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> Why write “function” when you can write “=>”? Why write out “Object” when you can just use “{}”? The answer is simple: Cognitive overhead.

I'd bet those things have zero effect on cognitive overhead, either way it's just standard tokens you get used to. Meanwhile for loops still have C's cryptic syntax when much more readable alternatives have been established.

> And so how do you think most novice developers utilize “try” and “catch”? You guessed it, to take some block of code that is misbehaving and mute the error.

Name one language that doesn't let you lazily suppress errors. And you know why beginners like to avoid it? Because it's a lot of boilerplate, and Go isn't any better at this.

> Will it actually “take over”? Who can say.

So much for the clickbait title.
Quit as soon as you can. Overworking yourself for an employer who clearly doesn’t respect your time is not worth it.

At worst you’ll carry around the scars of burning out for the rest if your life.

And yes, it is possible to work reasonable hours. Not only that, but it should be the default.
Ask HN: Are Laptops Getting Better?
If you agree, than which features did you feel improved the mobile workstation experience.

If you disagree, than which issues were most memorable for a given model.

Cheers, J
So what could happen, in practical terms?

If you are not located in Germany and do not have business there (I mean monetary business, one you can draw money from) then good luck for them trying to get something from you.
NFTs are literally contracts. On ETH, they implement IEIP721.
I was going to put it on here but thought better of it, tbh. Buzz me on Twitter? I'll leave my username in my profile for a while or until I hear from you.
> is it even realistic to have a 9-5 kind of structure in IT/software dev field

Absolutely, at least in Europe. Not everywhere, be wary of “we’re family” and “hustle” types.
> What SQLite database running on raspberry pi is immune from seizure by relevant government authorities

What cryptocurrency is? The answer is none, because there are several weak points to any cryptocurrency and if state agencies choose to take them seriously they can easily shut them down.
Yeah I find they're best kept small. I find them useful in managing GUI state. Some business logic gets a bit too complicated to nicely represent in a state machine.
Using check lists means stabdardization, and that makes results compareable and reduces the risk of forgetting something under stress. Check lists have nothing to do with ML or AI so.
This is what I do. Make the core pattern solid (barely touch this), and extended functionalities in vanilla way; i.e. just write another function receive context and return expected things. You can use solid/uhtml/preact/lit "the view part" they all have it separated from component model. It's 6-8kB (.min). Everything else is just application logic. react-dom is 130kB now and even slower than the rest.
In my opinion, computer vision had many successful uses of AI/ML models. Object detection, segmentation, there are multiple uses in medical image processing.

As I am from manufacturing side, object detection and segmentation models changed product quality inspection for good.

Now multiple cameras with trained models can find defects on any surface or part as small as it can get, before it was multiple operators looking at moving parts 8 to 12 hours a day which was very tiring and repetitive job to do.
Uptime rates should have no connection to your work hours.

99.99% uptime does not mean you need to be on a meeting every night.

Your manager is bad. Really bad. Becoming a manager doesn't mean you put on some ring and now you're in the "inevitably bad club".

Like others have said, find a new job that respects you.
Necros rocked. Certainly you are then familiar with his solo & band projects "Alpha Conspiracy" and IRIS.
An assumption I bring it to most questions like this:

The world, including the tech world, is much bigger than you think.

Though I have only seen a tiny fraction of it myself, here’s where I’ve had reliably contained workdays: 1) Machine learning systems for internal Ops processes, we technically had on call rotation but I never heard of anyone being paged at a terrible hour 2) Data engineering for strategic dashboards, where “I will fix it when I get in tomorrow“ is totally fine 3) A cross geography team who is clients are in my time zone, which set the norm that the other people had to shift their working hours instead (I’m not saying that this is globally optimal, but they knew what they were signing up for, and I can be confident this pattern will persist)

Each has their own trade-offs, but my point is that you can find options anywhere along some dimension if you keep looking
Princeton lab simulates nuclear war (2019)
Is it really that difficult to add just the tiniest bit of context to let me know what the article is about?

As is, it could be any of:

* Kitchen appliances

* Urban stealth

* Image processing

* Fashion contagion

* Music and rhythm

* ...
Megalithic Chamber Tombs
Ask HN: Nuclear plants in war zones: A valid reason not to build more
The media has frequently been screaming about the dangers of one of the nuclear powerplants in Ukraine being targeted and damaged in the war.

A dirty nuke, radiation over Europe the scenarios being discussed are plentiful.

To me this seems to be the best argument to not invest and rely on nuclear powerplants going forward.

Ukraine has several other types of power generators / plants that are not featured much in the media. The exception being hydropower when a dam was damaged.

The argument “There will never be a war here” seems foolish to me.
In my experience, multiple knee MRTs, the liver, the intestine, the ankle..., radiologists by default are the second opinion to the specialist, e.g. an oncologist, that sent you to get the scan in the first place. I never ever had a radiologist come up with a diagnosis by himself.
I suspect consumers will have to pay what products actually cost, and improved quality control will increase consumer value.
An opportunity to use the HNews Poll?
tl:dr not a big fan

so much +1 for the worst possible alignment of the keys above the arrow keys, is why mine is not used anymore it just pisses me off constantly. (i reprogrammed the keyboard but it still is a bad experience even when disabled or remapped)
the speakers on the bottom are also not doing a great either.
i think i will get a framework as the next one.
Also PopOS is confusing to configure, much rather have plain debian and live with the pain of setting it up, but it behaves deterministic.
Very much this, on the end you have an office 365 subscription which has incredible value for money. On the other end are subscriptions like Omnifocus or Noteplan, the price point is too high for the added value (at least for me).
Ask HN: What Ever Happened to Agile?
Second workplace in 2 years that advertises itself as agile.

Yet here's how they do it. Minimum CI. No CD. Features that are designed through a long waterfall stage in the beginning of a quarter (how the heck can you design something to its entirety bfr even touching code I really don't know). Long QA stage with lots of manual testing in it.

In short, that's as far from agile in my mind as it could get.

And let's not even touch DevOps (down in flames AFAIK- btw there was a HN post a while ago on that. If you have it handy pls post a link here).

Am I unlucky? Is the job market I'm in stuck in 90s? (Fringe EU low salary market). Is agile dead(ish)? What is going on?
Okay, have you heard of Henri Poincaré? Because he studied chaos in the 1880s, and anyone with a high-school level grasp of mathematics would know that.

Hinged pendulums which exhibit chaotic behaviour have been a popular demonstration for about 100 years.

Just because the first pop-sci glossy coffee table book to mention chaos wasn't published until the 1980s, it doesn't mean that anyone who studied maths or physics - particularly at a level that would allow them to teach at a university - would not have even heard of chaos theory.
Work for the government.
Ah I did not see that; so if he made less than 100k NS he could ignore the threats? So he is admitting by this he makes more and/or is registered as a small business?

But thank you, this is insightful.
>Also the GDPR law is only 6 years old I think if you say you've never heard of it, you can get away with that.

"I'm sorry Officer, I didn't know I couldn't do that."

https://youtu.be/FclScfPoKes?t=595
I was going to respond saying that you should be strict about declining meeting outside of working hours and protect your time, but then I remembered that my company is not every company and this may not be supported or possible. It does sound like you are overworked and the company may be poorly managed in this regard.

I think your best options are to speak with your manager about it or start looking for other jobs with better work-life-balance. The companies you are looking for certainly do exist!
Ask HN: Master solving any DSA qns that are not restricted to leetcode qns?
I mean most people can solve leetcode problems after mugging the questions. How do you gain independent DSA skills?
With ARC Nim is also very akin to Ada and Rust: https://nim-lang.org/blog/2020/10/15/introduction-to-arc-orc...
There's a reason the languages that followed COBOL ditched the faux natural language part of the syntax. The language is practical for what it does, but the syntax is impractical. The same thing can be said about SQL.
Is that something HN users can request, or a special meta-tag I don't know yet?

=)
It's not unpleasant but it's exclusive. Small village life is not necessarily tourist-friendly, which from my pov is a plus. Italians from the villages will not necessarily include you in their life or treat you better, or cut you slack, because you're foreign.
The top level comment I was replying to was about removing all economic regulation. I'm not sure how that turned into 'social democratic values' but that's what you were replying to me replying to.
Another aspect to this is that the far-away collegues might be fewer, so they adapt to the majority.
If you hold a balloon under water and slowly let it float up by holding it down, you are preventing it from rising (as fast as it otherwise would).
Cloudflare Pages Functions beta feature will soon be GA
Fog of War. Don’t get influenced by FUD generated by any side. You are hearing what one or the other side want you to hear.
Nice to see PHP improve its ranking after years of slump and JS taking over majority of its share. probably not a surprise, There has been a lot of nice development since PHP8. PHP libraries are mostly stable when compared to Node making them easy to upgrade. I upgraded a 6 year old codebase from php7 to php8.1 and everything was completed within an hour. (used PHP-Rector)
Hello Cloudflare Pages Users!

We’re excited to announce that the [Cloudflare Pages Functions](https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-pages-goes-full-stack...) beta feature will soon be generally available. This also means this feature will become a paid offering. If you participated in the beta, read on to see what this means for you.

In beta, [Pages Functions](https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/functions/) had a 100,000 requests/day limit. The *Pages Functions billing model introduced on November 15th* allows your traffic to scale without limitation.

How Pages Functions Billing Works
Pages Functions billing will be merged with the existing Workers billing structure for Free, Paid, and Enterprise customers.

If you have a Workers Paid subscription:

- *Billing will automatically occur for all Functions usage after November 15th* –- no additional action required.
- Pages Functions will share the same pool of quotas included in the subscription like requests and duration.
- As an example, you will share the included 10 million Bundled requests between Workers and Pages Functions.
- The pricing will continue to be the same as stated [here](https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/platform/pricing).

If you do not have a Workers Paid subscription (Workers Free)

- You will not be billed automatically but will be limited to the free 100,000 daily request limit
- *You will share the same 100,000 free tier limit pool with your Pages Functions.*
- For example, you could use 50,000 Functions requests and 50,000 Workers requests to use your full 100,000 daily request usage.
- Today, we recommend that anyone currently using over (or near) 100,000 requests on Pages Functions, Workers or both combined should upgrade to Workers Paid. This information can be found in the Pages dashboard in the right hand corner.

Important notes:

- If we have raised your Functions limit during the beta period, this raised limit will no longer be in effect. The above sections explain how you will be billed or limited based on your Workers subscription status.

For any questions unanswered in this document, contact us on [Discord](https://discord.gg/cloudflaredev) in the [#functions channel](https://discord.com/channels/595317990191398933/910978223968...) in the Pages section.

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One of the first things AI will be really good at will be image post processing. Even then I, in case of medical diagnosis, I'd prefer to have an actual person compare the "RAW" image to whatever the AI came up with. Simply because post processing can create artifacts that can throw you of quite a bit.

Regarding tue quality of imaging: I tend to agree, and the better imaging gets the more we will have to relly on humans to judge whether or not treatment is necessary or recommended. That judgement alone is, IMHO, in the same league as full self driving and requires general AI.
Hi colordrops I indeed checked your comment history :) would love to get in contact regarding support for our NixOS based infrastructure. Does Telegram @philon or Matrix philon@philon.tube work for you?
Discount everything I'm going to say if:

* You're meetings go later than midnight or 1am, I think that's unreasonable.

* You're working more than 8 hours a day.

I also used to complain to myself about this a lot, then I became resentful and I became kind of grumpy / surly in the meetings. I complained to my managers about it and then I realized, for them, meeting attendance was more important than anything else. So I just adapted my schedule to that aim and it was a success.

For me it wasn't late night, it was early morning meetings that were a problem, I'm a night owl, I understand everyone is different, there you might like working early mornings for example.

Anyway I still struggle with the meetings, but I realized that I used to get up early and commute, and I also realized I have a very flexible life and I even have some of my meetings from bed if I'm extra tired, just turn off the camera.

After a while looked around me and saw that there are truck drivers, who drive all night, they are away from family for long periods of time. Pilots have to do all sorts of weird hours. I guess nothing is perfect, but at least once your meetings are done, you're off to a comfortable bed.

TL;DR: While it seems bad, is your situation really that bad, can you somehow make it work for you? Can you take most of the day off and work evenings? Can you be more flexible yourself?
You said if you buy outright then that means that you won’t have that money to invest. If you assume that you either pay money for mortgage or rent, the only way that would be true is if your mortgage would be more expensive than your rent short term.
The top level person I was replying to was advocating removing all economic regulation. That is the position I am arguing against.
You are not disagreeing with any ideology. You are just categorising a whole class of people as leeches by disregarding the economic realities of the situation, because it doesn’t fit with your economically uninformed one.
So, again, it comes down to the entitlement felt by travellers.
I remember being very impressed by these in the school's computer lab and trying to replicate the pixel art in the paint app.
I tried pop shell on fedora and ran into bugs. Trying to get nvidia drivers to work crashed the system so I just went back to pop
I disagree. From what I can see the problem is that people are receptive to propaganda on the internet, and you can’t really solve this. As long as this is the case, there will be people who can benefit from shifting public perception, and then it becomes merely a question of resources.
Node.js runs on many things, but packages (which is the actual thing that people want) are another matter. I remember trying to npm install something on FreeBSD; you wouldn't believe how many package scripts straight up assume that /bin/bash is always there.

And yes, Android apps are already there on Win11, so it kinda came full circle. But either way, the point is that emulating Linux kernel was originally a choice made for the sake of Android compatibility. That it ended up providing a much-needed development environment is a fortunate side effect of that decision.
I think your attitude is unreasonable in some ways. With remote work, you can (I'm assuming) plan your day, work your hours that suits your team. This includes taking your kids to the park during daylight hours, then working from say 5pm - midnight.

The right to disconnect feels more about letting people disconnect "after hours". But this depends on your hours.
Mega cities aren't really a bad idea. Less sprawl and more population density is a great solution to overuse of recourses devoted to moving people and things around.
You could have the calling function do the state transitions all in one place. The individual state functions would still do most of the work and generate the information required to determine the next state. But they would be "unaware" that they're part of a state machine.
My gut tells me 1.) We are very good at recognising if something/someone is looking at us, 2.) Our peripheral vision is wider than we realise and information from it somehow goes straight to the unconscious mind.

That being said I don't think some sort of telepathic phenomenon happening here would be the strangest thing in this universe
I don't have a book recommendation ready, but if you want to see how async can be used in a large codebase, have a look at the telethon [1] library. It's a python library for telegram and one of the few that actually implement MTProto. It's huge, generates a large chunk of its machinery automatically from the MTProto specs and is extremely (!) well structured.

This is much more useful than the typical "let's write a single-run example with async" blog post.

[1] https://github.com/LonamiWebs/Telethon
> Except by 2000 there were hundreds of Web companies that had become real companies. It was obvious that Google, eBay, Yahoo and Amazon would survive the downturn of 2000-2001.

Yahoo seems to have struggled with becoming a real company.
I'd be willing to bet that in most places they're not legal, there's just nobody enforcing it. They're willfully in violation of a lot of rules and regulations that are already in place. And harming the locals so entitled tourists can think they're at home.
"Third world" can cover a lot of ground. Argentina was and remains third world, for example, and its life expectancy was 65 years in 1960, so same ballpark as USSR.

And to remind, much of USSR was (and much of Russia still is) colonized people. That, too, translated to rather big differences between the central European part of Russia and, say, Turkmenistan.
Ride towards home is good for driver. Another ride in the opposite direction, which is set via data analysis and previous driver behavior - inherently evil.
Buying it for you and your family to live in *is* an investment.

The only thing you're doing when prioritizing that type of investment over others is you're picking winners and losers for political reasons... at great cost to everyone else.
Chinese Chip Startup Shows Key Gap in Biden Export Curbs
Your way of argumentation can be applied to anything.

"People don't need nutritious food, you can survive just fine on bread and water for many decades. Do people suddenly "need" to live long healthy lives."

The point is that society should agree on some level of basic needs, if you think a van fulfills the requirements for a residence for the majority of people this discussion needs to be held on a much more fundamental level of how you view other people and their requirements for life.

And yes, if you want the future to be in any way a human future, "being able to raise a family" is absolutely in the "need" column.

Finally, to give you some perspective of problems a real society would actually face if this ridiculous scenario were true: what do you think would happen to the price of Walmart parking spots if "van-life" was a common choice.
smart contracts are not "literally" contracts in the legal sense, as there isn't precedent of enforceability in enough jurisdictions for any lawyer in their right mind to use a smart contract without an accompanying traditional text contract. this is taught in law schools as best practice and will be with us for at least a decade, almost certainly longer. sure some applications of smart contracts might streamline ops (international logistics comes to mind), but in a legal scope they just make things riskier and more tedious
You should checkout https://www.github.com/usebruno/bruno they have collections that run on top of a folder that can be synced with git
Ask HN: Who bought an acceptable Geiger counter on Aliexpress?
I am interested to own a Geiger counter since I have been to Chernobyl 10 years ago. I know it's 99% a gimmick. Anyway, some years ago the detector of ionising radiation + Gamma Spectrometer from RadiaScan was featured on HN, and I have been having an eye on it since then. The price is still a little too high for me. Therefore I went to Aliexpress today and was surprised to find a plethora of Geiger Counters. Now, has anyone tried them with a proper test setup? I would assume that there are many scammers making a quick buck with the current fear of nuclear war. Or did they just start to copy the technology of Radiascan?
Crypto has and will always refer to cryptobiotic soil[1] in my world.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_soil_crust
Not every understandable human behavior is rational tho.

When exposed to extreme situations (e.g. your kid dies) you might cry as an expression of grief and despair, although that expression will not improve the situation and bring your kid back.

A behavior like that would be both understandable and justifiable to anybody who is not a sociopath.

Now I'd argue that what these people are doing is an act of panic, isolation and utter despair that none of us normal people seem to care. It is more an expression of their feelings than an effective strategy to solve the problem. As such it is understandable to a degree, whether it is justified or not.

The question we should draw from this is whether it is them who are over-reacting or whether we are the ones who are under-reacting.
The Web of Stories interview is very good:

https://www.webofstories.com/play/freeman.dyson/1
Well worded.
(Disclaimer: I'm just a random guy who doesn't know much about energy production. I'm just sharing my opinion.)

Unfortunately, we don't have other reliable clean alternatives. At the moment nuclear energy is the cleanest reliable energy we have. This is why China is building 150 reactors at the moment:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-11-02/china-cli...

Also it is not in anyone's interest to have a nuclear accident. What if there is a nuclear accident in Ukraine and the wind starts blowing east?

There are other more likely things that scare me more like chemical/biological warfare and military drones that can fit in a backpack.
The UI in windows is exactly the same. If I run a script to remove title bars/borders/close buttons on windows's windows only half the apps will do it, because of the different UI frameworks

Electron is a plague equally in all OSs

But I think the current trend is moving windows to be a VM/partition for gaming