skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people had no idea they even use colors.js

Isn't that the problem? That they were running a lot of code from unpaid contributors without any guarantees (as said explicitly in the license) and then blaming those contributors when something breaks?
> And how we heat our homes with nuclear?

The time to start converting ALL of these homes that are heated with hydrocarbons was twenty years ago. It's hard to believe it's still a thing, but I'm in another 20 years we'll be having this discussion. "How on earth can we heat homes without oil and gas? that sounds impossible".
Stephen Ambrose actually wrote 2 books that detail the logistics of the invasion of Normandy. D-Day and Band of Brothers.
> butchering many of the complex characters without fully considering the historical, linguistic or aesthetic concerns.

There were committees of linguistic scholars that spent a ton of time on trying to reconcile the historical, linguistic and aesthetic concerns during the simplification effort.

Is it perfect? No. But it was also not an impulse move either.

Also one needs to consider the context of simplification --- the idea of simplification was quite a popular and progressive idea around that time in the entire area. It was widely believed that the complex Han characters were a big hurdle in improving literacy rates and bringing more opportunity to rural areas.

Both Japan and Korea engaged in similar simplification or de-ideogram efforts to varying degrees of success.
Who are these mythical creatures? Are they like the mythical and always nebulous "new user" on Linux?
I prefer Thunderbird. It doesn't need the app password for Gmail. With a bit of effort to you can make it auto open and close via scheduled commands to do a daily sync, or just leave it open.
I'd argue it's harder though as colors can form any sequence - they don't have to form legal words.
Emma Watson auditioned for the original Harry Potter films, they are talking about making her audition again for a remake (!)
Cross-reactive memory T cells associate with protection against SARS-CoV-2
> where will we get all this fresh uranium from (and the reactors to stick it into)?

Uranium isn't currently that scarce, and the topic of the day is "why are germany shutting down functioning reactors prematurely".
>Naples office

>”Readers began to deliver pizzas to our office as a gesture of gratitude for what we had done.”

I bet those were good pizzas!
Citadel Securities to Receive First Outside Investment
>Reminds me of a point Danny Sjursen made in his book Ghost Riders of Baghdad [1]. Paraphrasing (badly): Presidents, hawks, and other decision makers have no skin in the game. Their families are safe. They just rake in the dollars. In a conscript army, there is at least a chance that their sons too are sent to die. There might be an expectation that one has to have some experience before taken seriously in these matters.

Important people not having their children in the armed forces is a modern thing. There was a point in time when commanding armies in the field was an all but required resume checkbox for someone in line to inherit the throne and there was no shortage of war back then.
Thank you!

We currently have 2 templates for invoices, but will add more in the future.

Serial no's are consecutive and you can set when to start the series, so if you're at 888 now, just punch that in and we'll increment on that.
A new look at quantum radar suggests it might boost accuracy more than thought
What I love about this decade’s net worth estimates is that it was always possible, people just didn't do it to this scale.

Like, when you look at the Fortune 500 companies, they mostly all have unnecessary share dilution amongst many founders and way too many employees, following an antiquated and outdated rubric of how much money someone should have. Or how many jobs were created as opposed to the purpose of those jobs or the purpose of the corporation concept. These corporate forever homes always left a bad taste in my mouth, because I would also meet other founders and employees that wanted to replicate that instead of the precision strike on a market inefficiency while keeping control of all the proceeds. Too many people feel like giving up pieces of the company is validation. “We got a meeting with this VC” or “This VC invested!” instead of “wow we really gave up a large chunk of the company and they get paid before us”.

I will concede that these organizations and founders likely operated in an environment where investors were not willing to respect that much control of a single founder. But that time has also long passed, especially when looking outside of the US on other exchanges. So its just a matter of culture catching up.

As liquidity and the size of the money supply expanded rapidly over the prior decade, there has been absolutely no reason for people to just stop at single digit billions in net worth.

When I mean stop, I mean become risk averse.

Bill Hwang leveraging up on a liquid $20bn and continuing to trade like a Robinhood trader that can barely pass pattern day trader regulations is exactly what should be more common! There is no reason for someone like him to be in wealth preservation mode just because he got a theoretically improbable windfall. I would love to see much more of this. Other people like Bill exist, and only make the news when their private trades blow up a few banks.

CZ having an estimated net worth of $95bn due to 90% ownership of Binance which is just sitting on hundreds of tokens of varying liquidity is great! That’s way better than these other founders with it mostly in a single stock that has illiquid assets and revenues that are a fraction of the marketcap. If he conducts an IPO and receives even more liquid fiat and becomes #1 wealthiest by private wealth, way to go! There is $1 trillion on the table right now. And then he will be able to be judged at the same standard as the shareholder-revenue wealth people, except his will be much larger and still more liquid.

Elon Musk and Bezos types are too risk averse for my taste, there should be people above them by pure financialization and trading at this point, from my perspective that is the point of all the liquidity added to the market. Culture just hasnt caught up yet, but it is. This decade is going to be fun. Looking forward to being exposed to the first publicly estimated trillionaires, as it just validates what I already perceive as possible.
The article you are referencing is saying that the tax no longer exists. This is not a recipe for economically sustainable nuclear waste storage organization, is it?
Im just waiting for either Visa,Master or some banks to start acquiring “stakes” and then you are back to paying transaction fee, loosing acc access because u run something that govt doesn’t like then realise decentralised economy is just a dream. People really think govt and corporations are just gonna let go?
> No, just in terms of features and syntax. Too bad you can't remove all the bad stuff from php, or any old tech.

You can, it just takes ages and dedication and will cause a lot of friction. See: Python's changes between 2.x and 3.x, .NET's breaking changes between 1.x and 2.x+
Google.com is under 20 KB of html. I’d hardly call that bloated, even in 2013 when this was published.
PHP is share-nothing architecture. Nobody really uses threads in mainline PHP.

Whole class of problems around multi-threading, mutexes, dead locks etc. are really foreign to PHP developers.
They're not for "easy" immigration, they're just against racism.

It's not cool to be racist, so you have to pretend you're just "hard" on immigration, and that people who aren't racist are soft on it.

It makes it confusing to have a conversation about it, when one side can't admit what they actually want.
4 workers is the sweet spot for most wsgi applications. Typically you will scale above that by running additional complete gunicorn instances (managed by some kind of external scaling/load balancing thing). If it makes sense for your application to run more than 4 workers in one gunicorn instance (ie. you have long running requests that only wait on something) then gunicorn (and in fact, "normal" wsgi itself) probably is not the right solution for your application.

Edit: somewhat typical issue with scaling python applications is that just throwing additional workers at the problem in the same instance of the wsgi container (including separate uwsgi processes) stops being effective fairly soon and makes the problem worse.
You might enjoy the extra challenge of hard mode (access it through the gear icon), where every guess you make has to be a potential solution based on the existing history.
Sorry in advance if this parent post is off topic from the posted Edina story. Full disclosure I grew up in the Twin Cities and have many I know well there. It is a wonderful place and has unfortunately found itself at the center of political statements in the last few years and present.
I feel it's the opposite. Always a lot of people defending PHP in these threads, no criticism allowed. Gives a very misleading picture of the industry - in reality, PHP is not a loved language, it's below Powershell and just over C in the latest ranking[0] with 40% love / 60% dread.

[0]: https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2021#technology-mo...
That’s the key part: a decade ago, that search would have worked perfectly well. They removed the tools for fixing the problem so they own it.
Hello Average HN User!
Similar arc to BuzzFeed probably?
This lists are pretty big where if you were to copy and paste them real fast, your eyes would glaze over them enough to not know the answers... maybe just the next day ;)
I do not disagree with that at all! I played Minecraft for the first time before it even had multiplayer, and I'm currently running a survival server for my friends. I think it's a great game for people of all ages, I just don't think it's any good as a "programming" game.

I guess my bias is that I played Garry's Mod with the Wiremod addon before Minecraft was even a thing, and it personally taught me a lot more about programming and logic than Minecraft ever could.
Reverse engineering Wordle
Hopefully more can be done to make sure the equipment is available.

Last month here in Manitoba, a Member of the Legislative Assembly died after a crash.

She lay dying for hours while because they were in a remote area and the emergency responders didn't have the equipment to remove her from the car.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/mla-trapped-in-suv-s...
Vaccinations quadruple in Quebec on restrictions for liquor and cannabis stores
I really wish there would be some kind of overhaul in patents. Why was a patent for "The technology in question relates to the ability to connect speakers in groups and control their volume." ever granted? That seems like the very first thing you would do when connecting two speakers. Unless this is some kind of ai that tracks where you are and dynamically changes volumes to maintain a surround sound feel or something where is the novelty at?
He just didn't photograph them.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2317764
> Corporate journalists have many incentives to not publish the truth or to be stenographers for the establishment

Agreed, if the establishment locks you out it’s impossible to do your job, so it’s difficult to bite the hand that feeds you

> journalists hate truth tellers and fearless journalists like Julian Assange

Huh? Assange and Snowden published with the help of several major newspapers

> demand censorship on Internet platforms like YouTube, Twitter and Facebok with their corporate "factcheckers" in tow as muzzlers

Journalists asking for censoring other journalists from YouTube? Where!?
The parent library in that situation was a popular library with a whole team of contributors who could reject malicious PRs. But a PR that just updates every dependency (including a malicious update to the tiny library) can easily go unnoticed.

And that was one situation. The mindset of the Javascript ecosystem is still to maximize code reuse, meaning even if the tiny library maintainer isn't a maintainer of the parent library, the parent library still frequently clings to their one-line dependencies when I've tried removing them. Thus granting the tiny library owner tons of power like the maintainer of "colors".
We wrote about how we migrated off Cloud Run to K8s (might be your next step):

https://newscatcherapi.com/blog/google-kubernetes-engine-as-...
And then they buy their kids a motorized scooter or skateboard for their birthday…
All online tools should have a “pretend I’m in Silicon Valley” toggle so you can get the same results the engineers get.

Localized search is useful at times (restaurants for example, I like getting the local McDonald’s or China Wok rather than the biggest one in New York) but it’s completely useless for many terms. But maybe not the ones Google makes the most money on.
I doubt that very much to be honest. Not that I believe that there aren't any smart people at Google.

I expect a Google union to force me to go to some sensitivity training instead of fighting for wages (which to be honest are pretty high as they are). So would it be about workplace safety? Probably not. Military projects? My deepest sympathy to everyone that is critical here, but maybe not really a classical union topic to be honest.

I guess Google also employs low wage workers for some tasks. Maybe they could use a union the most.
This gave me an idea for a fun experiment...

Take the future word list, and each day use tomorrow's word as much as can be naturally fit into normal conversation.

Then see if all of my friends start to score better, since they were primed.

(I am too protective of spoilers to actually do this, but still.)
> there has never been a "popular" or "workers" revolution

That would be the Peasants Revolt mentioned above, but it failed.
I agree. Edina is a low crime area. This feels like a classic cake eater program.
There is type inference. And also, it’s not a typing contest, if typing speed is your bottleneck in programming you are doing something really badly, I suggest plugging in the keyboard.
Sorry, I don't reply to anecdotes, particularly ones on youtube
Is it? Last time I used PHP (around 5.x-7.x) it was exactly the other way around. For production you needed php-fpm, nginx, opcode cache... it was a nightmare compared with go or even java.
Is it better now?
Neat, had to reread how GP defined this "App" and it actually fits.

Although this App simply snaps the license plate and does a lookup and I think what GP meant was a "random snap of the car itself, doing some machine learning magic... But that's possibly my bias towards hn comments :)

This is actually much more helpful, although I think not every country allows for has easy access to the license-plate data for vehicle type lookup...
"The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written" should be in this list.

https://youtu.be/OyfBQmvr2Hc?t=3383
I know many ppl from ETH ICO.

Most of them sold it under 20 usd per eth

SO your probable worries are not valid.
There were 2 bear markets since eth ico.

Solana has this exact issue though... since launch it goes only up (relatively) and money raised from VC were much bigger (eth ico was only circa 10mln usd)

FYI
And for startups their recently minted MBA CEOs are too willing to load up on "tech debt" on the race to revenue.

And really, it's not a bad trade - financially. But it will frustrate your eng team, for a bit - especially if you don't actually get the revenue stream going.
You need to have a really hi IQ to get hacker news... That or understand that a procedurally generated listing that feeds into the egos (it's about me... I mean us!) will get up votes for the same reason that housewives read their horoscope. We're shallow animals. I mean I clicked on this to see what it was about while skipping other stories, so I'm no better.
Well, it's possible they attempted to keep search quality high, and they were unsuccessful but they thought they were successful.

After all, if me, my team and my boss are rewarded when an imperfect measure of search quality goes up and it's going up, why would I fight to switch to a different measure that wasn't rising?
You can't. They are unrepresentative and meaningless as a means to inform.
> I assume that only a small portion of its users know how to use "advanced" searches such as using quotes or ~ etc

That's true, and I'm not doubling down here when I say:

I tune out when I'm watching a horror movie, and the characters behave in a way that's designed to bring themselves sorrow. As soon as the characters know they're in a horror movie but decide to split up or go down to the basement alone anyway, I stop watching.

I had the same feeling reading that article.
To write and merge code to Marak's version DABH has its own copy so your question makes no sense.

Marak could decide to make his repo disappear it doesn't make the local or hosted repos of other contributors disappear. It seems that github managed to distort your mind into thinking that git was no longer a decentralized cvs.
Yes but it doesn't say anything about vaccinating infants or any of the other strawman nonsense that the person I replied to was saying.
This only adds fuel to my argument. Yeah let's post a results on how people FEEL about a language. How is that objective?

I could argue 100% of the 40% of the people actually uses PHP and 100% of the 60% people don't even use it.
Java enums are essentially an in-built singleton pattern where only the given entries can exist. They are not necessarily analogous with sum types, even though rust sort of washes the two together.
Deutsch Limit
I doubt that “average HN user” is a useful concept. Average with respect to what? Submitting articles? Reading them? Commenting on them? Just like the topics of posted articles, comment threads can have huge variations, ranging from (what I'd call) “absolute shit show” to “elucidating discussion”.
Unironically, one aspect I appreciate about this community is how there isn’t really an average HN user. The diversity of experiences and knowledge produces a comments section unlike anywhere else that I’ve seen on the web.

I am honored to be here with you all, fellow ‘average’ HN users.
Maybe I am just too old and tired, but current PHP has nothing to do with original PHP, version by version it changed direction and the last versions are just yak shaving.

I strongly believe that a programming language should be stable over a longer period of time while bug fixes and behind the scene improvements are fine, but for the developer it should not be a moving target, the manual should not triple in size and developers that know very well version x-1 should have zero problems with version x. There is a huge cost of change and if some people don't care, real life does.
I've worked at a bunch of places...honestly small company/startup HR scares me just as much.

Somewhere in there is a happy balance between 'no HR' and an 'HR run organization'. I haven't experienced it, but I would choose big companies over academia in a heart beat
> "Classical art" is a technical feat that produces emotions in you through its execution, through the beauty of the "art piece" itself.

This is true mostly for a fairly brief window of visual art produced in Europe. The idea that all art for all of time was judged through its execution and achievement of beauty until the 20th century came and ruined everything is just completely ahistorical.
libertarians believe someone else should build the roads, anarchists hate roads
I sometimes try to translate my keywordese to English when I'm confronted with a clueless response. It hardly ever improves the results.
Reading them?

Not that.
I'm not an expert, but as far as I know, the difference between BuzzFeed (click-bait trash) and BuzzFeedNews (serious journalism sponsored by the former).
How many GCs are we at with Java?
Yeah, I should have mentioned that in the general case RC is not more performant (otherwise threaded managed languages would use it).
Covid-19 Vaccines for Moderately or Severely Immunocompromised People–Jan 7 2022
> However, some people prefer those libraries. Which is fine. They both exist, use what you like. There's no need to have wars about it.

This results in ecosystem fragmentation though, which means that more effort is spent developing and maintaining different kind of solutions to the same problem, only because of their different developer experience.

On the contrary, look at Go, where it was decided from the beginning (i.e. stdlib) that we're going with coroutines.

It's a bit like (I'm exaggerating) arguing for what should be the default coding style, where a built-in/blessed formatter would make this a non-issue. gofmt is a nice example of this.

Also, honest question: AFAICT Python was more of the "there's 1 preferred way to do things". Doesn't arguing between async and coroutines goes against this mantra?
Bevy uses Rust traits for labeling
I wonder how much an “average HN user” differ from a “Hackernews” on http://n-gate.com/.
Stop posting misinformation. The hospitalization rate is nowhere near 15%. The CDC estimated it at 5%.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I seems to me that php/js/python will have a large consolidation in the next decade.
Tangent: for people on the job interview circuit, wordle is basically a modified on hangman game. It's worth coding an algorithm here here in case you're asked to do a take home hangman code up!
Were the US Founding Fathers Libertarians? (2010)
Most people don't even know the size of their laptop drive. Only measurement they know is if it is full or not, and it can even take them time to realize this.
Because USD is a bubble, other countries wants to keep the USD high since they have lots of USD reserves, meaning that when USA prints money it doesn't weaken the USD. Until the other countries decides to bite the bullet and people stop using the USD as a global reserve currency.
The best thing about this thread is reading every comment on the algolia search page and then again in the comment section. Average HN User
The maximum fine allowed by GDPR is "10 million or 2% of global revenue, whichever is higher". The goal is to ensure the GDPR "has teeth" even against companies for who 10 million is a drop in the bucket.

Keep in mind that large parts of the GDPR were already law in many EU countries, meaning there's years worth of enforcement activity that you can lookup to see how similar laws were enforced.

And mostly that has not been "handing out the biggest fines possible" and more "fines scaled to how grossly you violate the regulation". Companies who try their best to follow the law, have good processes and respond promptly, get a slap on the wrist or even just a warning if they remedy the issue fast. Companies that blatantly violate the law and stonewalling regulators get the harsh fines.
Right.

It wasn't a political option.

They could've done it, easily, and it was the sensible thing to do.
Your scenario with mutated hands ignores that evolution is about selection, not just single mutations. If hands evolved over a period of millions of years to be able to push water better, you could indeed say they evolved for the purpose of swimming. This is similar to saying that an eye’s purpose is to see, or a heart’s purpose is to pump blood, which are hardly controversial statements.

A purpose doesn’t have to imply concious design, intent, or immutablity.
Are you also going to prohibit your kids from riding in a car because the chances of a traffic accident are non zero?

Asking because kids 1-4 are being hospitalized for COVID at the rate of 1.6/100,000, deaths are at 2/1,000,000 and traffic accident mortality is 11/100,000.

https://emilyoster.substack.com/p/covid-risks-for-small-chil...

https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/state...