skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ideal tabbing scheme is fibonacci. If you can't do that, 8 will do.
I don't know about Australia, but it sounds like the comment you responded is saying that mortgages there are something like a US 5/1 ARM, not that they are paid off in five years.

That is, the interest rate is guaranteed for five years and then it periodically adjusts.
It took way too long to get this considering how case has been around forever. Now I just want a do-while.
I don't understand how anyone can view this as unfair. It's as basic as basic economics gets. It is obviously the case that downstream consumers of goods and services pay more than upstream suppliers. The initial investment is an enormous risk for the landlord, not something to just shrug off.

I guess if you view housing as somehow exempt from market dynamics, then this view holds water. I'm sympathetic to that view, honestly.
For the vast majority of people that's just wrong. The urge to breathe is driven primarily by increasing blood CO2 levels (hypercapnia). You can learn to tolerate higher levels but to reach the point where pre-breathing pure O2 makes a difference takes extensive dedicated apnea training.

Anyone can extend breath hold times at least a little by hyperventilating first to drive down CO2 levels, thus surpressing the urge to breathe. That can be dangerous underwater as it becomes easier to go hypoxic before the urge to breathe gets overwhelming.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17274316/

I am pretty well aware of what applies here.
To be honest half of these points sound like company process issues (you can make changes quickly with code, just not with this particular review process/CI), and half of them sound like programming-language issues (lots of languages are functional and/or let you make a quick global config parameter)
But doesn’t antose comment still apply? If all the certificates issued by letsencrypts old CA have expired (since they’ve stopped issuing certs for a year, and their certificates only last 3 months) wouldn’t it stand to reason that if a certificate on and old CA have been replaced with a new CA certificate? And it would then stand to reason any devices that aren’t updated would have slowly watched the web degrade already? In other words with letsencrypt there’s no cliff everyone walks off when the root ca expires, it’s more a 90-day descending hill.
So my dream is that eventually mypy (the optional python static typing module) will be extended so that python becomes a gradually typed language — able to detect if an entire program has valid static typing, and if so, use a much higher-performance python compiler to skip over the python object system to increase code speed by 10x.

This would make python both a viable choice for rapid prototyping, as well as easy to convert to much higher performance code (just by handling some typing conflicts), and potentially making python a mega-language used even more pervasively.
One thing I don't like about goto is that it allows the creation of irreducible control flow. Makes all kinds of optimizations and program analysis more difficult. When I have the chance, I advocate for more well behaved alternatives such as labeled break statements. Although they're more restrictive, most of the time they're all you need.
"If I move out, and I rent out my home, it covers monthly payments approximately exactly."

You cannot borrow for rent, so rents follow income growth more closely. So in some expensive real estate markets, if no income growth, rent might not cover your mortgage repayments.
Yeah, I think the author focused a bit too much on structural pattern matching being a replacement/alternative for if...elif blocks.

It will be much more useful as an alternative to dispatch dictionaries, which are more a side-effect of the language lacking any case based control-flow.
I just came back to this thread to say how poorly the author's conjecture held up. Within 1 week, this was totally debunked. Safety data was released, looks great as expected, and it turns out the delay was in fact the FDA.
That's no worse than Classic aka the Blue Box. In retrospect it seems like Carbon on A/UX should have been possible.
Wow I'm actually pretty blown away! I use Go on a daily basis and have never seen it used anywhere or had any clue it was in the language.

If you had asked me a few minutes ago if Go had goto I would have said "definitely not and they would never add it because it goes against the Go ethos".
Humans don't spend nearly enough time considering how valuable mushrooms and bugs are as food sources. Wild pigs have it figured out.
'HTTPS in other ways': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_man-in-the-middle_a...
Bill Mensch – Genesis and Evolution of the 6502 Family
Facebook no longer requires degrees for entry level developer positions.
Restricting Gemini to just long-form text (one way consumption) is really reducing the possibilities Gemini can have, IMO. Though the whole minimalist attitude would probably preclude most of them.
Bézier Curve
Of course it does - it’s purpose built for a narrow use case. However it’s an extremely popular use case.

Clickhouse optimizes on the 2 most important things for OLAP - minimal disk space due to compression benefits of columnar storage and minimal compute for the same reason - and therefore fast.

However it isn’t flexible when you want to expand the use case. You can’t do any sort of text search, no complex joins (there are no foreign keys), and you need to order you tables there way you want to sort them.

For certain things it’s perfect. It was built to solve a problem Yandax had and that’s notable. But it doesn’t have anywhere near the flexibility of Elasticsearch for example.

But yes it’s purpose built to be extremely fast and minimize storage for the types of use cases it is built for.
Java actually has an elegant-for-Java feature that removes most credible uses of goto. You can label and break out of standalone code blocks. It makes error handling without exceptions no bad.

label: {
break label;
}
Right, and we're subject to what's in his mind, which we can't know, and what's in his acquirer's mind, which even he can't know!
I actually have an account on a VAX VMS 7.3 system.

I have an openssl binary there that I found. It is not linked against Multinet TCP, so none of the network functions work.

It is occasionally handy, even given the library problem.
Land is cheap within, I don't know, 50 miles of anywhere you live. But not necessarily where you (want to) live.

It has been proposed that since land doesn't respond to supply and demand, but housing does, that property taxes should apply only to land and be increased to remove most of its value. Keyword: Georgism.
It got 2 years worth of feature updates (possibly 3 if it got one before I bought it).

I’m actually typing this on an iPhone 6S that I usually use for app development. I’ve just upgraded it to iOS 15, and honestly it’s still a great phone. UI is very snappy. Probably the best budget phone on the market right now, considering you can get one for ~£70 (I paid £100 a year ago for one that had had it’s battery replaced)
I think he was talking mostly about good motorcycle airbag vests like the Helite Turtle and e-Turtle. "Good" is an important qualifier word though, the worst airbags offer little protection and don't limit head movement.

This is a great video about the Helite Turtle (it came out before the electronic e-Turtle) and motorcycle airbags in general.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2jZryt607U

I'll definitively grab a Helite e-Turtle when I start riding next year.
Sure, maybe. If your issue is with advertisting-as-propaganda, the Internet is going to seem like post-apocalyptic wasteland.

I think the net utility of Rober's channel stands though, as I'd imagine that there are a number of kids who have become actively engaged in engineering/STEM projects/or even moviemaking due to his influence.

I know that he also guides an online course where anyone, of any age, can learn engineering concepts and apply them by following along with some of his builds during the course.

Hell, I got into programming at a very young age (10 or 11) to figure out how to make a Counter-Strike themed website for me and my friends. Programming now affords me a comfortable life.

TL;DR: Exposes kids to engineering in an engaging way, at the cost of advertising to them. There are much darker places on the Internet.
This is only true if you limit yourself to standard character based hash representations.
dang, could we please merge the comments from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28591173 into here (or vice versa)?

Thanks for resubmitting, chmaynard!
Go has goto
Yes, that's the accurate horror of the situation here in Australia!

Even a slight economic advantage is being multiplied if you take advantage of housing and stock markets.

Just having comparable incomes and earning power is no longer enough to give you economic parity with your friends and neighbours. Which is not a good for overall social harmony :-/

Wage stagnation has meant that if you don't have real estate, investments and additional contributions into your super you are going to be in an entirely different wealth class to your peers once you hit your 50s and 60s.

This may not be a fun ride for many over the next 20 years...
That presumes other accounts or the ability to immediately open other accounts.
I live on a boat in Australia. Just use my phone hotspot. Only a few places along the coast where I anchor have bad network. I just move.
Agreed. Rode for more than a decade in many different guises. Do not recommend.

Road trips are nice, but even on largely open country roads fatigue is real and it is easy for experienced riders to have accidents. Commuting is not safe. Some car drivers are just bad and will pull in front of you. Some car drivers will pick fights and threaten your life with their motor vehicle.

After giving it up, and growing up I suppose, I have also come to realize how many motorcyclists are jerks. I don't expect this to be a popular opinion. I always knew some were jerks: I saw their bad riding & picking unnecessary arguments with car drivers when out on rides with them! As a motorcycle-aware car driver many years later I have encountered many more whinging motorcyclists who themselves created unnecessarily dangerous situations then lectured me or flipped me off.

As a car driver, stay away from motorcycles. Considering motorcycling?: stay away from motorcycles. ;-)
“Implanted microchip”
Nah, I’m good.
Economic value is rooted in both perceived and real, non-negotiable needs (water, shelter, food, etc).

Economic idealists tend to skip over the latter, probably because they have never faced poverty.

Rather than unscrambling numbers in pursuit of a diseased fantasy, compute could be put to work solving complex allocation problems, simulations, training, etc. to advance economic efficiency. For food production & distribution, water management, natural disaster mitigation, housing allocation, etc.
When I was in high school, I was part of an online community that wrote graphical shells for DOS (really NTVDM) in QBasic. One of the things we all started to want was a web browser, but most of us had no idea how to write a parser, let alone deal with the complexities of HTML and JavaScript.

So we created our own markup language, where each "tag" was on it's own line, with the first character indicating the type of tag. Only HTTP GET requests were supported, all output was in color CP437 text, and there was really limited layout support.

After a while there were maybe 5 or 6 different clients and maybe 10 different people had created websites, including a forum, a chat app, an RSS reader, a search engine, and some pages advertising various software people created. Sometimes it can be really fun to start "from scratch" with something simple.
Modern Evolution Strategies for Creativity: Concrete Images + Abstract Concepts
It wasn't ambiguous as to which side people wanted to be on, and which side wanted to flee.
It seems that most of HN doesn't know the Lugano convention (which basically reaches the entire EEA).
Burden of proof should always lie on the government.
Most of this is exactly the advice I give for someone driving a car. I also gave up track days and AutoX due to cost (got married and have a family).
It's not advice, they are explaining why people make "bad decisions" like this.
<- My monthly payments are identical to had I bought at $600k at 6%. If I stay there, I'm not much worse off. It's harder to pay off the home quickly.

You are a lot worse-off. If you buy at 6%, and then rates go down to 2%, you can refinance and your home is valued at a higher rate. IF you buy at 0%, you bought the house at the peak, and cannot refinance the debt.
I also used keybr when I was first learning. I found that I capped out pretty quickly there though, easily getting 100% for all the letters without going particularly fast and, as you mentioned, there's not much for punctuation and numbers. After I got good at keybr I moved on to gtypist and boy what a world of difference. Gtypist is significantly less forgiving and I still do poorly at it even after typing on the daily for years. It helped a lot for the time I was able to stick with it.
Agreed - I feel like 15 or 20 years ago, GPL was a well-known license so that's just what people went with, without understanding all of the implications.
A useful time for a quote from the Linux Kernel coding standards [1] - exactly the first item in fact:

"Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make indentations 4 (or even 2!) characters deep, and that is akin to trying to define the value of PI to be 3.

Rationale: The whole idea behind indentation is to clearly define where a block of control starts and ends. Especially when you’ve been looking at your screen for 20 straight hours, you’ll find it a lot easier to see how the indentation works if you have large indentations.

Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations makes the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 80-character terminal screen. The answer to that is that if you need more than 3 levels of indentation, you’re screwed anyway, and should fix your program.

In short, 8-char indents make things easier to read, and have the added benefit of warning you when you’re nesting your functions too deep. Heed that warning."

[1]: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.h...
TEXT/JSONB are stored inline IIRC unless they hit a certain size limit at which point they'll be put into TOAST - so you'll see data in clickhouse but some big values might be missing.
Canned tuna is just about the only food I can't bring myself to like. What changed for you?
> Gemini is designed to be difficult to extend without breaking backwards compatibility, and almost all proposals for expansion on the mailing list are ultimately shot down.

This could lead to some interesting adaptations. I'm thinking like the way usenet, news-groups were adapted to store and transmit binary files in the form of NZB's. So while the underlying protocol remains pure and simplistic (relatively), the overlays and adaptations build upon it may bring unweildly levels of complexity. Not inherently good or bad, but interesting to think about.
Monotheistic faiths all have the same god by definition. They're really just quibbling over his attributes.
How can Safari be a defender of the free web, when iOS explicitly prohibits any other engine? They are the new IE, in that they keep users hostage, but this time you can't even run a campaign to try to get users to use a new browser.
Economics is a weird subject, even economists get predictions wrong all the time. It is easier to talk about logical subjects like Math or programming, vs something like social issues or economics.

I don't know how to have a useful conversation about such topics, I understand your frustration. I suppose everyone has good intentions and is trying to help at the same time by sharing their theories - which could be bad or good, but definitely hard to digest, as a reader
The problem is that in a scenario of rates going up, both houses and general stock investments will go down together. They rarely diverge.
Why move off BigQuery?
The 6 degrees experimental result was based on snailmail. In social media its 4 degrees, probably due occasional supernodes- people with over a thousand connections.
>Damn, I would assume houses must be much cheaper in Australia than in the US?

The median home price in Australia is about US$725k. So no.
I'm doing a CS degree at WGU after 12 years in the industry. It's relatively cheap and being competency based means I could pass classes like "programming 101" - the class that teach you how a while loop works - I passed that class in one day. The ability to go as fast as I'm able removed the main reason I never went back to school, and once I learned I could go as fast, I decided to go back to school. I have learned some things in the program and don't consider it a complete waste of time, although it has its share of classes I'm not enthusiastic about, just like any school would. I'll be able to move onto a masters program if I ever decide, that is an important part to me.

I wish an online competency based school would offer math degrees. Math has many good resources for self study, and is easy to test for competency, it seems like a perfect fit. Anyone know of a good online math degree?
I want to see one with an ejection seat and parachute.
I’ve frequently suggested Patterns of Democracy and it doesn't seem to have picked it up, despite apparently picking up books with only a single mention.
Also C# (21 years): https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe...

PHP perhaps gets honorable mention for not originally having a goto statement, but adding one something like 10 years later.

Zig moved in the opposite direction. It had one at first, and then removed it: https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/630
This sounds like a case of perfect being the enemy of good. Yes, no deployment system will cover all cases. But that doesn't mean it's impossible to make a system that's good for most cases.
the SUN-1 was based on the SUN (Stanford University Network) board, but I can't find anything concrete on the SUN board (Also by Andy) other than it existing, and apparently 'cheap/free' to license?

Apparently it formed the foundations of cisco/SGi & SUN.
The title is clickbaity and the content a bit overboard, but this statement resonates:

> If a person’s behavior doesn’t make sense to you, it is because you are missing a part of their context.

Working in a large company with lots of stakeholders pulling in different directions, I've lost count of how many times I've heard X complain that Y is an idiot and what they're doing makes no sense, and then talked to Y directly and realized that from their point of view Y's actions are entirely rational.
i though sicp is most most mentioned book on HN. but sicp doesn't look like a book name.
My guess would be that "Milwaukee virtual Unix" https://github.com/BobMorlock/AUX/blob/ac3d03a2a0c0924866ce2... refers to the fact that A/UX was designed to run on Macintosh II (ie. Milwaukee) hardware.

I remember (I think) John Siracusa expressing frustration that Isaacson delivered a personality-focussed and patchily-researched bio instead of taking the unique opportunity to grill Jobs with a long list of detailed and specific questions about the remaining mysteries of his stints at Apple. But of course that's probably part of the reason why Jobs chose Isaacson and not Siracusa or someone like him. And conversely, not all of this stuff actually required access to Jobs: there is, for instance, a lot of mystery about the Big Mac that Levy could probably have cleared up. However Levy was really quite specific (and hopefully correct!) about the 'Milwaukee' name: he said that Gassée coined the name after seeing a photo of Milwaukee on the wall of Dhuey's cubicle.
Thanks! Yes, that's the post I was referring to. :)

Most weather data what we encounter from apps are actually public data - they're just cumbersome to work with. There is so much there but not as widely used as they should be.
Wall of clear tube, pump, connected to suspension of plants which pass from outside to inside.

Using an LED (light) to make plants emit light, feels like "why not use the LED in the first place" (I get that this is science, and the LED is a metered, measurable source of monochromatic light so is good for the cost/benefit model)
Volca.org phishing site to steal CC and PII
How far people can go to steal bitcoins eh?
The point probably is that there are certainly homeless people who drink less than I do, so I really shouldn't be the one to judge people for it.
The motor cycle in the video has the rear brake on the left foot and gear shift on the right, which is opposite motorcycles I'm familiar with. Meanwhile, the clutch is on the left hand and front brake on the right hand as expected. That seems weird.

Edit: Quora provides an explanation. It was a British thing until the 1970s:

https://www.quora.com/In-the-1970s-motorcycle-foot-controls-...
As a mass market shoe consumer, I don't see local manufacturers competing on pure quality per se. Shoe making has already become a more technical field, and there are products that the Nikes of the world can make that local makers can't without relying on remote highly specialized factories.

For instance some of Nike's flyknit series are way more comfortable, light and flexible that what local makers have to offer. It costs more churning through pairs, and going the built to order way adds to the cost, so it's not a cheap option. Margins might be huge for Nike, but I don't think they are much higher than for instance leather shoes retailed with 4 figure prices.

Local makers will go for "hand crafted", "built to last" shoes, there are as you say specialty shoes, and some luxury level local brands keeping classic designs. But I don't see it as forgoing margins, and more going for niches that don't need huge R&D development for manufacturing at scale.
Topographic VAEs learn Equivariant Capsules [video]
Open Challenge
True but you cannot have a literate populace with parchments alone. The introduction of paper was necessary.
> What you quoted was directly followed by an example of laziness from the article.

Well, it was DIRECTLY followed by an assertion of intellectual laziness in the premise of the article, as your quote so helpfully shows. Perhaps if you were a bit less lazy you might have caught that?

> It is not about how I feel but the meanings of words.

Ah! An interesting assertion, considering that what you have repeatedly described as "an example of laziness" from the article could easily be described in another way, as my other reply to you hints at. For example, we could say it was "stubbornness" [1] or "passivity" [2] or even "dysfunction" [3] with as much justification as you use "laziness." So on what basis do you choose the one, and not another?

[1] "the quality of being determined to do what you want and refusing to do anything else" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/stubb...

[2]: "the quality of being passive, where "passive" is defined as "not acting to influence or change a situation" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/passi...

[3]: "a problem or fault in a part of the body or a machine" https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/dysfu...
That does actually happen; see China, for example.
Interactive still did beat SCO/Xenix on price in 1992 for running Oracle (on 386 hardware that costed as little as a single 857 MB hard disk on RS/6000 with AIX). And Novell 2 or 3 sure did beat A/UX as AppleTalk file server.
If you think there are no issues then try it yourself with an inflatable beach ball and some weights in the shallow end of your local swimming pool. Be sure to record a video: it's going to be hilarious watching you flail around underwater while making no forward progress.
Baltimore neighborhood's last remaining restaurant closes due to lack of staff