skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’d say most of the properties you mention are highly undesirable, especially monorepo and single executable. But regardless, I think monolith has to be defined at the behavioral level: does one system perform multiple completely independent behaviors? Must you change the same singleton codebase/artifact to effect two totally separate concerns? And indeed this is basically why all types of “mono” workflows (monorepo/monoapp, whatever) are intrinsically bad designs. That you can solve problems in spite of this through intense extra scaffolding bolted into the mono stuff is not any type of endorsement that it’s a good way.
What kinds of things are you guys doing in Kotlin? Anything server-side?
One of the pleasures of HN for me is that when a shallow article is published, sometimes a bunch of people chime in and give more thorough explanations, e.g. the discussion here about the tradeoffs between the battery technologies used by Tesla versus Audi (and just about everyone else).

If the article serves as an invitation to a good conversation, I’m all for it. But of course, sometimes an article is so bad that the entire conversation is composed of people debunking its nonsense.

Or worse, certain highly emotional topics get posted, and everyone just yells past each other. Regardless of the quality of the OP, the conversation makes me feel like I lose 50 points of IQ when I read the comments.

I sum, I agree that sometimes, bad articles make for bad conversations. Did this one? Maybe, maybe not, I’ll accept your word for it if you think poorly of the quality of conversation around it.
I spent about 10 bitcoins on a coffee.

I've talked to loads of people with the same sort of story. Truth is that I never believed BTC could be worth what it is and in a way I still don't. I think its valuation is ludicrous given its economic design issues and scaling problems.

My take away from the whole saga is that it's totally debunked any notion that I had that markets or their participants are rational. I honestly find it a bit depressing. Maybe I should give up trying to do useful work and invent the next pet rock fad.
No,you can edit text,spreadsheets,etc...with office apps without using other programs. With ES you need some other separate program (even just curl) as opposed to the user interacting with the apps UI directly.
Thats the problem with people beeing forced to game ranking systems in order to advance starting from their childhood.

Of course we want to fight the impermanence, but we should not create a bubble to feel safe inside of it as a virtual environment with rules that doesnt change, just because we miss the peace in the maternal woomb.

The impermanence and uncertainty is a reality, we should not fight in order to avoid it by being alienated of its nature, but to use our science, math and tools after all to understand it, and to navigate better through it.

The XXI century requires a deep change in our philosophical disposition and culture.

Its not just about Google, the corporate culture of Google is a side effect of our culture as anything else that grows inside of it.

But the rigid schemes are a clear sign that it will stop innovating more and more with time as the old startup
status-quo defying spirit is completely gone.
Well, yes. There is a lesson here: if you don't know what half the buttons do, don't write a 10 page creed about how "less is more".
Persuasive Branding: Trump's Tweet Labeling of Comey
Personally I didn’t know it existed, so I’m happy someone posted the link. :)
Start with the rich.
As a complete noob yet somehow armed with a VS enterprise license...could you elaborate on

>* Faster iterations. (just hit F5 in visual studio)

Is this some sort of code sync to servers/cloud?
Will we end up with seasonal battery's? Many already accustomed to switching tiers in winter. Whilst temperature management of batteries would cover many aspects, some locations a better tuned battery would make it more efficient overall perhaps.

EDIT [s/riers/tires/;sleep]
We already have human livestock. We call them "human resources", "consumers", and "taxpayers".
This is why a lot of applications provide something like workspaces where you get to pick and choose a UI configuration based on the task at hand. I first saw this in Blender and Eclipse (Blender 2.80 has made this feature more prominent, but it's from the old 1.x days). Maya has this to some extent. Adobe has introduced this in Photoshop and some other products. And all of these programs allow you to come up with your own configurations, too. FreeCAD also has this kind of concept, but there the workspaces are actually pretty much corresponding to UI modes, even though you can switch bith independently.

The worst outlier here is Visual Studio. It has this kind of concept internally and keeps different UI configurations for editing and debugging. But you get zero control over that as a user. The UI switch when entering/leaving the debugger is hardcoded.
My only issue with Todoist is that it seems to crash instantly on my LineageOS device when attempting to sign in with email. I'd love to use it otherwise :(
Interoperability and default non-nullability are both advantages of Kotlin.
They might just be the core reason why America didn’t react on climate change and without the US there can be no relevant global reaction. So at the end... they could well be the reason if we walk off that cliff...

So yes I think they are on a different level especially for a university, a university that accepts money from people that are actively trying to fight science to harm everybody...
Very relevant to an amazing book I am reading I wish will never finish: The Terror, by Dan Simmons. A very descriptive novel about an antarctic expedition in the 19th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terror_(novel)
> crypto is clearly dead for some time now.

BTC went from 4000 USD six months ago to over 10 000 USD today.
If you really want to see the future of Scala look at ZIO (http://zio.dev)

By far the most interesting library I've seen on any platform in decades. It handles the most complex concurrency issues with ease. In my current project is has meant an order of magnitude less code to write. And the way you explicitly have to list what your function returns under every situation e.g. success and error is a real improvement in how Java/Scala works e.g. https://zio.dev/docs/datatypes/datatypes_io

And for web developer look at Slinky one of the nicest React implementations on any platform (https://slinky.dev)
Grouping is very useful, but I think you can get pretty far in practical patterns with a limit of k-nesting for k=0..3 or so. That pattern language would still be regular.
These people are dead broke with hundreds of thousands in back taxes. Jail might look like room and board at that point. Given the only use they made of the gains was to purchase something that no longer exists, the risk v reward in their specific instance seems well tilted towards crime.
> Ronan Farrow has Joi Ito inviting Epstein to the Media Lab, in person, and Epstein arriving with two escorts in tow so young that Lab staff had to debate among themselves whether to interview to rescue them from Epstein.

AFAIK there was no reason cited for their trafficking suspicion. It is not known whether the women with him at the time appeared to anyone to be underage.
Interesting,thanks for clarifying.
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Care to expand on that? Why can't you do both?
US tried to have universial income, 50 years ago under Nixon
> "real" analog

Best oxymoron I've seen in a while ("analog" literally means "simulating something else")
Related: I've found advice on this video to be very useful in terms of some actionable feedback that can be incorporated in your writing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtIzMaLkCaM
There is no official client, but their API is public and documented. I use Todoist https://github.com/sachaos/todoist as my daily driver. It has offline support and the integration with peco is sublime.
Mathematicians usually have more or less okay hair. Something to do with the blood flow from all that thinking.
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Not sure how anyone can say Scala has no future when Scala 3 is around the corner:

https://medium.com/@sinisalouc/whats-new-in-scala-3-28d9c11e...
I buy the music, because I want to support the artists.

I buy the CD-format, because in theory, I can do that anonymously (cash at the store). I don't buy the vinyl, because I explicitly want the digital format (see my reply to another comment on this thread as to why).

I rip the CD, because, well, my phone doesn't have a CD-drive (wow, that would be weird...).

At this point... I'd actually throw away the CD, because I hate having stuff. I don't care about showing off my collection to anyone, nor do I care about collectibles, but having stuff is just... cumbersome. But alas, I don't throw away the CD, somewhat because of sentimentality and also because if you have a physical copy of digital data, that's not a bad thing to keep, just in case, so ok, it stays.

Considering a vinyl is analog and also more cumbersome, I think it's pretty clear why I prefer the CD.
> then you come arbitrarily close to any other point in the room

It looks like the claim is that all but a finite number of points are actually achieved. This is a stronger result -- you can easily prove from that claim that you can get arbitrarily close to any point (because a neighborhood of any radius contains an infinite number of points, and therefore contains a point that is achieved), but you can't go the other way. It's quite possible to be arbitrarily close to every point while failing to hit an infinite number of points.
Don't think about this in terms of hiding features. That isn't the goal. The task is to put them somewhere in the UI wherentheyncan be explored and discovered while not being prominent. Hiding implies that features cannot be discovered by exploring the UI, which os rarely a good thing.
It’s been a while but ...

The focus on cyborgs a year after The Six Million Dollar Man TV show kind if shows how much a product of the times it was. But, that’s the surface.

The way it portrayed both hacking and brain machine interfaces was wildly off base and basically copied from other science fiction. Virtual reality for example goes back to 1933. Main character being a druggy is fairly common in that time period, again not a big deal. As is copping tone from other works etc.

All the big stuff is forgivable, but he also copies little things like replacing liver and kidneys to better filter the blood and thus prevent someone from getting high / poisoned etc. Sounds good, but blood takes around a minute to circulate and most of it does not hit either on the way. It might reduce how long someone stays high or improve their chances when poisoned, but it’s really not enough to prevent it.

Granted I prefer hard sci-fi, but the novel’s focus is really on style over science fiction. It’s IMO somewhere between space opera and fantasy.
> To me, an opportunity is when you see a path to enhancing your success. It is not automatically success, and does not imply that no effort is required on your part.

It's not lack of effort that defines opportunity but the reduction of risk. If someone offers me an opportunity, that means I can work hard and have more of a guarantee of success than if I went and did something else.

Opportunity means it's not just your intuition, effort, and resourcefulness that mitigates risk. Some other factor is helping. Some other company or person is offering you crucial advice and resources. Like Dr. Dre mentoring Eminem. That's an opportunity. You have to get lucky to find one, and then you have to be ready to jump on it.

Getting to the top of a mountain always takes effort, it's just a question of how much it takes to get to the top and whether the direction you pick is the right one.
Maybe true for rock concerts. Definitely false for classic or jazz live performances.
In the USA, at least, they aren't required to provide a time/place, but they would be required to compensate you for it, by the Fair Labor Standards Act [1]. It sounds exactly like "Lectures, Meetings and Training Programs", which means it qualifies as "working time". It's on the clock.

[1]: https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs22.pdf

Schedule a workday to spend reading the book, or bill the company for taking up half your weekend.

If this worker is in a union, this is precisely the sort of issue to take up with the steward. Most programmers aren't, but apparently non-union workers already have an "an open and direct dialogue" with their managers, though it's kind of hard to tell if that's the case here since the manager is the one who can't seem to schedule one simple task for the employee.
I only buy vinyl because, funnily enough, it lasts. CDs scratch and become unlistenable. I’ve also had multiple name brand players crap out on me. Record players are much more reliable - and much easier to fix.

Also, in my favorite genre - electronic music - artists no longer put out CDs. So I pretty much don’t have a choice.
I don’t understand your point... there are lots of paid self-hosted apps?
I think that was mainly due to early EVs having low battery capacities in general (because batteries cost a lot more then) so daily commuting would cycle them much more deeply than current high-capacity models. This 2017 article[1] shows battery life data for hundreds of Tesla Model S's (which have always come with large-capacity batteries). One of the highest-mileage cars in their data pool had just over 220k km (137k mi) on its battery with 90% of the original capacity remaining. There are also a few outliers with under 100k km that are below 90% capacity, I suspect those are cars that have been subject to a lot of long drives and supercharging.

[1] https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1110149_tesla-model-s-b...
'Google's Chrome Has My Dead Grandpa's Data and He Never Used the Internet'
Perhaps those academic institutions should simply offer tenure much faster if they want to keep these professors.

It is hard to compete on money with the industry, but this is something that universities can offer.
When Elon Musk Realised China's Richest Man Is an Idiot ( Jack Ma)
> Rules of thumb often don't work for outliers.

How much more of an outlier can you get than a subway system in NYC when the rule of thumb is for single family homes nationwide?
Please add a sound option when ticking off items. This is honestly the only reason I am with Wunderlist over the other TODO apps/sites. Such a small feature but gives a lot of joy!
I recently re-watched “The Internet’s Own Boy”, about Aaron Swartz and his tragic end.

Seeing how MIT had no problem ruining the life of one of the most brilliant members of my generation over commercial interest said a whole lot about MIT’s role in the world.

This clearly isn’t a new issue for MIT, they’ve been making ethically questionable decisions for years.
Isn't readability more important then typing a few less characters? We spend more time reading the code so readability is more important IMO.
I though we are not so much edging up to mass extinction as we we are squarely in the mass extinction with both feet. We changed environment so much that it's unavoidable.
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She’s killing the scene now
Yikes, any place where a senior manager or executive exudes the attitude “do more with less” is a place to avoid.
Multiprocessing vs. Threading in Python: What Every Data Scientist Needs to Know
Mathematics is a uniquely beautiful field to me. The commutative property has always struck me as special in its own way. 2 x 3 = 3 x 2 feels so obvious, but multiplication is really just addition, and 2 + 2 + 2 = 3 + 3 is far less intuitive, yet states the very same claim.

Most fascinating to me is that many theories are effectively 1-way functions. Entire branches of mathematics have been developed to prove otherwise trivially stated claims. It is something to marvel at, if from a safe distance.
Is Facebook still running on some kind of PHP variant?
Thanks for your work on todoist. I've used it religiously for almost 2 years and I can't imagine using something else now. There are a lot of softwares out there where I use more than one (IDEs, browsers, music players, operating systems), but nothing compares to todoist for me.
You can get some intuitive understanding of “the wave” as something in space only when you have one single particle. But as soon as you have two interacting particles what you have is a single wave function which is a (complex) function of six parameters (three coordinates for each particle). Add more particles - and their spins - and pretty soon you cannot “understand” anything at all from the wavefunction on its own.
I thought Netflix?
Using Videogames to Study Japanese
The thing is that when you’re hiring, assuming you have some autonomy in the process, your ‘minimum requirements’ are always somewhat negotiable. If someone is truly amazing in an important skill that you need, but doesn’t meet some other so-called requirements, you very well might hire that person, even choosing them over others that do meet all the ‘requirements’. At the same time, you do want to establish some sort of minimum bar so you aren’t swamped with wildly underqualified applicants. You just hope the exceptional people will realize that they’re exceptional and that exceptions can always be made. It’s a difficult balance to get right.

That said, I totally understand the frustration. These should not be called requirements, since they aren’t really, but this is just how life works. You’re better off adjusting to the fact that there’s always wiggle room than becoming bitter about it.
Not going to happen. Apple has a very realpolitik approach to it's totalitarianism. China is not an adversary Apple can take on, by it's own internal judgement. Hence, iCloud China runs on Chinese government controlled cloud with possibly full access to data. Hence, WeChat and co. will never be meted out the same draconian polices that companies without state patronage get.
A Mountain Top Called ‘Little Man’ Falls in Norway, and Residents Celebrate
If you're playing in a noisy environment like a car then some dynamic range compression will make it sound better.
To be clear: I'm referencing to the part of the article where the author irrationally asserts that [list of one party's policies unrelated to the climate] are related to the climate.

Hence "more political than scientific."
It gets press, but it also a legitimate training technique in many fields. There is something to be said for living and breathing nothing but your job for a period of time. Stress and the ability to perform despite stress is also something that must be learned through experience. Doctors, attorneys, the entire military ... the juniors are run through a few years of long hours and horrible conditions. The downsides have to be weighed against the training value.
As a mathematician, I have noticed that people that like to build something that, for example, can fly, start from a paper plane; they don't get discouraged because they can't yet build a 737 aircraft. However, in math, you need a lot of experience before you can even judge whether a problem is in fact a 737 and not a paper plane (and even then, you can be mistaken). I often see students discouraged because of this and that's why I suggest taking it slow from the beginning.

> Every now and then I try to delve into the frightening world of math.

To want to understand is to be human. :)
So happy to see this happening! I've also been advocating for more community development and knowledge sharing in this space. I believe there's a huge unfulfilled need to connect the industry more on these topics. I've also been organizing an event in the space, and looking at the possibility to land a special interest group in larger organizations that can support our community. I'll drop you a line!
Wave Function Collapse in Python (2018)
This is a pretty interesting view, probably could be operationalized for web sites and apps with analytics data.
I've noticed a trend of basically any PhD who knows Python getting hired to join any of the many growing "data science" teams in large companies. Despite having PhDs (usually in non-related fields like biology or even education) most of these people know very little about engineering, statistics, CS and surprisingly science. All they know how to do is stitch together a bunch of keras code and try to get some arbitrary cost function drop.

I immediately realized that we are definitely in some kind of bubble, and that last time I saw this was the dotcom era. The new HTML is python + some NN library. As soon as the next recession really hits companies are going to realize that the majority of these data science projects are just huge houses of cards that provide questionable value. I honestly miss the post-dotcom era, where nearly everyone in tech was genuinely interested in the field and solving interesting problems.

I guess enjoy the fact that salaries are high and work is stupidly easy to get now, I suspect the party will be over pretty soon.
"Driving a wildly painted car is like using my real name on the internet.

Is it uncomfortable?

Yeah. Sometimes it is. Honesty and transparency can be searing. But it’s also real."
Of course js is the fastest. It's built to be cold started in the browser.
It doesn’t matter whether a nuclear scientist and a fully staffed lab were in that sensor “bed” or not. It’s near enough for them to want it destroyed.
The NYT enjoys a significant brand aura which blinds many to the significant editorial and journalistic misconduct commited by the organization.
To add to that, the one of the biggest takeaways from the video, and what is also mentioned in this post, is to 'open people’s eyes by proving the status quo wrong'.

People only read things if they find value in what you have written - they are less likely to pay attention if the article is written in a way that best demonstrates how much you (the writer) know about something. And, showing readers that their understanding might have some gaps is a good way to sustain their interest.
Manifesto itself is mostly bullshit.

Also agile did not made managers go out of way. They have daily standups, sprints, tiny 4 hours long max tasks to track and and generally more day to day control and more ability to poison every single day instead of just some days.

There are plenty of good or irrelevant managers that poison nothing. But those who do are not minimize by agile at all.
There's extra value and there's nostalgia and a shared-ness. But the question is, who's still going to buy them when there's a huge carbon tax proportionate to having a quarter-gigabyte of data on ten ounces of plastic shipped across the planet... that's when a lot of people will realize they haven't bought a record in years but still listen to music every day imho.
Their Node runtime (based on 8.x) is now the fastest, but I note that Node 12 includes the version of v8 that supports snapshots. Node 12 goes LTE next month and from what I understand, once snapshots could give Node another significant start-up speed boost.
It becomes hard to discuss "1Password for Linux" without knowing if you mean 1Password.com or the old 1Password, with .opvault locally and/or synced to Dropbox-esque

However, if it's the latter, KeePassXC now knows how to read the .opvault format: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/1462 I could imagine teaching it to write their opvault file format, too, but at the time it wasn't a use-case that I needed

I would actually suspect teaching KeePassXC to read the 1Password.com cached vault would be even easier, since they now use sqlite3 for storage, but it would still -- afaik -- be confined to your local machine since their web API is undocumented
I would love to reflect back on this article in the year 2119 after we have broken through 3-4C of warming and see how accurate it was.