skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Being a Persian
Fair gripes, although bikes have "dealerships" too that will typically help you select and maintain your steed.

The problem with lighted turn signals is that motorists don't expect them, and don't look for them. Pointing with your hand and head are just more safe and effective.

> how the bike should be totally custom

Ignore them. It should be what suits you, what makes you feel comfortable and safe when you ride.

> Why don't more people bike?

There's also not a lot of infrastructure outside of major cities (in the US). Unsafe for cyclists, annoying (at best) for motorists.

> the entire biking community, culture

Let's not paint too broadly, there are plenty of elitists, but big parts of the cycling community are inclusive; community rides, community maintenance co-ops, things like that.
And not only 1200-1800, but 1200-1800 on lichess, which due to that site's rating inflation is probably closer to 700-1300 USCF/FIDE.

It's a good climb but nothing particularly mind blowing.
> Actually there is enough labor. What there isn't is a fair (inflation and productivity adjusted) wage for that labor.

That would imply there are people sitting around doing nothing waiting for higher wages. But that's not the case, there simply are not enough employees right now.

> Shouldn't people pay more for things if they really want them?

You just need to give the economy some time to catch up, and let supply catch up to demand.

> Why can't we let the "market" handle this?

Because the government is not the regular market. They are able to outbid others, and cause shortages that don't help anyone.

I should have made this clearer: I'm not saying never pass this funding, rather, just wait a little for the supply chain to catch up.
uhmm Instagram runs on Django
Facebook is closer to a government or empire than a shop
I just reread my own blog post and it makes me cringe a little, but nevermind. I was younger and angrier back then.

However my point still stands, that digital literacy is on the decline. Having said that, I've raised four children and two of them are quite comfortable striping a computer down, reinstalling an operating system, using a CLI and SSHing into a remote Linux server to run Minecraft and CSGO.

It's my current job to teach kids how to use computers, and I think we're making some progress.
What's the difference behind this and https://github.com/bytecodealliance/wasm-micro-runtime?

I'm using wasm-micro-runtime at https://www.inngest.com to transform events on the fly, to run secure templating everywhere, and (sometimes) to run custom actions.

WAMR also has the capability to run AOT compiled WASM, which is kind of ideal for the immutable, fast running wasm modules we're running.

Would love to learn more, because it seems like they have shared goals, and this is a very, very interesting subject :)
Well, messaging is going to be interoperable between instagram, messenger, and whatsapp.
No, I'm just honestly wondering what you're suggesting. Did he commit suicide in a sneaky way?
Bikes are optimized for cost and ease of riding (i.e. less weight when possible), so bikes avoiding bells and whistles by default makes perfect sense to me. If you add on too much then the bike shop prices themselves out of the market.

Bike ridership IMO is much more heavily determined based upon how bikable a space is. If it's an environment where you don't have access to safe roads/trails, nearby destinations, or places to lock your bike at a destination no one will bike. The bikes themselves may have quirks, but that's rarely the complaints people voice in the wild from my experience.
Is that wrong ? Often I see RAM refered as memory with nonvolatile memory being reffered as storage.

Also there are old (ferite core) and new (NVRAM) technologies that are more or less both, further blurring the distinction.
LibreOffice is nearly 11 years old; Oracle dumped OpenOffice onto the ASF about 9 years ago and it has been all but dead for 6 years.
you're probably right. the severity of hanta virus is pretty closely tied to exposure, so it's usually only lethal in cases where people were exposed to a large amount of rodent feces.

however, mice carry around a lot of other biohazards. if it happens again I would say google the disposal process, and/or check the CDC's reference material for it.
Can you imagine? The evil twin of JavaScript on the server.
It tracks pretty well with my personal experience. I have plenty of non-tech friends who generally aren't following Facebook's every move, but there is a strong across-the-board sentiment that FB is a malevolent entity.
I think the issue with your analogy is that no-code programming is more like cutting up all of the idioms and narrative elements (in abstract) from Marvel comics and offering them to an illiterate and saying "Tell me a story using these parts". Ultimately, storytelling is composed of tropes. Every once in a while a breakthrough is made in aesthetic/narrative style, but that's just a new feature for a no-code platform. Not everyone needs to be writing bleeding edge or avant-garde software – a lot of people just need simple and reliable internal tools.
A write-up of this mod: https://www.reddit.com/r/macbookpro/comments/gs6bal/2019_mbp...
Bicycles are beautiful because of their simplicity. This is inherent and god help us if your vision of the bicycle becomes the norm. That would be like wanting Vim to come bundled with all of the functionality of Pycharm by default.

All of the things you want added to a bicycle are relatively cheap and easy to install on your own if you want them.

If you don’t you pay an expert at your local bike shop to do it for you. In fact, if you were in the process of buying a bike shop from an LBS you could tell them all of the things you wanted. They will literally build whatever bike you want lol.

But if the trivial amount of practice that it takes to “balance” while gesturing a turn signal is too much for you, maybe bicycling just isn’t your thing. If getting accustomed to navigating in Vim is too much for you, maybe you just need an IDE, instead.
You may well be right that they are going to lose.

Everything else, you are wrong about to the point of absurdity.

Alternative app stores is means the Facebook App Store*. Nobody can seriously pretend that Facebook competes on its merits.
The suffering of web developers amuses me.
I honestly wonder about this exact scenario with the likes of business reviews on Google/Yelp.

It’s like letting somebody hang their words on the front door of your business and as a business owner you have no power at all to do anything about it.

One company had to spent 6 months trying to get a review taken down that accused one of its female executives of having an affair.
Caused by Neustars DNS being down for 3 hours
Did you mean the NFS one or the S3 one?
I'm sure Alfred North Whitehead wasn't advocating stuff like not teaching the fundamentals of the why and how we can make these abstractions.
I hear a lot of variations of "the media was never perfect", which is true in a strict sense, but dishonesty comes in degrees and that's what we're debating. In particular, while I did grow up with the media cheerleading the Iraq War, mostly that was just citing "intelligence sources". Now the media overtly lies about the contents of publicly available content (e.g., the Damore "Google Memo" or the Covington Catholic video) or it has a journalist wearing a gas mask standing in front of a burning police station with a "Mostly Peaceful Protest" caption underneath.

Maybe my formative years were part of a relative anomaly in journalistic history--maybe journalists were always ideologically homogeneous propagandists and the last decade is naught but a return to form. In whichever case I know from experience it doesn't have to be that way and I emphatically reject the backslide.
The OCaml module system and its separation between interface and implementation is inspired from Modula-3 indeed. And the OCaml compiler is built to be able to compile compilation units while only knowing the types of its direct dependencies. This helps with both separate compilation (you don't need to recognize cycles, nor do you need to know anything about the implementation of your dependencies) and incremental compilation (you can minimize the number of components to rebuild if only an implementation changed and not an interface). It is surprisingly easy to break this property, for instance by requiring to have some global knowledge of all types involved in a program during compilation, or only compiling monomorphic functions.
As a counterpoint:

Micropython seems to make embedded code more readable and bug free than Arduino C-based programs, judging from a few projects I looked into.

Yes, it would probably be a mistake to write a large distributed, high performance database (say, for a login system handling billions of users) in python, but many, if not most, projects never hit the wall you are referring to.

In that sense, I feel that writing something in the most scalable language (if such a thing existed) would just be premature optimization at the highest level.
Since you don't know if your product will workout and you want to go fast you use a third-party service first. Of course, for some type of stuff, you might have to go with python but if both can equally do the job well in the backend and you need a web[mobile] frontend the...
I understand where you're coming from, but also disagree.

Cycling has a lot of cliques. There’s an absolute world of difference between a Rapha boutique and a hole-in-the-wall that primarily services deliverymen. Unfortunately, most cycling shops are staffed by people who can't see past their own walls. (I'm a "fixed gear hipster doofus" who very much wants to select every part and service it myself. The notion of glomming "emergency braking" (this is actually a crazy dangerous idea), turn signals, etc. is deeply unappealing to me.)

There actually are bike shops that run exactly like car dealerships, and the number is growing all the time as the market extends in the direction of riders like you. Specifically, I would have urged you to find a Vanmoof retailer.
Now can we unsee it?
Or they would be bankrupt ? Mac OS lost to Windows and if Apple was about software instead of hardware they would probably miss iPhone and iPod just like Microsoft.
I don't remember nor didn't use myspace, but how did that come to and end? We're there early tell tales like this one?

The collapse for Facebook would probably be very fast once a trigger point is reached, they're kind of all or nothing, they need large data amounts to have any quality to serve ads, if they have less advertisers and data, they won't be able to charge the same prides, it's would be a cascade or spiral moving pretty fast.

Of course, once it happens, fb might be replaced by something even worse, the cynic in me thinks.
I guess no better post than this to remind everyone that the Zig Software Foundation is half-way through the current donation goal, which would allow us to hire two more full-time developers.

https://github.com/sponsors/ziglang

On a separate note, I'm learning a lot about how different software foundations operate and I'm very surprised to see that very few prioritize the goal of paying their core developers. I encourage everyone to check out the mission of the Zig Software Foundation and to compare it with how we're spending the money we're getting. Everything is available here:

https://ziglang.org/zsf/
this is false dichotomy invoked every time in discussions like these. Totalitarianism is a property of political system, not economic one. South Korea was not democracy by any stretch of imagination for quite some time.
China is totalitarian but very capitalist in most of their economy, hence their success.

Also - do not confuse socialism (as in economic system) and social democracy (political system).
I found out because my CircleCI jobs were failing to `npm install`. Guess the deploy will have to wait...
this person makes $1500 a month?
MacOSX was released in 2001, so it would have had to have been System 7/8/9 by that point.
The yarn mirror is still up - details on how to use it here: https://benlimmer.com/2021/10/07/how-to-use-yarn-npm-mirror/
Basically every Fortune 500 company is guilty of this. Most corporations loyalties go Shareholders, Employees, Government, Customers in that order. It is more shocking to me that anyone is surprised Facebook puts profit over people. I would be surprised if they *Didn't* do that.
And you've misconstrued what I've said. You used the airing of the segment as an indisputable piece of evidence in defense of GP's point of CBC being nothing more than left wing propaganda, which it is not. The fact that you threw in the bit about going public being virtue signaling merely makes me find you distrustworthy. The fact that you threw in the weasel word "arguably" and conveniently left out an argument that's more compelling than what you said was arguable simply means I question what you've said even more.
W.T.F. ...
There are no limits to my hypocrisy.
In my scenario the gym isn't causing actual harm - it's just forcing users to use it in a manner that they consider inefficient - this is the same as the actual extension we're talking about. You can manually unfollow everyone through facebook's UI - but it is cumbersome and difficult.

I think there are some really strong reasons why facebook actually does cause actual harm and I'm not certain why you're being so defensive over that point - but my argument doesn't even involve facebook "causing harm" - it's just involves them having a terrible UX.
I was an early user of the .storage TLD and registered a domain for three years. Fortunately I did not build my core business around that particular domain - a new registrar took it over and wants thousands of dollars for the renewal. I don't think there is much if any protection for predatory pricing on gTLD renewals.
To be clear, this was the list of "things we blocked".

"Had we not done this work, that link would have been sent out to one of our users." was very well received.
I could drink 1L of wine @ 12% in ~1 hour and about 2.5 hours later feel safe to drive.

Not only did I feel safe to drive, I had to take a breathalyzer once and passed ( although it did have to 'think' a while ).

I did have dinner in the meantime.
Bring the chamber pressure down slowly enough to decompress.
Facebook is a merely the logical consequence of late-stage capitalism—its evil nature is a feature not a bug.
> The problem with no/low code is it mirrors a DSL for whatever problem being solved. Anything more general becomes a programming language.

Yes! I've explored visually representing functions, and state machines, but it all feels very limiting compared to written language. I think more research could be done in the visual coding area for expressing thought, because I really want coding to look like something out of neon genesis evangelion--but IDK, written language isn't bound spatially. And in written language, it's so easy to express contradictions, which is an important part of developing a system. I think MC Escher is probably the most advanced research we have in the area of visually representing recursion and contradictions lol.
> both sides of the isle are paid off

The expression is both sides of the aisle since traditionally each party sits on its own side of the legislative hall. I like this use however since it suggests they are all off on an island separate and distant from the rest of us.
TIL Ans is faster. Holy crap is this info coming to me too late; all of my programs could have been so much better.

So I pulled out my TI-85 just now to benchmark this. It seems that the access is very close the same speed, but the implicit store is a bit more than 20% faster than storing to a named variable.
> What standing would Facebook have to sue me for publishing a chrome extension?

The standing of "actually none, but if you go to court to prove this you risk bankrupcy". Unless you have a major legal organization (like EFF) backing you (or you are a billionare), large corporations are essentially above the law when it comes to interacting with individuals.
> For what it's worth I get static IPv6 and IPv4 (although of course the IPv4 is a tiny block, only a /27 IIRC whereas I have a /48 of IPv6) but I'm in the UK and with a specialist ISP that cares a lot about this stuff.

Even some of the large ISPs can get it right. I used to have fiber optic service from a large telephone company (starts with "C" ends in "EnturyLink") and could use their account management portal to go and get anything up to a /26, complete with setting up reverse DNS, just by clicking a button and agreeing to a relative pittance of money. I think the /26 was $40 per month and the /28 I had was $10 a couple of years ago. They would give me a static IPv6 /48 for nothing, just a click, and delegate the reverse DNS zone to me. A /56 that was supposedly dynamic but never actually changed was given by default.

The problem seems to be which ISPs want to do what. ISPs run by phone companies seem to think of their networks, and the customer networks attached to them, as actual internetworked networks. ISPs run by video companies seem to think of their networks as extensions of distribution systems for linear television channels.
Describe the Hat Your Wearing
I think at that stage it was still NextStep morphing into Rhapsody/OS X
> There isn't much we can do about this trend...

Sure there is! We can start making an actual organized attempt to teach computer literacy in schools. We've been leaning on "children will learn this stuff on their own" for too long, and the result has been that students from less privileged backgrounds often never learned it -- it's about time we fixed that.
IMO, NPR has drifted even farther leftward in the last decade. They used to be pretty middle-of-the-road liberal, but now they strike me as some woke variety of left-wing (a person's identity is paramount, tells you everything you need to know about their experiences, etc).
i grew up in india riding bicycle almost on a daily basis. i strongly disagree with your comment. for some of us cycling is just freedom and way of life, it has nothing to do with 'weird artifact of wealthy suburbs' or 'Japanese tea ceremony' and i didn't grow up wealthy. it got me places and let me hang out with friends. also as a kid if you wanted to go fast and didnt have motorcycle or money for gas, this was the best approach.
Chess already has many flavors, but the main one lasted for centuries and its longevity is partly the reason of its success. The more it last, the more it's played, the more it's a universal game. But if you create a new fork, share it and i will try!
they're called motorcycles, just go to a dealership to have someone sell you those bells and whistles instead.
I play like 100 ELO better with Zen mode.

I think the effect is actually more that I make fewer careless errors playing worse players than that I am more intimidated by stronger players.
Why don't more people bike? Because the entire biking community, culture, and market is built around making it hard and dangerous.

No, it is because in most countries road infrastructure is built for cars, not bikes. To make life even more dangerous for cyclists, the laws do not protect them enough.

Here in The Netherlands we have many separate bike likes, inside and outside cities, so-called bike highways, etc. Some city centers are even largely car-free (e.g. Groningen). E.g. from home to my office (~3-4km) roughly 70% of the stretch is on dedicated bike roads.

On average, Dutch citizens [1] make 250-300 bike rides per year, cycling 880km on average. Most people I know cycle to work, do groceries by bike, etc.

We do not have automatic emergency braking, turn signals, regenerative breaking, anti-theft tracking (though it becomes more common with e-biks), rear radar, etc.

First you have to make cycling safe by providing separate bike lanes where possible (preferably physically separated). Secondly, you have to change the culture. Most people in other countries do not even consider cycling to work as an option. Emphasize the health benefits, etc. You also need to educate drivers on how drive safely around cyclists (this is less of a problem here, since most car drivers are also cyclists, and tend to be aware).

[1] https://www.fietsersbond.nl/ons-werk/mobiliteit/fietsen-cijf...
chess seems like the new dating. Everyone is measuring it, but really in my recent experience, y'all are nerding this game to death. Not fun anymore.
Nuclear is not considered a renewable energy source, as FYI. Uranium is mined and is not renewable.

Capacity for renewables is as much as we want. We could cover the whole Southwest in solar panels and generate 10x more power than the world would ever need.
> If the workers don't show up to create value for him and for the company, they don't get paid. They're creating some value by packing boxes, that contribution might be worth $25/hr, but they've only been able to negotiate $18/hr of that value creation. They're probably handling goods worth tens of thousands of dollars per hour where that wealth is exchanged between end consumers and manufacturers, but they're not charging a commission to the buyers based on a percentage of that transaction.

Or their contribution might be worth $16/hr. Value is subjective. If they agree to work for $18/hr, then that work is worth at the most $18/hr for them. They do charge a commission to the buyers by proxy. Sure the company does some averaging across time, which is valuable to workers and both sellers and buyers on the marketplace. It makes it much easier for everyone involved. Do you really think workers want to get paid based on commissions? Do you think someone moving a box containing something priced $1000 deserves to be paid more than someone moving an identical box containing something priced $1?

> The company itself is performing things that are valuable, but he's not doing those actions personally. Of the three types of wealth acquisition, making money from an ownership position is extraction.

Extraction from what? What does extraction even mean? This applies to any investment or holding any stocks. Investment benefits the company (and I guess the workers and consumers by proxy) by providing resources for companies to develop. It's a two-way thing: investor takes on risk by giving money to company, company promises to give investor some amount of profit in the future. If anything, investment is creation of wealth from risk.
Definitely later :D
reminds me of Smilla's Sense of Snow, where this idea plays a role.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilla%27s_Sense_of_Snow_(film...
Not sure if that is a joke or not. But if it isn't I think you greatly underestimate how many knew how to use a computer 10 years ago. Office workers aren't a big enough share to say that more people than ever know how to use a computer.
Connectivity tech for the next billion people
On Azure you can file a ticket and an engineer will be blowing up your phone in short order. That's on the developer plan. The expensive enterprise planes are the exact same support only faster with a guaranteed SLA.

Azure smokes AWS on docs, community, and support. Just my experience...over and over again.

I'm at a huge high profile company where we have dedicated AWS staff. We have a dedicated email address at AWS to reach them. First time I tried to use the email address I got no reply at all. Took a while to figure out it had changed. I had formed my above-stated opinion long before that whilst trying to use various services and referring to their docs and community to navigate all the undocumented and out of date cruft. This is almost a decade now of the same experience.
True. I guess I still see a constant power source as a requirement, so the comparison to green energy doesn't even matter at this point, but it's the goal.

My comment was more curiosity than disagreement