skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Interesting factoid: in France, most of the stop signs say "stop", since it's a perfectly valid word in French.

Here's another interesting fact which I suspect is more of a fact than "your" fact: Almost all countries in Europe has stop signs with the word "Stop" because it was agreed upon in 1968.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_Convention_on_Road_Si...
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what are these yellow blobs?
Low-code is all the rage these days, and such tools are nice, for a while.

But let's look at my use cases:

1) There is no way you can build a very large and complex ERP in low-code tools. First, you would hit a performance wall quickly, or need something these tools absolutely can't support as not many companies need it. Delphi is alive for 20+ years. How many products do you know that are successful and keeping up with the times for 20 years, and are built with low-code tools? And finally, betting your company's fate on a specific tool made by some other company is asking for trouble down the road.

2) I make database migration tools so I need the best performance and a ton of native database drivers. This means going low-level, querying database metadata, working with primitives of the specific drivers. Which tools can even begin to support these requirements exactly?
> You get billed monthly, so really, letting it go for a few months is on you.

right? what a moron, that bill could have been a surprise of only $500!

/s
New to me, and interesting from a ui, dnt angle. I wish id known about it years ago....
There is also TensorFlow.js for deploying ML models inside the web browser.

https://github.com/tensorflow/tfjs
> Chicken is a perfectly reasonable substitute for beef.

This is completely 100% incorrect. Chicken is so nutritionally deficient relative to beef that it might as well be a vegetable.

> There are over a 600 million people are living cheaply and safely on vegetarian diets

“Cheaply”, yes, “safely” not so much.

Vegetarian populations tend to be have stunted growth, have worse dentition, etc. compared to populations who eat a diet based on ruminants, fish, etc.

Additionally, dietary requirements are not fungible across the human population. People whose ancestors come from different evolutionary environments will be tuned for different food sources. Lactose tolerance is probably the most well known example. A priori, all of my pre-agricultural ancestors must have had a diet completely incompatible with vegetarianism, so it’s not surprising that people of my background who go vegetarian tend to exhibit metabolic problems.

Note that I am not comparing vegetarianism to the standard American diet, which is practically vegetarian already. Switching from SAD to a generic vegetarian diet might simply have the positive effect of reducing the amount of weird slop people consume. https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2016/december/a-look-at...
I don't know if the Pascal code ran slower, but the Borland compilers were plenty fast.
Apple would not allow you to open that Stripe form in a web view before, so we don’t really know what consumers prefer.

I think you’re also underestimating the degree to which normal people hesitate before putting in credit card details on a web form - almost everyone has heard stories about difficult cancellation processes, stolen card databases, etc. Services like ApplePay offer assurances that almost certainly result in sales which otherwise would not happen, so I’d expect this to consolidate on a few companies (Amazon, Stripe, Google if they can stay on message for more than a promotion cycle) which are relatively trusted as intermediaries.
Firefox lets you specify your location, though not easily. (Set `geo.provider.network.url` to `data:application/json,{"location":{"lat":0.00000,"lng":0.00000},"accuracy":1000}`.) Chrome doesn't, so even sites with location permission place me at my ISP's HQ 500 miles away.
Early VBA did this, apparently - see https://ericlippert.com/2021/02/17/life-part-38/#comment-119... on Eric Lippert's blog.
Indeed, Isaac Newton noticed that a thermometer placed just beyond the red band of a prism-produced rainbow showed a higher temperature than shadow or indeed the red band itself. From this he deduced and described infrared light.
> With WSL v2 , you can run Windows and all Linux apps.

Can it run perf yet? I.e. are they passing through hardware performance counters from the host?
Cars are better insulated and vibrate less in the first place. But if you do offroad and gravel with lots of vibrations, I think it might increase the risk.
I thought so at first. I think poster got so caught up in explaining the Greek that he forgot to make his point.

For a while, it seemed like poster was arguing semantics vs actually informing the reader on why author could be wrong.

I'm not sure how to present it better, but I'd posit:

"Sparta, the city, was not 80% slaves. That stat only true about the state. This distinction only matters because the author is critizing sparta society on the basis that Sparta's seat of power was slave-cornucopia. But this is false. Sparta the city is mostly spartan citizens, making the author's criticism-by-sleight-of-hand dishonest"
I very rarely drive auto.

I'm not sure what an "export market" is, but I'm in the UK. Our cars seemed to have fewer automatic features for longer than other markets, for example cruise control was fairly rare until quite recently. I don't think I encountered a clutch interlock until 2015-ish (except on motorbikes) - I thought the car was broken.

I don't remember models specifically because I drive a different car each time, but I only got my driving license in 2007 and have had had the lurch happen as recently as last month (of course I have the handbrake on so it doesn't actually lurch, just stall). It might have been a VW T6 or a Vauxhall Vivaro, no more than a couple years old.

Certainly my mum's 2004 Daihatsu and my sister's 2008 Renault didn't have a clutch interlock. It's by far the exception that I need to engage the clutch before starter in all cases, but it could be in some cases that they would only require the clutch when also in gear.

Cars here still often fundamentally work similar to my first car (1998 Escort). Manual turn key ignition, able to start the engine by disengaging the clutch at speed, possible to stall at speed, put it into neutral then then restart the engine while driving, etc.

Mainly it's when driving hybrids that they seem a lot stricter.
> The real question is how did the web remain relevant while being so far behind this tectonic platform shift?

this is an "apples vs oranges" question
There are so many varied responses here but only ones like this make sense. Unix's language was C. Eventually, windows' API would be C. Then the rest would simply be history.

Surprised there isn't a book on this that explains it.
Thank you. I did not know that before.

I've corrected my OP.
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There's no chance I accidentally buy $10,000 worth of staplers when I walk into Office Depot though, while the opposite is extremely easy in AWS. Plus, when I checkout I'll get an itemized total of what I owe before I pay, I won't be charged an unclear amount at a future date.
Pascal was super popular for applications development on the original 68k Macs, Amigas and Atari ST's. I don't know if these machines fall into your "extremely tiny" envelope but we're talking 68000 @ 7 MHz with usually 512K or maybe 1M of RAM.

A little later, Turbo Pascal ran like greased lightning on a 386 or 486 box. There was really nothing else like it, which is partly why it enjoyed such immense popularity.
Advanced Go – Improve your code using Interfaces effectively
Speaking of speed, Turbo Pascal's compile speed was lightning fast.
Maybe they mean old.reddit.com. I use it on mobile and it's fine. Fast, not too many pushes to change to the app, r/friends/comments works.

Twitter on mobile has become almost unusable (unable to see most content without making an account), though I've found a workaround: it's not totally broken in incognito windows, so I guess that's how I read it now.
Datagrip from jetbrains is a really nice tool, works great across mysql, postgres, mssql and big query in my experience. Supports a bunch of others that I haven't had a need to use yet.

From memory the EAP builds are free to use, through I just buy the all tools package as I get a lot of value from it
The RPi4 can do 4K x265, it’s the reason I have one, and the only thing I use it for (with LibreELEC too, as it happens)
I don't think it's so much a money-grabbing strategy as the problem that AWS is less a suite of unified services and more a litter of puppies fighting in a sack. With that kind of org chart it's difficult to have a unified, simple billing experience with good beginner training-wheels and on-ramps.
> array size needed to be specified at compile time

This also holds true for C until C99, I think.
Screwtape Letters?
My main problem with delphi: it is "too proprietary". It was a very productive ide in the 90's or early 2000's but lost their path and never recovered.

Some new versions broke compatibility with previous version's components. There was the case where you paid a good amount of money on some proprietary components and they simply wouldn't work in the next version: you were imprisoned in an obsolete ide. By not being multi-platform (I hear it improved it lately) you could only use it with/for win32 so it lost servers, embedded and mobile. By not being open-source nobody could improve it.

Then it had to compete with "native tools". Whoever develops for windows wouldn't quit ms' tools to use it, whoever develops for mac wouldn't quit apple's tools to use it, whoever develops for android wouldn't quit google's tools to use it, whoever develops for linux was mostly ignored after kylix.

Note that I didn't even mentioned price and license.

They improved it later, I heard. But seems more like the old case of too little too late. Most successful programming languages today are open source and multi-platform. Delphi was dependent on win32 for too long and it still is "too proprietary". You do the world a favor by porting your project to lazarus.
Plus GH does not nag you about being a robot and please solve captchas like crazy when I am behind corporate VPN...
Yeah, it seems like you're doing pre-mortem analysis on your conscience.
That's the official propaganda, but if you actually read into details of IR35 changes it doesn't meet any of its goals.
CNN, ABC and co can hire me, give me the FLA source files, and I will, for a honest pay, translate all that content into standard web techs so it can be seen in any browser.

And even if they don't have the sources, I can decompile the files and work from there.

Flash isn't the problem here, Is management ready to spend money on "modernizing" that content or not? Because it's likely that what these interactive apps were doing in 2001 couldn't be done with webtech at that time.
Software Treadmills
With NVIDIA gpu support?
Now worldwide iPhone supports Suica, but don't supported by almost all Android outside Japan.
Did Chrome ever allow users to enable autoplaying audio?
It is already too late, first it is opt in, then it is opt out, then it is compulsory. This will happen if we let it have any use at all. Write your congressman now if you have a desire for this not to come to pass.
> Chicken breast has more protein, less fat, less cholesterol, less saturated fat. Beef has slightly more iron and zinc but is overall significantly worse for you.

If your nutritional understanding is at the level of “fat and cholesterol are bad” you should not be giving dietary advice.

You appear to be approaching this from a USDA-poster style of nutritional reasoning (please do not do this), so I’ll make two heuristic arguments:

Why do you think, everywhere in the world except where there are social taboos on beef, poor people who eat chicken will preferentially switch to beef consumption when their standard of living improves enough to permit it?

Is the peptide and vitamin distribution of human flesh closer to that of a cow, or that of a chicken?
That is an admirably charitable response to a comment that I could not truthfully characterize the same way. Good job by you.
+1 for meteoblue.
I have experienced this a large number of times, that when coming from geizhals or from a few other price comparison sites I got a better price, some times even close to 10%, on various online shops for computer components.

For example a shop where I have seen this almost always was jacob.de.

However, I have not bought many computer parts during the last year, so I do not know if this still happens today.

A couple of years ago, it was certainly very frequent.
> From your comment

Pretty stupid to just assume that I "didn't even bother" to answer their questions. I'm not going to write a novel explaining every minutia of my interactions with AWS.

> letting it go is on you

I never said it wasn't. If you pay attention, you'll see that the context of this comment is discussing the "it's on you" culture surrounding AWS and how hostile it is to newcomers.
While that can be good for getting an overview of what's available on the market, it can also lead to frustration.

For instance searching for RAM, mainboard, etc., then going to the site of the product just to discover there is already a new,

(supposedly) better edition available, but nobody is stocking that, or willing to do so.

Depending on your view it gives a distorted view of what is available, compared to what could be available.

Imagine they'd get their list directly from the OEMs, and show
how lagging the merchants are.

Like a visualization of the supply-chain, the capacity of the channel, and how lagging and incomplete the merchants are.

Like a diff-view between what is available at the source,
how it moves into the channel(s), an when it is available for you (if at all!)

I guess it depends on what is being tested by the countless hardware review sites, and what's known to the people.

Whereas I, scroogy as usual, from time to time have to source several dozen to about a hundred low-end systems,

and prefer to get stuff from the "also runs" like

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to run some form of Linux or BSD on it, for light office or remote desktop use.

Ghastly BIOS? Doesn't matter, is only used once during initial setup, and then after updates, if necessary.

No gaming Bling-Bling? Matters even less, since it has no useful function and is disabled, if it's there at all.

Bad VRMs or cooling of these? Does it matter when I don't overclock?

I'm doing this since about 15 years this way, and had no stress with this choices, at all.

All I did was checking the installation manual pdf of the mainboard for fan connectors, and choose them accordingly.

I'm too old-fashioned, I guess?

Anyway, enough of a rant.

Geizhals is the best we have, but it could be much better!

And thumbs-up for no-frills look&feel without dumbing it down!
Studying electrical engineering starting 1985 our school used Pascal for first year and then ran with Modula 2 for subsequent years. In those days we were mostly on time share Vaxen, even as EE students only maybe 20% of students had any kind of PC or real computer at home.

As of now I can't remember exactly why, but it seemed obvious to me at the time C was the place to be going forwards, maybe because I was working part time doing embedded design, or I had turbo C and a copy of Microsoft C fell my way, I can't really remember, but I do remember feeling that Pascal and Modula 2 were both a relative dead end when it came to useful skills for future employment.
> it makes support

Support is already a problem currently, because personalized error messages are less searchable but more useful than generic ones. Moving to error codes is a good example of an orthogonal concern that would incidentally help i18n. Supporting error formats that can be treated by machines is a further unrelated step that would also benefit i18n.

So I would say the stuff we already do tend to make this concern less relevant.

> reusable code

That's an orthogonal concern. You don't write new code when you i18n something, you just create dictionaries.

> common understanding, and readability (in a team)

I don't believe anyone is making the point that one team should write in separate languages. However, a team able to choose its own language (possibly the one used by the rest of the business) is a plus.

In non-english countries, it's very common to have code written in english to describe a business that is done in local language, with really bad translations of business terms. This already causes issues.

> increases the amount of development overhead of whomever has to maintain the language.

Why would the language maintainer do the i18n themselves?
> Maybe they don't want tire-kickers

Could well be at this time. My LibreELEC running Pi4 recently updated itself to 9.2.8, and isn't showing 10 as an update yet. Perhaps this is considered a gamma testing period.
> Did Chrome ever allow users to enable autoplaying audio?

Curiously, Chrome disallow users to disable autoplaying videos...
Minimal only in the code the developer has to write, I guess.

Electron: Delivering users nothing we didn't already have, but taking away so much (and sometimes, like here, only on Windows!)
I like this recent history, but it's worth remembering that we invented this sort of statement millennia ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_of_Ur-Nammu
You should try rolling the dice with VRBO. Nothing makes a trip real like showing up half way across the world to find you have rented a flop house. Seriously, VRBO is a scam factory since there is no customer support or dispute system. Premier hosts can post anything, get paid, and never have to worry about getting docked for the scam unless someone rounds up some lawyers.
The colloquial translation for “a stop sign” in Quebec is “un arrêt stop”
And should be as a matter of course when you don't intend to modify anything. Read only users are good insurance
I respect the intent behind these efforts. I just don't see how they will prevent ubiquitous surveillance.

Imagine this possible near future: Many property owners have installed smart doorbells and security systems with cameras. The data is being fed into aggregation systems and sold, just like clicks today. I can subscribe to an app on my phone for a few dollars a month (below the limit required to get formal approval in most organizations) that shows me where a face has been seen.

How will this not happen?
6S did not have the OIS or autofocus features that lead to this problem. There are no moving lens elements in that phone.
In my first programming job (2000-2004), we mostly used "native" applications (the company was mostly mainframe but the "PC Programming" was done in VB6). Then the .com crash happened and we hired all of these "web developers" that were out of work and all they knew was the web. So the next programs we wrote all of a sudden web based. I remember thinking that they weren't really a good fit since we were doing mostly file processing work. They were slower and needed permissions and required servers.

I would imagine something similar happened everywhere. All of a sudden there wasn't many web developer jobs and web developers had to take "regular" programming jobs. And when all you have is a hammer...

In the long run, of course the Web grew, but in that short period of time there was definitely a displacement of skills and the rise of "Web Applications". I'm not talking of public applications, but rather internal business applications.
There is no safe, free and effective vaccine against HIV, so these are not equivalent.
I’ve been using this for years and it’s been extremely useful. The feature to plot the prices over time is great to gauge whether it’s a good time to buy something or if you’d rather wait.
This is the correct answer. "Exception proves the rule" = a documented exception is an evidence that a general rule exists.

When you see text "kids under age of 3 years don't have to pay", you can conclude that older people are supposed to pay.

The analogy for Google situation would be if hypothetically someone found an internal e-mail written by the boss of Google HR department saying "contractors who have relatives in Google, or who have published their story on Hacker News front page, need to be fully paid for their work". Then we could conclude that other contractors typically don't get fully paid, even if there is nothing in the e-mail saying that.
That being said, competitive for Austria is low even compared to western Europe, and of course unfathomably lower than the US.
Why wouldn't you use Ansible for the high level stuff? It can easily manage DBs and you wouldn't need another tool.
The app ecosystem promotes closed content only because it requires native code to run for the UX people expect on mobile, at least until recently with responsive UIs dominating the web framework space.
Can We Stop Squinting at Our Screens Yet?
Had a friend who put an Akrapovic on his MT-07 - DB killer is welded but once you drill through a small part on the weld you can remove it/put it back easily and the drill hole is covered by carbon shield so unless they disassemble the shield to check (and my friend had it like this for 5 years before selling IIRC) it was just pull out - put it back in for technical
We did some Modula-3 in school, I already knew Pascal well so it drove me nuts with minor differences to trip over.

I doubt looking like Pascal helped these more powerful languages gain popularity.
Sure. A large amount of expensive art is sold in order to facilitate money laundering, and NFTs are expensive art.
> That said their both missing vitamin C, so you need a more diverse diet anyway.

People have been shown to live on fresh beef alone for extended period without suffering scurvy.

Paradoxically, adding other might actually introduce the need for additional vitamin C.
In an ideal world, IBM would help cultivate the ecosystem Raptor is creating.
Uruguay language academy irate over Cavani 'negrito' sanction
Vegetarian populations have different deficiencies than other populations but overall they aren’t worse lifespans than other populations with similar economic backgrounds.
You just reminded me of an incident that happened to me on I83 near the PA border - a motorcyclist passed between me and the vehicle in the left lane (yes ... a two-lane road passing on the dashed line) going about 120 MPH. It wasn't the cycle passing at high speed very close to the car that scared me ... it was that I never saw him/her in my mirrors and the noise between two cars that were 4 feet apart was horrendous. I actually made me flinch at the wheel and I probably swerved a foot in my lane.

I've known many conscientious motorcycle drivers but it's people like this that lead to emergency room doctors referencing "donorcycles".
Yes, and many aftermarket sets say "not for road use". Harley Davidson was fined for installing them on too many daily drivers. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-harley-davidson-lawsu...