skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most people that complain about YAML are like a person complaining that tennis shoes are terrible because when you try to rock climb in them, they don't have traction and you slip and fall. Tennis shoes are garbage! ..... Or maybe tennis shoes are good for what they were designed for, and you need a different kind of shoe for rock climbing.

YAML is a human-readable data-serialization language. Note the word readable, and that it's for data serialization. It's not intended to be human-writeable. It's not intended to configure an application (unless that configuration is the result of serializing the data object created after someone configures the app).

Since programmers don't really understand the different types/classes of file formats and what they're for, they choose the wrong formats for the wrong tasks. And then the people who are forced into using those formats for those programs find it's highly problematic - but they get pissed off at the formats and not the programmer!

I'm perfectly happy for people to create new data serialization formats, new configuration formats, new markup formats. But please avoid the trap of thinking "this format or that format sucks". None of them suck for what they were created for, when used correctly. YAML, for example, has huge advantages over most common data serialization formats. But those advantages fly out the window as soon as humans start writing YAML by hand, and then bolting on weird custom logic, as if this data serialization format were a higher-level language.
‘Destiny convergence’ heh. Can you not bring the cost down to $50/mo until you reach product market fit?
And how is any of that at odds with what I said?
Do you have links that show the typical pay for those jobs?
There’s properties files too, but TOML is my “format of choice” as well for a bunch of use-cases where human readability is important.

More people should give it a try. Very reminiscent of old Windows INI files and Java properties.
One might think it does. More than often experienced that situation where talking with some friend about a topic will be the first suggestion match in google when doing a search for knowledge gaining.
Or, some apps react to special frequencies during advertisements in tv.
Moreover, YouTube videos get analyzed for Keywords. Try to find that guy who did an experiment, recorded some video where he's just holding signs with written comments on them. 2 Days later he get advertising for a keyword he had written on one of the signs displayed - strange.

Very strange. OF COURSE they're listening and watching.

But it also could just a big misunderstanding and just pure statistics and the fact that within all the distributed information on a "map", there might be local densities which not only could be mapped to certain parameters/features like device/IDs/accounts/time/user history, but also to bordered locations with all the individuals within pooled together. Imo, The possibility is pretty high that at the same time googleing individuals will google something which can be described as location and time aware induced googleing.
DRAM is accessed in rows of maybe 4096 bytes or so, the size of the sense amplifiers.

Also known as a bank. The transfer itself is 64 bytes at a time (burst length 8 for DDR4 x 64 bit channel). But internally, the RAS (row address strobe) is the access of note.
Are you arguing "braces are easier to get right than indentation" or is this a point specific to YAML's rules? Because I'm not defending the latter but I find it hard to understand I would need to argue against the former.
Perhaps the fence is part of the reason it is so expensive in the first place?

Am I supposed to feel bad for poor people who cannot live in Boulder, so they have to live 20 minutes away?
It's not just about privacy, it's also about durability and repairability.
As a fun overview of the problem we're discussing, here's a rough list of the various mentioned languages in this comment section:

- YAML
- JSON
- JSONC
- XML
- TOML
- INI
- CSV
- NestedText
- Starlark
- Python
- Dhall
- Cue
- Jsonnet
- DADL
- EDN
- HCL
I couldn’t disagree more. I was clear about my level of epistemic uncertainty in my OP. And there is a good discussion going on here.
Formless vr is coming to takeover. The environmental savings will be huge.
No, that's how germany and the eu works, work in the eu as privacy protection officer after that change to google.

https://www.businessinsider.com/google-job-hires-raise-conce...
Names are NOT just names, unless you believe that all of science should involve rote memorization of arbitrary labels.

Calcite is made of calcium. Magnetite is magnetic. Andesite's type locality is The Andes. Azurite is blue (azure).

Sure, there's lots of minerals, and the damage is already done in that there's a long list of minerals honoring people: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minerals_named_after_p...

But this mineral is very special (which is why you're reading an article about it). Couldn't they have thought of some name, even Latin, having to do with the fact that it's the first known mineral from the lower mantle? From the fact that it was trapped in a diamond? That it lasted one brief second? A prefix added to "perovskite" since it's simply another form of that mineral? Or at least if naming it after a person, how about the guy who discovered it given what a cool discovery story this is.

Maybe Ho-Kwang "Dave" Mao deserves honor; give the guy an award. But as far as I can tell from the article, he has nothing to do with this mineral.
The problem is a certain % of HN readers and so on will but those, even pay a premium.

But the rest of the population just wants smart appliances and Nest or other smart thermostats, Ring/other key hole cameras, Alexa/other smart devices and Facebook/Instagram/TikTok/…

So, unfortunately it’s not going to be a very successful business because the dumb masses have been brainwashed into accepting these smart devices.

I think Framework would be a good test. If they are successful it may imply that there is a large enough market, otherwise all bets are off.
The bubble we (hn) live in, is turning against fb/google/evil corp for various reasons, but the truth is, like any corp they will have ups and downs, if this meta shit pays out (fortnite skins for 2 billion people is basically infinite money) they will just buy their way out. Or they will buy the devs in another way, like apple is buying them indirectly for 30% commission on their apps.

Worse case, you get survivor bias of people without moral compass, as anyone who cares leaves. Let's see how the social dilemma will play out, if the devs are actually malicious.

(edit: grammar)
Tell me you haven't spent much time in California talking to Californians without telling me you haven't spent much time in California talking to Californians

North Korea, lol. Excuse me as I go get some $0.50 mouth orgasm street tacos.
Well for one thing the first is not a great business model compared to the second. (And I suspect that's the primary consideration)

But, you probably mean from a user's privacy perspective- and then I'd still say the answer is yes. The companies buying ad exposure in the second can't easily re-sell your data to another third party, and they can be constrained from what they learn about you. The first example basically means you have to trust the whole world and the second example means you have to trust the primary data holder (a lot).
Nobody here is hanging you out to dry, it sounds like you're doing exactly what these corporations want you to do, though: embody a persecution complex whenever someone levels a perfectly legitimate complaint about their product. Companies like Tesla and Apple have this down to a science, whenever someone tries to talk about how their business practices are kinda scummy iPhone users and Tesla owners feel the immediate urge to take the bullet. That's not what this is about. The end goal is to undo the damage capitalism did to our minds. It should feel natural to criticize the companies that impact our daily lives, since we interact with them the most. Anything else is a reality distortion field that's gone too far, and I won't criticize anyone for being vulnerable to marketing: that's the whole point of modern advertising anyways.
That game and all its ports have a troubled development history with incredible time-crunch and are absolutely riddled with bugs.

I can recommend you to watch a commentated speedrun at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzgqiQ5VGLI , you could get a rundown of some of the things that are wrong with the PC port. It's a mess of a game.
From the top of my head:

* Turning down the voice volume leads to an 8 minute time save because the game doesn't wait for these lines to be completed anymore either.
* The game runs about 30% faster on PC than other platforms
* The buttons, inputs, etc. in the PC pre-game settings screen are completely non-functional
* The mouse sensitivity is so bad that you literally need to increase your mouse speed 20-fold before you get a reasonable result.
* All weapon models have lost their textures and are completely white
* You can just wiggle through most walls
* When you're on the main menu you'll see the city scrolling by in the background. You'll also hear random exclamations like "OH SHIT!" and "Oof!". That's because the city scrolling by is actually your character glued onto a car driving through the city, of which your character is not exactly aware so he keeps freaking out.
You're confusing "great" with "good". They are not the same.

Genghis Khan was a great man. You cannot unify a nomadic people and conquer a shitload of Asia and not be a great man. Given that under his leadership, the Mongols literally reduced the carbon footprint of the whole planet based upon the amount of people they killed, you could easily claim he was not a "good" man.
In the accident two children were killed by a helicopter due to explosives firing too early: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight_Zone_accident

I don’t think they „chose“ to be in a risky business..
Do you think that Ford only hires people that have only bought Ford all their lives? They check your car on the way to the interview and if it's not Ford you're automatically DQ'd?

How would that work being a new hire at Tesla considering that they probably pay a lot of folks less than is required to own one?

Cars, appliances, housing, fuel & energy, food, etc. Huge, huge swaths of the economy don't require brand loyalty because it's not reasonable to expect.
eff it, let’s use XML…
Not everyone who uses Twitter uses it to connect to extreme political personalities. Plenty use it to keep connected to smart people in tech and elsewhere.
If you are in the know and are aware that dash to panel, dash to dock, and whichever system tray extension is the one maintained by the Ubuntu developers are the ones you want. Otherwise you get one of the million broken extensions.

And this is after figuring out how to install a browser extension (from the browser extension store) and the "connector" library from your package manager, to be able to install shell extensions from the browser. I wouldn't call it intuitive at all.

And the re-enabling of minimise buttons is in gnome-tweaks, which you have to install separately, and which I'm used to, but is a bit weird to put such crucial functionality in a separate settings app.

Good thing Ubuntu sets these things up by default for their users.
It's fun you ask, because for the first time in many years we have seen quite a interest in the spot price, because it has reached the record high of 0.35usd/kWh (but mostly it stays around 0.12usd/kWh). This has been a record dry automn, combined with very high prices in the UK and Europe (and we export/import power, which affects prices here). You can get all other kind of pricing schemes as well, but as with insurance in general, on average you are going to be best off with spot price if you can stomach the ups and downs.
JSON with comments would be ideal.
Hmm, I guess I don't understand why people who don't park should pay for parking?

Sure, charging an entry fee might make sense if people were hanging out in say a cafe, without buying anything, it was really full and the rent was really high. I've heard that such places exist.

Over here, paying for parking has gotten really easy in the last five years, I think two apps, both work great: Easypark for streets and parking lots, and Moovit for malls. Moovit works automatically with license plate cameras in mall garages and charges you those minimal amounts. Moovit is a completely automatic thing, once you've installed the app, added your credit card and license plate, you never have to touch it again.
> that show it's more readable?

I'm not clear exactly what the "it" here refers to but as I mentioned in other comments it's fairly self-evident that indentation is easier to visually parse than braces. A simple thought experiment - would you find it easier to skim read code where the indentation was consistent with the bracing or where it was inconsistent? Your brain registers the indentation first and you only resort to counting braces if there's a reason to doubt the former.
The marine fuel used to transport 60%+ more stuff, it increases the carbon cost in a way that’s hugely inefficient. I worked on a project for an unnamed Australian mining company trying to optimise the shipping routes and I just see this sort of thing as profoundly wasteful.
When YAML came out there was no large JSON usage to migrate from, the incumbent in configuration was "human readable serialization" was XML.
Not all of us have a garage or a car for that matter (nor a place to put a large battery).
Not to be overly dramatic, but SomethingAwful may have saved my life. I remember feeling rotten back in 2012 and doing a search and up popped a SA thread on keto. Probably one of the earliest threads on the new 'miracle' diet and lifestyle. I read through the thread recognized a bunch of truths and went low carb immediately. Sad to hear he's gone in such a grisly way.
Taproot, Bitcoin’s Long-Anticipated Upgrade, Has Activated
Sorry to hear that but I think on some level it is personal. I have never experienced any of what you're talking about, everyone I've talked to has been pretty respectful and open to collaboration. It's a large project so experiences may differ, we may not have ever interacted with the same people, or you may have caught them on a bad day, etc.

On those individual things, you can certainly make apps outside flatpak although on a technical level I think that flatpak (or a similar packaging mechanism) is going to be the best option for a great number of apps, and I would expect that to become the focus for many app developers just because it's a lot easier and saves time. I think that comment about Adwaita is pretty inflammatory and may be seen as being against the code of conduct, not sure, but it certainly isn't my view and I doubt it is the view of the majority of contributors.

"neglecting basic functionality like thumbnails in the filepicker for almost two decades, even with literally hundreds of pull requests with suggested fixes."

I mentioned this elsewhere but I'm very disappointed to see this issue get continuously brought up, I don't think there is much we can say that is productive at this point. I've never seen a pull request from this that was actually finished to completion. Is there someone in particular you're waiting for to approve this? If so, can you think of something that could help them out? Or do you think they don't want help at all? Because from my perspective, that is not the case.

Edit: Also, hundreds of pull requests to implement thumbnails? Is that an exaggeration? I'd like to see a list of all of those if possible.

Keep in mind, it's not unusual for a large patch to go through many revisions before finally making it in. Take a look at the Linux kernel for another example, you don't have to look far to see many patches that take a long time to go through review or just never make it in because of various reasons. I don't think you are being fair by painting this as a GNOME behavior, it is simply reality on large projects with a lot of complexity and moving parts. It sounds like you are also saying systemd suffers from the same issues (it probably does) but unfortunately it seems that is another area where it's a complex problem space, so that's the trade-off that you make.
> It's the same thing without telemetry
It's not. The vscode team purposefully breaks services and plugins that microsoft considers "strategic".
For users of the NPM ecosystem this must be as exciting as this bus voyage: https://youtu.be/2WP5HfRt2Us
There's a lot of JSON tooling, and it's liable to interact badly with this. For example, a formatter might re-order the fields of a dict, moving "#comment-1" away from "version". Or the software that this JSON is for might error upon receiving unexpected keys (which is actually useful behavior, as that would catch a typo in an optional field).

Also, this doesn't let you put comments at the top of the file, or before a list item, or at the end of a line.

If you're going to change your JSON tooling to handle comments of some kind, you might as well go all the way to JSONC.
>Except UART of course, that can stay forever.

Same for 3.5mm TRS for analog connections :D
You got me if I can make fresh rice for one person.
I believe some zoos are vaccinating their animals. This article doesn't mention whether these animals were vaccinated or not?
Queue theory is almost a distraction because it overcomplicates the situation. The underlying insight is that rates matter. If a system can handle 100 events a second, then 99 events per second everything is fine and 101 events per second the system is down. There is a threshold where everything falls apart.

Queue theory encourages people to think in terms of flow rates and has the technically correct de-rates to nominal capacity to account for variance. But normally that is overkill except in highly engineered systems.

The battle in an organisation is convincing people to look at flows at all. In my experience people love metrics that track stock (we have X widgets or can handle Y orders) and not flows (we built A widgets and sold B widgets). Anyone who has training in queue theory knows when it is appropriate to look at flows rather than stocks and that is where the value is. The formulas and variances tend to just scare people away from monitoring flows because they don't understand what is happening.
I thought teachers spent much of the summer break maintaining certifications and incorporating new school regulations into their lesson plans for the next year. I don’t think it’s a 3 month break for them
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Not a problem with drivers per se, but Bluetooth is totally unavailable on Server SKUs, outside installing a proprietary Bluetooth stack outside the windows one.

Another issue I've run into was Server 2016 not having trackpad drivers for a Dell laptop's I2C bus/trackpad.
Future of Ruby – AST Tooling
> USA seems addicted to cheap fuel.

Cheap fuel means cheap transportation, which means cheaper goods and greater purchase power across the entire economy. This is especially the case in countries like the USA where population density is so low. In the EU we can accomplish corresponding purchase power with more expensive fuel prices because of population density (more than 3x more people per km than the US).

I don't think it is at all reasonable for the USA to just give up on cheap fuel because our situation can allow for more expensive fuel.
I use iOS shortcuts to add custom things to my share menu. For example, I have one to search meta.org, one to create a to do, etc. The cool thing is that it even works on selected text.

I couldn't check to see the feasibility of doing the same with tinygem because the registration page is broken.
On multiple occasions in my life I've needed to order extra pages for my passport because it was full of stamps. I've been to every continent except for Antarctica and 50 plus countries and have literally never had a negative interaction because of my nationality.

Maybe you need to travel more? You hear "Americans are hated" by.... Americans mostly. And, I would guess, Americans of a certain political bent that say it more as a badge of their identity rather than it being an honest belief in the truth(literally "America's #1!!!", but for liberals). It's a grade school level understanding of the world(as is "America #1") and I find it a fair indicator of stereotype-oriented thought patterns when I hear it.
Quite, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSZMtSPX3iE
> Why do you feel entitled to live at any particular location (that was not actually inherited)?

For me, it's less about my own life, and more about how terrible the world is when people get pushed out of their homes.

Most people need stability to have a good life. They do better when they understand their neighborhood. Their kids do better when they can go to the same school system until they are 18. Plus, the employment market is really uneven, so being booted out of a location with good jobs can be a disaster for a family. On top of this, moving is costly by itself, so the cost of moving every year is another tax on those who are struggling.

The argument of "you shouldn't feel entitled to this" just sucks. A better lens is "Do our housing policies help or hurt leading a good life." We're not talking about who deserves the latest fancy SUV, but about whether our housing situation screws up many people's lives.
I just figured that T1000 would never say “get out of the way!” instead of just shooting him.
That argument doesn't make sense. The car drivers choose themselves to drive to this particular store where you have to pay a premium for the store's location. If they feel punished by having to pay more for a centrally located store even though they have a car and could drive to a less centrally located store, then by all means, they should do that.

It's somewhat amazing how entitled many car drivers feel to be able to use up space and not having to pay rent for it.
I think you have not looked at all the of EV vehicles currently being built and how much of a change those vehicles are going to have on the power grid
1. a large portion of the batteries in those vehicles are going to find 2nd lives as stationary battery storage.
2. The vehicles themselves are also storage.
“ Davemaoite is thought to make up about 5 per cent of Earth’s lower mantle and is important because it is theorised that the mineral can also host radioactive elements like uranium, thorium and potassium-40 that heat Earth as they decay. “Without these radioactive elements, the Earth would have cooled by now,” says David Phillips at the University of Melbourne in Australia.”

Once our Earth’s radioactive battery fully discharges, the sun will blow away our atmosphere and we will become a desert of no life (if the expanding sun doesn’t kill everything first).

Fun to think of earth as a spaceship in a holding pattern around the sun…
I disagree. TOML is terrible at handling nested data.

Check this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17523194

I don't see Kubernetes switching to TOML anytime soon!
A better analogy would be if you refused to even go to fords website, or if during a company event, you refused to even step foot in a ford car that drove you somewhere.
#NoAds needs to start trending.
TOML is pretty good but it gets too verbose when you add bunch of arrays.

All we need is to revise official JSON standard(ECMA 404) to include comments.
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