skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throwing up another Ultima memory...

I've got great memories of Ultima II on C64 and some Apple II as well. It was far more expansive than I, but still relatively fast. I remember when III came out, it was just... comparatively slow as molasses. It was more involved, but to the point where it became a multi day event, and it was too easy to lose interest waiting for things to load. II was a great combination of size/breadth/complexity and speed.

Then I got Bard's Tale... :)
> The Three Body problem where the aliens halt human scientific progress by stealthily interfering with science.

I remember reading a sci-fi short story (this was in the 1960s) in which a scientist started to suspect that hidden, hostile aliens were behind the tendency of productive researchers to get diverted into bureaucratic meetings. A couple of Google searches didn't produce a title. Maybe Theodore Sturgeon?
> (also similar with PHP 5-7... though no PHP 6 ever got resurrected)

There's a profound difference: PHP 6 was never released (it was abandoned before its official release), but Perl 6 was released under the "Perl 6" name (https://developers.slashdot.org/story/15/12/26/0354235/perl-... is one reference, you have to use the web archive to look further since the release history became somewhat hidden after the rename).
How is that more context?
Interesting, sithlord is an anagram for shitlord. While the behavior of the CEO wasn't cool, the issue seems to have been resolved between all involved parties and everyone has moved on - we don't need to bring it up every time repl.it is mentioned.
By far.
> I have no idea how something like this gets support in developed western countries.

In the US at least, it doesn't. Affirmative action proposals are consistently rejected by voters and in opinion pools, across races.

Seems like it mainly has support in university admissions offices.
Here's an older sheet with revenue numbers not made by me: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O7nXhhKqfy5aVOn-Fsys...

My preferred way to estimate this is with employee counts instead, and the difference there is also stark, and then in the early days it's also possible to prove on first principles since Bezos wasn't rich enough at the time to compete with SpaceX's early NASA contracts.

Blue has ramped up a lot recently, as in the last couple of years, but you can also check SpaceX's recent investment rounds and they are burning money like crazy (a lot of this will be Starship and Starlink, since the former is a cost sink and the latter is still a ways off breaking even).

There is an argument to be made that the nature of this money was different, but SpaceX has always done the Amazon thing of reinvesting every penny they make, and certainly in the early days their costs were especially R&D dominated.
This seems like a good general solution. Cars should be capped to similar speeds in dense areas! Especially given their large mass.
Duplicate of this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33401486
Wait, isn't React a js framework? Is Remix a framework over a framework?
While I am supportive of this, I expect a lot (majority?) of listings with ranges like "$40k-200k based on experience". (Or the example from the article, "$17-50/hr")
I had to wear a shirt and tie to work. An analyst programmer would turn the requirements into a written spec, I would write the code and someone else would write the tests. We had no internet, so if I couldn't work it out on my own or get it from one of the books we had on the shelf then it wasn't happening. No email, no internet, so no working from home. I would leave at 5, get home, take off my tie and stop worrying. The pay was terrible. I loved it.
I think you are on the right track. I would say it's more like "alien-of-the-gaps".
> Bad users we could just ban

To be fair, it sounds like that would just make the DX wonderful no matter which stack you were using?
It may have cost him $44 billion now, but he's certainly going to take it public again.
The dream of COM is alive in Cupertino!
Breath of the Wild development started on the WiiU and I'm convinced it would have been better if they didn't have to shoe-horn in Switch support. The inventory menu of BOTW is horrible and totally was meant to be used real time on the gamepad.
As someone that is now no longer using Twitter, I'm open to alternatives, but was turned off by this up-front complexity.
Intel is leading in lower-end desktop CPUs like the 12100, 12400, and 13600K.
But that's not how people drive. They use their ears, they move their head around to generate parallax, they read the body-language of other drivers, they make eye-contact at intersections, they shift position to look around pillars, or stoop to see an inconveniently placed stop light. Fixed forward cameras do none of that.
They are spending tens of millions building a ruby JIT so I am not sure you are painting an accurate picture here...
They win absolute performance on Desktop CPUs but lose on perf-per-watt.
An argument could be made for AMD's 5800x3d in gaming, but when paired with a 4090, the intel CPUs take the lead.
I remember they had a really expensive subscription model (even for solo developers). They were looking to get traction based on the reputation of the founders and other tech influencers (like Kent C Dodds) in the react community.

Personally I felt that they were not very clear on who their target audience was and what was the niche that they were trying to address to transition from good to great dev experience.
HTML, CSS, and either JS, TS, or Rust/WASM as required for interactivity, depending on project complexity.
Then either you're used to the mayhem and aren't seeing it, or you mostly stay away from where I was (between Houston and 42nd St mostly).

Regardless, are you really saying that "bikes are simply better at point-to-point transportation" for most people in Manhatten? Because that's absurd.
The main power of a maintainer is to reject code. Once it's merged, it becomes the maintainer's problem. So if they don't understand what's it's supposed to accomplish, or how exactly it works, a good maintainer should reject the code.

Merging stuff blindly is just asking for trouble. Sometimes yes, it happens that somebody sends you code that does something you're not familiar with, like interacting with weird hardware you've never seen before. It's still the right thing to do to ask lots of questions about it, so that if that part of the code runs into a problem later you have some sort of idea of what to do about it.
This will make it a lot easier to gather financial data on individuals and target ads to people who make $x. If the job and salary are posted, it will be scraped, and compared to job titles in profiles at places like LinkedIn.
Well, put me in the "I don't like sausage people" column.
Related:

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21912667 - Dec 2019 (103 comments)

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (2009) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13505721 - Jan 2017 (59 comments)

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10954554 - Jan 2016 (1 comment)

The fallacy of premature optimization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1273288 - April 2010 (2 comments)

The Fallacy of Premature Optimization (sometimes it's good) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227262 - June 2008 (4 comments)
Yeah, poorly worded. Tree/vegetation work to slow traffic on straight portions without intersections. You wouldn't want them at intersections with pedestrians/bikes.
> They did have such a lever, and they finally pulled it this year: Heat pumps.

You're making it sound like those can just magic their way into your home whenever the government snaps their fingers. They don't. Heatpumps and other building upgrades like insulation rollouts are slow, vey slow, and will take years if not decades to complete.

Where I live, one of the richest countries in the EU, many old buildings in the city center are uninsulated and still heated by gas or burning wood, while many homes in the suburbs/countryside are heated by oil and fire wood. By the time they'll all have heatpumps, my grandkids's kids will probably enjoy them.

Meanwhile in the real world, while we dream about heatpumps in our homes, coal and fossil fuel usage in Europe, and globally, has reached an all time high.
Then it's no longer an issue for college admissions officers to police, but the IRS.
It's technically a UI library. Though the line there is fuzzy.
I've always thought it meant:

Simplicity + Readability >>> performance

If I can look at a method and think of obvious speedups then it was a good method because I could easily read it and be confident about what it does.

Loads of performant code is really hard to read because it's full of magic that speeds things up. When you try to modify this code you're never sure if you need to keep the "performance" especially if there's no performance test.

I've also done speedups of legacy software. What you find is that most of it is "basically instant" and one method takes 5min. You rewrite that method to be fast, add a performance test to keep it fast, and a big comment explaining exactly why it needs to be fast and how it works.
A lot of the cases I know about here in Ohio is they reduced the yellow time to generate more tickets. Ended up being banned state-wide because they being used for revenue generation rather than safety.
It's not abandonware... it's a core component to all of Microsofts desktop apps starting with the new Teams and Outlook.
It has been this way in Colorado for some time, and it has been nothing but fantastic.
They are blue, and yes - in Miami. The company is called HelBiz - and they're the only game in town right now.

However, there are a few issues with helmets, one of which is that a lot of people think it's gross if they have to use a helmet someone else just used, especially in a city where you're bound to sweat profusely when outside no matter what time of the year it is. Imagine putting on a helmet that's covered with the sweat of 2 or 3 people that have also rode the scooter in the last 2 or 3 hours? Yuck!

Requiring helmets is a great idea - but a crux of the issue is that people will ignore requirements as much as they possibly can and will try to spoof the requirement every chance they get. There's a moped company in town called Revel that operates a bunch of moped rentals similar to scooters. They require all riders to wear the provided helmet, and even financially incentivize other users to report people riding without helmets. That hasn't solved anything, and I see people riding those things without helmets on multiple times every single day.
You should really write down a list of countries in which the government passes on the full cost of childbirth to a citizen. See what the anti-communist block looks like these days.

You’re going to hate this: Not only does Australia and New Zealand cover the full cost, all with tax payer money. They then take even MORE tax payer money and give it to the parents as a thank you for having a child.

And when you find out that a tax credit and ‘handing out tax payer money’ are the same deal, you’re going to flip.[1]

https://www.irs.gov/credits-deductions/individuals/child-tax...
Meza is a MediaWiki administration program
I didn't mention claims of running out of money. I don't know what your first paragraph is based on.

> banner that makes no claims

Look at this example [0]. If you read that, what would you say the money is going to?

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikimedia_Founda...
Adding to the other suggestions: I much prefer Leuven and Modus Operandi over Solarized Light.
He is innocent. By Brazilian law, if you're not convicted, you're innocent. Which is his case. This isn't too hard to understand, my bolsominion friend.
Thanks, and I’m glad that you got some value from the essay and the responses to it. It expresses an attitude and set of opinions that I largely share and that have fallen into obscurity in the midst of a widespread apotheosis of the hive mind. I didn’t mean to misrepresent it; my comment is my own conclusion, guided by this essay, by other analyses, and by observing the, yes, cancerous affect that Wikipedia has on the web.
To me, this discussion is very similar to the discussion around "defund the police": should we lead with the unpopular thing that people will have to accept or should we lead with the goal?

My sense of why this framing is popular is that we've had ~30+ years of passing "public transit" initiatives that are doomed to fail because we would not disrupt car infrastructure. This becomes a double-whammy because we spend money to get very mediocre results, and people reasonably blame the transit system.

Instead, if you're clear from the start that you are going to remove an entire lane in the city for your BRT system - you face more opposition, but you have a much better chance of implementing an actual BRT system!

I think reasonable people can disagree on this, but it's not a mystery how we got here.
Not really? The example for Messages seems very specific; closer to an API for Messages.app than a generic process interop framework.
> I started my first dev job in early 1997 which is more like 25 than 30 years ago but I think the milieu was similar.

My first internship was in 2000, and I feel like, overall, not a lot has changed except the deck chairs. Things still change just as fast as back then.
You speak for yourself. Uber and Lyft demand in large cities tell another story.

I'm also mystified: do you really think personal car ownership for every person is at all sustainable?
Virtual bow deploys drone swarm in a series of shots
Btrfs is a particularly sore point for Red Hat.

In Fedora, it is growing more pervasive by the day.

In RHEL, any implementation absolutely will not be supported, full stop.
I think you are conflating "dogma" with "mental model". The accepted meaning of "dogma" is a strong belief that adherents are not willing to discuss rationally.
OpenDoc would be more relevant to Apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDoc
React use modal hook example
Is this PRC-specific somehow?

"Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country."

"All power to the Soviets."

I suspect most countries have some version of the same at some point in their history, encouraging their citizens to subjugate their needs/desires to those of the collective.
The people who want cars out absolutely want improved public transportation.
> Some of them, like Dolphins, sure seem damned close to our own capabilities with likely fully formed languages ... Because we're definitely trying to communicate with the species we're aware of that we think have language.

This is highly doubtful. Crows don't have language anything like humans. Dolphins are a more likely candidate. I want to believe it, but I can't.
Tell HN: Be mindful what you put in your Venmo descriptions
This morning I woke up to an email from Venmo titled "Your Venmo Account". At first I figured I was being phished, but I opened it up, and found the following

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[...]

On October 31, 2022, you sent a payment for the amount of $48.59 for, "Cuban date." We're trying to understand:

* your reference to "Cuban."

* purpose of this payment, including a complete and detailed explanation of what you intended to pay for and the establishment/location if applicable.

To submit your documentation, please use Venmo's Secure web form: [...]

We thank you for your attention to this matter and apologize for any inconvenience. Your payment has been held until the issue is resolved, so we're unable to cancel it. This hold cannot be removed until Venmo receives the requested information that will enable us to ensure our compliance with our regulatory obligations.

---

This is a real, private transaction I sent my girlfriend to split a dinner we had last week. We went to a Cuban restaurant in San Francisco.

I have been a Venmo user for at least 6 years. I have done 100s of transactions, including dozens with my girlfriend. I am annoyed that I now have to go through an opaque, bureaucratic process to get my transaction unlocked. If I knew my Venmo transaction descriptions could trigger fraud checks I would have simply said "date night". This experience has left a bad taste in my mouth, and I will be considering alternatives. At the minimum, I will be leaving my Venmo descriptions blank or vague!
Capnproto is designed by Kenton, a former Google engineer who did a lot of work with protobufs at Google. I see Capnproto as the spiritual successor of protobuf, fixing many issues in protobufs.

Also, Capnproto is quite extensively used in some Cloudflare products.
How about space and time are really, really big and due to the speed of light all we are looking at is the briefest sliver of randomly selected time (if a star is 15,000 light years away we’re looking at a sliver of time 50 years long 15,000 years ago). They could be a mirror civilization to ours and we’d never perceive each other. That’s true of a civilization even a couple hundred light years away! We could have near neighbors and we’d have no idea.

Turn it around and consider who we are visible to. We’ve been transmitting for 75 years. So our signal may have reached a sphere 75 light years in diameter. Out of several billion.

Given that our civilization has faced existential catastrophe at least 5 times in that period it’s safe to say we’ll be transmitting for the briefest sliver of galactic time. We’ll be utterly invisible to most of the universe. If a species is too far away or too early or late, they simply won’t see the the brief flash of information we transmit. And the same goes for us seeing them.

It’s not a paradox, we just forgot how small and insignificant we are.
If you wanted to actually smash "disinformation", you'll need to go after 4chan.

Except doing so signals that free-association, and freedom of speech are coming to an end. I know which side I'm rooting for.
Drug to Slow Aging?
They literally banned nothing. What they did was to took down false information from extremist outlets and social media accounts. Get informed, please.
I'm not sure about most, but a lot of them are. Wisdom is knowing when any given practice should be applied. I think this is true for many fields and disciplines.
The problem with the analogy is assuming that humans are the only living things for the ants to find! (An ironically human-centric error in an attempt to expose human-centric thinking) The analogy would be more accurate if the two ants had scanned everything in a one-mile radius and found zero other insects anywhere, which would be... a little curious...
I'll admit, every time I hear of repl.it mentioned, I think of the time the CEO threatened the intern. The CEO did a huge disservice to himself and the company that day in my mind
(This is just terrible. Poor contrasts. None matching colors. Terrible presentation. Terrible lumination. Terrible light.)

Anyway, does somebody remember that site for palettes that was around 10+ years ago. You created a palette of 5 colors and you presented the colors horizontally with the option on how many percent of each area every color would take. Url?
In/out
CONUS/OCCONUS
FBI/CIA
DHS/NSA

I'll post this as a guess, and hopefully someone will come along and correct.
I’m a card-carrying, money-loving capitalist, lol.

Universal healthcare is not communism…They have that all across capitalist countries in Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and even Africa.
You’ve spent years talking to him and your conclusion to his work is that he’s not successful/well-known in the car self-driving field?

Boy, he must have seriously pissed in your Cheerios. Which of your suggestions did he shoot down?
Workers at Monzo notified senior management of their intention to form a union
Monzo being the UK bank
Thank you. Came here to say that.

When I've seen this fat event pattern it's been because different services' responsibilities were not fully separated. And that's tight coupling. Fat events imply tight coupling.

The "thin" pattern described in the article goes like this:

1) service FOO gets an event

2) FOO then has to query BAR (and maybe BAZ and QUUX) to determine the overall state of everything to determine what to do next

And #2 means all of that is kind of "thin" is tightly coupled, too.

I've also personally seen thin events that are not the article's thin strawman.

I sometimes wonder if people understand coupling or design.
> No it’s not the same, have you ever used a wheelchair or known a user? Many many adaptions have to be made to basically every building for that wheelchair to be functional. Curb cuts on sidewalks, buttons on doors, elevators everywhere. Simply “getting into a wheelchair” isn’t enough to make accessibility work, you need to fundamentally change the infrastructure.

That's my point: websites don't need any adaptations to work with wheelchairs (with "wheelchairs" being accessibility extensions/settings in this analogy). If you bring your own wheelchair, it will work with every website.

That's not true in the real world, so having laws for it makes sense.

> Don’t put the disabled in the position where the website itself takes extra steps just to be usable for them, old 90 year old grandma Betty with failing vision is never going to figure such things out and saying “lol just figure it out” isn’t good enough.

I'm not sure how to respond to this. First of all, you don't need a custom an extension per-website. You can install one extension, and it will work the same for all websites. You might not even need to install an extension, because Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and even Gnome and KDE have tons of accessibility features built-in.

Furthermore, there are some tech-savvy grandmas out there. If Betty isn't tech-savvy, then her grandchild should've set her PC up for her. If she has failing vision, she's not going to be able to use the computer/phone at all unless someone enabled a magnifier/voice assistant/increased the font size.

> Those extensions that repaint websites with a new color palette are ugly as crap and buggy, and anybody with the attitude their website doesn’t need to follow WCAG by default definitely hasn’t actually checked such extensions actually work.

You're making a lot of assumptions here. "ugly" is personal taste, although I do think most designers would consider enormous fonts to be "ugly as crap", but it's what's required for people with visual impairments.

Also, just because a website isn't adhering to WCAG recommendations doesn't mean they didn't test it with accessibility extensions. Maybe there aren't enough resources to build a WCAG-compliant design, but a designer on the team can make a few minor tweaks so that they work well with popular accessibility extensions/features.

> What you’re doing is less building a wheelchair ramp and more leaving a pile of lumber next to some stairs, building the wheelchair ramp would mean having an accessible theme be the default and maybe the OPs theme be an alternate.

I don't think that's an accurate analogy. Like I said, a browser extension doesn't need to be customized per-website to be work. A person with disabilities is going to enable accessibility features on their device (or someone else will do it for them). Depending on the situation, that might include a browser extension as well.

...but again, I don't know much about accessibility issues. However, this response hasn't convinced me that it's unreasonable for web devs/publishers to expect users with disabilities to bring their own extensions/accessibility features.
This is the type of thing where goodwill is burned and it takes time to earn it back. I don't think we just brush it under a rug either. In my opinion, you don't just get to "resolve it" and then everyone forgets about it. For me, future decisions and importantly, actions, will help me personally move past this and "move on" as you say.
Ask HN: What colour theme do you use in your terminal/IDE?
By what mechanism does legally enforced transparency make the labor market more efficient?