skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone who has written and maintained large Perl programs at various points in my career. There is a reason why people do this- Java and Python like languages work fine when interfaces and formats are defined, and you often have 0 OS interaction. That is, you use JSON/XML/YAML or interact with a database or other programs via http(s). This creates an ideal situation where these languages can shine.

When people do large quantity text and OS interaction work, languages like Java and Python are a giant pain. And you will begin to notice how Shell/Perl become a breeze to do this kind of work.

This means nearly every automation task, chaotic non-standard interfaces, working with text/log files, or other data formats that are not structured(or at least well enough). Add to this Perl's commitment towards backwards compatibility, a large install base and performance. You have 0 alternatives apart from Perl if you are working to these kind of tasks.

I have long believed that a big reason for so much manual drudgery these days, with large companies hiring thousands of people to do trivially easy to automate tasks is because Perl usage dropped. People attempt to use Python or Java to do some big automation tasks and quit soon enough when they are faced with the magnitude of verbosity and overall size of code they have to churn and maintain to get it done.
Openlayer (YC S21) | Remote or onsite (US, CA, NYC) | Full-Time | Customer Engineer

Openlayer is solving the AI reliability problem. We are looking for stellar customer engineers to join the team and help make customers happy. Think air-traffic control for our customers: you will be in charge of building requested features, integrations, and fixing bugs.

We are hiring in SF, NYC, and open to remote. Our team is currently 6 people, but we are very actively growing and adding more headcount. Those with experience in Python, Next.js, Docker, and cloud compute systems are encouraged to apply!

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/openlayer/jobs/yIE9WI3...
Then the choice you are offering is how you would like to kill democracy. Overturning a democratic election is a certain way to do it.
Is it? The appeals court ruled that it doesn't matter, because the government's case satisfies the requirements of strict scrutiny.
You can survive with 80k over 10-15 years instead of 2 and it increases your chances to find the job you want in a van. The van part was a random example and an exaggeration, but if it were down to being homeless I'd buy a van with my last money. What I mean is don't waste your money while there real and easy options out there. I just can't wrap my head around the part of the OP's luxurious trips and having fun while draining a massive amount of money and not finding any job. Just go work for McD or Ralph's as a cashier while looking for a job. I just can't stand lazy people who act like victims.
I find this to be a strange question which blames users for a certain action when the action has been the norm for over 30 years.
"Anyone famous" in the vast, vast majority of cases is completely detached to the cause of anyone's death or further suffering as a health insurance CEO would be.
Yes, the system is weird. Obviously if we were designing a healthcare system from scratch it wouldn't look anything like what we have today. What everyone needs to understand is that the system was never really designed as a cohesive whole but instead evolved over time under what economists call "path dependence". It's not even really a "system" at all in the sense of a unified entity working towards a common goal, but rather a collection of disconnected entities each pursuing their own interests. In particular tying healthcare access to employment seems crazy but it's mainly a result of wage controls that were imposed during WW2. Fixing this is politically difficult because due to economies of scale it actually gives larger corporations a competitive advantage over their smaller rivals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK235989/
I have not been out of work since 2002 but same time... I earned nothing close to 500k or even 250k.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42341763
I don't even think you need to dress that person nicely. The film "Look who's back" had an actor in the role of Adolf Hitler talk to random people in the street in unscripted sequences. He readily pulled them over to his side by relating to their everyday problems.

As crazy as the premise is of Hitler getting inexplicable transplanted into the 21st century, the film manages to demonstrate the appeal of these dangerous populists.
I love this kind of thing!

Now all I need to do is hold my finger on the down arrow and keep watching for a *little* while to see every V4 UUID.
He’s not nearly that important.
I work at Amazon, you don't need to follow this steps to use bedrock. You. Are. Shameless
You were a young boy living with your parents under their protection. Likely they didn't care if you find a job within 6 months while they were helping you since you are their precious child (most parents do the same). That is not the same as blowing 80k while having fun acting like you couldn't find any survivable job for 2 years.
Respectfully, you are woefully misinformed or you’re lacking in empathy for people who need medical help. Even doctors complain to UHG because they deny care that their patient needs.

I suggest you do some research before making such comments because it makes you look like an asshole.
Jim Rouse thought it would be the shopping mall and designed my city of residence (Columbia, MD) with the shopping mall at its center.

It was a decent bet for 1967.
You just described a good friend of mine. He's one of the smartest and most capable people I know, but could never get out of his own way.
>in that day and hour all the prosperity and beauty and delight of Omelas would wither and be destroyed.

...and nothing of positive value would be lost. For a paradise predisposed on the infliction of suffering on another is ill-gotten, and taints anyone that avails themselves of it once it's true nature is known.

Our birthright is to toil to elevate one another; no more, no less. Omelas is a blight, a perversion, deserving of being scoured from the face of the Earth no matter where it pops up.

Glad to see someone else was touched by that work. Greetings fellow wanderer.
Depends on where in the Americas you’re talking about. I’ve seen estimates up to 50k years ago for human presence in Beringia, presumably the first humans to make the trek from Asia.

Much of the evidence is probably underwater now though.
Your analysis is low quality as it focuses too narrowly and ignores the wider geopolitical tensions between the US and China.

See:

- CHIPs act

- Ban of sale of many nvidia GPUs to China

- Ban of export of ASML euv tech

- Huawei ban

- Chinese EV tariffs (ban?)

- whole host of tariffs

- China south sea tensions

- Chinese support of Russia who is a threat to NATO allies (and invaded a sovereign country)
- Ban of most US tech companies in China

- Chinas mutual aid treaty with North Korea
Such ANGER.

The Internet says 50% of US buyers are identified democrats, YMMV for internet stats. That number doesn't seem stupid -- EVs are progressive, environmentalist, anti-establishment.

Tesla's stock is a huge bubble. It's worth the next 10 car companies combined! Yes there's a ton of AI speculation in there, but fundamentally the company's stock is about geometric growth in sales.

The most important customer to a car company is their current ones, since those have a very high chance of being loyal to the brand when they buy again.

Tesla is a company that does almost no advertising. Maybe that's because the press gives them enough hype, but I suspect there is a huge degree of passionate advocacy. I should know, I ... was ... a strong advocate for Tesla. I still am for EVs, but they were one and the same with Tesla for 20 years.

A subtle thing happened with the Tesla owners I know. They went from advocating for their car, to rationalizing it, within the span of six months. I don't think it is a stretch to say that Tesla owners were passionate advocates for their vehicles. All progressive, environmentalist people I know are now hell-nos.

Point is, Tesla is stock bubble. Their sales are already down this year, and I'm picking up the popcorn to see what happens in Q3/Q4. The trade war will probably make Tesla a noncompetitive product in China. So US sales are going to get MORE important, not less.

People are actively selling their Teslas. Sure, it's on the used market, what does that matter? I don't have stats, but how many sales of new Teslas will a robust used market (which also has Hertz dumping cars onto the market) cannibalize? I'd say each used Tesla is half of a new one.

Point is, I don't see Tesla as a stock that can rationalize bad sales. They don't have a brand-spanking new car for a new mass market: the Cybertruck is explicitly a miss from the pickup truck market. The Semi still can't seem to scale production. The robotaxi is, face it, two years away and a fundamental leap in AI from working.

Trump is going to be on television reminding every democrat who helped him vocally, publicly, monetarily, possibly illegally get him in office, and will join an agency that will target progressive government systematically and with high visibility.

All it takes is, what, 1/3 of the 50% democrats of their potential customer base to say "hell no" and that's ... 16% drop in sales. Ever seen a company lose 16% of sales?

Good luck with that stock, folks.
Plastic is not recyclable
Atoms for Peace: Learning to Love the Bomb
I'm not too concerned about that part of the damage. The big threat is that China can tell TikTok to promote particular views and political thought to American users. If TikTok is banned, that threat goes away. Sure, they've already gathered data to use in running influence campaigns on other platforms, but the US-run platforms at least try here and there to stamp out bot accounts and state-run account rings. (Well, I assume Musk is ok with them on Twitter now.)
> The reckoning still hasn't come, and should look something like a larger Japan property bubble pop when it happens

While there are still risks for the economy from real estate, I think China has shown the ability to manage them. For one, they were able to slow-walk the Evergrande collapse and move developments to state-owned companies. If it should become necessary again they will repeat the process.

Besides that, new Hukou regulations are planned to encourage rural migrants to move to urban areas with housing oversupply.

> they can figure out their chip and jet turbine problems (still not solved, they can't make fast chips economically yet, or even expensive ones without western equipment)

China can produce 65nm chipmaking gear domestically which is like 20 years behind the West. Even if they develop at twice the speed, this means in 10 years they will be where the West is today.

The question is rather, can the West keep the rate of progress? ASML has already warned that lost business from sanctions will impact their ability to invest in R&D.
Thank goodness for OpenGraph.
It may be due to the high level of bloat in contemporary software. People also find the demoscene interesting. JS1k games vs. 14mb React landing pages. Gaming isn't solely about the fantasy induced by the content. For some there is an appreciation of the underlying engineering.
Sure, but there are degrees of "not-America-ness", and not all of the examples listed in TFA occur in all other regions.

UK? So far so good: Maybe those time parsing routines will need some brushing up for the 24 hour based clock, and day and month are swapped, but at least the decimal separator is the same. And it's almost the same language, and definitely the same alphabet.

France? Now you're adding accents to the mix, although in a pinch you can just drop them. (Not that it's a good idea, but there's no better solution.) But watch out: Different decimal separator!

Germany? Better rethink that "just drop the accents" solution; it changes the meaning of words, sometimes drastically/embarrassingly so. However, there is a canonical way of transliterating äöü!

Chinese: Obviously, abandon all hopes of using Latin-1. But at least you can use the US decimal separator again :)
Yes actually

Do you remember a couple of years ago when grocers were still operating when everything else was shut down because they were considered critical workers during a global pandemic?

I mean come on, it wasn't even that long ago did you forget?
That puts Facebook as the cause and not the people who committed the violence. It provided a technological meeting place, as there are many now, but what did it promote that lead to violence?
... and to keep donations coming in. It helped cultivate a sense of hope when they needed it.
So now even fruits are not healthy? Are leafy greens the only food category we can eat without feeling guilty?
Municipal governments appear to do so, yes.

Which are distinct both from each other, and from state governments, and from the federal government.

Although there's this nice effect where you get net neutrality for free if you can pose it as a 1A issue.
I called it out in an different thread. There's a safety net here that's simply not being mentioned. Nothing wrong with that of course, but let's not pretend that somebody with a monthly rent of ~1200 and a whopping ~60 CAD in savings would somehow magically be stress free. You'd be homeless inside a few months in the US.
I'm the author of THE NVIDIA WAY book. I'm here to answer any questions if you have any.
Sounds like you're in the realm of URNs? I don't know about that description, I think there's a benefit to a short and fixed-size ID. Though maybe for the domain name example you could have an alternate form that hashes any domain that goes over 20-30 characters.
Alignment is more akin to indoctrination because education, in theory, makes you smarter and more open-minded.
While one is undoubtedly worse than the other, I don’t think it’s a good idea to say it’s not abuse because it’s not as bad as the worst possible variety.

I happen to agree this probably doesn’t rise to the level of child abuse, but there’s a large range between there and unfed/physically/sexually harmed.

We shouldn’t cheapen it, but we shouldn’t make it too expensive either.
UTC timestamps, but displayed on a 12-hour clock, are among the most cursed things I have to work with every day. Always trips me up, and much more so than "fully US" conventions (i.e. local time and MM/DD/YYYY and am/pm timestamps).

Sometimes (but not always), it helps to change the locale to en_UK. But then spellcheck becomes confusing...
hovering over links you don't want to open is a norm?
I'm not saying knowledge of lighting is unimportant. I'm saying knowledge of studio lighting is of little use when you don't have control over things like the type of lighting (daylight vs. incandescent vs. fluorescent, etc.) and lighting placement because you're shooting outdoors and you're limited largely to natural lighting (perhaps with the exception of a flash), and no ability to bounce lighting.
It's actually 14.6969385, but you are going to have to think about it! It requires understanding.
It has 52 million clients, but how much care was provided to clients is the open question that could be debated. It's certainly one of the big thoughts going around that the company denies payment for service unjustifiably and causes suffering for some number of these 52 million. Whether or not that's true is one of the questions for consideration in these debates.
Indeed. Purposefully stay off the critical path! Do coding that helps you keep up with what people are talking about. Not coding that is urgent!
I keep a 1000KRW note (~70 cents US) in my wallet, and wonder how they'd react to whipping it out for just this situation.
I'd prefer if it used AI to pick one that was aesthetically pleasing. I can file a PR if you like?
Unfortunately, if you genuinely want to build something cool, the correct path is build it as open source project while having a job.

If you want to make money (at least break even the opportunity cost of a programmer), you need to work backwards: build things that you will be comfortable to pitch to your connections. Selling home-made chilli sauce to friends&relatives is unironically a better business model than building an app for most people.
> any of us are asking similar questions of the country that just reelected a man who regularly and openly expresses fascist sentiments

Madness. Fascism is everywhere these days, it seems!
2024 Kwango province disease outbreak
A really good blog post. Most you should know, smoke bad, worth a read of you're new to it.

This is what I found most interesting,

> Humidifiers: You’re not going to like this, but ultrasonic humidifiers produce huge numbers of particles.

I use a ultrasonic diffuser because burning bad.

I wonder how it compares to stick diffusers ( wooden stick in a pot of oils ) or other options.
Yes. I have realized this when I wrote the comment, and tried to use the "stopped working" instead. But in my infinite wisdom I found it appropriate not to delete completely the original "dried out" words before posting.
Perhaps some sort of UUID collision in terms of cookies/sessions?
> It's interesting that these are only actionable threats when they apply to [insert foreign boogeyman here].

Well, duh. I know my government and what it can do and tends to do, for the most part. I know what restrictions are placed on it, and that when they circumvent those restrictions, it usually comes to light, even if it takes a while. I know that news outlets here can criticize the government and not have their journalists arrested. US (and other Western) intelligence agencies presumably run influence campaigns on social media to influence foreign citizens. While I may not agree with that practice, it's not high on my list of things I'm going to be worried up about.

[Insert foreign boogeyman] also presumably runs influence campaigns on social media that target the citizens of my country. When they run those campaigns on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Twitter, Bluesky, etc., it is safe to assume that the people running those companies (well, perhaps with the exception of Musk) don't like that, and will try (sometimes successfully, sometimes not) to shut them down.

If China wants to run influence campaigns on TikTok against US citizens, TikTok will actively help them do it. If they're not already doing this, their intelligence agencies are asleep at the wheel.
> Frankly I don't care for individual quotes taken out of context

Which specific quotes are you claiming I have "taken out of context"? How have I done so?

> Wikipedia definition is good enough for this conversation or basically any public conversation that is not a scholarly dispute

This site is supposed to be about "intellectual curiosity". [0] Disinterest in the diversity and detail of scholarly definitions is the very opposite of intellectual curiosity.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Does Loro generate conflict ranges when merging branches, thus allowing manual conflict resolution?

I’ve heard people suggest using LLMs for years for this - but CRDTs work because the same computation on two peers is guaranteed to produce the same result. LLMs can’t guarantee that. You could probably use an llm in leu of a human manually merging conflicts - but in that case we still need the crdt to first generate those conflict ranges to pass to the llm. Essentially an llm could solve the UX problem, but the underlying algorithm still needs this feature first to allow that to be used.
It's brought up, but the main point of the video is that RollerCoaster Tycoon was one of the last major retail games made by a handful of people (Chris Sawyer for design and programming, Simon Foster for graphics, Allister Brimble for sounds/music), and managed to become the best selling computer game of 1999 despite going up against games made by teams of at least a hundred people. That's what he means by the game being "the last of its kind".
How many Go Fund Me sites were brought up because of high medical costs for some accident or cancer? Is foregoing insurance an improvement over that if it isn't even possibly one of the big causes?
I've always wondered about the politics of that decision, and whether it was broadly supported in the population.

Personally, I'm fine using whatever name a country adopts for itself, but I can't help but notice that this particular change had a bit of a Streisand effect on me. (I really can't say I've experienced a single situation where it wasn't very clear from context whether somebody was referring to the bird or country.)
Lol, no, I had in mind a $250 Citroën 2CV that was falling apart to the extend that a second similar car was bought to cannibalize parts from. Which is what people around me had at the time.

It’s not a pissing match. Not trying to take away from their experience. I just feels it’s weird that US people always say gas and cars are so expensive when relatively, gas is incredibly cheap in the USA (not sure about cars, but given how many there are, they should be cheaper too).
See "The Gamesman" (1978). Craftsmen, organization men, jungle fighters, and gamesmen. Same concept.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/The-Gamesman-Paperback-1978
Support won't know what to do. Have you tried their cybersec form? https://www.alaskaair.com/content/about-us/site-info/report-...
Very nice, I hadn't read that either..

>wrapped their candidates in the flag

Captain Helvetica? Who shall captain Finningia?

Let me know what orientation you think MAC is

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42345337

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42175664

(Mutual Adoption Club)
You're assuming that every Turk supports this decision. I'm not sure if that's in fact the case.

But if it is: People generally do get to change their mind about their preferred address, and people usually oblige, so why not places? It obviously depends a lot on the case, but sometimes the “common” name has a historical association people living there aren’t comfortable with, for example.
I would say that, on balance, one must prove DNA to be not-junk.

The idea that you can have DNA of some critter and there aren't some errors, unused bits, and so on, after what must be trillions of copies, well, I would find it statistically unlikely. Like saying you have a program with millions of lines of code and it is completely error-free.
The exact percentage of Russian ethnicity is is a little hard to determine, and varies through out that region. The fact is that the Eastern region of Ukraine historically voted for pro Russian candidates. And after being annexed, again voted to be part of Russia.
Presumably the people that live there, hedged their bets on who would treat them best going forward, and came up with Russia multiple times.

We have a similar situation in Canada where the Province of Quebec has a large percentage of francophone speakers (French Heritage). If one day, Canada were to try to join the US, a large percentage of the Quebec region would either decide to form their own country, or link up with France in some way. Even more so likely if the Anglophone Canadians would start ethnically cleansing Quebecers.

If you believe in the principals of democracy, then you should support the will of the local population to self determination under such circumstances.

All this talk of democracy, but Zelensky's party will not hold new elections, because they've lost the support of the majority of Ukrainians. So if not the interests of the majority, who's interest does this party represent going forward?
>>I cut him off right there. I think he was drinking, and I haven't talked to him since. I'm considering having him committed because he acts very strange. He may have a drug problem.

You sound like a terrible person for him to have in his life & I hope he cuts you out of it.
>You don't owe your children much more than food, love and a roof over their head

That's a rather simplistic view where your kids don't get ill and are born healthy.

Not to mention many other complications.