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CoffeeScript is the worst thing that ever happened to the software industry.

CoffeeScript fooled developers into thinking that transpilation was free and had absolutely no downsides whatsoever. The advantages of CoffeeScript over JavaScript were so incredibly marginal. I've never heard a single good argument about why it was worth adding a transpilation step and all the complexity that came with it.

I think even TypeScript isn't worth transpilation step and bundling complexity these days, especially not when modern browsers allow you to efficiently preload scripts as modules and bypass bundling entirely.

About YAML. It's also not worth it though it's not quite as infuriating as CoffeeScript. The advantage of JSON is that it's equally as human-friendly as it is software-friendly. YAML leans more towards human-friendliness and sacrifices software friendliness. For instance, you can't cleanly express YAML on a single line to pass to a bash command as you can with JSON. It's just one additional format to learn and think about which doesn't add much value. Its utility does not justify its existence.
There are plenty of people scammed in the crypto industry, but usually, the victims don't tell the story. I decided to put the story into an ebook and describe all the details about it, including an investigation.
It's free for now, feedback would be appreciated.
is it just me or does that second link resemble pseudoscience?
Speaking of Nickel, they've got a great document detailing the reasons for their design (for example why they chose not embed in a general-purpose language like Pulumi) and how Nickel compares to other config languages like Dhall and CUE: https://github.com/tweag/nickel/blob/master/RATIONALE.md
Poor eyesight in the non-teenaged population.
That's interesting!! Does the license prohibit any use of cloud to store the assets? Or private cloud is OK?
Which is a major selling point. We do not want anything unique.

Ripgrep accept most basic flags that grep uses and is way faster (when searching for code under VC), and that makes using it very convenient, even before considering the features on top.

I would prefer that you also write your HN comments in Rust, if that's possible, for better performance and safety. In the future, there will only be Rust. You have to accept Rust into your life.
Please note that the market is not just the consumers. Companies make larger phones because they expect to make more money because they expect to sell more because everyone buys these phones because they're what's on offer - a self-reinforcing cycle.
I sort of use Apple Watch as a small phone when I don’t want to lug around the iPhone
The existence of the YAML language for Pulumi and the CDK for TF both confound this explanation, it’s just not grounded in reality.
Apple does what market signals tell them to do, and more people buy big phones than little phones.
> Earth. Our blue planet.

> No active incidents

Typical status page, always showing green despite obvious issues :P
What's great about CRDTs is that they're really good at both real-time and asynchronous collaboration, unlike the operational transform system used by Google Docs. Asynchronous collaboration is Peritext's major motivation [1]:

> We interviewed eight people who regularly collaborate professionally on documents such as news articles, and several told us that they found real-time collaboration a stressful experience: they felt performative, self-conscious of others witnessing their messy work-in-progress, or irritated when a collaborator acted on suggestions before the editing pass was complete. When doing creative work, they preferred to have space to ideate and experiment in private, sharing their progress only when they are ready to do so.

> With asynchronous collaboration, this is possible: a user may work in isolation on their own copy of a document for a while, without seeing other users’ real-time updates; sometime later, when they are ready to share their work, they can choose to merge it with their collaborators’ edits. Several such copies may exist side-by-side, and some might never be merged (e.g. if the user changed their mind about a set of edits).

[1]: https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
Unless I'm mistaken, you can actually edit the preferences of the automation to avoid the notification. Click on the automation in the Shortcuts app, then choose "Run immediately" instead of "Run after confirmation". This works on my SE.

Still a good question though!
https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=ciechanow.ski ;)
During the protests in Belarus in 2020, internet was blocked with DPI, and OpenVPN and WireGuard also didn't work. Same situation with Outline. The only too that worked was Psiphon: https://psiphon.ca/ Looks like police in Russia uses DPI as well, so Psiphon might work too.
It would likely show better results if it looked at non-sporting events instead. What happens in everyday traffic is likely the cause.

Now I think about it, I'm in doubt if you actually categorized cyclists training on open roads as participating in sports? Swap out "cyclists" with "car enthusiasts". That's nonsense.

ETA: I'm a cyclist myself.
Because your language might not have a nice type system. For example Python -> JSON is going to produce worse guarantees than DHALL.
They didn't sell well enough. Simple as that.

I'm sticking with this iPhone mini until they no longer support it with iOS updates.
Also tracks my experience as a unicyclist. When you keep poking at humanity with the same but unusual prompt, you glimpse how similar people can be. To the quip about losing a wheel, my sadly habituated response is "that was the training wheel!", and then they chuckle, because it's new to them ...
You (humanity) don't learn from first principles either.

The 3-year-old toddler doesn't learn the rules of English grammar before they learn to speak.

Sure, we don't know how humans manage to learn with so "little" data yet, but it's definitely not "understand things from first principles". In fact, if you randomly pick an average person from the streets, they wouldn't be able to explain most things from first principles. (eg. How does their car work?)
I wonder if he ever considered a follow-up for the penny-farthing.
Looks dope, could be nice for collaborative writing like a multi-author blog post or for docs.
I'd check out James Hoffmann's YouTube channel -- he's the Alton Brown of coffee, which is a reference I hope you get.

I was a Chemex user for years before I went to espresso. You can get GREAT coffee out of a pour-over rig, but there are tricks to it.
I'm not able to tell: does the author imply the "lost your wheel?" type comedy questions are put-downs? I have trouble seeing it that way. I would call it more of a jest than an insult and more of a basic attempt at humor that notes the uniqueness of the situation. To call noting anything that is odd a put down stretches the limits of credibility.
A good ducted ERV could solve all those problems
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> You have complex enough logic to warrant a language, you should use a real language.

Not sure what you mean. Dhall is a real language:

Dhall is not a Turing-complete programming language,
which is why Dhall’s type system can provide safety
guarantees on par with non-programmable configuration
file formats. Specifically, Dhall is a “total”
functional programming language, which means that:

You can always type-check an expression in a finite
amount of time

If an expression type-checks then evaluating that
expression always succeeds in a finite amount of time
If you've ever been around cars (in a car, as a cyclist or as a pedestrian) and sat and watched them for any period - you'll see a huge number of traffic offenses committed by those in cars - mainly using phones, but also speeding, red light jumping, aggressive under and over-taking. But for some reason most people are blind to this and don't get aggressive with drivers. Why might that be?
Yes and no. I respect the "they would have been recycled" argument, but, there would still be some. If you were good enough to cast a Dodecahedron, you are probably rich enough to keep your best one, to show off to all the new hipster kids.
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my brother is a welder and he made a similar thing during his training (30 years ago)
gender roles such as division of labor has shifted over time, for one.

men wearing makeup has a long and fascinating history from ancient times, to the Middle Ages, renaissance, 19th and 20th centuries, and the modern resurgence.
Are you trying to stop sound getting in or getting out? In the first case some decent earplugs should be sufficient.
Mirrors mine, too. Although I didn't get to the travel stage on unicycle (never got outside parking lots), so most of my experience with other people was on electric unicycle early in their arrival into our area.

(in the US) The one constant was that overwhelmingly older men and women were interested and impressed and had genuine questions or compliments without making jokes.

The younger you got with males, the more aggressive and posturing the questions and behavior. Younger females were non-memorable - mainly just looked or ignored. Pre-teen, kids of both genders are just curious.

There's a definite similarity in the behaviors of people as they get older and the very young in how they approach new and interesting things like a (e)unicycle. As people get older they seemed to lose all need to posture and prove themselves and they seemed more comfortable exposing the vulnerability of being curious and ignorant.

Men absolutely love to ask the cost.
Not having dukes around, along with higher global avg prosperity, is also a very recent trend. And seemingly a pretty good one.
Taildrop?
Apple still sells the iPhone SE 3. Rumor has it that the next iPhone SE will lose the home screen button but retain the same size. The camera isn't as powerful as the iPhone 13/14/15 lines but I find that it does fine in low light and takes the same exceptionally beautiful photos in good lighting. It has portrait mode as well.

It's not that much of a trade-off in terms of features or capability and it has the small size you'd expect.
the part you're missing is that during the acceleration phase, if the 1 way speed of light is different, the velocities achieved relative to a stationary observer by accelerating for t seconds relative to the clock that is doing the acceleration will be different depending on the direction of acceleration.
One of my managers once said “No one ever got fired for following McKinsey advice” and I’m not sure that it has the positive implications he meant it with at the time.
The worst thing with Helm charts is not the YAML, or even the text replace botch-jobs, but that they seem to think that a Go stacktrace is reasonable error reporting. I don't think I've ever worked with a tool with such awfully useless error messages.

But I agree, it'd be better if the template expansion was actually structural and not just text. The huge amount of "| indent 8" etc. in Helm charts is such a stench that by about the second time people encountered that they ought to have made a better template expansion mechanism top priority.
PlasticSCM has semantic merge that does something like that:
https://docs.plasticscm.com/semanticmerge/intro-guide/semant...
Also, physical retail distribution is likely around the same 30% ballpark.
Bad mirrors, and inattentive drivers. I'm not sure how you packaged that up.
People don't like them and they don't sell
There's a lot of the rider's bias leaking through here. "Men who seemed to be of higher social class", "Middle Class Men", complete assumptions and biases that aren't used to form any sort of conclusion. Frustrating in an otherwise enjoyable and interesting essay.
You might find that Nebula lacks a bunch of tools.

We have ImGUI integrated so it's easy to use, but considering there are plenty of systems to interface with, it might be hard to deal with content without some content tools.

We mostly work on the core engine side of things. I am still not happy with a bunch of things rendering wise and want to make the engine capable of current gen rendering with GI, raytracing and whatnot.

But it's an open source project, so anyone could build tooling around the engine if they want ;)
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It’s aesthetically pleasing for simple configs. I’m so used to writing JSON by hand by now I don’t find it much easier. At least I never have to think about how a value is going to be interpreted from a JSON since it has a decent subset of types and I can visually tell what it is
My industry is related to the power grid. I've worked at two amazing companies. The first had me come out for a 3 hour interview for a summer internship where they accessed my work ethic and culture fit. Once I graduated, I was immediately given an offer letter. The second job required most of a day to interview and I had to prepare a PPT and then got an offer. I also interviewed for another gig that did like four one-hour interviews spread out across a month. What software developers do sounds like absolute hell. My industry has very high demand and very low supply of experienced candidates at the moment though.
I wish. If drivers stuck to traffic regulations it would be safer for cyclists. The number of cars I see jumping red lights while cycling is obscene, the number of drivers who deliberately closed pass cyclists is also obscene. And that’s before we get to drivers who deliberately injure cyclists, like the guy who deliberately ran me down and hospitalised me for the crime of not wanting him to overtake me while passing through a narrowing in the road that wasn’t wide enough for both of us.
Fish has been great for years.The Rust rewrite will help the devs catch issues earlier in development. Hardly a main a feature.

The awesome level tab-completion and auto-completion are the firs things to notice about Fish. Also, overall cleaner syntax and a several nice built-in commands that don't ship with Bash.
…or until you age out of the “small font sizes are great” demographic. Ask how I know :)
It is a flashcard. It lets you load copies of games onto a SD card and the Switch will read them as official cartridges. The site mentions that its only for backups of your own purchased games, but most people buy them for piracy.
> It's bad because you are isolated. You need to get grounded in order to sleep properly:

> https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15650465/

This was published by the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, which has also published articles on how homeopathy is effective. I don't know that I would consider it a high quality source.
Those have extra letters.
> Why did they disappear? And why is no company no longer offering these sizes and instead go for "bigger is better"?

I don't think it's that hard - 'the market' doesn't want them. Not enough people bought them to warrant companies splintering their product lines for them.
Hey!! Ah... ok! lol

the karma thing is ridiculous - I just want to know the rules/boundaries!
I'm a small person so naturally I want a small phone. I also still see my phone as a limited communication device first and foremost. Literally none of my use cases benefit from a large screen. It could even be greyscale and non-touch for all I care — it's been this many years and typing on a touchscreen is still an exercise in frustration for me. The only requirement is that it should be capable of running Android apps. I need those to function in the society, sorry.

The problem is that every single phone out there is made for people for whom their phone is their primary, or maybe only, gateway to the internet. This means watching videos on it and all that stuff. There don't seem to be any phones for people like me, who don't even remember they have a phone most of the time when they're home.
Because it gets repeated on every thread on IPv6. IPv6 is perfectly backwards-compatible with IPv4 (you can run an IPv6-only host and still access hosts from the IPv4-internet). The issue however is that IPv4 is not forwards compatible.
IPv4-only hosts cannot initiate communication with next gen protocol only hosts by design.
Open source needs to embrace the unix philosophy of lots of small things which work great.

Paramiko made a great product, then netmiko made great alternative. Then I took that and made an even better project.

Keep it simple, functional, useful. Eventually we build up the ladder until we have viable open source projects which run the world.
The densification people are winning, at least on one block. Is Oklahoma one of the flat states? I wonder how far away this will be visible.
> We had to ask you this just recently.

Not sure what you're talking about.
The fact that even those who don't drive cars hate cyclists says something. As a pedestrian I see myself much more endangered by cyclists, which swerve everywhere (including the pavement), than by cars, which stay within their lanes.
Better for me too... Lot of dumbs..
They had no wear and tear. A die that expensive would be used every 10 seconds for decades.
> the minor increase in COGS is offset by 1 accident prevented per decade.

How do you know? What’s the math on this?
Same thing I thought. Really “I suppose it saves on tyres” is a put-down? Maybe it's the author who doesn't have a sense of humour.

OTOH he thinks women saying “You should dress up as Santa for the children” is praise and not a put-down.
I don't think it's about damaging the metal, but how it affects the taste of subsequent brews.
I'm not saying it's good, just that it feels like an inevitability given the state of US mental healthcare.
I think it's much better because the teacher doesn't have to match guesses to students. For example, for each student the odds are 30/100, roughly one in three. And any duplicates can be matched by a single guess.
You sound like someone dying to live on a sailboat for a few months of the year. There’s something quite cozy and gentle about those berths when done well.
You forgot not signaling when turning and changing lanes...
Fat arrow functions were adopted from coffee script.

IIRC it also had some different scoping rules so you didn’t need to sprinkle `bind` all over.
I'm curious about this line describing REG:

> The REG algorithm excels with its fast local update speeds and eliminate concerns about tombstone collection in CRDTs. For instance, if an operation has been synchronized across all endpoints, no new operations will occur concurrently with it, allowing it to be safely removed from the history.

If you remove these ops from history, does that remove the ability to time travel (per the home page "An antidote to regret, enabling historical edits traversal") or merge branches? How can we be sure an operation is synchronized?

If dropping these ops is necessary for speed/storage optimization but disables time-travel, is it possible to put the removed historical/tombstone ops into a "cold storage" that's optional and only loaded for time-travel use?
It's funny taking a numbers view. The most popularly used might not even be these, but vector indexes in existing popular OSS DBs and storage systems people are already using. Afaict earliest would be faiss on disk and vectors in opensearch & elasticsearch, and I'd be curious how say databricks, pgvector and other big ones are getting picked up now that they are out. Most of these supported fast & large-scale indexes even early on (ivfpq, ...) by wrapping faiss and friends. ~All OSS DBs we use now, esp managed, have or are getting vector indexes.

Another one most similar to qdrant we track internally is lancedb. They are clever by supporting an embedded architecture, so an architectural reason to prefer over most existing OSS DBs. In our survey 2 years ago, we predicted specialized vector DBs having regular OSS DBs be the elephant in the room, and missed embedded as a fundamentally different category: https://gradientflow.com/the-vector-database-index/ .

(Good luck to qdrant! I'm happy they waited before raising, hopefully this means they can operate more healthily than otherwise and easier to maintain the discipline to do that!)
There’s some nuance/caveats, but here’s a study showing humans lost height during the switch from hunting/gathering to agriculture:

https://modernfarmer.com/2022/04/farming-made-our-ancestors-...
Doesn’t that mean a company could gain huge market share and profits by being the only one with a smaller phone?

I don’t buy your self-reinforcing cycle. I think it’s pure demand — consumers want bigger phones, scale economies mean small phones cost more per unit to produce, nobody wants to make an unprofitable niche device.
Middle kid has a couple unicycles -- he's the only one around, and rides often. (And he's pretty good, can jump mount, do 180 jumps, ride up and down stairs, and generally he's a comfortable as on a bike. He has played the Emperor's March on a trombone while riding as well. He insists that he's not practicing for the circus).

Most common comment by far: "Do a wheelie", second -- "Where's your other wheel/You've lost a wheel" (which is answered by the tshirt -- "My other wheel is on my other unicycle".
> high quality

That's a hot take
You probably should stop using any service on the internet to be on the safe side...
To reason about this usefully we need to unpack the numerous dimensions of intelligent living beings like humans (many shared with some animals). And realize that although most of them are typically packaged together, they are not all necessarily inextricable.

- Awareness of self versus other.

- Core language for communicating simple information.

- Simple spatial understanding

- More complex spatial reasoning

- Complex language and abstract reasoning.

- "Feeling" anything from a body

- Feeling emotions (arguably tied to embodiment also)

- A constant stream of concentrated focus on relevant sensory or sometimes internal information

- a state pattern that persists through time despite constituent elements being replaced (as in an organism)

- or any tendency of a pattern to persist itself

- etc.

We can categorize these questions into things like living/non-living, different types of cognition, types of embodiment and sensory experience and aggregation/streams/management, etc.

The starting point would ideally be science rather than philosophy. At least for the parts we can use science for, which I suggest is almost all of them, if we properly deconstruct loaded ambiguous terms like "consciousness".
Uh, actually no. That's not what happened at all.

Apple was all about making things smaller and thinner. It was the non-Apple phones that started the trend of bigness. In part it was because they weren't advanced enough to be able to produce smaller devices without sacrificing battery life, cooling, performance, etc. Smaller is harder to do! They turned what would otherwise be a competitive disadvantage into an advantage by promoting their larger screens.

It was only later that Apple said, welp, people want bigger screens, so they gave in and also made larger iPhones. They then tried the mini one more time, to give us a real shot to prove there was demand. There apparently wasn't enough. And that's that.
That’s probably a good thing for end users but if it’s running on something that affects the live service I’d rather not have people edit the config who don’t know what a string is