skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Were they? I thought they were separate entities under the same crown. The way that the Channel Islands and Isle of Man are not part of the UK today. They had their own legislatures, and their own bodies of law, separate from that made by Westminster.
Enums are just special classes no? Why can't they have functions defined on them?
Nobody that hasn't signed an NDA can report on such deletion and as such you won't see news articles about it :)
I quit academia after my PhD. Now, working as a developer remotely I have no money stress, relaxed work schedule, relaxed colleagues, no need to write grant applications etc. I even have some time to study the same academic stuff I was doing before, but without the pressure. The only thing missing is the academic network for exchanging ideas.

When I tell this to my friends still in academia, I can sense some envy, but also get this feeling that they are not comfortable with even entertaining the idea of getting out of academia.
Isn't this normal? We didn't evolve to feel much compassion in the abstract for people outside of our group, especially not if there aren't visual or auditory cues that they're suffering.
To me it's equivalent. The removed nuclear energy is replaced with coal. It doesn't matter even if overall it's decreasing. It could decrease much more. Actually, it's not even decreasing: https://www.dw.com/en/coal-and-fossil-fuel-share-of-german-e...
All centralized platforms, with the inherent issues that have been analyzed for decades already. Continuing to use them and complaining of those issues doesn't make any sense at this point.
> This thread is a shitshow of cynicism, everyone outdoing the others to come up with even more convoluted conspiracy stories how this isn't going to help or why it must be motivated by the data protection agency apparently being criminals themselves trying to erase evidence against them. It's quite a sad state of affairs, really.

It's sad that the EDPS would get dragged for this, we should be encouraging them. Other than that, if you have a thirst for privacy from government and lack dementia, there really is no such thing as too much cynicism.

> Another conclusion one could draw from the story as reported is that, contrary to an untold number of assertions I've seen made on HN, GDPR does apply to governments and their institutions. It's a point made in just about every single other thread on the law, and one would expect someone noticing they were wrong, which would seem to be perfect basis for a useful comment. Alas, they all missed this story. I'm sure they'll be back.

Law enforcement are all but exempt from the GDPR, which has nothing to do with this. I'm not 100% sure but I think they're referring to the Europol regulation[0].

> A close cousin is, of course, the sense that such institutions will choose to ignore the law, as in any law, anyway, and without any risk of blowback or even chance of becoming a matter of public interest. The story itself would seem to contradict that notion to a certain degree, but that doesn't seem to diminish the opportunity of updating one's belief system with even more evidence supporting everything one has always known to be true.

We've just learned that an EU wide law enforcement agency is ignoring the law governing them, are backchanneling with the Commission to get a new law on the books to whitewash the whole thing, and that the Commission is game. And there is nothing about this in any major newspaper in the member state I'm residing in.

Do I have the facts wrong? Because it seems nuts to suggest this would be a good time for people suspicious of law enforcement and the EU to take a moment to reflect.

[0]: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...
Jamstack and the end of “your database” (2021)
I was a php developer for some time two years ago, before switching to go.

I was mainly solving high performance parallel processing and distributed problems.

There are things like ReactPHP which are an awesome achievement, but still every lib you use needs to be developed for ReactPHP.

After learning about go and goroutines I only find it painful to solve these problems in PHP, even using ReactPHP.
> PHP has a massive upside over Python: You don't need to restart your application when you change the code.

I see this as a downside: hot-reloading is something that should be part of your developer toolbox, not a feature of the language runtime itself. Otherwise, deployments are harder because by the time you’ve completely uploaded all your updated PHP files, the server already started to execute the code in the ones uploaded so far. Also, I hope you have a caching mechanism otherwise this "read the code from disk every time you want to execute it" must be a performance nightmare.
>We find that low-wind-power events are less frequent in winter than in summer, but the maximum duration is distributed more evenly between months. While short events are frequent, very long events are much rarer. Every year, a period of around five consecutive days with an average wind capacity factor below 10% occurs, and every ten years a respective period of nearly eight days. These durations decrease if only winter months are considered. The longest event in the data lasts nearly ten days.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/ab91e9

In your once in a lifetime event I'd be happy if we used a bit of gas. This is something, after all, that Japan also had to do for years after Fukushima went kaput.

Bear in mind also that demand for heating and transportation can be timeshifted. An Octopus tariff in the UK already allows for this. We've barely scratched the surface of whats possible here because electric grids are slow to evolve to this new reality.
Thanks for the response, ill try to improve the content :-)
He co-founded the foundation. The die has been cast.

The guy's worth 2.5B. I sincerely doubt he'd go to all that trouble to just make even more money. There are easier ways, with less scrutiny.
Basically every government office should be capable of handling this kind of situation. We don't need a "new but different government office, we need faster more reliable government in every office.
At the very least, distributing in this way (presumably with some license clause that it can't be later placed in a package repository) prevents other libraries using this library as a dependency. Expecting developers to review what's happening with libraries is mostly unrealistic, but expecting them to review changes in the dependencies of the libraries you use is completely hopeless.
Async/await in JavaScript is, a very welcome, syntactic sugar over a callback api.

The point is that almost all JavaScript library’s have always been async, traditionally with callback based apis (now async/await). You never mixed async and sync code.
And one if the very relevant differences is that C# is task-based while Python is coroutine-based.

And because C# is statically typed, it can reliably warn on missing awaits (a common issue in the also-task-based javascript, though less problematic than it is in Python).
Farewell, Godspeed, Itanic: Intel to Discontinue the Itanium Family (2019)
OT, but the biggest cultural change disappointment between my previous job and this has been readme.md expectations.

Previous: every project org-wide contained enough environment & setup information to get it running. Even if you didn't know anything else about it

Current: almost nothing

The initial "What magic incantations must I make?" step, before you're able to start really learning by experimenting, is invaluable.
The key takeaway seems to be that their whole pricing scheme is based on customer and potential customer feedback. Interesting that they did not mention the competitive landscape and pricing schemes of others.
I think it is related to the fight against "fake news", "hate speech", etc... People don't tolerate a truly neutral search engine, because it will reflect human nature and human nature is not always pretty. I remember the time when Google returned antisemitic websites when searching for "jew", they refused to do anything about it because "jew" is used mostly by antisemites and therefore, an antisemitic website is what people searching for that term most likely want, the search engine did its job. I don't think it will fly today.

So search engines now have to get the "truth", preferably the politically correct one, and since you can't rely on the crowd for that, you have to introduce bias, and "pre-approved news outlets" are the most obvious choice.
Smarter isn't that morally relevant. Their capacity to suffer is. Maybe smart is a proxy for that, but I highly doubt it's a good one, given that our prefrontal cortex was a modular attachment to a system capable of suffering which evolved a long time ago.
The list of letters in that sentence: a c d e f g h i k l m n o p r s t u v x

I suppose also newlines?
Except in this particular case there appears to be a near-zero risk of anyone being "complicit" in bad police outcomes, given that it's opt-in, can only be used on a case-by-case basis, and it's the citizen who searches their own cam footage, voluntarily, and only in response to a specific police request about a specific case.

So, while at first glance at a headline, this might seem problematic, after reading the details, I'd probably be willing to participate. This can't really be abused to create any George Floyd-type situations.
I first develop backend APIs using TDD without even opening a browser. Then I develop frontend using React/Vue with hot reload and don't even need to press F5.
I’m well aware of the statistics, but your link is irrelevant to my comment. It is simply insensitive to picturing Chernobyl as something beneficial for the environment.
Even better is to just use threads. Linux can handle a million threads just fine, so even if 99.99% of your clients are idle, threading won't be the bottleneck.
> Why are they drinking from someone else's well?

Because the well said "free water". And in some cases it's not even them taking water from that well, but other people who they asked to bring them tea (third party libraries).

> Someone with "a sizeable past history of jerkdom"?

Do you really dig through the internet history of every maintainer of every package you ever used?
This is a much more reasonable comparison, but I think the big difference is that the mad imperial dash already happened. (Also, nuclear weapons, but let's leave that aside for now.) Some like to call initiatives like Belt and Road "soft colonialism" but doing so completely undersells the massive brutality and enormous wealth extraction of what these people would presumably call "hard colonialism." In other words, I don't think there's enough to fight over for major powers to go to war.
Plants probably can't suffer. Pigs probably can.
Berenson is a crank: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/pandemics-...
> they would see how far from "better ruby" is Crystal

Are you accusing us both of lying? How strange.
Yes, this is the reason I resorted to bing a few times in the past week. Google seems to penalize certain news sources to such an extent that vaguely remembering the content of the article does not suffice any more to find it again, whereas the article I have in mind usually shows up in the top results on bing with the same query.
I am going to call bullshit on the nuclear waste storage problem. Nuclear waste is incredibly dense, and we could simply dump low level solid nuclear waste in the ocean (gasp!) High radioactive waste is incredibly dense.
I am from Spain, so I know really well any hispanic culture, at least on idiomatic terms. Here people doesn't give a crap on "gendered" language, because when you say "La silla" you don't assume it's "femenine", it's just a convenience.
Oh yes, they entered it willingly, so friends and they themselves could get a nice job in the steering board after their career. There's nothing "illegal" here, only immoral, but lots of that.
>Germans were starving in the 20s too due to the outcome of WWI. The Nazi 'fixed' that.

Yeah, so? Many countries "fixed that" - the New Deal fixed that for the starving Americans for example. Post-war German government "fixed that" for starving post-WWII Germans.

Fixing poverty doesn't imply worth authoritarianism.

Especially since China went to more open from the 60s to 2020, not less, so the opposite direction.

>And since we're talking about people starving, why don't we talk about the Great Leap forward and the massive famines caused by CCP policy?

They're somewhat like the famines caused by the British imperial policy in India, but in this case due to bad policy, not intentional colonial profiteering.

And, Chinese policy and results went to the other direction, not just eliminating those famines, but raising a population 2 times the US into middle class, and raising more from proverty.
With node_modules, the amount of required code becomes unmanageable to review very, very quickly (sometimes with the installation of a single package).
Because we actually didn't take that into account. Which meant we became too inside->out focused. But the overall point is, that there's a lot of wisdom out there on SaaS pricing, it's still difficult to get right.
You had working doublequotes until recently?

For me those disappeared years ago :-/
For apache, there is libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3

Seems easier to just "apt install libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3" and put a "WSGIScriptAlias" directive into your apache config than to run another piece of software?
Just for discussion would Erlang/Elixir not count as another performant implementation of green threads or would you not consider them mainstream enough?

Erlang has been scaling massively in the telecommunications industry for a very long time now even if it's not as popular as other languages.
Things Libre Arts didn't blog about 2021
This was a great blog post from some reddit engineers a few months ago https://www.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/pfgz4r/reddits_n... which talks about how they added a realtime feature, how they did it and how long it took. There was a big fail the first time they rolled it out too...this stuff isn't easy.

Of course, reddit is a huge company and has loads of established engineers. YMMV.
That would not be a counter argument, as OP seems to labor on the simplified assumption that sexual desire has evolved to ensure procreation, and then it doesn't really matter if you intend to father offspring or just to fulfill that desire.

But it's not that easy, because sexual desire in Humans (and many animal species) is way more complicated than ensuring conception.

And more importantly, rape is more complicated than sexual desire. It often isn't about the sex. And I agree that the referring to biological urges when talking about rape is somehow releasing the perpetrator of some of the guilt. It is always also a lack of judgement, empathy, self control and so on. Nothing except very rare brain disorders can make someone a rapist unless he chooses to be.
Some of the nuclear plants that Germany is shutting down are < 40 years old. Their lifetime could well be prolonged for next 20-40 years. They already exist and sit there.

Instead, Germany chose the path of decommissioning, which, as you mention, is expensive - and produces no electricity. This was a purely ideological move.
> (hello Brazil, which has nothing to do with Spain or the Spanish language)

Heh, that's good, because Portugal is part of "Hispania" since forever.

Hispanic in proper terms it's related to Spain and Portugal, for any romance (Catalan, Castillian or Galician) or Basque spoken in the peninsula, not just to Spain and/or Castillian speakers.

So Brazil is actually as Hispanic as Argentina.

Blame Castille for appropiating themselves the term Hispania/Spain since the Middle Ages.
How is libapache2-mod-wsgi-py3 "none standard"?
No, coal as a percentage of their electricity production went down from 45% to 25% in 10 years. They removed nuclear and coal and replaced both with renewables (coal is the bottom two). Data: https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/sites/default/files/styles/80...
They are not arbitrary though. Historic, perhaps. E.g. pork was disallowed as far as I know due to the spread of diseases from bad conservation techniques at the time.
Is it just me or PHP's evolution is a bit "too little, too late" for an almost 30-years old language?

PHP is not a likable language but it's probably not going away any time soon. Its concept of "one endpoint is one script" is one of its biggest killer features that no other language has been able to deploy in such an accessible manner. Well, Perl and old-style CGI aside, of course.

That, and also the fact that it may be pretty much the only dynamic language in use today with ARC and not a GC. Funny how PHP devs are often unaware of this.

Anyway I wish the language at least evolved faster and we wouldn't wait for 8.0 to have global `const` definitions instead of the archaic `define()` for example.
Where are those costs not accounted for? Where I live they are, and then some - nuclear energy was taxed extra [1] to pay for waste storage and handling as well as to pay for alternative energy sources. This tax was added at the end of the 90's and rescinded in 2019. By that time waste storage and handling had been paid off several times over.

[1] https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4rnkraftsskatt
So you switched from a language X not designed to do Q to a language Y designed to do Q, presumably because language Y didn't exist when you started doing Q. I imagine that happens all the time, but seldom is it a fault of X. But what I find puzzling is why PHP, of all things, was your choice for these kinds of problems before Go appeared.
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[0] https://twitter.com/tobias24617399/status/148057940367134311...
PHP is my go to language for building simple backends that store data as json in a file and synchronize access using flock(...). There are a ton of cheap hosting providers that support PHP and all you have do to is copy your files over and everything works.

I love to focus my energy on building a great frontend with React or Vue.
> or is he saying it because this conclusion is necessary in order to bolster the case for abolishing government?

Milton Friedman was libertarian, but not anarchist, IIUC. You may have conflated him with his son, David D. Friedman, who wrote The Machinery of Freedom.
The fact that documents from the building of the pyramids can still be dug out of the ground is MINDBLOWING. The vast, vast majority of ancient texts only survive because people copied them for thousands of years.

It makes me think about how many texts might still remain but are lost when someone builds a road or apartment building. In India, for instance, where there are thousands of palm leaf manuscripts rotting in temple basements because there is essentially no funding or support for preservation.
Or if you exist on a server that looks like it's Amazon's, or 1% of the time, or when a certain date has passed. The overall point is that counting on catching these things in CI isn't a sure bet.
> Heating a home with electricity is simply immoral.

Well, I built it last year, so I didn't know how much energy it would consume. Also, I'm still up to adding a photovoltaics plant on my roof and energy sources should be mostly green on windy and/or sunny days in Germany.

> Besides, energy prices saw a steep rise in all of Europe, so it doesn't make much sense to blame the end of nuclear energy for it.

I didn't blame nuclear specifically for it, but the German electricity politics are insane and far off from reality. Shutting down _any_ energy plant is a bad idea, considering how close we got to a blackout last year.
As with everything, the Simpsons did it too. I think it was a grest piece of media literacy education to me as a kid.
> Heating a home with electricity is simply immoral.

Not if it uses a green energy source, e.g., nuclear.
Open source developers don't owe anyone anything. It's this entitlement that has led so many of our fellow people in the community all the way to depression. Stop expecting something when it was explicitly stated that software is provided with no guarantees.
Yes, and the built it to withstand and earthquake or a tsunami, unfortunately not both.

Because heavy earthquakes in Germany are unlikely the standards for german nuclear power plants aren't planned to withstand one because the planning is accordingly to the dangers of the location.

And that is the problem. We are building something that has to last decades if not centuries and if we miss something the damage is severe.

For example before satellite imagery ships were built according to the normal distribution of waves which said large waves are rare, freak waves nearly impossible.
Stories about freak waves were even often dismissed as exaggeration or sailor's yarn.
Nowadays we know freak waves happen a lot more often as we thought and ships are built accordingly but older ships have problems if a freak wave shows up or they simply sink.
The issue with the 97% percent you arrived at is the implicit assumption that only people from the US read the article.
Intra-species competition would also have been my first guess. Homo erectus seems to have been quite a successful species, given the archeological evidence. And given the time frame of the migration, I'm betting on a slow but steady expansion as the families and tribes grew larger and split to explore new territories.
Speaking of 4chan and google's declining result relevancy, a particular instance of the latter was discussed there (one of the few places it could be discussed, given the amount of censorship that prevails everywhere else these days):

https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/76372135/

This is still the case today, at least in the US (I just checked). Instead of emphasizing the painting of Beethoven we all know, the one that was actually done during his lifetime, the one featured in the infobox of his Wikipedia page (which is also the top link result), it instead emphasizes a much more obscure painting that was done posthumously, for no obvious reason other than it giving him a noticeably darker skin tone. I'm not even offended by it, I just find it ridiculous that Google actually went out of its way (probably for pc reasons) to train their algorithm to return less relevant results.
It's still a language that's mainly used for web development, right?

Modern websites in big companies require pretty complex backends that require data processing queues and other background activities. Can PHP compete with languages such as Go, Python or Ruby in the future?
Google isn’t a search engine. It’s an ad engine. The top results drive ad revenue for their ad network.

You’re not getting good search results because the information you want doesn’t make money for Google.
Not really. I can be reasonably sure that end-user applications I download for a desktop are limited in the damage they can do (even more so for iOS or Android). This isn't something that happens often with programming libraries, but there's no inherent reason they can't be built in a way that they run in a rights-limited environment.
You are trying to show something very unlikely as having a serious danger. Statistics is very relevant here.
Alexander the Great and his Macedonian army was composed of many groups like Thessalians and Macedonians. Greeks were a small portion of it:

"The Greek cavalry was not considered as effective or versatile as the Thessalian and Macedonian cavalry."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Macedonian_army
I personally use Goland for Go and Rust. Until a couple of months ago (during the Advent of Code) I was under the assumption that you can use the debugger with Rust only in CLion. Apparently this changed and I can simply pay for Goland (awesome IDE!) instead of Goland + CLion

Debugging Rust on Goland, compared to VSCode is way better. Not only because of the debugger UX, but also because Goland as an IDE for Rust (code completion, types recognition and speed) is miles ahead of VSCode (despite I think they use the same backend).
4TB.