skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> are significantly less likely to flip, significantly less likely to catch fire, slower to burn when they do catch fire, and the safest cars ever tested by the NHTSA

All of which means nothing if you are a firefighter trying extract someone from a crashed car. Tesla or no Tesla, it is still a car. It will be involved in accidents. It will crash. Someone will be trapped and someone will attempt to extract them.

There are certain scenarios that, although exceedingly rare, must still be contemplated. We cannot have a car from which firefighters cannot safely extract people. Even it only ever happens once in the next century, we aren't going to leave that person inside the car to die.
Inlets is designed to be super easy to use, from provisioning the exit-node, to punching out for your first service / endpoint.

It'd be great some of the folks commenting to try the project and then bring some feedback via GitHub, Slack, Twitter etc.

What did you like? What would you like to see next? What can be improved?
"just about everything" is the point, don't obsess over the number. Payroll, payments, IT, finance, sales, HR, benefits, inventory management, etc. are all available by subscription. Many of those used to require a team of developers in-house. Its easier than ever to run a business on these, and its FAR cheaper than building out software yourself.
Have you decided which software you'll be using for fulfilling your orders? Or will you be outsourcing fulfillment?
It's a bold strategy, I'd enjoy seeing how that would play out.
Several companies have tried to create blockchain-based products using offline mesh networks, but there's the problem of there not being a ledger, and thus transactions not being able to be confirmed. Do you think blockchain-centric companies could integrate technologies like, say, Bridgefy to enable their mobile products to work without Internet and thus become more decentralized?
Yeah but does anybody believe that the engineers would deliberately break things so they could have to work in a stressful environment bringing things back up just to get some free beer?
People have a hard time separating truth and identity.
The guy had an amazing beard, with streaks of white in it! He looked like a great wizard to me. I remember even as we noticed people were frantic, saying to one another "oh man, another outage, thank goodness it's not us!"
What was hateful about the question? I run my own business. I deal with questions far harsher than that on a routine basis. (And I hasten to say I didn’t mean to be harsh.)
I also have a high rate of success with Upwork for freelancers, from designers to developers, however I believe their recent changes, for example to charging to invite more than 3 candidates, is going to cause many to look elsewhere. They are increasing fees and decreasing usability. I'm open to new options.
You are technically correct. Ok, replace "half" with "quarter, and the rest is within 30% of the fastest impl"
You can run this on Kubernetes for multi-team and multiple teams can share the same exit-node.
> There is no point using it for search if you are using ad-blocking software.

I'd disagree. The network effect can help. Acquaintances tend to be interested whenever they see me using any search engine that isn't Google.
It's a perfectly valid sentiment but... Comments like this annoy me because, as I get older (turned 40 this year surpassing 20 years of web development) I've noticed variants of it come up many times a year in various contexts and it often feels like so much useless hand wringing and lamenting. In my experience shoulda, coulda, wouldas will get you bupkis in this world. Kinda like how a great idea is worth pretty much nothing.

The problem is much bigger than the design of a language, the problem is producing something (not a language) people will use and growing software systems that meet varying demands as those products evolve in a way that is affordable. Of course there are all sorts of tradeoffs to make these things happen, most of which have nothing to do with idealized whiteboarding and language design. That stuff often irrelevant when you take into consideration all the various kinds of other situation-specific details people face to make things lots of people use.

That goes the same for products and for languages. And of course the two classes of processes co-evolve. Further, language design does not imply better products. It is tangential to all the other things that make a product happen. You have to hire good people, you have to identify meaningful problems and provide better solutions. You have to get it in front of people and you have to adapt over time to your core audience's needs. Use lua use php use C# whatever you do all your choices including that one need to be self supporting of each other. The developers have experience in x, y is what runs on the platform, devs more often know a than b and so are cheaper to find. Language design matters not in those scenarios.

Not defending any language design or any technical choices over others here at all, just saying if you want to see a change in the state of things sentiments like this are more like eating popcorn while you watch the world go by. Kind of like when you have an open source project and get requests for fixes but no pull requests. The most viable open source is build by a community of collaborators and is easy for new collaborators to join in and contribute to. If you don't have a community of users that care about your project it does not matter what technical decisions you make, what language you use and what design it follows.

So what matters more than language design is problem solving and community and getting more pull requests than the other guy, more conversions than the other app and shoulda, coulda, wouldas are popcorn on the theater floor.
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>If you have to go this far with your analogy then that says more about your own argument than the other side's.

I never got this argument. In mathematical proofs, reducto ad absurdum is an acceptable method of showing an assumption false. It shows that a statement ("Users agreed to TOS, so it's not malign") has an exception. The example is extreme to make sure nobody can argue the statement's still valid.

He's not saying the punishment should be on par with murder. He's just saying there is a line of moral acceptability, but where it lies is up for debate.
They are. The US taxes companies on profits made abroad. The issue is that these taxes are only collected when the money enters th US, so companies park this money abroad.
still needs internet to fill that cache, don't use the smart tv part, or whitelist it at the router.
It's not the same thing, you may as well use grok, it's just as limiting. https://holepunch.io/pricing
The brain is the greatest pattern matcher in the world. While it is unlikely all of these companies would have major outages in a month, be wary that the subconscious is constantly generating narratives to explain statistical anomalies.

Interesting theories nonetheless:)
It's not so much an alternative to mainstream media as an informal gathering place for workers in the mainstream media
That's not true at all. The key element of the Snowden leaks was that the legal boundaries were not where we expected them to be. The telephony metadata collection program, for example, was fully legal but has way wider impact that people considered to be right.
No, people are worth whatever is the most any company is willing to pay them.
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I built it for myself in the office because I noticed i'm launching the desktop calculator too much while developing drivers, and I had to use the mouse for that, phew...
You should submit a request to the Pinboard CEO...
Reddit, Twitter, tons of others in recent days. Has someone finally weaponized Intel CPU faults and raids everything not nailed to the floor on the internet?
Pyret, a programming language designed for learning, inspired by Python
> We think that smart contracts are only a subset of use-cases and should only be used when needed vs. making smart contracts the only way to program decentralized apps

Totally agree.

Great job with blockstack, the APIs seem real easy to use - only thing I'm worried about is that the mobile SDK's are just JS wrappers so the JS bridge might be a speed bottleneck in mobile apps. Also, are there plans for a Flutter SDK (pretty easy to make a wrapper for both platform SDK's)?
The things Amazon wants and needs -- particularly, desirability by young, affluent techies -- don't really exist in "middle America".

For example, public transit. Only a handful of US cities have decent public transit at all, probably the only cheap city in that group is Philly. You're not gonna find good transit in Cleveland or Phoenix or Nashville, because they've chosen not to seriously invest in it. Is that Amazon's fault somehow?
Your point was that "ordinary people" don't grasp the concept that it is Google, or Amazon, or Apple that is providing the answers when they use a Voice Assistant. In spite of their entire marketing saying exactly that.

They don't need to understand "computer memory or how computation works" to grasp that the person/entity you ask a question to, has to know that question in order to provide an answer. In fact you could have never used a computer and grasp that concept.

You're trying to make this more complex to mask the fact it is a logically flawed premise.
It acted as a kind of ruse to get these places to signal how far they would go to be “connected” to the tech world that they, rightly or wrongly, feel is leaving them behind.

I tend to agree that what Amazon did was pretty cheap and low class, though.
How easy or hard would it be to switch to self-managed components as you grow from 10X to 100X? Quite often, they end up becoming a tech debt that remains in the back burner. Just curious.
it got brought up as quick as it did here

at least on r/twitter
You may want to consider separating the UI from the Cloud Run container since it'll show nothing until the container cold starts, which is why I do that workflow in the repo.
That's because the amount of firepower you can cram on a stretch of coastline, is far greater than that of a ship.

The British had no reason to risk their ships, by shelling the European coastline. Little of the vital war-making industry was along the coast, and harbors and dockyards were heavily defended through geography, mines, and fixed coastal batteries.

Instead, the Royal Navy had complete sea superiority of the English channel. Trying to ship, and then support hundreds of thousands of soldiers, and thousands of tanks, on slow-moving barges, through the English channel, while being outnumbered 4:1 by the opposing Navy would have been complete suicide.

Not to mention the months of supplies, that would also have to come over the channel, that any sort of invasion would require.

If, by some miracle, Operation Sealion actually made a landing on the British Isles, the most likely outcome of any such invasion would have been another Stalingrad. [1]

[1] In one of his speeches, Hitler quite famously stated that the Sixth German Army (after its encirclement in December 1942) would never leave Stalingrad.

He was not wrong.
Twitter Experiencing a Worldwide Outage Caused by a Service Disruption
Google provides some genuinely useful services, like Maps.

Facebook, on the other hand, isn't something that anyone really needs. What value does Facebook actually provide anyway, besides giving people a forum to post boring family photos for grandma to look at? I guess Facebook Marketplace can be sorta useful for selling your old junk, but that's the only thing that comes to mind.

Remember also that there's only two players in the smartphone market: Apple and Google (which makes the software and app store behind Android). If you loose Google and Android, that means everyone's going to be sorta forced into buying an iPhone unless they want to go back to flip-phones. Do you really want an Apple monopoly in your country?
I remember seeing something about Twitter bringing out a newer version, with more features and goodies. This could be related to that?

Rolling out new features is always stressful I guess.
Global warming was first becoming convincing in the 1960s, when the world's population was well under 4.0e9, but industrialised nations were enjoying post-WW2 economic prosperity.
Maybe something to confront decision makers at Boeing with as well...???
It means having the courage to do the right thing for your users instead of the thing that maximizes profits in the short term.

This. traditionally, is where you explain to me that it's patently absurd to ask a businessperson to care about anything but profit, or even to suggest that they could.
If you're buying from Shopify powered sites (which is not always transparent) or platforms like Etsy, the sellers never get your credit card number.
The reasoning is much simpler than that... the house wants its rake, that's it
My pet theory still is Huawei equipment being decommissioned.
That's a very thoughtful reply to my off the cuff response. Corporations and people do get to shop both taxes and benefits, but most individuals seem to treat them like a genetic condition.

There's value in competition, because it's about the closest we've been able to get to evolution. The issue comes about when competition is lopsided - I can understand the complaint here from the French, but I don't care at all for their solution.
Fine, but that doesn't address the point GP is making. This is a subject near and dear to my heart, since I am constantly frustrated by the opaque nature of functional programming tutorials on the internet. Functional composition is very difficult for beginners to pick up, and using single letter variable names for everything significantly compounds that problem. There are many concepts in FP that can elevate the craft of software design, and it's a tragedy that a lack of approachable instructional materials convinces most programmers that either they are not smart enough to learn it, or that it's Ivory tower nonsense. Ease of readability is a virtue in any programming environment, and I personally feel that the FP community as a whole should make lowering the barriers to entry a top priority. I'm grateful to all of the people working hard to bring functional programming to the masses, but I have a sneaking suspicion that many functional programming practitioners like that it looks complex and difficult to outsiders. Just my two cents.
Thanks!, That looks quite helpful.
> we aren't going to leave that person inside the car to die.

Well... we already did. https://www.autoblog.com/2019/02/25/fatal-tesla-model-s-cras...

People at the scene tried to break the windows, but the fire got too hot and they were forced to leave the man behind and get smoked inside of the fire.

People are already dead because they were unable to be extracted from a damaged Tesla S. The only question now is how will Firefighters respond to the NEXT crash, and will they be prepared this time?

Also, Tesla probably should change the design of their cars to make for better emergency extractions, to minimize this risk. Obviously, doors and stuff will break and become unable to open during a crash situation. But when you have electronic handles that pop up and very confusing instructions for "emergency door" things in your manual (open the side compartment, look for a particularly colored wire, and pull on it? That's too complex, most people won't be able to do that while suffering from a concussion + fearing for the fire that's engulfing them).

Falcon Wing doors / Fancy handles are all fun and games until you consider the crash + burning situation. It really does make for a difficult extraction.
The most expensive areas tend to be more "central"/have better access by public transit.
Can't cheat physics. Batteries include their own fuel, oxygen and ignition source. Once you mix them all together there WILL be fire.
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There's also XS6 engine. But I dislike the macro trickery in that one.

Looks like QuickJS doesn't use setjmp/longjmp, as opposed to duktape. I really like this, as it will simplify memory management inside C functions, and allow to use gcc cleanup functions.
That alternative existed before Twitter, and will continue to exist after Twitter
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In principle you can get pretty far with racket/gui despite it's limited amenities because you can roll your own widgets with canvas. However I too ran into wanting to create a drag source (not merely target) for files and couldn't find a reasonable way.

To be honest though, I think the biggest missed opportunity in racket is the single dispatch object system, used particularly by racket/gui. For some reason the core racket folks weren't smitten with CLOS and didn't go the Guile route of implementing something similar to it (Guile has GOOPS, which is related to Tiny-CLOS.)
I'm going to boldly assume you're not living in the US? If so, this all makes more sense to me. The same way I might have vague opinions about the UK (Boris seems like a goofus, May did a pretty poor job handling Brexit, etc) I have no clue what the day to day politics are actually like.

Just interested in people who frame statements the way you did. As another poster said, sometimes it's meant as "If I say I don't care about this, when people disagree with me I can troll them by pointing out how little I care" but I understand your point of view.

Thanks for clearing things up!
There can be a need for a technology team on a big player, but for most its not necessary. Dick's Drive-In in Seattle doesn't need much more than a mailing list, a shopify site for merch and an HTML site. They use doordash for online orders. They use an off-the-shelf PoS system and they can buy into whatever timecard system they want.
I follow individuals and hardly notice what instance they're on. Do y'all subscribe to whole instances? FWIW, I'm on maly.io.
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1. Wow, Twitter is down.

2. I bet it’s trending. Let me check.

3. …

4. Oh.
I work in embedded programming. You can reach me at my username at gmail.com. It's not quite robotics but feel free to reach out to me if you want more info
For what it's worth, there actually are kill switches on the sides of the ICE buses that service my university campus. Opening the little hatch and pushing the button disconnects power from the battery and kills the engine.

I imagine it's useful in situations where the engine has caught fire and you need to stop fuel flow ASAP. I've never heard of people abusing it, probably because everyone on board the bus including the driver could easily ID the wrongdoer. Of course, private personal vehicles are a different story.
IIRC, this blatant miscategorization of vehicles is what ultimately killed the Mini Clubman Panel van from being a possible thing in the United States (in addition to it being a supremely weird vehicle.)
A lot of people would have guessed that a program running mostly on warm fuzzies and hope wouldn't be good at producing skilled workers.
Or, if you had any shame, its growth would be up and to the right!
Reminds me of the Black Mirror 'Smithereens' episode where Jack is the yoga meditating hippie, but this time he decides to finally shut it down
Wait so you stole rewards for a team that was spending time (I assume extra or stressful) on something you didn't do or have any part in.

The HR department in my company does this, and then redistributes the gifts to everyone in a random drawing at the Christmas party.

One year some department got a bunch of PlayStations, and a couple of them ended up in my department. The only thing my department contributed to the kitty was candy. I bet some people in that other department were disappointed.
Which is actually a good idea: increase tax on revenues for companies using tax-evasion schemes until it is no longuer profitable for them to continue doing so.

Also, consider the fact that tax evasion is a crime in most countries and that this is a very bland measure when compared to what these companies (and their executives) really reserve.
A big use case for python is glue for high performance c/c++ code. How is racket at this? Also, is there a cython alternative for racket? I would also argue that, though racket may have more batteries included, there are definitely not as many externally developed libraries. Especially important are numpy/scipy/pandas/pysam, the list could go on...
That's not to say that I'm against racket, I really like the language and its level of design and documentation.
> If there are no alternative to AWS, Google Adsense, or an American SaaS in France; the French people will be paying all of the tax. The big tech giants will just slap them with a 3% surcharge for being in France.

Just like VAT is passed on to consumers? I don't think the goal is to make specific companies pay; rather, the goal is to have every type of economic activity to contribute a fair share to the society they benefit from. Digital activity currently contributes relatively little due to being more amenable to tax evasion schemes, so this tax mitigates that. How the exact amount is subsequently distributed among the parties in that activity is not that relevant.
I have done that before.

Never followed by a '+' though.
Can someone explain the joke (about the beer) because I genuinely don't understand

edit: pretty please
You could say that about all pricing everywhere. Seems like a waste of breath.

Also doesn't change the upstream clarification that you don't need to buy a new device to get a new battery.
A tax on revenue is very different than a tax on profit.
I was in the middle of a loosely legal argument about the politics of my country, and tonight I had found obliging people to reason with me instead of calling me names.

The discussion was beautiful, until the app stopped working. I even thought I was blocked. I'm glad that it's just down.
Reddit was also partially down this morning.
What didn't you like about working for Google?
This gives me hope that one day I will be able to run a startup. The big tech companies aren't too different than the rest of us after all...
The trillion-dollar taboo: why it’s time to stop ignoring mental health at work
Exyn Raises $16M Series A to Fly Its Drones Under the Radar
ahh..another "configuration change" ?
Yes, I think people tend to underestimate the chaos some malicious actors could do by even "just" coordinated litteral burning of stuff. Think a dozen people with cans of gasoline and matches spread over three different suburbias in a city, wooden churches or other wooden buildings of interest. Or simple firebombs on underground subway plattforms. Would probably not be that lethal but I guess very frighting.

(Not even mentioning explosives etc, but this could probably be prepared in like an hour by just purchasing supplies at local gas stations in any country)
It's #1. The real question is how this isn't blindingly obvious to everyone.
It's not new: Germany had toilets on submarines for many years before this. Germany had U-boats back in WWI. Did they have toilet problems like this before? If not, then this is a bad design.
Is that beer story satire?
Ah yes. The engineer would tell you we can move when we want. The manager would tell you it is harder than it looks. Management would tell you it will never happen. :-)

See it as reducing startup risk and deferring the payment to when you become successful and have money/time to throw at problem. Though there are best practices to do it in a clean way so moving is easier.

Do you know some known gotchas here?
> We got so engrossed in the details of this topic that half an hour passed before we noticed that everyone had stopped working and was running around in a frenzy. Someone finally ran over and asked him if he was doing a query, he hit Control-C, and Twitter came back up.

This would not be out of place as a scene in Silicon Valley