skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would prefer all of the databases used within the internet infrastructure to be immutable append-only blockchains maintained without any centralized trusted third party.
There is no harassment here. The natural reading of the post is that he refers to develops stationed in India. India has very low cost for developers, so that is where you go to buy cheap. And then if you take the cheapest developers in India, you have a known value, which is what anyone who reads the post would read it as. You go out of your way here to assume bad intention, this isn't some kind of "I really hate trash Indian developers taking our jobs!" kind of post, it is harder to assume bad intentions than assume good intentions here.
"The Democrats claim for just the cost of Pizza each month we'll save our roads but we know what's really going on (pause) (dramatic music) and this is just the beginning.

Next it will be a Chinese takeout meal to help a library (show red Chinese flag to increase fear slightly), then the cost of a new refrigerator to pay teachers more (stock footage of a liberal looking nerdy professor), when will it end?

The tax and spend Democrats have an agenda and all they are looking for is an opening. (stock footage of snake slithering into nursery during the night)

We have to be vigilant to protect our families future (stock footage of 60-70 year old man, slightly overweight, wearing a red plaid shirt, jeans, and standing in front of an American flag) vote no on proposition 205 and say no to big government

(paid for by the committee of republicans and their rich supporters who need to convince poor people to vote for them)
In my area all new housing developments have their own “metro tax district” that residents pay. It funds the infrastructure for their neighborhood. Some people don’t pay attention to it when budgeting for and buying a new house. I know that has caused many families to lose their homes. Usually those districts have a sunset built in though once they have covered the building costs.
For N-95s yes. For other types of masks that are easier to counterfeit, no. Same goes for electronics. I’m leery of USB-C cables, but I’m fine buying a high-end DSLR lens for the same reason.
Your criticism comes across as very close to what you're criticising. You've provided only your anecdotal evidence, whilst creating another "they" - "one of those people" - that you same-breath decry as the tool of propagandists.
Defer is a bad feature in Go and I'm hesitant to see it spread to other languages. It exists as a hack because error handling in Go is convoluted.
My understanding is that Illinois is in a economic death spiral wherein taxes are high enough given the quality of life that people leave the state thereby increasing the burden on those who remain l, perpetuating the cycle. Pensions are the enormous, underfunded obligation that can’t be shed outside of bankruptcy. Increasing taxes only accelerates the problem, no? Even if you could stabilize your particular city, the looming crisis for the rest of the state will still destroy you eventually as proportionally more state money goes to paying pensioners who live out of state instead of maintaining infra.
You seemed to have misunderstood what I was saying.

I was pointing out that specifically in the case of chili spice, I don't think it's good for the body. There are data to support the idea that eating large amounts of capsaicin is harmful to the body:
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/foods/chili-peppers#dow...

Meanwhile, go to the vitamin supplement section of your nearest store, look at the ingredients of turmeric tablets, and you'll see they have a disclaimer that they have trace amounts of black pepper to magnify the effect of turmeric.

Everything else you said is fine by me because I wasn't arguing for it or against it.

Oranges and millets probably came from China, bananas probably came from SE Asia (and these things probably before the Sangam age, which is before the Pallavas and the height of the Cholas, so clearly exchange was happening for longer than we know).

A slight correction to what you said, idli came from a Pallava king in the 13th century who married a bride from a Indonesia who in turn brought along cooks who liked using rice. They combined rice with lentils to make idli:
https://youtu.be/7pxEXHxSQzU

To be clear, I know that rice has been grown in South Asia since the time of the Indus Valley Civilization (>= 4500 years ago), but all I'm saying is specifically about idli.
If you look at who is getting all the funding, you will see that they have rich and/or politically connected family members in 99.9% of cases.
Closest I've seen -
https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1482501951065661440?s=20

Source - https://www.alberta.ca/stats/covid-19-alberta-statistics.htm...

The answer seems to be extremely few boosted deaths, especially under 80.
You are at more risk unvaccinated in your 40s than boosted in your 80s.
With the WFH example - suppose that 1) WFH is issued by companies as a blanket policy (different from 2-week isolation from getting sick) 2) people who get the vaccine tend to be the ones that WFH, and 3) WFH allows for less exposure. In that case, the people who get the vaccine tend to have less exposure and fewer chances to get sick, regardless of vaccine efficacy.
The new defer proposal has the potential to make code easier to read, remove some uses of goto's and help to fix some resource leaks that are so common on old non-GC languages. Certainly a feature I'm rooting for.

The only other proposal I'm more interested in are the lambda approaches: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n2890.pdf
I tell those friends

- it's not for everyone, you sit for hours in front of a computer not socializing

- it can be a very rewarding career, there are many tracks one can go down

- it requires a mindset that learning never ends, many people have stopped learning, so restarting that process is difficult

- that switching careers typically takes full time effort to be successful.

- to checkout the Grasshopper app to get a taste of programming

- try an online course before spending significant money on a boot camp

- bootcamps are a better path than self teaching, but to be very careful when selecting, top ranked and widely know is the way to go

- sometimes it can be better to learn a little programming to automate processes in your current role, rather than switching careers to become a full time programmer
I'm not sure if you're interested in discussing or just want to do a drive-by criticism, but that's actually an interesting question!

Currently 1.5 zettabytes of new HDDs are sold each year which is around $65 billion. So HDDs are a pretty mature market with massive data centers buying most of that storage.

One of the hypotheses with Chia was that there is a lot of over-provisioned storage already out in the world — on both consumer and idle enterprise drives. This is in line with the original intent of Bitcoin that anyone could mine which would make the network more secure.

It's obviously cheaper to use existing storage to secure the Chia blockchain than to buy new drives so the market will move toward maximally using existing storage. Datacenters could use their existing idle storage for Chia farming before a more lucrative use came along. And the storage doesn't need to be very reliable for Chia farming, so old hard drives that are no longer viable from datacenters can be used (apparently datacenters just destroy HDDs outright currently?)

Currently there are about 35 exabytes of storage in the Chia network, which is about 2-3% of the entire yearly supply of HDDs. Given that supply chains weren't really disrupted, I think it's pretty safe to say that the Chia bet was right and that it's actually utilizing a bunch of unused space already out in the world. And the IDC agrees: https://idcdocserv.com/US47836321

Now, obviously if the market valued Chia extremely highly then supplies of HDDs would be impacted. But I wonder how much that would affect everyday folks like you and I since most storage in devices are now SSDs, which are not very storage-dense so aren't really as economical for Chia. Would it be the case that consumers couldn't buy HDDs? At some coin price, yeah, definitely. I have no idea what that price could be.
My god, why did you mention wikidata? SPARQL is the most obscure fucking thing I've ever encountered. I've been sitting here for an hour trying to find how to get the data of a specific page!

I guess the rest API will do, ugh.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28277749
A strong centralized democracy with very little in terms of local government is not an outlier; it's the norm. Europe and Africa mostly run on central authority, as does Ireland. I think your view is skewed because you're an American (I think?)
This isn’t really a “once in a lifetime” event; volcanoes erupt all the time and this one wasn’t particularly huge. In fact, there are 46 currently erupting with an average of 20 active on any given day [1].

[1] https://volcano.si.edu/gvp_currenteruptions.cfm
"Bottom of the barrel devs on the cheap" capture what you want to say without pointing to a specific geographic area or ethnic group, fwiw.
I'm not sure how/why one would demand stair-stepping descend - it seems silly. Good thing they've changed the rules.

In Europe, I think I've only experienced the smooth approach.
This aligns with my 10 year experience as a consultant working with C suite level executives as well. The people I have worked with are extremely smart and have incredible knowledge about their business. They can think through the happy path quite well. But when it comes to edge cases, error handling, and detailed logic they generally do not have the education/training to think about this properly.

I've converted a few access databases in my day which were surprisingly sophisticated yet the lack of rigor was very transparent. There were good reasons they needed to transition to software written by a developer.
France does machine learning
I think a good middle ground is to allow people to request a waiter if desired, or order directly using a device. At a nice restaurant, I may want to ask the waiter for a recommendation or I may want to explain food allergies (assuming I can't do this in the app). But at Chili's or IHOP, I know exactly what I want, I can request no waiter, order through my phone and pay through my phone. Of course someone will still have to deliver the food and refill drinks, and address any issues, but maybe you can flag someone down (some Korean BBQ places have a button on the table that flags a server), but you could cut down on the number of times a waiter needs to come to the table (get drink order, get food order, bring check, bring signature receipt)
I was confused at first until I read how Conway first described it. His words are quoted at the end. It makes more sense when he describes it - something he had a wonderful knack for.
Hey, it’s me, your future employee!
I certainly agree with much of your attitude toward American hospitals. But I don't think dragontamer's point had anything to do with greedy American corporate hospitals. So mentally substitute "community-owned co-ops of small rural hospitals out in farm country" if you need to.

The point is, just like it says in the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution - "...insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence..." - that protecting everyone from large-scale, organized, high-skill malicious activity is a bedrock function of any national government. NONE of the hospitals, water treatment plants, small corporations, city governments, ordinary citizens, etc. should need to worry about high-cost, high-skill self-protection against ransomware groups - any more than they should have to hire and equip private security forces to protect themselves against mafia enforcers, Russian paratroopers, or missiles launched from North Korea.
I may have worked with ‘under skilled’ developers in the Netherlands (but not really), but I’ve never worked with someone that I would describe as bottom-of-the-barrel (if the barrel is world sized).
The configuration in the article is a Garden of Eden, but it is also a still life. Also, while the past is fixed, the future might look different from interference from outside.
Eh, not too unusual! Not everyone is the same, but the care factor is high for my previous peers, most of whom are still there. I can also appreciate that for consumer tech things are different. There is a higher degree of "it just needs to work" because it's unlikely the average user can articulate what's wrong, and they shouldn't need to anyways.

One thing I'll say is that it really does feel like the worst decisions about software there were made during the Steve Ballmer era. In my case, trying to keep compatibility with absolutely insane software behavior where it tries to do way more than it reasonably should made up the bulk of my toil and issues customers had.

A former coworker described to me that it was a very different time then. People believed they were the best engineers in the world, building software nobody else could make. In some small cases maybe that was true, but generally it was not. The combination of arrogance and willingness to try to bolt on as many capabilities and unbound extensibility features as possible led to a severe problem for people (sometimes the same people!) later on in life. It's actually been cool seeing how that complexity was methodically tamed. But it also makes me fear for any future company where a similar level of arrogance is practiced.
> There is no racism at all embedded in that statement.

The phrasing and sentiment, which non-Western people are subjected to time and again, are racist.

Your "semantics-based" explanations AKA opinions do not change that.
Kronos is very very good at account management, so baseball tickets and steak dinners. Everyone agrees their product is awful but it’s very hard to break that hold. (Disclosure: competitor)
I don't think this is as widespread as people believe. Certain locales tend to be overwhelmed at any given time, but I don't think that's the case for the majority of hospitals in the country. Unfortunately I don't have any statistics.

>But hospitals are currently overwhelmed with mostly voluntarily unvaccinated people

This has been the narrative for a while now, but as vaccination rates increase the ratio of vaccinated:unvaccinated hospitalized patients is approaching and surpassing parity. And some not so recent government data from the UK[0] (I haven't seen any media report on it) suggests that for a number of age ranges, vaccinated individuals have a similar death rate per person-year, i.e. vaccines are not doing nearly as much as claimed. This data is pre omicron.

0. https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsde... - check table 7 in the spreadsheet. Maybe I'm misinterpreting something?
They do have this capacity. Given that the existence of this capacity is now public, it is my belief the UK is mainly limited by a combination of selective enforcement, lack of courts and lack of police (weirdly, given their preferred “tough on crime” rhetoric, U.K. courts and police are severely underfunded right now).
Yeah just charge the working families just scraping by that make up a town like this 3 times more. Jobs done! /s
Ask HN: What are some long foretold/delayed technologies that now exist?
Cold fusion and quantum computing have long seemed just on the cusp of realization, and have been promised as game changers, but practical application always seems to be at least ten years out. What are some examples of other important technologies that seemed to be similarly elusive over the last 50 years but now exist in a cost effective/practical form? It’s okay if they’re obscure.
Defer is weird in Go, being tied to function scope instead of immediate block scope.
My Own IBM Computer
A tribute to the most iconic computer ever made.

I believe it's one of the first flyers to come out for the IBM PC so early 80s, although I don't have a precise date. It features the original sales pitch and (almost) the same arrangement. If you wait around a bit a very tiny MS-DOS will boot up on the tiny screen.
No it doesn't. When you say "bottom of the barrel devs on the cheap" people would assume you pay American prices, so $70k a year or so. Location matters a lot.

And when making estimates you need a real value, so taking a real location where we know what cheap developers costs helps making the estimate more realistic.
Umm, covid not accounted for here as a short term anomaly? Undue extrapolation for a clickbait title?
> [CITATION NEEDED] That's the what the job offers talked about and doesn't justify the focus on smart phones. Unless you've read the job offer or, like me, personally know people on the inside, you're just making stuff up.

Why do I need to provide a citation when your entire comment is itself a conjecture? It's also a request made in bad faith because everything we know about that program is from the government which you clearly don't trust so any citation I offer will be striked down as "from the gov".

> A personal identity application, on a cell phone, is already being abused by the government.

The article is about a centralized system, that was already decried by critics, in Germany. The Quebec "VaxiCode" app is not used for tracking, only to provide an easy way to give proof of vaccination and was not abused in any way. It gives the same information as your drivers' license + your vaccination status with the added benefit of allowing contactless verification through the QR code.

Canada's Covid Alert app is not centralized and does not give any information to the government. The code is even on GitHub.
> but the companies I have worked for simply see a line item on their budget they can shrink after a product has been built

These Western companies are almost always led by Western people. Surely, they could use their supreme knowledge and avoid this situation, by taking the decision to not hire underpaid/unskilled developers?
There will be people to deliver the food...in some restaurants this is already the case that the waiter who takes the order is not the same one who delivers the food. Most of your other objections are host/hostess responsibilities, not waiter/waitress. The only one that a waiter would handle is the food mixup and you would just flag someone down
“Woke” thinking is a critique on those “thousands of years of global civilization” and the example I posted shows that what this “global civilization” has decided and coerced others into treating as the natural way of things just flat out isn’t.

So to say something like that the gender binary is an oppressive and unjust norm in global society because trans, intersex, non-binary, gender-fluid, etc people exist does at least seem more justified when you find that it’s not the only naturally occurring way for humans to categorize themselves.
Phones are customizable. Just remove everything you don't need.
Wireless charging
We can multitask. All of these are bad, but it seems to me, you are wasting energy being angry at this person dealing with her problems of choice instead of fixing the ones you use here as a cludgel. How are is shutting this person up going to help fixing there wrongs?
"Do <outlier> examples lead people to think that <outlier's outcome> might be theirs?"

It's everywhere:

One kid becomes autistic after the DPT vaccine, and everyone hears about it.

Someone sees you jogging on three separate days, and assumes you must do it every day.

Several people I know or know of are killed in private plane crashes, so I won't go up in a private plane anymore. (Just to show I'm not immune either.)

People are helpless at estimating likelihood.
What in your view makes defer a bad feature of Go? Maybe my bar is low, but each time I jump back to C I wish I had defer and end up abusing __attribute__((cleaup)) instead.
> Shall we pretend that the family that has ruled Britain for 1200 years has no political power? Har har.

That's like saying the Church of England still has significant political power. it still has the ability to take tithes, although they are mostly optional.

The present royal family only really dates back to victoria, I mean sure they are tangentially related to the german/dutch/scots/danish that ruled before, but its not that strong.

The monarchy is constitutional technical debt. Technically the queen can refuse to sign laws, and dissolve parliament, but as the constitution is basically "because we said so" it'll be the last thing the queen does.

The queen has "influence", but not political power.
A problem in the US is that many people who are politically right-leaning have been talking up natural immunity, which means the left-leaning people in charge of the local, state, and federal government where mandates are in place are unwilling to acknowledge natural immunity because they want to "own the cons" or something like that.
Not in my experience. Despite being fully vaxxed, I had to get tested every time I entered a country including coming back to the US. A recent two leg EU trip required a total of 6 tests - each of them with complex timing requirements and the total cost was ~$500.
You're right, that is a better way to put it than what I said.
Oh that looks neat! I mentioned Hiccup because the person I replied to specifically called out lispy languages, but yeah I saw that there were similar options for other languages.
You can't move tabs in Linux Chrome
I have a phone, but use it primarily as a phone (voice + sms) and as a tool (maps, calendar, banking, pagerduty, 2FA).

For entertainment I have Spotify and use Firefox for youtube not often clicking suggested content, and then usually in the same topic as the original--except the physics ones.

Back when I commuted to an office, if I left the house without my phone, I might call one person to let them know I didn't have my phone that day but otherwise not miss it, except for music or reading downloaded text during my commute. Never got into podcasts, couldn't find a series that stayed interesting.

It comes down to habits and what you consider important. Is the virtually presented lives of others or endless funnies important? Act according to your beliefs. I'm not perfect--spend too much time on HN.
> error handling in Go is convoluted

Is it worse than in C that there is no concept at all? Is it better that everyone is on their own to do it their own way every time?

I’m not above making the eaiser, but to your point when I see their example of:

double* q = malloc(something);
defer [qp = &q]{ free(*qp); };

That doesn’t look like the C that I know.
China builds artificial moon to simulate low gravity
Depending on what you like, you may find Skyrim better or worse. Oblivion had a lot of pretty well written quests, with interesting or surprising conclusions, even if they had simplistic samey gameplay.

Skyrim is better in action gameplay, though it is still extremely simplistic and samey compared to BG 2. It's still much better in terms of feel and than Oblivion. But in terms of quests, Skyrim is much worse, with virtually all quests being simple "clear this cave of people who have wronged me", though there are a handful of exceptions.
> in the US the government just classified encryption as weapons unsuitable for export.

... You realize that that hasn't been the case for ~20 years, right?
From the standpoint of not getting locked out of your data by ransomware, one could do worse than paper timesheets.