skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just saying that's where the real stats are regarding programming language adoption.
Europe is a big place with a lot of cultural differences. You can get away with painting Canada (35mm people) with a broad brush, but you probably shouldn’t do broad comparisons to Europe as a whole (750mm people).
“parent of all horrors

I feel like unclosed quotation marks have to rate pretty high on the list too twitch
Hmm, I thought my state's legal framework on this was the norm. I guess I'm lucky & spoiled rotten!
> To me languages are just implementation details

Most elixir devs would disagree. Ergonomics are important. Not saying that elixir is perfect, God knows there are warts that I will gripe about if you ask me, but it is much easier to make progress in a language when you aren't worried about footguns and crazy levels defensive programming, or worrying about if someone else's code on the other side of the project is not sufficiently isolated from the code you're pushing. If you're coming to your job every day with an "oh god do I have to do this today" attitude you will run into progress resistance... And most of us work in domains where this shit attacks us every day in ways that we have no control over ("wtf this 3rd party graphql query path has a misspelling", "wtf my teammate pushed this spaghetti code 4 months ago?" e.g.) that you really don't want your language shitting in the pool on you.
That only explains why the Blazor team doesn't provide such a library. They have a certain amount of resources and have prioritized them on the framework. Microsoft could spin up another team to create such a library or they could give the Blazor team with more resources and a mandate to create a library. But they choose not to. It's a big company with many priorities and internal agendas but from the outside, this looks like only a halfhearted commitment to Blazor.
The repo notes 3.48.0.0/12 and 3.152.0.0/13 as new IP ranges but I thought it was already well known that they owned 3.0.0.0/8?

It's even been discussed on HN previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407173
If you don't have any of these then you might try to compensate with better skills or by being better at communicating with investors / being better at telling stories.
People driving on bald tires are supposed to get ticketed.
Reverse that. What is called tin foil is actually always aluminum.
Once upon a time, though…
Their data starts from Jan 1, so it's biased to underreport breakthroughs as a fraction of cases (since initially very few people were vaccinated), and doesn't show the impact of Delta.

This is extremely misleading, and not addressed at all as far as I can tell.
You can’t be tempted to use what you don’t have. If you’ve got a problematic relationship with a thing - be it alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, social media, or whatever - then it’s usually a lot easier to kick the habit by removing the thing from your life entirely, than to keep it in your pocket and constantly have to intercept that habit of taking it out without thinking.
But then how will we destroy the roads of others to later be rebuilt by our contractors? /s

I agree with the sentiment that many “cost prohibitive” societal issues, such as roads or health care, could at least be alleviated to some degree if we stopped playing world police. (US centric POV)
> proactively

And here's the problem. 90% of the time pro-active abstraction (complexity) is never needed and therefore bad.

You can always do things retro-actively.

If you find yourself writing the same thing 3 times then yes, by all means abstract it away.

Good abstractions are not invented; they reveal yourself to you in due time.
In Imaginary Magnitude Lem provides the introduction (or perhaps foreword, I don't remember) to a work on Bitics, machine literature. IIRC typographical errors are where it begins. Now, of course Lem is writing fiction (even if the fiction purports to be a scholarly work about an imaginary topic) and there's no reason our world should proceed as Lem imagines, but equally there is no reason to rule it out either.
It depends on the kind of nesting, cargo has multiple levels of nesting all the time and it's working well.

Through is you have thinks like object->list->object->list thinks can get weird without questions.

Still most time I had such complex configs I also often (not always) realized that I did something
wrong and unnecessary complex...
How so? The tax would be based on the tread wear rating, so it shouldn't affect compound selection nor tread design.
I feel like a custom OS (in addition to the hardware) is the wrong approach here. The primary use case for this type of device seems to be folks that want to disconnect but still have access to non-distracting tools (uber, maps, music, text/call).

The problem is, there's a long tail of apps users consider tools, and I don't think Lightphone will support them all nor will app developers write them for this tiny market. For example, a user might think it's critical that their pandora music is available, or spotify, or....

One thing I've been considering is moving away from having a phone altogether and just relying on an apple watch. Big enough market that all the essential "tool" apps you'd want exist but the form factor itself prevents distraction (good luck doom scrolling instagram on a watch). The fact that the only data entry mechanism is voice, is actually a feature for me, it forces you to only use it for the essential.

The downside is that I'd need to carry around another device for emergency work stuff. Maybe an iPad because that form factor is limiting as well, you're not gonna pull it out for 2 mins randomly and doom scroll.
So what’s the $ value of being in love?
I have a 7 colour e-ink screen and a Raspberry Pi Zero that I planned on turning into an automagically changing picture slide show for this small fancy picture frame I had lying around that miraculously happens to be the same size as the screen.

I think I'm going to use this page to feed it the artwork.
Yes, as I mentioned it’s not a concern of newbies, they need to be taught that it is an important concern.
I am a naively optimistic stoic nihilist that knows humans can do waaay better than we are, at basically everything.

But one can hold both of the opposing views of what the upscussion is talking about in human nature and misanthropy. Good architecture encourages the right decisions. So we can both accept that human nature will "come out" and also strive to help our fellow humans make the best possible decisions in light of that.

Anything else is not being true to ourselves and the situation.
Waseem seems to have moved onto the accounting/finance world now as the CEO of Pilot. This seems to me to be an even bigger jump than kernel dev to chat software.
The variation is amazing!
Deforestation Can Cause Rapid Evolutionary Changes in Insects
> Have you studied math?

Yes, I have a degree in it.

> And yes that is analytic geometry

No, the example you gave is not analytic geometry. Read the definition again. The explicit use of a coordinate system is essential. Algebra is not sufficient.
I’m having a hard time telling the difference between your moral nihilist and a moral relativist
Is this the world we want to leave our children? Serious question, because I don’t think many of the US citizens that support this have children or if they do, if they live outside cities...

Most people hate toll roads, most people hate surveillance. Here we are implementing both.

I just drove home through part of rural Kentucky. I have to, to get too and from my farm. That farm that potentially feeds you. I’m going to be taxed more than the city folk, who eat my food. They don’t even realize it.

Now, I can’t raise my rates because you can buy your beef from Brazil or Argentina or from some bulk grower. All of whom this tax won’t impact because they have scale.

This, plus a bunch of tiny leeches will eventually suck the blood from my side business. Perhaps more importantly, it’ll suck the will of the people. The farmers around me are all old. A conversation I had with the guy next to me was “people just don’t wanna work any more”. He’s right. I work so hard, hard enough to buy a farm (while still doing tech during the days). I wanted to experience what they do (just raising grass fed cattle and bees for honey and a large garden to supplement my food), my operation is just starting, but I’m on year 3 of bees and been gardening forever just growing it every year.

Politicians and people just don’t get it. These kind of bills have a dramatic impact. Farmers by me make something like $40k net a year. A tax of a few hundred or thousand would push them to decide between dental care or food or fixing the car (they’d have to go car, food, dental). For me, I do this on the side, for them, they’re basically losing their livelihood. I’m not saying this tax is the one to push them over. But it’s just another cut forcing them to bleed out.
There are many states that require safety inspections. The effectiveness of the instections is still up for debate (supposedly little to no statistical difference in crashes causes by mechanical issues).
I was planning to register the Procrastination Party. I guess I’ll do it next week.
Many EU countries have vignette sticker programs for the interstate system. Curious how they are going to proceed with the rise of EV's. This isn't a new tax per se but a transition of the current gas tax. Either do one or the other but not both.

The tax should be close to proximity to current gas taxes as to not randomly screw people especially those with long commutes or travel. Most people who live in the country aren't going to be transitioning to EV's any time soon. Commercial trucking taxes should be a completely separate affair.

I can already see this being divisive across political party lines...
Software Engineers design and build digital “factories” that (when run) automate information tasks.
Facts are:

- the concentrations of CO2 and other greenhouse gases (notably methane) in the atmosphere have increased steadily since the 19th. century and now are on such a high level never seen before for last million years. [1]

- higher concentration of CO2 and other greenhouse gases lead to higher earth surface temperature

- a shifting of the global average temperature of just a few kelvins can have devastating effect on our climate and environment. Just how much actually is in debate, not the effect itself.

[1] https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...
I’m a huge IPv6 advocate, but I can’t imagine we’re not better off releasing 240.0.0.0/4 to RIRs and fixing stuff that makes that assumption. That’s an enormous amount of IP space.
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How much of this is a total surprise that it is happening vs somebody thought somewhere this was totally likely but was forced to go through the processes anyways because deadlines and keeping up appearances? Also, pressure because SpaceX is kicking everyone's ass? My money is there's a group of engineers that were desperately hoping for something else to go wrong before it got to their part.
Tunable stiffness enables fast and efficient swimming in fish-like robots
Global electricity production has been increasing by ~3% per year over the last 20 years. So that nearly flat graph represents a 1/3 drop in relative supply.

For scale in 1999 6.56% of total energy was generated by Nuclear, by 2019 it was down to 4.27%. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/energy-consumption-by-sou...
Do you really care if Linux corrupts its apfs container on machine 2 instead of machine 1? Just don't go mounting your macOS apfs container and it's no different.

Regardless I think most of the problem was with defaulting to fear mongering, particularly at the warranty, rather than gaining an understanding of what the risks are before making recommending action to avoid said risks.
Maybe I’m not understanding your comment — are you saying that China’s censorship programs are helping to drive the local tech industry? That doesn’t sound right to me.
Given that denisovans evolved in asia, I don't see why they wouldn't have had lighter skin.
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Agree. I also wonder whether the scale of energy needed to power EVs is “lost in translation”. Mine seems to use ~350 kWh per month of driving (rough figure, considerable long distance/rural).

Edit-that’s probably higher than average. Average could be half that. Figured 3-5 miles per kWh.
This work is very exciting. Thanks for sending me the link, greatly appreciate it!
Vietnamese cybersec firm BKAV's products' source code for sale
> Actually, quite the opposite. People who don't consume foods with lots of added sugar are already healthier and wouldn't end up paying a lot more for their food.

Not "the opposite". Exactly as I said: a lot of people would end up paying more, for no health benefit.

> Increasing physical activity and micro-nutrients are great goals, but do not play a large part in the obesity epidemic.

That is merely your own opinion, but you seem to think that this is a fact. If you are so sure, I'm sure you have some good sources for that? I mean, the first study you linked actually doesn't speak in your favor.

> Sure, it does. As you yourself stated "added sugar has zero good micro-nutrients", by definition these are excess calories that you don't need.

Wait what? That's not how "excess" is commonly defined.
Here's how this term is usually used:

> When you eat more calories than you need, your body stores the extra calories as body fat. Even a fat-free food can have a lot of calories. Excess calories in any form can be stored as body fat.
(https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/4182-fat-and-...)

or

> “Excess calories per day” is simply an arbitrary measure over an arbitrary unit of time to better calculate and plan your diet and calorie deficit/surplus (depending on your goals).
(https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2017/07/27/how-long-does-...)

So this term is used simply for surplus calories. Sure, sugars can be surplus calories, but if I eat 2500kcal of protein in a day and my body only burns 2000kcal, then 500 of these are excess calories. But I could have left out 500 of any of these 2500kcal to avoid excess calories. So my point still stands.
Even if we can get rid of the repetitive programming tasks, that still leaves a lot of software development work to do. Someone needs to specify the behavior of the code, either by writing tests or some other way. Those people will need to understand the technical and human environment the software runs in so they can specify the right behavior.
Even if you can’t automate away 100% of software developers, it doesn’t mean you can’t automate away the lower, moving, 80% of skills. This can have the same effect of automating away software development, from the perspective of the median of the labor market.
Just wanted to point out congestion charging in London exists.

"The Congestion Charge is a £15 daily charge if you drive within the Congestion Charge zone 07:00-22:00, every day, except Christmas Day (25 December)."

https://tfl.gov.uk/modes/driving/congestion-charge
We don’t want to leave our children a nation where the critical infrastructure used by all of us is paid for?

As gas tax isn’t feasible due to the rapid transition to electric vehicles, leaving a road tax as the only equitable option to fund infrastructure O&M expenses. Where would one expect the funding come from if not from users of roads?
Isn't this pretty much true of any bidding process? The people already know who they want, but go through the mandated bids just to say they did while ultimately picking the group they already intended to use? From my experience that's the SOP for ad/creative agency bids, so I just extrapolate that to the rest of the world ;-)
Founding the EOS Foundation
You said it yourself: it’s a contract. And the employee agreed to it. We can argue all we want about the power the employer has in the negations, but the reality is that the courts don’t like to intervene in contracts if they can avoid it (at least from what I’ve seen). If we want it fixed, we need legislation.
sure, I won't disagree with that, my point was more that the updates are more than 10% useful features usually. You can definitely make a point about how long it took php to get its type system into shape, but php is not exactly just some trendy framework of the week, and there are valid reasons to pick php as your language of choice (namely that it's the lowest barrier language especially for having non technical people do their own installation on some random server/shared hosting)
Looking at their website, Auger seems to be unregulated gambling? Some people might want that, but it doesn't really strike me as a killer app commensurate with the hype around cryptocurrency
Exactly. This type of stuff always seems very elitist and ends up hurting the poor working class the most. Politicians who are getting paid $174K with tax payer money and other expenses paid for have absolutely zero clue how the working class lives and survives.
*Minimalism
Adding 16 bits or 32 bits doesn't matter: The networking stack of every device would still need to be updated to understand the new address structure (just like IPv6!) You can't magically fit 48 bits in a 32 bit field.

IPv6 was the correct long term approach. You wouldn't want to pick only 48 bits and have to do this again in 20 years.
> Does anybody know of an earlier graphical game that had mixed-client LAN support? (~1996-97)

Maybe Warcraft 2.
> the Arduino environment is too limiting

The Arduino environment is limiting--that's the point.

Arduino attempts to keep simple things simple. Complex things may or may not be possible--but that's not what an Arduino is for.
Think of entrepreneurs as athletes. Working hard is a necessary but not sufficient condition.
Sawyer is a loss cat herding/code wise, though I hope he'll be back when he decompresses some (there's a reason I've publicly stated I deserved to be smacked for upsetting him, that was DUMB on my part) - though after I apologised for accidentally upsetting him, we've got back to chatting about code related stuff, so I think there's a decent chance my hope isn't misplaced.

The other perl coder resignations are people resigning from the non-profit, not stepping away from the code.

Sam has actually been a pretty damn effective community cat herder (and I say this as somebody for whom she was the lead inquisatrix, but I have enough moderation experience myself to not take that part personally) and I hope once she decompresses she'll come back.

The only 'programming member of the community' we'll likely lose permanently is lizmat, and she'd already become a raku-only programming member of the community and deleted her entire set of perl5 cpan uploads without warning (breaking a number of users' installations) in a fit of pique because she's convinced the perl5 community is trying to persecute her, so between that and her active opposition to enforcement of basic standards of civility she won't realistically be missed.
If you look really closely you'll see all the nihilists here flooding this thread by their silence.
I love something like this but something about having to log in to a proprietary service to read/comment/view markups just doesn't sit right. I wish this kind of stuff was built in more easily to PDF readers/writers. The modern state of commenting/annotating documents despite a decade of tablet computers is sad.
I have no familiarity with the internals of wicd, but from a glance at the most recent commits it looks like wicd-curses has already been migrated to Python 3: https://git.launchpad.net/wicd/log/curses
I would love to see the gleaming pyramids! But I can’t help but think of Cecilia Giménez’s well-intentioned repair of Ecce Homo (the Jesus fresco).

For historical sites with any mystery, even a restoration done with skill and care would create some fiction while destroying evidence that could be used in the future. Earlier eras were filled with this kind of sanctioned, inquisitive vandalism - the Victorian fascination with mummies is especially relevant. There’s a lot we won’t ever learn because of that early enthusiasm.

I’m not advocating doing nothing with historical sites. I’m just more comfortable with preservation than reconstruction that replaces the original. If they want to build a brand new set of pyramids, using original construction methods and designed to match, just do it off to the side a little bit and I’m all for it.
AMP token to collateralize payments. Flexa is the first and most well-known implementation of it and has made very significant partnerships.
Where's all the other tax which is already too high going? How has the country been able to pay for critical infrastructure in past centuries? How will the working class people who have to drive everyday and can't work from home unlike the rich tech people pay these bills?

Respectfully, your profile says "In search of projects with maximum positive impact with zero financial return." which tells me you are already financially sufficient and won't be impacted by this. The workers like nurses, delivery, uber, manual labour etc who has to drive everyday gets pounded by this.
> With that said, this idea that his philosophical writings are deeply nihilistic just needs to go away. His entire corpus basically deals with how to escape nihilism—how to find purpose in purposelessness.

It felt to me more like we had to accept meaninglessness but also be willing to go on, to be generative spirits. When Nietzsche talks about the risk of becoming a monster from staring into the void, one of the primary subtexts that sounds strongly to me is the risk of taking a view of purpose or meaning, just as much as accepting a view of meaninglessness. We should be wills to power, but it is not an act of turning our back on the abyss, of any cosmic cause or ethic: it is accepting it, mastering it, and becoming more anyways. It's lessons, as to what we are, what happens: those will always be true too. Show-offy mind exercises like Eternal Recurence highlight that Nietzsche had to go to glorious fabrications to motivate ourselves through the nihil.
Here’s mine: https://mmontag.github.io/chip-player-js/browse
I want more automation in life. Not less. Certainly not more dmv visits.
Yup, I lost access to bing rewards on my main account but I can still use it for everything else. (Including searching, I just don’t get points for it).
Matrix would be excellent.
No, 2% is the percentage of US population that identifies as Native Americans, but it's a highly mixed population. The percentage of actual NA DNA in the US gene pool is certainly much less than 1% at this point.
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Nope. Building a startup is almost completely opposite to playing the lottery.