skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Advice is solicited for the benefit of the advised, so it's always relevant to consider what benefit beginners will get from your advice.

I was exposed to Basic early and I've used relatively modern dialects of Basic. I don't subscribe to the old Dijkstra "Basic causes brain damage" line. I can't personally recommend Basic to most people who have a goal of learning to program or learning about computers.

Basic is unquestionably useful for valid-but-obscure retrocomputing purposes like playing with a Commodore 64. It's also a way to learn about computers in a very general sense. I personally feel nostalgia for the Commodore 64. It had its virtues which I miss every time I touch Kubernetes. But computers don't work much like the C64 anymore, and that kind of "close to the metal" reasoning is less important for most beginners now than when we were watching Second Reality by Future Crew on our PCs. To the extent that it still is, you might as well start with C or assembly. There's little reason to use a relative of Commodore Basic instead of (say) Fortran or Cobol. In principle, any of these languages could be fun for the right person, all will teach something, and all can still be used to do certain things. That doesn't make them recommendable to beginners without caveats.

The Basic problem is that it's infrequently used for any "serious" purposes, which makes it harder to use for those purposes. I don't mean "enterprise Java" but even simpler things like generating a binary or creating modern looking graphics. Talented people can always push the limits of their tools, but the number of people using any dialect of Basic these days is so small that the tooling and available help are small. When you inevitably decide to do something else, you need to learn a completely different language. That's quite a speed bump. You could argue that it makes a stronger programmer to write in Basic (or Befunge or INTERCAL). But the value of spending years learning to debug GOTO spaghetti to a professional level doesn't really transfer, and that's time you could have spent mastering a working language with abstractions that make your code easier for you and everyone else to understand and debug. Getting more done, too.

It's not literally impossible to do things with Basic, it's Turing complete after all. Pace Dijkstra, it won't rot your brain. But it won't make you a stronger programmer than learning something else. And how often do beginners want to make things harder on themselves while also living in an interpreter?
There’s a big divide between state laws (this article) and federal regulations (backup cameras, for instance). The NHTSA chooses which vehicle technologies to mandate based on a cost/benefit analysis with the value of a human life set at about $11 million.
This. The OP wrote:

> They tried to lowball him badly. Like 1/2 the rate he asked for (contract) and probably 1/3rd or 1/4 what we made at Google

FAANG arrogance never ceases to amaze me. It's like these guys live in a different universe blissfully unaware of the world around them. Did it ever occur to him maybe Ford is paying normal average human salaries and not grossly inflated Google wages?

Remember Ford (and this analogy extends to most companies in traditional industries) still has to be able to sell cars to the average blue collar Joe at a price point he can afford, and still turn a profit. Outside SV most people don't drive $80k Teslas. Somebody's still gotta write software for the $16k econoboxes. I'm sorry but nobody deserves to get paid more than e.g. a specialist doctor to hack JavaScript code I don't care how smart you think you are, when there's a guy in India probably just or nearly as good at it who'll do the job for $40k/year. FAANG is swimming in money and can afford to piss away $$ in talent wars, artificially driving up salaries and the prices of everything else, which is why no average person can afford a house in SF anymore. Those that won the FAANG lottery and managed to cash in? God bless them. But don't let the reality distortion field make you think that's how the rest of the world works.
Even without LFTR, the new liquid metal/salt cooled reactors have a self-moderating design. (LMFR or LMFBR respectively) They could be modified to be multipass reactors too, and already reduce waste a lot.
The problem with multipass reactors is that fuel enrichment is the way to explosives...

It took a long time to achieve safety with these liquid metal/salt cooled reactors, as Japanese can tell.
Yep! A lot of Stanfords campus is named after him and before he died he was due to build a public gym in Palo Alto. Seems she's got the same interests as him with their recent letters!
In the US, every 8000 births leads to a lot more than 57 infant deaths. So how far would you go with that trade?
There was discussion a few years ago about adding CAD to the list of free software priority areas, to direct talent and energy where it's needed. That would likely help. Finding ways to leverage existing efforts too. BRL-CAD has been working bottom-up with a focus on analytic correctness, capability, hybrid representation. FreeCAD has been working top-down with a focus on usability and parametric interactive editing. Both will likely get there eventually tailored to different markets.

For what it's worth, BRL-CAD has over 450 full-time staff years of effort invested with ongoing dev funded by the U.S. Gov't. It was made open source specifically so that investment could be shared with the world, to help commoditize CAD like has been done for browsers and compilers. It's a long road to get there no matter what.
The writers are from UW Economics and BC business school. Smaller future labor pools make economists sad.
Who let that dual income family in?

Income? Yuck. There goes the neighborhood

/s
I have, so many times I didn't feel the need to read this particular one. Was there something new?
That's not what transparent means.
I recommend watching the video Everything Is A Remix.

There are very few artists who you can call “original”, the majority are riffing and remixing based on previous predecessors. Making find tweaks here and there.

This is something you can achieve with an AI model just by increasing randomness.
Modern car seat layout is anti-contraceptive!

I'd be happy with that-which-could-be-performed if only that modern huge console wasn't a barrier between the two front seats, and all with no risk of pregnancy; but if we have to go to the trouble to climb into the back seat babymaker, well, all bets are off.
Configuration profiles, not provisioning profiles. That just means you install them before locking it down.

Also, the supervision requirement for always on VPN is a stronger limitation than lockdown mode; you have to erase the phone to supervise it.
I want to agree with your main point but I disagree with your reasoning. Regulations exist to to increase safety. Regulatory capture already exists.

Yes, it does disproportionately effect the poor, but that isn’t the fault of safety regulations, it is the fault of societal issues w.r.t wealth inequality, social mobility, etc. California’s housing crisis isn’t caused because new houses need solar panels, for example.
Err.. no, you pass a callback (let's call it the effect callback) that returns a callback (the cleanup callback) to useEffect. The effect callback gets called when the component mounts, and when dependencies (if any) change. The cleanup callback gets called when the dependency unmounts (and will not be called at other times in the lifecycle)

edit: I'm wrong, the cleanup is also called when dependencies change, just not on mount.. eg. it gets called before the effect callback being called again.

In other words, the cleanup function is called on unmount when useEffect is called with an empty array, and if useEffect has dependencies, it will also be called when those dependencies change
Peacock – Bind Patterns
Mmm, yeah I don't like going too heavy on dumbbell presses, but heavy is really relative to your max, and sets of 10 is about where they start feeling good to me.
It has been already 2 decades. It will probably last another 2.
Did people feel that way about software?
preposition: cum
combined with; also used as (used to describe things with a dual nature or function).
"a study-cum-bedroom"

So in this case "rolling death trap cum molotov cocktail" means a rolling death trap that becomes moltov cocktail, in a rather unpleasant explodey fiery fashion.
Medical licenses are controlled by cartels in the US. They lobby the government to limit the number of residencies so we end up in a situation where only 40% of people who apply to medical school get in since they can't expand until the number of residency slots increases.
How do you know there is no cost/benefit analysis?
I'm hiring .NET developers in the near future for an RPA platform focused on real estate. Send me your LinkedIn, CV, or personal website at {my username}hn@gmail.com.

We are fully remote with flexible hours and offer 4 day work weeks.
Are you referring to the infant death rate? According to Google it's only 5.4/1000, so it would only be 43.2/8000, not 57. But those deaths are contingent on the births happening in the first place, so the comparison is not apt.

(That is, you as an infant being born pay the risk of infant death in order for the opportunity to be born -- the shot at existence. On the other hand, asking carseated children to stochastically pay with their lives for the opportunity of a sibling to exist is a different matter morally.)
Deflect a comet to glance against Venus and increase the spin. As an added bonus, you might create an equatorial ocean in the process.
Apple iOS and macOS maintain OS-level connections to Apple (using hardware serial number linked certificates) for notifications.

This means the Apple APNS client IP logs relate directly to your tracking serials and both your VPN and non-VPN ids, linking them.

They also contain your non-VPN IP history, which is your travel history, as client IP is city level geolocation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tL8_caB35Pg
>California’s housing crisis isn’t caused because new houses need solar panels, for example.

Not sure where you're getting that, it sure as hell contributes. Several thousand dollars extra to every house is just another cost on the pile. It's death by a thousand regulatory cuts.
Because it cleanly allows for controlled and constrained remixing of genetics, which makes survivors more likely in mass fatality events.
The same could've been said about the ISS when it was planned, but we've learned a heck of a lot from that.
I used a bunch of dall-e images to illustrate a talk recently, thinking that it's not _quite_ yet a totally hackneyed idea (but soon will be).

The approach in this article is actually pretty interesting, and some of the results do recall the better 90s adventure games. If only there were a similarly effective way to generate good character animations, I'd be tempted to resurrect long-dormant plans for a graphic adventure.
I suggest you try to pretend to build a house, condo or office building to see what happens.

Just go through the motions, talk to builders and try to get permits.

Then you will understand.
I quite thoroughly disagree with this doomsday outlook. I've been having a ball with watching and participating in the TikTok community's embrace of a new AI art filter. Its adoption has been massive, and I presume massively expensive to operate. That said, my chief observation is that it is a lovely idea factory and little more.

There were some deeply moving pieces that got generated from some of my input prompts around neurodivergence. They weren't quite right, but still profound to me. After seeing them, I've started looking for somebody I could commission to use them as a starting point to create a real art piece, something I've never even considered before. I would approach said artist and say here is this low res image, here are some things I do and do not like about it, here's what it means to me, and here's some money. With this, I'm now engaged as a creator, curator ,collaborator, and patron in a world I'd never considered participating in.

Not only do I think this creates economic opportunity for artists who would like to work in such a capacity, it also gives way to new ideas for those who would react and reject this paradigm. Technology always has had a way of breathing new life into human endeavors. Sure, horses are no longer the primary drivers of transportation and agriculture, but equestrianism is a $100 billion industry in the US, growing 5% a year with an increasingly diverse pool of participation. The cruel and commodified low end of the sector is long gone, but it remains as a passionate and vibrant field. I expect the same from AI in all the fields it touches.
> It was priced way outside of what people would accept for a scooter.

Exactly. When I first saw them I thought that they look like fun. When I saw the prices, I decided that the fun can wait.
Maybe just out of SV, because at least in Florida there are lots of it.
I'm no fan of Google but it really was the height of hypocrisy for news publishers to demand their content be visible in Google search results while simultaneously complaining that their copyright is being infringed with respect to titles/snippets.

Explicitly allowing crawlers and — perhaps most tellingly, offering specific metadata for SEO optimisations — is tacit permission for the republication of hyperlinks/titles/snippets. If you don't like that deal, just deny Googlebot (et al). It really is that simple.

The settled law is a joke.

(Or in the alternative, as a non-news publisher, I want my cut too.)
> Till the year 2012, Airbnb was just a React website

I stopped reading after this.

Websites released in 2012 were typically PHP, server-rendered, written with jQuery. Angular JS was considered cutting edge and go-to option for SPA projects. React was released later and only popularised around 2017-2018, and even at that time I remember most frontend developers were hesitant to use it in production due to the licensing ambiguity at that time (It wasn't MIT).
Is it so hard to believe that people with “technical skills and knowledge” can be hypocrites?

The fact is, pmarca’s engineering chops are not a conspiracy invented by non engineers. He did in fact create a brilliant piece of software (Mosaic and, at some greater distance, Netscape), and the technical elites of Silicon Valley saw this and are responsible for much of his wealth and influence.

But the mundane truth is that engineering chops do not automatically translate into virtue, tact, political acumen, investment prowess, or any number of other skills or positive attributes. It is understandable that engineers want to believe they are on a higher plane of human existence but the evidence is inconclusive.

No publicist tricked us into thinking Andreessen was a brilliant programmer, we tricked ourselves into thinking brilliant programmers are necessarily superhuman.
The resentment on HN is repulsive
Why did this place go from optimism and constructive criticism to dumb hate for successful people?

I think there's been a transition in its userbase from "aspiring founder/hacker" to "disgruntled employee" in the past 5 years.
He's on to something. For months I carried iOS devices only without sim cards and used an external VPN router with LTE.
Think "magna cum laude"
This reminds me of the 'graduate student algorithm' (Put the graduate student in a room, and don't let them out until they get the result the professor expects). In this case, the scientists expect a sharp ring, so they tweaked things until they got a nice sharp photon ring...
There is a British company called multimac that provides an 3 or 4 child multi seat. It is pretty much a bench you can install in your car and it fits in nearly all small cars as well. This way one does not need a bigger car when having three kids.
Margins for car companies are shit. Why would anyone invest in a race to the bottom high marginal cost company when differentiated zero marginal cost companies exist? And what if we just told everyone we were the latter?
I haven’t run into that one. I mostly use Tailscale for my home network, so I connect when I need access to something at home. I imagine they’ll figure that out though. Seems relatively straightforward to reproduce/debug.
By reducing housing affordability, you are generating the exact problems you so fear.
Most that answer with a categorical “yes” (I want that) haven’t lived what you are suggesting.

I’ve lived next to low income + “project” housing. It’s physically dangerous, in the form of gun violence. Sucks but it’s true. When you’re in your 20s it’s whatever, what are the odds that you’ll be hit by a stray bullet?

When you’re pushing 40 and have kids? Fuck that. Build your housing elsewhere.
Can’t edit the comment now. To the person above, I’m easy to find and contact, feel free to avail yourself if you have something you want to say. That’s not an invitation for abuse, but I’m considerably more open minded to expressing and hearing strong emotions than I feel comfortable doing or expect to be kosher here. Have at it. As long as you’re not threatening me, I’ll read what you have to say.
Maybe take a look at the TMS1000.
Here’s an example without dumbbells. For beginners who can’t do pull ups a chair is used to get to the top position after which you step of the chair and slowly lower the body. When at the bottom you use the chair again. After some weeks of this regimen there is enough strength built to do few regular pull ups.
Maybe we'll see CDL requirements for more vehicle. I mean, it's a new thing that people can just go out and buy nine thousand pound cars that can do 0-60 in about 3 seconds (i.e. the EV Hummer) and I don't think society has adjusted to the ramifications of that yet. Sports cars are largely tolerated because they're (generally) small and light and if you drive dangerously in one you're as big a risk to yourself as to everyone else.

The F-150 is actually not a terribly unreasonable vehicle. It's about 6,000 pounds and accelerates a bit slower than the Hummer. It's shaped like a battering ram, but isn't a whole lot heavier than a Model S, which are more in the 4,500 to 5,000 range. (I think Tesla kind of gets a free pass for building scary fast/heavy vehicles simply because they don't look like trucks and so it's easy to not realize how heavy they really are.)

Unfortunately it's hard to build EVs that are light, due to battery requirements. Maybe horsepower/weight ratio limits on public roads are actually a good idea though.
I resent this post
Magnet links can specify a name for the download ('dn'), tracker addreses to find peers ('tr') (but DHT can be used these days), and actual links to the files on the web via web seeds.

However they can be as bare-bones as you say.
Any change's effect is relative. If new cars become more expensive because of regulation then used cars become slightly more expensive because the market as a whole shifts. So the poor end up driving just as unsafe a vehicle but pay a bit more.

Of course the poor, like everyone else, in theory benefits from the positive externality of other people having backup cameras and other safety features.
> Yet not all deaf people—myself included—want to be “cured,” and would rather accept their deafness as a spectrum of auditory experience and identity.

I can't understand this at all. It's also really cruel how many such people also want their kids to be deaf.
And car owners benefit in summer from cooler cars due to the shade.
I stopped using Arch when I went to a meeting after upgrading the night before and realizing my audio is not working during the call. You don't have time to RTFM then.
Paper: Augmenting Decompiler Output with Learned Variable Names and Types [pdf]
Jump vs. the Speed of Light
Desperately need more children?

Have you forgotten that the world population is still rapidly rising?

If the population drops to 5 billion, we can start talking about needing more children. Maybe.

We had plenty of people a hundred years ago, and that was only 2 billion.

I agree that parents should be supported more, but your premise is really off.
The CNC versions are relatively safe, though fucking up the blade is still not impossible.
$3.9B in student loan debt for past for-profit college students cancelled
No one needs a new car. There is a huge used car market with a lot of accessible financing. Isn’t there a trope of the millionaire driving a 15yo sedan?

Not having access to reliable transportation is not the significant factor w.r.t social mobility you are making it out to be.
this made me smile
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympathetic_resonance

Basically the same principle that allows an Opera singer to crack a wine glass by singing at a specific pitch very loudly.
For me personally, it initially was not about costs. I went to the places I wanted to live in and lived on a budget to survive there. Paris, Tokyo, Berlin, to name a few. Not super expensive but certainly not cheap.

Eventually though, I became more comfortable with living in “less developed” cities. (Although I think this designation for countries is rapidly becoming obsolete. Eastern Europe is in many ways more developed than Western Europe these days, for example.)

At this point, the quality of life in a city like Bangkok, Budapest, Istanbul, or Mexico City on $3,000/month is equivalent to about $10,000 or more in NYC or LA. The only affordable places in the US are small towns or camping, so if you want the urban lifestyle, it’s a major downgrade in terms of QoL to move back.

The other comment mentioned the ability to avoid American sociopolitical issues, which is also an underrated benefit. The American media-complex really is a kind of Matrix and once you’re outside it, it becomes easier to see how artificial most of the “pressing issues” are. Certainly political issues exist everywhere, but I have found the inhabitants of most “cheaper” countries to be more concerned with everyday life and work, rather than the latest news headlines.
I forgot to link the page with a big table of planets/moons and their gravities:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_gravity

Anyways, Mars is an outlier with respect to the "about 1G" crowd, but it's almost identical to Mercury. 0.379g vs 0.377g respectively.

Jupiter is a true outlier at 2.528g.
First result for me (using search "why i'm suing youtube"): https://imgur.com/a/mGVwuXW
Interplanetary space is noticeably nearer by.
The worst incident I can remember from several years of running an Arch VPS is when they had relocated some /lib or /usr/lib files and it required intervention, and I did a pacman -Syu and rebooted without reading the news. Just a mild PITA in OOB console.
Murdoch's grip is slipping. He failed to turn the last Federal election, and has failed with about five State elections despite publishing huge amounts of rabid nonsense about the party he was trying to get out and massive support for the party he was trying to get in. He used to have a very high success rate getting the party he wanted in, but in the last few years he seems less and less effective.

Part of his issue is all his stuff has gone so far right with Sky News (especially 'After Dark' shows) and the tabloids (which also basically includes The Australian now), similar to how Fox News in the US went. But it seems that while he is pulling in a number of crazies, it's seemingly nowhere as big a proportion of the population as in the US. So more people seem to be switching off than getting pulled in (thankfully).
I'm not paranoid, and I have no evidence of anything at all, but it does occur to me that if I ran the US CIA/FBI, I would totally start a company like NordVPN and give them enough money to advertise widely and get sponsor spots on popular YouTube channels.

Sure, you'll probably end up facilitating a few petabytes of copyright infringing torrent traffic every day, but you'll also have a direct connection to countless people who think they're totally anonymous.