skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heard from inside source through a friend, take with a grain of salt, but that particular server was running ancient software (think very obsolete windows server version) and would have a peak of less than 10 concurrent users, worldwide. I don't think there is a business case to make here.

It's a maintenance nightmare. Poor, rushed together server components. Noone still around the company that still knows how it was built. No automated tests whatsoever, so any code changes or recompile with newer libs would require important QA efforts..

I'm not saying this justify anything. It's still very bad business practice and consumers are right to be mad. Kinda was predictable though, and game publishers should have a clear EOL policy when selling a game.
IGF-1 is generally bad for longevity. Exercise is beneficial in spite of spiking IGF-1, not because of
Or, more likely, Europe capitulates some time this winter and part of Ukraine goes to Russia. It seems pretty likely that Russia is betting they can survive sanctions longer than Europe can survive without gas. They don't have to actually win in Ukraine; they just have to insert chaos long enough for Europe to freeze.
And where do the people get their information to decide?
Wouldn’t a motor be able to chirp the tires all by itself?

Dunno how much drag the motor would create if allowed to spin freely…
I think this article assumes that all people want the same things out of life, such as comfort and refrigeration, but this is not the case with "everyone".
The GUI situation in Common Lisp is pretty pitiful. AFAIK the best you get is ECL+QT5 or cffi-cl-gtk (which is GTK 3).
I don't see a very favorable comparison for Racket at all in anything else though. When people talk about the benefits of Lisp, they are usually talking about the benefits of /Common/ Lisp. Other languages often misunderstand what makes Common Lisp so great, like in the case of Scheme's overly complex pseudo-macro system.
I found that this has been the case with all companies I worked where the founders where still high up on the totem pole but not big enough to have an external board or hire experienced managers.

I have a few pet theories

1. Survivor ship bias - only control-freaks last long enough to grow this size (let's say 10+ people working for you)

2. Once you have enough on your plate that you can't keep track of all areas of your company, you grow wary and feel the need to butt-in

3. This is cultural - low trust cultures foster control freaks
I haven't seen the author of the OP article talk about timelines. It was about skeptics not being able to disprove that we will NOT have that at some point.

Which I found to be good criticism because many charlatans operate exactly like that: (a) make a nebulous claim, (b) get called out, (c) pull the "you can't disprove me" card while OBVIOUSLY a good scientific discussion should go the other way: the claimer should prove their claims.

That's why I liked the OP article where the author called Drexler a sci-fi writer.
> Why would having coroutines as fibers in the core be a gamechanger?

Plenty of technical reasons but for me, the biggest is unity among libraries/technologies. There been versions of coroutines/fibers around PHP for many years, first time I heard about it was a PHP fork that implemented fibers, don't recall the name but must have been something like 10 years ago...

But the problem has always been that you cannot rely on the community having things like that available.

Having it in the core language, means that more libraries can depend on it, and users are therefore incentives to learn more about it, as they can rely on it sticking around.

Overall, I'm happy it's coming into the core language.
The OP suggesting rural living is entirely to blame is a strawman and absurd, and was presented with no evidence that removing all rural areas would fix any problem.
To me, tao of programming is not related to computer or technology.

It's based on human character. Good people produce good code, or "timeless" code, bad people write "bad" code (means it's a tech debt).
All life is dependent on cheap energy. It's the currency of the universe.
Vim isn't just keybindings.
Why was I not taught this in a data structures cause?
Hi there. I'd like to have some feedback for this Android app: Embit Wallet, a one-of-a-kind bitcoin wallet. Enjoy!
https://leaningtech.com/cheerpx-for-flash/
If you live in the US, your order is wrong.

1. Walk or bike.

1a. If you can't do the above, use public transport.

1b. If you can't do that, consider moving to a city where you can do all of the above (if you can afford it). If you're rural, seek a land trust or farmer to buy your land when you do.

2. Insulate your house.

3. Get solar if you can afford it.

3a. Replace all gas appliances with electric (Heat pump, electric water heater, ec)

4. Don't fly.

5. Dietary changes, but remember to include ecosystem services and impact in your analysis. A little carbon is worth it if it means more land stays free of pesticides and continues to provide for the ecosystem.

At least, this is the best I've been able to make of it after a decade of study using open sources. Agriculture is important, but whenever I've actually dug into the referenced data I always find they're optimizing for the wrong things, leaving out important variables, or just all around cherry picking data with an end goal in mind.
I don't see any intersection of Apple and Netflix. Big media services like Netflix have their own subscription services.

>This is where I think the incentives are not aligned

But could be aligned to everyone's benefit.
>highest performers as the one who know how to program better but it's actually those who know the system better and I just don't wanna step on their toes.

It sounds like you've learned some bad habits/lessons in your career. High performers are able to learn new systems rapidly. If others are slowed by not understanding the code, that's a documentation, architecture, and occasionally tooling problem.

You should absolutely be asking questions of folks with more knowledge of the system and not concerned about "stepping on toes"
The trick here is "python dialect" rather than full-on python.

We need something that transpiles to native Unreal code, which has the majority of the verbosity and productivity aspects of Python.

Yes, Verse, if i'm not mistaken.

GDScript is another good example of this.
The largest nuclear power plant in Europe disconnected from the grid
You Need a Budget [ https://www.youneedabudget.com/ ] is one of the few online tools I pay money for. It connects to all the major credit cards, banks, loan companies, financial brokers, and most of the minor ones too. Its budgeting system actually makes sense.

You're only allowed to budget the money you have currently in your bank accounts and you're encouraged to daily categorize the previous days transactions so you immediately know if you're spending outside of your budget. I've referred a few friends and they all turned into paying customers.

I also have a referral link that gets me a free month: https://ynab.com/referral/?ref=sO-qTzrewvE6obDI

But they give you the free month regardless if you sign up on the main site. Just something nice to do if you try out the service and like it.
Two that I hear constantly: rooftop solar and urban gardening (or "farming" if you must). Both are ecological catastrophes when they prevent the effective use of cities to house people in energy-efficient buildings with low demand for transportation. Protecting rooftop solar with "solar access rights" is something that some find superficially green but is actually ruinous.
What's the benefit of compiling a Python-like language to PHP instead of just using PHP?
EROI is a physical measure, it doesn't deal with price at all so I don't get what it has to do with your first paragraph?
Wasn’t that the point though? He was trying to show that complete nonsense could be published.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Pla...
Yeah we don't get NuGet packages that only offer a single function...
You raise an interesting point - Venezuela has an abundance of oil, but also blackouts and a general shortages at the same time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Venezuelan_blackouts

So you need energy but also stability. And minimizing corruption helps as well.

Air dropping barrels of oil, or solar panels without regard for social, civil, and technical infrastructure isn't that helpful. But there are a lot of areas that are primed and would benefit from just adding energy.
> This is false. Various inputs and forms were in html since its early days

The same is true for PDF files, they support forms and can even POST to a server. Would you consider PDF a format designed to build apps instead of one designed to publish documents ?

HTML is great for these kinds of 'apps', like this website. This is where HTML is fulfilling its original purpose. Reading text, filling out a few forms, that's exactly what it is for. I'm not arguing against interactive websites such as e.g. Reddit or Slashdot. What I'm arguing about is actual full-fledged apps built in HTML. Photoshop should not be a web app, nor should Visual Studio.
I have 5 reusable bags that I've used for a few years.

That means I've used them maybe 100 times. Now they're starting to fall apart, and soon I'll need new ones.

I wonder, since they're much heavier and clearly use a lot more plastic, whether I would have used less plastic with the disposable ones.
Thanks for posting this! I'll look into testing ClipperLib as well. If it's 400x faster, that would be great.
Apple's dislike of flexible MacBook OLED display forcing Samsung to improvise
Valid in comparison to all those apple phones knowing where things are.

I never really lost luggage. I never lost anything.

How would our radio look like if it becomes the norm to put tags from everyone onto everything?
At least at Burger King, Impossible Whoppers are only like $1 more. Most restaraunts, yeah they are the most expensive option by a couple of dollars. Very frustrating. Still good to have the option though, because the alternative is often a crappy house salad or sides.
That's a very big Stretch from an airtag to a car.
A document that puts these differences in context is Rich Hickey's "A History of Clojure"

https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojure-hopl-iv-final.pd...

The design decisions in this paper strongly resonate with me. It helped me to overcome my aversion to JVM-hosted languages, and settle down to learn Clojure.

I'm a research mathematician, at one extreme where code is steps up a mountain. I don't need to summit twice, so productivity is far more important than speed. Nevertheless, the fastest Clojure time trials use GraalVM:

https://www.graalvm.org/
Ok change it back to 'don't care' then ...
I was disappointed in how the Dylan project ended up.
And yet those community features offer a better graphical development experience, InteliJ of Lisp, so to speak.
Not only difficult, but prone to being sliced when using a paper opener. Paper folded in four should be placed in the envelope with the fold at the bottom so that it doesn't get cut when slicing the paper at the top of the envelope.
I've been on-off in England over the years, and stuff like groceries have got both way more expensive, and are far inferior in quality, to what I remember. That's pretty much my observation across the board: things are worse, but cost more.
Let's say you could convince an extra 10% of the world to follow those rules, and that it doesn't cause a rebound effect (as per the Jevons paradox). How much extra time would that buy us before an unstoppable climate catastrophe?
Well we have enough uranium reserves to increase the world's energy output by several orders of magnitude and still last hundreds of years.
Much better to have a bunch of one-function packages that you can simply avoid than to have a dead package registry with 1/10 of the useful stuff (so not the one-function packages).
Minicube64 is a fantasy console style emulator based on 6502
I'm sure there's a lot of intellectual and emotional poverty out there that cannot be alleviated by any source of energy.
That subpar experience is still better.
I was looking for motivation to cancel. Thanks.
If I care about 'was this data generated by this specific distribution' then I'll quantize and do a chi-square.

If I care about 'were these two datasets generated by the same distribution' then I'll step back and ask 'why do I care?' and 'what will I do with the answer?' and then use a more specific test.
I got into programming websites with PHP at a time when everyone was yelling Node for everything, JavaScript frameworks for everything, SPAs for everything.

I absolutely agree they have their place... but I don't have regrets. I'll get into JS Frameworks, Node, and all of that later as it never, ever hurts to broaden experience, but I have no regrets with jumping into PHP first because the productivity level is fantastic when tied to a framework to avoid the footguns. PHP has footguns, some infamous, but so does any framework or language.
Same way people get their information to decide now for anything democratically decided upon?
Can you elaborate why you're saying that right now we have enough energy ? Because to me it's obvious that the third world has far from enough energy (like, they'd need multiple times more to reach a first world stanard of living), and even in first world there's not really enough at the moment, as indicated by the EU energy crisis.

Perhaps the currently available energy is sufficient to meet all the needs in a fictional world where every home was insulated and had a heat pump, but I don't live in that world. Perhaps in some future after many years of infrastructure buildup I could live in that world, but that's not right now. And perhaps in a fictional world where 8 years ago more effort had gone into renewables, there would be enough energy for the current consumption, but I don't live in that world either - in the world I live in, the currently installed and immediately available capacity as of 2022 is far from sufficient for meeting our current needs, and if you're saying "Right now, we have enough energy" I am really struggling to understand what exactly you want to say with that. Are you implying that we should curtail our energy use to what's currently available (or less) and feel satisfied at that?
Your pay is based on your value to the company. Things that diminish your value to the company: Being in a timezone different from the main office, speaking a language or dialect different from the main office, having different laws than the country in which the main office is, being in a satellite office where management's chain of command is less effective, etc. MAANGA companies set up offices in Europe because despite all of these hurdles, European developer salaries are so low that it's worth it. If you want to increase that salary, work on destroying some of these hurdles. Either work with your company to get a product moved to entirely European development (a good example is Ubisoft doing development of some games in US, some in Canada, some in France, etc.), or try to break down some of the barriers like timezone, and vote in politicians who aren't driven by protectionist Europe-vs-US mindsets.
What you’re describing is a temporary setback and loss of productivity for the company. Almost never is it make or break situation for the company. You can hire someone who doesn’t care and is not motivated as the person who left, but the net effect to the company is marginal.

In the rare occasion that a single person is valuable enough that if they leave, the company would shut down, the person is well compensated.
How's it going to harm people? What's an example of what one might ask this to do where "the model very rarely outputs racist images even for innocuous inputs" causes real harm?

The only answers I can think of require us to use the model for unethical things - like profiling people at the airport or something. That would be abjectly wrong for lots of reasons even if the model itself were fine.

If you use the model to make images to use creatively, well, there's always a human deciding what images to use. Also, "I saw a racist picture" doesn't rise to a level of harm where I feel like we have to pump the brakes.

So I still feel like I'm missing something.
Create a bookmark category for HN users you want to follow, and bookmark their comment pages.
Sorry! It's their platform and they can kill all third party apps whenever they want to.

I find it extremely risky to build an entire business out of someone else's unofficial API.

To Downvoters: I'm trying to help you here.

Did you not see the top comment about Embrace, Extend, Extinguish tactic that Spotify and many other companies have used for their API's? [0] Similarly, If your app is in trouble [1] and the upstream provider suspends access to the APIs, your business is totally finished, but not if you are a larger company providing the API (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc)

So don't depend or build your entire business on someone else's API. [2]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32725714

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/05/snap-cuts-off-yo...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4093796
Whether new developers need to worry about developing for OG .NET or not (I agree that they shouldn't) doesn't really have anything to do with what people who talk about OG .NET should call it in order to make it clear that OG .NET is what they're talking about.
Simple IBM I (AS/400) HACKING
There’s an awful lot of the world where there isn’t wood available to do that.

Like the plains of the US, even in Native American times trees were too precious to burn.
Congrats on the launch!

Random, but: what program did you use to make the intro video? It looks really clean.
Keeping your house at 80F when its 115F outside would seem to use less energy than keeping your house at 60F when it is -1F out. Maybe humidity makes it closer to even? For me one bill was gas and one was electric, so harder to compare. I'll ask some coworkers with only a heat pump.
Congrats, you are actually just an inconsequential stooge. Environmental corruption and depletion is not a consumer problem, at least not directly. It is a product of industrial production processes. Eat meat, eat dairy, preserve your health and your brain in doing so, and find ways to create industry that is clean, that would make you an environmentalist... maybe... if you successfully altered the system.

Stop pretending like climate change is created by consumers and can be controlled by "turning your lights off."
You didn’t specify if it needed to be a subscription. Arlo and Google both have battery powered lights that work fine for a week or two
> first time I heard about it was a PHP fork that implemented fibers, don't recall the name

Probably thinking of HHVM/Hack: https://docs.hhvm.com/hack/asynchronous-operations/introduct...
for me the following things stand out

use common lisp (sbcl) if you want c-level performance

use common lisp if you want to make optimizing compilers

use common lisp if you want smalltalk type repl driven interactive development
You are arguing against a strawman here. Nobody claimed we have a perfect meritocracy.
DDoS-Guard also drops Kiwi Farms
So imagine what sort of world we'd live in if all the would-be-Musks had access to even half the level of wealth or opportunity he did when growing up...
The Warlock series had this as the intergalactic currency - the kwaher or kilowatt/hour.
Factory farming animals is specifically mentioned in the article as causing less environmental damage than organic or cage free methods. Whether true or not doesn’t prevent effective environmentalism from becoming as performative as environmentalism.
Then what is the point of doing a relative comparison to any other causes of death?
What explains the big difference?
Is it hard to make racist and sexist memes now?
I don't even notice the stepped shifting when I drive my Soobie. In fact I wondered why it worked that way, and assumed it had something to do with minimizing wear and tear on the shift mechanism.

It's the closest thing to "get in and drive" of any car I've had. I especially love the adaptive cruise control.
But if you go that fire, you might as well use a third party for the entire stack. If you would rather not use the big 3/4/5, use something like Fastmail. They are an extremely reliable email provider, without the baggage of Google/Microsoft.
That's an option, but like switching to fish/vegetables/whatever, it's not something that most people actually do. This chart[1] shows that beef consumption has been falling since the 70s, but it's being more than made up for by the increase in chicken consumption.

[1] https://sentientmedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/food-av...
Interestingly enough, the inverse of your comment is true here. "Gallons upon gallons" as a superlative, and drinks in pubs are the two uses of imperial liquid measures here
Apple Silicon is no different from Qualcomm Snapdragon or Samsung Exynos.
Relevant: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32726465
My google doctorate says that energy efficiency of refining is 90%. And you ignored the energy efficiency of mining coal.

> You can play this game all day long

And you should, to be serious about CO2 emissions reduction. Otherwise, we're all just fooling ourselves.
I have ACA coverage now, and had it in 2020 when I made a trip to Mayo Clinic. Mayo was out of network, insurance wouldn't pay anything, so I investigated getting private insurance, figuring I could force a "life event" if necessary to switch insurance coverage outside the open enrollment period. I ran into lots of roadblocks:

Part of ACA is that insurance companies can no longer refuse coverage or charge more for pre-existing conditions. IMO the insurance companies agreed to this because everyone was going to be forced into either buying insurance or paying a penalty to be self-insured (not carry insurance). The penalty was later removed by Congress, but the insurance companies were stuck with the no pre-existing conditions rules.

https://www.hhs.gov/answers/health-insurance-reform/can-i-ge...

When I tried to get private insurance from major carriers, I ran into:

- circular phone trees that couldn't be escaped

- forwarding to "agents for my area" that never answered the phone

- forwarding to agents that did answer the phone but said there would be coverage limits for 6 months since I had a pre-existing condition. This is illegal. One agent did give me a quote for $2400/mo with a $10K deductible.

- I did find prices on the Internet that said private PPO coverage would cost about $800/mo with a $10K deductible, but no insurance company would actually write it.

IMO, only writing new individual coverage (not via company employment) during open enrollment is a way for the insurance companies to keep their limit on pre-existing conditions.

I ended up paying cash ($12K) for a 1-week visit to Mayo. In hindsight, paying cash was a better deal than if I had private PPO coverage: PPO would have cost $9600 in premiums (or more!) plus I would have paid the first $10K, so nearly $20K.

Insurance in the US is a mess!

I do have to add though, ACA has been a lifesaver for me.
Aw, dude, if you’re not buffer juggling - esp with three or four shells! - you’re missing out on one of the great joys/mysteries of life!
I don't think solar would be very useful in Europe during the winter. Maybe in the countries furthest to the south, but there's really no point in the Nordics.
The Ring security system may fit your needs. Its sensors all use battery, and it has battery powered cameras as well. They have an external camera that is solar powered. You just have to power the base station with external solar, and it even has battery backup. The base station includes cellular, with up to 3gb of data transfer per month included.