skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Conda package recipes have a preprocessor using "selectors" in comments to conditionally exclude certain lines in a YAML file. Not that this is particularly more ugly than other YAML DSLs, but it has been used.
JSON is not JS, says Doug, too.
Since he said "any new JSON should not new JS or ON in the name, since we claims it is not a javascript object notation, in the end. Perhaps since JS/ES is changing, and not everything is an object in every language that wants to deal with JSON?
> Enterprise networking is a category they report as dropping from 19% to 10% year-over-year for a three month period. I think you got the 24% from an incomparable column reporting on a nine month period.

Oops, you're right, the comparison I meant to make was 24% to 12% over a 9 month period.

> But either way, enterprise networking is obviously just a small subset of all their networking business.

Is it, though? That table [0] puts everything "consumer" into a chunk that's now only 6% of their revenue. Carrier infrastructure is another 6%. Together that adds up to roughly equal to the enterprise networking row, but that's still a tiny amount compared to the data center revenue.

Are you saying that "data center" includes a lot of networking equipment that isn't filed under "enterprise networking"?

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It might be useful for you to try the tool before complaining about it

I’ve used mise for years. It works perfectly well. I use it for Go, Node, Deno, Java, Python, Ruby, and Rust.
My arbitrary rule from recent experience is this: you do not need to lint your JSON by compiling and then running a Serde-based Rust application as part of your CI/CD pipeline for every single commit, when the project is entirely Python and Ansible for systems deployment.
Unhealthy characterized by red meat? When are are going to move away from the stigma that saturated fats cause health issues

“Red meat causes cancer” from self-reported diets of cheeseburgers and other processed foods.

This study lumps read meat with processed foods and alcohol consumption. Not much to go on for conclusions at that rate
There's plenty:

The us army corps of engineers has been working on waterways for a very very long time. Their projects allow huge swaths of rivers stay navigable, provide irrigation and/or flood control, and so on. There are huge swathes of farmland that are able to provide a stable and steady supply of food as a result of htis effort.

TVA and Bonneville are government infrastructure programs that provide millions of people with hydroelectric power, and broader grid stability as a result of the infrastucrue they put in. Not to mention rural electrification via special welfare programs for farmers - the tax for that is listed as a line item in your electric bill.

The telecom system (including the Internet) is the result of government investment - in the form of: special taxes that city folk pay for rural folks access, research investment, direct research in various agencies, investment in cables being installed (for example - billions in grants were given to AT&T, verizon, et al to upgrade trunk and last mile lines to fiber), foreign policy to allow open communications and standards, and adoption by the military and other large agencies.

A whole bunch more too in the form of setting standards and providing grants to state and local governments to meet those standards (education, water and sewage systems, rail infrastructure, farm subsidies, crop and flood insurance, and so on) - some of these are more infrastructury than others, but included because (e.g.) having stable farms leads food security and therefore social stability and is kinda necessary for the rest to matter.
Teens and so would be given money to buy food themselves, e.g. before/after going to football training, swimming, dancing etc.

Indeed, it's unrealistic to expect all kids would be served food and observed while eating.
Economically Russia is irrelevant (a.k.a puny). The only damage to the global economy from the war and sanctions was energy pricing pain in Europe.

If the same thing happens with China it’s going to be significant economic pain for the entire world for years due to its prominence as a manufacturing and electronics hub.
The combination has not been tested in a way that could show efficacy, as far as I can tell

I'm not against experimenting with new drugs, I just don't think we should force insurers to pay since 99% of the time the experiments will not work

We should move toward a pay for performance model but not torch the cost controls while we're at it
MS Zenobia: Cargo ship capsizes, sinks due to ballasting software bug (1980)
It baffles me that more countries haven't put legislation in place to severely limit what ads can be served to under 18 year olds (or at least under 16).

I worked in an ad agency a number of years ago, and Phillip Morris approached us with a deliberate plan to launch big budget ad campaigns on social media platforms specifically because they could get in front of younger demos more easily (traditional media having existing regulations in my country).

The original idea was to build a large database of prospects to sell direct to even after regulation eventually cracks down on them. Amazingly no regulation has come yet, and Meta has done little to no self-regulation.

You can blame parents, but even then one under appreciated problem with digital ads is the lack of shared experience. With TV advertising, you know what your kid is seeing, everyone can see a verify what ad ran at what time on what channel etc. If a parent and a kid are scrolling social media their experience is entirely different, and you can't go back and see what someone else has seen.
Ecmascript is changing JS. JSON is old and unchanging. Which is an advantage and a disadvantage.
I mean, that's objectively disproved by the advertising industry who is profiting from these ads.

Maybe you and I aren't, but lots of people are.
I had a friend who was a checker at a large local chain, and before shift one day he popped into the security office (he was friends with the head of security) to say hi, and they had every camera in the front of the store trained on the employee working the customer service desk.

Someone got fired that day.
Or massive vaping ads on the side of school buses.
The significant background that the UK just delivered a House of Lords enquiry in to the food system[0] which recommended a "complete ban" on junk food advertising and that the government ban junk food vendors from regulatory feedback. You can bet the consumer packaged goods (CPG) AKA 'junk food industry' - the likes of Mondelez, etc. - are actively resisting these changes with all manner of false reports, shoddy advertising doublespeak and back-channel arrangements. Given this background, the ban is relatively light touch. Expect further developments.

[0] https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldmfdo...
Late 90’s I had to fix bugs in a shiftJIS implementation. And I couldn’t read a lick of Japanese. Still can’t.

I don’t remember when I started pushing for utf-8 everywhere but it was “early” by most people’s standards, so I know what you mean.

And one of the things that makes me dislike MySQL is that they have a field type called utf-8 that isn’t. And they didn’t fix it, they introduced a new type instead. So that footgun was still there for all to trigger. So mad.
> What else in America enjoys an 80% satisfaction rate, broadly speaking?

https://thehill.com/changing-america/3870943-americans-large...

> Although personal life satisfaction varies based on income, age, marital status and education level, between 81 percent and 90 percent of Americans are satisfied with their own family life, current housing situation, job, education, community and personal health.

> Slightly lower levels — between 71 percent and 77 percent — said the same about the amount of leisure time they have, their household income and standard of living.

So, ya know, lots of things that aren't super politicized.

> Why didn't this number change after women's healthcare took a massive hit?

(1) This question is asking about the quality of healthcare you received, not your perception of healthcare for others. A minority of women are directly impacted through the healthcare system by Dobbs (2022) (as opposed to indirect or non-healthcare effects).

(2) Some of the novel abortion restrictions post-Dobbs happened later? The most recent point on this graph is 2022. So it may just not show up yet until 2023/2024 numbers.

(3) The 2022 satisfaction number is slightly lower than the 2021 number (72% vs 76%). You could plausibly attribute some of that to Dobbs.
You're in a bubble. Four of my family members are in the medical business plus three friends. Two are doctors. Only one person has expressed sympathy and that was for the family. The rest were exactly as OP described: we don't condone murders, they hope this person is brought to justice, but they don't feel any sympathy. Emphasis on the the emotion there - no disgust, no sadness, no sympathy. Just a logical recognition that they don't condone this.
> The healthy dietary pattern was characterized by a higher intake of fruits, whole grains, legumes, vegetables, milk, and other dairy products, whereas the unhealthy dietary pattern was characterized by a higher intake of red and processed meat, alcohol, and both refined and sugar-sweetened beverages.

Can't help but feel that the results would've been more informative if they excluded alcohol. We already know alcohol causes cancer, with this setup we can't really tell how much of the difference was the food and how much was the drinking.
> That estimate is not referenced in the paper you link.

I linked two papers, and that quote appears in the first. Perhaps you were looking at the second? Here's the link again, with the text that I quoted highlighted:

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/936217#:~:text=Over%20the%20ens...

Influenza statistics are noisy, since most patients are never tested. We could compare the methodologies of those estimates, and try to decide which is better; but I don't think that's a productive use of our time, unless you think 700k deaths are worthy of concern but 200k deaths (or whatever the right number would be) are not.

> Does that mean you believe every recent pandemic has a ~5% chance to be a "research accident"? SARS, MERS, HIV, Ebola, mpox, Zika, etc, all had a ~5% chance to be research accidents or is Covid-19 special?

If I knew nothing else about the pandemic, I'd bet with p ~ 5% that it was research-origin--that's my prior, knowing only that it just emerged. For real, I of course know more. For e.g. MERS, the proximal animal host was found, and genomic evidence shows repeated spillover; so that additional evidence makes me effectively certain it was natural (p ~ 0%). For the 1977 flu, I'm very confident it was unnatural (p ~ 99%). Those average to something close to 5%.

If we get strong confirmation that SARS-CoV-2 (or any other new pandemic) arose unnaturally, then my prior would go up. If we get many more natural pandemics without any unnatural ones, then my prior would go down.

I would also incorporate other information. For example, if many more scientists undertake high-risk research on enhanced potential pandemic pathogens, then my prior would go up. If such projects are restricted and become less common, then my prior would go down. I think that's fairly normal reasoning?
I wonder if a prohibition to have gambling ads on TV would affect the Premier League teams that have gambling sponsorships
Macs are not especially relevant to Apple revenue at this point. iPad plus magnetic keyboard is getting pretty close. Still not sure that better multitasking would push me over the edge to not wanting a MacBook for serious day-to-day multitasking work.

I do think they're trending in that direction but I actually like that they're not pushing people faster than feels comfortable. I expect to see a convergence of iPads and at least MacBook Airs but we're not quite there yet.
char str[] = "That's like saying this is a C comment";
With a whimper too, not the anticipated bang.
O so not slang at all then my bad :')
We should’ve kept XML.
I think you horribly misread my post. Do you think I am saying I don't love my children? I love them absolutely. The last word in the universe that applies to them is "neglected". They want for nothing.

Indeed, it's precisely that I care so much that having children wasn't some carefree social media event for me. It was an enormous commitment. The biggest commitment a human can make, in my judgment, and I was all in.

And as another poster already said, one of the greatest gifts a child can have is siblings. This isn't always true and of course there are many counterpoints, but siblings are usually the closest friends and allies in a hostile world.
wait if crypto is gambling, then they don't tax the proceeds, right? but I'm pretty sure they tax it as capital gains..... so it's gambling for advertising purposes but capital investment for tax purposes...

I suppose the law is an ass.
> For starters I'm 1 person, so the market is not O. And I know of others, and I know I'm not alone

Of all the people you interacted with in any way, shape or form this year, what percentage of those would benefit from this?

It rounds to 0, assuming you’re not a shut-in
This company is starting to sound like they might be the baddies.
I think that’s literally the only argument for it. And if you use compression, now you have to waste an extra symbol on `”` in addition to `”,`, so even that’s debatable.
Hi folks - author here! Happy to answer any questions about the post, hopefully it's useful for folks following in Palantir's footsteps.
It does nothing on Linux.
I have found that dogs can communicate their desires without words, by facial expressions and vocalizations, but maybe I'm alone in that, too. (I'm not.)

Group dynamics are the nature of kinship theory, where the overlap of DNA predisposes related animals ("kin") to helping those and opposing others.

[Nominative determinism at work again in the comment section.]
I've made a Bluesky's firehose animation Matrix-style [1], I personally find it very hypnotic to look at, maybe it belongs to your "fun" section.

[1] https://simone.computer/bluerain
Do the people who think JSON should have comments also think the CSV format should have comments?
The people who buy truly believe that it is what it says it is. The mind is a powerful thing, and it is often (mostly) bought by older men who do as a point of pride. It does absolutely no good to try to explain to them why it can't do what it says it does, they have so many escape hatches that they can jump out of any one of them. It doesn't really matter though -- no matter how much the people selling the overpriced crap might be scumbags, the people buying it wouldn't be donating the money to a hospital or something otherwise. These aren't gambling addicts who are spending the money they need to pay the mortgage, these are rich old men with more money than sense.
> Computers… Software - in the broadest sense…

Speaking of the broadest sense. An obligatory quote from Dijkstra: “Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
What about alcohol? Or other carb heavy or sugar heavy products? Why these?
Race Science for Non-Racists
> was just that it would have to be shown than the overtime was medically necessary.

And then the insurance paid medical adjudicators will find it "not medically necessary". And the vicious cycle continues -- deny, delay, defend.
> probably only the first two are reasonable.

Yet YAML, which is somewhat related to JSON, uses

# This is a comment

I'm neither pro-comment or anti-comment, but I'm all for standardized comment syntax
to avoid parsing hell.
People who drink expensive whiskey for sure live longer than people who drink cheap whiskey
As programmers we are ingrained to look further than the problem at hand. We try to see the bigger picture, solve problems in holistic ways if possible.

Often this can lead to over-engineering, creating more corner cases and ambiguity in requirements and reduction of test coverage. That is a trap to lok out for.

On the other hand it also can lead to better understanding of the problem space, increase understandability, and less need for later refactoring.

Just stating, 'don't look further than the problem you are required to solve' is not an excellent general rule.
My children are older - five and three - so I've passed the early care taking phase. We suspect our eldest has mild autism or some form of adhd and sensory processing issues. He is the sweetest little boy at times, I love him so much, but he is incredibly challenging. The entire five years have been hard, hard work and we're constantly on edge and having to help him cope with the world. The youngest is a bit more typical, but also extremely high energy. It's just physically and mentally exhausting.

But yes, it is becoming a bit easier. And as it becomes easier, I actually relax a bit more too and my mood lightens, which makes the meltdowns a bit easier to handle.
That's not ad-free. You have to put up with ads for a load of BBC programmes which will almost inevitably contain a slew of progressive messaging.
I watched this episode, hilariously terrible construction of what I’m sure was a thoughtfully designed amp.

The thing had pcbs stacked using plastic m2.5-like standoffs that had snapped. Apparently the product designer claimed Mark couldn’t fix it. Mend it Mark can fix anything that is fixable, truly a master repairman.
Kidding. (But maybe not?…)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_glasses
https://archive.ph/xUJMG
There are many critiques
@nayuki Did this comment change your mind?
Bajau Sea Nomads (2019)
Are Ghost Engineers Real?
In Chrome devtools, use WebAuthn > Enable virtual authenticator environment to see the result.
Irrelevant. Stocks are a share of a company. The have book value and intrinsic value. Freedom to buy and sell is essential.

Of course, crypto speculation is something different altogether. Maybe you were thinking about all the poor schleps buying Bitcoin for $100k?

Even then, your chances of winning are around 50/50 and no one is forcing you to cash out.
Nothing will probably ever top Markdown in my mind for bullshit specifications.

And Gruber wouldn’t give Jeff Atwood permission to call his variant <something> Markdown, or it seems anybody else, so we ended up with CommonMark, and GFM.

Json5 is good for JSON at rest, as others have mentioned already.
> Suggesting that the average person should be able to make medical decisions and override their health care provider’s recommendation is ridiculous.

The situation is similar to taking your out-of-warranty car to a dealer for repairs. Sometimes, you may suspect they’re not being completely honest with you. What do you do in that case? You get a second opinion before agreeing to a costly repair.
1. The implication is that this is a question of who can put the money to the greatest possible use.

If I take the money I have and invest it then I'll get paid something for that. It follows that the person taking the money thinks they can use my money and end up with more even after they've paid me back.

Here's the question. Is every act of commerce an act of theft? If so then none of this means anything. If not, if a company borrowing money is making good and services (and jobs) that everyone benefits from then in theory my putting my money to work is making everyone better off.

The alternative is that government will use the money more positively. On the upside they just spend it on the downside all they do is spend it - the feedback from "good" and "bad" spending is delayed.
it took us a while to get here

maybe whales will be the next animals to start coming ashore? or maybe some cool underwater evolution
I would argue that your position is the "perfectionist parenting" nonsense that many have used to avoid having children.

Do you think all of the latchkey lone children of the current generation are the most psychologically healthy individuals the world has seen? Do you think they're the most loved or coddled? The most educated? Your anecdote is actually kind of hilarious in context.

The idea that 2 children splits the love or attention is absolutely insane.
Animals in Espionage
As your source notes, the US tends to do average on point of care metrics (e.g. hospital outcomes, versus other similarly developed countries), but worse on lifelong metrics that would conceivably be impacted by income disparity (e.g. life expectancy, maternal mortality).

The metrics the US does poorly on seem like they're more of an access problem (than acute care being bad), which suggests broadening access to affordable healthcare would be the best redress -- i.e. universal healthcare.

The US health system seems like it would be better served by explicitly breaking it into a multi-tier one.

Basic tier: universal health care for basic access and procedurings, including proactive health measures

Everything else: private health insurance available (not attached to an employer)
It may help that I hate soft drinks and don't like alcohol. But I'll never give up bread, pizza, pasta and chocolate.

Anyhow, better n happy years than (n + x) miserable years, and where x remains unknown.
People actually good at offensive security (not just script kiddies) are paid much higher salaries than people on the defensive side.

Defense isn't actually that difficult. 99% is keeping your software updated and configured correctly with industry standards.

Most employees at larger companies are lazy and don't want to take the extra time to make something secure.
Will airplanes of the future be made from plastic?
Dijkstra would disagree.
If you're looking for a human-friendly json superset (comments, non-quoted keys) that can also abstract away repetitive configuration with variables and list comprehensions, check out https://rcl-lang.org/.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/stomach-c... suggests Mongolian, Japanese and Korean diets are the worst. What do their diets have in common? High traditional intake of distilled alcohol, pickled foods, and meat. IIRC pickled foods are alkaline and weaken the stomach's acidic environ, exposing stomach lining to compounding damage from alcohol, chilli, etc.
Firefox with ViolentMonkey and uBlock Origin is my go to solution. I keep hundreds of tabs open, Chrome|ium is simply a memory hog.
All undesirable outcomes come from our selfishness. Even if they are mistakes made under good intentions, they will serve as a lesson on how to be better in the future.

Such lessons teach us humility and, as you intuit, a healthy respect for our weaknesses. I am not confident in what I say because I'm better than anyone; I've just trod a very different path, as you can see from today's gang-on.

The fact of the matter is that there is a point one can reach where we go from thinking to knowing. I've been over a half century on this Earth, nearly half of it dedicated to compassion, and it is time for humanity to wake up to our positive potential.

I love you, my friend. So long as our convictions are to be kind and humble and generous and as gentle as possible, our mistakes will grow fewer by the day. As Machiavelli said so long ago, "We must aim above the target if we are to hit it."
> and produces decent results compared to other countries' results

What metrics are you looking at?
Hey, wait a sec!

Last week when I didn't use the descriptor "Gift link" I was roundly thrashed here for failure to identify it as such.

Even though I thought the criticism was unwarranted, I decided to do what the commenter said I should do — thus today's identification as such.

FWIW I pay $38.99/month for a subscription, which enables me to provide gift links to HN. No good deed goes unpunished, or at least uncriticized here.