skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is totally a biased cop out, but I'd say "most things".

Like, what's java's niche? I'd say it doesn't really have one anymore, it's just a generalist language. Ocaml is also a generalist language, but it has much better language paradigms, is safer, more concise, has more features with less baggage, etc. It's just good all around.

As a functional programming advocate, I'd point to safety, readability, and development velocity as features, but those are all around good and desirable, not really a niche.

I wish more companies were using languages like ocaml/f#/clojure vs c++/python/java when there is no specific reason to use the former.
Why are you boiling the milk?

Get the milk hot - hot enough to melt the chocolate and sugar. Don't boil it.
this is a good example of the importance of comms and user education. robinhood didn't lock trading - or at the very least, they were far from the only brokerage to do so and had
very little choice in the matter. however, they were the front end that uninformed users experienced it through and thus took a huge PR hit
With respect to key value stores I’m not sure why foundationDB isn’t the clear winner - strongly consistent, scalable, and ACID. Sure it’s not the fastest but it seems like for most use cases that’s really all you need given it’s still pretty fast.
IME there are sort of two kinds of people here. People who are "fans" and defend "their" toy and people who don't. For example, I've been using Python for a very long time. I'm a "Senior Python Developer" so to speak. I quite like it for various purposes, but I can also talk your ear off about problems with Python.

I'd say if you run into someone who says they're experienced with X or love X etc., but they can't give criticism of it, they're most likely either not that experienced with X, or fanboys.
What sort of capability are you talking about?
But that sentence continues with

> including but not limited to information about your RED Camera, Camera Module, computer, system and application software, usage, content, and peripherals

Should I be reading the "content" part as "information about your content" ? As in, metadata about the content? Lens focal lengths, recording quality, codecs, etc? That would make more sense.
The baseline radio in many cars is an AM/FM with Bluetooth or Audio in. CD is usually still provided with the upgraded package, but many people don’t have stereos at all anymore - let alone one with a CD player.
Brain dead is dead. [1] There is no long term care. They turn off the machines pumping air in your chest and that's it.

I think you are confusing brain death with vegetative state caused by severe brain damage.

1: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/brain-death/
It’s been interesting from a middle-class seller’s side as well. Most people planning to sell in the Puget Sound area can only afford to downsize to a much, much smaller home after paying off their mortgage.
The other 2% just quit.
The white paper said “ERC20 on eth”. The article said polygon.

Regardless, I do like polygon for its cheap fees (today); it is practically better than eth in most ways. However, it is just an eth side chain, and the whole “don’t need to commit tx for all eternity for all every purchases” applies here.

I don’t believe it is possible to scale this anywhere where it needs to be. For this, we need Lightning network style constructions.
I feel similarly, if I see a mobile app that I think might solve my problem and it's low single digits, it's practically an impulse buy. If it doesn't work out, I don't feel used.

I've also happily spent $15 on an iOS app before because it was really good at what it did.

It made me wonder if there's a really great market out there for an incredibly well done niche mobile app you could charge $99 or more for. A whole lot of customer service problems disappear when you preemptively disqualify the uncommitted...
> milk production is not subsidized so that poor people can afford it, but so that farmers can afford to continue producing it.

Yes, because poor people can't afford to pay the prices required to sustain enough production. And because dairy is a staple, especially in rough times, it's in governments' interest to maintain production.
The graph on the front page is unclear. Is it the fast compiler or the slow computer? The columns are labelled with mysterious words like "menhir" and "opam." I don't know what a reader new to OCaml is supposed to learn from it.
I keep one of these in my laptop case: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07CVX3516/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_8Q...

It’s worked great for years.
I got this alert on an Amazon auth-confirm email.
Nutritionally and chemically, oat and cow milk are completely different. Cow milk has 4x more protein, 2x more fat, and 1/2 the carbs. Oat milk contains 50% more sugar. It also doesn't produce the same results when used in, for example, baking.

I appreciate the sentiment, but getting people to switch seems as futile as converting a steak lover to strict veganism.
The purchase is completed before he gets it home and finds new conditions being imposed. That the part that I question about being legal.
Ugh yeah that pretty much confirms what I suspected. It's a few huge players using it for small internal projects, jane street, and a bunch of crypto shit I'm not willing to touch.

The language I work in is not even one of my top priorities when looking for work, but still it would be cool. I'm lucky enough to have enough freedom to work in it from time to time, which is good enough for me.

Thanks for the response!
America is having a Pluto return. Traditionally this is a period of time when nations are dissolved or at minimum completely transformed in their nature.

It's currently turning retrograde and will scrape back across the US natal Pluto on July 12th, and will be conjunct again December 28th for the beginning of its next 246 year cycle. If it matters by that point.
I'm the author, and I agree, it's not really possible for Cocoa developers to continue supporting old versions of macOS. The projects on my page have the advantage of only targeting old OS X releases, and not modern ones.

However, what really helps me is developers who document when support for an old OS was dropped, and continue to make older compatible versions of their software available for download and purchase. I have spent countless hours digging through the Internet Archive, doing a manual bisect to find the last compatible version of some app. Sometimes only to realize at the end that this version won't work with new license keys.

Worst of all are apps that have auto-update mechanisms I can't disable, which automatically replace my old working copy with a new version that crashes on launch. Please, don't do this!

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Apps designed to be cross-platform are a different story. I think it's more than a little annoying that Google Chrome doesn't support OS X 10.10 and older, when the set of changes needed to support back to 10.7 is really quite minuscule, relative to the size of the Chromium codebase: https://github.com/chromium/chromium/compare/main...blueboxd...

If a single developer working in his free time is able to maintain backwards compatibility, the full force of Google should be able to do it too. Not just for weird people like me who are strangely emotionally attached to old versions of OS X, but for people in Guatemala who literally can't afford to upgrade their hardware!
What historical examples of long-lived, stable republics do we have?
If it means what I think it means, I'd rather return it and invest in a company that doesn't abuse their users.
I need examples, I used it for TCP/UDP and HTTP and beside the gotcha that clients have infinite timeout I don't see anything.
Theres a generational rift that will stop a lot of decaying areas from seeing repopulatin from newer generations.

My wife and I saving to house shop soonish, but one of the primary requirements of our residency will be transit access. We don't like driving, don't like having to own a car, and definitely do not want to have to drive up and down the east coast to visit friends and family. Amtrak access is thus basically required, and anywhere we can avoid buying a car to live is valued dramatically higher than alternatives.

Its a growing sentiment the younger you get, where the veneer of the 50s American dream is more and more eroded and we are realizing humans in the 21st century should be living denser, with public transit, and walkable access to day to day needs, than to live in gated communities without a sidewalk or any human contact.

And 99.9% of US real estate is built up totally in antithesis of this, largely on racist fundamentals dating to the early 20th century.

Like we legit were looking at areas and when talking about just over the DC border into MD the conversation always immediately goes to "yes the properties are a third cheaper, but theres no metro access" and its just off the radar. Pittsburgh is our joke city since it has no usable Amtrak routes out of it (and yes, I know its urban core is nice, but its also tiny and unable to grow).

None of these decaying places can afford the capital investment to redevelop to be walkable and sustainably dense. They already are burdened to maintain a million acres of suburbia that is all tax negative. And nobody wants a "top down" solution that involves displacing millions to redevelop cities so the demographic trends going forward want to live there.

For anyone looking, Philly is actually pretty affordable. Its combined income tax is 6% in the state, the sales tax isn't outrageous, and property costs are a fraction of NYC or DC. Its definitely near the top of our list considering how unaffordable the parts of Portland, Seattle, and Baltimore with transit are.
sounds very similar to what some people with COVID-19 side effects experience. Don't envy you at all, good luck in your recovery.
Thanks. Sure, I had own domain for a year, made promotion on Facebook. This product was not developed with other countries in mind. Idea was to do pilot in my own country and then scale up. Every country has different invoicing rules, so it cannot be just translated to English and put on US market. But since it didn't attract any single customer, I just gave up as my previous experience was that adding features when there is no traction for MVP just prolong your suffering.
My parents tiled my whole bedroom with cork as a kid so I could pin up all my posters easily (maybe Blu-Tak wasn't available back then?). The smell was so good, I still remember it 40 years later.
I spent some cash in both Norway and in Amsterdam only last month. Last two times for chocolates, believe it or not.
From your first link, the only mention of radiocarbon dating is:

In 2010, a series of corroborated radiocarbon dates were published for dynastic Egypt which suggest some minor revisions to the conventional chronology, but do not support Rohl's proposed revisions.[42]
What an interesting business model. Regardless of what Robinhood aspires to be, its target demographic used it for easy speculation. Access to options trading with as little friction as possible and meme coins, for example. When most speculators lose their money, who remains on the platform? Is anyone using Robinhood for long term financial investment?

Add in mistrust from your users (GME, AMC, et al) and increasing competition from the more "reputable" services that have made trading on mobile easier and it doesn't look great.

There's similarities to casinos and bookmakers, except those folks controlled the odds and could entice customers +/- as needed to bring in traffic. Robinhood doesn't have that option.
Fidelity iOS app even has a beta toggle that sprinkles that UI/UX competitive advantage that Robinhood pioneered in the space. Anyhow, I wonder how much revenue decline is expected post-IPO, one would assume that they hyper-optimize KPIs 1-2 years before IPO to have good metrics and then those strategies do not continue in the longer term.
The (conspiracy?) theory I've seen is that Twitter was secretly modifying the displayed counts (inflating for some, deflating for others), and now are getting rid of that manipulation so that Musk doesn't see it when he comes in.
Anthony Sottile has a good bit on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrh9hKMS6Y

TL;DR: Path() initialization is very heavy compared to simple strings, and subsequent path operations produce new Path() objects every time.

The video then illustrates the point with a patch to the black formatter cache yielding a 40X speedup.
> but not limited to information about your RED Camera, Camera Module, computer, system and application software, usage, content, and peripherals.

Content might be anything stored on the camera in this case. I'm also glossing over the followup clause that states they are in their full right to remove in a future update features you already have.
They still have most of them.
A new realization dawns for Washington, Europe, Kyiv and Moscow
If it's running locally (or in a cloud the user choses to trust), it doesn't need to be a CRDT any more to get the same security properties, which would ironically mean it is now easier to develop.

(Granted CRDTs might enable other features although OT is generally considered simpler)
If that collapse is accompanied by real estate no longer being a property ladder then the entry might be less relevant or desired.
There is a setting in developer options to automatically tether when connected to a PC via USB .
> If something blows up in production in an unexpected way, sometimes that's okay. You log the problem, fix it, and it's fine.

as the person on call for such events, it's really not fine.

would you rather handle these errors upfront during development time or unexpectedly and uncontrollably, during runtime? having been on-call in one way or another for ~10 years, i know which i'd prefer.

after having used golang in production, i will never go back to using a dynamically typed language if i can avoid it. almost 0 thought or effort is required to handle errors correctly in go, and it's still possible to ignore them (just use `_`). not that i'd recommend ever doing that.
> Maslow's theory was never proven and in fact is widely criticized but it provided a starting point for people to think about theories of motivation.

That series of tweets suggests that people have misinterpreted what Maslow himself was theorizing, so it kind of sounds like what people are criticizing is a strawman that did not originate with Maslow himself.
This is very strange. Long distance tunnels for small cargoes.

Now, doing that under a city might make sense. Chicago had a system like that.[1] There was dense coverage under downtown Chicago, with most streets tunneled and connections to many buildings. But this was before trucks. It was a solution to the "last mile" problem, getting goods from the railroad stations to business buildings.

The costs of unpacking big trucks or freight cars to put things in small containers would dominate the transportation cost. Manhattan has that problem. There's a whole industry that unloads tractor-trailers in New Jersey and repacks the contents onto smaller trucks for delivery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Tunnel_Company
No. I copied the person I was replying to's formatting because I thought it improved readability, and if there is any similarity in phrasing, it is coincidental.
Every product works this way.
Also at the time they came out 640MB?! Who has that much money to keep on hard drive let alone the size of said drive. Remember when this was spec'd out 64k was considered a huge amount of memory. A box of floppies would cost 30-40+ dollars. That same box might hold 0.5 to 2 MP3s depending on format size and the song. That obviously dropped off over the years. But just ripping them was not even really feasible. Never mind a robust enough CPU to play something like a MP3. People would copy CD's over to tape. But that was considered acceptable as the gen loss was enough for the owners to not like it much but accept it.
Who Killed Nokia? Nokia Did (2015)
Great to see it going open source! I hope Actual can keep development going with the community support.

Similarly, a local-first (PouchDB) budgeting app I built[1] went open source[2][3] a few years ago. It's worked out well, I love seeing what everyone does with it in their forks. Unlike Actual however, I maintain a paid subscription service while being open source.

It's worked out quite well. Luckily it's not a huge time commitment as a side project, probably due to no native apps. I've also shifted from active development to maintenance, with sporadic updates every now and then. For example, I recently moved everything from Gitlab to Github[4] and upgraded a bunch of dependencies under the hood to get everything compiling on Apple Silicon. (For example, I now run AngularJS tests with Jest, hehe.)

[1] https://financier.io/

[2] https://github.com/financier-io/

[3] https://blog.financier.io/financier-is-now-open-source-bdfe9...

[4] https://blog.financier.io/weve-moved-to-github-4617239b9fa3
I guess considering this, they'd be more likely to go the DMCA route in regards to, e.g. a discussion forum that has many posts detailing how to bypass feature authentication. It's a good point that they probably would not target individual consumers.
Maslow's DAG
Well politicians in US grew very fat and very ignorant ppl, so ppl are ignorant and fat.

In other countries where politicians care about citizens -> situation is completely different.

It all depends on agenda and food you sell to ppl.
This makes me think of the quote from god in Futurama:
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
I'm looking for a solution in this space that lets you plot the waterfall effect. What I'd like this solution to do is the following:

1. Enter all my bills that require full payment each month
2. Enter my bills that can be variably paid (ex. credit cards, medical bills, etc)
3. Enter my monthly income
4. Enter my budgeted personal/home expenses (food, gas/transport, etc)

Then the solution should be able to model a few different paths to maximizing my savings and plot out a waterfall that says if I payoff X over 6 months and pay the minimum on Y then here is what my savings would look like.

I'd like to be able to see what my projected payoff dates for different bills are and what my projected savings look like if I was to follow the model.
That multiplication factor is easily negative though, unless you specifically design the antenna to have gain. And a 20dB gain like you are referring to is a very high gain antenna already that will have to be designed and built quite carefully.
> it's very powerful and I don't know a single language that does it out of the box like go does.

zig build -Dtarget=x86_64-windows
Twitter Is Unsuspending Accounts
Yes, this! The sales person made absolutely no mention of any licensing terms or agreements that I would need to sign off on before my camera became usable as a camera.
Oh, that is unfortunate. Thanks for the tip.
I do the same. I’m naturally frugal but have loosened up some as earnings increases but I don’t spend or leverage like my peers. They are prisoners to their jobs and I can (and have) said “enough” and walked away when jobs get too toxic. I don’t generally have a problem working long hard hours but I unplug at times where interruptions will not be fielded and I’ve been present during complete shit show management stuff that I just morally will not be associated with. It’s immensely helpful to my mental health knowing I can walk off anytime things go sideways.

I even negotiate my compensation in a manner that I’m not beholden like those with stock, options or anything where vesting periods are involved. It’s typically event based and more short term. But, I don’t work in a field where I’m turning down early Facebook equity or something like that.
The article said basically the same thing, his "history" is just constructed through mathematical analysis and completely detached from the real world.
I was referring to the numerous stories I have seen in the media by left leaning pundits since Musk’s offer arguing censorship as a “good thing”.
You realise people work jobs as vital and stressful as that for a quarter of the money right?

And that most people in the workforce don't get significant bonuses, and no shares.

Software engineering is an absurd bubble.
Ask HN: What is stablegains.com? Looks too good to be true
https://archive.ph/2022.04.28-225015/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
Wow, did I write this in my sleep? Your path is exactly the same as mine: Bored IC -> Product Management -> Program Management -> Envious of Eng IC's who stuck it out and are now directors.

I don't have much advice but will be reading these replies with interest. You are not alone!
> Whenever there is an argument between two sides, find the third side.

> Lower the toilet seat after use.

Close the frigging lid for Pete’s sake!
I'd prefer gas taxes be much higher, with basic needs subsidized so that more of us can afford the necessities for longer. Burning fuel for the fun of it seems a reasonable luxury to disincentivize. Family travel (weddings, funerals, etc) seems far more important than business travel. Changing sports leagues so teams aren't flying all over the country, and instead playing their region until the finals, would be a healthy step, too. Increasing the price of raw materials might cut down on the cheaply-made stuff we ship all over the place at a whim (looking at you, plastics).

I've seen automobile conventions and trucks hauling trucks from the suburbs to rural areas to drive through the woods for the fun of it, and while the number of people who opt in to this is probably small, their carbon footprint seems huge. I'd rather reserve that for the very rich (a few private jets don't bother me; I get it, sometimes the really important decision-makers need to get places quickly), and reduce the number of very-rich people so that more people have their basic needs met and that we might gradually, not catastrophically, reduce our population.
Don't feel bad, I did the same.
If I wasn’t clear…that was my point as well.
There are lots of reasons to be distrustful of “Silicon Valley”. No need for conspiracy theories, and being afraid of e.g. Facebook or Twitter is not necessarily irrational.

Media are a bit complicated. I feel a couple of militant outlet have managed to poison the pool by putting in our collective consciousness something like “yeah, we are biased, but all media are biased and we admit it, therefore we are more honest than the others”. That is very worrying as well.
If you are a resident of NYC, what is happening in Albany (the capital of the state) certainly affects you.

If you are a resident of New York, some of your Federal tax dollars[1] are going to New Mexico. Why would what they are doing with your money not be your business?

[1] https://www.moneygeek.com/living/states-most-reliant-federal...
Many digital products at least claim to work this way, but no not every product, and that doesn't mean that it's actually legal (I don't know if it is, but lots of things persist regardless of legal force).
I was about to correct you regarding your claim that children can get loans, because that is of course not possible. Except it is possible and there are specific carve outs in lending law to enable it. TIL Holy shit.
If you have an Intel Mac, VMWare Fusion works really well for this! I have VMs of Lion, Mountain Lion, High Sierra, and Big Sur available at my fingertips within VMware Fusion 8 running atop Mavericks.

I do all of my development with VMs. It lets me instantly switch between xCode versions, and install dependencies without messing with the state of my real system.

(P.S. I also have Tiger and Snow Leopard VMs, but this requires patching VMWare and is definitely not endorsed by Apple!)
I thought the "it's impossible to determine at compile time whether a Python program can terminate" was a bit funny.

It was intended as a joke on the go article getting flagged.