skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. Microservices pass data over the network. Distributed objects get handles to remote objects and then make calls to them. Sometimes there could be very many of them and it all got very complex and had poor performance. Microservices are still object oriented because each service is an object and the data being passed is a message. They are big objects. Alan Kay said that one if the mistakes with OO was not making objects bigger.
I work at a place where we are free to do that. I have spent a few months working 4-12. I can't say I loved it, despite not being a morning person.
I find it amusing that branding, formerly reserved for cattle, is so enthusiastically embraced by the people upon whom it is pushed.

"Oh, yes, I'd love to wear someone else's initials or sigil!"
That might sound nice until you realize that most people socialize after they get out of work. If you have a weekly schedule like this you might miss out on a lot of social opportunities, much like people who work in the restaurant industry or have odd shifts in jobs like nursing.
I totally agree, but I wonder if physical cash is really the only way get there.

I fear that trying to keep a cash infrastructure in place will turn out to be a futile effort because it is so expensive. Long before cash is completely gone I bet that almost everyone who needs it will be priced out of actually using it. Also, cash has the downside of not being usable online.

The problem is that I know of no government wise enough to legislate/regulate in order to keep all the very important things you mention. Right now these possibilities exist only because they are side-effects of the physical properties of cash.

I suspect that once we really do lose cash, some sort of grass roots replacement will emerge (cryptocurrencies?). The danger is that it will be something that lends itself to money laundering and tax evasion on a grand scale. That would make it far too high risk for the purposes you're talking about.

The best solution I can think of is a constitutional right to make and receive smallish payments anonymously and a constitutional obligation for all vendors to accept one such form of payment that is available to everyone.

That would make cash one option without equating the struggle for a right to anonymous small scale payments with a specific solution that is easy to reject because it is so expensive.
The NN is imperfect, the extraction method is extremely imperfect, but I think the problem there is actually the dataset: the Alexander Pope material has an unusual amount of irrelevant prose interspersed which I think screws up the NN https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/03/14/gwerns-ai-generated-po...
I have also bought an Amazon Echo, but I unplug it when it's out of use for extended periods of time.

I was given a Google Home for Christmas, and won't even take it out of the box. I'd give it away, but that not really solving the problem.

I've never purchased a Smart TV that contains a microphone.

My LG has one in the remote control. But I disallowed the TV from my home wifi about a year ago. I don't trust LG, and looking through the 53 screens of Terms of Service LG thinks need to agree to just to watch TV, I probably did the right thing.
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isn't taxation, in this case, a type of government enforced savings :)

So the gov. could force people to essentially provide for a level of healthcare for everyone.

Also on the Obesity point, if the UK was a US state we would rate somewhere in the middle of the pack on obesity levels.

Yet the UK pays far less per capita on healthcare and provides a basic level of healthcare free at point of use (rich people are free to increase that if they want)
Without the arts there is no content. Goodbye internet, radio, TV & films. Telcos and the consumer electronics industry? A tiny fraction of its current size. You have to be truly delusional to think that $2K per year is some sort of low-ball number for this. If anything this number is minimizing the second-order effects.
Even better if it's possible. But in business, you really do end up needing to interface with people in normal 9-5 companies fairly often, so at least with 2-10 there's some overlap in the afternoon. Do external stuff in the afternoon and then just grind through the night.
In contrast to the forcing function of mobile and special constraints, the additional freedom provided by UX on desktop is simply filled up with sidebars and ads.

Designers just don't know what to do with the extra space.

Reading any news article at a browser width of greater than 720px is a disaster. We've forgotten how to design for the desktop.
This will break all those apps that let you download/repost Instagram posts.

I guess I will be abandoning the one I wrote.
Could someone be the first to send a newsletter via email that is not a web page. Spare me the HTML and just send me a plain text email please. That would change my experience of email newsletters for the better.
>* The easy way to get a big library is to steal an existing one.*

Doesn't that always lead to compromises in the language design (to easily link to the old language) and sub-par non-idiomatic libraries?
Single dad, night-person here—I far prefer working at night once the kids are in bed over trying to squeeze meaningful productivity in between school hours, dinner, activities, father-son time, etc. I've trained myself to do something from 9-4, as those are my remaining school-age son's school hours, but it's nowhere near as satisfying as working at night when the world is asleep.
The small-versus-large-functions discussion is not about spaghetti code. It's about the question whether you should chop one large block of first-do-this-then-do-that code into smaller independent blocks and then call them in that very sequence from a superordinate function.

In general I totally agree that sequential code should just be sequential, and it should not afford more functions. Because, the each time one looks at those additional functions, in your standard programming language, the first thing one must ask oneself is, "what is the context in which this function must work? What are all the callers of this function?". In simple, sequential code, the answer is often more clear. At least, it's clear that the block of code is really only ever "called" from one place.

The disadvantage is that the block can see unrelated variables that were defined higher up in the same function - or one must add a level of indentation everywhere to protect those.
Those people you're talking about, your friends, neighbors, and family used to be what we were referring to when we talked about the social safety net. Now we mean govt programs. I'm not saying it's a causation, but somehow we gained the govt safety net and lost the old social one. I think we're all really missing out on something great and I don't know if we can ever get it back.
We use intercom for support in our Saas product. We have customers ask questions that are instantly solved by the recommended help desk articles all the time
One reason why US stagnated and productivity (real, as indicated by inflation adjusted incomes, not the official stats) fell is because until the Civil Rights Era even middle class had house help, and women largely did not work. They could do all the things described in the article for their working husbands. It's not a secret that women's employment is largely counterproductive by itself, but the effect compounds with the absence of homemaking.
Amen.

Yes, I (and I think many others) would be VERY interested in companies that allow this kind of schedule. Further more, I think you'd find that hiring people who want to work those hours, means you're hiring people who are most successful in those hours.

Nothing sucks more than being a night person, whos brain comes online later in the day, but having to be in your seat at your desk at 9 AM.
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No mention of children in this article, or anywhere in this thread. I guess parents are just doomed to be annoyingly unproductive, no matter how early we get up.
> There was even an unpleasant period of time in the 90's when people tried to make some of the Linux OS distro end-user apps run off of CORBA to bring about the interconnected "sea of objects" vision, slowing things down a lot.

That was a thing on the GNOME desktop (GNOME being short for GNU Networked Object Model Environment). The CORBA framework was called bonobo, and it was basically a very early version of what's now achieved via dbus. KDE had its own equivalent, known as DCOP. AIUI, both systems were replaced altogether when dbus became a thing.
My. primary frustration is working with Javascript data structures after using Clojure maps for 4 years. I sometimes write something taking several lines and then for shits and giggles write the same in Clojure and just weep for the armies of programmes who just have no idea...
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Not shipping a working product before your deadline is bad. How you get there is up to you. OO isn't necessary but it can get you there. In a perfect world where deadlines didn't exist and everyone writing code was doing so for academic purposes, maybe OO wouldn't be necessary.
I'm more concerned with the data being sold/ leaked and it impacting insurance premiums.
10 hours a day seemed like a lot to me at first but I would totally work on that schedule
He takes one of those corners at 350kph

I can't even. The fastest I've been was 185kph. I always think back to that experience when watching stuff like this and try and empathize with the feeling of speed. It was insanely exhilarating to go that fast and I felt like if I even make a tiny mistake I'm gonna end up in a flaming wreck. And that was just down a long straight. I simply cannot imagine going almost twice as fast and taking a corner.
They usually take everything at face value. /s
All of those articles are a) single or b) rich or c) young people with no families (and combinations of those) signaling how motivated and what hard workers they're in...

There's also a reason why we see them from privileged (usually white) people in cushy careers (or in pursuit of such), and we don't e.g. read a black single mother, walking up at a 5am everyday and working her ass off two jobs till late, just to make ends meet blogging such BS...
This is solvable with management and hiring a full time house keeper that is empowered to call a plumber.
vim works well with tmux on servers, with minimal config or the one in git, but i have a custom hacker keyboard layout, so maybe that plays indirectly.
For me GUIs eliminate themselves from some of the work that's better done on a server, that said i tried vscode one day and it was pretty cool
That schedule might work for "parenting" but would be horrible for the relationship of the couple. People often try to view parenting solutions in isolation and forget that this is the lives of 3+ people we're discussing. It's the same as work to pay for daycare. If a stay at home parent works 2-3 days per week, and their income only covers the expenses of going to work, they still get benefits. They stay in the job market without a multi-year break, in my country they accrue superannuation payments, and it gets them out of the house with a break from the kids (parenting constantly is hard mentally).
http://paulgraham.com/avg.html
Isn't most tech companies like that? People get punished for being come-early-leave-early and rewarded for working late.
https://console.hetzner.cloud/ has OpenBSD 6.4. You must purchase a server with one of the four official Linux images first, then go server settings and from the iso images you can mount the OpenBSD install ISO and reboot. Use the server console to continue the installation.
The parent didn't say anything pejorative about those who do things differently. They said "fuck this", and lamented feeling punished by social pressure to be a morning person.
depends if nature is generally stronger than intent
Unless there were a state (consumer) bank, the implication of a cashless society is that it ought to be a illegal for people not to use private banks. In my mind this effectively make banks an extension of the state apparatus without the sort of accountability that would be expected.
You could make the same argument for any discount offered by any company to anyone at any time.
He glosses over his consumption of coffee way too easily. "No drugs involved! ... except for a strong shot of caffeine, a powerful stimulant, just after waking up, and again 6 hours later."

No thanks. I'll listen to my body and its rhythms, producing work when opportunities arise. Restricting one's schedule artificially like this seems like a recipe for burnout and misery.
I hate to break it to you, hoss, but income and productivity are not the same thing. Productivity has continued to grow at a reasonable pace since the "Civil Rights Era". Meanwhile, incomes stagnated. I.e., what you said is exactly inverted.

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/150709122537-produ...
Not everything needs to be modeled.

The thing about Smalltalk, is that it adheres very closely to "everything is an object." This means that even low level mechanisms in Smalltalk have to allow a very nimble use of objects. This means that there can be serious cost/benefit mismatches when translating libraries/patterns/designs from languages like Smalltalk to others. Creating a lambda in Smalltalk is trivial business as usual. Other environments require more thought, have more limitations, have higher costs of their use. Factories are how you do normal operations in Smalltalk. In other languages, they become infrastructure that needs to be maintained.

Not everything needs to be modeled in every language. Basically, you model to the point where the cost/benefit works out, but go no further. In Smalltalk, the cost of modeling things is designed to be so low, almost everything is an object. So of course, the cost/benefit in different environments can be drastically different, and in many, modeling everything can be a waste.
I find them useful, but they often block the screen too much. See https://pulumi.io on mobile for example, the site is complete blocked.
The cows in this movie, Dutch dairy cows, get out each day except in winter.
I stopped reading at "funded by Apple Inc."
> Cycling your caffeine intake is a great way to still reap the benefits of caffeine without building up a tolerance.

I've tried this. Doesn't work for me. Seems like my body built a tolerance to caffeine, and no amount of break from it (even a month) will reset that tolerance.
No, I mean reject it as it is being sent (see SMTP protocol). As far as I know, all mail servers can do this except possibly qmail. qmail's out of band error messages used to be a big source of spam, although I haven't seen them much recently so I'm guessing it was finally patched not to do that. It didn't loop. From what Volundr said, maybe it uses DMARC now.

I know my ISP's mail server actually does reject at sending time since I am on the gcc mailing lists, which unfortunately pass along a fair amount of spam, and when it is rejected the list software then sends me the bounce message (rejected based on From header checking, I'm not sure of the full details).

Possibly Google does this too, I don't have direct knowledge, just going off what others said. But it seems like systems wouldn't stay misconfigured long if they were.

My main point is that IMO, mail that fails sender verification should not be delivered at all, not even to spam folders. Anything else is just making a bigger mess and helping spammers. Ideally the sender should be notified that it wasn't received. But I'm sure Google has good reasons for whatever they are actually doing and my understanding is that the main reason that sender verification has become mandatory as quickly as it has is due to Google pushing it.
Saying "fuck this" about a submission is pejorative, as opposed to saying "I disagree with this."
It's more that they paid to cover the costs of all of the other emergency room patients that never paid their bills.

No one actually pays the sticker price anyway, that's an artifact of the strange ways that medical billing works. People that pay in cash (rather than insurance) are given large discounts.
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Ok but objects have been successful for a very long time. And this is in a field where there are more potential early adopters than most. Programmers like new stuff.

I think they have been successful because in the end a lot of the world we deal with behaves like objects. Devices, processes, remote machines all accept messages and those messages have 'side effects' in that they change the future behaviour of that thing.
Where I live, we have sunlight from 6 in the morning till 7:30, even 8 in the evening during summers.

I see no reason whatsoever to pursue a 9 to 5 routine. I come in to work at 12 leave by 8-9 and I'm pretty happy for it
And if you are going to add the entire food chain to agriculture then we will add the telcos and consumer electronics industries that depend on content consumption and the tertiary industries like advertising and marketing that draft off the economic engine of content delivery. I think that in the end it is going to be the case that arts and entertainment have a far larger footprint than food over the past few decades.
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They should be forced by law to accommodate that, then, so that there is no advantage in not doing it. Like they can't use child labor anymore.
I think having and sticking to a routine is far more important than the actual routine.

Night-owl, morning person, who cares? As long as you stick to something.

With that said- I rise at 5am everyday.
The secret to wake up early is to sleep early. And yes, it makes a big difference to my productivity.
I'll disagree here as I'm naturally a night person but my current schedule is all early mornings due to my combination of work, study and parenting. It's not fun but I maintain it with discipline and it works out really well for productivity. If I don't need to be productive and relax a bit I'll slip into night owl mode.
uBlock Origin can do it for you, you just need to enable relevant list. Filter list > Annoyances > Fanboy's Cookie List
No. Amazon subscriptions have been really frustrating for me - not enough flexibility around amount and timing, so either I subscribe to just less than I need and run out anyway, or just more than I need and have it piling up.
Good point. There are three additional items that U.S. hospitals have to pay for that non-US hospitals don't (or that they have to pay a lot more for):

1. Malpractice insurance

2. The overhead incurred by insurance companies and

3. The cost of serving uninsured patients who can't pay out of pocket.

The third one is huge. US emergency rooms by law must treat serious conditions -- but only serious conditions -- whether the patient can pay or not (for some value of "serious" -- I'm not sure of the details, but that don't really matter here). So there's a substantial population that can't get preventive treatment and so have no choice but to let minor conditions go untreated until they become serious (and, of course, much more expensive to deal with).
But, are the robots open source?
How much R&D did pharma boy do?
What neighborhood is your LA office located?
I do roughly the same thing anytime I want to make myself sleep, but with Futurama. :)
I think it looks good but needs examples of something other than just "yes/no" dialogs, or maybe all use cases are boiled down to that?

If not, you should include detailed examples for

"Send magic sign-in links, two-step verification, re-authenticate long-lived sessions, new device confirmations, verify identity for lost accounts or customer support."
For people like me who often find "go to sleep early" impossible, try to get in an hour or so of solid exercise at least every couple of days--running, biking, lifting, or whatever--something that will fully exhaust you physically. And if possible, do it outside in the sun. This is the best way I've found to regulate sleeping patterns, and it also counteracts caffeine if I've had too much. I haven't found anything else that works as well.
Used to do this until I stopped needing to. A consistent bed time plus Rick and Morty/Venture Bros./Archer, just going from season 1 episode 1 on down the list, and then restarting once I got to the last episode at some point.

Worked very well, but I think if I tried it now, I would have a more difficult time sleeping with television playing in the background now that I no longer sleep this way.
The "Send Later" extension for Thunderbird is terrific for this exact use case.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/send-...
It also conveys a nuance and adds a spark to the response that "I disagree with this" doesn't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beV0N7lItuQ
No, it was definitely bytecode/vm-based. That was one of the reasons I was interested - because I've written a couple of toy virtual machines myself.

I should just post an "Ask HN: Tell me of your niche languages" and hope I get lucky!
That's... surprising. Any reason why they wouldn't want to have that on OpenBSD?
Broke people with no job or shift work also do the 2-10 thing.
I'm not an expert, but unless there are G+ specific exceptions I've missed, I believe that the current wording of their terms-of-service would prohibit them from engaging in the efforts to archive G+ pages.

This it was it says about the rights you give Google by/if you are using their services:

"The rights you grant [to Google] in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."

The only rubric archival could possibly fall under would be "promotion", but that feels marginal at best.
I'm a single parent of two young kids. I go to bed with them (i.e. 7:30-8pm) and I wake at 4am. They tend to wake about 6am, this gives me a solid 1.5 hours of productive time and about half an hour of muck around time.
I don't think they even said they disagreed. They said it wasn't for them.
It's not "governments" that control drugs, but the FDA - in the US - and it's comprised of M.D.
some of them yes, like OTTO based on the opensource project BOB :)
Just a query - what about the power-saving on the users machines from easier decompression?
>> It's not a secret that women's employment is largely counterproductive by itself

This kind of sexism can be quite harmful. You might want to rethink this one.

>> They could do all the things described in the article for their working husbands.

True, but there's no obvious reason why it shouldn't be men who do these things for their working wives. Why should one half of a marriage devote their time and effort to the other half's success rather than having their own success as well?
Things aren’t as black and white as that. There’s a difference between paying a reasonable amount of taxes and having everyone share some of the burden versus a lawless Mad Max style society. The current system is setup to punish the group that I (and probably a lot of developers) belong to. We pay a huge portion of our income in taxes and for me at least, an additional massive chunk of income to insurance post-ACA. Poor people get healthcare and many other things for free. Rich people mostly pay 15% capital gains tax. If you’re in the middle class, the screws come out right as you start succeeding. There’s a massive structural push to keep middle class people in the middle class and I don’t think that’s fair.
This product costs 5 cents more on the manufacturer's website, and the manufacturer charges $9 for shipping.
Amen. I stopped reading when I saw the casual caffeine addiction. Red flag. No thanks.