skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes every aspect. USD specialises in money laundering, terrorist financing , prostitution and child harassment .
Till as such time something else supplants it all these things continue to exist and seem to overwhelmingly prefer $$$.
They play both sides. You can find hand wringing articles when house prices go up by only 0.8% instead of what homeowners would like. The same day as they decry housing as unaffordable.
Not to mention that the decentralisation didnt really work out. Most own them through centralised wallets
> BiFunction<String, Integer, Foo> fn

That signature is awful. I never remember if the return type is first or the last in the list. Also the "generic" types don't document anything, by design. Yes it's an actual type but it's too generic to have any value over something like Kotlin or Scala declaration. It's impossible to tell from this signature what the input and output types are supposed to represent.

Almost always it's better to define a new functional interface than using BiFunction or similar.
Tragedy of the socialites? Tragedy of the socialite capitalism?
I am quite vocal about C, as proven by my lenghty C rants, yet I do understand the value of knowing and understanding the foundations we stand on.
EU seems to be only one trying at least something... And even the governments get their dirty hands on things.
The email analogue doesn't really work for your every day person. They dont know, or even want to know how it works.

When people visit a Mastedon site and see something like this its an instant turn off:

> mastodon.social is part of the decentralized social network powered by Mastodon.

Nobody cares, or wants to care that its decentralized. They just want a social network. When you've got to screw around with 'picking a site' to sign up on its hassle. When you've got to mess around to find something because its on a different node, its a hassle.

As someone else said, they need to shut up and stop the key point being that its a fediverse - the average user has no idea what that means, nor should they need to.

There's also the woefully underdeveloped user experience aspect of things, and overexplaining. On the signup page for example you see this:

>With an account on this Mastodon server, you'll be able to follow any other person on the network, regardless of where their account is hosted.

I dont care. I dont need to know that, if its a given that I can talk to people on other instances then I dont need to be told.

It's got a long, long way to go before its even close to gaining critical mass.
The people replying to this ad are now multi-millionaires/billionaires. If you want to work a reasonable amount of work you can do it at a normal company, and get a reasonable amount of money in return.
You do have to build very expensive transmission lines to transport that energy. In some places in the world it's simply not economically viable.
> the majority of the English discussion on the web seems to be very US centric

This is one of my two pain points on Quora: not even trying to split among US-related content and international content. Reading all those question where "we" implies US residents is as annoying as those US citizens not understanding that calling themselves American/Italian/Irish in an international discussion can lead to some light backlash.
You can also use them with HomeKit, whatever androids is called and with home assistant. All local.
> the bizarre hangups of straight white libertarian code bros

Dang. I was with you all the way until the bigotry.

Level up, dude; there are more important things to focus on.
Nonsense. The fact that we could squeeze everyone into the currently available bedrooms does not make sane housing policy.

I guess a spare bedroom tax would cause people to open out their (typically small) rooms or convert them into other uses.

You still see bricked up windows from when a window tax was operated.
Ok Stallman.
Lack of EV chargers in residential buildings leave 'garage orphans' few options
i think you’d find that in just about every significant crisis of any significant timeframe plenty of examples of clamping down on witch-hunts in these very democracies.

am i advocating for this? of course not, however, we have countless examples where conspiracies and just plain paranoid thinking spun out and resulted in very very real atrocities. significant atrocities that were much more real and much more severe than “oh woe is me, i was muted on a social media site.”

again, i’m not advocating for this, but any conversational talking point surrounding this topic which ignores those issues is not a serious one.
I think these are directly related to their age bracket and the demographics which they were representing. Italy just happened to be a lot more aged than america. We should be talking about the demographic page-turning that will happen in this decade
Why is this titled 2011 when the article was published yesterday?

I know the emails are from 2011 but they're news to people today, not back then.
> for the last decade or so the main reason people read and contribute to HN is that it's not reddit

To the extent people think or even say this explicitly, this is literally defining HN in terms of Reddit. The sign on the vector may be negative, but it still connects the two.
This argument is at the intersection of “Wet streets cause rain” and “Depressingly likely to be accurate”.

“All these other companies are successful and had experienced large mobile growth along that success. Maybe we can force that same success by boosting our own mobile numbers.”

See also Goodhart’s Law.
There's arguably more unpaid moderators on Facebook inside groups than reddit. FB claims 10million groups while reddit says 3.4 subreddits
I stand corrected regarding big projects in Perl. I still don't think it's as good for big projects as Java, C++ and probably Python.
Very true. One (quite narrow) use-case does have a simple solution: a) your install targets are only Debian derivatives, b) you can survive with only the Python packages provided by the OS, then don't use pip at all, install everything via apt and have a long lie-in.
Maybe when AI is added in, it will get really interesting. Imaging an AI hiring system, no human being involved.

Then all you'll have to do is post a likely resume to the website, and use a chatbot to answer their AI interview. No human will ever have even set eyes on you before you walk in the door your first day!

Rats. I have just given some HNer an idea for a startup.
Last month two colleagues (less than 30yr old) bought their own houses. There are young people in the UK who can afford it. They saved for years...
Aren’t they?. Cures all illness /s :)
> But you can with solar. You aren’t throwing energy away by turn off panels or stopping turbines, the wind blows and the sun shines for free, whether or not we capture it.

We are throwing away the electricity that would be created if we could use it at the time. So, in the name of optimal utilization of resources, we should be using it.

> But now you have a highly toxic gas.

Working with which we do have decades of experiences.
The VC board always has the same reason: revenue, revenue per user and their respective quarter over quarter percentage delta. Number go up = good. Number go up less than last quarter = bad. Number not go up = disaster.
Amazons New World was a perfect example, you could literally send the server info that you're invulnerable and you would be... unkillable. People flying, telling the server they have x gold, zero validation whatsoever. Online games are a constant balance between what can be handled by client and what should be handled on the server but most of them display absolute lack of after-thought given from developers and/or management.
> Central Dogma of molecular biology is that DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes protein

mRNA in most animal cells, sure. RNA’s direct role in gene expression, RNAi, RNA that modified other RNA, et cetera have been known about for a while.
I never really understood the need for „enterprise patterns“. Usually it’s the same spaghetti code than without them, just wrapped in „pretty“ patterns, with a lot of boilerplate code. In the end you have just more code, and more code to maintain. Which is usually more effort.

Okay, you can draw „pretty“ UML diagrams for your code. But that makes it even more effort to maintain.
> pipes

In Perl you can just run commands using backticks or qx// and get their output, and so you can pipe them in any way you want:

my @a = map { chomp; $_ } `ls -1 | sort | uniq`

You can otherwise use `open` to spawn shells as if they were files, piping either on their left or right:

open my $output, '-|', 'ls -1 | sort | uniq';
while (<$output>) { .. }
The sweet spot for Perl is any problem combining text processing with Unix system calls. It's a system administrator's idea of what a programming language should be. I feel the reason why Perl got a reputation as a "write only" language is because it's easy to write a simple Perl script, so people with no programming background wrote a lot of ugly code. It's simple to write clean, maintainable code in Perl with a little discipline.
Exactly, don't take it personally just vote with your feet. Reddit doesn't owe you anything. The flip side is that you don't owe it anything either. If they do something you disagree with, that is their good right. But you are of course under no obligation to stick around.

In any case, it looks like Reddit is going to join the ranks of long forgotten startups on a slide towards basically being empty shells of their former selves. More interesting to ask is where the users, content, and attention will go.

I never really cared for Reddit. The signal to noise ratio just feels wrong to me. Lots of people yapping about whatever and just not a lot of stuff that interests me. I lurk in a few sub-reddits but as communities they are pretty weak.

Might be a nice one for Elon Musk to buy. But I'd recommend he does that at a big discount. This company needs the same kind of shock therapy that Twitter received to have a realistic shot at surviving. Including a big layoff round probably. I get that people are still upset about what happened at Twitter, but they too were on a long slide towards irrelevance. It's debatable whether Musk's intervention is going to be good enough of course.
Ehh, I think you are making this up and your theory is sound just because Amaz turned out big

I see stuff like this weekly

"blablabla need skilled engineers for my unique brilliant idea company blabla"

Nothing is exciting about this
1.01^5 * 1.37 = 1.43988

1.43988^(1/6) = 1.06264

So, really 6.26% CAGR.

Not a huge difference here. But it is lower. The difference really shows up when you start seeing losses. The extreme case of one year with 100% loss demonstrates things.
> or push companies to spread across the country

Isn't that what "moving to another city" is? If you can move, it means you can have your income there somehow, either with a local office or working remotely.

In France, the government has tried to spread companies a bit, which didn't exactly work, not even at the Paris region level. Everyone and their dog wants to be in Paris proper or La Defense (the local business district, which, while technically not inside Paris, is right outside).

Now that more and more companies are accepting that people are full-time remote, I've actually seen people up and leave Paris for smaller cities.

Of course, not all companies are open to the full-remote arrangement. I'd even say most aren't judging by the absurd levels of traffic around Paris.
It was an election year. Trump really didn't want to do anything that would upset the economy, and he gambled all his chips on "ignore it until it goes away." Public officials were begging and pleading to take measures to get R under control from the very start of exponential growth in the US, but they were not able to break through the political stonewall. Conservatives will say & do anything to get you to forget how hard they went on the wrong side of history.

People came to their senses when the following level of urgency was reached: "if you don't lockdown NOW, in two doubling periods -- one week -- every hospital will have a parking lot full of people slowly dying for want of a respirator. Do you want that news story as your legacy?"
Most of the $60 ones aren’t really measuring CO2. The usual giveaway is if the sensor also measures VOC or TVOC most are estimating the CO2 based on that. Which has only a vague correlation sometimes and not remotely close to useful.

You need a device that specifically quotes having an “NDIR” sensor and most are $100+
So should Germans write it as Tuerkye when the ü is not available?
I do kinda see why Crockford does all of that. Crockford, before the JSON fame, worked on a distributed language E and believes that "the next paradigm will be globally distributed, secure, eventual programming" [1], so all existing languages are old and JS happened to be the best transitional language among them. Assuming this is a sincere belief, Crockford should've tried to steer JS to suit this vision, and if that's not possible, to throw JS away and recommend other languages or make a new one. Having yet to see the latter, I had a strong suspicion that Crockford is not as sincere as Crockford wants to be seen. Maybe Crockford also realized that or I was too premature to think that.

[1] https://howjavascriptworks.com/sample.html#0
It's something that does work in other industries. If fantasy books are big you pay someone to write another fantasy book. If people start buying crossovers, you build a crossover.

The difference is that these are replaceable, consumable or temporary. With 'platforms', it's not enough to make something similar to something that someone likes, you have to make something that displaces something someone likes. How someone spends their leisure time is a limited, valuable resource.
Most of the major subs are modded by people who get paid by advertisers and other promoters to astroturf support for whatever. It's not hard to replace them.
> Imagine working on a codebase where 80% of the code was unused or commented out

That's not documentation; that's code.
The central dogma is kind of like a spherical cow in biology. It is a very rough approximation that is simple enough and correct enough for non-biosci college freshman to work with and learn something from.
Eh, it seems to me even ABC News follows it closer than necessary.
i.reddit.com just redirects to new reddit now.
> was really a man of equal opportunities: he didn't really care about your beliefs, political background, gender or sexual orientation, as long as you could help him get more power, money

This is the perfect definition of a politician.
And sadly it applies to 99% of them in a "democracy".
Wikipedia Silvio_Berlusconi#Controversies
This is just survivor bias.
Most of what you described as needing documentation could be expressed as code (mixing multiple languages here to express the point more clearly)

const fn get_outer_height() -> Result<SomeErrorType, WeakReference<Number>>

- `const` makes it clear this doesn't mutate

- the function name says exactly what it does

- The return type makes it clear it can return an error

- The return value is typed in a way that makes it clear what the ownership is

Throw in a language like Rust that gives guarantees about thread safety and now the only thing left is if the API is stable or not. Which I would argue doesn't matter much at all since people will still end up depending on it regardless of the comment saying "This API might not be stable"

And the best part? My definition will never get outdated. If the assumptions change, the definition will also need to change (well, except for maybe the name)
Anyone know who eventually got the job?
Now let's have look at similarly-worded ads for the 2000s dotcoms
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots
Deno?
AirBNBs, in France at least, invariably have a place where I hit my head.
This is revisionism. The only place in Europe that didn't lock down was Sweden and they were viciously attacked in the media for it, additionally Anders Tegnall was also attacked by other epidemiologists.

I followed it all very closely at the time. Tegnall and his mentor stood alone. With the exception of the Great Barrington crew and maybe Ioannidis, all the other so-called experts were loudly and vocally demanding lockdowns as a strategy. Great Barrington meanwhile was viciously attacked, described as fringe, non-consensus, would kill millions etc.

The attempts to rewrite what happened in this whole thread are incredible to witness (not just your post, many others). It was only a few years ago! Our memories aren't that bad! And the internet is full of receipts on this. The idea there was robust academic debate about lockdowns or masks or the lab leak or anything else is a fantasy.
If you fly to Japan from Finland then you have to fly over the North Pole, because the Russian airspace is closed. Seems to be a lot more dangerous than the Himalayas.
> Why didn't some other country at some point run some studies

I know little about the topic, but I can suggest reasons why this isn't so simple.

Up until the 1960s or so, people didn't care much about pollution. They thought nature could absorb it. This include Europe. The Swiss chemical industry dumped their wastes into the Rhine, and they weren't the only one along the river.

The goal then, in Europe as in the US, was to make money.

It wasn't until REACH in 2007 - https://echa.europa.eu/regulations/reach/understanding-reach - that laws were changed to place the onus on companies. Quoting that link: "To comply with the regulation, companies must identify and manage the risks linked to the substances they manufacture and market in the EU. They have to demonstrate to ECHA how the substance can be safely used, and they must communicate the risk management measures to the users."

However, for reasons I do not know, PFAS were excluded from REACH.

My guess is it's for the same reason - PFAS are industrially very useful. Europe's chemical industry is about the same size as the US's, and I know it can influence legislation there too.

> Congress needs to do its job and stop blaming SCOTUS for federal law interpretation

My point was that "a nice excuse for inaction" is insufficient to explain what's going on in the US.

> Constitutional law is a different story because Congress can't do anything about that

My example about the EPA power to enforce Clean Water Act was a constitutional law issue.
Actually when you look at previous one or one before that those were quite extreme in many places in Europe. We are talking about decades. I would not be surprised if history repeats itself.
In what way was The Good Parts trying to write Java in JavaScript?
Linux is not a microkernel, whether you compile it with modules or as one file.

In a microkernel, the various modules run as separate processes rather than as part of the kernel. For example, if your network driver crashes, your kernel keeps running. Whereas in a monolithic kernel, a driver crashing crashes the whole kernel.
At the time the US had a president that routinely used race-baiting as a divisive political technique. He admired Vladimir Putin and defended Russian actions, so the Russian people weren’t a subject of his attacks.
As always, the red carpet is rolled out to welcome all new users into the funhouse, but with time, the carpet is withdrawn, the doors are very slowly bolted shut, and then the house master starts to look under the beds of all the guests who don't fit a particular group
Lab leak theory was suppressed worldwide, it wasn't just in the USA.
Something they are neglecting is that a lot of services terminate a user's connection at a regional edge location but the request itself still gets routed to one of the company's main data centers (in the US or elsewhere). This pattern is getting more and more popular even for smaller sites as companies like AWS and Cloudflare continue to build out their backbone. It is impossible to tell whether this is happening from client-side software, so I don't know if this experiment is really worthwhile.

I'm willing to bet that a large chunk of websites that passed their tests (Google, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Wikipedia, Amazon, eBay) are in fact wholly or partially pinging the USA to serve requests.
I disagree, it would be in their interest to somehow gap that border in the long run, although I wouldn't know an easy way to achieve this. Its users often tend to not understand the repercussions in my opinion and that is true even for software developers.

Sure, an exchange on Discord is easy and personal, you get ample support from your supporters and that can really propel projects to the next level. But as I said, all the knowledge from these exchanges is lost for the net. The user that comes 2 years later won't see these exchanges and not even you product in some cases. I would always suggest to also use some kind of forum or knowledge base.

Discord has APIs to make such content discoverable as well in theory. I use the platform too, it shouldn't be seen as an indictment for the Discord developers at all. On the contrary they offer an extremely useful service and in most cases completely for free and it shows that they care for the platform. But just as things are, we have it as something separate to the usual web and I believe that some communities suffer if they do not provide alternative venues.
> your ad hoc script has to become a full-fledged program

The very second a quick and dirty script grows into a full-fledged program, it immediately becomes technical debt.
If this applies to you, I'm sorry to tell you that you're a worse-than-average human being.
Apple convinced Amazon to remove >650 sellers of refurbished goods (now there are less than 10). In doing so, Amazon gets a 10% discount for selling new goods.

This eases pressure on Apple having to compete on cost with its older functioning devices.
Exactly. They could take a tip or two from Greylog
It is Python with the ability to write high performance code within specified functions, eliminating the need to link in C code. However the interop with C will be the same as Python, which is already very good, Mojo is just going beyond that.

It compiles to llvm. This means the python environment headaches will disappear.
It’s hard for me to judge, when I’ve known Java since 1996. I might need to know Java, but I don’t need to write it. Maybe it’s enough that someone on the team knows it. Maybe it’s not really possible to master Scala/Clojure/Kotlin/Groovy/AspectJ without knowing at least some Java.

Likewise, I probably need to know C to use POSIX, but it’s so unsafe that I should not be writing it.
A lot of politicians do this. They make the law.
> Sometime in the past 12 months this disappeared.

We're trying to groom public appetite for war with China. Anything that paints them in the worst possible light is acceptable now.

After artificial chip shortages, the weather balloon incident, and TikTok, now it's suggested China was responsible for COVID. Expect more to follow.
Google used to joke that you could hide a dead body on page 2 of their search results and nobody would ever find it, since nobody ever went there.

Now page 2 of the search results (or beyond) is where the useful answers to your 'let me Google it' might start.
One who does not vote does not have the privilege of complaining about the outcome.
06.06 - PAID domains squatted by safenames (with 15 hrs delay)

12.06 - they pointed proper (before flushing) NS records. And broke it again, cause they took TOO old ns records (I've pointed to improper he.net servers once, with changing to proper in end)

Nobody answers, so
PRETY GOOD JOB SO FAR
Have you seen mafia style organized crime? It's very professional.

Even when people are being threatened bodily harm, it comes across as polite but direct communication.
Execs (and most employees) aren’t allowed to short their own stock.
Survivorship bias is always interesting to observe.