skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's my experience too. Microservices are first and foremost a technology to dilute responsibility, and if you're clever about it, you can even let it fall through the cracks completely.
This is great info. I'll definitely give it a try on the Win10 machine I have for work. I would love to get rid of Cygwin.
I wonder what will be the cost of one seat.

But given the current prices of plane tickets, it may not be that much different...
@Woeps: In case your joke gets downvoted into oblivion, FYI I found it very funny.
There are certain risks that aren't worth hedging in a stable country like the US. E.g. you don't hedge treasury bond defaults because in the unlikely event that happens, your money is probably worthless anyway and you would rather have food and guns.

A 15% interest rate is so high that even if you managed to protect your financing with a hedge, it might be unlikely you have solvent customers anymore.
Bummer.

I was hoping for a genuine, curiosity driven discussion and instead it will end here with a personal accusation about what you think I believe in. That’s just unfortunate.

I wish you a good day.
All quite reasonable additions to the language, kudos to the GCC team.

I'm /very/ sad to see the unprototyped functions to go though -- that was my favourite way to catch newbies off-guard! Oh well ...

As for those who like to spend their Friday afternoon feeling sad about C++isms creeping into C: You are very late! You should have done that when GCC implemented ``__attribute__((cleanup))`` years^Wdecades ago.

edit: https://gcc.gnu.org/legacy-ml/gcc/2003-05/msg00528.html
> Raising taxes is more efficient

I'm not sure if that's true. And even if it is the effect is much slower compared to the near immediate impact raising interest rates has had.

Also, I consider inflation as a tax on it's own. So adding a tax on top of a tax is pouring salt on the wound if you ask me.

I'm satisfied that cash is paying 5%, at least that takes a bite out of inflation. For the last several years savers have been penalized and borrowers have been spoon fed money so I'm glad that's reversing. And I'm glad that rising mortgage rates are putting a ceiling on the housing market.

No I don't want to pay more in taxes to cover the recent insanity that I had nothing to do with.

Maybe when you advocated for raising taxes you mean somebody else's taxes, not yours? I suppose that's usually what people mean when they say that.
Newspapers will make and publish stories and reports a lot of times without an agenda because their profession is publishing news, and there are stories where they just don't have any personal interest and therefore no agenda to tout. If you were tasked with writing a story about something you really have no interest in, then you'd write it without an agenda.

Contrast that with the common public, who will of course not waste their time writing about or discussing matters that they do not have any interest in.
Who says they’re competent?
Doesn't seem pegged since there's a lot of fluctuation in the [1]chart

[1]https://www.finanzen.ch/devisen/us_dollar-renminbi_yuan-kurs
It’s not a lottery, it’s all 100% reservable on October 1 for the next year. I’ve been 10 times in the past 15 years and every year the permits are harder to get because of the demand and the bots. The irony is that the permits are so popular and the fees so low that I’d estimate 30%+ of the permits that are bought actually don’t get used. On my most recent visit, we saw less than 10 people total on our first day a few weeks back.
> artist whose domain has not yet been disrupted by AI fires artist in favor of AI
As a C programmer, it just seems like they finally took the minority of ideas added by C++ that were actually good ideas and added them back to C. Aside of `auto` which I'm ambivalent about (I think the only place where it's useful are macros) those all make perfect sense in context of C and I believe the only reason for C++ having them first is that C++ simply evolved faster.
asknew The latest Ask HN (i.e. text) posts
shownew The latest Show HN posts

Could we have in addition to those:

bestask Highest rated Ask HN
bestshow Highest rated Show HN

And of course "best" could simply mean: "all, ordered by descending number of points".

That would be pretty cool.
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The concept of "span of control," sometimes called the management ratio, is the number of direct reports controlled directly by a leader or a manager. The concept was developed in the UK by Sir Ian Hamilton in his book The Soul and Body of an Army, in the 1920s.

It arose from the assumption that managers have finite amounts of time and energy to spend with their people and their jobs.

Analyzing British military leaders, Hamilton found that the leaders could not effectively control more than 3-6 people. These figures have been generally accepted as the "rule of thumb" for span of control ever since, at least in the military where the bulk of my management experience lies.
Society exists to create certainty where there was risk.
He does. It says in the sidebar "I’m an advisor to Modular"
What is vite?
It's flying near space, though not quite in space. I doubt it will be loud enough to be a problem
There is nothing "dynamic" about what I suggested. There is a real, concrete, static and compile-time known type at all times.

In this case it would be long. I fail to see the huge risk you're implying by operating upon a long-typed value without repeating the type name in the code.

const auto pos_auto = ftell(fp);
const long pos_long = ftell(fp);

I don't understand what you can do with 'pos_long' that would be dangerous doing with 'pos_auto' (again, disregarding I/O since then you typically have to know or cast).
I am not angry, just very sad but I guarantee you most people who love to program in C or do it for a living are not "standards enthusiasts".
That is different from a car.

With Spotify, I get access to all the music and don't lose it when the cd gets scratched.

What the auto companies are doing is gating the existing functionality behind subscriptions. These companies are largely commodities at this point and are trying out rent seeking. I don't think many consumers will accept this long term. The proverbial camel's back will break because it is user hostile
Ironic that this paper / concept should be suffering from an extra dose of entropy.
Requiring a passing integration branch before merging to master. Merging the integration branch then becomes a fast-forward merge.

Alternatively, if you have a low enough merge volume, requiring mergers (by policy) to squash and rebase (and re-run tests before attempting to merge) can work too, as others have already mentioned.
Compared to how it is now, it would be better, which is a low bar.

But perfect is the enemy of good, so if a price tag $10,000 meant some rich bought their way in and a good chunk of normal people got in anyway, that's effectively a tax on rich people, so I'm for it. (Of course, you'd spin it differently so rich people can pose as doing something for the environment and whatnot.)
WooCommerce is free plus a $5 a month VPS if you want to do e-commerce yourself. If you want support + hosting + security features then pay for a SaaS.
They're selling Deliverr after purchasing them in May 2022 (finalized in July 2022)
Why do you feel this way for under 18? I think it’s particularly weird to target people who likely don’t have disposable income and that income should be influenced through targeted advertising that’s trying to not only to cause you to shift your spending but also on increasing your overall spend, usually on useless shit you don’t actually need and scams.

I would in fact encourage this go the other way and ads become more highly regulated/banned outright because mass propaganda feels unhealthy but this might crash our economy and the economics of the internet considering how so many business plans and large amounts of revenue in large businesses don’t work without that (and all that would be also politically infeasible / and the US’s free speech amendment might prevent it in America so it would have to come out of the EU and Canada first). It would be offset by businesses running more cheaply but I suspect that’s not much compared to a potentially reduced amount of income overall from consumers on “frivolous shit they don’t need”.
Good point, if your options are underwater you probably aren't exercising... although would be sad to watch them expire.
Seems like the U.S. needs some kind of data protection law like the EU's GDPR.

I can't see any reason why the data needs to be stored and it sounds like an invasion of the tenants' privacy if the landlord is recording their coming and going.
Unless you’re “frozen caveman lawyer”, recently thawed and awoken from the glacial ice, it should be pretty obvious that scale changes things. It’s not creepy when the guy at the coffee shop knows your order because you come in every day. It is creepy if every Starbucks barista knows who you are and what you want.

Technology has already put significant limits on free movement and privacy. It is impossible, for example, to enter or leave an urban area by vehicle without at minimum LPR footprints tracking that movement. Photos and video are increasingly common.

The problem in a place like NYC is that the residents there will feel it first. Nobody can afford property, so private entities can record everyone in your home at any time, in public or private spaces. We’ve already seen abuses of this - an employee of a law firm was ejected from Radio City Music hall because her law firm was suing MSG, the venues parent company.
It's also odd because this earlier article from the WSJ was never flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35762731
It is not so simplistically true. This is what Reaganomics will want you to believe. Examples abound of companies that did not prioritise shareholder returns over everything. Companies are organisations that operate within a society and therefore have a role to play to keep that society together.

There are (very limited) lawful structures that try to make this happen, but much more is down to culture. In many (most?) countries it is considered shameful if a company prioritises shareholder value above everything else. I honestly believe the US is an exception in this regard. Unfortunately US culture is taking over.

- And now to go on a complete tangent: In the second part of "The Three Body Problem" trilogy, The Dark Forest, institutions are described that have both an operational officer and a political officer. The navy has an Admiral that decides the strategy, and a political officer that makes sure the Navy does the right thing. The same is then applied to companies. - I wonder if this is a model to apply to a capitalist society: Where you have a CEO doing their regular thing, but also a political officer making sure society is not disadvantaged. Hard to pull off without falling into totalitarianism I guess.
Upward mobility has declined too. A person born in a middle-class family in the 1940s was 93% likely to outearn their parents by the age of 30. For those born in the 1990s, that rate is just 45%.

that's the problem with income/wealth power law dynamics.

the flatter the curve the less it looks like a lottery, the more people might be incentivized to work harder.
Vintage code or code written by vintage coders.

Code written by C++ programmers.

Code written to be both C and C++.
Folks wanted regulation, this is the regulation. Turns out leaving a bunch of oldies to regulate a highly dynamic industry isn’t going to go well.

Earn it has bipartisan support. Its passing is inevitable sadly.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/353...
How many people can fly this versus normal airplanes if we talk about same distance but different size, speed, and amount of people? I mean, the SR-71 was decommissioned because it was too inefficient regarding fuel cost, and it became obsolete due to high quality cameras in satellites. Why can these people residing in Japan and New York not use the alternative we are all able to use: AR plus video conferencing. What is so important that people need to fly at Mach 9? I can only imagine its Putin running away from ICC.
I love how they don't want to bury the lede, but they also will use the passive voice: "after today Shopify will be smaller by about 20%". "some of you will leave Shopify today". It's not at all that those people are being laid off!
Rich people have money, wealthy people have assets.

Rich people have high incomes, wealthy people own a lot of valuable things (properties, land, art, stuff that keeps its value).

New money vs old money/generational wealth pretty much.
TL;DR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_for_tat
C also doesn't have linked lists, hash maps, and a http server. It never stopped anyone from using those things in C.
From their own website:

https://www.boozallen.com/s/insight/thought-leadership/reinv...

> Recreation.gov was an investment for Booz Allen, designed collaboratively with participating agencies, but at no cost to the federal government. Instead of a traditional cost structure, the unique contractual agreement is a transaction-based fee model that lets the government and Booz Allen share in risk, reward, results, and impact. This is a true public-private partnership—it uses no government money.

Of course they word this in a slimy, dishonest way. Boggles my mind that immediately after saying "no cost" they describe an "alternative cost structure", completely contradicting itself.
Charging Bull
Oh, I totally forgot how mad I am at React because, with the new hooks-based approach, it has removed the semantic of "do this side effect just once when a component mounts". Mounting a component is such a crucial part of the life cycle of any web component that I am amazed that the React team does not have a special way of handling this; or that with their new architecture they are not guaranteeing how many mount-unmount cycles a component will go through.

This all makes me want to move on to web components; but of course now the project that I am a developer on is locked in React :-(
> We did agree on a definition intelligence! For 50 years, the Turing test was the unquestioned threshold beyond which machines would be considered "intelligent".

First of all it is now more then 70 years. Secondly the question of the paper isn't whether a computer is intelligent but whether a computer can win the imitation game, so naturally it doesn't contain any definition of intelligence within it.
Bring back the 80s I say
Not a good framing. The government is not static to be loved or hated. It is rather like a cyborg who has behavior modifications and parts added and removed over time. It's a mess and a kludge and it does things we don't like, does contradictory things, because of how we change it to suit ourselves.

When the cyborg does something I like, I am happy and say "good cyborg, nice cyborg". I do not call the cyborg a friend, but rather I approve its current behavior. That is what democracy is: it's living with a cyborg that you don't fully control. It's not a friend, its not an enemy, its vast complex slow machine that is a thing we put up with because it's better than nothing.

The primary alternative is a coherent cyborg fully owned and operated by one person. Humans are always tempted by this vision of a government that is finally all good, all friend. Yet we have learned time and again that this almost always is even greater misery. (The exception is when the scale is smaller and the autocrat is capable and the need is immediate and finite. Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew comes to mind. Startup leaders can also fall in this category.)
Where we live it's cheaper to risk a street cleaning ticket ($45 a week, if you get one) than to put it in a garage (300-400 per month)
It completely depends on your organization's merge volume and your codebase's complexity. I've seen it happen many times working on a large monolith. But requiring a passing integration branch build before merging to master, or a merge queue, solves that.
If I trained an AI on what you said, it couldn't tell me how you feel. Category error.
I see your point, doing what was required to "win" was not politically feasible. On the other hand, much of the fighters in Afganistan were already accustomed to fighting from rubble. I don't think carpet bombing the mountains would have much affect. Finally, another commenter made this great observation, you can't win when you don't know what winning means.
Just being pragmatic and not trying to voice a side here; would it be possible to come up with our own bill that addresses CSAM in a way that is compatible with our general values in technology?

This bill isn’t coming out of nowhere. Allegedly, CSAM is up 89% from pre-pandemic levels, which if true is fairly shocking and does deserve a response, perhaps in tech, of some kind. CSAM isn’t going away and every sane person hates it - so is the best strategy we can come up with, be to put our heads in the sand and say “but muh encryption!” whenever asked?

I would argue, no. We need to seriously consider if it is possible to come with our own bill, addressing the CSAM issue, so that we get to set the policy and not a fed-up ignorant Congress. Trying to keep things the way they are, forever, I don’t think is going to be a winning strategy. Both parties are in favor - so either we can write it, or they can write it.
It varies depending on the specifics, but I’ve seen 1:7 work well across multiple industries. Anything routine enough to need less oversight is automated, and anything needing more oversight is either cutting edge research or isn’t hiring experienced enough staff.
I thought corporations are considered people in US.
not sure about that. i suspect that AGI might be a tool to help one of the bigcorps to grab power. Until now the state and the bigcorps were keeping each other in check, there was a kind of 'balance of power'. Now they might get a tool to upset this balance of power.

Whoever gets AGI first might turn into Buy-N-Large or ACME Corp, whatever... (i suspect it's all about the big price - ultimate power) - it's kind of the 'ring to rule them all' - if AGI is achievable within a realistic time frame...

* now let's see if that's the dystopian future that we are really after :-) *
> I think that if you want that, you're working with the wrong language.

Maybe yes, maybe no. Walter Bright, the creator of D, has a nice article on the subject [1]. I think Zig's approach which allows slices to decay to pointers and pointers+lengths to create slices is ideal. The real benefit of slices is the implicit bounds checking which some C folks might object to since one of the appeals of C is no "hidden magic".

[1] https://digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html
I've found lots of good and free courses from both Coursera and Udacity. Maybe you are not looking in the right places?
> and they should be upfront about that.

Do you need a screenshot and red box around the text or would you believe me if I tell you it is written on their lambda pricing page near the beginning ? It's also written in docs about configuring lambad functions so at this point it is PEBKAC/RTFM issue, not "them not being upfront"

And frankly it is done that way because they have standarized machines, scheduling CPU heavy/memory light and cpu light/memory heavy is extra complexity. I mean ,they should, but they have no real incentive to, as in most cases apps written in slower languages are also memory-fatter so it fits well enough

> If you went to a car rental and they told you we have a cheap car that's slower when you add passengers - and then you drive it to pick up your wife and it turns out it only goes 20 km/h when your wife gets in - you would be rightfully mad.

Getting lowest tier one is more like renting a 125cc bike than a car if anything. You can do plenty with that limit in efficient language too.
That is not really true. People think that because they have spent time with Java which is excessively GC dependent. More modern GC languages such as Go and Julia have opted to use GCs in a far more conservative manner. They don't produce the exorbitant amount of garbage that Java produces. I've talked to NASA guys using Go for real time systems. They say it works great. GC doesn't need to be a problem if you do it right.
Why just Facebook? Also, this is 10 years too late. Kids are using Discord, Tiktok and probably some services I've never heard of. This should include them all or it's silly or even outright harmful.
What’s the dependency story with Mojo, especially considering Python’s less than stellar dependency situation?
This stops people from submitting lots of lottery applications knowing they will get the money back if they lose.
> Whereas Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep is subtle and Devine

It's also a relatively short read, but packed with so much more to explore than the movie dug into. I really wish Mercerism had been brought into the film. It's such an insightful critique of religion and society, and quite prophetic for time in which the story was written.
It is insane to me that we allow any advertising to young children at all, whether online, on TV, or anywhere else. I think deliberately manipulating kids is heinous and I genuinely don’t understand why this isn’t the consensus opinion.
I am very happy about #embed, auto, constexpr, static_assert, unreachable, and ditching of K&R function parameters. Aren't you?
It's not the landlord personally doing it though, it's third-party companies with low public visibility and no disincentive to try to monetize their data. it's harder to regulate entrenched abuses than to regulate new ones, so I see this as a perfectly valid and beneficial short term measure until we as a society can get our heads more properly around personal privacy rights in general.
Do you really need to parenthesize the parameters? Is there something that can break the variable declaration into multiple statements?
Yes, a bill should have to be read out loud in its entirety by its sponsor in public before any voting can occur.
The idea of a pension depending on shares of a company can be argued to be morally dubious way to do pensions.
One difference is occurrence: most apartments don’t have doormen, because they’re expensive (and don’t make sense for a building with just a few units, which is the majority of apartments in NYC).

Even in fancier neighborhoods (UWS, UES), I’d guess that less than half the buildings have doormen. And those are neighborhoods with tall buildings with dozens of large apartments.
You transferred a passkey from chrome to iOS?
We all very much are. This is the entire business model of Google and Meta