skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Scaling a code base doesn't start or end with type checking. Some of the answers to what you are implying is: Use interfaces when using OOP. Consider dependency injection or other Inversion of Control patterns. Maybe don't use OOP as much...
Zelle is a turd of a service, too. If your bank doesn't have it integrated, then the only way to accept a payment sent to you through Zelle is to sign up through an app. No website signups allowed.

https://www.zellepay.com/faq/someone-sent-me-money-zelle-how...
That "shift" away from Python wouldn't be seen in any particular data, right?
Seasoned engineers go for simple and effective tech. You can find a good amount of those on here. A few might browse the site from lynx or Emacs.

The other "fancy" tech forum full of new tech and slow as molasses (Reddit) is mostly frequented by the younger, more inexperienced generation of hackers.
If you use opensource code but don’t contribute back, you not an equal member of the opensource community.

You’re getting financial benefit from my donated effort. I don’t mind - I wouldn’t opensource my work if this bothered me enough. But GitHub issues opened by leeches have a certain entitled tang to them - “Hey could you donate more of your time so I can make more profit? I won’t pay you. Maybe you should be thanking me for finding problems in your work and pointing them out to you. Get to it!”

The reason you don’t contribute doesn’t matter. You’re profiting from my volunteer work and asking me to volunteer more so you can profit more.

Justify leeching to yourself how you like. But you won’t get respect from me until you contribute back.

And, yes, if you work at an immoral company, that is also absolutely on your hands.
> "RCS is faster and uses less disk space than SCCS."

That was the promotion.

In fact RCS was never as fast as SCCS. RCS did not, in fact, use less disk space than SCCS. It is hard to identify any particular where RCS was better. The code quality was abysmal. But Tichy got a PhD out of it, so there was that, anyway.
Are you worried about it replacing you? Can't you use it as a new tool somehow?
I wouldn't let my computer sleep with this because it could get a virus and then before I know it I'm getting asked for money and if I don't pay up my nudes are all over my social media
Functional muscle certainly, but as someone who did bodyweight exercises most of his life and then tried weightlifting, there is definitely a cosmetic difference to the muscles produced by the latter.
I'd say all metrics point to the popularity of Python increasing, while there is no data indicating that people are fleeing Python en masse. Or at all, actually.
I feel like places like tigsource have better civility and high signal to noise ratios.

There are a lot of forums that are good cuz they just ban annoying people (and that self selects a lot too). When you try to do mental gymnastics to justify removing people from a community suddenly a certain kind of person can show up and ruin it for everyone. (EDIT: that can be a valid choice for a community! Just has consequences)

But HN feels pretty unique in the quality despite being filled with a looooot of people who are, honestly, pretty agressive! The mod team seems to do a pretty good job.
Kansas City 2.1 Million people

My brother lives there. There are 20-40k towns 30 min in almost every direction. One is college town called Lawrence, Kansas, which had quite a few startups when Iwent through last summer. Coffee shops full of 20's coding.
I believe this is a case of the grass is greener on the other side. It applies to music, movies even food. People look back at the highest quality pieces of an older age and say "look how awesome work was done back then compared to now". The reason though is that we compare an average sample of our currently available experiences to the top ones from the past. Bad music was released back then too, we just no longer listen to it.
No, I think your bias towards crop farming is reading more importance into the part of my comment that is actually the least important part to me. The most important part to me is the health benefits my diet provides me. The least important part to me is the environmental impact of producing those components of the diet that I eat.

If I was a vegan, and the vegan diet resulted in health benefits for me, but vegan agriculture processes had more environmental impact, I would still eat vegan…because what is most important to me is the health benefit I am receiving.

In this case I eat keto and receive health benefits from that diet that I am unwilling to give up just to satisfy the dogmatism of environmentalists who have a problem with pastoral farming.
Yeah, that's a fair example. Every pendulum swings back eventually. And caught in the middle is the majority who were just fine with the status quo.
Because it's not a list of "banned words". It's a list of words or phrases that might accidentally cause offense (apparently similar to some of the entries on the public style guide: https://developers.google.com/style/word-list).

For that role, there's no need to include the n-word, because nobody is going to accidentally put that in a press release.

(Of course, the lists were apparently compiled by total dorks who put in things like "terminate", "dummy variable", and "native". But the list being dumb is a separate issue from it from what you raise).
Most birds alive today will not be in 20 years.
I'm getting this error page at that link:

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which prevents us from displaying this page.

Items may be taken down for various reasons, including by decision of the
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Correct. There is a time and a place for a little cognitive shock and awe to shake loose the cobwebs of stagnant thought.
I use AutoIt to move the cursor and it's free.
People used to have to change their diet seasonally and buy what was available at the local market. Now people can buy the same product year round and get stuck in a narrow diet.
"This document has been modified from its original source to remove non-inclusive language."

Closes window
One alternative mechanism used on a site is to allow for filtering _out_ of tags. You still discover stuff but you can totally opt out of anything tagged “rant”. Imagine if you never had to read another substack post about cancel culture ending everything on your tech forum…
Wouldn't a femtocell for your "actual carrier" work with your MVNO?

Like for me, I'm on Red Pocket Mobile using Verizon service. Would a Verizon femtocell block Red Pocket subscribers?

Verizon signal boosters work fine with my phone. As far as I can tell, anywhere/anyhow a Verizon phone has service, my phone will have service too.
A couple weeks ago I sat down with this and tried to build a simple client for an HTTP API. Three hours later, having read about all sorts of prebuilt proprietary components without being able to try writing any code at all I gave up. Can anyone point me towards a library that will help me make somewhat-complex HTTP Requests on this platform? Something more than GET, that allows me to set headers?
I'd rather have more CSS posts personally, because they are in a way still tech related, than seeing the site turn into a generic news aggregator, or as I've said other times, a slightly more techy version of Ars Technica.

The guideline that "we should post things hackers [users] would find interesting" was good a decade ago, now we've good a ton of people that post their favourite long form articles and Twitter posts. I don't care for history, commentaries on society or personal philosophy musings with my code.

Honestly, I'm not really complaining, at least the quality of the discussion is still higher than elsewhere on the Internet.
Residents of MA and NY: you are eligible for Boston Public Library and New York Public Library cards, respectively. Even though you may not be anywhere near a branch location, they have an excellent selection of ebooks.

Other states may be similar but I am familiar with MA and NY due to friends and family.

Not quite as unrestricted as every teen in America, but still a useful perk (or taxpayer benefit) for MA and NY residents that they may not be aware of.
Consider that Dall-E is using a corpus of older imagery to produce results. Technically it doesn't create original work, the originality comes from the description fed into it. This means the creative part of the process is still the human element.
AKA bloodletting
> text too small

I am acutely nearsighted so I can still read 2mm tall characters unaided and am well past the point when most humans require corrective lenses for reading.

It's sort of a super power right about now.

So it depends. I dislike large text on my phone. old.reddit.com works just fine for me as well.
How well do we actually know "normal" values if we don't have the broad data that regular blood tests for everyone could give us?
"Is it in the Blocklist?"

"Which one, the deny list or the list of blocks?".
Great summation of the zeit geist. I would say "The Boys" is a direct child of this sentiment.
I did not say type hints damaged productivity. There is no evidence to point either way, actually.

Gradual typing is based on effort. Most people won't spend the effort. And they don't need to, most of the time, either.
what does a non western diet include that is so much more healthy? In my limited experience it doesn't seem that way or atleast you can pick and choose what you want. Rice is a big thing and white rice has a high glycemic index. or cooking with ghee, or coconut milk or fatty cuts of meat
This is why mainframe will probably never die.
According to Wikipedia, "Ukraine ranked 122nd out of 180 countries in 2021, the second most corrupt in Europe, with Russia the most at 136."

Enough said...

But at this point there's really not much choice, so we pick the least painful at this point.
Google is rolling out new cookie popups with “reject all” option in Europe
Someone posted https://tablericons.com a while ago, which has the same name (Tabler) but a different domain and website. Are these two icon sites related?
Being mean to doctors doesn't make a cluster of kids get hepatitis, and a similar cluster is noted in Europe.

Not everything has to go through the partisan filter.
$34M (11,539 ETH) permanently locked into the AkuDreams contract forever
Unless there is proof that whitelist & blacklist (as terms) were ratified around 'white people good, black people bad' then it is just personal offence at that point.
I was looking at a similar approach, my question is how do parameterize the manifold and how do you map points on the manifold if it's irregular -think filamentous, so that path trace can be done

And in general this is a question of interest. Are graphs really a good discrete approximation of a manifold?
That the refuge of commercial art is going to shrink?
I recall stumbling upon a linguistic feature more common to native American languages called grammatical evidentals, where certain statements required some sort of marker which indicates how the information is known to the speaker: whether by direct experience (I saw the rain), or hearsay (I was told it's raining), etc.

I have considered on occasion that this would be useful, as a great deal of internet arguments stem from the fact that English allows for the construction of sentences which state subjective experience as absolute truth.
Geez, that word list.

Here’s an idea. American Big Tech should form a Uniban Consortium to streamline the process of adding and banning new harmful words of the month. Then your OS update could come with support for, say, Unicode 20.0 and Uniban 6.0: five new emojis and fifty new words banned!

Btw, the word main should probably be put on a future batch; too similar to “man” to be comfortable.
More importantly, if impressionist painting style had never been invented, DALL-E probably wouldn't be able to invent it. There's still lots of room for artists to invent new styles.
I once worked on a project with a steep late delivery penalty. We had already scheduled a "hit shot" truck, which is a dedicated semi, usually a team of 2 drivers, that drives directly, no stops, to the destination. We had scheduled it and it was 3 or 4 days to get from Denver to NYC. We were late, frantically building and assembling hardware and so just weren't ready when the truck came. We shipped the large pieces, large empty stainless steel shells in a mostly empty truck. We then took the extra 2 days to assemble the rest of the hardware and air freighted it at $50k extra cost and 1 day to get there. Basically we bought 2 days on the project for $50k and just barely made our delivery deadline.
No, because the disease is much less likely to progress as severely once vaccinated, which lowers your risk of Covid-induced myocarditis.

In any case : vaccine-induced myocarditis is almost always benign and resolves without treatment, and while there's been a lot of focus on it in the press and in antivaxxer circles, it's really a footnote in the list of Covid-related health issues.

It's many orders of magnitude less frequent than Long Covid, for example.
Culture wars topics have always existed on HN. Today it is landlord/motherboard, a few years ago it was master/main, and who can forget Donglegate?

Actually HN used to be libertarian as hell with a significant Rand contingent inherited from the Startup community. I feel that HN has mellowed politically over the years as a greater international audience has joined.
Actual news article here:

https://bowtiedisland.com/akudreams-griefed-careless-code-le...
Yes, a free neutron decays to a proton, an electron and an electron neutrino with a half life of 879 seconds. This decay releases 0.8MeV of energy (mostly in the form of kinetic energy of the electron).

My back of the envelope calculation shows that 1 gram of neutronium (approximately a mole) will release 43MW of energy continuously. Multiply that by 10^14 (the number of grams of neutronium per teaspoon) and the resultant energy release would be unimaginably huge. 'Explosively' does not even begin to describe it.
Ask HN: Risks of using online developer tools
I am sure there is a clear security risks of using online tools like
1. JsonFormatter
2. YAML validator
3. SQL formatter
4. Image converter
5. PDF converter
many more...

I am looking for real world examples/cases of security vulnerability/issues you/your company encountered.
This helps me to make a case at my company to implement a company wide deployment of these tools(open source) as internal tools for developers to use.
>The guideline that "we should post things hackers [users] would find interesting" was good a decade ago, now we've good a ton of people that post their favourite long form articles and Twitter posts. I don't care for history, commentaries on society or personal philosophy musings with my code.

Do you believe the only thing hackers should find interesting is "code?"
Are you genuinely suggesting that using the n-word and asking the network team to add an IP to a blacklist come from the same moral place?
That behaviour feels like what was described in the "Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox" [1]:

"In short, people have a mechanism in their minds. It stops them from saying something that could lower their status, even if it’s true. And it propels them to say something that could increase their status, even if it’s false. Sometimes, local norms can push against this tendency. Certain communities (e.g., scientists) can obtain status among their peers for expressing truths. But if the norm is relaxed, people might default to seeking status over truth if status confers the greater reward."

[1] https://quillette.com/2021/04/03/persuasion-and-the-prestige...
I added the link to my comment but I took it from this article from the Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/old-music-...
The Exponential Age Will Transform Economics Forever (2021)
That's what they forget to mention every time there's a new article about battery tech breakthroughs.

The bigger the claim, the damper the squib it proves to be.
The shortest documented timeframe between infections is actually 20 days !
Clearly they need to add whiskers to all teslas.
No rational style novel but Fortune's Formula was a good non-technical narrative intro to one aspect of this.
A lot of my early experiences on the web involved being banned from places (forums) until I learned to be civil or at least contribute something interesting.

The bans weren’t designed to be an excommunication but an inconvenience. I’d sign up again with another username which they knew was me, and I could stay until I acted like an idiot again and they banned me, etc.
The primary function of government was to protect liberty. The USA liberty experiment is nearly done.
How is go more portable than C?. Genuine question.
Mercurial is good. It just didn't win.

It is coded in Python, which should have made it slow, but it was very fast. All the data motion and analysis bypassed the Python interpreter.

There was another called Monotone, where Git lifted its data model from, wholesale.

And there is Fossil, which is growing in popularity. If it offered a way to squeeze intermediate edits out of the revision history, it might grow faster, but the author is hostile to the concept. Where it really shines is in never corrupting its data store. I have had Git corrupt its data store quite a few times. By luck, I have not seen it happen on a server others relied on, just on my own cloned repositories. But the tricky stuff is mostly done to cloned repositories.
Plus the fact they have little to lose, since ultimately they can get the money from Musk and the lenders will get millions if not billions in fees. I wish I could get in that action.
It's not surprising given how Micro$oft have treated developers over the years. Conflating terms is their specialty, now they're brainwashing a generation in order to force their opinions on us older greybeards.
Metafilter, by a general sense.
I was referring to the many times a project doesn't resonate with the user specifically and they equate that with it being a useless endeavour.
Where in the system tray is it? Do we need to click the battery icon or something? Maybe because I'm on a pretty old version (5.18.6), I don't see that checkbox anywhere I looked.
Field rations are hardly representative of normal diets. Meat consumption has gone up since we invented industrialized meat farming, because meat got so much cheaper.
Why is this under systemd? I hope I don't have to update all of systemd to get updates to a sync tool.
Generally, yes. But some guides or tutorials don't respect this convention and use any number of chars including the author's own personal prompt. (I see `>` used often too).
I'm not sure how you avoid condensation damaging your motherboard at that temp?
No, but that kind of leeway is what kills sites during an Eternal September. And no one ask for proof you're an hacker to open an account here (thankfully I might add). Hacker in the guidelines is just a synonym for user.

Again, I don't want to force HN to limits its discussion to tech _only_, I'm just saying that I think it's getting more and more diluted.
I wonder if it can do a 2d mesh + UV map so we could just load it into blender.
These broad survey type classes were the most useful ones in university for me. It's not like I would remember the specifics after the class anyway, but when I run into a problem I now have a huge bag of potential solutions. When I need details, there are often scientific papers or technical reports going in-depth on each of these things.
No, but I am with the person you are replying to that if a higher percentage of the content had to do with hacking it would make HN a more interesting place.
Void Linux might work better with low resources https://voidlinux-ppc.org
I’ve been seeing this around the news for a few weeks now

Are there any operating theories on where it’s coming from?

Is it just a new kind of adenovirus?
I think they mean to OSes that don't run systemd / Linux kernel?
"Passer had not endangered anyone because he had chosen the best time and conditions for the stunt."

Was the autobahn empty? I highly doubt it. There has to be another reason why they didn't charge him.
Python is slow everywhere.
Jack of all trades, master of none
Is this proverb still relevant in 2022?

#programming #developers
Except...these are right. Minimizing nesting, and setting up validation failures as exit-early conditions from functions to have the main function body focused on the happy path are absolutely valid principles of clean code.

Obviously there are always exceptions, but as a principle you could do a lot worse.
No, the only reason HN uses flat files is that the forum is a MVP for Arc Lisp, and pg just wanted to implement everything in Arc. Seasoned engineers understand the drawbacks and benefits of different forms of technology and choose the right tool for the job rather than simply assuming the simplest solution is always the best. I'm not insulting HN here but it is what it is, one person's side project that took off.

Also, Reddit is able to handle millions of users and over a million subreddits while Hacker News nearly collapses if a single thread gets too much traffic. Comparing the two and deciding Reddit was built by less experienced developers with inferior, poorly thought out technology is just ridiculous.
For mobile I use GLIDER for Hacker news. It a pretty good experience :)
It’s not a race thing, it’s a disability thing — “greyed out” is only something that makes sense to someone who can see, it’s confusing the actual concept with the visual indicator of the concept.

It’s the same with “the box is checked” to mean “selected” or “redlining a contract” to mean “negotiating.”

The point of inclusive language isn’t some weird political points contest. It’s writing in a manner that’s clear to people of lots of different backgrounds and doesn’t rely on just having to know English idioms or have common shared experiences. Why is blacklist the one that excludes and whitelist the one that includes — you just have to know, English right? But you can avoid the need for that entirely by allowlist and denylist.
Of the five common misconceptions they list, I think they are correct about four, but “A CVE is a trophy for the security researcher who found the bug” is pretty much true. I don’t think that’s a bad thing either If you found the bug you deserve the trophy.
Author was given these parts for free. Basically worthless test. If he was given the funds to buy parts at random somewhere, it would be interesting.

But to get parts sent to you from Intel and then say "omg look how overclockable" is advertising at its finest and by finest I mean worst.
If i remember correctly nitric oxide is/was a pretty popular weight lifting supplement. Did you ever try supplementing it?
Feels like puff piece promoting a book heavy of anecdotes and optimism, light on science
You cover it with kneaded eraser or petroleum jelly or some other sealer, and cover that with lots of towels.
Try https://www.spacesapp.io/
Are you saying, honestly, that you do not believe that the legislator that supported this, or the preamble stating the goal of the legislation, is not an attempt to suppress any acknowledgement of the existence of lgbtq people?

Do you honestly believe that this legislation prohibits the discussion of straight relationships?
From the announcement blog post (http://0pointer.net/blog/casync-a-tool-for-distributing-file...):

> Is this a systemd project? — casync is hosted under the github systemd umbrella, and the projects share the same coding style. However, the code-bases are distinct and without interdependencies, and casync works fine both on systemd systems and systems without it.
A word2vec proof, I like that you took care to exclude the original word, it often comes up with a higher score than the intended target.