skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recursion can be converted to iteration very easily but then you lose all benefits of web assembly (dynamic linking, for example(.

The conversion from recursion to iteration mandates that all recursive entry points be known ahead of time so you can build a loop/conditional tree. If you want to dynamically load code, this creates two tiers of languages on the runtime.

You really think I haven't thought of this?
This is purely anecdotal, but I live in Oslo where the majority of cars are now electric. I have seen no reduction in traffic to the neighboring Shell station in the past decade. As far as I know it doesn't offer charging, there are charging stations a few blocks away and this is in an urban area in our biggest city.

My guess is that their daytime customers are people dropping by for a quick bite when parking at a grocery store is too much effort. Stores aren't allowed to be open for the night, so the gas station doesn't have any competition for nighttime customers.
This is what the EU did. They gave the industry a decade to decide upon a uniform standard, and at the end of that decade Apple was the only holdout.
Close, but since epic appealed, it is not disposed yet - it will become final once all appeals are exhausted
Imagine that. A publisher wanting people to read their content. The nerve
30% of the market is huge.
Controversial Opinion - 2022 will finally be the year of the linux desktop for 2 reasons:

1) steam deck will fix gaming on linux.
2) flatpak + snap will finally fix distributing software on linux.
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For comparison:

> Chiba (千葉市, Chiba-shi, Japanese: [tɕiꜜba]) is the capital city of Chiba Prefecture, Japan. It sits about 40 kilometres (25 mi) East of the centre of Tokyo on Tokyo Bay.[1] The city became a government-designated city in 1992. In June 2019, its population was 979,768, with a population density of 3,605 people per km2. The city has an area of 271.77 square kilometres (104.93 sq mi).

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

"It's not like I'm using", Case heard someone say, as he shouldered his way through the crowd around the door of the Chat. "It's like my body's developed this massive drug deficiency". It was a Sprawl voice and a Sprawl joke. The Chatsubo was a bar for professional expatriates; you could drink there for a week and never hear two words in Japanese. [...]

Pseudo-W.Gibson
Have you tried the same games on Windows and Linux? I wonder if there is a significant performance difference.
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If a random person hosts that pdf/image etc. on their personal server they are also responsible for serving that content. So I don't see how this differs for a big company. You make content available therefore become a publisher. Also hosting companies can and should be held responsible for the content of their servers their customers host.
Nobody forces you to buy a consumer-unfriendly product, period. Are you also going to push for governments to force Apple to make iPhones with removable batteries? What about the headphone jack? Why not force Apple to open source their OS? Why not block the sale of any product that is made in a country that has concentration camps?

These are all valid reasons that make me never want to buy an iOS device. But it is my choice.

Why is there this constant need for individuals to delegate their consumer conscience to an ill-informed and corrupt entity?
Upvoted for Twain.
Nice strawman you got there, shame if something were to happen to it.
Thanks. Good information. I will try ESPHome with Sonoff basic.

How was asparagus growing experience? In India, it has some interest for Ayurveda medicine. But haven't come across first hand experience.

The plants useful for tea sounds good idea.
Meanwhile, the planet gets hotter and many more people die during heatwaves than 20 years ago. Are you sure your McDonalds experience is more important than preventing more and more people from ceasing to breathe?
Your question was "How do I get clients?" ~ I'm sorry, my advice is slightly off topic, but I'd like to offer it anyway. As others have said, go with Friends and Family as your first customers. Even consider doing work for free if need be.

If you've successfully made sites for yourself, then you don't need practice on the tech side ~ you need practice on the "dealing with clients" side. This is a skill-set hugely underappreciated by folks new to the field; you expect that the client knows what they want - _they don't!_, and part of your job is to suss it out of them. Sometimes clients will have no idea what they want until they see it, so you'll have to ideate and iterate for them.

And you'll need to be the one to level-set client expectations. Sometimes clients will ask the impossible of you. I've had clients essentially describe "The Next Facebook idea!" to me, but are only willing to pay $200. There's an old ClientsFromHell.net post that goes something like "Client: How much would it cost for visitors to my website to be able to log in by pressing their hand on the computer monitor? WebDev: Millions and Millions of dollars. Client: Well, I can see you're not serious about this...".

The "dealing with people" part is crucially important, for both providing a good product and for protecting yourself. Starting with Friends and Family is a great place to start and will help you build that skill-set.
In my field, most studies are peer-reviewed without review of the data itself. The study was conducted strictly according to best practices guidelines, so we are not afraid of peer review. We are afraid of the suits coming in and making a fuss because they're big and have big money while we're small and penniless.
But it has guns so it makes the children violent. Social gun violence (aka gangbanging) is not the rule of moral
You can try to rationalise these taxes with externalities but that would assume electric cars have no externalities. Between the environmental impact of manufacturing and disposing of batteries, the cost of adapting all the infrastructure to the charging need (not the least the additional demand on the electricity grid), etc.

And you can redefine a market all you want. The original poster almost certainly meant it as "winning on its own merit". Yeah a regulator can arbitrary ban a competitor and then you can claim that it is still the market because you think the market is what the regulators say the market is, but it certainly doesn't fit "winning on its own merit".
Love Unpoly for this https://unpoly.com/
It would be against their ToS I think (not positive about that. Worth investingating).

A thought I have had before is that a person could download let's say, the 10,000 most popular books and all college textbooks they could find, wire up slack and discord's search api for good channels you know of, and then index it, use bibliographies and references to other books as page rank, and use something like elasticsearch to query it. You would have built a search engine that probably felt like it was made out of magic.

I think the guy who wrote grep used it for a couple years before sharing it. I imagine it would be like that lol "how does that guy always find shit so fast!?"

The real bummer of that thought experiment is that Google actually tried to do that years back with Google books but was ultimately stopped by the publishing industry. Would have been pretty cool.

Edit: while writing this comment I couldn't remember the exact details of the lawsuit. I looked it up and it turns out I was wrong! Google actually won that lawsuit years later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Googl....

And yet when I hit play on my current audiobook and searched the next sentence I didn't get any results from Google or Google books. Maybe Google gave up on the project or it's just very slow going. In any case, it would appear there is actually a path for at least half of that idea.
All makes sense.

I read in the FT yesterday that China has enough empty homes to house 90m people. I would think even for a place with 1.4B people, that's a lot. It's hard to imagine so many empty homes that all of Germany could live in it. There was an aerial photo of one of these developments that reminded me of SimCity, when you try to cram as many people in as possible.

Does it snowball, though? The credit/asset spiral (well described by Soros in his books) seems very real. With the economy exploding over the last decades it would seem that NOT loading up on debt was a dumb move, so it makes sense that all the housing developers and everyone else has done so.

What are the levers for the government?
Ah, well then—nobody but themselves to blame, I suppose!
Sorry for the slow reply - our aim over the next few weeks is to make it much more keyboard driven. It's something we've wanted to do for a while, but we were trying to get the core user flows figured out first.
Software System Complexity:Entities Should Not Be Multiplied Unnecessarily
Not soon, now. My MacBook was advertised as being USB4 compliant, since Apple probably feels funny about using the trademarked "Thunderbolt" name now that they don't have Intel chips in their hardware.

USB 4 is mostly Thunderbolt 3 but without Intel determining whether you can use the name. (There's some differences, but most devices seem to use them interchangeably).
Occam’s Razor guideline “Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily” sums up very well the preference for simplicity, which is to counter the challenge of complexity. The underlying logic of this preference is: “simplicity does things right.
Because fruit is fragile
My best bet: Find a good Slack. If you don’t find one, start one yourself. (Matrix and IRC are also options.)

I also keep in touch with two buddies from junior high, we write nearly every day in a Messenger group.
Anti DST for me. To the point that I'd rather just keep jumping back and forth rather than go permanent DST. Waking up and living your first hour in darkness ain't healthy.
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It seems likely that there are separate teams that develop the phone vs. the laptop. The laptop team embraced USB-C, and the phone team didn't.

That, or being lightning-only is simply more profitable. Public companies (like it or not) have a fiduciary duty to maximize shareholder wealth.
Okay, but how far down the stack does it go? If you are working at Cisco, should you be similarly horrified that human trafficking is being arranged using your company's routers? If you work at a Tier 1 Internet carrier, should you be horrified that people are arranging human trafficking over the backbone that you run?

(Even if Facebook is more responsible than those parties, I think it's easy to understand how the median Facebook employee wouldn't see it that way, especially if their day-to-day job is something not directly having to do with communities/the newsfeed.)
I doubt it. I've used Krusty Krab as an employer on some sites.

https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/krusty-krab-facebook-emp...

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/3d45t9/commen...

That reddit thread explains it pretty well. Facebook will nag you unless you provide an answer. Many people avoid associating themselves with their employer publicly and pop-culture is the first thing to come to mind.
Here is a very good essay from a few years ago by Ben Evans [1] about the second order consequences of the electric cars.

[1] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2017/3/20/cars-and-s...
Rome? The empires of china? Both of which brought peace to their known worlds for many thousands of years. America has only enforced pax Americans for about 70 years after WWII. Meanwhile, the empires of china regularly brought peace for thousands of years to their region.

This is just magical thinking. It's the same thinking behind the magical forms of american exceptionalism
I'm by no means an OOP guru, but if anything is passed through a dozen source files, I start to feel a bit queasy.
Oh don't get me wrong, that sounds great, but for me, the "one more turn" effect is practically equivalent with "compulsively playing and being a slave to the gameplay loop even when I genuinely want to go to bed". It's a real, serious addiction risk, and I almost exclusively have it with 4x games (some RPGs also, especially if they're Baldur's Gate style isometric ones).

So when the review says "it's a fun game but you kind of spontaneously take a break after an hour or two", that is a relief for me!
On HN, I would say it does hurt. Too many people here remember Digg c. 2007, when everything was "the ultimate" so it chafes whenever we see it here, lest our precious community end up the same way.

My usual rule is:

> If you feel the need to tell me how good it is, I'll assume it's not very good
Tell HN: Possible compromise of famous Read Aloud browser extension
Read Aloud is a famous Text-To-Speech browser extension with 65,065 Users & Recommended badge on Firefox[1] and 3,000,000+ users on Chrome web store[2].

I saw a hyperlink with the text 'India success [story]' on the footer of the popup of the extension. Clicking the URL leaded to the YouTube video titled 'Home ivermectin based kits in India'[3].

Checking the code[4] the content for the hyperlink is fetched dynamically from the readaloud website[5].

```
{"id":"ivermectin","text":"India success [story]","link":"https://youtu.be/eO9cjy3Rydc","period":1440}
```

The publisher of the extensions seems to be same as the developer, I have asked for clarifications on their GitHub issues[6].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud/

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/read-aloud-a-text-to-spee/hdhinadidafjejdhmfkjgnolgimiaplp

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9cjy3Rydc | https://web.archive.org/web/20210923144909/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO9cjy3Rydc

[4] https://web.archive.org/web/20210923143226/https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud/blob/8770c74f323392ba113f50eb1c4014d07b28ffd9/js/popup.js

[5] https://support.readaloud.app/read-aloud/announcement | https://archive.is/QUgkl

[6] https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud/issues/232 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210923150526/https://github.com/ken107/read-aloud/issues/232
Here's another alternative which I built. The exported pdf is text based and thus optimized for resume scanning softwares used by companies.

https://resumetopdf.com/
...unjust to reap massive profits and then hand-off all the social ills you cause...

That is my take on AI/auto content moderation and the enforcement - they can't have it both ways; centralized platform, with no responsibilities.

So - hire people. Actual human beings - train them and hire large numbers from many demographic and geographic locations.

But - this would cut into profits.
The problem isn't exclusive to PCs. The PS5 and Xbox Series X use the same process as AMD CPUs and Nvidia GPUs, and tons of people have had trouble getting their hands on them.
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China is simply making foreign investors do a shadow bailout of Evergrande.

https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/blackrock-hsbc-amon...

They have been buying up these depressed bonds since January (that’s how long it’s been under the rug).

Cramer (not that I trust him) can pretty much tell you the gist of what’s happening:

https://youtu.be/Owa7c0TqyzU

(Start at 50 seconds)

Cramer (paraphrasing): They will regret throwing our banks under the bus.

Local Chinese investors will get bailed out, but foreign investors will have to take the hit, as per China. Cost of doing business there.
Thanks, appreciated
Would love to have a non-paywalled version of this.
Wow - thanks for all this! Agree on all points and will fix.

We are planning to completely redo the onboarding flow :)
> This is not a dig on guides, its instead an appreciation for what the game taught me - the idea that losing could be fun.

I disagree. Losing a game because of undocumented behavior or bugs has never been fun for me.

Sid Meier - "A game is a series of interesting choices."
> Can you show any other vaccine which has long term, but not short term negative side effects, which this concern might be based on?

I don't know. But we still may be in the "short-term side effect" phase for the COVID vaccines. It hasn't even been a year.

> Because this seems like whataboutism, and of course it's impossible to prove a negative, and people are dying while waiting.

Not sure how it's whataboutism to point out that some people have lower risks of contracting serious COVID, and that their decision to take a very new vaccine may be different than someone who is more at risk for contracting serious COVID.

If they miscalculate and die, well, that's their decision.

> At bi-annual dosage rates, yes. Not daily or even weekly.

Are the COVID/Ivermectin studies doctors are referencing for prescription dosages recommending daily Ivermectin use?
I'm very jealous of you folks for whom this hour shift is a momentous change in sleep patterns. For me it's in the noise.
When upgrading, you have to remove old PCR states, so rolling back to an older version is detected.
> It's time for political "no future" parties that focus on those that are currently alive.

In the US that party already exists, it's the GOP.
Your framing bothers me because it implies the current situation was inevitable. Sci-fi was the way to we grappled with these possibilities. And for the most part, us technical people were very concerned with dystopias, both the cynical and the wide eyed dreamers.

Then venture capital got here, latched onto the terrible centralizing technologies like AJAX, and paid everyone enough to stop thinking - "don't be evil", etc. But even at the time, looking at the incentives, these businesses' benevolence was clearly unsustainable. But "it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it".

Now we're down to simply playing catch up. I can roll my own eyes every time some article cries about big tech cutting them off, safe knowing that I run my own infrastructure. But I'm well aware that I spend time and effort to maintain it. And doing so does little to change the larger societal expectation that people's digital lives can be arbitrarily destroyed at any time.

I can envision a Free and easy future story for things like private communication, filesharing, etc. But hardware like toilet sensors? Large scale analysis? I've got nothing. Best result is that someone reverse engineers a proprietary device's protocol, does some simple analysis on their own turds, and creates a niche community around it. Until the larger company gets word of that "security problem" with their hardware, smites them, and the community is stuck refurbishing used toilets off eBay until their numbers dwindle through attrition.

The real problem is there is little widespread pushback on these defective-by-design technologies before they're even adopted. The "average person's" expectation has been completely neutered between a combination of overwhelming advertising and the politics of corporations first.

As dysfunctional and regulatory captured as the US Government is, I'm increasingly thinking the only way forward for wider society is some GDPR equivalent legislation. Ideally we'd end up with a fiduciary relationship for personal data (after all, personal data is more sensitive than money). Or in the worst case storing personal data just becomes toxic such that most companies want to avoid it, and the behemoths that remain can be gradually reigned in through successive legislation and focused public concern.
Awesome post! Thanks for sending - highly recommend checking out Citizen Scholar
We are looking the externalities. Until we start examining the root cause of what is causing people to behave this way on these platforms, and start addressing those issues, which is arguably much harder, everything is going to be lipstick on a pig IMO.
>at least you have the advantage that nothing can be censored

You can still censor by lowering visibility (flooding it with opposing content for example).
Very interesting. I'm glad this exists, but it appears to be streaming-based, which doesn't meet my needs (I want to run my games natively at a high resolution -- though if Gamepass streaming gets better and can deliver near native performance in the future, I'd seriously consider this).
> All the greatest scientists in late 1970s were talking about coming of a new Ice Age.

Careful — what was reported in general news was (and is) different from the work of the actual scientists. This is even true when the the news is reporting on a specific scientific report.

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

https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/that-70s-myth-did-cl...

> All the science fiction from that era is full of Ice age related stories. So, at the moment global warming is complete bonkers theory, that will fly out of the window as soon as there will be a sufficient volcanic activity level.

You can’t use sci-fi to draw conclusions about anything except the culture in which it rises.

Climate research explicitly includes “what do volcanoes do?” as well as other, mostly larger, sources of aerosol cooling. Indeed, this is a subset of “can we do geo-engineering to mitigate the effects?” research.

> The current theory of Global warming is very politicized.

It has indeed been politicised, but in the opposite way you claim: the scientific consensus is basically “totes real”, the reporting makes average Jo think it is “scientists disagree”.

> The data that lead to this theory was fabricated and opponents to this theory were silenced.

Explain.

> And constructive criticism about reasons why there is a global warming is not possible. It is not as much as a theory, as it is a religion with belief system for something that has different natural causes.

Anyone paying attention knows 90%-ish of it is natural, because of the temperature difference between us and the moon. The other 10% is the problem.

> Besides there is some belief, that there will be high temperatures in equator, that render those regions void of life, while the reality is that highest rise of temperature is going to be around poles and that in turn will improve living conditions to people that are living there now.

It does indeed appear to be mostly around the poles. Where the ice is. Which is indeed great if you live in what’s currently an icy wasteland, not so much if you live on the coast literally anywhere else. Will also mess with the thermo-haline circulation, I don’t know the current consensus on how much it will mess with it, but that’s the thing keeping Western Europe warmer than Newfoundland-Nova Scotia right now.
If any sort of majority of our prison population had committed violent crimes, and we had no evidence of other ways to handle people than enslaving them, you might have a point.

As it is, using prison populations to provide lower-cost-than-otherwise-legal labor for private corporations creates a huge mountain of perverse incentives.
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That's unfortunate.

I started off writing applications with Nantucket's Clipper. That product also died but I look back fondly at the experience because I learned a great deal that I was able to apply to the next thing and the thing after that.
If you had bonds before they went up, your bonds will crash. If you buy them after interest rates are up, it means you were in cash before and uninvested.

Im not sure I see the point in finding higher yielding bonds. Also they will have higher risk, its not "free" to have higher rates.
I can't believe how many people are trying to argue this point. You really can't see the difference between Facebook and a web browser? Are you REALLY suggesting that web browsers should censor the entire web, and if they don't then no website should be required to censor anything? Or are you just trolling/playing devil's advocate. Because it certainly feels like the latter.