skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you expound on this? Are you speaking from experience?
You need density so that normal people can still afford to live there. Otherwise you'll just have all the big cities turn into places for the elites of the societies while the rest needs to live on the outskirts.
Why medical bills can be lower in Maryland
The worst to the morale is that the changes sometimes seem to be in effect purely anti-user. How could have ever a change that makes active tab look almost identical to inactive one pass a design review. It's not even a subjective thing. Contrast between elements is objectively definable and measurable property. Tabs are critical to everyday use.
I can think basically only about communication with external resource like database.

And when it is a database, all the benefits of a compiled language turn into just a fancy no-brainer wrapper which still sucks because of “impedance mismatch”. It would be nice if that was true jit-integrated rust or at least C ffi, which one could call directly from js. But I don’t think that v8 will get such capability in observable future.
https://archive.md/newest/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/24...
He's talking about transmission, you are talking about reduction of symptoms.

The vaccines don't prevent transmission. Now follow that to its logical conclusion: "we forcefully vaccinated everyone on Earth, why are we still having outbreaks?" Because... Well, you get it

After you sit down and mull over this concept for a while, vaccine mandates make absolutely no sense. Vaccine passports make absolutely no sense. Unless your goal is a slight reduction in ICU patients, forcing people to get it is a straight up violation of human rights.

"Pandemic of the unvaccinated" yeah, right. Blame the leaky vaccine, not the people who already have natural immunity.
just out of curiosity, why don't you want to also manager your todos from your phone? the mobile github markdown editor is pretty clunky compared to a native todo app.
What does that even mean, in context here? Did the can have gemstones on it? Were there gemstones inside? Wtf?
YouTube Takes Aim at 'Let's Go Brandon' Song
The Supreme Court should just not be allowed to select the cases they review. If lower courts and legal experts think there's a genuine circuit split or pressing legal issue that needs to be resolved, they should be able to force the Supreme Court to issue an opinion.
The media is part of that evil racket. Just see how they lionized Colin Powell, a man deeply involved in genocides and massacres and war crimes. His career got its push from him helping cover up the My Lai massacre and then advocating every Vietnamese boy be shot as they could turn into a Viet Cong soldier.
Don’t forget that when Y2K problems were being created the hardware was _way_ less performant than the hardware of today. There was a reason to be wary of how much memory you are using, now there isn’t much.
I’m using Zig a lot right now, and I have been pleasantly surprised by the standard library. Maybe it’s due to Zig being a very straightforward language, but I find most everything I read in the standard library to make immediate sense.

I don’t know about reading std alone to learn Zig though, I used other sources like ziglings and ziglearn which taught me syntax and patterns. Had I started with the standard library I doubt I would have picked up the language as quickly as I have.

So having learned Zig I am much more inclined to look at standard libraries for languages I learn in the future, but I don’t think it’s wise to rely only on standard libraries for learning.
> "...sounds like the goal is almost always to maximize every flavor attribute simultaneously, as bizarre as that sounds. So it would be delicious to a Thai if it were super spicy, sweet, and salty."

from what i heard, the goal is to balance these flavors (plus sour, iirc), not maximize them. that's why there's often the 4 spice jar set at each table, to adjust to taste.
In my case the customer actually is coming up with good ideas about the cause of the problem, a significant number of times. It balances out the times I figure out the issue in other companies products.
Yeah... for C++ it's more like s/To learn/To really learn/
Container Monitoring and Supply Chains
Oh man, using Mark Zuckerberg as an example of virtue.
Fisher Price's Iconic Toy Telephone Now Makes Phone Calls
They will need to significantly lower fees and expand services if their ambition is greater than competing with check-cashing outfits.
Firefox is shedding users left and right. If you want to complain about people who're staying with the browser and are just complaining about changes to the browser that make their life harder, I think you've picked the wrong group...

Maybe go complain at people who have already left.
https://twitter.com/markgraham/status/1452389862624010242?s=...

> Big storm in SF Bay Area. Power outages... looking forward to getting back online soon!
I’m pretty sympathetic in this case, but to point out the obvious: something being a “well-known cultural reference” isn’t itself a strong justification for using language or symbols that are known to be offensive.

An intuitive case for most people: we all recognize the car from The Dukes of Hazzard, but you probably shouldn’t put the confederate battle flag on your own car as a reference to it.
Does Crystal benefit from these new M1 beasts? My Rust compile times became much more pleasant.
"Markel acknowledges the Rashomon effect of the incident"

Marge: But Homer, you loved Rashomon!
Homer: That's not how I remember it!

In the vain hope of saying something everyone can agree with :)

She was treated very unfairly. To get her due, she would have had to share information with, keep working with, and pretend to get along with people whom she disliked, who disliked and disrespected her, and who were determined to take the credit for her work. That would be a very tough assignment for anyone.

Since she didn't, Watson was able to paint it as "she found some interesting stuff but didn't know how to interpret it." OK, that's one way to put it.
That's a very strong advice to remove irrelevant guilt.
Many people bind success with money. That's just one thing you can benefit.
Razer’s Bane-like Zephyr N95 face mask is real, and you can buy it now
That list really drives home the 'ideas are cheap' phrase.

I guess the good ideas are expensive.
There is INTERPOL
People who are pro criminal justice reform understand people are guilty. But they're trying to solve the actual systemic issues that lead to crime, not just say crime doesn't happen.

Excessive policing, not spending money on social services, etc etc are all making it worse. https://ips-dc.org/three-felonies-day/

So yeah, we've over criminalized shit and we're spending money on mercs instead of investing in society.
Is that case? As far as I am aware, Globally even in UK or EU where multi year warranty are required by law, Apple still only list one year warranty [1]. And you have to explicitly tell Apple that by law they need to repair it.

[1] https://www.apple.com/legal/warranty/products/uk-ireland-uni...
I’ve noticed there are frequent reposts of the same story or very similar stories when it comes to pro-bike/anti-car/urbanist content. I’ve seen several such posts in the last 24 hours, all on the front page. Reposts are supposed to be buried per the HN FAQ but there isn’t a way to report things as dupes seemingly. @dang is flagging the right approach for handling this?
On some Android devices, deleting the app is impossible.
If HN has any requests for future topics in intersection of tech and finance, let me know. (I just kicked off this newsletter last Friday.)
To pick on a comment probably not meant as serious economics: It is most emphatically not a tragedy of the commons. We don't commonly own FT.com or share in its use. It is privately owned and thus a tragedy for FT's owners, if it significantly impacts their profits. Probably not.
Uh yeah if you try and read the Haskell standard library, you're screwed. It's list fusion and fancy algorithms to hack asymptotics all the way down.
That's a stupid analogy. Transistors were immediately much more reliable than vacuum tubes, and already almost as fast with massive efficiency improvement and almost limitless room for speed improvement as we've seen. So nobody hated that trend.

A notch in the screen is simply an inconvenience, and this particular notch has no extra functionality, so it's simply a bad design. Maybe they'll add extra stuff in that spot for future models, but this model just has a missing chunk of screen for no reason.

https://www.ultrabookreview.com/21772-laptops-small-thin-bez... has a list of thin bezel laptops that shows that you can have a thin bezel without a notch.
Few months back, I came across this poem in the anthology The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. There is a story that begins at 30 mins. That story stayed with me for a long time… It’s a story of how things undergo obsolescence and how it was relevant to my own life. I used know a technology which became out of date and I lost my job.
Interestingly this may be a typo as the article mentions cubic meters.
But wiki says cubic tons is a measure of volume that is obsolete in UK and mostly used in the US
Not to split hares, but this is the first time I've ever seen harebrained spelled correctly in the wild.
Yeah I think it would be the other way around: money would be the integral of success.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_FrontPage
> Meanwhile there's a great youtube channel where a guy makes razor sharp chef's knives out of random fragile materials like jello.

Do you have a link? Search isn't producing anything useful for me. (Particularly to the jello video, but I can't find the channel either.)
Yeah, I think what specifically happened here is that they made the user realize (correctly) that they were breaking it through their own fault, and therefore culpability was not on the vendor. Which is a great trick if you can do it, but with most complex systems, it's very hard.
Or they could give users the tools to scan for malware with appropriate local permissions and only phoning home with permission?
In my experience emailing is better (using the Contact link in the footer). This is also better for getting the mods' attention, as things like @dang don't trigger any automated notification mechanism.
In principle it's a great idea but from the picture it looks like they're monopolizing a shared resource. This isn't fundamentally different than adults parading around during Critical Mass.
Who pays for these fixes to greenhouse gas emissions? Surely it's the greenhouse gas emitters?
IMHO safe navigation only makes sense when the compiler is able to reason about nullability, meaning nullability is rooted in the type system. That's the case for Kotlin and not for Java.

Otherwise, you've got a high risk of developers inserting a ? to fix a bug, which only fixes the symptoms.

As of now, Optional#map seems to be the way to go.
Mozilla's JS Reference, I'd guess. A genuinely great resource.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Edit:

And the Web API reference (which is what I was actually thinking of when I posted): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API
1. Hollywood != Beverly Hills
2. IANAL but I believe this would have to be done on a state or federal level not a local level.
3. Why do you think the change is "harebrained"?
How do you know what a "toy version of the framework" looks like when you're not experienced with the framework itself?

It seems to me like you've already solved the issue of "learning the framework" if your mental model of the framework is that solid.
Worth noting that the "in mice" qualifier might be particularly apropos here.

>According to Taylor, the observations in mice make sense from an evolutionary perspective. "In mammals, especially hibernating mammals in temperate climates, you have fructose being very available in the fall months when the fruit is ripe," he said. "Eating a lot of fructose may help these animals to absorb and convert more nutrients to fat, which they need to get through the winter."

Humans generally don't hibernate.
You're right, depending on how you itemize things. However, there's $1B+ spent on human welfare and neighborhood development [1], much of which crosses over in one way or another either supporting the homeless or trying to not make people homeless with programs like food banks. If you look at where that's going [2], you'll see the areas with the highest unemployment are getting most of these funds.

[1] https://sfgov.org/scorecards/finance/expenditures-and-revenu...

[2] https://www.sfdph.org/dph/files/mtgsGrps/FoodSecTaskFrc/docs...
> Those four sentences are now an unchallenged way to better develop software in general

Pure garbage. Those 4 "values" are incredibly destructive and have led to far more problems than they ever potentially might have solved. You'll get plenty of challenge here, I'll wager.

> after over 20 years they proved their value empirically - but why is it that they make so much sense?

They don't. They certainly haven't proved their value empirically. For every "agile" success, there are countless failures, because "agile" isn't a magic bullet.
Propmaster explains the RUST tragedy – Protocols save lives
Also not an American, but that clip does have some Verhoeven Starship Troopers news vibes.
That's what conquerers like to think, that everyone thinks like them. It's just propaganda to legitimize them being the protector of the world.

To me it's more likely that there are these one or 2 guys who used to rule with this outdated view of the world, than to think that many are secretly puisuing such a vain and tedious thing as ruling the world
Here are what look to be the past discussions of this perennial. (Reposts are ok after a year or so: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20969592 - Sept 2019 (1 comment)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18987188 - Jan 2019 (33 comments)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13762614 - March 2017 (61 comments)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12283614 - Aug 2016 (32 comments)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8681061 - Dec 2014 (23 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine (1989) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660763 - May 2013 (11 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2079473 - Jan 2011 (46 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1205500 - March 2010 (23 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=723361 - July 2009 (10 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=628094 - May 2009 (1 comment)

Richard Feynman and the Connection Machine (by W. Danny Hillis) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=311454 - Sept 2008 (12 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191212 - May 2008 (15 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31834 - July 2007 (5 comments)

Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=185 - Feb 2007 (0 comments, but look at that item ID)
For that kind of money you would think it would come with the damn iceberg.
That user experience seems drastically different from the final product.

Do you think the outer shell was an early version that they kept re-using during development?

Or perhaps it was a technique to control leaking / dissemination of design information?
That's what folks used to say (and some still say) about IDE autocomplete in general. And it is the case that when I type without all that IDE-goodness, I type slower (eg is it `new URL().searchParams.get`? Or `new Url()`? Or `.params.get?), but I don't think it makes my brain "corrode". If I use one of these APIs frequently enough, I will learn it from the autocomplete because of the frequent repetition. If I don't, I don't see the need to memorize it.

This lets me stay focused on the actual problem I'm solving; the higher level problem. My job as programmer is not an autocompleter -- if it was I'd be doing something else.

I think your hypothesis is valid, but when comparing the impact of IDE autocomplete on my experience, it seems unlikely. We'd have to try copilot to be sure though. Note I think the situation is different for beginner developers and professional developers.
Is there any learning resource for Zig that doesn’t assume you already know C? I couldn’t find any.
> No, he's saying we should all stay in the 1990s with FFDH, which, ironically, involves even more magic parameters.

Which magic parameters are you referring to? Like the choice of groups in RFCs 2409 and 3526?
Needs of all. What is an example of a mutually exclusive need?
Then why are Internet ads so terrible? Ever more annoying ways to present ads might make people accidentally click on an ad, but seem like a bad way of getting people to buy the product. Even video ads are generally terrible, many of them fail to even tell me the name of the thing I am supposed to buy before that 'Skip'-timer has run out.

The Internet would offer so many different and better ways to keep consumers informative about new products.
Perhaps homeopathic gemstones.
Probably dried jello, which can be sharp until it touches water.
Amazon’s Worst Human Resources Problem
Story of Mel?
I agree, Golang is a good language for this. Rust, too.

The Python standard library is pretty crufty — lots of stylistically dated code. Same with Perl 5, and I would guess other similar languages but I can't speak from direct experience. I bet that's more a function of their age — back in the 1990s maybe it might have been unreservedly good advice to read those standard libraries.

I've also learned a lot from writing FFI extensions for languages, which for Rust and Go involves a lot of standard library diving but for languages like Python, Perl 5 and Ruby where the core is mostly written in C, it's a different experience than reading the standard library.
Everything that was discovered in math and physics was foreshadowed at the time. Your description means you were being taught correctly by excellent knowledgeable people. If when you moved onto deeper subjects this was no longer the case, it means the learning regime you were undergoing wasn't optimal. This is especially true for pure math. Pure math is an experimental science like any other. It may feel more mystical and interesting when you are learning stuff that seems to exist for no reason, but really you are just missing out.
Maybe not. Perhaps I'm just on here too much.
sounds like they should be treated like mercenaries.
Individually, we must build alternatives and don’t give up and if it works out, don’t sell out.

Look at lichess.org, it’s possible.
How would those compare to using a box fan and square HVAC filter with activated carbon? HVAC filters can be purchased for a lot cheaper than $100.
Ironically, I’m getting an offline message from IA now.

https://twitter.com/aspenmayer/status/1452406960263942156
It really irks me that journalists cannot make the slightest effort using proper units. Here I understand they meant 2Tm³ (terameter³).

Feel free to put in parenthesis the number of British buses or American football pitches, for the older folk from UK and USA if necessary.

But please use units that are universal and scientific!
For anyone that checks the HN comments first, it's about Jennifer Hale, who was recording Mass Effect 3 (female Commander Shepard) at the time of the piece.
The idea is if something sold in America was in any way dangerous, the seller would be sued into oblivion. Not always the case in practice, but that's the heuristic.
Their motives aren't necessarily sinister, but they are pearl-clutching bullshit without which the world would, in general, be a much better place.

Oh no, this noun if used in an entirely different context means something different! Oh my stars! I mean, give me a break. It is in the best case, bending over backward to avoid even the slightest offense or misunderstanding on something so basic it can safely be taken for granted even among non-native - likely even non-fluent - speakers who are much less familiar and comfortable with English idioms. It is in a slightly worse case, virtue signaling exactly as the GP suggests.
This is the typical “just world” rant of the junior to mid-range devs. Did this exact rant back in my day.

I’ve been in those shops that “consider the philosophy, history and discipline of code”. Your counterparts in those organizations? They’re ranting against the waste they see going on.

The reality is more nuanced. If you were handed a multi-thousand developer organization, business goals, and a fixed budget by the BoD via the CEO and CIO, your theories of “how it should be” won’t make it past the first fiscal quarter.

This is the next level awareness of what Brooks meant by “no silver bullet”. He wasn’t just talking about coding tooling, he also meant these kinds of diatribes we all evolve through in our career.

We aren’t paid to only cut code. We’re paid to help deliver an outcome. Outcomes at the business level are not evaluated by the same criteria you personally use, despite what your immediate business liaisons tell you; you need the C-to-upper-management perspective to start to understand the real decision factors. Before you make assumptions about companies not knowing at industry aggregates level how to pay developers, first go manage a multi-hundred to multi-thousand person engineering organization with balance sheet and P/L LOB insight into their real impact as crunched by the finance wonks. Then you’d know the real cost benefit you currently assume the finance people in aggregate don’t know.

We absolutely can and must do better as an industry, and I see us every month making incremental progress (this is much more difficult to see in the first half of your career because you struggle to get a feel for what is and isn’t progress that business cares about). That doesn’t preclude us from obtaining useful outcomes given prevailing conditions (including pay as a very small factor).
During years not much has been done. The problem is that pickpocketing pays off for people that has nothing or very little to loose.
Much of the problem is in the hands of clans of underages that arrived to Spain with nothing.
The law can't do much to them.

After some years, local police started to do more pressure, mostly trying to dissuade or prevent, rather than to catch them after the fact. Eventually they moved somewhere else (our of the city now) and COVID killed tourism that always was the the main source of targets.

I'd say it's much better now.

Unfortunately, it is a topic that gets easily ignited by political parties counter accusations.
I was griping about Java's lack of unsigned types for over 20 years until it dawned on me why mixing signed and unsigned types together in the same language is a bad idea. Consider when one method returns an unsigned type, but another one accepts a signed type. Signed and unsigned types cannot be safely casted to each other without loss of information, and that causes bigger issues.

The only times the lack of unsigned types causes issues is when doing low-level binary encoding, and most programmers steer clear of that anyhow. I think it's a good tradeoff to make things simpler for most, but a bit more difficult for few.
If you've ever tried reading the source for glibc or libstdc++ you know this is terrible advice.
Based on that description was expecting it to be an online third party seller at walmart.com, went and read the article and was surprised to see it made it onto physical store shelves. The quackery sold with a smile in "reputable" stores is insane. (Waves at Whole Foods)