skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everything2 is an interesting (to me) entry in the Web 2.0 landscape and early crowdsourcing. The original implementation of it was in '98 - and its still around. It doesn't quite have the same rate of growth of content as it did back when I was writing - but its still there. Some of the people on there later went on to become professional writers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everything2

> According to E2's "Site Trajectory", traffic has dropped from 9976 new write-ups created in the month of August 2000, down to 93 new write-ups in February 2017.

https://everything2.com/node/superdoc/Site+Trajectory and https://everything2.com/node/superdoc/Site+Trajectory+2

(It looks like its down to a small core of people)

The key is to record it somewhere. Be it Storycorps ( https://www.npr.org/series/4516989/storycorps ) or a second brain ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29188418 ). Spin up a Wordpress blog and write there (aside, one of my projects is digging through the files from a hard drive of a laptop a bit ago where I wrote using Apple's blogging / web hosting software.

Writing without care of who (if anyone) reads it - for the sheer sake of writing - feels like a dying art form at times.
Open Source GIS Fights the Three-Horned Monster (2002)
Well I do use them to "time" purchases through Amazon, not look at other retailers to make my purchase location decision.
Deuterium molecules in superposition act as slits for classic quantum experiment
Sure, skills do apply across frameworks and languages. The hundred stupid things you need to know about any given framework don't, though.

To be clear, I'm not thinking about people who've used lots of languages and tools here. I've done time working for huge corporations for whom software is a cost center, and it's easy to find people in those contexts who are competent with the tools they know but have narrow enough experience that moving to something else is difficult for them.

The "average Joe" programmer's experience is what I'm thinking of here.
“Unsold inventory” would be understood as “items that are leftover and need to be cleared out to make room for new products”. That’s not what BF is. Many items sold for BF/Christmas are new products that have just been released (like stuff from Apple that was just released). I’m also not talking about the products that are specifically made for BF only, which are typically lower quality versions of similar products and are lures just to get people into the store.

Technically, it might be correct to say that anything not yet sold is “unsold inventory”, but that would have the same meaning and simply saying “inventory”, so adding “unsold” gives the additional implication that it’s unsold for a reason (i.e. it’s old stock, etc.)
The 1619 project isnt related to reality. It clearly shouldnt be taught as such
Maybe they go to Berlin for the nightlife
He didn't say "China", though. He said "the CCP". They don't have any claim on those thousands of years.
Steam sales lost all meaning years ago. It happens to everything that transitions from rare to usual
I’ll admit, not being familiar with Bly, your comment makes me want to become more familiar if only to see how such contrasting interpretations could exist. I certainly find your take more appealing by far. But I’m also curious whether I’ll find myself with yet another take.
I was in tech two decades. I went to a trade school and am now a heavy equipment diesel mechanic. It is nice to help real people build real things. Though I could only leave tech to become entry level mechanic because crypto will be paying my retirement.

Though I work hard, I did get lucky. I am thankful and grateful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorse_in_New_Zealand I'd say the 'hedges' are much more dense in NZ :)
This practice is illegal in the US. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-16/chapter-I/subchapter-B...
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> That is just an example of bad exposition in my opinion [and] a perfect example of why arguments like "does this proof make coq happy" totally misses the point..

In theory, some kind of checker could validate the semantics of a paper to just tell you whether the arguments made are complete. Not whether there is a correct formal proof, just pointing out any obscured leaps of faith[0]. A rough analogue to test suite coverage for code (which is also not any sort of guarantee of correctness, just basic reassurance that all (or most of) the code is tested and isn't broken in any obvious way, especially while making changes).

I'm trying to think of an equivalent for prose, and am coming up with examples like detecting conflicting descriptions of locations or named characters, or whether the author lost track of which character said which lines in the dialog.

> It's also not technically "unclear" in any notational sense

Perhaps not necessarily, but unfamiliar/borrowed/idiosyncratic notation is a perfect (and common) place for insufficient exposition to be hiding.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/ApzhVFj
Advertising shaped Thanksgiving’s traditional foods
merkel orchestrated brexit?
I never seen any practical proof of that often repeated claim. Unless you define "proper" in an absurd way that has absence of bugs as the part of its definition, I've seen roughly as many bugs and as much time spent debugging in strongly typed languages as I have in weakly typed ones. Sure, some kinds of bugs go away, but they're replaced with different ones.
Black Friday/Cyber Monday Live Map
That describes me. I described it once as 'highly advanced hunt-and-peck'. I did learn to tough-type in school, but I didn't touch a computer until the following year and simply forgot it all. That was 40+ years ago. I get by well enough.
Again, note the language used. First, it’s a summary of what’s suspected at the time, but with a lot of caveats around what’s uncertain. The statement being made the quoted portion is that it’s likely to have a CFR a lot closer to flu than to MERS or SARS 1. That’s still not inaccurate, what they missed was how infectious it was.

The piece also doesn’t argue against action or vigilance. It highlights the unknowns, risks, and some potential outcomes. As more information came out Fauci and others adjusted their reviews, predictions, and recommendations to suit.

It’s hardly the same thing as the group of people who’ve spent the last two years trying to downplay this virus every chance they got, and refused to learn from getting it wrong. Telling us it wasn’t serious, that it would die out on its own, that we didn’t need interventions like masks and social distancing, and all the rest.
other than Phoenix framework maybe are there any others with as much included as laravel has?

caching, jobs, docker via sail, authentication and authorization, one command to have a full multi team/tenant SaaS app template via jet stream.

even rails doesn't have this, as you need to choose your own implementation for auth and access control, something like sidekick for job queue etc....

plus the ecosystem. I've tried so hard to like other frameworks and some I really do (like remix.run) but the lack of real momentum and community hurts most anything else and just doing everything as serverless micro services isn't always preferred or using micro frameworks.

I'm excited for the new features and with octane you can get more reqs per second than Phoenix framework which should make it easier to scale apps with less resources.
It depends a lot on the content. I feel most of the time, it's done for the wrong content. Something like hotel rooms or purchasing cameras are more suited for pagination. Something like Pinterest is better suited for infinite scrolling.
Systems around us and designed by us tend to have diminishing returns problem. I wonder what's the limiting factor in the architecture of the human brain should we want to scale it further. How much more intelligent can the cortex get without a massive architectural shift?

I like to think that our first intelligent machines will run on some very specialized hardware with, by definition, designed particular architecture. I suppose both will have many different limiting factors to how deeply can a machine reason about itself. That's why I believe there won't be a runaway effect in intelligent modelling/reasoning. It'll be a step function.

Another related issue is that a new architecture which breaks the scalability limits of previous generation will produce new and distinct entities. If intelligence and self-interest often correlate, a machine might be vary of creating a better version of itself lest it be replaced.
Speaking to the 10% everything at covert instruments is on sale substantially.

No affiliation just a fan thats drooling.
> Combining vaccination with natural immunity gives you a “hybrid immunity,” which provides even more protection than vaccination alone

No that's cutting edge science hypothesis. Geez why are people posting that like it's a fact. Most of all this stuff is cutting edge. There's a danger that the vaccine can override natural immunity which is...not ideal
In Australia it's just confusing. Black Friday was named after devastating bush fires in 1938-39 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Friday_bushfires. Any Friday that has bad bushfires on it tends to pick up the name.

Over the last 5 years or so Black Friday sales have become a thing and I always suffer some degree of dissidence at the naming, as for me at least Black Friday has always had a negative connotation.
Time Until the End of the World
Oh wow. 5000 to just 100! Reminds me of that south park episode

"These are genuine faux sapphire earrings.

14-carat gold, 86-carat faux sapphire.

Faux is French.

It's got an X in it, but you don't pronounce it.

How do you like that for prestigious?"
> I guess a lot of people just choose to shut off basic thinking (and in this case don't have an intuitive understanding of conserved quantities).

Or maybe these people just want to be entertained and not waste mental energy on something like a magic trick.
Ok, but please post substantive comments rather than supercilious putdowns. If you know more than others, that's great, but on HN the thing to do with that is to share some of what you know, so the rest of us can learn. Putdowns don't do that—the only thing they really say is how much better you are than someone else, and that is not really information.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
Sincerely, you completely changed the way I look at e.
Interesting that ln(x) does follow such a notational style; to change the base one can either divide by ln(b) or use a separate notation (log vs ln). I also had put a lot of weight into e being transcendental but it seems like as long as x is rational the value will also be transcendental, so not that special (if someone could confirm).
Not a switch, but I had two choices for my first job, and took the lower paying one by 10k that was closer to the field I was interested. Totally worth it, since I keep up with that first industry (computer modeling) as a hobby even though I later left, but pure money-wise it probably set me back a couple years of scaling.
Well php has strong typing built in now and they have been iterating on it every release. It's well ahead of native js. I can't imagine having any real complaints on using 8.x php for a back end these days.
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Sure, if you get caught up in the mania and hype of any particular "sale" and don't price compare then you're bound to get ripped off.

I wouldn't dismiss singles day, though. There were some surprisingly cheap (both in price and quality) items I picked up on singles day.

Got an AirPod clone for something like a dollar last year.

This year I picked up a coffee grinder off the official retailer for Timemore on AliExpress. The official Canadian retailer charges a 100% premium on the product. No thanks, I'll wait for it to come on the slow boat.

I waited for singles day and got it for another $10 off.
Settings icon in upper right has an option for price/TB.

Site creator has contact info in bottom left.
Not switching industries or roles but went from a FAANG to a regular tech company close to my hometown. Took a paycut but I am single, no house, no debt and no kids so it hasn't affected my lifestyle one bit, on the other hand my current job is much less stressful, more vacation time and easy going which has improved my overall quality of life. Would do it again.
You just described every other toaster out there.
Yeah they were able to live without masks for a long time, I was really jealous of them.

But we're at the point now where the zero-covid countries are at a disadvantage because they've had almost no natural exposure so they have to rely entirely on vaccines. The increased travel and the high contagiousness of the new variants now make the zero-covid policy a guarantee for infinite lockdowns. I don't envy then anymore.

Perhaps we could have killed covid like that if we'd all done it like them but that time has passed.

Ps the country is indeed the most beautiful on earth. I hope I get to see it again some day. But I live on the opposite side of the planet between covid and the climate crisis I doubt it'll ever be feasible again.
I'm surprised they didn't mention the controversial Vonnegut advice to never use semicolons (e.g., [1]).

[1] https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/vonnegut...
does rails come with a generator to create a teams based multi tenant SaaS app with authorization and authentication and job queues without extra setup? (ie without decide and sidekick?)...

can rails compete with the performance of octane using swoole with 8k reqs per sec?

rails is the first framework I ever learned in 2012 but I kept jumping back and forth until laravel basically started lapping rails in terms of baked in goodies.
I mentioned what it was worth to expose the folly that it would cost $70 of Ethereum compute power (if it was on-chain) for something worth so little.
I grew up with one of these. Have always been disappointed by other toasters ever since.
I think you (and to be fair, many people) are missing a huge part of why PHP is still popular. Saying Ruby can replace PHP sounds to me like saying that Ruby can replace Excel. It's fundamentally misunderstanding _why_ it's popular in the first place.

I have a HTML page. How do I add a hit counter to it with Ruby?

I can do it right now in PHP with zero dependencies and it'll fit in this comment:

<html><body>
<p>You are visitor number:
<?php
$count = file_get_contents('hit_count.txt');
$count = $count + 1;
file_put_contents('hit_count.txt', $count);
echo $count;
?>
</p>
</body></html>

Is it shit? Yep. Does it (mostly) work? Yep.

When you want to do something, you can just copy and paste a handful of lines of PHP into a file and rename it from .html to .php and it'll basically work anywhere. You don't need to worry about frameworks or anything. Routing is handled by the web server. Hosting is handled by someone else. Deploying is just FTP'ing a .php file off to a server somewhere and then requesting it.

But when you are ready to get into "real" programming, that's all there too. PHP has a true learning _curve_. Every bit of complexity is only a small step from the previous. Getting started does not require a ton of background or knowledge. You can start out copying and pasting some code into the middle of some HTML and a year later end up working within once of the nicer, more comprehensive frameworks managing your dependencies with a relatively decent package manager... and still hosting it all on your $3/mo shared hosting.

If every professional developer stopped using PHP tomorrow, we'd still end up back exactly where we are as a bunch of people found PHP as the most accessible and direct solution to the problem they have.
I'm using the default setting on a Sony a80j. It's rately noticeable so I won't bother playing around with the settings unless it really starts to bother me.
> They don't have to buy TSMC a fab, they simply have to pay (slightly) more than other TSMC customers - and Apple with its uniquely high margins can afford to do just that.

It's not as simple as high margins but controlling most of the stack. If all Apple was doing was charging more, we'd see comparable quality devices at lower cost but we don't and it's not uncommon for e.g. a Samsung flagship to cost more despite being slower (or narrowly beating the previous generation, depending on launch timing). What we're seeing instead is that Apple has both consistent goals on their execution (e.g. not Google and Qualcomm working at cross-purposes which make sense for their individual businesses) and captures more of the revenue.

That's a lot harder to catch up with and gives Apple consistent enough revenue that they can do things like effectively floating TSMC a great loan or pay more per unit since they don't need to justify it based on the profits from a single layer. Dell can't pay for their processor R&D using the money you spend on Spotify or Steam.
> There is a reason why wall-power is included for Intel and M1 reviews but very rarely for AMD, including in AnandTech's reporting,

So now you're casting aspersions, too? The AnandTech article you've referred to numerous times explains exactly why wall power measurements were not included for the AMD chip, and the reason is not what you're trying to insinuate.

As for your point about charger efficiency: there's more than one step of voltage conversion to get from AC wall power to the CPU die. The losses at each step add up.
I think most people outside php have no idea what Laravel is, while anyone working in php is using Laravel so basically our viewpoint is Laravel = php. I don't know what it is about the normal personality that anyone using something you don't understand just be "doing it wrong"
Why is Scala not a realistic alternative to JS? It has perfect JS interop.

If TS is an alternative to JS Scala is also. Hard to thing of an argument that doesn't go the same about both languages.

The only real issue is market reach at this point in time.
Amen. Useful tool _in which one might_ implement idempotent patterns, yeah.
Hopefully Fedora gets a lot of extra eyes and brains because of this. Cool, it's been my desktop OS for a long time.
Not to mention involving older people in active duties is great for their mental health.
Links for November
So, using aluminium as body material is one of the factors why Macbooks are so slim? Why can't the bulkier laptops use the same? Price?
Wondered the same. Very confusing if they are unrelated.
> If you're gonna be calling a lot of external programs and interacting with files a lot, non-shell scripting languages tend to feel pretty clunky.

Perl's actually pretty good here; I'm pretty new to it, but it's generally what I reach for when I feel like a bash script has gotten just a bit too complicated.
Many textbooks have pages that explain the mathematical notation used. Here's an example from a linear algebra textbook: http://linear.ups.edu/html/notation.html

But it doesn't make sense to put lists of notation everywhere mathematical notation is used like in a journal or because the audience is already expected to know it. If the author does something weird or non-standard it's typically explained, sometimes it's even explained if it's pretty standard.

Different branches of math, physics, statistics,etc. will redefine the same symbols to mean different things but that's not much different from programming languages. & in C++ has a different meaning than & in R. Like the first step of understanding someone else's code is to know what language your looking at it's important to understand the context of what you're looking at. Look at previous cites, relevant textbooks, ask around, reread the paper again. I've read some papers a dozen times easy before it clicked.
Looking at the site, it looks like it's intended for packing an application into a single file, much like TCL could do. There's been other things to do the same as well. It virtualized the filesystem (and registry?), but it didn't claim to do anything to other API calls.

Reading the title I thought it would be running things in a disposable VM… alas, it doesn't look like this is it.
After reading all 4 parts (up to part IV), this is pretty underwhelming.

The author makes a lot of noise about reinventing OS and mentions "heresy" a lot, but his main idea is a non-preemptable thread which runs an event loop. You know, like Erlang's BEAM; or running one boost::asio event loop per core; or Windows 3.11; or, going back to embedded examples, using nesC/TinyOS.

Additionally, there are also a lot of random ideas which have no explanation and have obvious known problems that need to be addressed: "vast majority" of processes is shared-nothing; non-stop record/replay debugging on every API call; same kernel API for devices with 32 KB and 32 GB of RAM; "API groups" which are replacing libraries; optional preemption. One can certainly make them work, but this is non-trivial, and author does not provide any answers (actually he just does not mention possible problems at all)

I feel that the author maybe had some ideas, but run out of steam? Or maybe the comments caused him to re-think the his ideas? Either way, the last post was in 2019, so I guess we will never know.

I am surprised ithare.com would publish such incomplete / partially incorrect series.
> Or maybe these people just want to be entertained and not waste mental energy on something like a magic trick.

Yes, presumably that's why they choose to shut off basic thinking
> 4.1 Because of quality of life. Is New Zeland experiencing a sudden influx from non high ranking people as well?

I doubt it because immigration is extremely tough there. You either have to be under 35 with desirable qualifications or be some VIP at a major corp. Otherwise you can forget about it.