skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no. I also come from a similar background with the pain of building a large system in Ruby, and having been doing Elixir for 2 years since then I find it that is has the right tools to let you go either way to a degree.

I like that you have all sorts of optional tools for adding runtime type checks like guards and struct pattern matching if you want it. Using it extensively will inhibit generalizability, but it can be tremendously useful for isolating errors in problematic code paths by failing early and explicitly. Typespecs enforced by Diayzler aren't exactly a safe type system, but can help with some of the sanity checks, documentation, and linting that Typescript gives you (not really being a safe type system either).

I would say the only thing I really feel is missing is being able to check for protocol implementations and perform runtime control flow based on these.
I wish Windows kernel been optimised for a given architecture. It is one of the examples where "one fits all" doesn't work. Even if Intel or AMD bring another grounbreaking generation of CPUs - giving mighty 5% increase in performance - it is all for nothing, because it gets eaten up by Windows poorly written guts. I don't know what kind of monster machine you need nowadays to watch YouTube video without audio breaking up or without having to dedicate one core just to handle the mouse.
He Might Be a Prophet. That, or the Greatest Chef in the World
Apples to oranges. Theranos was never public, which is why they managed to escape scrutiny for years and "achieve" a multi-billion dollar valuation for a product that didn't even work.

Tesla on the other hand has been public for a while and actually makes working cars. They are however strapped for cash and the CEO may have made material misstatements about production capability in order to borrow more money.

Theranos' fraud seemed to be driven by simple greed. I don't think Musk is a fraudster, but his ego and immaturity is starting to overshadow what he's trying to accomplish.
Late to the thread, but one of the alternate theories I heard was that it's not the US national security asserting influence, but rather the Chinese government as nearly the entire supply chain and manufacturing exists there.
Well it's just meat and potatoes, it's going to be similar to any other dish with those two ingredients.

Here's how it looks from one of the local places that makes em here https://s3-media2.fl.yelpcdn.com/bphoto/URjWrvv56mqCL4CKOkqx...
Fortnite Creator Epic Games Valued at Nearly $15B
The medium is that which spreads the message. Since the mediums operate differently from each other, only certain types of messages can be transmitted over each one.

Before written systems, a message could only be spread by word. The message could be stopped by disappearing the person speaking.

Before print media, messages could only be written down by a scribe or learned person, and the message could only be read by another scribe or learned person. Or messages could only be passed in the form of images. Those messages could be stopped simply by burning/destroying the written/etched copy that existed.

Before the telegraph, messages could only be delivered in person, on foot or on horseback or by ship, limiting its rate of spread to those transportation speeds. Those messages could be stopped by intercepting the delivery, or controlling the territorial borders.

Before radio and telephone communications, transmitted messages could only be read by telegraphists. The messages could be stopped as long as there was no telegraphist at the time of message transmission, or if the telegraphist lied about the message.

Before televised media, only messages in the form of voice or text could be transmitted far distances, so only voice or text was consumed. The information bandwidth was extremely small, although fast.

Before internet media, only audio, video, or text could be transmitted. The information bandwidth increased with video, but these high information channels were only controlled by media elites and governments.

With internet media, internet isn't a message you consume, internet is something you participate in. The instant participation of the global population in a single activity is something altogether new that is a step-change in what has been available, and no prior medium could have prepared us for this age. The old media elites still want to control what messages are dispersed, but the new medium doesn't cede that control easily.
> On the other hand, voting by mail opens up huge opportunities for coercion or vote buying/selling.

Not any more than any current systems do. You have to sign the ballot, and if the signature does not match what you submitted in your voter registration thing, they kick it back to you.

Unless you are insinuating that the USPS mail folks could collect them all and send in forgeries?
To be fair, a (hypothetical) non-morally-bankrupt hosting provider would do just that but for Rust instead of C#.
"Small organizations don't require dedicated ops teams anymore"

So who's gonna deploy the developers' applications and implement the necessary infrastructure for that application?

Who's gonna create, maintain, and administer the CI/CD pipelines which allow us to do testing, receive feedback loops, and rollback when code does not work?

Who's gonna be the guy, or team of people, who has knowledge of all the different services and architecture of all these IAAS? And then who's gonna know how to implement that?
There have always been TV fanatics, or enthusiasts, sure. I vegged out a lot as a kid. As tech has changed, though, the game is totally different, and people are being actively coerced into binge-watching.

Yesterday, we had Nielsen doing rough tracking of viewership (IIRC, installing a Nielsen box was/is totally optional!), opinion polls, and focus groups. Mostly aggregate data on a program's performance.

Today, we're building elaborate user profiles and tailoring the viewing experience to the individual, using who-knows-what details (demographics, personal viewing habits, Amazon purchase history, eye-tracking data from your smart TV, you get the idea). These companies have a really good idea of what you like, and will use whatever data they can to maximize the time you spend on their platform.
The WSJ article is being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18311492.
Access to voting is _so_ Oregon. The rest of us are into voter suppression this year, silly hippies.

Seriously, yes, that system is preferred to increasing access and activity in our democracy, but it seems there's a large contingent that feel it's in their party's best interest to not make it easier to vote. I'm sure it's fair to claim that they honestly believe their party in power is for the good of the country, but then everyone feels that way about their desired political trajectories.
An AI Researcher's Life: The RSS Conference
> unreasonable to expect the same tool for everything

Git is not the end of the road for vcs.

While I am sure that there are scenarios where other tools are better-suited, question I was responding to wasn't signaling any of those relatively edge-case scenarios (like binary assets in games).

The sad truth is git has now utterly dominates version control in such a way that you pretty much have to master it to be able to work in a team of developers because, most likely, they are using git.

Whatever the case, few of us get to choose what vcs we get to use. So if it is not git, it is perforce, subversion, or something else or even nothing.

"Just adapt" is what I should have said first.
It's not just shorts - We know that the Koch Brothers (as much as a boogyman as they normally are) are behind several PR campaigns, we know that Boeing has funded a set of campaigns that attacked Tesla. I remember when Falcon 9H launched, there a coordinate effort to bad-mouth SpaceX, because launching a Rocket with a car was "wasteful"....

You kick over a hornets nest, you better have a lot of raid on hand.

That said, the NYT has been consistently brutal to Tesla and SpaceX. Part of it is that they leave themselves open. They are being candidly honest and aggressive, and don't always make their goals..

But they shoot for the moon. If they miss, at least they make orbit, as opposed to plummeting back down to the ground.
C'mon. Not even your own Drawbridge project is supported in Windows...
This seems like a nice example of chaotic system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_theory).
Triple-click home button on iOS, via accessibility settings.
I think dang himself clicks on 'past' and then refers those links here.

What would be great is a (sticky) comment for all past discussions sorted by year.
At this point not really... it's been over a year since I've had to really worry about it. It was better using angular-redux or ngrx, but still was a weird experience. When you have eventing issues with RXJS, or handling integration with other libraries, it's definitely not as broad or mature as the React space is. Anything from chartjs to color pickers, I'm trying to recall the last big issue I had in an angular app. In the end, I just remember pain all along the way more than most specific examples.

Oh yeah... drag-drop integration... that was the single biggest pain. None of the component libraries worked well, and doing it manually was harder than I've experienced before, including just straight JS, and definitely worse as a whole than using say jQuery-UI.

If it were a year or more ago, I could cite better examples of pain points. 2+ is better than 1.x, but still horrible. I'd rather see people adopt Vue over Angular. I still prefer a react-alike over any of them.
Well my first thought on this is multitaskers have reduced their RAM size and I'm completely lost.
This time the shorts have them. This is very different that no demand, out of money in q3, can't make them, Wells notice, break, no batteries available, no lithium, all the execs keep leaving, autopilot broke, there's not really a big waiting list. This time it's different.
Sounds familiar to a particular US ally.
I'm not 100%, but I don't think that's an example of the effects of the raising of the city. For one thing, the address is quite removed from the downtown area, but beyond that you can find these kinds of buildings all over the city, so I've always figured they were just built that way. Here's an example of a clearly recently-built building which has a similar design, in Wicker Park:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9092286,-87.6725628,3a,34.8y...
Solaris hasn't been scaled down to cellphones, but remember that today's cellphone is yesterday's high performance workstation. A Raspberry Pi outperforms a SPARCStation20: http://eschatologist.net/blog/?p=266

Windows also used to scale down quite well; I'd love to know how much really was common between NT and CE.
Ok? I guess you're welcome to have any beliefs you like. But many companies have a rule like the one I describe, and they do it purely for business reasons. They don't need the hassle, and it's part of the normal course of business to make sure that managerial power isn't misused.

If you think there should be some sort of law preventing companies from having this sort of rule, I guess that's your prerogative. But you'll have to make an argument why companies shouldn't have the freedom to make what they see as reasonable and necessary decisions about how to run their business.
I question whether the vote coercion/purchase opportunities opened up by mail voting are actually "huge" compared with in-person voting. But even if so, these opportunities don't scale easily and potential damage is limited.

If some malefactor wanted to buy 1 million votes at an average price of $50 each, that's $50 million of somewhat traceable money and 1 million people, some fraction of whom are certain to reveal they were paid. It won't remain a secret, and it will leave numerous evidence trails.

Contrast with fully electronic voting fraud - scalable, hard to detect, and (when well-executed) leaves little evidence to support nullifying an election and forcing a do-over.
I can only select the Netherlands as my country somehow...
>MS argued that Workstation was not able to handle more due to fundamental differences

I've never heard that argument made. Memory is hazy but I don't believe the client connection limit was present in older versions of NTW.

Back then MS was chasing market leader Novell which had a business model dependent on charging for each client connection to the Netware server. MS attacked their dominant position by adopting a CAL model where the charge was for the client access license, conveniently bundled with your copy of Windows. So you could buy a $500 (or whatever it cost back then) copy of NTAS and use it to serve your 1000 employees with Windows desktops. Meanwhile Novell would want to charge you $$$ for a Netware server to handle that same user population. Hence Novell went out of business.

The connection limit in NTW was probably added to stop people going around even the very low $500 cost of NTAS.
Depends on how smart they are. When my physicist friend works on cold fusion and judging by interacting with him, has IQ around 140 (compared to my 110-115) wanted to get into programming, I recommended him SICP, but never to to anyone else.
I feel like SICP would be a perfect text for introductory CS, if there were a "pre-CS" course in high schools

That is more or less what this was meant to be:

https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html
Cafeteria ban voted down at planning commission
Even if we give Musk the benefit of the doubt about what he believes at minimum he is inept. CEOs should never be making public statements around sensitive issues like production numbers, funding etc without discussing it at length with PR and Legal first.

And nobody is attacking Tesla for the sake of it. They are doing it because his behaviour is sometimes abhorrent, childish, unethical and it often encourages others to do the same. And just like with Theranos entrepreneurs should be doubly critical of others who drag us all down.
This is not limited to an employee at OPs organization. It can be an employee from the corporation he is doing business with. Alternatively, someone could have printed an old email and one of the facilities providers (i.e. cleaning crew) found it and used it.
ČSSD as well as KDU-ČSL are very much centre/-right parties, which is what I meant by neoliberal. They're not left, they're part of the problem. This is like the Democrats in the U.S. They don't actually represent the left, they got co-opted by the same interests as the Rebuplicans + they don't hate gays, (great, but a low bar).

So in essence these sorts of parties are no different than the right ones, they stand for incrementalism+cronyism and because incrementalism doesn't work for many people they turn to the right as a result.

If you think to Bernie Sanders vs Hillary Clinton, parties like ČSSD and KDU-ČSL represent the Hillary type, but what you really need on the left is the Bernie, or even better, Jeremy Corbyn type of person/party.

I agree that corrupt bureaucracy is a problem, but breaking barriers to entry for small/medium businesses is on top of the left-wing agenda in parts of the world where real left actually is, that's why when you think of European startups, you think Scandinavia.

> There is no party that stands for the Nordic model.

That's because the Nordic model is a nuanced one and from my experience you get shouted at as if you're a communist if you ever mention it in Eastern Europe, mostly because people don't understand it, but it's hard to even make your case without getting attacked.
"But I definitely won't block Instagram and FB and Youtube from my platform, like I've done to other apps."
The first reason why rules are different is because in one case (IT) you're dealing with a seller-customer relationship, and in the second (Finance) you're dealing with a investor-company relationship.

Second, public equity markets are a heavily regulated environment, for many reasons, and require strict rules to function to avoid widespread fraud, market manipulation, insider trading, etc.

This is similar to Healthcare as well. You can't just go selling a random untested drug claiming that it cures cancer.

And they should be different because of different configurations of power and impact. Investing isn't just buying a product or a service, it is allowing someone to use your money freely within certain conditions.
The business side of things basically boils down to "Get hundreds of thousands of customers who are willing to pay you money, or hundreds of millions of users whose attention you can sell to hundreds of thousands of advertisers who are willing to pay you money."

There's more detail to that, of course, but the not-all-that-dirty secret about Silicon Valley is that the founders don't generally have to worry about that, because there's a liquid market of investors/executives/engineers/accountants/lawyers/marketers who are all searching for the next big thing and happy to hop aboard it. If you can show that you have a lot of people who want what you provide, and have a plausible path to build it, there will be people who are happy to help you, for a cut.

That's the big advantage that Silicon Valley has over the rest of the world, and something that was completely lost on me when I moved here. "Founder" is a job description here, and your job is to find a reason for the company to exist and communicate it to other stakeholders. If you're digging into the details of engineering (I have a bad habit of doing this, myself), legal, accounting, management, etc, beyond what's necessary to prove the viability of the company, you are probably not doing your job right. Your one job as a founder is innovation, which is a hard job, but it's much easier than trying to run a whole business as a one-man show.
This is not sufficient. I know that eating out every day isn't as good for me as cooking at home would probably be, but the benefits still outweigh the downsides for me, so I eat out more often than I cook at home. No one is gonna hold that against me.

All these algorithms need to convince someone who is aware of their downsides is that the upsides are worth it. Instagram needs to convince someone that, sure Instagram isn't good for their mental health, but staying off Instagram means they will have less friends which will be worse for them. This will almost certainly work for a teenager. Other stuff may work for an adult.

And with the way social networks work, something like this can simply become a self fulfilling prophecy.
They are too toxic to bother.
> I want to write a tru­ly great Twit­ter client for An­droid Au­to, to keep me in­formed as I cruise down the road.

Maybe the whole piece is satire.
As I've pointed out before, there's "Elon's crazy stuff that helps Tesla be innovative and trailblazing" and there's "Elon's crazy stuff that is has no upside for Tesla." Tesla fans -- to say nothing of Musk himself -- perhaps should be a little less defensive when people attack the crazy stuff with no upside, and I'd argue that he's been engaging in way too much of the "no upside" crazy stuff recently.

This most recent hullabaloo may prove to be nothing -- companies overestimate projections all the time -- but if they wildly overestimated projections in a way they knew was misleading, that's an issue. "People have been telling Elon his dreams are crazy forever" is true, but it's not necessarily a solid defense.
Not exactly a dark pattern because it's not intentional... but this is a product failure, not user error.

Shouldn't allow selections until they've all loaded.
To be clear about my statement: I think it's totally possible given the sensationalism around Tesla. Whether it is happening or not is a whole different matter. Hence my interest in watching their stock price when this sort news hits the press.
Love it, looking forward to meeting all of you.
Agreed, although I'm not sure iPads are cheaper than budget laptops even after whatever subsidy Apple may give schools to do vendor lock-in.

This doesn't bode well for the "Are schools daycares or for skill development?" debate.
Narcissism is more of a spectrum of behavior than a bistable formalism, but it is mostly characterized by feeling superior in general (not only in J2EE) and that superiority not based on actually being better. Keep in mind that most deluded people do not recognize their delusion so the latter is less useful as a self-diagnostic criteria.

Here's an example, my city has a water-related emergency and so the water system is temporarily broken. Local coffee shops have closed because it's too difficult to access suitable water. Meanwhile I am drinking coffee right now, and feeling quite smug that as a rank amateur I can do what Those Who Had One Job cannot. I frequently have this experience where I feel like I can do things better than other people. This is a giant red flag for narcissism.

If you dig into it though, I can make coffee because I have a weeks worth of supplies on hand because I had a rough childhood and certain things stay with you. I have two ISPs in case one goes down (and actually chose where I live for that reason), I have at least four modes of transit to get most places, I just chronically overplan for everything in life all the time. So when something goes wrong I will have two or three solutions ready to go while a normal person is trying to stop panicking.

That is a symptom of something, namely my generalized anxiety of having to rely on other people. But whereas a narcissist will berate a new cashier for not knowing how the POS system works, I surreptitiously memorized the right buttons from the last time I was here, help them get through the transaction as quickly as possible and say that I used to work here so they don't feel too bad.
Right, because the spokesman for a state government office knows best when it comes to software UX design. Oh boy.
Your "translation" is clearly out of tone for Hacker News.

Both sides play identity politics, they just focus on different identities. Most people are blind to the identity politics of their own party because those identities feel natural or correct to them, making the identities less obviously visible. (Or, inversely, the identities of the 'other' party feel obviously wrong, making them more jarring and stand out as 'playing identity politics'.)
How is your neck posture? Reading sideways in bed can also affect visual cortex.
If you like this, you might appreciate https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMakingOfGames/
Washington state has had vote-by-mail for everyone for a while now too. This year they made it free to mail back the return envelope, which made a good experience even better.
This is literally the reason Dilbert exists. The pointy-haired boss. Might be a parody but there is definitely some truth in it.
"I just wanna spend $20 on my skins for Fortnite"

Right... the game is designed to hook you in, that's games, they've all done that since the year dot. You're invested. Except now, in order to continue getting the same high, you need to spend money. They're purposely engineered this way. Just like drugs.

I grew up as the public internet took it's first breaths. When you had to figure out just how to get an internet service provider before you could even get started. In the era of IRC and Newsgroups and that was about all. Nobody even understood what websites were.

Google didn't hit its stride until 3 or 4 years after I started using it. Things were different back then.

These days everything is designed to hook you and keep you coming back and when those hooks are no longer enough to keep your eyes on it, it hooks you to pay something to get more of a high.

My kids have just come off a two week iPad ban yesterday, and already one of them has fallen off the rails and was unable to get out of bed for school this morning. Their behaviour was significantly improved by the time they came off their ban than it was the day the were banned.

I'm seriously considering removing iPad use on a more permanent basis.