skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Walmart doesn't rearrange its shelves when you start heading there. Everyone gets the same experience.

The insidious part is shaping your world based on what is known of you in an attempt to modify your behavior without telling you why or how. It is not dissimilar to gaslighting.
FWIW ANGLE is only used that way in Firefox on Windows.
I absolutely agree.

Bored by Java and After getting burned due to performance limitations by Python applications at scale I switched to Go and never looked back. I still use Python for ML, DS and I don't think it'll change anytime soon due to the tools/library ecosystem.

> Tiny output binaries are also very quick to transfer and spin up in serverless as well - often reducing costs further.

What's your serverless stack for Go? Cloudflare claims Go is not the right language for their workers due to sandboxing constraints[1].

> Go fundamentally is not designed to support secure sandboxing of tenants without running each tenant in their own process...

[1] https://community.cloudflare.com/t/native-golang-support-for...
Go is probably most productive language I'd use for CLI tools and quick server stuff. There are libraries for most things you need, often better documented than python counterparts. Single binary and good tooling.

Now, one may hate something about the language but at the end we bite the bullet and get things done.

That said, Go doesn't have a great ecosystem for website backend dev. You can do it, but often less convenient.
In-memory data stores still typically have a concept of "durability" which you can think of as "the same transaction is committed on all servers in {some definition of a replica group}." So like any disk backed store, all servers see transactions consistently, and all have a copy of the data.

Obviously, there's no replication/transaction processing occurring when you're just storing stuff in an ordinary hashmap. Hence the Fake* naming.
The classic coin-op arcade game dark pattern is the Continue screen. Put more money in me to keep going, but hurry you only have a few seconds.
Hackers like a lot of things made by them, SELinux and Ghidra are two example. Very good products. SELinux protects billions of devices.

I don’t think the NSA invented Bitcoin, there is no evidence of this. It does however serve the purposes of information assurance mission by generating some real world metrics of the cost, in both energy and compute/memory, and also an early warning and bounty system on SHA2 and ECDSA sigs.
Without overhangs and gutters, you are going to have a lot more water exposure to your siding, windows and doors which will definitely affect longevity. In a snow climate, this is even worse.

The concerning part is all the exposed windows, which aren't sealed to the framing at the bottom. There's a much larger chance of water ingress.
“They didn’t complain about this other equally bad thing” is a weak argument and isn’t HN-caliber.
This site has an interesting categorization system. I made https://nobsgames.stavros.io a while back, and chose something slightly different (mostly based on the existence of in-game currency or pay-to-win).

I don't know which system is better, but mine has worked very well for me, I've discovered some great games.
The tech existed already and it was cheaper. Airtags just ripped off existing technology without substantially improving it, while causing a privacy/security nightmare that none of the other devices ever caused.

But hey if you want to spend 80$ for something that was already available 2 years ago for 40$ you go ahead.
The distribution of stores looks like this https://xkcd.com/1138/
> I'm guessing you're gonna tell me the first company to make such earbuds was not Apple? I'm interested to know who it was.

Well, Syllable D900 were out at least a year before Apple announced theirs. The first ones? No idea.
"I would have liked to see what would happen in a pandemic if Bitcoin were the world's reserve currency;"

We already know the answer to it: the economy would collapse in a hulking mass.

The 'advantage' of Bitcoin, which is 'integrity' (i.e. can't be debauched) becomes a big 'disadvantage' during a time of crisis, when reallocation has to happen.

It's like nailing your boat with a plank to the dock: string and reliable. But then the tide goes out and everything breaks: better in the long run to use ropes.

BTC is inflationary, people would rush to it during a crises and credit would evaporate, the dominos would all fall down.

Something 'unforeseen' will always happen, meaning we have to be able to change the rules sometimes.

Much like a pandemic situation, a lot of the normal rules for operating the economy go out the window. Vaccine production and distribution is fully socialised, not part of normal healthcare etc..

And yes, it's a giant double edged sword which is why there's no excuse for not having 'intelligent, comptetent and responsible leadership' at all times.
Honestly Golang is not hard to learn, compared to other typed languages like Rust.
If a teacher is forbidden from getting copies of a book (even at their own expense), distributing them to students, and assigning reading and giving lessons on the book, then it’s effectively banned. Let’s not play semantics here.
I don't see 6 different competing stores on Android. As platform holders, Apple and Google will keep massive competitive advantages against other stores and I'm 100% sure that >95% of users outside of China will only use either App Store/Play Store.
>Real estate agents: 49.1 years old
automation/online will change it a lot once the older generations of agents and clients leave the scene.

IDK about that. I'm a pretty online person but I don't think I would have mortgaged roughly half a million dollars in my name on an online ad alone. I distinctly remember being very excited about a house when were looking to buy only to realise it was hobbit sized in real life. It's pretty hard to know that based off photos alone.

> EVs need them less. Also dealership model got to go.

Tesla has notorious build quality. Batteries need replacing.

> Autonomous.

No

> for both - immigration and automation.

damn, that's cold on multiple levels
> That's a choice

Not meaningfully; Linux can't change away from GPLv2 (too many copyright owners), and ZFS can never change from CDDL (again, too many owners, including Oracle), and those licenses are incompatible. The only way Linux could make it work is by freezing all the kernel APIs that ZFS uses, and while that is a choice, it would be an extremely expensive choice to give up being able to refactor anything that it touched.
Just check .NET Framework 4 to .NET Core transition. You can dig MSDN blogs. While Go should be lauded for their performance improvements, it should not be done by reducing other languages/stacks’ achievements.
Yeah, it's one of those where a few make it out into management, but the rest end up with broken bodies.
Scott Alexander had a long post on ivermectin-related papers. He noticed that some of the papers that purported a positive effect came from developing countries that have a bigger parasitic problem than the rich world.

Could it be that ivermectin helped third world patients with undetected worm infestation get rid of it and thus improved their covid-19 outcomes?
Every time I've used btrfs I've gotten bitten. The tooling in general is just not up to snuff to ZFS's vertical integration approach.
Yes, they're still allowing side-loading. Though it recently tried to monetize Play Store by enforcing its own payment processing system for most apps.
I find it very confusing why they don't embrace the JavaScript echo system. I'm all for a new syntax that does away with some of the bad parts but if you can't async/await, well then you can't really do I/O, and if you can't do that then your app isn't particular fun to use.

That said, I get that there's callbacks for everything and that you can do I/O with callbacks but it's not fun and if that is your only option you're going to need some external Flux "store" to manage all your state.

Edit: I should also add that I understand that there are people who find the async/await paradigm to be bad but I don't think we have much of an alternative when it comes to JavaScript or if you want an alternative, we'll then you are hardcore enough to be fine with just callbacks.
Doesn't Google and Facebook have manual reviews of ads places on their platforms? How does something like this get through?
The fact that so many talented bright minds can be bought at a high enough price and forced to optimize targeted advertising instead of solving climate change or humanities most pressing issues is a sad state of affairs. I wish we could harness the brightest minds and give them everything they need to solve humanities hardest hitting problems, they shouldn’t have to worry about making money, etc. the KPIs are how many global crises they can avert and are measured by months, years, decades not quarters.
Some of this may be obvious (especially after you read it) so I apologize if this comment is unhelpful...

The fires typically start in open spaces, so if your house is right next to open space, you're at a high risk of fire (and this is basically how your fire insurance rates are determined).

Your best protection against fire is other houses. If the fire has to burn through 500 other houses to reach yours, chances are very high that the fire will be stopped by that time. It's pretty rare for that many structures to be lost in a fire, and from a personal safety standpoint, you'll typically be long gone by the time that happens.
Don't boot the new kernel?
I think that is is an excellent and relevant example of press bias, which @legerdemain was commenting on.

Generic straw mans are not conducive to good faith arguments, HN or elsewhere.
If labor is in short supply for blue collar jobs, shouldn't wages rise significantly? Doesn't make sense to me
This reminds me of how they hid the U2 from prying eyes in "Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed" by Ben Rich, that I'm currently reading. For anyone who's interested in experimental aircraft, the secrecy and the engineering this is a great read. He talks about the lengths they went to hiding the U2 and the Stealth Fighter from surveillance and everyone else.
Not manual at that scale.
That's a joke, as can be inferred from "That'll show 'em" with an exclamation mark:)
Read HN!
Oh, yeah, I received a nasal vaccine against flu in the early 1990s in Czechoslovakia as well. It wasn't a match for the coming wave, unfortunately, and we all got very nasty flu.
Yes, that would qualify as banning if it happened, but as far as I can tell, neither the article nor the meeting minutes state that McMinn County teachers are forbidden from doing any of those things.
Obligatory plug for Simon Tatham's (the author of Putty) puzzle application.
There's a long line of young people who would love to get into the trades or other professions mentioned in the article. What the author didn't mention is that all of them also have a huge amount of gatekeeping that keeps younger workers either miserable or out entirely. All the money in these seemingly lucrative professions is going to older workers with seniority while young people who join are doing the toughest, shittiest jobs and still struggling to survive. Licensing organizations have become cartels that artificially restrict supply to increase profits for existing members. There's no wonder young people are choosing to look elsewhere.
Or just integrate other third party payment systems like Stripe, Square or PayPal. I'm pretty sure that they will almost immediately make their systems available on both Android and iOS when the bill passes.
It seems to be a huge problem in Germany as well – I had several different trades working at my house over the past few month, and every single one lamented about how there is so much work to do and they can’t find the workers to handle it.

I really wonder what the results will be in the coming 5-10 years in a country whose infrastructure has already begun to crumble at the seams.
The people who said vaccines will prevent infection and spreading of Covid?
> With the moves away from gas for heating and cooking and the proliferation of electric cars, it seems that demand for residential power is only going to go up with solar offsetting it

I see your point with EVs, but the utility (at least here) that provides gas and electric is the same. So a shift from gas to electric for cooking and heating won't really change the amount of money or where it goes (unless electric costs more than gas). Hell, if heating/cooking shifts more toward electric, people could power those off solar, so that shift would be a net negative for the utility's revenue.

I don't think I could give up my gas stove, but if I did get solar at my current place, I would likely replace my hot water heater with an electric one the next time it needs replacing, and run it off the panels. Ditto for the furnace, though those tend to have longer replacement cycles than hot water heaters.

Certainly if everything moves from gas to electric, then the utility can just stop providing gas entirely, and start dismantling that infrastructure, so sure, over a long time, that would save them money. But I honestly can't see that happening, even in a place like CA, for... a century? More? I think any legislature that mandated people replace their gas appliances with electric would get voted out in a heartbeat. Then again, who knows how popular attitudes will change in the coming decades.
Do trades even pay that well, or is it just selection bias making them seem like they do?

According to BLS, median annual income for plumbers, electricians, and welders are respectively 56k, 57k, and 44k. Meanwhile, the median kindergarten and elementary school teacher—a famously non-lucrative career among those requiring university education—earns 60k according to the same resource.

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/plumbers...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/construction-and-extraction/electric...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/production/welders-cutters-solderers...

https://www.bls.gov/ooh/education-training-and-library/kinde...
I fully agree that the author of the piece should volunteer for a low paid job of a janitor. They are becoming the elderly population, if somebody doesn't sacrifice themselves what oh what will happen?

Sure, there is a lack of young workers for janitorial positions, but not everybody is a boomer with a home and family that can afford (let alone thrive) to be janitor.

There are only three possible scenarios: either the wage goes up, the job gets automated (eg robots) or the job ceases to exist.

Stop making op-ed pieces from your pedestal, screaming there is an issue, when you're directly responsible for the issue, hoping that somebody else will bail out your ass. Op is a lender and a banker, work with the companies you're financing to increase the wages and make the jobs attractive.

Thought so.
Yeah, likewise. Lived close enough to downtown (by Pease Park). Quiet and pleasant. Every time I went into the rest of the city it was nice. I have my problems with the town, but this is not it.

Spoiler: it’s that I can’t get psychedelics easily.
Ditto; I used BTRFS on OpenSUSE - y'know, the big distro that's all-in on BTRFS and that's been using it for forever, the one place where I'd expect it to work - and it ate the whole root filesystem twice. The first time I tried to recover (fsck? I forget), the second time I didn't even try and just reinstalled. In hindsight, I'm not sure why I reinstalled on BTRFS again, but it hasn't managed a third time at least:) (Now that I've written that, it will of course break)
Are you going to try and argue that such a policy would have been on the right side of history as long as it was bought in by a democratic society?
A few edge case examples do not constitute a crisis. The point is not that 0 cases happen in mathematics, but rather that unreproducible results are not the norm, while in other sciences, it is the norm.
If you're a woman, the clock is ticking. With delayed adulthood / 40 is the new 30 stuff, that means for women your time is limited. Combine that with the fact that if you are under 35, your dating pool is almost three decades of men.

So when women actually wake up to whether they want kids or not (stereotypically in early 30s), then you have, shit, 5 years or less to find someone and start establishing a relationship.

A woman turns 40? Stereotypically the men who will date you are 40+, likely not interested in kids because that's why they are dating you or they already been there done that.

Women functionally have until 35 to be in a stable relationship to start family planning.

Men can procreate well past 40? 50?

Those are the biological ground rules.

Also, when you have kids, you realize that 90% of how single people choose each other has very little to do with a functional relationship with even one kid.

So if you have a social network, there are a large number of people who have wrestled with all the hard realities. Meanwhile, as a single person, you can largely fall into a rhythm / routine / rut and time can fly by. We are in an entertainment society that is tuned to the 18-40 people.

Again, that's fine biologically for men who decide to "settle down" at 45.

Not for women.

So if you tell yourself "nah" on kids, well, fine. But let me tell you something that came through crystal clear as I watched my mother die of cancer and helped her in her dying days: you'll want kids to help you in your worst times, because our (American) society doesn't give two shits about you once your productivity is gone, and the medical system is absolutely overloaded and understaffed from the perspective of nursing.

Again, modern society caters to you in your youth and free consumption years. It lulls you into staying there where you provide a lot of profit to companies.

But reality lies beneath the consumer facade. The day my mother died I walked around a town square, and everyone seemed like they were in a daze. Didn't they realize we're all going to die? How short and fragile this is? Everyday life exists to distract us from such realities, and keep us slotted in cogs in the machine as generations flow through it.
The worst example of such douchebaggery is when you google something in say French, but you get only results in English or mixed results in both languages.. Even worse is searching youtube some other language.. The results are artificially translated into the searched language but you only discover that when you click on the video..
It might also be simply that the press has limited resources, and being composed of human beings, cannot be expected to operate with perfect ideological consistency.
I would put all those in the same file. I only turn functions into modules if they are imported/linked in other programs.
And Technology. Used to be you needed to know how to solder pipe to work on plumbing. Now with the PEX systems, you push on connections and you are done. Gave serious thought to redoing my father's house in PEX. Then I learned that mice love the plastic. For a house in the woods, that made me stay with copper.
I am sorry but there is little fact in this post. It starts with the religious crap about licensing, then inaccurate statements about symbols, statements about performance with zero proof, misunderstanding of layering, dumb statements about memory cache and how it works the ARC, some shock about dedup requiring lots of ram (duh)....etc. This is written as well I feel this way so here is my Cherry-picking set of items (without clear understanding) to backup my view.
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Aside from all the big prep ahead of time, when we evacuate for a fire, is there anything we should be doing at the time of evacuation to help our house survive or easier to partially save... leave interior doors open/closed, leave drapes open/closed, leave hall lights on for firefighters or off to prevent electrical shorts, etc? I've also heard that the fire hydrants are typically on a different water infrastructure from household supply... is that true? If that's true, should I turn my lawn sprinklers on to help make my landscaping less flammable?
It has literally been like this for at least the last ten years in America. It takes a huge amount of work to get the police to do anything.

But also, you guys don’t know what the Third World is like. But at least I can tell that Nextdoor and HN have some overlap.
This is exactly what Youtube does.
You might be mistaking me for someone who stated there is a math replication crisis. I replied to one specific claim
Gas-powered leaf blowers face a moment of reckoning
Wouldn't the better option be to overwrite one duplicate with `cp --reflink`? That way you keep the nice CoW properties... I think.
It will be the same as it's currently in post-covid bar and restaurant business. Nobody wanted to work the shitty 24/7 jobs after being out of the trade during the lockdowns so they had to increase salaries.

Problem is not yet big enough and the hurdle of getting into construction is not so high that it's impossible to learn the trade in 6 months.

On the other hand if that would mean that construction industry is not competitive, then well, I see a lot of Turkish and Chinese companies getting deals in EU.
>I suppose the answer is to let the users write their own clients

What happens when Netflix wants to release a new feature or change an API? Do they now have to worry about getting everyone else to update their clients? What if some customization is put behind a paywall. What should happen if a third party client gives it away for free?
Millions-per-second of what? That's a serious load for any stack and depends on far more than just the language.

And it can also be done by other stacks as clearly seen in the TechEmpower benchmarks. Here's .NET and Java doing 7 million HTTP requests/second and maxing out the network card throughput: https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r20&hw=...
One of the reasons I love the KDE desktop environment on Linux is because it has settings available to customize nearly everything about it, but it has good default settings out of the box, so you don't have to customize much, but any time you want to customize something, you can go dig around in the settings and find it and change it easily to fit your needs. That's honestly the way it should be. Good settings by default for users who like to just use things as they are, but options readily available to easily change things if you want to.
Right, but that's a particularly rare example in mathematics, not the norm.
Ahh yes. PHP 4 support was a big thing for CodeIgniter.
No. That's why it's an answer to “Is that how people sound when they talk about programming?”
It seems whenever I've had to hire someone to do electrical work, roofing work, water heater replacement, etc., the bill is fantastic. I watch them work, and it doesn't take that long or seem so difficult. Someone is making pots of money off of it.

(I've watched the cable guy, the plumber, etc., at work. Next time I needed a similar job done, I did it myself. I even bought the same tools the cable guy was using. The guy replacing the water heater noted that it had a new pressure relief valve in it. I said yeah, it started leaking a month prior and I replaced it. He was shocked, and I said all it was was unscrewing the old one and putting it a new one with a bit of teflon tape. The whole job was $27, for the new valve from Amazon. I'm pretty good at sweating pipes, too!)
> One very surprising exception is Mac OS, which after decades of only allowing blue controls added the choice of color.

I now feel the need to change my button color in System Preferences. Jarring for those on Zoom screen shares, but that’s half the fun.
Global phaseout of animal agriculture has potential to stabilize greenhouse gas