skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
agree it's false that it's never been easier, and like to add a few small datapoints.

20 or so years ago you had microsocft frontpage - anyone could build a site with little learning. heck microsoft word could spit out the doc as html I dunno how long ago.

some 15 years ago or so, I ran into a 'junk hauler' I found via google, asked who did his site, he said he did. I was like wow you were #1 in google organic, that's amazing - he said he opened microsoft publisher, put in the text, added a picture of his truck and clicked publish.

A lot has changed since then of course - google demands responsive layouts to rank well, and most people use a phone to surf.. which for a while made frameworks the magic since css grid was not baked into word/publisher/ie...

anyhow as far as 'easy' the are many other easier tools to use than tailwinds to make a site, and have been for more than a decade.

Now that browsers can auto fit via flex and grid - tailwind and similar are the bloat, not the easy-button.
Congrats on the persistence! The lesson: things take time.

Took me about a decade. I also tried a note-taking app (every new developer's rite of passage it seems), an event guide, digital magazine, and an assortment of other projects whose domain names no longer resolve.

Suck as it may, each failure is a lesson in what not to do. If you find yourself back at square one and still have the drive to keep trying then it's only a matter of time before you create enough value to open wallets.
Mathematicians Cracked the Zodiac Killer’s Cipher
The 100-dimensional political model
https://youtu.be/UuopBeaUN24

(Satire... I think)
You did and then you editorialized a very ignorant interpretation of it.
It is an emergent phenomena of imperfect replication
Security researcher earns plaudits after discovering Yandex SSRF flaw
Sure, the feature existed in GTK but what I mean there is that GNOME 2 apps didn't use that. They never painted their own CSD. Sure some apps did for splash screens but not for ordinary app windows. Then when GNOME 3 happened they all redesigned their apps to only use CSD. They didn't implement SSD in Wayland because it wasn't part of the design and by then all the GNOME 2 apps were already gone anyway. That API is even still present in GTK4, the reason you saw a change is because the apps (the callers of the API) changed how they use it.
The planet hasn't dealt with the problem. This is good news at the first order, but it's clear that this is one more way that human activity may be dramatically impacting ecosystems. No one knows how this might affect food chains or chemical conditions. Organisms higher up in the food web are unlikely to evolve at the same pace and we could lose a lot of biodiversity and complexity that took dozens of millions of years to emerge.
There are a number of those. I use

http://detectportal.firefox.com/
> I didn't say there was no backdoor.

You didn't need to and given that was already avoided here; it now has been admitted. Thus, it is by definition a 'backdoor' then especially a directly 'remote' one. It doesn't matter who it is, we just know that Tesla and many others have this ability directly; no locksmith needed or whatever.

So the future is connected cars where not even you can fully control your own car and it is still 'owned' and can be externally controlled in the hands of the manufacturer, just like our phones. Since they are already giving out OTA updates to it.

Dreadful.
Yep. Most bottles are clear and that's what the system is set up to recycle.

We still recycle green and brown glass ... it's just less efficient and productive. I'm pretty sure it's a cost to the system as well.
Nuke is 'reliable' in a much more important way - the plant outages are scheduled and the generation is scheduled. You can (and do) bet the health of the grid on nuke having the output you plan when you plan for it to be there. This is referred to in generation industry jargon as 'dispatchable' power. This makes a modern zero-sum storageless grid work. Solar is non-dispatchable. You can estimate what power output will be available, you can over-provision generation and store it in expensive batteries, but you simply can not rely on it being there and expect the grid to stay online.

It turns out that regular plant maintenance outages aren't particularly important compared to not being able to properly plan generation.
Excited about Caido! Been waiting on the beta list for a while!
I will second the question, I kind of tried Closure few times and never stuck with it. Now for fun, Rails and Elixir for sure, but would love to hear from you if you have a moment, how to go about it and have fun with Closure.

Thanks!
Svelte + Meteor. You can quickly get something into the hands of users without reinventing the wheel and you write a lot less code overall.
Perhaps it can.

Put simply, (maybe) life that does not evolve gets out competed and dies out.

I actually think that's the logical conclusion.
I'm not sure what that engineer's reason specifically was, but I'll chock it up to laziness.

The CMOS batteries, themselves, have a shelf life and for whatever reason, we probably had none of the specific size required on hand. Being that the device was on battery backup in a rack, it probably led to the engineer thinking "it'll never be rebooted, a label will do"
This is good advice but not really relevant to the question.

Keeping up with the Joneses usually refers to more superficial "keeping up appearances", usually in a consumer fashion. Your neighbor buys a new car so you buy a new truck. Your friend buys a new bigscreen tv so you buy a bigger one. It's lifestyle as competition.

It doesn't usually refer to keeping up your skills or career.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keeping_up_with_the_Joneses
Me too. Hopefully someone working for the company sees this and has some sway to remove the requirement.
The Fascinating Difference Between the Visions of Kickstarter and Gamefound
Anything in sustainability.

Climate change and related issues are driving big changes that large corporates are already having to address regardless of impending legislation.

Energy efficiency, waste management, sustainable computing, carbon markets, regulatory compliance and reporting (ISO50001), smart grids, EV logistics... there are so many areas.

Anything that you choose to focus on next year will be immensely valuable and important when the demand suddenly picks up before the end of the decade. You can build up on your existing technical foundations.
Specially when the "old things" are over-represented by things like C/C++/Shell, Unix and not Pascal/ADA, HyperCard/DBase/FoxPro (your "low-code" from the past!), Amiga, BeOS, etc

A LOT of the old things were ahead of the time and forgotten. Also, a lot are still in their infancy (I think RDBMs are still too immature!).

Is likely that marrying that old things with (1, at most 2) new things is the way to go.
It seems like there's a dead-simple solution to simjacking that I'm not sure why we haven't done: just pass a law that to get a replacement SIM for an existing phone number, you have to show up at one of the carrier's locations in person so they can verify your identity, instead of allowing it to be requested over the phone or online. Legitimate customers will probably want to do it this way anyway, since then they'll get to use their new phone immediately instead of having to wait for the SIM in the mail.
One time someone did this in a Costco parking lot from 2 rows away from me and my parked car. It pulled out of its spot 3 spaces away from my car, started doing a u-turn that would've had it hit my car in order to drive through the row of parking spots. I was standing in front of my car wondering where the eff the driver was (obviously it was smart summon but in the heat of the moment...). Lots of families go to Costco, I could've easily had a small child with me next to my car and we would've been about 8 or so feet from being hit by a car that apparently had no idea I was there.
Millennial millionaires plan to add more crypto in 2022
This model (and every other that I've seen, though, admittedly it's been a while since I've looked at a typical rack mount server) had an easily removed battery.
> Without competition from free-but-funded-with-$billions ad-supported services, most of the valuable stuff would probably be replaced by volunteer and non-profit efforts.

It wouldn't just be 'non profit', it would be 'considerable loss'. You can't provide a service like YouTube or Google without incurring enormous expense, even if you're only counting the infrastructure costs.

> It'd work out fine.

You have no idea whether it would work out fine. Neither do I. I'm intensely sceptical of anyone who issues hand-waving proclamations about how a dramatic change would affect an almost indescribably complex system.

You may have your own wishes and preferences, but it's not a good idea to let those invade the rational, evaluative part of your mind.

> Most of the rest isn't valuable.

Anything that's used by someone is valuable to someone. I don't like paella, but I don't propose to eradicate all paella restaurants for that reason. Again, this feels like a hand-wavey and not very wise answer to dismiss problems with your idea.
No, it's most definitely not the best example of a modern web app.

But everyone reading this knows it, and it does serve as proof that you can build a successful website with extremely little design & features. Therefore it seemed a good choice to illustrate my point.
Well, brown bottles also make it difficult to see if, for instance, those pickles have "passed". Both at the store level and for the consumer.
Can you elaborate more on this? I think we are getting blocked :|
Could you say more about what/how you're using them? Like, frameworks, libs, practices (testing), editor, repls, etc.
Truebill (YC W16) acquired by Rocket Companies in nearly $1.3B deal
I hear a lot of good things about blender, but I use Kdenlive.
The word "evolution" describes a process we've observed in systems with heritable characteristics and environmental pressures that more or less randomly select for or against those characteristics. It doesn't need a prime mover per se, because it's a statistical phenomenon.
In the US a financed car is “owned” by the bank until fully paid off - which most of the time is a subsidiary of the manufacturer.

A lot of Teslas are also just leased.
You would imagine sand was abundant, but: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191108-why-the-world-is...

Also, glass can be recycled near infinitely and 1 ton of glass created from recycled glass requires 30% less energy than from raw materials: https://www.palpa.fi/juomapakkausten-kierratys/eri-juomapakk...

Also, in another world:

- 87% of recyclable glass bottles are recycled https://www.palpa.fi/juomapakkausten-kierratys/eri-juomapakk...

- 97% of reusable glass bottles are returned for reuse https://www.palpa.fi/juomapakkausten-kierratys/eri-juomapakk...

- Reusable glass bottles are reused on AVERAGE 33 times https://www.ekopullo.fi/fi/
Julia Computing's co-founder involved in government mass surveillance project
While I agree with you 100%. High level self driving is impossible on a technical level too imo, there's too many aspects of human perception, processing, and intuition that aren't possible to emulate or account for in, what machine learning really boils down to, a statistical model. There will always be novel situations that you can't simply math your way out of that a human could navigate effortlessly.
I really enjoy Rails and Golang.

I feel like I can use those and hit the ground running on my ideas immediately.

I also know Python and JavaScript quite well, but I don't look forward to using those tools and I feel like I spend too much time in the initial phase, instead of getting right into implementing ideas.
There was an app called GymPact that charged you (an amount you determined) if you didn’t go to the gym as you agreed - I think it went as rewards to the people who did show
The only people complaining are rich privileged people who get into top colleges because of daddy and mommy. Source: know a bunch of such people.

Good thing about wealth generation is ultimately these low level buffoons get weeded out, they will never break past the low millions. They never knew real hardship so they can only go so far.
I've stopped reading several online publications, and using several service providers because they either try to dark-pattern-bully me into consenting, or just can't seem to "remember" my choices.

Every time I see one of the GDPR popups it incentivizes me to think "do I really need to access this content?" - and more and more often I just think "no" and delete the bookmark or make a mental note that "this website isn't worth the click".
Background: I'm a qualified accountant, and have taught courses on accounting and finance.

My thoughts on OP:

I read through the first two parts of the first course on this site:

- Part 1 Introduction to Accounting Basics, A Story for Relating to Accounting Basics

- Part 2 Income Statement

Based on what I read, I could not recommend this. You could get to the end of the 'income statement' part, without encountering any definition of 'profit', which is the very thing that the income statement is meant to show.

If you want a solid introduction to accounting, I'd recommend Frank Wood's book "Business Accounting 1". You don't need the latest (15th edition). The principles haven't changed. I used the 10th edition: Business Accounting Volume 1 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0273681494/
If you're trying to figure out CORS errors, it means you're either loading fonts or making XMLHttpRequests across domains. Neither of those were available in the 90s era OP is rhapsodizing about. You don't have to use the additional features/complexity of the past 15–20 years… but if you do, it's not surprising that things get a little more complex!
Yeah I think our level of intelligence is probably pretty rare. I mean we have a G type star which are not that plentiful in the cosmos. We have a large moon that causes tidal forces on earth and mixes things up. We apparently have a nice selection of elements in our solar system. The problem is that humans took a very long time to evolve. Now we only have .8 billion years to enjoy things before the sun cooks the planet.
>We're talking about a marginal effect on at best a marginal proportion of the population.

You have no evidence for this statement because it is not being tested. When they test patients with severe covid they find a high level of zinc deficiency.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482607/

"The study data clearly show that a significant number of COVID-19 patients were zinc deficient. These zinc deficient patients developed more complications, and the deficiency was associated with a prolonged hospital stay and increased mortality."

I do not see how you could deny the importance of that. Does that sound marginal? So why are they not testing EVERY every COVID patient for a zinc deficiency?

>but if you're worried about your Zinc levels can't you just talk to your doctor?

1) You have to KNOW to ask and doctors SHOULD know this but they do not.
2) Doctors here will say it is useless even when you are chronically ill.
3) Most health insurance companies in the US will not reimburse for the test if they cannot give a medical reason.
4) If Fauci came out and said all doctors should test their patients for nutritional deficiencies Doctors it would help. But he never talks about it.

So no, it is not easy.
Plasma converting/gasification doesn't have the "fast process" problem. (Of course it has its own challenges to solve.)
> Then I guess the related question is: is this safe to use with Python implementations other than the main one (CPython)?

Absolutely not.

> For example, PyPy or Nuitka, neither of which use byte code (or at least I don't think so)?

pypy absolutely uses bytecode. Though not necessarily cpython's bytecode (although I'd expect they have at least a bridge for cpython compatibility).

Jitting straight from the source is pretty rare and tends to be avoided: it means either you don't have a baseline interpreter, or that you're repeating the work of the interpreter in your JIT, or possibly that you're interpreting and jitting from the AST.

The former is what Chrome did at the start, it had a baseline compiler and an optimising compiler, which was pretty weird. After a while a baseline interpreter (ignition) was introduced, and the bytecode it generated got fed into the optimising compiler. Its timeline was a bit odd because rather than building a bytecode interpreter then building a jit for that bytecode they actually started with a bytecode-based JIT (turbofan) then figured they could interpret the bytecode directly instead of having to deal with (and patch) code from the baseline compiler, so the interpreter (ignition) grew from the effort of building a new compiler, rather than the compiler being built for the interpreter.

As for AST interpretation I know it's pretty common for teaching / learning but I don't know if there's any system actually doing it for real "in production", the amount of pointer chasing seems like it'd be ridiculously inefficient.
Putin is a corrupt criminal and Russians deserve better but he was not wrong when he told the EU that they were dumb.

Closing down coal and nuclear plants without having an alternative that doesn't involve gas (laughs in Gazprom) and signing up to climate change treaties without knowing how to achieve those goals... It looks good on camera we'll deal with the issues later!

But at least Europe shares this misery with China who find themselves in the same predicament.
I wonder if, instead of just incremental code reviews, there would also be a way to get a 3rd party review our huge codebase and flag issues (architectural, real legibility -- not just "CC measures") to be dealt with. Then you could keep track of them and burn them down as part of "killing technical debt" goals.
Why would they call shutdown and then immediately close?

Just call close immediately.

In fact, there is almost no need for anyone ever to call shutdown.

It may make sense if you want to pass a socket descriptor to another process and you only want them to read from the socket, not write to it, to call a unidirectional shutdown on it before passing it on. But shutdown RDWR and then close is just silly.

The proper fix is not to add more exception handling but to remove the shutdown line altogether.
Why do you start from the question of something needing to be "created"? And why a "who"?
Also a fossil record of chicken bones!

(1) https://www.newscientist.com/article/2187838-when-humans-are...
> homeless people might ask for your empty bottle and do the collection

I lived in Alberta 10 years ago and this was totally a thing. One homeless guy hung around the apartment and if you were carrying drink containers he would come and say "Can I take them to the store for you?". Of course, he meant could he get the deposit money on them too. He would hang around until he could fill two or three large garbage bags then head off to the return center to collect the deposit money. In all the time I lived there, I never found out where the actual return center was as I never needed to. The few $ involved was no loss to me (or anyone else in the apartment) but went towards the homeless guy being able to buy food. Never once did he seem drunk or high so he really did seem to be doing it to get food. I would see other guys like him walking along the street with garbage bags of bottles too, so it appeared to be the thing they did and it seemed to work out for everyone as I spoke to lots of people who said they also had a local homeless person that did the same at their apartments.
> Why do people need two or three exhausting jobs to make a living?

Most. Not all. The U.S. can still do better, but there needs to be some perspective on how the U.S. stacks up against the rest of the world. Better than most countries, not as good as some.

> Whatever you mean, the US needs young workers to resolve our massive labor shortage and we need educated workers to be our next generation of scientists, doctors, engineers, and entrepreneurs.

Brain drain sounded to me like the U.S. attracting those people is a bad thing, because those people should stay in their own countries. That's not what you meant to imply?

We do need educated workers to fill the jobs you describe, but at the same time we probably send too many young people to college, many of whom would do better with solid technical skills training leading directly to jobs with far less debt.
Don't worry, legal will answer a completely different question that's unrelated, but rests on a fundamental misunderstanding of the entire premise due to a combination of misinterpreting technical jargon as plain English and then misapplying a legal generalization, resulting in absolutely essential advice that needs to be followed immediately, which is couched in legalese that the techs will proceed to misunderstand by misinterpreting legal jargon as plain English in combination with a misapplied technical generalization, resulting in an absolute quagmire when it turns out that these essential compliance steps turn out to have a minor impact on the next quarter's bottom line. Thus some even more obtuse interpretation will be dreamed up by some manager to claim CYA without hurting the bottom line (or addressing the reinterpretation of the reinterpretation of the reinterpretation of the original issue). The issue will be resolved, pending small details like the actual legal risk and technical issues, and all will be fine.

But just be be sure, we should ask legal!
I had to learn driving a car this spring, with manual transmission. Knowing these things helped a lot. I made notes of all the traffic regulations document, and made tables of all long and intricate rules (e.g. lists of places where u-turn is forbidden, or backpedal, or what are speed limits for different kinds of vehicles/roads).

This helped avoid learning all those 1000 test questions, what most students did.

And using computer simulator with 3 pedals helped to automate the movements, and think of subtleties. Reportedly, those who had no practice before driving school, under the pressure of the exam, didn't stall the engine, but failed exactly in higher-order matters, like they'd cross continuous lines or not notice speed limit signs.