skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you not think capitalism might drive most humans to think that way? Looking at most of your replies, it's definitely not a simple conclusion that "pay is a primary consideration".

Pay is the primary consideration because capitalism forces us to make it the primary consideration. Most folks would rather it not be, but when our survival depends on it, this is the result you get.
So-called green energy is not harmless for the environment. To clearcut square miles for solar farms then cover them over so plants can't grow, is akin to sterilizing the environment under them. Complete ecological disaster.

Hydro is great for boaters and sport fishing, but no so much for the ecosystem it drowned. And it's always square miles of devastating rapid change.
It's not just Rust syntax. `name: Type` is the syntax used in TypeScript and Python type annotations (also Ocaml, which is probably where Rust got it from). Golang drops the colon, but still keeps the name first.

As for what's wrong with `Type name(constructor, args)`? A lot of tooling wants to be able to parse "mostly-valid C++", like IDEs and compiler diagnostics. Sure, once clang's type inference is finished, the lexer hack and most vexing parse aren't problems, but when the program isn't complete, parsing isolated fragments is impossible, and that limits the amount of useful tooling the language can have.
I had been thinking about something like this for a long time. There is just too much C++ code out there but C++ (despite many efforts by the standard committee) is still too verbose and hard to make sense of in many cases. So I thought "why not designing a new language that is compatible with C++?"
> GOOG and NVDA

Why use these stock index abbrevs (or whatever they are) in this context here? GEEZ!

To the topic, it sounds a bit grumpy. If we look at languages and how many evolve... many suffer the phenomenon that they almost all are Turing complete, and try to gain concise (or simple understandable) expressiveness somehow, and then they try to not break compatibility too much to varying degrees - net result: they grow and grow where at one point they feel like too big, too much legacy dragged around (C++), the "one obvious way" lost (Python) when they cater for use case after use case.

Limiting can be good in that regard. So having key goals defined and not to cater to every small new usecase by someone is a valid attempt to not let this happen, so while I dislike Googles power, I wouldn't feel to bad with attempting this by anyone on their fresh language?!
The much bigger problem in Germany is their chemical industry which uses gas as a feedstock. You can't just turn down the thermostat when a large chunk of your economy (and a lot of other countries) depends on it.
It’s a bit convoluted with the VM getting disabled a month in (and very annoying), but the fix is pretty easy. You can delete the old VM (keeping the boot disk), and recreate it with the original boot disk. New public IP address will be assigned, but after that you won’t have issues. I’ve been running my instance for almost a solid year without issues since the month trial ended.
Ah yes, corporate-sponsored, mandated happiness with childrens characters smoothed over for maximum appeal/profit. The perfect salve for these troubled times

Give me the carnies any day of the week!
Because there are scenarios where you need to go over the speed limit to keep yourself and others safe

On top of that I personally want as little "smart" in my car as possible, so I'd rather they didn't pass such regulation.
So you need to cheat on the safety side of things to be a good model? Their once grandiose plan of being a nuclear power house exporting reactors stopped at exactly the 4 reactors to UAE which was signed before the scandal. Of course to an authoritarian country.

> In November 2012 it was discovered that over 5,000 small components used in five reactors at Yeonggwang Nuclear Power Plant had not been properly certified; eight suppliers had faked 60 warranties for the parts. Two reactors were shut down for component replacement, which was likely to cause power shortages in South Korea during the winter.[24] Reuters reported this as South Korea's worst nuclear crisis, highlighting a lack of transparency on nuclear safety and the dual roles of South Korea's nuclear regulators on supervision and promotion.[25] This incident followed the prosecution of five senior engineers for the coverup of a serious loss of power and cooling incident at Kori Nuclear Power Plant, which was subsequently graded at INES level 2.[24][26]

> In 2013, there was a scandal involving the use of counterfeit parts in nuclear plants and faked quality assurance certificates. In June 2013 Kori 2 and Shin Wolsong 1 were shut down, and Kori 1 and Shin Wolsong 2 ordered to remain offline, until safety-related control cabling with forged safety certificates is replaced.[27] Control cabling in the first APR-1400s under construction had to be replaced delaying construction by up to a year.[28] In October 2013 about 100 people were indicted for falsifying safety documents, including a former chief executive of Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power and a vice-president of Korea Electric Power Corporation.[29]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_South_Korea
The government can just directly subsidize the vehicles they like, as they are attempting to do with electric cars.

Define a weight and drop taxes/offer refunds for people who buy them, see more of them appear.
I got extremely lucky going to Disneyland during a massive off-peak week, right at the beginning of September but just after the Labor Day holiday. Every ride was practically walk up. The only real wait was for the new Star Wars ride which had only recently opened. My wife and I managed to see everything in both parks in a day and a half at a pretty leisurely pace.
What do we do when there is no wind?
Very true -- even among those who put on a facade of altruism. Those who are extreme about it have often had other motivations, and it ultimately boiled down to selfishness (either for material resource or personal safety, or for social rewards for appearing a certain way). It truly is sad!
I think it'll always be "human decides what book is about, cues AI, then gives feedback to AI to refine output," The cues will just need to be less specific and well crafted, and the amount of feedback required will go down. Maybe eventually AI will be able to one-shot amazing novels, but they'll still need taste makers to read the output and promote it, which isn't really much faster than a taste maker asking for what they want directly then reading/requesting changes.
Ukraine Crisis? It's Russias War
From another perspective it’s more regular that position doesn’t matter. (This behavior works in all POSIX shells, zsh, rc, etc. But not fish :p)
> We don't live in a dictatorship and so absolutes like "never make an SUV" bans this don't really happen.

I can’t tell if you’re being hyperbolic, but banning SUVs isn’t a sign of a dictatorship, and it’s frankly a bit ridiculous to even make the comparison.

The US government has and does ban products all the time for all sorts of reasons. See: alcohol, marijuana/other drugs, incandescent bulbs, etc.
How is the storage costing over time? I thought you'd dig an expensive dump and that was it.
Killing the Amazon is a crime. Nothing done in the US or anywhere else changes that, regardless of whether that was a crime, too.

It is also not hypocritical unless you personally cut down a tree, or unless you believe in the collective responsibility of nations. I don't think 'the Brazialians' are responsible for killing the Amazon -- it's probably a minority of people and we shouldn't care which nation they belong too. This is a serious global problem, and it accidentally happens in some country. Neither collective blame nor collective shame will help. This problem must be criticised.
This is silly reasoning. Of course the government has the authority to dictate their life, even if they didn’t drive in public roads. This doesn’t mean that it’s good for them to do so in this case.
Required to fend off hypothetical bears or actual ones? I can find no source mentioning an actual encounter with wild animals. Also it seems like we should be past the days of leaving cosmo/astronauts in the wilderness by themselves for 3 days before picking them up.
> Maybe in case they land in a bad neighborhood or wilderness?

Exactly this, and this is why it was a Soviet/Russian practice - their spacecraft make ground landings, instead of splashing down at sea. In fact, when the Voskhod 2 navigation system failed, it landed in a wilderness area so remote the men on board had to spend two nights in the snow before rescue. One of these cosmonauts was Alexei Leonov, who went on to a leadership position in the cosmonaut program: the survival gun was his initiative.
I open my inspector with Ctrl-shift-I (Firefox on Windows), it's fast, free, more feature-rich and built-in to the browser. This seems redundant.
It's not so much the materials - modern rail, especially for high speed trains is laid in long continuously welded sections. The track is pre-tensioned so that at cold temperatures as it tries to shrink it is under significant tension and as it warms it becomes less tensioned. The question is what temperature to tension it to - at some temperature it is no longer under tension and above that it becomes in compression and then you have risk of the rails buckling. If I recall correctly, in England the track is tensioned for 27C (a typical hot summers day temperatures). They could tension for a higher temperature, but then you risk rails cracking in very cold weather. So in the end it's a compromise, but one that was made without expecting the current 40C temperatures.
"Crisis" is the wrong word to use when the actions taken by governments and endorsed by the democratic voters logically lead you to the obvious conclusions.

Sure, we have a hilariously rocketing energy prices. But this is not an accident. It was easily predictable result of their actions.
I can't speak for Crockford obviously, but my guess is that all these extra features come at the cost of making the language "bigger". I think part of the reason people liked JS in the early days was (at least if you avoided the attempt at OOP) how simple it was. You basically only had a few core types that were flexible enough to do what you needed, you worked with simple functions that worked on those core types, and you built simple abstractions on top of that.

Obviously this can be a blessing or a curse depending on who's writing the code; it's not terribly hard to write yourself a spaghetti mess of chaos in JS. Callbacks lead to a mess of nested lambdas, promises are better but still a bit clunky, and trying to work within the "few core types" led to the famous "wat" video [1], so these things come in tradeoffs.

Still, I see where Crockford is coming from (at least if I understand his point correctly). My interview language of choice is JavaScript, and I rarely use anything introduced from 2015 or later (except the shorthand function syntax). I like that the core language has basically no bureaucracy, and you can focus on just writing code.

[1] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
to add to this, there is a hilarious plague of "second order" thinking in government, while ignoring first order. We got into this mess with things like the 21 year old drinking age. The federal government doesn't have the authority to make that rule, so instead they provide a highway funding incentive to the states who offer it.

The issues is that it has become the federal government's only tool - provide incentives and try to encourage behavior which can't be directly regulated. As a result, they are basically left with cash handouts to get what they want and must fund those rules out of taxation or the deficit.

if we wanted to have a more sane system, we'd remove second order incentives in favor of direct first order regulations. but, that would require constitutional amendments which are unlikely to pass.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32148318
French lowered production capacity at the moment is largely due to delayed inspections because of Covid.
> Maybe we are a bit harsh with Germany? By pulling out of nuclear, they poured billions in renewables much earlier that other countries.

According to Wikipedia the initial Energiewende legislation included nuclear as a bridging fuel. Its phaseout was brought forward after Fukushima. Germany could have made the same investments in renewables and kept nuclear, then it would have been further along in phasing out fossil fuels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energiewende
Maybe they're mimicking messaging apps like Telegram.
But in ten of thousands of years, all radioactive waste will be low activity, no? I mean, we do have prototype reactors that now use actanids as fuel, so the medium lasting high activity waste issue is now dealt with. Don't we only have to worry about the next 300 years for to radioactivity to go down to granitic cave levels?
Seconded. (or maybe that should be Thirded)
Read the whole series in the early 70's when I was
in high school. (Thank you High School libraries).
A multiplayer ADnD-style game with serverless WebSockets and Azure Functions
Kei cars are awesome but sadly they will never be safe on American roads even if they're street legal. The speed of our roads and the sizes of our cars will basically kill you if you get into an accident in a Kei car. If our speed limits were lowered and our cars were smaller, I would love to own one of those.
>> Now, amid a historic shift to electric vehicles (EVs), VW sees an opportunity to reconnect with U.S. consumers by offering EVs in the segments they care most about: pickup trucks and large SUVs.

>> Scott Keogh, president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, will become president and CEO of Scout on Sept. 1

>> He will be succeeded by Pablo Di Si, currently the executive chairman of Volkswagen's South American Region. Di Si will oversee the entire North American region, as did Keogh.
Cartmanland /s
This comes over as a very "Let them eat cake." response.
Obviously, the reverse is also true (enemies to allies as in my examples). Ultimately it's the opposite of what you said.
The Germans laughed at Trump when he predicted this

https://twitter.com/marcusgilmer/status/1044604107997237249?...
Does the road being public mean that my family should have been forced to drive two cars, thus polluting more, all because of some people who can't stay out of other's business?

I understand the argument here, but I think it's bad. Government does get a say in what is driven on roads: safe cars that are often inspected and pose less danger to those around and inside them. That's already a lot of restriction, now we let the gov't pick favorites too? Government is not your fairy godmother, things you don't like will happen.
> Bloomberg or Bernie, I think could have done a better job so far.

Assuming they had been capable of winning against Trump in the first place.
I think I fit the bill! You can contact me if you want to have a discussion (details in bio)
Not really.

You could maybe squeeze another $20K-$30K in gross salary out of what NSF/NIH allocate for PhD students. But even that is still WAY below starting rates for the quality of folks you need to run a research lab.
Java's Vector looks around awkwardly, hoping everyone forgets it existed... ;)
I feel like this would fall into the "foot in the door" political pattern I've been seeing everywhere where they're just trying to get their foot in the door with some minimal legislation. Whether it's supposedly "for the kids" or "for the environment" or whatever, they're just trying to set a precedent with some legislation that's really minimal (right now) so it's hard to argue against.

However, once they get their way, once they've set their precedent, then they just spend years pushing it further and further to get to where they really want to be. Maybe one year they lower the weight limit. The next they lower the size limit. Maybe they start issuing hard to acquire "permits" to own a "large" vehicle. They they redefine what "large" means the next year. Maybe they start demanding new fees to own large car the next year. And so on, and so on.

What's the saying? Boiling the frog alive? They'll never at any point make a jump that's too far that would cause people to resist it. Every step is just one more tiny little tightening that people will begrudgingly accept. I see this pattern literally everywhere.
Github is certainly NOT the lesser evil.

But your post gave me an idea I won't discuss in public, thanks.
I know some libertarians are more extreme than others, but I thought it was generally still agreed that the government has a role to play in stopping people from killing other people.
I can tell you put a lot of work in, but it's still very expensive for what it is. It's something I would expect to find for free in my browser's extension store if I'm being honest.

Is there any guarantee the extension will be supported for a long time after purchase? Or is it's possible a year down the line CSS Scan gets abandoned and the extension falls out of date?

If it was a one time $5-$10 or $1/mo purchase, I would definitely buy it if I found it helped development for me.
I think fish is the outlier here, not the norm. It’s specified in POSIX and most non-POSIX shells like zsh and rc support it.
The Standards Innovation Paradox
I think that's mostly true. A middle-class family can still afford Disney, it just becomes a once-in-a-childhood thing instead of an every-year thing. Every year trips have become something for the wealthy.

Pretty similar for pro sports. Lots of my friends take their kids to minor league baseball - for the kid, it can be better, as they often have specific kid activities. I've always been shocked at the price for Redskins tickets/parking/etc. Nationals is a bit less expensive, but still not cheap.
The government built the roads, to a specific specification of assumed car sizes. If cars get so big that they break these assumptions then roads start getting blocked, or you start to have streets that some cars are too big to fit through (already happens in older cities in Europe) - and this would adversely affect other people.

What next, are speed limits also leading us to a prison society, because people don't have the freedom to drive at 100mph through the city? It's a shared public infrastructure that needs rules to keep people safe and alive. You could always build your own private roads if you want to be free of these oppressive regulations on the shared public highway.
They're offsetting the 30 other people who are hand-wringing about having kids.
I've been to a number of parks where it seemed like average wait times were closer to 15 minutes rather than 1-3 hours. In fact, other than Disney or Universal Studios that's generally been the norm, and for a while I would go to theme parks multiple times a year.
> since they're heavily influcened by the Rust syntax, why not just learn Rust instead

Interestingly, when looking at their code samples, the vibe I get is more "Go++". Using `var` for variable declarations, letter casing for visibility, explicit returns even at the end of functions, using the "package" keyword for namespacing, etc. I do see some superficial syntactic similarity to Rust, like using `fn` for functions and `->` to annotate return types, using `:` for type annotations for variables, and semicolons seeming to be required at the end of lines, but overall it doesn't really _feel_ that much like Rust to me, I think due to how imperative it seems. Given the use of `class` and `let/var` seeming to be const versus mutable bindings, I'm wondering if the Rust resemblance is actually just transitive through more of a resemblance to Swift, although I don't know Swift well enough to know if this is an accurate explanation.
I would not be so arrogant to assume the German power industry would solve the problems so much better than the French. The French mostly suffers from the fact that it has become prohibitively expensive to build new reactors.
And of course: Germany currently has 3 operational reactors, new ones could be available in 10-15 years earliest.

There had been plenty of warnings, because in the last 10 years it was quite common for the French grid to be borderline in the summer, cooling always was a tight spot.

And nuclear is a bad offset for gas-fired power plants, as they are rather used as quick power plants, that is something nuclear is the worst at.
Knott's Berry Farm on Thanksgiving used to be one of my family's best kept secrets. People have since caught on but you you used to be able to walk up to a ride and ride it within minutes.
We must be talking about different things. Block universe is the theory that the universe is fixed in advance (deterministic) as a 4 dimensional “block” (more dimensions to include many worlds, I suppose?) and we’re just exploring one probabilistic trace through it.
You already knew this about pretty much everyone.
Cars are so much worse in this regard. Most cars can easily go twice as fast as you would ever legally be able to drive on the street. You don’t even need a switch to go 100mph!

The problem is, of course, enforcement. If there is truly a speeding and safety problem with ebikes, then the existing laws around bikes, ebikes, and speed limits can be enforced to solve it. Most consumer-ready e-bikes are already speed limited. For example, many won’t do any motor assistance past 20mph. (E.g. a class 1 ebike)
I've always felt there's a disconnect between two groups of people, those who use a language in their day-to-day work and those who approach it more as an object of study (i.e. academics or hobbyists). The latter view bloat as a bad thing, while it's not the biggest concern for the former (who have more pressing problems!). So for Crockford an expanding language definition is catastrophic, but for people writing web apps, if 1 new feature out of 10 very useful then it's still a huge win.
>> responding to change over following a plan

That's how Agile has gone wrong in practice. Responding to change is a true need, however, lack of due diligence to understand the current requirements is not. However, that's the way I see this as being used -- Start working now, we'll figure later.
Oh so that's what they are.
It's only 1.4 GWh. https://www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2021/09/17/energyaustr...
>But when it comes to traditional family outings, the purchasing power of that income has declined

There's an obvious way to dispute this claim: at the time, these were not traditional family outings. They were modern family outings, and would have been alternatives to what were considered traditional family outings back then. As they became traditional, markets found a way to cash in on their status in that regard by raising prices. Cheaper alternatives also arose, but people who want the "real" experience typically won't settle for the cheap version. Thus, the price increases.
"seems" is doing a lot of work here, and you are presuming your worldview to be more correct than the OP's parents? on what basis do you make that judgement? are you not the descendent of someone who once had more than a single child?
An analogy to help explain:

You see someone dressed as a hotdog holding a giant promotional "50 OFF, TODAY ONLY!!!" sign outside a restaurant.

Is that restaurant somewhere you'd consider taking a client for fine-dining?
HN =/= Y Combinator. Maybe drop the YComb logo from the site?
> How could the government limit the size of vehicles?

Tons of ways. For instance, "a car must get at least 40 MPG". "A car can weigh no more than X". There are lots of whats to phrase the rules.

Or do you mean "how could the government possibly enforce a law against a product in a highly regulated industry with compulsory registration", in which case it seems obvious.