driving for 5-800km. Yes it'll cost you, especially in Britain, but that's what people pay for.

I have zero interest atm in electric vehicles, on the basis that they're largely inpractically expensive, aren't well-suited for renters, and aren't as well-suited for the only thing I'd need a car for, which is long-distance road trips. I could adapt, but I'd really be working my life around something I absolutely don't need to own yet.
What's the destination charge ?
Is it taxes ?
The browser supports ad blockers, apps do not. It's a no brainer.
In case anyone is interested, this is what it looks like on Internet Explorer 5 in Windows 9x: https://i.imgur.com/g668yBy.png

What's happening is that the <h3> tags are all nested, since they don't auto-close in this situation, and modern browsers define the <h3>'s size as "font-size: 1.17em;" which of course adds up over time. I'm not sure how IE5 interprets the page. Maybe I can get an older embedded version of Firebug to check.

I think it's important to not break even older websites even if they have totally busted HTML, but this is probably such a rare case that no one ever thought of it, and at this point it'd probably be much more disruptive to try and "fix" it.
> if they think it will raise their status.

It's still true though - it's one of the highest status professions out there.
While other comments see this as petty. I see it as justified, big tech knows no limit. Independent app developers are making less and less
They all got beaten because Apple and google thrashed them in all the ways that mattered.
I suspect the amphoras won't have kept the wine intact for that long; after all, the ship is 2200 years old.

If the wine miraculously remains intact, I suspect the taste wouldn't even be close to what it was back in the day. I wouldn't mind trying a glass of actual Roman wine though.
Wow that is an incredibly US-centric view even by HN standards. They meant the western world, not the West in the USA. Try Googling "the west" and look at the top results.
> may be we can attribute the loss of aesthetics to the financial gain it brings.

That's an element, but another big element is specialist-subject education.

If you are an old-money guy, you can spend your life figuring out the best attributes of everything around you, and pursuing excellence in what you own. Your parents and grandparents can educate you in what a great staircase looks like, and you can spend weeks going from shop to shop until you find the right thing, or hire a carpenter to make it for however long it takes to be "just so".

If you are somebody who's just made their money, and maybe are still neck-deep into the rat race, you don't know anything about staircases and you have no time, nor contacts, to educate yourself on what it should look like. Developer shows you the staircase, it looks alright, sold.

More and more people are chained to their day job for longer and longer. More and more people are coming up in the world and buying stuff they don't know anything about, enriching companies targeting the mass-market more than specialist ones. This is nothing new: in the XX century we've seen this happening for anything from clothes to cutlery. In a way, it's a good thing: objects become more and more efficient and functional, eschewing aesthetic values that are somewhat irrational and often just classist. It's true, though, that we lose a cultural element.
Steve Jobs Threatened to Sue Palm over Patents If It Poached Any Apple Employees
Interview: Titans of Nuclear with Bret Kugelmass
> Also, building a modest-sized house in Germany costs about 200k€ - this sum is affordable by the average German couple (average income is around 36k€ per year).

This must be very modest and without any special necessities like a cellar. Current prices for a cold cellar alone are already 80k.

More realistic construction costs currently are rather between 300k and 400k - for a modest house. You'll only come down to 200k if you do lots of the work yourself.

Source: I'm currently trying to build a house and have gathered bids for weeks now.
They are dynamic to a degree that facilitates interactivity and expression on a different level than one might be used to. Late binding, REPL, expression based, building up code while it is running without losing state etc.
Competition is no longer possible these days, as banks, towns, etc. start to require an _unrooted_ Android/iOS device for basic operations (e.g. authorization of credit card operations, paying taxes and fines, COVID stuff, etc.).
It's the cost of delivering the vehicle from the factory to the dealership.
I recently read and liked A Memory Called Empire and A Desolation Called Peace.
Most phones will let you control the rate of charge. So you can use a fast charger but still charge at regular old USB speed. Which is 1A @ 5V I think.
Wow. What an ideologically loaded article. I distrust right away anyone who writes like this. You just lack any credibility to build a structured and constructive discourse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora_(novel)

Is it really so wise and ethical to launch a mission to another star system? With KSR's usual deft handling of complex systems.
Well, getting into the question of why Lisps and MLs didn't take off is maybe too big a topic for this thread, but clearly the market didn't feel they were great options and still doesn't. Clojure remains a niche language for example.

I suspect one issue is that Lisp never seemed to be well supported on Windows and never came out of the box on Linux, except perhaps for Guile, but Guile never reached any kind of critical mass despite being promoted by the GNU project. Maybe one reason is the lack of learning materials. Even today, although Guile has an initially pretty and appealing website, clicking "tutorials" reveals a complete lack of interest in growing that community - there is only one single tutorial, which is about how to embed Guile as a scripting language into a C program!

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/learn/#tutorials

I remember learning Python in the 1990s. The learning materials were excellent. Java was also famous for extensive tutorials and learning materials (they've lost that in recent years, the modern Java docsites are just piles of specifications, but when Java was interested in growth they had it). In the end these things matter more than the exact nature of a runtime or type system.
I don't really understand this. When I see a small house being built, it will have four or five builders on-site at all times, mostly doing labour (and they're, frankly, extremely slow. It will take months to lay the bricks). If you still need the decisions, can't you cut that down to one, or maybe two? That strikes me as a dramatic reduction in labour cost.
I used to agree with this. That was before I developed the web version and was able to compare real performance. Web (WASM) beats both Android and iOS native apps. Only downside is initial data transfer (1.2MB). A bit funny since the iOS app is 20MB and the Android one is 5MB
> No matter how fairly the man you’ve elected will promise to cut the pie, it won’t grow in size; as a matter of fact

Pretty much the central tenet of western capitalism is that it can and will grow; indeed, all sorts of sacrifices of fairness are made in the name of increasing the total size of the pie. Nor is the total number of pie-consumers and pie-producers fixed.

It may be counter-intuitive, and it is certainly not obvious if you've spent your life in the Soviet system, but it's important to consider.
Someone else was complaining about Apple rejecting their app, over the Sign In With Apple feature. They cast it as “kafkaesque.”

They showed a screengrab of their app, and they had altered the design of the button, by filling it with gray (I agree that Apple’s choices are fugly). The writer couldn’t understand why Apple kept rejecting their app, and Apple’s rejection reason was not helpful at all (we often need to read tea leaves to figure out why our apps were rejected. It’s because they have a limited selection of canned responses).

Recoloring a branding element will definitely trigger a rejection. The Apple Brand is the most valuable brand in the world, and they won’t brook having it reinterpreted. No corporation would allow this, if they had a choice.
Drupe
It's not an issue of the granularity (which I agree with), the problem is that giving the program access to the internet _at all_ (which does not require any permission) already gives the program more information about your geographical position than GPS, in most situations people care about.
> the unionized elite?

That's some really weird world view you got there.
Ask HN: What do you think of the idea of an “Unreal Engine Browser”?
I was thinking it would be cool if it was possible to load scripts that drive unreal engine much like a browser.

Seem like a good idea?
Somewhere around 2004-2006 I read a blog post / article that I have been unable to find since that was supposed to be from a CS professor at a relatively prestigious university where they had done a study on entering classes for a number of years, at the beginning of the class they gave some very rudimentary problems focused on if you could handle arbitrary rules - those that could ended up passing at a significant rate those who couldn't ended up failing at a significant rate.

The theory was that programming has many arbitrary rules that you need to be aware of work your way around to make things work, why is the language construct like this instead of this other way etc.

The law in many ways is logical but it is an arbitrary logic.
AFAIK most motherboards have software TPM available, you just have to configure it in the BIOS.
Right? A different colour border on the Apple button should be the least of OPs design concerns here...
Even the thin veil of "heavy machinery" isn't really enough: Your average factory worker deals with "heavy machinery" and trash compactors, commonly used in retail for boxes, are the same. Folks employed in these positions in other countries don't have drug tests and do not have bad safety records, so the danger isn't as high as the employer makes it out to be. I think employers should prove that there is either a federal mandate for drug testing the position OR that drug use, even outside of work, affects work.
GAN-generated facial images that are capable of impersonating multiple IDs
The only ones that is hurting by this, is your potential customers. I see it as a lose/lose situation
> Are dynamic languages going to replace static languages? (2003)

No, dynamic and static languages are going to merge, coming at optional, selective static typing via opt-in static typecheckers on the dynamic side and opt-outs via dynamic escape hatches and/or use of broad (e.g., Any) types from the static side.
I think this is silly and doesn’t make the developer / product look good.

Instead of yelling angrily at the clouds, maybe focus on copy writing and graphical layout, if you want your product to go further.
I'd love to see a study done on this. What you you wrote made me think of Phaedrus slowly losing his mind trying to define quality in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. Quality goods are still available, even if they are buried in the marketplace of cheap disposable goods and hard to find amongst all the noise of advertising and sponsored content.

What worries me more is the receding availability of _quality work to be done_. If you've ever worked with tools and materials, I mean physical ones, you know. It's among the most satisfying experiences in the world to feel the sensation of being good at (and becoming better at) something through practice. To be able to select the materials you use and discern their quality. To feel a familiar and trusted tool manipulating the materials to produce something. Those things are innately pleasurable.

McJob robot babysitters that only intercede when the machine screws up, overseeing the production of low-but-acceptable-quality products at a predictable pace is, in my mind, a dystopia. Getting a Bricklayerbot 2000 unstuck a few times per hour is not the kind of skill I can imagine being pleasurable to hone. There's a very low ceiling on the craftsmanship there.
You rarely get to build a new neighbourhood here, often it's renovation work done on already built areas. Building a whole new block all the time is simply unsustainable.
> The best way to convince Apple prisoners is to tell them what they need. Trust must only belong to Apple. Give them your money, your will, your worship, your everything. Apple will keep you safe

> Perhaps Apple customers deserve the luxury of "choice" (between different Apple devices, of course)

I don't understand the tone. Do these people actually not understand that different people have different preferences and priorities? Or is it a pose of some kind? I mean, it's 2021, Apple has been on fire pretty much continuously since 2007, they're making a killing everywhere they go and they're, as we speak, pulling off the biggest and smoothest on-the-fly architecture transition ever.

Is it still not clear to some people that Apple users genuinely enjoy using Apple devices and that the company clearly does something right?
I do not want static types or unit test. I want integration tests, system test and regression tests, neither which are commonly found by doing trivial checks of correctness. The decision if an integer is stored as a 4 byte or 8 byte, big-endian or little-endian, should be up to the computer to decide. A test to verify that the right integer is sent to the function is something I shouldn't and do not want to be spending time on. The language should be competent enough to figure it out, and if it need to optimize, it should do so dynamically when such optimization is possible.

What I found problematic is that system and integration tests is generally relegated to be done outside of the programming process. It is instead the administrators job to write an extensive test system to verify that the program actually do the job that it was written for. You start to wish for a very different set of tool design when the programmer and administrator is the same person.
That's true but even modern GCs like G1 or ZGC won't do background GC work unless the program is idle. So for a benchmark like this it doesn't matter.
> see hit-pieces like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27968394 and note all the pro-Chrome/Google opinions there...)

Hit pieces? It's extremely plausible the people are fed up by Apple's refusal to implement basic features and fix show stopping bugs in their force-fed browser to protect their monopoly and money that comes in (30% cut of App Store sales).
FirefoxOS still exists as the proprietary KaiOS, and the open fork of it, GerdaOS.

https://gerda.tech/
An investigation in to how the diet industry exploits our data