skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The interaction between a language and its culture is really complicated, partially because it's an ongoing iterative process, and thus chaotic, in both the English and mathematical senses of the term.

Not having a standard library made people accept needing libraries for even very small things that in most other languages developers would make at least some effort for using the standard library before reaching for something else.

I think another aspect is that the initial leadership of a language community sets the tone for a long time, but JS in a lot of ways didn't have that, not through any fault of any particular person but simply because Node grew so explosively at the beginning that the usage growth dominated the available leadership growth, and so there was a lot of very wild, woolly growth that got written into the earliest culture. This creates something a lot like a "seed crystal" that has outsized impacts on future paths for a long time.

Finally, I do think it is definitely an issue that JS is somewhere where you get a lot of people who are not "programmers" per se and they are making big decisions about code bases and libraries. They're young in the art. And while there's nothing intrinsically bad about that, people have to start somewhere, there's a lot of ways in which it's good that JS is relatively easy to get into, etc., it is also absolutely true that at scale, as the language and the libraries iterate on each other and seek out their stable points, that's going to affect the landscape. This is an "is", not an "ought". It is what it is. JS has also continued explosive growth, so even as someone who got into JS and programming for the first time in 2017 is now a 5-year "senior" (a crack about our industry terminology, not the dev here) developer who has learned and might be inclined to do things differently than they did 5 years ago, there's another 2.5 newbies "voting" in the community as well.

It's a hard problem, I salute the leaders in the JS and npm world working on it, I wis them the best and advocate people giving them grace working in a very hard situation. But I'm also glad not to be part of it.
Point of data for you–broken windows theory of crime and policing has been widely debunked. Here's one source of many: https://news.northeastern.edu/2019/05/15/northeastern-univer...
I’m not entirely sure what distinction you are trying to make.
>I'm pretty sure that goes both ways depending upon who's in power at the time. Republicans love pork barrel spending just as much as democrats do.

Absolutely. Deficit spending is the problem but moving the ceiling is what matters. The point of the ceiling to force politicians to be fiscally responsible.

If neither of them could move the ceiling. Then when they hit the ceiling, they now have to start figuring out what spending to cut. They never do that.

>The deficit rose $7.8T while Trump was president, yet the democrats get blamed for raising the debt ceiling.

Politicians sure like spending. Nobody wants to be the politician who cuts and takes blame for the cuts. Then your opponents get back into power after you were fiscally responsible and get to spend and take credit? Why would you fall for that trap? Keep on spending!

Moving the debt ceiling even temporarily should be death to a political party.

Luckily, in the USA this does seem to be the case.
I don’t live in Dallas so I’ll take your word for it. When you and your neighbors get together, does it seem hopeless or are there any other strategies being tried to prevent destructive raids?
A popular choice in the real world is known as 'the big ball of mud', e.g. as described at http://www.laputan.org/mud/.
Try making a big purchase with it in China.
Automotive LEDs made by an OEM should not burn out for the life of the vehicle.
This is literally EXACTLY how releases are supposed to work for companies using any package manager out there.

A number of [employees] who pay attention to what's going on upstream package software for users. When something gets weird these [employees] change their behavior and prevent the users from being harmed.

The problem is - much like a church with elders (and linux distros - frankly) - quality varies dramatically.

Some of them prevent people from being captured by vices, some of them diddle the kids.

Same here: Some companies take the appropriate steps to lock down dependencies and only update after a thorough vetting. Some pull the latest packages on every push to master.
I haven't driven a modern car in a decade or more that didn't have light sensors in the dashboard to know when to automatically turn on lights. They even turn them on when the wipers are engaged. Everytime you go through a tunnel you'll see headlights pop on automatically. My 2009 BMW is the oldest car I have that has auto lights, but it doesn't have wiper sensors.

Older cars? Of course not.
What a smorgaboard of bs-- its basically a long-winded narrative that combines a litany of dubious sources to form a conclusion. More interestingly, it relies heavily on entities like RFE/VOA et al, which are technically illegal to distribute inside of the US because its considered propaganda that represents the USs interests and not necessarily the truth-- but there it is cited extensively in reporting of the legislature.

I just want to give one example-- the only part of Russia's interference in Ukraine's 2004 elections that isn't prefixed with "allegedly" is that Putin stood by a candidate during a parade. It then summarises the subsequent events as "protecting the ballot box" without illustrating that there was never any evidence of fraud-- exit poll discrepancies were the entirety of the claim. They tried to do the same thing in 2010 but international monitors were present and quickly put down their fake claims of election fraud.
> but many would say that even this worse case is better than giving "democratic" institutions unlimited power to print money.

"Many people say" this because they aren't the ones with the power. That's all. That's the parent's point. It's not changing the system, it's just changing the owners of the system. What's that lyric..."Meet the new boss same as the old boss"
Is there anything really inherent in Austrian economics about ignoring evidence? Hate to be that guy (source???), but this doesn't match up at all with my impression of the difference factions in economics. If anything, the economists who reject the current dominant economic tools seem to have more of an emphasis on empirical evidence than wishful thinking.
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They probably inherited genes for above average IQs
> Do you not used a cognate word for "Cruise control" in your language?

It is a literal copy from English here. ESC/ESP and ABS are used or abbreviations or as a full text ones, but they map 1:1 to both English and abbreviated counterparts.

For what it worth I checked how the article "cruise missile" is called in other languages in Wikipedia (well at least ones I could tell).

Most European languages uses a some variation of "cruise", while some European and Slavic languages uses "winged" or even "maneuverable" (Polish). There is a slight correlation between a sea-faring countries and a former Warsaw Pact ones.
> For example, you can't submit any old Haskell library you put together to Hackage

You can, but you need to figure out what your library is doing and translate it to category theory.
Would you not accept that African-Americans might be victims of circumstances? As shown in the article it matters where you live. Also, criminal who's house FBI forcefully entered was not 'white'.
You're 99% there: there is no reason to want inflation or deflation. But the final wrinkle is that if your wealth is sitting around as money, it's not "doing" anything.

One concept I've had in the past is a currency system where you never hold the medium of exchange for any length of time. Instead, you have something like an ultra-diversified investment portfolio that covers a massive swath of securities, commodities, etc. that you can buy microshares of. You could picture an electronic transaction system where prices are denominated in dollars, and whenever you want to buy something, you briefly trade away your shares for dollars and pass them to the seller, who immediately resolves those dollars back into shares.

In other words, your store of value is electronically handled by owning shares of things that have literal value, and you never have to worry about how much the medium of exchange is "worth". Creation or destruction of dollars is not really a concern for the users of such a system.

Obviously, though, there are some holes in this system in terms of implementation, otherwise I'd probably be off working on it!
I wonder what's the average hourly rate on Fiverr. Grossly.

That said for some tasks and people I'd do it for 10$.
I don't see the connection to EVs. Certainly one can power EVs using coal-fired and gas-fired power plants, which just shifts the demand away from oil and towards coal and gas. However, people can also power their EVs off wind, solar or uranium power, whose production involves no fossil fuels. In contrast, ICE vehicles are locked into gasoline or diesel.

Obviously, transition to EV is a key necessity for getting transportation off fossil fuels. Now, international jet travel and global shipping are not going to work with electric power due to lower energy density in batteries, but here we can simply do artificial photosynthesis, based on DAC and hydrogen from water, and generate carbon-neutral fuel with no need to sacrifice agricultural land.
Because the current owner of piece is just storing it in some airport warehouse doesn't mean there aren't others who would like the work to be hanging in their home or available to see in a gallery.

A private key doesn't do any of the things that great (and no-so-great) art can do for us.
I think you already know that. You could try speculating a bit. It just sounds like you're playing dumb to try to catch me out on something at this point.
I apologize if this is a silly question but is that currently mandated or is this something that will likely be mandated when the EVs become dominant? My impression was that they are currently relatively silent but that might just because they are always in proximity to a combustion engine idling next to them.
Doing some reading, it looks like configuring RUA will send an aggregate like you mention, while configuring RUF (F for forensic) will give more granular details.
"Third-party" isn't really correct for regex: https://github.com/rust-lang/regex (note the org)

Rust's stdlib is deliberately small in order to allow it to have very strong stability guarantees.
But mass adoption of EVs, percentage wise, is absolutely required. I don't see how the alternative of keeping ICE vehicles is sustainable.
The market demand for making sanctioned transactions is quite small. For the average person, it’s basically nothing. For the prosumer, it might be drugs or prediction markets, and especially the latter is already legal in many jurisdictions.
Node does have a standard library.

I've seen this same weird line parroted by so many people in the comments here: it's very odd.

If you're talking about server & browser having different APIs that's equivalent to any other language having different platform apis.
A massive decrease in the value of human labor and human individual productivity due to robotics or AI might have a similar outcome.
Sadly, in Debian every package which gets installed, can run a script with root privileges so this is even more dangerous. Although most packages don't need such privileges.
I think that's a big part. The standard library isn't great, and progress is tied to browsers. Additionally, tiny packages became the norm early on. Is even, is odd, is negative zero, left pad, etc.

I don't know all the reasons for that, but I think part of it is that developers create them in order to put it on their resume. "My package is downloaded 500k times a week"
I came here to share this link too
Was it a CEO’s resume or bio piece? Anyone found what this was about?
Nice to know. ADO was floating around the office as some large customers of us use it.

To be honest at this point I don’t see us ever switch away from BitBucket as our environment (non tech employees use SourceTree, bitbucket pipelines etc) is centered around it.
This is nonsense. Groceries are still shopped by people.

What your comment suggests is that you believe that your comfort is more valuable than other people’s safety.
Men would often be the authority on finances in a household, in Western culture. The notion is looked down on these days, but until the 70s, men would be the "breadwinner" of the family, and the wife would have limited influence on saving and spending and investing unless the couple was unusually communicative and fair.

When women began to enter the workplace by the 90s, the stereotype began to fade, and won't be relevant in the next decade or so - we've more or less reached parity wrt to gender distribution in the workplace.
is-odd package.json contains

"dependencies": {
"is-number": "^6.0.0"
},
I'm relieved that I'm not the only one who has come to this conclusion! It's so annoying and sad listening to all the people out there with good intentions who are failing so hard they actually drive people in the opposite direction. They would further their cause more by removing themselves from the discussion entirely.
thank you, those examples are very helpful to show what you mean.

now my argument is that i don't see this as a bad thing. yes, maybe some people get an advantage here without contributing themselves, but the alternative is that we stop improving our lives for fear that someone might get a better life without contributing themselves.

that kind of thinking seems to be very common in the US and it prevents a lot of potentially good development.

some people would prefer to suffer rather than allowing others to get an advantage.

we really need to get away from that. as long as we ourselves get an advantage from some development we need to stop worrying if others get an advantage without contributing.

the reality is that my life can't get better if i don't work to make life better for everyone around me, regardless if they like it or not.

but there is another issue that i have with complaints about freeloaders. we don't know if they are freeloaders. we don't know if that person that refuses to buy a smartphone isn't putting that money towards some other good cause. we don't know if that person avoids that pizza app because they happen to know that it contains spyware. or if that parent searching their kids went to the extra effort of getting a very energy efficient car, and the solar panels on their roof that frequently send electricity into the grid and that make up for the wasted energy of searching their kids once in a while many times over.

we don't know if someone is really a freeloader or a contributor.

and it's impossible to come up with an equation that could tell us.
I saw that, that's why I'm surprised spring still ~~grams~~ harms devs. I thought the culture evolved too.
I have been reading "Molecular Biology of Cancer Mechanisms, Targets, and Therapeutics" by Lauren Pecorino, Fifth edition.
I never understand these types of statements.

What is the attempted statement here? To imply that black people are inherently violent? What are you getting at?

The way i see it, those numbers reflect the state of racially focused stunted development in many communities.

It's like when people throw single-parent household statistics around with blacks. What do we think is the root cause here? That their skin color inherently made them do this? Or maybe, just maybe, the living conditions are not prone to healthy structured families and healthy individuals.
I don't know what the demographics of HN are, but while reading this I had similar sentiment. I don't like having to hear leaf blowers, but I really don't like other ppl telling me I can't use one. All regulations have a cost; I think I just weigh the cost more heavily in principle than many folks here.
How do you explain Libya?
Thanks for the no-bullshit explanation - much appreciated! That letter makes me think approximately the same thing I think to myself when someone tells me their sister got married: like, "hmm, I'm not really sure why you're telling me this, but good for them I guess."
Ktor 2.0 Released
Ask HN: Why does web version of Google Play look like it’s stuck in 2013?
The charts can only tell us that it went up in the past. What interests most people more is if it will go up in the future.
Right. That's why I posted here. On blind, the main complaint with amazon is overwork and toxicity. For microsoft, it's "low" pay compared to other big tech.
I tried to get a COVID finger prick antibody test while paying cash. The Kroger 'Little Clinic' insisted on ID and photocopying it. I refused and asked to see the written notice and privacy policy. They called store security on me. Apparently eveyone else complies.
I've always found cars to be much more disruptive in the suburbs because they drive so much faster in the suburbs. Cars drive by a suburban sandwich shop that I like to go to so fast that they shake windows. The speed limit on the road is 25.
I think curated packages is part of what https://tidelift.com/ is trying to achieve.
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I was going to say yeah, the title of the newsletter is a little ... revealing.
The essential part of a long-term, low carbon future is to drastically reduce car use. After that wether it's an EV or an ethanol fueled ICE is really secondary.
The FBI absolutely deserves all of the flak they're getting, but I think it's somewhat misdirected. It seems that a lot of folks believe the FBI should have knocked down the door. I'd argue the opposite - I'd prefer they gave people in poor neighborhoods the same level of respect that they showed this time. If the normal policy was to prefer to avoid property damage, then this situation would have just been business as usual and there wouldn't be any outrage.
Well, bitcoin still needs a point of entry. To buy, most people go to their bank, transfer to an exchange and make a trade from fiat to btc. If western banking decided to ban this kind of exchange it'd be pretty close to a bitcoin ban. I don't think anyone is going to trade large amounts of physical cash for bitcoins like they used to before exchanges.
Yep it's really not popular. They had some very grand plans, distributing an infographic showing that there was a "Truth" group of companies in the pipeline[0] which were planned to directly with a number of big players in the traditional and social media spaces. I don't think anyone believed they would succeed, but if even Trump has lost interest I think the writing's on the wall

[0] - https://i.insider.com/6171b3c713a46d0012b3c7c9 - it's from this article, in case that link is ethereal https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-media-company-p...
> Yeah, that thing you use to do stuff in Chrome with code.

In where?
Sidewalks and bike lanes are not contiguous. Pedestrians and cyclists are not only permitted, but have the right of way, on nearly all roads other than controlled access highways and tunnels, even where sidewalks and bike lanes exist.
It's a real shame, because Excel is great for taking quick notes when you have data, but you're not yet sure how you'll want to organize it, or what you'll want to do with it long term. You start by just jotting down numbers. But then you have everything there an an easy to digest form. You can create pivot tables to sort the data. Graphing is easy. The data gets stuck there because it's so easy to use and it's already there.
Apple starts manufacturing iPhone 13 in India
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Pets.com and WebVan were exemplary of the dotcom bubble. They had insane valuations and a problematic business model, but investors poured money in because of hype. But both those services are legitimate, profitable through other companies today. They were just too early, maybe too hyped.

I got groceries from WebVan in the 90s. I bought books from Amazon in the 90s. I used Yahoo.com to find information in the 90s. These were services with value even if the companies didn't make it.

Crypto has provided no value other than making some people money. It has solved no problem. In more than a decade, crypto has still not found a viable use-case.
So long Puppet, have some fond memories. Good luck with the OSS thing at Perforce.
They do have those mines that popup out of the ground and then explode, is that enough movement?
As a teenager, I was pulled over for speeding. I slowed down, used the indicators to signal before changing lanes, then nearly came to a complete stop before realizing I was on the shoulder of a bridge. I suddenly realized that somewhere in driver's ed or a defensive driving course it was strongly suggested that stopping on a bridge is not allowed. I decided to continue pulling forward until a "safe" spot off the bridge.

When the officer arrived at the window, he did question why I didn't stop at the original spot. After explaining, he said he appreciated the thought. I still received the ticket.

Point of the story? Not every LEO is an asshole.
To an extent.

But it can be tricky - some poor people use more gas than others. And if we want to give an extra cash transfer to the cleaner who starts work before public transit starts running, that's going to get complex to administer.
Lack of choice can often be a blessing.
All of Elon Musk's companies are heavily subsidized by the US tax payer. Solar City, SpaceX and Tesla would not be successful if it weren't for subsidies and tax breaks.
I'm shocked at the lack of humanity in this story. Every once in a while an "enemy" will start a war, and we'll get a bunch of coverage about orphans and mothers and fathers and horror, and I think maybe just maybe people will realize that all wars are terrible. Except when we start them, then I guess it's mostly kind of funny because our intelligence wasn't as great as it could have been?
70 billion parameters... Is each of those a 4-byte float?

So, is that 280 billion bytes of just parameters?
Sounds like you took my comment as an insult. It was a compliment, if anything.

I figured you, the reader, would be smart enough to make the distinction you're looking for in your own head without me spelling them out. Everyone already knows India is full of modern and developed areas, but that's not what the article was about. My comment doesn't exist in a vacuum, so maybe it would be fair to afford me the same nuance you seem to be after.
> Within the Sydney metropolitan area, commuter trains are operating among freight trains at 5-15 minute frequencies, though with dedicated freight bypass lines in some places.

AFAIK there a blackout periods for freight on the Sydney Trains network during the morning and afternoon peaks, though.

Plus the "dedicated freight bypass lines in places" nowadays is basically the complete route between the southern limit of the suburban rail network at Macarthur and Port Botany via Enfield Yard, plus a stub from Enfield towards North Strathfield. So major track sharing (especially with super-long interstate freight trains) only really happens from Strathfield on the line towards Newcastle, and that again is at least three or even four-tracked for parts of the way within Sydney (although unlike the southern half it's not exclusive freight infrastructure).

Plus whatever local-ish freight traffic might still exist around Western Sydney, towards the Blue Mountains, and along the coast to Wollongong.