skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nearly all the first comments express that the justification to include Rubocop with a default rule set in Rails 8 contradicts DHH's criticism of languages such as Go which have a built-in linter, therefore dictating style rules to programmers. DHH criticizes Go's approach as totalitarian while shipping Rubocop with Basecamp's rule set.

Rubocop is a linter (etc) whose rule set can be easily customized and to include it in Rails wouldn't be possible without _some_ default set of rules. DHH addresses this apparent contradiction directly, too: "Not such that I, or anyone, can mandate what style your codebase ought to be written in, but such that you can find and enforce your own." I'm reading: A linter/formatter will be included in Rails 8 with a smart default rule set, and it can be easily customized. I don't see any contradiction.

I'm highly aligned with this decision as it could help alleviate a recurring pain point at our tiny company: managing code formatters and linters in our IDE (Solargraph, Rubocop, Ruby LSP, etc). Further, I'd expect excellent documentation on how we can customize the rules to best suit our purposes, too.
Years ago, working in a group home for people with learning disabilities (irrelevant to this)

Charge Nurse gets an anguished phone call early morning, at home, from the female overnight staff. She was terrified that she was haemorrhaging.

Charge Nurse asked her to remember what they did yesterday.

"We harvested lots of veg from the garden, we cooked lots of beetroot and we ate lots of beetroot"

Pee went red. No issues.
If you're just curious, you might not need a glossy physical copy.

The Met recommends (https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/in-circulation/2018/grammar-...) this scanned version of the 1856 edition at the Internet Archive:

https://archive.org/details/grammarornament00Jone/

As someone with a training in architecture and architectural history, I'd think twice before paying money for an edition of this. Any plate from the book is very recognizable. It's marginally useful as a sourcebook, but you won't learn much from it, and its limitations start to grate pretty quickly.
> methane, which can be produced in a carbon neutral way

Maybe it can, but will it? And we are not talking about producing a bit of methane, we are talking about gigatons. For comparison, green hydrogen can be produced many times cheaper than "green" methane, but nobody hopes that we'll get to gigaton scale anytime soon. Here's the relevant quote from the IEA summary [1]:

> If all projects currently in the pipeline were realised, by 2030 the production of low-emission hydrogen could reach 16-24 Mt per year, with 9-14 Mt based on electrolysis and 7-10 Mt on fossil fuels with CCUS.

[1] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-hydrogen-review-2022/exec...
We don't let our toddler watch Bluey. You can't show characters fighting verbally or physically and then later explain. You CAN NOT EXPLAIN to kids. If they see something being done, it can be done. So no Bluey for my kid.
Good children's programming often presents characters somewhat older (in affect, if not truly in age, e.g. Big Bird) than the target audience, to act as role models. You don't want a typical 3-year-old to look to a typical 3-year-old as an example for what to aspire to, you want them to look at well-developing 4-, 5-, and 6-year olds. This works well anyway, since children often look up to older kids and are interested in what they get up to.
Rain one of my favorite episodes. The amount of story packed into 8 minutes with just music and animation is so good.
Hi Kyle, I remember meeting you for a beer in Portland right around the time you were starting neocities. I’m glad to see that you kept up with it.
Aka "Steam {season} sale"

This season didn't put Stellaris on sale, but I not infrequently see 50% off on it.
Some part of the reason for this is that pretty much anybody who is owns a single-family home in Iceland outright and is otherwise mostly debt-free would count as a millionaire (in USD) these days, because housing has appreciated by ridiculous amounts in the last 20 years or so.

One of the reasons there are a lot of house-millionaires is because some of the oldest generations, who bought their homes before 1980 or so, took normal loans with fixed interest rates, just before massive inflation in the 80s. The decrease in value per krona in ten years starting 1980 was something like 99.7%, so the loans went pretty quickly to something indistinguishable from zero. Inflation-indexed loans have been the only type of housing loan you could get for most of the time since about 1981, and are still the norm. The effect around that time of transition was that the younger generations (next waves of house buyers after them) were saddled with a lot of the burden.

Source: I'm Icelandic.
I can't quite imagine what you mean by this, asking for clarification sorry if I come off wrong. Why is it a problem that you know who wrote the code by looking at it? Do you mean that their style is distracting?
Multiple ones, eliminate your single point of failures.
I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for the Microsoft Natural Keyboard line. They weren't the most durable, or the most ergonomic, but they were widely available at a reasonable price for people who were looking for something a little better than the normal cramped layout.
The whole experience has been like discovering a dead canary in a coal mine.

This tells me that very few developers are doing things "the old" way or otherwise questioning mainstream technology narratives.

I sometimes find myself wondering if multipart/form is going to be deprecated soon. If you look at the latest Azure Function isolated worker stack, this hasn't even been dealt with yet. I had to grab a 3rd party library to parse these submissions out of my request bodies.

If you have a fancy web socket use case, no problem - we got your back. Want to build a boring LOB business app? Better be ready to start shimming those HTTP post mechanisms.
That would be a massive challenge and probably would lead to more bugs which is against my goal of having a low-maintenance product. The more dynamic is your text rendering, the harder it gets.

You can format from the Preview mode, by the way. You need to use the shortcuts for that or click inside the Format menu. If you put your caret on the line of the heading, then press Command+1/2/3 depending on the level of the heading it will convert the line back to normal text.
Funny that my story also plus 10 years as a solo app dev is a little different. I shifted from native to full webapps 2 years ago. Never been more happy with that decision. Development speed is a lot higher and easier. I found the iOS SDK, but in particular the Android SDK a monstrosity to work with. Yes there is a very small performance penalty, but for simple list scroll apps not impacting user experience (proof comes from user reviews)
İyi şanslar, but also used regularly is kolay gelsin, which means let it come easy, or go easy, there is no direct translation. Then there is also hayırlısı, which means what will be will be, in my experience used sarcastically / raising you shoulders when everything is f*cked, as is common these days in Turkey.
Genetic variants for male bisexuality, risk-taking linked to more children
If he wanted to destroy it he could've just shut it down. He's making a lot of personal effort and seems personally invested in it not shutting down (see: recent bragging about latest usage stats).

He's pretty clearly suffering from a crippling addiction to posting on the site[1] despite it having a massive negative impact on his reputation and legacy. If he had a peer group who truly cared about him they would've staged an intervention by now.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-phone-locked-hotel...
I appreciate the technical details, but the only thing that really mattered was the completely arbitrary design decision to make it look like paper, i.e., to adopt a minimalist approach.

This has been the distinguishing feature, as against all the other feature-full applications. Its success has spawned copy-cat's in this and other domains.

The solo dev can avoid following the herd. Developer groups, esp. groups with investors, require mutually-acceptable justifications that reduce to, well, joining the herd.

So as a solo dev, amplify this advantage, and ask: what do people really want, that they can't get from the herd?

(Esp. in an age thundering with AI mash-up's)
Last time I rented a truck from Home Depot all those processes took less than 5 minutes at the counter.

It's only an issue if you make it sound like an issue. Certainly worth it for only needing it once every 2-3 years, as most truck owners actually do.
I look forward to the day when your imaginary janitors are imbued with the authority to reshape US labor law in the image of their simulation.
Some dingus did this to our application portal. Our legal team since him and his ISP a real nasty cease and desist letter.
Because I've gone 6 months with my EV charging only in my garage. I have never needed to go anywhere to "fill it up".

Also, where I live I have to drive 15 minutes each way to do the 5 minute fill up. I am saving 35 minutes every week by not having to go somewhere to fill my gas.
"Edge Browser Scores Worst in Test of Telemetry Privacy"

- https://apple.slashdot.org/story/20/03/07/0054219/edge-browser-scores-worst-in-test-of-telemetry-privacy
- https://www.zdnet.com/article/brave-deemed-most-private-browser-in-terms-of-phoning-home/
- https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf
- https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=20/03/17/1857224
Slightly off topic: anyone know how to backup iCloud data (mainly photos and videos, but also notes) to an outside platform?

I’m an Apple fan, but still don’t like the idea of having all my digital life on iCloud only.
No, it’s a small saving throw, one that shouldn’t be required.
> Twitter users of all stripes speak nostalgically about the platform affirmed what I’d long suspected: many Twitter users hate Twitter the way New Yorkers hate New York—they don’t.

Yeah!

Or... try this metaphor on for size... like ex-smokers hate smoking. That may be more apt. Yeah, it sucks. Yeah, it's bad for me. Yeah, I'd be better off if I never started. Yeah, I miss the feeling it used to give me. Sure, a pathway in my brain, developed over years, misses the hit or endorphins when they aren't available.
It's more likely to be the tortious of interference ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference ) but even then, the kicker for almost all non-criminal cases is that you have to have monetary damages or there's really nothing much you can do.

Now if net neutrality had teeth, maybe you could angle that way.
It's possible that I've simply not hit the corresponding circuit breakers but no issues with AWS for similar launches and spikes in traffic. It's expensive though, and my experiment with Hetzner was a misguided effort to reduce costs.
Exactly this. A “half” in my mind translates to 0.5. I don’t do any conversion, 0.5 exists as the very concept of “half” in my brain.
Bandcamp usually offers free downloads in numerous formats for customers who buy physical goods.

As a DJ it's great to have both digital and physical.
Nobody thinks they need insurance until their house catches fire
There’s a good sciencecast discussion of this pre-print with one of the authors and a couple other physicists including Victor Galitski at UMD

https://sciencecast.org/casts/u1mlp8tkn7w4
A Chief Technology Officer (CTO) is a top executive responsible for an organization's technological needs as well as its research and development (R&D). This role typically involves overseeing the development of technology to be sold to customers or used internally. The CTO also aligns the company's technology strategy with its business goals, ensures that technological resources meet the company's short and long-term needs, and leads the technology or engineering department. Additionally, they stay up-to-date with new technological developments and may also be involved in management decisions beyond the scope of their department.
Exactly. Even major “trusted” third parties like Adobe can’t actually be trusted to keep their fingers out of parts of the system they have no business poking around in. Time and time again it’s been proven prudent to treat third party devs as hostile parties by default, with trust being hard-earned.
> I often wonder what Obj-C would look like today if Apple had put the time and effort into it instead of Swift.

It would largely look like Swift, since the goals of Swift (and most modern languages), safety and expressiveness, are fundamentally incompatible with C languages. There's really no point to basing a language on Obj-C if you're not keeping 100% compatibility, so they didn't.
Twitter is the only one that became embedded in corridors of power around the world. Even if it has less misinformation and ragebait than the others (which I doubt), it does more damage because of the people engaging with it.
Do you have a source for this? It's always been my understanding that the creation of gofmt was almost entirely so that programmers would stop arguing about style.
Bulbapedia could very easily contain midi transcriptions of every song in the game franchise.
The Whole Foods cans are still plastic coated, they just market the fact that the coating is BPA free. Epoxy has historically been the predominant coating for canned food and drink products, which does contain BPA. Polyolefin dispersion coatings have been available for several years and are now widely used in jurisdictions that restrict BPA in food manufacturing; they are expected to become industry-standard within the next few years due to increasingly strict regulations.

To the best of my knowledge, all can coatings are phthalate free. I should also note that not all phthalates are created equal - terephthalates and trimellitates are of considerably less concern than ortho-phthalates.
So they asked you to take down a URL that didn’t exist?
There is a sizable consumer base that buys episodes specifically for their dog. It is one of the few shows my dog will lay down and watch, which I guess is attributed to their use of "dog friendly" colors.
For work, I've been diving deep into Rust for backend development. Its promise of safety and performance is hard to pass up, especially when working on systems where reliability is critical. The ownership model does have a steep learning curve, but it pays dividends in the prevention of common bugs that plague other languages.

On the frontend, I've been leveraging the power of TypeScript with React. TypeScript's static typing brings a level of rigidity that's much appreciated for maintainability and scalability. Pairing that with the robust ecosystem of React has significantly accelerated development without sacrificing quality.

For hobby projects, I'm experimenting with WebAssembly. It opens up the web to a multitude of languages and performance-critical applications that were previously confined to native environments. It's exciting to think about the potential for high-performance web apps without being tied to JavaScript.

Additionally, I'm keeping an eye on edge computing with technologies like Cloudflare Workers and AWS Lambda@Edge. With the shift towards a more distributed architecture, I believe these platforms are going to be crucial for low-latency, scalable web applications in the near future.
Maybe this is a contradictory thought, but this is probably a good thing. I think you could argue that most drug mules are doing it because they don't, or don't think, they have another option to change their current life. If this reduces the number of humans used to smuggle drugs, it is probably a good thing.
Seems it's two sentences that have been unnecessarily merged with ", and".
I did.

It turns out everyone else voted for a 16 term a candidate who promised for the 16th time that they would make illegal the kind of corruption that they themselves observed first hand (and placed the envelope in their pocket) for the past 15 terms, this time they are going to bring real change.
I think that there is plenty of evidence that all pesticides kill animals, and that some in particular can do serious damage on humans. I can't see why this should be controversial at all. The less we'll need to use to obtain our goals, the better.

Of course there are other million ways to harm birds. Don't make me start talking about Malta or Lebanon hunters. Maltese poachers kill or capture up to 200,000 migratory wild birds every year

And is much worse. The ciphers of illegal hunting are sobbing. Between 11 and 36 millions! of migratory birds could be killed on the entire Mediterranean each year: raptors, storks, falcons, herons, anything with feathers, protected or not

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...

... but the problem here are the farms, sure.

> Even organic farms use fertilizer, the runoff of which is far bigger contributor to ecosystem destruction than pesticides

So it is a tie? Organic farms use fertilizers, bad. Other farms use fertilizers, equally bad.

The difference is that hedges and nature tolerated around organic farms acts as a buffer in part eating part of this effluent. This may not apply necessarily in other farms.
Rather than picture frames, you might find 8.5x11 sold as “document frames”

https://www.michaels.com/shop/frames/wall-frames/document-fr...

(and also as “diploma frames” or “certificate frames”)
Building block storage for the cloud with SPDK (non-replicated)
> but linters are draconian in nature

His point is actually that linters lacking configuration are draconian.

> Some languages, like Go, have a built-in linter, which applies a universal style that’s been set by the language designers. That’s the most totalitarian approach.

I'd doubt it's the "built-in" aspect; it sounds quite a bit like it's the "universal style" that the author doesn't like.
The fall of Firefox: Mozilla's once-popular web browser slides into irrelevance
This is more interesting:

https://timothya.com/blog/git-stack/

https://gitlab.com/wavexx/git-assembler

https://www.thregr.org/wavexx/software/git-assembler/
So Musk saw that call and on the same day transferred control to the DoD? Doesn't make any sense.
Your opinion of what is legacy and what is not brought forward as if it was a fact is defamatory language and highly uncritical in itself in terms of criticial thinking.

You fail to explain what media should mean in this regard (it cannot be medium as they are all using the same medium) and you fail to give any evidence why the media you are writing about should be legacy.

Tl;dr: Your comment is boring and highly underwhelming.
I started using twitter again for the first time in years. It has actually been wonderful. But I've done something I different than my other social media. I only click or read stuff on AI from reputable people. I try to quickly scroll past anything else, no matter how much brain fights it. The result is I get tons of up to date information on AI and basically nothing else.

My main complaint is...I have to keep up the fight constantly, which is annoying. It does make me realize though, a curated social media app that _internally_ removes garbage is at least possible, and would be quite nice.
Partly you’re getting downvoted because you’re not accounting for the value of the content to the user. Even if the chance of a cloud
provider cancelling an account or deleting content is 0.0001%, the value of a single photo to Microsoft will be magnitudes less than to an individual.

I imagine the other reason is because they’re not mutually exclusive: For instance, Synology makes it easy to have both an in-home NAS and cloud sync.
I imagine they're not talking about changing the drift velocity, but the rate of information propagation through the EM wave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity versus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drift_velocity

I don't know if increasing the speed of electricity has real implications for small circuits; I guess it could make a nearly factor of 2 difference for long copper wires, but we use fiber for long connections anyway, and speed of light in glass is higher than speed of electricity in copper.
tl;dr it's actually a really good show
Assumed Audiences
Our kids absolutely adore this show, and so do my wife and I. It is just about the only thing we'll let them watch.

As others have said: it's because the show isn't trying to force any ridiculous cultural progressivism on my children.

But also: it doesn't seem to be made by (am I joking?) the same people who would otherwise make slot machines. While other kids shows seem like an outright attack on my children's attention, this show is just happy, wholesome short stories about a family having fun together. We absolutely adore this show in my household.

As a sidenote: it's very hopeful to me that a show like this (utterly non-political, just shows a happy family) is as popular as it is. It's culturally dominant for kids. I hope this is a lesson for Disney et al. (Disney+ does carry this show in the US, but it is not produced by them.)
A Guide to Public Speaking for Software Engineers
For FPV drones both Ukraine and russia but the components from China and assemble them locally.

Ukraine is very worried that China is trying to cut them off, so they buy through a long chain of intermediaries.
> At the same time, I realize I'm not the Lightning's intended audience. I have no need for a pickup truck in my life, as evinced[sic] by the fact that I never once used the Lightning's bed. And I didn't grow up with pictures of trucks on my walls, so they hold little cultural significance for me. But for those for whom trucks do resonate (and as long as you don't care about towing), check out one of the cheaper trims. You might find that once it's in its element, the Lightning is actually quite good.
There isn't really a clear separation between the two. People can experience physical things exactly the same as an activity or a vacation.
I think the issue with canned products is still mostly about the packaging; cans generally have a plastic lining/coating that is meant to prevent their contents from reacting with the metal. Unfortunately, this is also true of metal lids on glass jars. This is even true of the lids used for home canning!

I think the capability exists (we had cans and jars before we had these chemicals), but both industry norms and likely consumer expectations must shift. E.g. suppose you had new processes which could cool food in a sterile environment before filling cans -- then could cans do with an organic wax liner?

https://ekko.world/plastic-lining-on-beverage-food-cans/2267...
https://www.ewg.org/news-insights/news/aussie-study-finds-ph...
I expected someone to mention Brandenburg and VW in reply, to be honest. Seems like a bit of a straw-man though. If you tell me the country you think is perfect, I'm sure I could find some kind of scandal.
Sure, they’ve been around for a while.

However, a war like the one in Ukraine will accelerate the development and usage of drones. You could tell by the early usage in the first few months of the war.

Now more global defense dollars will go into the rapid development.

Wait until we see swarms of (semi)autonomous drones
Almost certainly not. I don't think that has even happened with Rocky, for whom they're not just downloading one package.
This is incredible, thank you for sharing.
Kind of, but without the reactive UI bits, since SwiftUI already provides that (they provide a way to publish state into the older frameworks as well). It's heavily inspired by Elm and React but doesn't match 1:1 with either.
Wonder how long intelligence agencies have had this.
1 Billion Row Challenge with Apache Pinot
https://hubertdulay.substack.com/p/1-billion-row-challenge-i...

852 ms on an M1 Max
Social mobility isn’t just having a large bank account, it’s about having the better lifestyle that comes with it.
least surprising headline of 2024 so far