skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And you can have a project that mixes those editions, and cargo will correctly use the edition asked for each crate.

I'm curious - if you had a `pub fn async(...){...}` in some 2016 crate, can you still call it from a 2024 codebase?
I've done some moderating in here now, but if you want to alert us to something like this, it's necessary to email hn@ycombinator.com.

If you see a post that ought to have been moderated but hasn't been, the likeliest explanation is that we didn't see it. You can help by flagging it or emailing us.

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It is called holocaust denial, and crime in many countries including Poland. A#hole!
The concept of property (the way we understand it i.e. all the stuff besides of a handful of personal items) is not something that generally exists or existed in "primitive" societies.

i.e. you can't really "own" more land than you and your family can personally farm and extract rent on it without a state to protect your claim.
Standard Oil had already lost a huge portion of its market share when the forced breakup finally happened.
That's actually the better way for me as well! So my comment is somewhat off topic.

I still don't like the proposed change because of how much existing code it would break, but if we're designing a new language I approve.
One of the annoying things about widespread use of computers has been the butchering of apostrophes by 'smart' quotes because programmers won't take the time to develop understanding and appropriate user interface, eg 1979 -> [open quote]79. Even if the user knows it's wrong, getting the computer to use the closing quote mark instead of 'correcting' it is a trial.
English is a barbarian language with French nouns, as a result of the Norman conquest of England.

Amusingly, using the French words is a signal to being upper class. Such as "purchase" (pourchacier) instead of "buy" (byan).
This is the best thing I've seen in a long time.

When an album hits a big milestone like its 30th anniversary

Oof, so this is what getting old feels like. Yikes.

Crank it as long as you want with “All By Myself,” arranged for the first time on a hand-cranked music box.

chef's kiss.
> The population is literally the wealthiest it has ever been. Elon Musk being more wealthy does not diminish your wealth.

That's a big claim, and the wrong metric. I don't care if everyone is wealthier than they've ever been, I care how their wealth compares to what it would be if society's wealth were distributed more rationally.

> jealousy

That's a hot take.

I want wealth to be distributed in a rational way so that I don't have to worry about the people near the bottom end of the curve having to worry about being jealous of people like me. I'm doing great, I don't have any real envy of Musk/Gates/whoever. I want all the people making less than me to feel like they can also live a good life. Framing it selfishly -- I want a peaceful, happy society, little crime, little hate, etc. The less people have to struggle just to live, the better all of our lives become.
That's unecessary, because of the 'raise' statement. This construct effectively only hooks exceptions, it doesn't swallow them.
The quoting of something exotic like this is not well defined to the penny. It's transactions where people really care about pennies.
Few years ago? Must be more than a decade - or would you specify how many years ago do you mean?
I thought I was the only one like that, except my dominant leg for kicking is the right one, and I eat with fork on right hand, knife on left; and I use scissors with my right hand. I also play the guitar as a right-handed person.

When I tell people these things, I can see total confusion on their faces. Quite funny.
> This is something people love to rage about, yet it's not one with an obvious fix.

Rage about. Off to a good start. I wonder what the conclusion will be?

> [look at all of these reasonable-looking arguments for the existing tax laws]

Sure. Most people are fine with rich people not getting taxed into the middle class or having to work for a living.

What does this prove about anything?

> These all suck, and the government generally collects money on assets as they move not assets at rest. I see no way to resolve it that isn't suckier than the status quo and so am left with the conclusion that people who agitate for such changes are more resentful of the rich than they are worried about the justice or lack thereof of tax avoidance.

Hmm. I knew there was something off about attributing “rage” straight off the bat.

I don’t know how you disentangle “justice” from “resentment” so easily. Resentment IS EXACTLY injustice over a sufficiently long enough time.

But I tend to see this idea that people who are upset about something real need to have... pure emotions. They must be upset because someone else (the poor maybe) are getting shafted. They certainly can’t be resentful (jealous) or something selfish like that.

(I don’t know what dimension you live in in the real world, confronted with these kinds of people, where this would be a compelling argument to anyone. Seems like a Let Them Eat Cake position.)

So people who are rightfully upset—you don’t even argue against that part—get dismissed because they have allowed impurity into their hearts. While the rich get to do their tax schemes. But, he shrugs his shoulder, better that the rich fleece the government than that the commoners have impure thoughts.
My company used Yup initially but we moved to Zod to be able to infer types from schemas. For example, API response payloads are Zod schemas. OpenAPI components are also generated from Zod schemas.

There are some performance issues, and WebStorm is struggling, which forced me over to VS Code.

But overall pretty happy.
The difference is that in real life, the board expands to provide more places to obtain rent and that the players have some control over their moves.
Covid, at least the first few months, is an irregularity. Most of the world was freaked out at that time regardless of the country and its hierarchical society. On the other hand, these business interests lobbied to either open/close to benefit their own bottom lines.
It is inevitably more complicated because there are more moving pieces to coordinate. This applies to all IPC, not just in this context. To some extent you can mitigate this with tooling that tries to hide the complexity, but that usually only works for simple cases.
Only if they don't understand what 'raise' means. It's obvious this construct is just injecting some additional information in a passing exception, there's no issue if it catches everything.
Indeed, most phones have the hardware already, but the radio isn't surfaced in the software.
> typically Latin is dead and how any of it is pronounced is up to how we feel about it.

How words were pronounced can be deduced from poetry.
Well done and keep at it.

Here's my 2 cents. This is a very difficult market to crack. On one hand you have Pinterest which is littered with individual trip guides and most likely your early adopters to generate content. However, they are NOT the right consumers to spend money on this.

Figure out the right niche in this market, it's very sparse!

Source: I'm the creator of https://trrip.co
If the issue is that people are dying leaving behind significant wealth but not documenting this, just make the estate tax 100% on any assets missing documentation like this. I'm sure the lawyers would figure out the rest.
> This argument doesn't account for would happen to the valuations of those assets once the government decided that it owned a portion of them or started forcing people to sell them

I don't think the author was trying to argue what would happen if the assets were to be sold, what they were arguing is the downplaying of billionaires wealth, largely people's belief that the extent of the wealth is exaggerated because it's just "on paper".

I posted this link to respond to this assertion:

> Is it possible that the people figuring up "wealth" for these articles have multiple reasons to exaggerate the totals
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> After Reddit committed suicide

Reddit has had monotonic growth, growing around 6% since it "committed suicide" [1].

[1] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/reddit-statistics/
It really depends on your need. In some countries e.g. VAT calculations used to specify rounding requirements that were a pain to guarantee with floats. I at one point had our CFO at the time breathing down my neck while I implemented the VAT calculations while clutching a printout of the relevant regulations on rounding because in theory he could end up a defendant in a court case if I got it wrong (in practice not so much, but it spooked him enough that it was the one time he paid attention to what I was up to). Many tax authorities are now more relaxed, as long as your results average out in their favour, but there's a reason for this advice.
if you prefer a more specialized publication than newsweek ...

https://neurosciencenews.com/daily-habit-brain-activty-27811...
The second, mostly.

The second season of The Wire (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire_season_2) covers this, as they track containers that come off a ship and end up in The Stack, and never make it onboard a truck (at least according to the tracking system).
I read "python 2" and a part of my soul cried in utf-8.
Switched to that latter link now. Thanks!

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That's my point - if the standard is so shitty in this area that everybody reinvents this particular wheel in a hacky way, the standard should be improved.
Also KAL 801 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Flight_801#Investig...
Had to be said :)
What are you on about? The GP said that it explains dentistry in the USSR - Poland wasn't in the USSR.
Interesting: this is a 2014 post from Jonathan Blow reproducing a 2014 comment by John Carmack reproducing a 2007 e-mail by the same Carmack reproducing a 2006 conversation (I assume also via e-mail) he had with a Henry Spencer reproducing something else the same Spencer read a while ago and was trying to remember (possibly inaccurately?).

I wonder what is the actual original source (from Saab, maybe?), and if this indeed holds true?
I do not criticize them for having FOMO. But I have my doubts when it is the 60-year-olds that are the most enthusiastic about something new (as long as it is not a new ABBA album), given the number of grifters out there. And there would have been many others that also deserve a Nobel, those three could easily have waited another 20 years. If it really was those that had the highest impact the last year who won the prize, it (or rather "Medicine") should have gone to GLP-1/Semaglutide research.
I work with people who are ambivalent about this and believe using random dicts in a variety of places is a valid way to write Python code.

For these kinds of people, no amount of rational evidence or argument is going to convince them this is bad. They practically make an identity out of eschewing anything that seems too orderly or too designed.

(Luckily, at work, most of us on our team like `Pydantic` and also (some of us more than others) type-checking, so these people are dragged along)
We can, management just insists on hiring JS kids to do it a thousands times more complicated. "Just use a sane PHP framework" will get you fired now. Alas.

The problem is thinking that all of these things are different domains when they really aren't. The web browser is just a program; its job is to fetch resources and render HTML. If you know how HTTP and HTML/CSS work, you can absolutely make great web applications.

But this requires knowledge and expertise, and also maybe not shoehorning an entire application framework into what was designed to be a collection of hyperlinked documents. I suspect this has more to do with money than anything else... the web is dead, long live the web.
Well, you have one backward branch at the end of the program, and you inline your subroutines. I'm pretty sure you've written shaders for ancient GPUs that had similar limitations? And anything you can do in hardware you can do without subroutine calls, and in hardware the loop starts again on every clock cycle.
For what it's worth CJK countries tend to give less weight to how foreign names are pronounced.

For instance the current PRC secretary name is pronounced accordingly to the characters' reading in Taiwan and Japan, and won't have much in common. Same way Chinese people will read Japanese name as the characters sound to them, without referring to the actual Japanese reading, even if in Japan these names have a designated original reading.
Why, how it's made is also its interface, and its operational requirements. Both are important.

- Markdown: widely used, readable, well-supported by other tools.

- Git: ubiquitous, well-supported, likely already present and set up.

- Python: ubiquitous, well-supported, easy to read and hack on; sometimes a pain to deploy.

If the above is not relevant for you, well, you'd be better served with opaque one-click-installable apps from App Store. Not bad, just different.
Assuming you are talking about the USA:

> don’t elect a lot of the people with power, either

A republic only works if the people with public political power are accountable to the public. Any employee or officer of the US government at any level is accountable in this way: most are accountable to the institutions they work for, which are themselves accountable to Congress and the President (or state/local elected officers), with elections as the ultimate accountability to the people. The courts are also supposed to be accountable to the public, but in recent years a profoundly corrupt and self-serving Supreme Court has expanded its own power, run roughshod over norms of civility and propriety, and all but erased its own accountability. This imbalance will be addressed sooner or later by Congress and the President, who will rein in the corrupt Court and hopefully make structural fixes preventing future corruption, but it is jarringly anti-republican in the short term.

There are of course many people with power who are not directly part of the government. Such people are only accountable to the people to the extent the people's representatives make and enforce laws affecting their behavior. As an example, it would make a big improvement to many parts of the economy if anti-trust laws were enforced in their original spirit to prevent large firms from using monopoly power in anti-competitive ways, etc.

> we worry a lot about outliers in a wealth distribution but not the outliers in a power distribution

This is certainly not true of a general "we" meaning residents or citizens. To the contrary, there is consistently significant worry about unbalanced political power, which is a running theme of US politics.
Veritasium has a great video on the difficult physics of the blue led. Highly recommend if you think it didn't deserve the prize.
Would the same logic also invalidate ‘waters edge’?
I'm genuinely curious, and I know this can get political quickly, but I mean this in good faith. The wealth that people like Bezos or Musk have—did it only come into existence because they created their companies? In other words, if they had never been born or chosen a different path, their wealth wouldn't simply be redistributed among others, right? The world would just have less overall wealth, roughly equal to their net worth. Is that correct?
Well now I feel bad. Ironmouse's story is very inspirational.
It is a problem because stdlib does not use relative imports for other stdlib modules, and neither do most third-party packages, which then breaks you regardless of what you do in your code.
Anywhere there are eyeballs, there will be ads. And wherever there are ads there are privacy concerns.

Netflix waited until they had sufficiently killed off cable TV, then went back to creating the same problem it fixed. No ads in ChatGPT today, but soon as it (or a competitor) gains meaningful marketshare, there will be ads.
>If you want a relatively recent, successful Google service for general public, it's Google Photos.

I seem to recall that followed the acquisition of Picasa.
We don’t tax the shit out of it relative to income earned though. And in the UK we don’t even tax the property in any meaningful way. Do you in the US?
major changes with breaking backward compatibility would require a major bump. Fine for python 4 I would say.
The island of Diego Garcia is excluded from the deal, so it might still stay as BIOT
Boy have they atrophied. Even as a German speaker in whose first language these words have current equivalents I'm not 100% certain when to use thou, thee, thy, thine etc. that still were part of the language at Shakespeare's time and have since been simplified into you/your/yours etc. But it's true, English takes this stuff in stride, with modernisms e.g. "sick" meaning something good gradually being incorporated into the mainstream, rather than fought against by language purists.
Not sure how this differs from podcasts created by https://notebooklm.google.com/ for free.
> Can I just walk up to the bank and say "hey, I have $100 billion worth of Facebook stock, gibs me da money"?

No, but assuming you are on Facebook's board / in upper management you can conspire with the rest of the board to get rid of Zuckerberg (possibly permanently) and share the company amongst yourself.

ARM China seems like somewhat close example of what can happen when there is no government willing to protect property rights. e.g. as long as he has enough local support a CEO of your subsidiary could just take over the entity and there would be nothing you can do about it.

IMHO we'd end up with some dystopian form of Cyberpunk style techno feudalism without strong governments regulating everything. Which in theory might be a good thing for the corporations themselves, just not for most of the people who are currently running them.
If it were somehow possible to arrange things so that political power was equally distributed (e.g., with nationwide direct democracy deciding all important policy decisions), then life in our country would probably get much much worse.
Yopass: A project for sharing secrets in a quick and secure manner
But what are you suggesting? It wouldn't be better if Venezuela had its language dictated by another country (e.g. Spain) - that would just be oppressive.
I guess I personally care much more about what the tetris community counts as NES Tetris than what other people think.
For many, language is a key part of cultural identity, and changes in grammar can feel like a threat to that identity.
> What input method are you using such that this is even possible?

ibus. In my X settings the physical Caps Lock key is turned into Compose, and then I can easily type ‘ with Compose <' (and vice-versa), ’ with Compose >' (ditto), “ with Compose <" (ditto), ” with Compose >" (ditto), ß with Compose ss, þ with Compose th, Þ with Compose TH, æ with Compose ae, Æ with Compose AE, … with Compose .., — with Compose ---, – with Compose --. and so forth.

https://github.com/kragen/xcompose offers an excellent XCompose file with over a thousand wonderful Compose mappings. Highly recommended!
AlphaFold and Folding@home attempt to solve related, but essentially different, problems. As I already mentioned here, protein structure prediction is not fully equivalent to protein folding.
For stocks it currently supports the listed S&P 500 companies. Will be expanding this to more symbols soon.
I support term limits for billionaires as well.
Yup, same as economic power/wealth.
No HitClip?? They could fit 2/3 of Coming Clean on one.

Edit: I completely missed it. Everything is now perfect.
One of the changes in Python 3.13 is that it'll warn you when that is the likely cause of breakage and explain how to fix it: https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html#improved-err...

But the problem remains, because these warnings - whether they come from linters or Python itself - can only warn you about existing stdlib modules. I'm not aware of any way to guard against conflicts with any future new stdlib modules being added.
I very much enjoy more an alternative.
Sadly much less hyped
https://arktype.io/
Every programming problem boils down to a binary choice of having a 1 or 0 in a given memory / binary code address.

Pile up enough binary choices, each individually cheap as dirt, and you've got a large problem.

Even dirt in quantity gets expensive to manage: dams (earthen), mines, levees, landslides, etc.

Nukes are complex with variance conditions that are extreme to the extreme.
Clicked hide on this by accident on the front page.
You're onto something interesting here! The possessive style.
It’s worth keeping things in constant dollars for those kinds of comparisons.

In 1999 Bill Gates was worth the equivalent of ~187 billion dollars today. 25 years later Elon Musk is worth ~269 Billion and Zuckerberg is worth ~206 Billion.

None of these guys gets close to the robber barons in terms of share of total assets though.
Yes. The one is focused on the pet, elevating it to the same level of respect and dignity as funeral rites for people.

The other is not - it could be respectful (I loved my pet please bury them by me) or not (bury my jewels and slaves with me) but it still isn't the raising of the pet status to that of your own species.
Weird thing to comment on an article about Indian racism, but okay.
I think the idea is that we're, as a species, much more comfortable with the idea that 15 years down the line that 50% of treated colonies collapse in a way directly attributable to the treatment than we are with the idea that 15 years down the line 50% of treated humans die in a way directly attributable to the treatment.

Now if the human alternative to treatment is to die anyway than i think that balance shifts. I do think we should be somewhat liberal with experimental treatments for patients in dire need, but you have to also understand that experimental treatments can just be really expensive which limits either the people who can afford it, or if it's given for free, the amount the researcher can make/perform/provide.

10 years is a very long time. I've had close family members die of cancer and any opportunity for treatment (read: hope) is good in my opinion. But i wouldn't say there's no reason that it takes so long
Cheaper compute is basically a prerequisite to making better models. You can get some improvements on the margins by making algorithms better with current hardware, but not an order of magnitude improvement.

When there is an order of magnitude improvement in hardware, the AI labs will figure out an algorithm to best take advantage of it.
Ok, so like filesystem snapshots. However, since LiveCD/Flash images became a thing, I stopped worrying about the OS at all, just keep a recent backup of my /data partition.
> Double infinitives ("to try to eat") getting changed to an infinitive and conjunction ("to try and eat").

Or worse, 'to try eat', 'to go get', etc.

It's very American to my ear, but it's certainly invading.

Another corruption triple like that is to do something 'accidentally' / 'by accident' / 'on accident'.
English is a Germanic language with a Latin alphabet, as spoken by Celts, after being ruled by people from France who were originally from Norway (or maybe Denmark)
When I lived in Bordeaux I remember seeing billboards basically advising young people to not use "txt speak" and instead write "real French" to preserve the language.