skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That sounds wrong to me because then you will have duplications of the postconditions after each call. I haven't experienced any unwieldiness of having them at the end of a function.
The average is a huge range of 60-100. 70 is usually on the lower end and implies some cardiovascular fitness. It usually won't be that low from sitting on a couch. Running 2 miles at 9 minutes / mile isn't some accomplishment either, but it does imply some sort of training for an adult. I wanted to list a real standard for health, not athletic performance.

If you want athletic performance, there are the Iron Man / RASP standards and a heart rate between 40-60. Do note that while under 60 is highly trained, 40 is more on the elite athlete side of things.
Sunrise and Sunset time in Python (2016)
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm explains that "Government employment increased by 52,000 in December. Employment continued to trend up in local government (+37,000) and federal government (+7,000). Government added an average of 56,000 jobs per month in 2023, more than double the average monthly gain of 23,000 in 2022. "

So, the government sector did see above average growth, and it was mainly through local governments.

Tracking employment related to subsidies would require a lot of assumptions and analysis. I don't think it's done as a part of any regular reporting.
Probs something like ‘nei, nei, ekki’ which means ‘no, no, don’t’.
German Inflation Rebounds in December
No, I'm saying that nil safety is a lower priority for me than overall productivity. If Go had nil safety that would be very nice. But it doesn't. And it doesn't bother me all that much. Go set out to be a practical language for writing servers - not to tick all the boxes.

In the 8 or so years I've used Go for production software, it hasn't actually turned out to be a big problem compared to my experience with C and C++. If it was a huge problem it should have manifested as such. But in my experience, nil errors are extremely rare in our production code.

If this hadn't been the case, we would probably have invested in Rust. But I can't deny that when I look at those of my friends who use Rust, I'm not exactly impressed with what they accomplish. Even a couple of years in, I see them spending a lot of time fighting with the compiler, having to backtrack and re-think what they are doing or, sometimes, having to rewrite/replace code (sometimes third party) that isn't as strict as they wish to be.

Is it worth the extra effort?

That being said, sure, I think Go would be less of a "getting things done" if the maintainers had felt an obligation to add every checklist item to the language from the start. As someone else pointed out, the fact that they had the guts to say no to a bunch of things was a really good thing. Just throwing all your favorite ingredients in the pot and stirring it doesn't guarantee you'll end up with a delicious dinner. There's a lot more to it than that.
A quick google search reveals that laptops and smartphones didnt exist back then.
> one reason that people go for Bluesky over Mastodon is that it is algorithmic

My comment does seem a little dogmatic whereas there's always a broad variety of approaches & preferences with anything. I was somewhat exaggerating, but my goal was to represent the typical user as best as I can glean.

As someone who advocated heavily for Mastodon (& continues to), I spend more time on bsky now, but I've found people's reasons for being there over Mastodon to be either my reason: network effect, or for the vast majority of folk: UX. ActivityPub client/server UX remains abysmal in comparison to centralised services (not complaining as I know it's a harder problem for decentralised tech, just stating the fact).

Algorithmic feeds haven't come up in the context of bsky prefs mainly because - in my experience - algorithmic feeds in any app/website are broadly hated by all but the most tech-savvy of people.
Had to give up at Points 1056 / Level 105 as it is never ending.
AOL has changed hands so many times since then. I highly doubt they have copies of much.

I grew up on AOL 2.5 and the hacking/warez scene there. So many good times with 1IM punters, cchats, scrolling, and phishing OH and INT accounts.
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> According to UN population estimates, humans will reach their maximum population in 2086 at 10.4 billion humans. This number, large as it is, is still lower than what scientists had predicted earlier.

I'll recommend you to explore "IMAGINE THE POPULATION OF TOMORROW" https://www.ined.fr/en/everything_about_population/populatio... and compare UN simulation and Free simulation. You will notice that the main population growth will happen in Africa.

Take the UN simulation and observe that the parameter "Number of children per woman" is expected to decrease rapidly.

What does it tell to us? We know that fertility rate of the population is highly dependent of the education level and by the access to primary necessities like clean water and well, waste disposal.

Can we expect this to be provided for Africa? Can we trust these UN models to be correct?

I hope so.

If you want to look what does it mean when these models are not correct then chose Free simulation - now the population growth is Africa is not caped at 4 billion anymore.

Unmanaged population growth paired with poor human development in Africa is something that really angers me. It is misery producing even more misery at high pace. Wealth accumulation is not possible as it is eaten away by the ever growing population. Normal aid is not productive as the ever growing population is constantly diminishing the result of the aid and the need for the aid is ever growing.

Let's take a simple example: COVID-19 vaccines. Providing vaccination for 500 million people (when we assume moderate growth from 220 million in 1950) would have been incredibly simpler than providing vaccination for 1.5 billion people.
The author did say he experimented up and down with prices and what people would pay for. If people think they are getting more then 33 cents a day worth of productivity out of the app ... then it works for them. Does seem rather high to me as well.
>A question from someone a bit younger:

I mean.... likely more than "a bit" younger :)

1. Computer not always available. A lot of the time it could be a "Family Computer". Not "Personal Computer".

2. There were far more detailed discussions than today, but computer are not portable so you want to read it may be while you are in bed.

3. Access information has a cost. Not only does it take time on a dial up modem. Transfer ( In terms of Data / bytes ) isn't free and depending on settings / locations / plan you could be paying for it per visit.

That is from someone who used to print a lot of internet out in university.
Marketing speak. It’s a keyboard for “creators” of “content”. It’s the kind of lingo used to entice wannabe influencers. You’re not just wasting time on Instagram all day, you’re “crafting rich content experiences for your audience”. It’s the same type of mentality that leads one to quote themselves at the top of their own website for their own product.
Gradle's unconstrained and unstructured scripts are a major step downward compared to the predictable XML of Ant and Maven.

For example, I have a very standard "build.gradle" for a React Native app that, in about 60 lines,

- defines debug, release etc. build variants
- sets SDK versions (to values from elsewhere)
- contains passwords in plain text (for Java key stores)
- sets the name of the app
- conditionally chooses arcane linking instructions
- includes freshly downloaded stuff from node_modules

It's a classic instance of "they were so excited that they could, that they didn't stop to think whether they should".
You have to remember that there was a time when phone lines and internet connections shared resources. Also, the internet wasn't nearly as fast as it is now, even a decade ago, so printing meant you had that copy locally without needing to wait for load times.

I have a couple of GameFAQs discussions and cheat lists for various PS2/GameCube games from the early 2000s. They're stowed in a folder because it was a hassle to run between the family room and my bedroom when referencing.

Also, for the longest time, a household shared a single computer. So printing off the pages meant I didn't need to compete between family members for computer use.

Edit: A friend just reminded me of navigating in the passenger seat with a stack of Mapquest prints.

Edit-2: If anyone wants to relive this in the modern world, print to PDF blog posts, news articles, etc., and store them on your Kindle (or equivalent). You'll notice you'll comprehend the article way better than on your phone or laptop.
I'm sure they come hard when enforcing legislation, but the issue seems to be they are not proactive enough in investigating issues before legislation has been made.
Blue’s Clues (Steve era) is the top preference for my toddler
The PC I'm on is from 2012 (well, its motherboard and CPU are; everything else has been upgraded at least once, and I plan to do a new build from scratch this year), and has been running Kubuntu the whole time, as did my previous PC. I don't stick to LTS releases, as sometimes I want updated software from newer ones. If you do update to non-LTS releases, you have to keep updating, as the non-LTS releases stop getting updates and security fixes after a year.

I set things up in a way that makes a fresh install (rather than an update) pretty painless anyway. I always have a dedicated /home partition, which stays untouched by any update or reinstall, so all app settings are just carried through. Before I moved to a more space-limited SSD for the OS partition, I had multiple OS partitions available, so I could leave the old OS intact on one, but I pretty much never booted the old one, so an image in a file does the job just as well. I document all my setup steps in a text file and follow that, updating it as I go, for the setup of the next fresh install.

I wouldn't recommend going 5 years between updates, for security reasons, but every two years between LTS releases would be fine. You could look into distrobox for running more up-to-date apps - I've done that a bit.
>> This also applied to large parts of the United States in 1969

By 1970, 93% of the homes in the US had "complete plumbing facilities", which means not just running water but hot and cold water, a shower or bath, and a flush toilet. See https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/dec/coh-plumb....

1940 54.7%

1950 64.5%

1960 83.2%

1970 93.1%

1980 97.3%

1990 98.9%

In the 1950's and 1960's, the United States was able to do more than one thing at a time.
Sorry, I guess I need to understand the current size of each group too for relative growth.

This goes with my desire to better understand the economic numbers, in general
In order to get some sensors working I used Arduino examples from the web, understood the example and how it interfaces with my platform. Once it all worked I was able to transfer everything to HA, successfully. Going with "I'll just use HA from beginning", got me stuck thoroughly.

I feel like one of the people waving at the cloud saying: "Use Home Assistant", same as back in the days of use linux for all your troubles.
Hah, that’s neat.

I was at a place that had a convention to do

Function blah(…)
Argument validation
Call realBlah(…)

That way internally we could just call realBlah if we needed the functionality of blah without the validation. So I guess we could have used this all over the place.

I guess (although could be wrong, this is the first time I’ve seen it) this strategy is basically incompatible with inlining, though?
The DMCA states that YouTube must respond immediately to claims. They have no option but to take action. This puts them in a precarious situation. They can either a) initially assume all claims are valid and handle arbitration while the video is unavailable or b) attempt to become experts at evaluating claims from the onset and open themselves up for liability. Given that the law is NEVER black and white, it's no surprise they chose option 1.
Yep, had that and a Touch Pro before getting a Pre and then finally (begrudgingly) accepting that there weren't gonna be any more higher-end phones with slide-out keyboards.
But that could change over time with further understanding. No point panicking today over something not known to be harmful. The effect size is clearly very small. If I wanted to better my health in an actually measurable way I'd be much better served by dropping alcohol and refined sugars than worrying about microplastics.
Can we say that JS ecosystem did it right by splitting package management, bundling and testing into separate tools?
Is software cheap? Even a small project can a few weeks to hack things together, and if you try to price it based on your hourly salary, the cost can climb in the thousands really fast.
What does that have to do with anything? Disk drives did exist.
The white house scif is pretty laissez faire as far as SCIFs go and I imagine there's a whole pile of stuff from Maryland monitoring everything in another room nearby. I can see it being used for ipads for principals as it might be easier to police than stacks of paper.
Not OP, but I used to do this regularly in the early '90s.

I accessed Usenet from my university, printed it very cheaply, and brought it home.

My home PC didn't have any internet connection until a couple of years later when I could afford a 9600bps modem.

As to diskdrives, when I started our uni-workstations could'nt read a dos/win3.1 disk
That’s what you get after making someone’s life harder. I’m all for positiveness, but what did PatrickJS expect? It’s understandable when someone has a monetary incentive, but this is basically a (light) hooliganism. Protecting from all sorts of jokes makes life harder too. Corner cases are hard. Why can’t we just respect each other and have these few nice things that are left.

In the next episode we’ll be unable to publish more than three packages a day, have to request dependency quotas, investigate ip blocking issues, solve captcha for every basic operation and try to weed through support rounds to unlock the org that was locked due to suspicious activity.

That said, props for them not hiding in a shadow watching things happen.
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Has anyone tried this game that uses typing as part of the game play? https://store.steampowered.com/app/940680/The_Textorcist_The...
If you want housing prices to come down due to raising rates instead of home building, we wouldn't just need the rates themselves to be up. If rates are high, most people don't want to sell their house either, as moves to a bigger house become prohibitive when you go from a smaller house at 2.5% to a bigger one at 7%. What we have now is relatively few home sales, which aren't enough to stay on the market for long, as there are barely enough to meet the demand of people who don't care much about mortgage interest rates.

The typical force for prices to go down in a situation like this involves too many houses for sale. And given that most new construction froze, as the interest rates also hurt builders, we'd need an increase of supply from people being forced to sell, at a time few want to. That means large job losses and being unable to afford the mortgage they already have. A job market so bad, we'd most likely been in a pretty big recession. Given that the fed wants to avoid this, it's very unlikely that we'll see home prices fall at all unless they mess up. This isn't that weird in other parts of the world: There's been soft landings in other countries, just never in the US.

The whole idea of rate cuts isn't just a matter of pundits. Jerome Powell suggested up to three rate cuts in 2024, and him speaking is not punditry: Depending of who you are learning macro from, it is forward guidance, a form of monetary policy.

Covid, the lockdowns, and the post-lockdown period have been large natural experiments, testing whether different macroeconomics theories hold water. We had a by-the-book supply shock, followed by different levels of fiscal and monetary stimulus throughout the world. Economists will argue about this for decades.
Edmunds would disagree with you, showing the Tesla costing almost $20k more to own than a Honda Accord:

https://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-3/2020/cost-to-own/

https://www.edmunds.com/honda/accord/2023/cost-to-own/
Not sure how often it's worth the effort though. Unconditional branches while not free are not quite the same performance trap as conditional branches
It's nearly miraculous really. Every market maker was calling for a hard recession. SVB looked like the beginnings of a bank run. Instead we are at damn near full employment, gas is cheap, the supply chain is normalizing and stock keep ticking up.
Only someone who doesn't follow the news would think this. The FDA's (unofficial) motto is:

Innocent until found guilty.

They know. We know it. Big Inc knows it. That's a foolish - at best - way to approach public health and ecological health. Tho', of course, it's great for profits.
Also - lets not forget how the US actually functions - of the +52K in December ... local government (+37K) and state government (+8K)
> Suppose we want a new version of Pokémon Yellow with a new Pokémon creature. We don’t need to change the game’s source code, we just need to edit the wiki and then press the “remake game” button. Modding a game becomes as simple as editing the wiki. Creating a game becomes as simple as writing its wiki.

Is this actually at all feasible? The total amount of storage space used by the Pokémon wiki is hundreds of times larger than the original game, likely requiring many times more effort to write than spent by the original programmers, and it still doesn't cover many, many aspects of that game (e.g. that Pokémon is tile-based; what buttons do in various contexts; sound and visual UI design) -- to say nothing of the clever ASM and memory tricks necessary to make the game work on the Game Boy.

I'm reminded of that comic where the punchline is "do you know the industry term for a specification precise enough to generate a program? Code. It's called code."
Oh wow! I guess I have a new rabbit hole to go down. Thanks for the info, I just presumed it would be MBE.
Just you guess: Python, C++ and Java… and Go.

Or JavaScript, Dart, Objective-C, Swift, Rust; even C#. But then it depends on the problem domain. Google it huge, so it depends. And that's even if you pick Python, C++, Java or Go. So your team will already have it decided for you.
> Changing a game becomes as simple as modifying a wiki

I feel like an implementation of Pokemon Yellow in a reasonably modern high-level programming language would be easier to reason about and modify than a sprawling wiki written in English.
Yes, it was atrocious, but humans are going to do human things. Cortez's conduct was not so different from how the Aztecs had conquered the region in the preceding 150 years. In any case, germs from Europe, Asia, and Africa would have wreaked havoc no matter what. The Americas would have had to be isolated until the discovery of vaccines.

Still, hard to imagine how much art, music, philosophy, world view in general was lost and where it would be today if American societies could have developed into nation-states.
The modern version is The Guy Who Sold Loose Cigarettes, and Was Choked To Death.

Moral of the story: Don't sell matches without a permit -corporations would starve.
R.I.P. Eric Garner
> strong Dunning-Kruger vibe

Remember, personal attacks are not allowed here.

One doesn't have to work for the FDA to realize that the prioritize profit over health in a lot of cases. Case in point is sunscreen. How many years did the FDA allow sunscreens that didn't protect against UV-A exposure, knowing that UV-A was the primary cause for sun damage related skin cancer.

Even when they did decide to require protection against UV-A, the enforcement was delayed for several years, explicitly to not cause financial harm to sunscreen makers. I remember back in college, enforcement was delayed over a year to permit sellers to move through existing stock of sunscreen.

This is far from the only example. FDA very much prioritizes protecting companies bottom lines.
Another suitable option, which has handled the situation of Red Hat source RPM releases[1] quite a bit better imo, is Alma Linux.

https://almalinux.org/

Similar goal, but is working more directly upstream with Red Hat[2] as opposed to the (as I last had read) undisclosed and non-open approach that Rocky Linux has taken.

1: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/furthering-evolution-centos-s...

2: https://almalinux.org/blog/future-of-almalinux/
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Saving locally to a desktop computer surely existed back then, I even did it myself sometimes.
They created a functional semiconducting wafer.

Except that (AFAIK) nobody knows how to add metal to it. But one can use it to make transistors.
Long live Debian
Thank you!

There's occasional spam, but the barrier of having an Apple device to spam is enough to not make it a problem.
You could technically profit by selling pirated copies of your games, but please don't :)
I had the idea to wait for a few letters so I could type them all at once, but by then, it was too hard to figure out which one had come first (I'd assumed it didn't matter and was just trying left-to-right) before they all reached the bottom and I couldn't catch up.
My feeling has been that "brutally simple" evokes the meaning of Brutalist architecture, it is a phrase applied to something that is simple, honest, and functional.
This discovery a few years earlier would have ruined at least one Frank Zappa song
Okay, just pointing out that the README essentially has a banner advert right at the start of the repo README, then it talks about getting a license, which is gonna confuse a lot of people into thinking they can't use it without a license, which is perhaps not an effective way to convert developers into customers on GitHub, right?
Yeah, that's what I thought... but using it for 6 months now they have been pretty reliable regarding upgrades and new features.

The features I appreciate the most are:

- Auto-Synchronisation on Android AND iOS (this is hard to find in any other app)
- Photo sharing (Accounts can have partners to share all their photos with - ideal for me and my wife)
- Deduplication
- The Web Interface

The feature I miss the most is tags[1].

Once the app stopped working but there was a clear message on the repository / homepage that the server has to be upgraded. Since it is docker based, it was very easy to upgrade without losing any data. Same applies for backup...

So if you ask me, there is no need to worry - but I would not use it as only option to store my photos and it does not replace an (off-site)-backup.

[1]: https://github.com/immich-app/immich/discussions/1651#discus...