skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article clearly states that PHP runs the large majority of web sites, and Python is not gaining ground there. The link you posted shows numbers of searches for programming tutorials. Not surprisingly Python wins there, probably because Python is pushed as a first language in schools, and PHP is not. Apples to oranges, in other words.

Python gets a lot of press as the supposedly “most popular” programming language, but if you measure number of web sites, or number of mobile or desktop apps, Python is not out in front, not even close. Python does lead in the number of people searching for help and tutorials. Python may lead in the number of newbie and hobbyist projects and school assignments. In the world of code people actually use Python remains niche, though it has a big footprint in data science.
I know the code that I and my team contributed to Mozilla was only some trivial part of the whole beast, but for us it was drawn from years of work.

And that’s the whole point.

Mozilla has made a browser. So has google. Why make them out to be bad actors for providing something that is too big for mortals to even contemplate?
Not if their adversary went from 500M to 200M at the same time.
I can imagine that, in the near future, there will be headstones in cemeteries, with nothing on them except a QR code, which will require an app to scan, and a key to decrypt the data.

I wonder what future civilisations - where smartphones and encryption algorithms have been long lost - will make of that?

And we thought the Egyptians left us a tough one to crack!
The nice thing about microservices is that you don't need iron discipline to maintain modular boundaries, instead its just how things work.

I like to analogize it to assembly vs structured programming languages, or C vs Java- you can write the same programs in either, you can write bugs in either, but there are whole classes of pitfalls that get erased by moving from one language to another.
just use ytdl?
The US just can’t let go, and the EU is happy to have them foot the bill.
Re spending: Every advanced class I was in had

1) a lower student to teacher ratio
2) better, newer equipment
3) better, more experienced teachers

I've never talked to someone who didn't admit to those advantages, only argued about how important they were or how expensive they might be. I can imagine it isn't a cash cow for the industry because the number of students is small and most of the difference is in teacher pay per child.

Re snap class sizes having an effect on outcomes. This is extremely surprising to me. The last I looked (admittedly quite some time ago) it was essentially the only factor that has significant weight and was reproducible.
Amazon Fire devices can install Apple TV.
It's not a taking anything away from us, to say we're not engineers.

It would be helpful if engineering had a widely accepted succinct definition like the scientific method, but it doesn't.

Building software is its own thing. It requires some engineering discipline. It requires some scientific method. It requires some artistic creativity. It requires operating efficiently within some community.

It also (usually) does not require the rigor of engineering because it's ephemeral, and it doesn't require the proof of science because it's every changing, there is no truth.

It's software, and that's not better or worse than engineering it's just different.
Similar conceit to The Secret Life of James Thurber in which he makes fun of Salvador Dali’s autobiography.

Very funny and worth reading in the New Yorker archives if you have a subscription.
Philip K Dick is my favourite author. I’ve read Joyce, Faulkner, Nabokov, Pynchon, McCarthy, Gaddis, Beckett.. like I’m pretty familiar with classics and literature and have read loads of SF as well, but PKD remains my #1.
I've worked with DDS, USDS's Defense child org, and the author's description sounds exactly like what we did.
I mean, the reason it sounded sad at first blush is because it indicates that people can’t afford baby formula and diapers, which is obviously sad because those are vitally important items.

But all you did was introduce one layer of money exchange, and money is super fungible. So the reason it’s sad literally hasn’t changed at all.
No need for lengthy theorizing. It's simply a protection racket ran by mafia scaled to country size. Nothing more.

If you let mafia run things, that's exactly what happens.
"Baby formula" is often powdered. It has a longer shelf life. How is providing the exact evidence of how organized theft rings operate and steal baby formula in Tampa a "silly gotcha." It provides evidence showing the profitability of the endeavor.
It's like the popular line,

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

My behavior definitely looks like an eating disorder sometimes. But holy hell, they're still putting unhealthy-at-any-level trans fats in regular food, and the label can say "0g trans fat"!
Don't miss https://www.mathacademy.us by Jason Roberts of the https://techzinglive.com podcast, begun with the Pasadena public school system.
Smoking especially in excess wasn't actually all too common until cigarettes started being mass produced in the early 1900s, and WWI and WWI got two generations addicted to rationed cigarettes (especially fig 1 from this):

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a2.htm
What if person can't utilize phone/camera due to ADA claim? What is the reasonable accommodation?
Nord Stream 2 and the new German cabinet are much more important parts of the equation than the article seems to allow. German is the main Russian trade partner in the west, if Germany stops that, Russian stance will have to change too. i’d expect that the threat of cancelling the project would seem more credible to Putin than of a real war. but it’d be hardly good news for us, who live in Germany and already pay a lot of money for utilities
Just to answer one of my own questions. I am tossing up between ProtonMail and Runbox. Both have custom domains for the first paid level tier and I'll get better security to boot. Both take BTC so it comes from my trading account and not the family funds. :)
DNS I'll probably look at when Larry from Oracle kicks the last of the VIPS off dyndns. Looking at hosting on a container in my DMZ. Something I have not done for 20 years. djdns anyone?
This is that moment where I feel really good about always making sure I didn't use my custom email domain address as a google account, and have maintained a gmail.com account all along to serve that role.

So for my situation, I can just use IMAP to move the mail to a new provider. Easy peasy.
I found out because I saw it on HN, this page was posted on googles side, last month.

How many people have not even been told yet?

I'd be happy to pay them 120 bucks a year for what I'm getting now, 10 email accounts, of which, one sees actual use.
Not to mention the additional level introduced by the fact that VALIS is pseudo-autobiographical.

e.g., remember when Horselover Fat gets beamed secret information from a faraway satellite through a pink light to his forehead? Or when he learns we are secretly still living in first century Rome? Both things that PKD actually believed happened to him.

The lucidity with which PKD explored his mental illness in VALIS is pretty extraordinary.
More like a cooling down in my case
> The real answer is that we need a society where people restrain themselves, so that the law doesn't have to do the restraining.

Fundamentally I agree. Once we stop relying on people’s self regulation and basic decency we have already failed. Overflowing prisons is a telling sign of that failure.

I guess one benefit of US being so large and states and municipalities having the ability to create their own laws, is that eventually we might learn what works best after observing results. How did the reforms in San Francisco or LA work? If they worked well, other states might rush to copy. If if didn’t, at least it’s isolated to a few areas.
In other words, then, China is doing this for no discernible reason, and the US is just being kind in pointing out how they are harming themselves?

Why would the US not sponsor terrorists in China? Some separatism would do good to distract them, like the US wasted trillions on Afghans.
Power efficiency is definitely a concern at places like Google.

Hopefully it'll catch on more, and encourage the use of productive AND efficient approaches.
When an HSTS locked site has an expired cert, the browser takes away the "it's okay" button.
It may take me two months just to figure out how to migrate my services someplace else. I'm hosting 10 accounts worth of email.
Yeah I mean if you assume all countries are maximally aggressive it makes a lot of sense, but there’s a fundamental problem in that the empirical evidence does not sustain this suggestion.
The parent comment is exactly spot on. Those are exactly the right resources. If you are working with a gifted math student, 100% bookmark it and follow up soon. AoPS has a ton of excellent books for coursework and also just deeper problem solving (billed as competition problems).

In fact, even if you do not have a "gifted" youngster, learning to work on harder problems is so much better than learning to follow instructions by rote. Not to say all teaching is that way, but it seems like a majority.

Another resource is MOEMS, the Math Olympiads for Elementary and Middle Schools. They are totally reasonable and also fascinating problems. Get one of the books and check it out if you are working with someone in the late elementary.

[0] https://moems.org/
Interesting human relationship wise.

I've been severely struggling with non tech people. Landing mediocre positions in clerk jobs where everybody's is burned or bored out. Yet every attempt at improving the office life through code was met with fear or disdain. (And I never made it a personal gain only)
> The countries that don't have their own media import it, and will often learn other languages to access it rather than waiting for translations of varying quality.

Also, even when such media cultures exist, they’re competing against the incredible might of Hollywood, Netflix, Disney, etc. It is very difficult to compete with the budget and production quality that these companies can maintain if you’re a smaller economy. Disney’s revenue last year was 12% of Sweden’s GDP ($65B vs $541B). Sweden would have to sink a massive chunk of its GDP into movies in order to compete with just Disney, let alone all the other streaming services.

My suspicion is that there needs to be not only a tradition to act as a bulwark, but also some national self identity that causes people to reject the homogenizing effect of foreign media. That can either be pride in extant local media (I understand that the Paris novel scene is rather hostile to non-native involvement, for example), or an explicit rejection of the foreign media for more explicitly political reasons.
These are Union Pacific police. They don't respond to mall shootings.
How to Build the Universe in a Computer
Again, software development companies have tried the "rely on people being willing to pay upfront for updates" and failed repeatedly

Once you get there it doesn't matter if your goal was features or updates, you're talking about closing doors and laying people off.

So I'd much rather 1password do exactly what they did and pivot off a failing model.

> They made home windows into a loss-leader.

That's great, and I'm sure when 1Password has a 100B war chest to sit on they'll think about doing the same.

Most people would consider turning your flagship into a loss-leader for other parts of the company not exactly the goal of the average software shop.
I have some domains with Namecheap but I didn't know they would host DNS for me. Thanks I'll look into this.
I’m highly skeptical about AI-replacing-subtitle-as-a-whole. We all know what’s the problem: the quality. We already know that translation is difficult. We already know that acting is difficult.

The only feasible outcome here is deepfaking the voice from the recordings from localized voice actors to the actual movie actors. Perhaps, in the future, a voice actor might be doing all of (1) translation (2) voice acting (3) deepfaking in one shot. One person might be able to dub the whole movie - alone.

But, for sure, we won’t be able to remove human from the process.
The temptation to snidely suggest you add listifi to your list overwhelms.
Baltic countries (NATO members) has been bordered with Russia since 2004. It's a long broken promise.
Go has definitely gained more mindshare more quickly outside Google than inside, in my experience.
> I am not impressed until someone makes Gallifreyan (sp?).

As far as I know, Gallifreyan hasn't been worked up into an actual language. Klingon could probably be done, though.
Iraq is on 100% us, but Libya and Syria are mostly EU/ME member shenanigans. We just had to clean up because they got over their heads and we’re obligated.
Amor-Class Asteroids
I am gifted, and one of my degrees is in teaching, and I've taught in a school for gifted children. Having the advanced students be "junior teachers" to the struggling students benefits both groups. It stimulates deep understanding for the gifted student, which is not catered for in the "recipe" provided.

Fact is that students will respect information provided by their peers above that provided by teachers. This is well known. See Vygotsky for example.
I had gate identified kids before that and at that time, the gate identification was still working, but any actual programs had atrophied to one day supplemental activities once or twice a year. Maybe a decade before that, there were entire classes of gate identified kids being taught by full time teachers.
I'm getting precisely one value added service over a regular google account - a custom domain.

I dont need any of the other workspace related frippery, I don't want it, it makes some of the features of the account harder to use - it was better before it had the notion of an organization even.

I just want to be able to create some gmail accounts under my domain, I'm not a business, I'm a guy who handed out email accounts to his friends, now I gotta figure out if any of them are using them still.
Of course, but in this scenario you can clearly see the physical asset is gone.

We have an entire legal framework around how to repossess a car, No one knows what's going to happen once you let Tesla remotely shut off your car since they think you might have missed a payment or something.
You can form a psychological dependence to a substance that does not produce a physical dependence.

It seems there's an irreconcilable difference in the definitions of addiction that we are using. I think those reading have enough info to view the arguments and make up their minds.
I bought a massage chair pad and use it twice a day. When I use it, I take a screen break too. Good luck Tim!
How do I migrate my domains purchased under my google workspace account?
Obesity is an eating disorder. It's one that's killed orders of magnitude more people than anorexia or bulimia ever have.

> People don't know what a genuinely healthy body and diet/fitness regimen look like

That's in large part because even healthy people can't agree on what that looks like. Regardless, many people don't seriously care about eating healthy because otherwise they'd simply use the internet and quickly find some diet that actually works (pretty much any of the "fad" diets are better than the Standard American Diet).

> thinness (even extreme, unhealthy thinness) is popularized and praised as a sign of beauty and willpower because so many people are trying to lose weight and so few are trying to gain.

This effect can't be totally discounted, but is it really that or is it because being fat actually kinda sucks? The average person is not attracted to obesity, and obesity can lead to trauma that then leads to things like anorexia. Ironically, obesity is also caused indirectly by poor mental health.

Contrary to this idea that thinness is somehow this societal evil, obesity is more normalized than it's ever been. That's only going to do the opposite of getting people healthy. When was the last time an unhealthy image of thinness was promoted in the mainstream? Besides the fashion industry, which most people don't take seriously or even pay attention to, I can't think of even one.
Or Element/Matrix. It's nearly comparable to Discord these days, plus it's open source.
Could be claim for ADA reasonable accommodation to not do it.
It's just brain-breaking on so many levels. I often had to re-read couple of pages back to decypher what the hell was going on. But still in all that madness remains a certain lucidity and clarity.
"being cooler" is a really disingenuous way to phrase the upside benefit. It would be as if I said "so you have to take into calc in college. What a bummer!" to sum up the advantages of the g&t program
The public sector is often tumor like in its structure. It's pile of bad ideas requiring more bad ideas to manage the previous one problems. They're wildly incompetent in terms of productivity all across the chain and resort to petty solutions and hiring more people (with precarious contracts) to attempt at avoiding sinking.

I assume they only have 20 more years to live until the whole thing evaporates through the new generation automating it away.
Idk what prices you are paying.
I think your sense of reasonable argument has gone out the window, so I'm not likely to spend much more time answering here.

I support helping people out of poverty. However, it will take decades. In the meantime, no more prosecuting of minor crimes, huh? That's sure to send some great signals to people who might be tempted to commit crimes. And to the people who obey laws.

How about people who shoplift try not shoplifting, to help avoid making their families poorer by staying out of prison for those and other crimes? Who knows whether you understand this idea. It seems that you rather sympathize with someone who commits crime rather than the 100x people in the same community who obey the laws and have to pay to clean up after that crime. And you occupy some reverse-logic-world where people committing crimes are being treated to some perverse injustice by being caught for those crimes.

It's an insult to the law-abiding poor person who pays in full for their purchases that you seem to care more about the shoplifter. That you're so eager to let the person jumping the turnstile not be punished, while the elderly pensioner scrimps and saves to pay her subway fare dutifully. Watch out for the backlash against what you think your policies are doing.

And btw I don't consume propaganda or get swayed by messaging. I don't believe what people say, of either side. I believe what they do.
I don’t know what leftism this is actually challenging but it doesn’t reflect a leftism I’ve actively been involved with for decades.
The Hanging Stranger is also an excellent read and poignant in today's world:

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/41562/41562-h/41562-h.htm
This script is both hilarious and brilliant. I laughed out loud.
Woman wrongfully fined $259K for neighbor's violations in Brooklyn
Perhaps, but basic political science tells us that such protection rackets should strive to legitimize themselves as "proper" monarchies or elite oligarchies, and that this move will bring common benefits to both the rulers themselves and the civilian population. Ironically enough, the PRC seems to be rather further along re: that general dynamic. They might even democratize at some point - that's the next step in the game, at any rate.
absolutely. the degree to which amphetamines are pushed on children is insane. I was one such child ~16 years ago.

psychiatry in general is a pretty ridiculous field, at least as practiced here in the US. just yesterday I had my every-three-months checkup where I basically tell my psychiatrist everything is still going good, so can I have three more months' prescriptions of the thing you got me dependent on when I was a teenager, please. I was making some small talk about my life as per usual, talking about how work has been a bit stressful but that I've noticed I've become much better at handling work-related anxiety, compared to in the past, and she asked if I wanted to try any kind of prescription to help with it. it seems like the whole job is basically listening to people with issues and prescribing them pills to attempt to fix the problem. if a prescribed pill doesn't do anything after a certain amount of time, or has negative unintended effects, then oh shit stop taking it, let's try something else instead... another pill, of course, not any kind of counseling or literally any other kind of treatment at all, just more pills.
He was a depressed and haunted man, and almost certainly suffering from an undiagnosed mental illness. Those aspects of himself were reflected in his works. Writing was a deeply personal thing for him, which you can see especially in The Exegesis (a collection of his journals published after he died, where he continuously grapples with the slipperiness of reality, the dark edges of his mind, and the absurdity of existence, just like his characters).

One of the most fascinating writers in history, I think, but can definitely be depressing to read sometimes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum_refining_in_Washingt...

> California has the third greatest refining capacity in the U.S. at 1,892,471 barrels per day.

> The California Reformulated Gasoline Program requires the entire state to use gasoline with minimal oxygen content that burns cleaner than conventional fuel. A number of other states are either required or opt to use reformulated gasoline in an effort to reduce smog-forming and toxic pollutants. 30 percent of U.S. gasoline is reformulated, however California’s Reformulated Gasoline Program uses a proprietary blend that differs from the federal reformulated standard. While PADD I features ample production capacity for federal reformulated gasoline, the only refineries outside of California capable of producing the blend required by state law are located in Washington and the Gulf Coast. The Gulf Coast refineries haven’t produced reformulated gasoline since 2011 leaving Washington as California’s only out-of-state gasoline source.

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This isn't an issue of pushing out manufacturing and energy production. It's that there is a very limited set of refineries that make it and those refineries aren't near the oil fields of the gulf states.

The geography of the area (mountains) make it more challenging and less economical to get a pipeline from somewhere else (Canada?) to the refineries in California.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_oil_and_gas_industr... also has material on the subject.

The relevant reformulation info is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gasoline#Oxygenate_blending

> Oxygenate blending adds oxygen-bearing compounds such as MTBE, ETBE, TAME, TAEE, ethanol, and biobutanol. The presence of these oxygenates reduces the amount of carbon monoxide and unburned fuel in the exhaust. In many areas throughout the U.S., oxygenate blending is mandated by EPA regulations to reduce smog and other airborne pollutants. For example, in Southern California fuel must contain 2% oxygen by weight, resulting in a mixture of 5.6% ethanol in gasoline. The resulting fuel is often known as reformulated gasoline (RFG) or oxygenated gasoline, or in the case of California, California reformulated gasoline. The federal requirement that RFG contain oxygen was dropped on 6 May 2006 because the industry had developed VOC-controlled RFG that did not need additional oxygen.
and on that note the most worrisome part for me, long term, is the continuing refusal of Germany to embrace nuclear energy. without it, Germany will be dependent on the natural gas for longer, and thus locked in this particular relationship