skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The `print` statement in perl has always behaved more or less as it does in the "other languages" you describe.

`say` removes the need for anyone to write their own "I'm tired of the manual newline ritual" function and provides a standard for where the newline is added. That's a marginal convenience, but given the frequency with which people either do write their own or newline inconsistency gets encountered (or both), it's a reasonable one.

And it's in pieces like this one not because it's a huge thing to crow about, but to illustrate the opt-in nature of incremental changes or sets of changes to perl.

`say` is also about 15 years old, like Time::Piece. The author is not announcing features that are new to the whole world, just new to a certain audience, possibly including the author.

This is also true of the filehandle scoping feature (which is 22 years old). If you find the old bare filehandle scope behavior only notable enough to hurl a drive-by "bonkers" at it then I suppose that's one way of advertising that you haven't spent much time thinking about unix shell utilities and associated features/issues.

Function signatures are slightly younger than typescript, or at least, the most familiar syntax for them; both the old and more recent means are essentially naming a list of arguments.

In general: perl is an opportunity to think about programming languages differently. There's a lot of contexts in which I never use it anymore, but it's rare to find people with substantial insights who casually disparage it.
This is some truly magical thinking, in which there's a magic box that citizens can put $200 into, once, and then later expect to withdraw $100k out of!
"Free market" is a propagandistic phrase, not a meaningful one. Markets have rules. You're free to follow them.
This is why we need to move the delivery underground and into tunnels.
how could they not be rolling in cash. their product is not that sophisticated and i assume they take a decent haircut from every subscription. Seems like a money printing machine to me.
Hurrian Hymn No. 6 is not European, and this does not claim to be older than the Rig Veda. The difference is that the vedas do not describe melodies; just literature. They were probably sung with specific melodies, but nobody knows what the originals are anymore
I love that article!

Thanks so much for sharing it!
I think you misread the judgement. They denied the permit to build the house, and the courts upheld the denial.
It's not just fonts or style, they're "hiding" weird Unicode code points in those words, I assume it's some form of SEO/filter-hopping technique, maybe to pass filters for shock videos (thus altering "grave" to "\u050d\u0280\u1d00v\u1d07", or Cyrillic Small Letter Komi Sje, Latin Letter Small Capital R, Latin Letter Small Capital A, v, Latin Letter Small Capital E). It makes it very hokey.
Albert Hoffman discovered LSD by accidentally absorbing it through his fingertips. [0]

> While re-synthesizing LSD, he accidentally absorbed a small amount of the drug through his fingertips and discovered its powerful effects.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#Discovery
Maybe I won't have to log in to Patreon every week now.
> it's probably not ideal to build a 30 story condo tower in the middle of a neighborhood of single family homes

You mean because then it would be in their back yard? Or why?
Do you have any references for this? I've no idea who you're accusing (the employees or Patreon) or what Flipper money is.
Structure of a Sprint
But Bitcoin has grown 700% despite your empty quip.
As far as I know, it just ignores them. They can complain all they want, the city is within its rights to build on land it owns.
idk, the rainbow family (lsd distribution network) requiring inductees to take a thumbprint to test that they aren't cops and see if they can handle the inevitable accidental dosing that can occur when laying blotter makes a lot of sense to me.

I wouldn't assert that it's 'fact' but seems very plausible. (A full 'thumbprint' is probably uncommon, but ingesting a visible amount of crystal from a fingertip seems believable)
The fact that I might have actually seen this person at DEFCON just a few weeks ago seems so cool to me. Its like my world on HackerNews is colliding with real life(for the first time). I wonder if this is how people feel when they meet celebrities?

Also, that is one cool badge as their pinned post, I didn't see that one this year. I always miss out on the cool badges at DEFCON.
Yes? I've used that word thousands of times and it has purely to do with comment quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
That's paypal

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32739950
I've never worked at a company where the security department was actually key to uptime. Mostly they are responding to design proposals/consulting with engineering teams, responding to scanner alerts, etc.
>What are you talking about? The fact that there are two Settings panels ('Settings' and 'Control Panel') is already sub-optimal for UI/UX

Why is that sub optimal? Nobody is forcing you to go looking for and dig up the old control panel especially that the average user has no idea the control panel even exists as it's hidden away since the Settings menu is always prevalent when searching for a setting and does everything. If the user can do everything using the default Settings app, what's the problem with the existence of the control panel hidden away in the bowels for sys-admins and legacy use cases?

You're grasping at straws here for an argument. That's like saying "my car has an UX issues because it lets me change the volume of the radio from two different places, the radio front panel knob and the buttons on my steering wheel, and those buttons look different than the knob".

>Average users do poke around the Control Panel, e.g. to install a printer.

It's 2022. If you need to poke around in control panel to install a printer you might be writing this from windows 95 or from a stuffy corporate environment in which case IT will do it for you. Windows 10 & 11 automatically installed my Canon and my Brother printers at home. It's 2022.
Only 2 years of OS upgrades? Seriously?

It's ironic that the Nokia slogan for their tablets is "Built to Last".
Engineering and economics problem--although properly speaking the former should imply the latter. Given that engineering isn't "We can build something that costs $X to build and operate but there's only a market for $X/5." That's still an engineering failure even if it works outside of cost constraints.
Thank you Dang for being the glue of HN
Just wanted to express my gratitude and appreciettion of the hard and amazing work Dang does for this community, he is the glue that binds us together and on such a sad day, you appreciate the good things in life.

So thank you Dang.
Came here to post about Hayden's thesis and you had beaten me to it. If anyone's interested in a podcast intro there's a good one here: https://auticulture.com/the-liminalist-223-the-arrival-of-th...
You are probably talking about this: https://research.nccgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/ncc...

In short - not a fundamental limitation - just that kernels (even if they are small) have a ton of work that goes into them. Nanos for instance has page protections, ASLR, virtio-rng (if on GCP), etc.
She is the head of state. The UK isn't the only country she is head of state either. She has the power to dissolve UK government.
100% agreed. I think it speaks MUCH more to the conviction of founders to apply a few times and then get in on a similar, refined idea. Then your lessons learned come off more as what you've learned about building a successful business vs how to build a business that YC will accept.
> One design, for example, had two twitching leglike stumps on the bottom for pushing itself along.

Looking forward to seeing the horror movies this technology inspires.
I have also seen a large security team gutted because of some royal fuckup. It was at a large-ish startup, but they retained enough people to operate day to day till replacements could be hired.
>I don't like how the power balance is, and the sort of "we made it!" vibe as if you finally impressed some diety enough to grace you with good fortune. I see the same kind of posts (oddly) about people who tried n times to get a job at google and finally they "made it". Like what are we doing?

Totally. It might be more fun to look at it as “we finally suckered them” (choose a less controversial word than suckered).

A similar dynamic shows up in the way startup founders are so eager to say “we’ve been acquired” rather than saying they sold a company
Yeah that's pretty accurate. Lots of little inflection points every few years as new things are added.
And then the monarch secretly interferes with legislation, while being exempt from FOIA. And gets involved in coups, and has an army which swears loyalty to them, and not the democracy.

https://theconversation.com/the-queens-gambit-new-evidence-s...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/05/09/could-army-c...

But don't worry, as long as people live in a fantasy world where they believe they are just ceremonial figureheads and a benign presence, their position at the top will never be challenged. And at any moment when it does, peoples emotions/grief will be exploited to maintain the institutions by using north korea style propaganda campaigns and security operations:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/16/what-happens...
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/03/security-ope...
So Patreon will announce a massive user data leak tomorrow?
Maybe I'm cynical, but I see "increase competition," but then see "put stronger safeguards in place" and assume that the regulations will be written in such a way that no upstart competitors can possibly abide by them, concentrating even more power in the hands of the incumbents and reducing competition.
Counterpoint: it feels like it’s been going on forever
There are many unelected people in the UK with far more power over the government than the monarch through "donations" to the government
Am I missing something? There linked pdf is a decision upholding Marin County’s rejection
Because the surrounding infrastructure wasn't made for that density, and it takes way longer to retrofit than it does to throw up density, lowering the quality of life for the existing residents.
He got a little hot under the collar, so what
Algebraic differential equation*
Furthermore, if Patreon goes then a lot of indie people are royally screwed. So many demonetized Youtubers or people at risk of being booted depend on Patreon.
> The idea is that it allows neighborhoods to "thicken up" over a few decades.

Which doesn't seem a bad idea.. but where does the level of employment and services factor into this? If an area expands economically, you're going to need to expand housing options, regardless of what was traditionally there.. if the area does not produce a lot of economic activity, then allowing more low density housing is ostensibly not a problem.
How about make it available to all open source developers! Not just developers with popular repositories.
I'm surprised you find the documentation lacking. What type of API are you talking about? The internal C API? Lua? Configuration? Something else?

Disclosure: I'm a community contributor to HAProxy and help maintain the issue tracker.
I gotta admit that it is a bit weird to see british royalty being so heavily privileged that they even get special moderation treatment here on HN to protect them (?) from any negativity, or rather stop negativity about them.

I'm not keen on the idea of using this submission to flame the Queen, I obviously agree with the general rule of avoiding flamebait, what I mean is that other HN submissions on the deaths of people certainly didn't get this special treatment. It is also not at all enforced in both directions when looking at the obviously and comically over the top positive comments of low quality which contain no real substance.

Edit: I used the wording "stop negativity" which might be misleading, since (as far as I am aware) no comments are being deleted. What I'm talking about is moderation giving out a lot of warnings and keeping a closer watch on "flamebait" violations than I've ever seen before on any submission.
I think you're exaggerating quite a lot.
In japan, everyone bows to everyone. Not sure what the point is.

The queen can still secretly prevent legislation from ever being heard in parliament, so...

The point is that a president is a) elected and b) works openly.
I just don't understand the logic to this.

So the argument is that a water pistol makes aggressive messages look less aggressive?

Isn't that dangerous for the person who receives a message they are no longer perceiving as an actual threat?

You can't just delete all the mean words out of the dictionary and stop people from finding a way to talk shit to each other. I would argue that any attempt to obfuscate the language in order to make people feel safe, in fact does the opposite.

Same could be said about banning the racists. Why ban them when it's so much more useful to be able to monitor them?
I think they meant "crashing into parked cars". Because if you interpret it the other way, it implies that they also consider the mere existence of oncoming traffic and pedestrians a bad thing.
The ruling mentions "There is little caselaw interpreting this statutory definition." in regard to that question. It mentions one case where building 8 residential units was a "housing development project"

It then goes into the fact that the law in question refers to a "housing development project" in one of 3 ways, 2 of which definitely don't apply, leaving behind the phrase "Residential units only", which they then point "units" is plural, not singular.

So perhaps.. 2 residential units would have been a housing development project.
The Queen is not a 'ruler' though, she's a figurehead.

Which is fully appropriate where it exists.

I would be 100% against the US having a 'Constitutional Monarch' but I'm 100% in support of the UK Constitutional Monarchy, given that it has come from their long established culture, nearly a 1000-year-old 'contiguous-ish' institution.

FYI in 1258 the Monarch signed documents which required him to 'Confer with Parliament' when changing rates of taxation. That's only 40 years past Magna Carta, and the first reference to 'Parliament'.
SubscribeStar does basically the same thing, right? I imagine everyone would just move right over, business as usual.
That's part of it for sure but even on a still scene 35mm projectors still had a small bit of movement because it was mechanical and alignments are never perfect. I know in the cinema I worked in even sat in the screen you could still hear the hum of the machines if you knew what to listen for. To me it was all part of the cinema experience.
Digital has improved compared to the early generations yes. But if you gave me the option I'd watch 35mm over digital any day

Edited to correct typo
Houston did/does have laws that are in effective zoning laws. Parking space requirements, setbacks, etc.

Also transit systems may be required. I imagine a place with truly no zoning laws and a transit system would have a lot of development near stops
> I think the grandparent comment’s author forgot to insert a “British” in front of monarch.

"she was the last British monarch to have any memory of WWII" is pretty weird too, though, since her father George VI was the only other monarch alive during WW2. I guess unless you also count her uncle Edward VIII who was alive throughout WW2 and had previously been a British monarch. If that counts then sure, she was the last of three British monarchs to remember WW2.
This is not a critique of the work, I understand that some folk prefer it and that its beautiful work.

I _hate_ modern web UIs however. Give me plain old websites that are information dense, with none of the fluff. HN and old.reddit.com are my daily reads.

I will be _very very_ sad when old.reddit goes away and I probably will have to go app only (Apollo) when that happens.
This is where a direct democracy can shine. A simple proposition that amends AHA to explicitly include single family homes might put a stop to this.
I don't know that they've accepted the harmlessness of it as much as raised the white flag on the fact that it's too widespread to be shut down, even if they wanted to.
The typical use case for env -S is a script passing arguments to the interpreter (#!/usr/bin/env -S interp --foo → interp --foo ./scriptname), and the user can always pass arguments to the script (./scriptname --bar → interp --foo ./scriptname --bar).

But why would a script ever need to use a shebang to pass an argument like --bar to itself? Can’t it just modify its own argv, or act as if it had?

(I found your message at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2017-05/msg0002... that claims

> It is useful because it allows the hash bang to specify some arguments after the script (which could be arguments belonging to the script rather than to the interpreter, for instance).

but doesn’t really explain why the script itself would want to specify that.)

In any case, compatibility is important here, in order for it to be possible to write cross-platform scripts.
Under her reign it was Her Majesty’s government and she took an active role in it that wasn’t publicly visible. Laws did not take effect without her assent, and the government formed with her permission which was asked for.

Under Charles III’s reign, it will be His Majesty’s government; how actively he takes an interest in its affairs will be on him, but at a minimum laws will not take effect without his assent and his permission will be asked for to form future governments.

That’s the system of the United Kingdom. It never stopped being a Kingdom, people just chose to view the late Queen as ceremonial because it was a convenient way to square the Throne with democratic ideals, but it really isn’t all that ceremonial. The reason the customs held fast is because Queen Elizabeth II worked to make the system work. A different sort of Queen may have sparked a constitutional crisis or two by now and there’s no guarantee she would have necessarily lost to the Commons.
> That is indeed a much more defensible thesis. But to do anything meaningful, you need to eat a bunch of frogs - to build a rocket, you need to call and compare suppliers, manage accounting, etc. If you avoided all of that annoying stuff, you would find yourself, years later, with very pretty blueprints and no rocket.

I do think there's a certain audience that needs to hear that, specifically the do-nothing crowd or someone (like your former self perhaps) whose life is dominated by bad habits. I think the article is addressing the other side of the pendulum. There are plenty of people who are not addicted to some sort of obvious time waste, but they are addicted to self-flagellation.
I'm glad it's posted and thanks for being quite generous with the sample content of downloads and links that did not require an email to access.

I have bought a copy.
Earth is also already 100% sustainable. Humans just refuse to engage in that process. Who's going to be responsible for Mars' sustainability?
>It's honestly infuriating that with the wealth of information available at everyone's fingertips so many people are so easily making the same mistakes as a century earlier.

I agree, but for me it's more infuriating how often I see this comparison used when when the modern version is primarily head-canon catastrophizing despite the same people making the comparison advocating and practicing behaviors that are even closer to what they decry, all while pretending they're not. Nuance and introspection are sorely lacking everywhere.
Which is great policy! We need to go up, not out.
Yes, discussed yesterday, too:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32754325
well, how big is the ENTIRE security team? LinkedIn only shows up 4 people. Don't know what a typical percentage would be expected to show up there.
Yeah, just heard about it from Ian McGilchrist, when he was talking about the left-brain/right-brain differences. He mentioned this race in that context, so I looked it up.
Wait till they find out about the parental concept of secretly coercing somebody to do something that is in their interests!
How does this differ from other solutions listed at https://wiki.freecadweb.org/FEM_Solver ?
IIRC Freemasons describe themselves as a society with secrets, rather than a secret society.
It's no longer around in its current form, but this looks like the same exact value prop and feature set that RelateIQ had, whom Salesforce purchased. I just can't help but wonder if its coincidence that your company name is also relate...
The Queen is dead, long live the King!
The concerning part is when a secret social club crosses the line into being a cabal.
An idle turbine also isn't earning revenue.

I haven't found specific numbers on steam turbines, but this pdf says a gas turbine's maintenance cost over 30 years is 3 to 4 times the capital cost:

https://www.gasturbine.org/papers/GTA%20Comments%20on%20RMRR...

So taking the worst case, capital plus maintenance for a continually-running turbine is 5X its capital cost, to get 30 years of power output. For each year of power, the total cost is 5/30 or 1/6 of the capital cost.

Now lets take your 4 hours/day example. That's 1/6 as much running time, so only 5 total years of power output. It's also 1/6 as much maintenance cost, so maintenance is 4/6 of the capital cost, for a 30-year total cost of 1.66 times capital cost. Total cost per year of power is 1.66/5 = 1/3 of the capital cost.

That puts the cost per kWh for energy storage at double the cost of the continuously-run turbine.
I think "they all were sober within 24 hours" is too strong of a statement - LSD's half life is 3.6 hours, so after 24 hours blood concentration should be reduced to ~1/64th. Sober within 2-3 days is probably accurate, but I bet anyone who took a 100x dose doesn't feel "normal" for at least a couple weeks, perhaps months - more from PTSD-like effects from the intensity of the experience rather than acute LSD intoxication.
You’d have to expand power grid, more water, city employees, build a new school, parking, roads, shopping for the influx of new residents, more police, more fire dept hires.

Further, no one bought and built a 7 bedroom and 9 bath room home on an acre lot to live next to a few hundred people. It’s utterly irrational and illogical.

It completely denies the role of status seeking behaviour in our societies which is a human universal. We need wealthy people enjoying all the trappings of wealth and feel special about their status because it is them who are subsidizing the vast majority of the rest of the population. If you don’t reward the golden goose, no free golden egg. Fight the right battle.
As an Irishman, while our two countries might not have always gotten along well, she always came across as a good person who took her role seriously and executed as well as anyone could. RIP.
I think one of the brilliant things YC (and PG) have done is propagate “being a founder” as occupying an elite career/employment category beyond anything else. Like, there’s an under appreciated level of category building that YC is responsible for (and the success of their founders hasn’t hurt).
And since I'm referencing this from later discussions: it's worth noting that this advice is somewhat aspirational on my part. I don't hold to this perfectly by any stretch. It is, however, what I'm striving toward.

Goal, not attainment.