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General purpose languages in 2024? Something on the JVM (I prefer Clojure), Rust, JavaScript (typically through Typescript), Erlang and Go.

If you had asked me a decade ago I would've said C# in place of the JVM, C/C++ in place of Rust and Python in place of Go. I think it would be perfectly reasonable to put C#, Python or even PHP on your top 5. I don't because I think they've been "outpaced" in usefulness by the JVM and Go. I know Go is a controversial opinion as Go is in many ways inferior to both C# and Python. The reason I place it higher is because I really dig some of the philosophies it comes with. I much prefer to work on code with explicit error handling and no cyclical package imports. This along with the focus on simplicity and how much you can do with just the standard library makes it very easy to write understandable (no magic) and maintainable code. It's one of the few languages where I can open a code file and immediately know what's going on almost regardless of who wrote it.

With that said, Clojure is my personal top language and I really hope I'll get time to pick up the "JavaScript" side of it so I can do all my Typescript work within Clojure. Haskell is too rigid for me and both it and Common Lisp doesn't come with the ability to tap into the JVM (which can be both a blessing and a curse). To be fair Lisp has Clasp which is much more powerful for some uses. I don't think you can ever really avoid C/C++ (Rust for safety) or Erlang in certain parts of our industry and I'm not sure they'll get real competition. Maybe if Zig manages to pick up a cult following like Rust has? The reason the JVM and it's languages rank so highly for me is in part because of its popularity. This may not be a good metric but I personally think real world application is a key factor for general purpose languages. Coupled with it's massive leap forward with it's recent updates it is simply a great platform in 2024.

https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp
I think this works, not because LLMs have a "hallucination" dial they can turn down, but because it serves as a cue for the model to be extra-careful with its output.

Sort of like how offering to pay the LLM $5 improves its output. The LLM's taking your prompt seriously, but not literally.
Consider PaleMoon - http://www.palemoon.org/ - it is multi-platform and has support for an older version of uBlock Origin and that works fine.
> It would be nice if SBCL in particular could be made to adopt this use of types.

I agree, that would be an easy extension (at least from the user-facing API PoV) and would tremendously improve the language!

> The only difference between static and runtime typing would be the stage at which the types are evaluated, and being the same as macros they might be more interesting in that regard since they might have to consider what it means to run at both stages of evaluation.

That is the only difference, but that difference has important consequences on optimization.
> use a bigger vocabulary to communicate more precisely

I contest this point. Dumping /dev/random to stdout does not imply more meaningful communication. I know many people who are fond of saying a lot of words whilst saying nothing at all.
"Exploit" (mostly) only has a negative connotation in the context of people; if you exploit a resource or an opportunity, it seldom gets seen the same way.

Because of the latter, businesses leaders can also quite often talk about the former without even noticing that normal people regard "exploiting people" as a bad thing.

Sometimes it's hard to even agree what counts as exploitation of a person: The profit margin of every successful employer I've ever had is, in some sense, them exploiting me — but I've also worked in places where that's negative, loss-making, and the investors paid for my time with the profits made from others, which feels to me like the successes I've been involved with paying for the failures, not exploitation.
https://archive.md/vXmnH
I believe, they are describing real world consequences of scrum/agile and how real management uses it, which might be different from what the manifesto actually hoped.
I mean yeah, that would check out. Seems like a lot of these facilities are sitting on a bit of a real estate goldmine in which installation of solar panels and storage batteries could offset a lot of that consumption (in addition to being nicely synergistic with emergency power needs when grid power is interrupted).
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Please help me to read this story. I like it too much but I can't afford it. If anybody knows where I can read, I will be thankful. It is available on the NovelOasis app.
Clearly did. It's made up. People are in awe by the complexity, meaning and poetry but in the end it's still bullshit. It's also outdated. People admire classics because of some milestone they passed but after about a decade that milestone becomes cliche.
watching sports is entertaining as you're watching highly skilled individuals perform at the highest level + gives you a sense of belonging; games - entertainment and skill development, whether those are multiplayer games that teach you cooperation and competition, or single-player games that is fun and in a lot of cases learning (through lore), developing motor skills, strategic thinking and so on; tv/reading - learning (nothing is useless information, it helps create more connections in your brain);

yet, sitting in ketchup is brainrot content - 0 value
Show HN: UAParser.js – Abstracts Away the Hassle of User-Agent Detection
Hi all,

In recent years I’ve been developing a side project called UAParser.js, it's basically an open-source tool that provides a more structured way to detect user environments compared to the traditional user-agent strings.

I’m currently working on the next major version update, which will include new features, improved accuracy, and also offer commercial edition.

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> It seems like it'd be more accurate to say that better access to likeminded partners caused a rise in income inequality.

Generally speaking that may be true. The rise in inequality has been trending upward even before online dating was a thing, which very well may be because we're found greater access to people in general. There is certainly some correlation with more/cheaper travel options, more people living in large communities, etc.

But the article, and associated study, is about specific growth (not all growth) that has been attributed to online dating specifically.
They've dodged a lawsuit (the EU that is), but I think they failed their core mission. I tend to view the crackdown as consumer friendly, even if others see it as paternalistic and rights-denying.
>I also think this is why traditional opera and the symphony are failing. People have too much entertainment.

I haven't looked into this too much, but I hypothesize this might not be the case due to attendance numbers. Top-line symphony and philharmonics still sell out regularly. I know locally, the LA Philharmonic's shows at both the Walt Disney Concert Hall and the Hollywood Bowl have robust attendance.

I want to explore a different avenue -- donors and patrons. I wonder if the new generations of millionaires/billionaires don't donate the way they once did to the classical arts.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/951... -- the LA Phil does rather well for itself, but with $64mm in artists' salaries/fees in 2023 and only $42mm in contributions, one cannot help but wonder if this could be helped out by a couple of more billionaires setting up endowments?
If we're going this way, the next question - and a real one, this time - is whether we should study and use the medical data they acquired doing very unethical things to prisoners.
ACE score of 7. I am ridiculously happy. I have a wife who loves me, and two (little) kids who want to be around me. A successful and fulfilling career that lets me provide for (and even spoil, sometimes) my family. Multiple side-projects/hobbies/'hustles' that I can pick up or put down at will. Life is really, fantastically, pronoia-inducingly, good. It wasn't always this way, and I owe a LOT to great teachers in my formative years (HS and some college) who encouraged me to get the hell out of the house, city, and state I grew up in, and become my own man far far away from the place and family of my birth.

I'd been on the 'gifted' track since pre-K (I was reading books without pictures by 3, for example, and had read The Hobbit in Kindergarten). I made it out (barely) of one of the worst public middle/highschool systems in the country, and got a 70%+ 4 year scholarship into one of the best. My grandparents (specifically my maternal grandmother, may she RIP) busted all kinds of ass to make up the difference. "Family drama" almost made it to where I couldn't get transport to out-of-state college at the very last minute, and my paternal grandfather (may HE RIP!) showed up out of the blue, helped me throw my things in his truck, and drove me 12 hours one-way so I could attend college (no I did not finish, and dropped out after 4 years; long story)

The fear, doubt, and insecurity of my teens led to quite a bit of learning and growing in my early/mid 20s, and it just got better from there. "Getting the hell out" was the best advice I had gotten, and I am so glad I was able to take it.

My biggest concern these days is how do I grow beyond my damaged upbringing and not just be a "neutral" force in my family's life, but a "good" one. I'd like to be around for any grandkids (shucks, maybe even GREAT grandkids if the health and longevity sciences keep doing their respective things), and a positive presence in their lives too.
How much societal progress has been killed from the amount of time spent watching Mr beast videos? How many potentially otherwise productive hours were wasted watching someone in ketchup? Obviously it’s not a 1:1 ratio, but it’s a valid question to ask.

Also he clearly states it shouldn’t be illegal. You should read posts more carefully before resorting to ad hominem attacks
They don't use ublock.
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On the contrary, I’d say frameworks can’t set its claws on high performing “politically influential” individuals because they are fairly powerful. In most cases, majority people are high performers but crippled by the frameworks due to power imbalance.
I think its `.nope`...
the modern consumer in a nutshell: you can effectively ban them from your platform and they will still weasel their way back through the tiniest crack in the system. That chinese counterfeit junk amazon sells is just too lucrative
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I would suspect that a lot of the gifted children that didn't turn out okey, aren't all that much on Hacker News.
Why would a wheel be ethically unacceptable? The example you’re replying to talks about tobacco companies and cancer. A wheel doesn’t cause cancer.
Were they ever "popular?" Hasn't Opera and Classical long been the domain of the highly educated and elite? The more intellectual among the middle/lower class only receiving via recordings, radio, charity concerts, and community ensembles?

They struggle right now yes, but the major organizations in the great cities (London, New York, Los Angeles, Vienna, Berlin, etc.) all seem to still stay afloat.
Is there a more complete list by someone else?
Thanks for trying it out! I’ve tested this on a lot of public images, but it hasn’t been “battle tested” yet.

Are you able to share the image you’re using with me, or a reproduction case? Even the base images would help.
I wouldn't call it that, but I think the term does get used in that way: any profit due to my skills is my labour being "exploited" in some sense. (Not one I am upset by).

The terminological disagreement makes it easier to miss abusive exploitation.
>And it's not examination of psychology.

You put humans in extreme situations and you see how they react and you see what they do. It is an examination of psychology 100%. That's why people were interested in the original show because how humans behave in extreme situations is what a lot of people are interested in.

>It's a drama written by YouTube influencers. It thrives on being "real" while having to do with reality as much as "reality tv". Which is to say, none at all.

Possible. But then again you have no evidence to back that up that it's entirely fake. The leaked document doesn't mention anything about faking anything. You made this statement up out of thin air without presenting evidence.

What's your evidence that Mr. Beasts videos don't have any psychology and are all fake?
Ok. So if you’re locked out of linkedin, now all you need to do is change the hundreds of thousands of other LinkedIn users to change their mindset instead of pleading with LinkedIn themselves to restore your access.
The fine article mentions that the product is Mac only for now. Though they do have plans for other laptops soon.
It doesn’t really matter what’s behind you. If there is a danger in front of you and you don’t brake, it’s your fault, if you hit the brakes and someone rear ends you, it’s their fault for not keeping a safe braking distance.

You’d never design your system to intentionally be at fault.
Great to know, I was about to (re) purchase :-)
I’m not going to pretend to have an answer to that question, it’s above my pay grade.

But I would be comfortable pushing back on the idea that we should structure and operate our medical clinics like theirs because they made scientific breakthroughs.
Looking at the source code, I have never seen so many files for such a simple HTML page.
God it really is heinous.

However, I don't think it's a consequence of the platform, but of work culture. People are like that because it works, and it works because we're deep, deep into a headlong rush toward annihilation in the name of profit.

The people profiting from destroying every public good - peace, pollution-free air and water and soil, housing, healthcare, etc etc - own basically everything. Our politicians, our media, our military. It's been this way for a long time.

Speaking up against this isn't what most people want to hear. It's uncomfortable - and a distraction from short-term survival. There are no easy answers. It's not a message you'll ever hear amplified on corporate media, and it doesn't fit well into a soundbite or tweet.

There's an ocean of subtle and not-so-subtle messaging across every type of media telling you not to look behind the curtain. There are very real consequences for doing so in a way that gets peoples attention.

LinkedIn rewards superficiality over substance because our society does, workplace culture especially so. Professional posturing is a byproduct of a system that commodifies everything: even authenticity, even revolution.

Essentially, our 'hearts and minds' have been hacked, in every possible way.

That said, if you have any good ideas on how a different platform could change that I'd love to hear them.
>Being monetarily successful does not mean you’re good or shouldn’t be criticised.

Is anyone saying that Mr Beast is good and shouldn't be criticised? I can't see them.
One of my kids calls my childhood a horror story lol. Haven’t told them a lot either.
HN puts the most popular submissions on top. Allows commenting and reviews, greys out low voted content.

You don’t think this is optimized for for engagement? Don’t let the beige design fool you.
Ah, perfect! Thanks
Any scheme that offers cash incentive has a high likelihood of inviting the Cobra Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive#The_origina....
Just to be clear here, ad blocking is still possible on Chrome.
Especially because if you are engaged in a particular trade/hobby, a lot of your time is devoted to actually working on the thing. There is no way to organically find out if Haas has released a new machine or Sandvick has new tooling unless 1) a sales rep visits you 2) you see an ad for it in the trade pubs 3) you attend a show/expo.

Guess what! All those three things is marketing. There is no other way to get some information out there adults simply do not have the time. This results in a lot of games, but what part of human life doesn't? We are critical thinking creatures, we can judge for ourselves.
How does PTA perform with a medium long ledger, say 1m transactions. Basic checks like summing the ledger, how long does that take?
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I personally access my Gmail account through Thunderbird. My entire history, dating to April 2004, is in there.
I don't live in a movie though.
I won't disagree about the state of LinkedIn, but doesn't the content just come with the territory? In my experience, people who "network" for networking's sake the most are exactly the type of people who self-congratulate and humble brag, so you're bound to get exactly this type of content on a platform that's entirely networking-focused.
Firefox mobile allows you to install extensions, including uBlock Origin. I've been using it on my phone for the past few months and it's been great. Firefox in general is great.
Metformin found to reduce organ aging in male monkeys
Yea it's possible to do it with a coupe/sedan but things are just easier and more situationally capable with a bigger car.
Yup, much like pull request vs merge request - the "wrong" one is here to stay.
CyberTrucks are now being called the DePlorean
AC is not harmful to the planet, carbon-based sources of energy are.

The ideological framing of the degrowth movement is all around us.
This was a highlight for me;
"In a closer look at how the drug might help slow age-related brain decline, the researchers found that it activates cells that produce a protein called NRF2, which prior research has shown protects against cell damage during bouts of inflammation."
Take a machine, set it up to network boot, plug it in to a ZigBee-controlled plug. Every time you have a new version, a script bumps the netboot kernel and power cycles the machine, then runs tests. Those tests include "does it boot and respond to ssh", but also "can it run render jobs on the GPU", "does KDE start and if we connect over VNC did it render correctly", "do NFS performance tests show expected numbers", etc. Ideally, this box has a lot of hardware plugged in and those tests exercise all the drivers you can think of. For bonus points, scale horizontally; each kernel version can get booted on a Dell server and a Raspberry Pi and a Macbook and a Raptor POWER workstation and a Steam Deck (probably with battery removed) and [...], and all of these can netboot and run tests in parallel.

Honestly, I'd love to set up this kind of thing, but I've not seen a job for it that doesn't need C expertise:(
This may be a great complement to the first half of the nand2tetris course.
>It's much easier to learn good habits than to unlearn bad ones.

How do you know they are 'good habits'. I have seen countless years of bad practices lauded internally as amazing/the etalon weight when it comes to code quality. In reality most of them were textbook examples of what should not be done. When you get folks without any previous experience, there's no one to question the status or the authority. If they learn/wisen up, they are likely to leave.
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What are these defect devices trying to achieve? More engine power at the expense or pollution and worse fuel efficiency?
even locally, in a sandbox, written in rust, audited, the whole security theatrics included?
Files at 4fps and lower doesn't work (2005-2024)
SBF was very successful too.
Correlation and Causation: Statistical Insights
Astro[0]: wrong tool for this job.

https://astro.build/
That's not HN helping. That's because some Stripe employees actively browse HN, especially those threads pertaining to their company, looking to help.

Though some Googlers browse HN, I've never seen where they could actually help someone here - the company is too large and dispersed. Those Googlers are here for leasure, not business.
Doing nothing gets nothing in return, forget about easing your mind.
A novel neural explanation for choking under pressure
I was expecting an xyzzy reference.
> I wonder if the same can be done with Gmail archives.

That's called "using an email client" to access email.

The way it originally worked, you know, and still does[1].

I use Vivaldi browser, which has a built-in mail client[2]. You can use Mozilla Thunderbird[3], or (gasp) Outlook.

All of them allow you to maintain a complete, offline, up-to-date copy of your mailbox, which you can export and back up if needs be.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Message_Access_Protoc...

[2] https://vivaldi.com/features/mail/

[3] https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/
in the PNW, where a lot of people live in condos, it is not unheard of for HOAs (which basically all condos have) to be against the more efficient air conditioners and to force everyone to use the lowest efficiency inside-house, single or dual hose ones.
I guess as an example of using AI image processing on satellite imagery. E.g. instead of basketball courts you could let it automatically find military targets...
ACE Score: 0, therefore I apologise if this is too flippant since I don't suffer the depth of lows of clinical depression provides, although I've been through some unpleasant troughs in my time I'm sure I can't comprehend the potential psychological damage of most ACE scores above mine.

There's a particular line of The Desiderata[0] that says so much in so few words:

no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

It provides armour to me when the negative voices come. It reminds me that I am privileged to be alive at this point in time and help to remind me of the (good kind of) "holy shit" feeling I should have at that realisation.

Some holes are too deep for this to have an effect, but for the shallower ones, this has helped me escape them quicker.

You Have A Right To Be Here!

[0]: https://desiderata.com/desiderata.html
> recovered for reuse

Sure. Right up until the red forces start leaving units behind that look exactly like your throwables. Merriment ensues.
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How is this different from FLoC? My understanding was that Google came out with FLoC to solve this problem, but then scrapped it when it became clear that no one wanted it except Google.
It's really a question of your expectations.

If you're a software shop, hiring an army of consultants to build out core parts of your solution who will walk away when they're finished, you're doing it wrong. Success doesn't come from assembling piles of slop, it comes from putting together a team that will stick together to build value over the long term.

If you're an individual who wants to improve X part of themselves (fitness, musical ability, scholarship, whatever) then hiring a "consultant" (a trainer, a coach, a tutor, a therapist) is not only massively beneficial but almost an essential part of the process. You can easily measure the value you're getting from the consultant against the progress you're making.

If you're assembling highly complicated custom work on strict deadlines, hiring experts in that specific area of customization is pretty critical to consistently making those deadlines.

> How do you find them?

Connections, networking, and reputation, usually. MrBeast is lucky in that YouTube presents a good search platform; trying to find people who had made massive cakes before was probably just 5 minutes of searching and sorting by views.