skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> created by language amateurs
> all of that is gone and they are still stuck with a subpar language

The argument is that the language is "awful" and "subpar" because it has "early decisions" like "multiple thousands of built-in" global functions introduced by "language amateurs"?

Sorry, but I remain unconvinced.

I agree that there are real reasons that PHP fails as a language in particular use cases, but it seems rare that those reasons get articulated in these threads.
handles can also be used to stop doors from closing
While I agree on your three points, I don't think I would recommend Rust to a beginner developer.
Have never listened to Joe Rogan but definitely will start with the 70 deleted episodes.
> some legitimate use cases will survive

More likely - some legitimate use cases will emerge, as I am yet to see anything to date that would fit into that category, but there is still room for the solution that is crypto to find itself a problem to fix.
Can you add more technical details on why Minecraft doesn't work on Wayland?
Most subscriptions I've looked at are around $70 per year (so a lot cheaper than you suggest) and the amount of advertising in them seems to be less than it was years ago.
Coronavirus variant once helped the global pork industry. Could one protect us?
I seriously doubt that, and besides -- it is up to judges whether evidence are admitted, not public opinion.
While it may not be directly related to the nuts and bolts content of HN, I think The New Atlantis is a great journal for anyone who enjoys thinking about science and technology and their cultural effects.

https://www.thenewatlantis.com/
Eh, they exist. Not many people even know how to check the source or even if it's been verified.

Saving bandwidth is definitely a reason. The EVM call to create the contract charges a gas fee per byte.

Currently etherscan and other chain explorer sites will recompile your provided source (and compiler options) and ensure your deployed bytecode matches their results. If so they publicly provide the source and a nice verification checkbox. Some also give you (the public) tools to make read/write API calls to the contract directly by introspecting the API.
Thats the funny thing about critical work. It pretty much has to become commoditized in order to be common enough to be critical Therefore it ends up in a cycle of depressed wages with no way back up.
…nor have a local web server ready to be exploited.
https://archive.is/LBFn2
> Is the strict_types dance necessary for this?

No, just that PhpStorm adds this for me and I always have it my files. I have removed it now to avoid any distraction to what I wanted to show.
+1, received a Dell XPS 15 9500 for work, and it is horrible. Countless complains in the Dell forums, and still so many issues after all the updates.

The whole situation really corrodes my trust in Dell.
For anything physical you will always need the legal system as a backup.

That said, you could imagine using smart locks that are connected to the blockchain and using smartcards for keys. Then at least key management is "solved". I put it in quotes because again, it's the physical world so there's still the issue that the smart lock could be broken and blockchain can't do anything about it.

I don't think it makes sense for rentals because that field is heavily regulated and in a lot of jurisdictions you can't just lock out tenants when they're a day late on payment.

It could make sense for something like standardizing gym access. For 24 hour gyms there's already systems to get access when no staff is present. You could imagine a blockchain based solution to manage that in a standardized way that could work across different gym chains.

The advantage would be that pay-per-use is handled in an automatic way, gyms that want to join the network just need some hardware for access and they're good to go. As a user you wouldn't have to sign up for a different gym every time you move. The big issue is that most gyms don't want pay per use, they want to sell subscriptions knowing that most people end up not going after a few times.

The above solution could also obviously be implemented by a centralized provider without using blockchain. Blockchain would be a marketing angle I guess and might help convince investors to give you money.
> Now it's 99.9% scams and ponzi schemes

Now?
I specifically wrote verifiably. In your bank case, no one will be able to verify, independently of the supporter or the artist, that the transaction happened.
Are resin 3D printers any better than FDM in printing Lego bricks? I hope they get good enough so that every kid can make all the pieces.

It's a shame that a new 8880 kit costs an arm and a leg.
If your last try with Debian was about 10 years ago, maybe give it another try? I find Debian stable exactly that: rock stable. Support for older HW is also great, offering enough Desktop choice.
Fwiw I’ve used a P50s and dislike the keyboard and track point greatly. The keyboard isn’t as stiff, and the track point feels imprecise. There is much more flex in the frame than older (t450, t500, x61) thinkpads that I’ve used, as well. This is only one datapoint, though, and that particular machine was a hand me down that could have been a lemon.

I’m much happier with the t450.
Kurzgesagt made a really good video about climate change [0].

What stuck with me the most was that if I would eliminate 100% of my emissions in my entire life, I would save 1 second of global energy sector emissions.

[0] https://youtu.be/yiw6_JakZFc
> "every single intel chip is easily able to run arbitrary code and is vulnerable on a hardware level"

It's not just Intel though. Both AMD and Apple also have their own "security processor" running its own operating system without your consent in your own hardware. Essentially this means they own the hardware, not us. I don't know if you would call it that, but to me it sure looks like the definition of a universal backdoor.
Only if you've never used dplyr ;)
MIT Tech Review - mainstream and great

Wired - same

2600 - hacky vibe

Low Tech Magazine - name tells everything

Social Studies of Science - STS academic journal
The instructions they found are only usable when in a special unlocked debug mode that they managed to access through exploiting the Intel CSME at a very early boot stage. Part of the reason this is about ATOM is that they haven't unlocked it yet on other, more recent desktop processors.

So no immediate reason to worry but all the more reason to ask Intel to get all it's fucking "management engine" crap out of processors. There is no reason for this mode to be in production processors at all, or not behind a hard blown fuse.
Example: Wikileaks being funded using Bitcoin when PayPal, Visa and other payment companies blocked transactions
Problem with teachers is that they are critical but there is about a 18 year gap in seeing the failure
> The reason why people now care about PHP is that, decades ago they thought PHP would the right way to develop projects, now they are stuck

I worked on many greenfield projects in recent year where the conscious choice was made to use PHP.

For the majority of projects NOT using PHP is basically throwing money in the trash. Best deployment story. Great ecosystem.

> Decision are made based on "copying" other languages like Java, plus you always end up using lots of tools just to make your code safer.

This is a really big strength. PHP is able to learn from other languages and when implementing features can avoid mistakes that they made.
I wonder if those tablet-based kiosks and cash registers count? Those seem to be mostly non-Apple from what I’ve seen.

Edit: I don’t think those should count, as I see them as their own category, not a tablet.
Just have patience and don't sell your crypto just yet. Peoples moods are so temporary and forgetful there for sure will be another bubble within months again.
<weak attempt at humor>

Yes, fiber has many advantages over barbed wire

<sorry, leaving now>
Yes, because even with ads on paper, the reading experience is vastly superior to a screen. And unlike websites, my print magazines aren't trying to profile me in order to peddle irrelevant crap. They're also easier to archive, easier to thumb through, and quite frankly more fun to read. The only down side is the lack of a search function, but the ToC is usually good enough.
And why would anyone need to be able to verify that? I really see very little reasons. And for some of the traditional receipt would do the trick.
How disingenuous. All this tells me is that you don't have an argument against my position.

If you are have an rebuttal, I am quite willing to hear it.
Largest toy manufacturer in the world. Can't really argue with that.

I do miss the old, simpler lego from the early 1980s, but those things still exist in the Classic and Creator lines. Buy them. I love Lego Star Wars, but Classic and Creator are the soul of Lego.
I guess you're looking for 'Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume one by Douglas E Comer. Here's a not pricey copy.

https://www.amazon.com/Internetworking-TCP-one-Douglas-Comer...
What is your experience to make such ignorant statements?
The number of specialised parts is one thing I dislike about modern Lego sets. They do look great and have really smart building techniques, but I just want to build a brick house with my kids.

There is always Lego classic sets, and smaller creator houses do have a lot of regular bricks too. But it is a bit annoying once you amass a few sets from other lines.

Still, I'm glad they are in business. I will take whatever they do now Vs them going bust, which was a risk a decade or so ago (or maybe longer, I can't remember the details).
Actually, when someone means the religious crusade when this is not implicitly understood from the context it is usually spelled as 'religious crusade'.
You become a transcendental developer when you think "Bury it in the desert. Wear gloves." and are enlightened.
I recently re-subscribed to the ACM and I'm now being delivered "Communications of ACM" and XRDS issues (albeit with one month average shipping delay). I must say:

About CACM:

I wasn't sure what I was expecting, however "Communcations of the ACM" is utterly disappointing as a magazines. A lot of opinions, outdated "news", litte to no technology at all.

It's also politically inconsistent: there still are statements about mr Ullman receiving some award despite having issued some discriminatory statements (about Iranin people IIRC) yet the ACM is very happy to publish a whopping FIFTY (!!!) pages marketing stunt about China (November 2021 issue) while staying absolutely silent about the uyghur genocide currently going on and the total lack of press freedom and LGBTQI+ rights.

About XRDS:

I only received one issue so far, and albeit very disconnected from technology at least had articles posing interesting questions ("has computing become a toxic endeavour?").
Here in South Africa it's challenging but certainly not impossible. If you provide 3 or so written warnings and set up sessions to try to allow the employee to improve, you may go ahead and dismiss the person. But you can't simply fire at will unless it's gross misconduct or similar.
> Also shows the tension and resentment some apparently had towards her.

This is life. There will always be tensions, envy, politics and resentment whenever people come together, regardless of gender. Jesus was betrayed by one of his very own disciples after-all.

So you say you've read the whole bible, but have you read the gospel of Mary Magdalene which you consider would "redeem" the bible by? Why, haven't you read it?

> Gospel of Mary Magdalene is a book that is believed to be an account of her albeit not directly written by her.

There are many books in the bible that give a females account. You should know about them as someone who's read the whole book (an impressive feat).

And what do you think of the many other books omitted from the bible, for example the gospel of Thomas? Is it because it was written by a man?

> This last link helps illustrate how the Bible is collated by man to fit a narrative defined by man.

Is there really anything in this world that is written and collated that does not fit a narrative defined by their authors?

> Which should cast scepticism about the motives behind the various rewrites and decisions behind what gets included and what doesn’t.

The changes have been greatly exaggarated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ5cgQUJnrI
> I'm pretty sure only the bytecode is actually stored on the blockchain, not the source behind it.

Why would anyone trust a smart contract that doesn't provide readable source for auditing purposes?

While only byte code is stored on chain, generally the source is available on github.
Yes, there was a period of time, mostly after the ICO crash, where the market was relatively quiet and most people in the space worked on interesting technological problems. I don't want to get into arguments about the usefulness of blockchains and web3, but the intention of developers was not to scam consumers, at least not explicitly or from the outset. Now the intention of most projects is explicitly to rug pull and scam people, mostly due to the NFT craze.
I think you may have missed the distinction between "TED" and "TED Ed".

Areibman is saying that in the set of all "TED" talks, there are a lot of bad talks, but in the specific subset of "TED" talks called "TED Ed", the quality is much higher.
Ask HN: Does the world need a “passport equality” movement?
Having a citizenship with low status is a significant loss of opportunity in life for the affected individuals. Since Hacker News is a relatively international crowd, I'm sure that many of you can relate to this in one way or another.

Should the UN try to create a political taboo (and in the long term, a ban) against sanctions towards general population when countries clash in diplomatic issues?
A friend prints lego rail tracks that don't exist but should.

For regular bricks, however, Lego's manufacturing process is incredibly precise in a way that I don't think 3D printing will ever be.
Linux Format. Has a nice mix of informative and in-depth content.
So Rust outperforms Nim on all benchmarks? That's kind of expected right?
Why sadly? Why would you want to fingerprint users browsers anyway?
The fact that those laws were even on the books is in itself notable given that, again, anti-Semitism had largely been endorsed by previous governments.

And it wasn't just Germany either. Remember the Dreyfus Affair? That was in France pre-WWI. Dreyfus was framed by the authorities for a crime he did not commit, and initially got a life sentence before widespread public opposition led to a reopening of the case and ultimately to his exoneration. This whole ruckus shows that the very idea that anti-Semitism was something that should be opposed could be considered radical and anti-authoritarian at the time even in "civilized, developed" La Belle Époque France, never mind Germany! The mindset was wildly different from what we'd expect today.
as an atheist, the new testament was a pretty fun read. if you put aside all the stuff about Jesus being God and also his son or whatever, the character was very revolutionary and anti-establishment.

"The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."
My 5th or 6th gen X1 Carbon has a microsd tray just like that in that same spot. I actually use it so I know it definitely is microsd.

The utterly inconvenient access makes me think it must not have been intended for frequent swapping.

IE, it's probably not there to support photographers or drone pilots or any other activity that involves frequently swapping cards, and so it's not quite right to criticise it for being terrible at that. About like complaining that the trackpoint is terrible for CAD.

I have no idea what it's intended function IS though either. I just put a big card in there just because I could, and used it as shared space that both linux and widows could both access. It wasn't necessary nor the best way to do that. That can't be what it was meant for either.
A website optimizing itself for freeloaders rather than ad-watching users, seems... counterproductive for their bottom line.
> 2. Social contacts. Get out there and make friends. In my case i signed up to Meetup and just attended random stuff until people stuck. This usually involves hiking, pubs and bars, restaurant nights out.

I think a problem that a lot of people struggled with, especially those in their late 20s/30s that haven't quite settled down yet, is that corona has made this a lot harder (depending on region) in the last few years. Same on point 3 actually.

Fully agree with your points though; after breaking up with my girlfriend (whom I met on meetup btw) a number of years ago doing pretty much exactly these thing really helped me get back on my feet and went from "I feel like shit all the time" to "I have great new friends whom I do fun new stuff with, a girlfriend, and generally feel pretty darn good" in a matter of about two weeks.

Right now it's a lot harder though, and has been for a while, since both are much harder where I live, which has translated in various problems including feeling more or less like the OP is describing.
this is quite cool, i've been looking for something like this for a while. Not sure it'll get close to something professionally engraved but i really hope it does the job.
It’d cost more money and time to print inferior parts.
I’m the same. I have left the Apple ecosystem for this reason, other than my iPhone. I must admit; the M1 is tempting me to join the dark side once again. And now that Linux is running on it…
I disagree. Some of Trumps policies were ridiculed by the same people who now have the power and choose to continue the exact same policies. In some cases even more extreme.

Keeping history within view helps to view current events in perspective.

Reagan was ridiculed as well. He did a pretty good job at guiding the end of the cold war into a remarkably non-eventful event ( this could be worded better, not a native speaker ).
"Before this ruling, the companies/controllers would have said that we process no personal data, thus GDPR doesn't apply."

That is not correct. These companies use TCF because the GDPR applies. If it did not - they would not have to use it. The GDPR automatically applies as soon as cookies come into play - regardless of what is in the TCF string.

The main thing here is not that PII data comes into play but that the IAB is the controller. Until now the controller was/is the website that actually controls (and passes to 3rd parties) user data. That is why you have to agree to joint controller agreements if you want to integrate the TCF frameworks on larger web sites.

Some background in IPs: The ruling mentions the reason TCF is PII because it can be combined with IP addresses. No one challenges IP addresses as PII data anymore. There were many ruling that classify IPs as PII - specifically in Germany (even pre GDPR).
I think the point is capitalism gives people what they crave. Not necessarily what they need. But any alternative is unimaginable in individualized minds of modern people.
Using Gnome and Firefox with Wayland on NixOS as well. No issues whatsover.
Pharo Days 2022, 03-04 March
Not OP, but "It's all common sense" is exactly the problem, as I see it.
Common Sense usually means Big Hairy Ball of Experience-Grounded Implicit Knowledge Wrapped Up Into Pithy Statements, in my experience.

Sure, each point in the article may sound reasonable, but there are also 1000 other bullet points that also make sense. How do you sort out all the "good" Common Sense from the "bad"?

Not to mention that every bullet points also has tons of Gotchas, where it works 80% of the time and enumerating the remaining 20% cases turns into another giant bullet list which must also be internalized as Common Sense to be effectuated well.
What about:

1. Massive online community

2. Virtual simulators

3. Part numbers and 2nd hand retail

4. Computer and phone interfaces

5. Patent expired so more community
It seems to be one of those creative destruction goals. Quite often the tools being spun off are cool and get repurposed for other things while the goal remains elusive.

Like Lisp originally.
BTRFS is a great solution to the problem of having data be accessible reliably.
I've had issues with Wayland, and I've also had issues with X, but I've been using Gnome's Wayland session for 4 years now. More so than actual window manager issues, I've been experiencing issues with my GPU drivers. FOSS software has never been without it's operational issues. I don't understand what's up with this prejudice towards Wayland. You do understand, that it's the X developers themselves that advocated for Wayland (besides designing and developing it), don't you? X originates in the 80s and it's not a design that stands the test of time. Since the late 00s, all of the window managers had already started doing compositing themselves, circumventing all of the nice layers of the X protocol and just copying pixel buffers around, the interface with X itself is blocking, vertical sync is impossible, security is a joke, the code was untenable. I understand that in as heterogenous software ecosystem as desktop Linux, any large fundamental change will be ugly because there is no shared release cycle and there is no platform, so one can't just change everything overnight, but as far as I can tell, Wayland has been usable for quite a while now. Literal years. Unless you're using hardware vendors that are hostile to FOSS.
> Now you don’t have regular Lego cops and robbers—you have Batman and the Gotham criminals.

You also still have regular Lego cops and robbers. Cops and robbers is still by far the largest sub-theme of the City theme. Almost every set, even some sets that aren't about cops and robbers at all, will have a cop and a robber in there.
I know there's still software (mostly games) being written for DOS and to a lesser extent win95/98. Is there a similar group for Mac system 6/7?
Not sure, that willwork,but need to try
WordPress !== PHP.

WordPress sucks. PHP does not.
And hackerfromthefu isn't the only one who knew that by heart; I was going to supply you with the name when I noticed that someone already had. Not mr Hejlsberg's fault that you don't know his name, is it?
> money stolen

How did PHP result in "money stolen" that couldn't have resulted from any other language?
I can imagine a few scruffy fisherman and a salty old seadog of a Captain ploughing out into the North Sea just after midnight on a thumpety-thumpety old boat, rocking and reeling, listening to this forecast, and then standing to "God save The Queen" each contemplating whether they will be able to return home at the end of the day.
Excellent memeing in the picture. +1
I am using this one now: "Actesso Breathable Wrist Support Brace Splint" but tbh all of the ones I tired before (they lasted a few years) worked too.
I think traditional Lego died when they introduced the parts separator tool - back in my day, you destroyed your fingernails (and sometimes even used your teeth) separating parts. Attaching two 2x1 thin bricks was considered horrific, because you knew you'd never be able to separate them anymore.

Kids these days have it too easy.
There is no problem buying the parts separately needed to build such model. Of course, some exotic parts were discontinued. Lego provides instruction as pdf on their website.

Edit: the other brick manufacturers have problems replicating brick quality with injection molding machines. I assembled thousands Lego parts with my son and their fit was exactly the same - perfect. The Chinese kits have one in hundred parts that doesn’t fit well. However it was one in ten some years ago, Chinese learn fast.

I doubt one can 3D print anything as Lego replacement.