skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe there is an accessibility/competence matrix here.

The sorts of people who are on these are overwhelmingly types who ended up there because it was the first result on Google. You see, oddly, a disproportionate amount of 'moms' and older people who use the word 'web'.

Apple support threads where Kathy from Winsconsin or whoever suggests solutions like "oh you shouldn't need your screen to go any brighter, have you thought about getting you thought about getting your eyes checked?" Is an example of this.

The blind leading the blind.

Another good one is asking a basic question about windows performance on the Microsoft forums results in 4 people not understanding the question and suggesting things unrelated because, when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

None of them got any further in the Internet, thats as far down the path as they got. They get their news from the default Bing homepage, oblivious.
This is an irrelevant tangent in this case, the question is about using bitcoin in a trustless way.
Years back had a teacher who would use this demo to liven up the first class of the year. She would go on at length about how important studying science was, wait til everyone looked half asleep, then bang.
Metaverse and Geospatial Digital Twinning
What I meant here was that they are being treated like employees.
I remember way back when no real athlete would carry sponsorship messages - it would be "selling out". People who participated in sports for money were banned from participating in "clean sports" (and shamed). Maybe it wasn't like that in the US, but in Scandinavia it certainly was.

In the good old days, in many ways. Kudos to Bill Watterson.
“Python is bash for mathematicians.” -Michael Slavitch
Everyone says that american dream is not true, yet america keeps attracting the world's most ambitious people. Those people can't be all stupid - it's not an illusion.
Europe’s last summer before the Russian winter
Almost hilarious how people overlook Object Pascal and its IDEs, yet it's what many languages wish they had or want to be like.
> production OS.

Which cars is it deployed on? It would be good to keep an eye on recalls and reported software issues.
> What matters here is the definition from those platform

I do not agree and I really don't see you being able to support this. They are just different categories of malware. Malware is defined by its characteristics, not the "platform's" (developer's?) definition.

Even if we don't have an absolutely clear, rock solid and immutable definition of what malware is, it's generally accepted that if a piece of software is affecting the stability, security, or performance of a system, while the owner may not even be aware of the presence, function, or impact of that software, then it's malware. More generally performing actions to the detriment of the owner and without the owner's knowledge.

White-hat software that infected routers to fix backdoors and eliminate black-hat malware (so to improve the security, stability, or performance of the system) was in practice still considered malware.

So keep in mind that an attacker punching you in the face doesn't get to decide whether it's assault or actually just percussive transmission of information. It's the characteristics of the action which define it.
Two observations:

Bill Watterson did return to public cartooning, if briefly, in 2014. There's a reference here:[1] https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/55321/first-new-bill-wat...

Berkeley Breathed's "Bloom County" shares a similar cultural and temporal space (1980--1989 initial run) with "Calvin and Hobbes", and I was going to comment that for the most part Breathed's also avoided commercialisation. Only to learn that there's an animated series planned to appear on Fox:

https://collider.com/bloom-county-animated-series-berkeley-b...

In the current world of Web2.0 / Web3 hype and catastrophe, much of the Waterson ethic resonates fairly strongly with me. The 1980s and early 1990s were something of a spiritual child / echo of the 1960s, within the digital realm, and there was a promise of possibilities which ... have to a large extent failed to materialise.

The cesspits of Facebook and Twitter are the Altemont to Usenet and the WELL's Woodstock. Reality, bad trips, and Hells Angels have intruded.

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Notes:

1. Stealth footnote edit: thaumaturgy's commented with the strip in question, Pearls Before Swine, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32116647
Except there's plenty of old-money (hereditary class) in the US that looks, talks and acts exactly like the "class" structures you're claiming are very different from those in Europe. You're arguing semantics because "it's different" in the US, which may be superfically true, but not meaningfully so.

Whatever you want to call it, there are de facto class structures in the US that operate as the functional equivalents of class in Europe. You are either born into these circles or you remain outside of them (for at least a few generations). Wealth is only one part of this mix, and while it certainly does pay for your tickets into elite events, it does not buy you into the circle.

> social class in USA is fluid and can change

And this is one of the major false-hoods that people believe to be true but simply isn't. Americans in particular suffer from this belief. Social mobility is lower than most people expect, and the trend has been heading downwards for years.
So they were actually putting code in Android for the sake of their own Fuchsia? How did that exactly benefit Android users?
I am not even sure this is really a Europe-wide thing. I migrated to the Netherlands from the US (West Coast) and class here is way closer to how it is in the US than in England for example. I understand (but can’t confirm) that France is quite egalitarian in comparison as well since the revolution.
That's terrific. Seriously, you should write up a story or blog post about this stuff. It's right up HN's alley. I thought that I had a diverse hobby and career in tech, but I was never downloading off the radio!
Suppression of China's technological development is the correct objective for the maintenance of US supremacy. More work needs to be done on the propaganda side however, as trust in media is at an all time low
I don’t think the high paying job = big stress correlation is as strong as you might think. Sure a few places are known for bad work life balance but (especially if you are employed in Europe) I would guess many big companies offer better WLB than startups - in fact, I’m sure the pace might be “too slow” compared to smaller companies in many teams.

There are plenty of valid reasons to not want to work at big tech co’s, but if you’re discounting it for expected stress level alone I’d do a bit more research as I don’t think it’s as true as you think. Obviously read reviews of Glassdoor/Blind to get a sense of the company you’re applying to…
Ask HN: Why is there no universal representation for all programming language?
Why does it even matter what programming language is being used when everything is compiled to machine code in the end?
Wouldn't it be possible to convert any programming language into the same intermediate representation?

When googling this myself, many answers are something like: each language has its own characteristics which makes it more or less suited for solving certain problems. But why does that matter, if they all end up being machine code? What am I missing, or what are the difficulties with creating such a universal representation?
It’s not that hard. Breastfeeding mother should no drink more than a cup of coffee per day.

Regarding milk, avoiding it for a few days and checking for improvements is enough to see if it’s the culprit.
> The new M2 MacBook Air is clearly better in every regard.

The price has gone up dramatically, well above inflation, at least where I live, so I would argue it is not better in every regard. For most people the M1 MacBook Air is a much better investment while Apple has them in stock.
If the reader here can find it, Linklater's SubUrbia captures this sentiment on film.
Crimea is closer to a regular Russian region. Criminal groups affiliated to state and police rule. All dissent is suppressed and you’ll more likely to be harassed than murdered or disappear. DNR and LNR are more brutal, severe and chaotic.
> these are likely unconstitutional.

If these are considered to be the correct way forward, the constitution needs to be amended then. When it was written Internet didn't really exist, so it would make sense there aren't many provisions covering it.
It's great to see Dall-e being put to use in blog posts
Watterson was always going to have a special place in the cartoonist pantheon because of C&H, but by this decision, I feel he will be truly immortalized. Every single Calvin & Hobbes comic strip feels more special because that’s the only time I get to see it, and I get to see it in complete context.

If it was plastered on mugs and tshirts, it would be completely decontextualized and feel a little cheaper.
Even if you're renting a big place, you still need to find a suitable place where you'll find it again.

You still need to be organized even if you have space.
Then you lose track of which are actual dependencies and which are sub dependencies
> `do_thing if other_thing`

Yeah I don't get why you would deliberately make the flow control confusing and backwards like that. Python list comprehensions are the same. They make the information flow backwards.

This also has the effect of making nesting really confusing.
Future Me
Grinning from ear to ear on that point...!
I don't quite get the distinction in your first item:
What's the difference between `a = (a || b)` and `a || (a = b)` ?
It’s true, DOCSIS 3.0 and earlier (which is still commonly used for customers with <1Gbps DL) sends packets within MPEG frames.
It's a lot more tenable when you're not attempting to run all possible Linux applications. For that sort of thing using a VM is probably the way to go. If you're targeting a subset of applications with a more narrowly defined subset of the Linux surface it doesn't seem too unreasonable. For instance, I'm not sure it's even possible to emulate the eBPF in it's full fidelity via something like starnix.
Wow thank's for that link. Bridged a few gaps for me between what I remember from c++ and what I've been learning in rustlings.
My daily driver is a MacBook Air M1, with 16 GB RAM and 512 GB NVME. It really is the perfect laptop.

While I see other working on big old and clunky laptops (usually Dell or Thinkpad) that basically need to be hooked up to a power cord, my laptop will nicely purr away for two days before it needs a recharge. To be honest, I usually work in Word and Excel (I think Pages is a joke for serious writing) and I don't do anything very strenuous, but then again, neither do they.

I actually think that, to this day, the M1 MacBook Air is a better choice than the M2. Why? Because the M2 is a lot more expensive to be similarly fast. It needs the 512 GB SSD (actually NVME):

Lastly, there’s the kerfuffle over the fact that SSD read and write performance is slower with the 256 GB configuration, because it uses just a single NAND chip, whereas all other storage configurations use multiple NAND chips. It costs $200 to upgrade the base model to 512 GB storage. None of these are dealbreakers to me, just minor details to be aware of if you’re eying the $1,200 base model. It’s best, in my opinion, to consider the $1,500 configuration as the true base model (10 GPUs, full-speed SSD performance, and the new 35-watt charger), and to consider the $1,200 configuration something more like the “discount” configuration.
Good to know. It seems blackberry is putting the work into these
Not "art" per se, but SpaceX has a little cottage industry of followers who make terrific content, and successfully monetize it, while staying true to the ideals of producing the content for enthusiasts' sake. Marcus House, Tim Dodd, etc. Of course they cover other content too, and had established products before pivoting heavily towards SpaceX, but they certainly keep the sense of community.
It is a thing. Like with phones you can pay a monthly fee and renew your glasses every year.
In some ways yes. In other ways - I suspect that a fair amount of the "unaware" is a "learn to publicly pretend that it doesn't exist" behavior. Think about the "polite & socially correct" ways of talking about Santa Claus, and how easily people follow those rules. (Yes, for social class, there's a creepy 1984 atmosphere around this.)

My own "behind closed door" experience with a small circle of older, middle-class whites is that people are very aware of social class. Associating with it, achieving it, maintaining it, displaying it, and/or faking it are very high, long-term priorities. Both for themselves and their children. You just can't say it.
Or companies like Microsoft finally come out with a C++ Builder alternative (C++/CX), and a couple of WinDevs starts a mutiny, brings back the C++ developers experience 20 years back to their beloved VC++ 6.0 COM development tooling, paying customers be dammed.
Some of these make very little sense. For example:

• Google Images

— Unsplash - Pexels - Simple Gallery Pro

First two are stock photo sites, last one is an Android app for browsing local pictures. Google Images is a search engine for images, which is covered by the "Google Search" section anyways. Perhaps you confused Google Images with Google Photos (which is missing from the list), but even then the alternatives don't make sense.
1. Build a naive system (without taking into account any requirements whatsoever)
2. Put the system in production
3. Get surprised that it works
3b. Or learn why it doesn't (likely not what you expected and would have designed for in stage 1)

Questions for stage 3: Do all customers/clients really need to be able to access all other customers/clients state/data in parallel and real time ? What can be cached ?
Google can do it in a couple of kb/s.
I prefer the Python code here. The import is explicit, so if you want to know where "date" comes from, that's easy. In a modern IDE I don't write imports manually anyway.

You could write it as a one-liner in Python as well, but I would prefer not to.

print("It's Saturday") if date.today().weekday() == 5 else None

That the Python library doesn't define constants for days is unfortunate, but not a limitation of the language.
Pascal is an really uncomfortable language to be writing new code in 2022. In 2005 it was arguably better than most flavors of C++ but now it belongs to a museum.
as someone who has used ruby for years, and more recently got a job working in python, I think the most significant difference between the two languages is how they handle imports.

in python every file is also a module, and all imported symbols are namespaced within that module (unless you deliberately use "import *" to bring them into the current module's namespace). so you can define function foo in module bar and use it via "import bar; foo.bar()".

in ruby, modules/namespaces and files are two entirely orthogonal concepts; you define a module by enclosing code in a "module Foo; ...; end" block, and any file can open up the same module and add stuff to it. when you import a file it adds everything within it to the current global namespace, which makes it really hard to read a piece of ruby code and see where everything within it was defined.

for the most part where ruby and python differ I prefer the ruby way, but I feel like automatically namespaced imports is something python got right, and was a really big miss for ruby.
What about those peeing stickers? I am fully aware that Waterston had nothing to do with them, but do you not feel that they diluted the brand?
Background: https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10690-open_source_is_insufficien...

Purchase: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sutajio-kosagi/precursor
Most of the country was miserable, malnourished and in poverty for years anyway. It’s not like Putin’s elites care. It’s basically a serfdom. As long as people obey, and Putin’s clique can build palaces, it can go on for decades.
MS moves to new Windows development cycle with major release every 3 years
Swift<>Rust similarity is only superficial in syntax. Swift has full OOP with inheritance, allows shared mutable state, and doesn't have compile-time thread safety. It has been built for Cocoa interoperability from the start.

The clunky `Rc<RefCell<Object>>` that Rust tries to get rid of from UI toolkits in Swift is just `Object`. Rust's undesirable case is the Swift's built-in default (that's not a criticism of Swift, ARC works great there, but these two languages have chosen very different trade-offs).
I wish more companies cared about making their product accessible with poor connection, but also no connection at all.

Google Maps is probably the most egregious example of that: you are likely to need it outside of your usual Wifi, and possibly where cellular coverage is poor. Why not offer reasonable off-line support? The Apple TV app is confusing too: they offer the option to download shows (like Netflix does) but the feature is essentially unusable.
Reminds me of the note Watterson sent Breathed: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSimpsons/comments/c7viyp/another...
The American dream is that you can supposedly just “work very hard” and move up in society, which is demonstrably false compared to many other countries with similar levels of wealth.

Being of a somewhat established middle class background before moving to the US to “make it big” is not the American dream.

So in that sense it’s most definitely an illusion.
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I'm a millennial, I don't see how licensing IP would be selling out compared with carrying sponsorship messages. I understand how the latter can be seen as selling out
See: Distroless images[0]

This is one of the huge benefits of recent systems languages like go and rust -- they compile to single binaries so you can use things like scatch[1] containers. You may have to fiddle with gnu libc/musl libc (usually when getaddrinfo is involved/dns etc), but once you're done with it, packaging is so easy.

Even languages like Node (IMO the most progressive of the scripting languages) have packages like vercel/pkg[2] which produce native binaries.

BTW if you're considering running redis these days... Check out KeyDB[3], it's impressive. There are a lot of redis alternatives with interesting features these days that I wonder if running vanilla redis is even a good idea anymore (outside of ensuring complete feature-set compatibility).

[0]: https://github.com/GoogleContainerTools/distroless

[1]: https://hub.docker.com/_/scratch/

[2]: https://github.com/vercel/pkg

[3]: https://docs.keydb.dev
The individuals I couldn't tell you. The small good consultancy got bought by another one and carried on doing good work. The (huge) bodyshop and the multinational are not of a scale to be affected by one such project. They're still around. I had a colleague on a sister project to this one in another arm of the multinational and that went well, so I think the dysfunction was not widespread.
> > `do_thing if other_thing`

> Yeah I don't get why you would deliberately make the flow control confusing and backwards like that.

I like to use this as function guards, where the first lines in the body of a function can be:

return xxx if some_edge_condition?

example: https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/f95c0b7e96eb36bc3efc0c5b...
For MVP type stuff, Meteor JS is still a good option since you don't waste time building a login system etc. and can develop your business logic instead.
I suspect the difference is that in the past the only way to go commercial was to work with a big corporation. Going to market with something was so hugely expensive, and required extensive marketing and distribution infrastructure, which was all internal to these big concerns. The problem was these companies expected a lot of invasive creative control and long term contracts to give access to those capabilities, which to be fair were hugely expensive to build and operate.

Nowadays all of that infrastructure exists as generic services on the internet you can throw together in a few days, with costs that scale with your needs. I recently watched a Q&A Mark Zuckerberg gave to the Harvard CS50 class in 2005 [0]. He explained that what made Facebook possible to start with was cheap hosted servers running open source software, and the ways that had changed over the previous decade. Nowadays with AWS and Google Cloud its even easier and cheaper. The same applies to physical goods now with eBay, Amazon Marketplace, Etsy, Shopify, running your own one-person media empire on Youtube, etc.

The negative connotations with "selling out" were the fact that you had to sell out creative control. You don't have to do that anymore. Dave Chappelle is rightly still sore about how he was cheated over the Chappelle Show. Nowadays you can build an audience independently, and that fact means that even if you do make a deal with big business, they know you're not as dependent on them anymore, so creatives have a much stronger hand than they used to.

So I really don't think this is down to the generation themselves, the world they live in is just different.

[0] https://youtu.be/xFFs9UgOAlE?t=935
The magical wilderness farm: raising cows among the weeds at Knepp (2018)
> there appears to be no protective effect at moderate rates ... (because) they associate alcohol consumption at any level with tuberculosis

> TB is not really an alcohol-related disease and is only viewed as such in this study because (a) drinking might weaken the immune system and (b) people who go to bars and clubs are more likely to catch an infectious disease. I kid you not.

Really
I think a big part of this experience that contributes to the alien experience is that the author is effectively skipping the entire "upper middle class". People that are uni educated but not quite tux and champagne crowd.
If you ever read these comics, I think you'd understand that it would be extremely odd to see these characters in an ad for e.g. coca cola or some such. Calvin and Hobbes have very well-defined characters that would seem very out of place in a profit-oriented environment.
If it’s detected my location correctly, it would be $7.50 a month. Colour me much-less-interested as a result of shenanigans-based pricing.
Wow, had no idea. I guess WPF is now the legacy UI framework? Or Modern/Metro/UPF?
Simple, they already know Comcast is synonymous with flakey slow Internet and shitty customer service. But they already paid off congress and know there is nothing you can do about it.
Isn’t VSCode based on Electron?
Instead of trying to eliminate trust, a better approach would be to decentralize trust.

There are various solutions for that, e.g. multi-sig, Shamir's Secret Sharing, etc.
I always enjoyed this The Onion blurb: https://www.theonion.com/peeing-calvin-decals-now-recognized...
Bisq - P2P trading, pay by cash deposit into a strangers bank account
This is the world outside of Bitcoin, and is irrelevant to this question. For these transactions, you have faith in your legal system, government, democracy etc. If you're scammed by an exchange, you sue them and you should get your money back.