skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, there is a real aspect of "old age," where cognitive function declines, taking savvy with it. It might be known as "dementia" or "senility" when it is very advanced, but subtle changes can happen for years or decades prior for some people. It's been painful watching an ~80 year old relative---definitely tech savvy for most of his life---as he slowly loses his upper-hand on his own technology.

This is someone who worked on radar systems, cryptographic systems, computers, power electronics, control systems, and measurement systems in the military and civilian worlds from the 1960s to early 2000s. He built his own kit electronics for home audio and later a ZX-80 computer. He followed the whole PC revolution from the CP/M and DOS days to Windows 7. He participated in BBS systems in the 1980s and used the Internet since around 1991. He exposed his children and friends to science and tech.

He followed countless changes from minicomputers and teletypes, to PCs with CRTs and text CLIs, to window-based GUIs. Then, he started to struggle with the abstractions of these same GUIs as well as web sites. He struggles to identify the boundaries between different programs and content, like some novice user who never understood how it was all put together. Worse, he is aware of this struggle and of his losses. I can see that it frustrates him daily. Once in a while, I'd say it terrifies him.
Lots of good Roman mapping resources previously on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8146055

I personally really enjoyed http://orbis.stanford.edu/ which maps between cities, even telling you how many dinarii it would have cost via various methods. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a layer with modern city names, so you have to know that, e.g., Budapest was Aquincum in Roman times.
...Or you get bard
> the kubler-ross grief model

That model is really outdated, and was never meant to be the linear model it is so often presented as. I imagine you were speaking lightly, but it's important to call this out.

My wife is a grief counselor, and that is the clearest thing I've learned from her, and it's the single most important thing to share when people are dealing with grief. The prolonged use of this model in society and popular culture leads people to believe that we're supposed to progress through grief, and at some point "get over it". But grief is cyclical, and it's different for everyone.

Environmental grief is real, and it's a pretty crazy time to be a parent. How do you help your kid understand that the world you brought them into is quickly collapsing?
It's funny because microservices are explicitly targeted at solving problems for development with many teams, and lots of single team companies cargo cult them. Did they miss the first paragraph when they were reading up on what microservices are?
I'm curious if there are other examples of this type of partnership, where companies provide services to YC cos in exchange for equity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."
At the 30.72 MS/s rate, 2k FFT size, 1201 subcarriers occupied per FFT, QAM256 on each subcarrier, 4x4 MIMO, you get ~576Mbps max throughput (pure number of bits transferred per second). This ignores encoding, cyclic prefix, and all the other overheads associated with the LTE protocol.
GC is more than just pauses. Throughput matters too; in fact, it often matters more than latency (for example, when writing batch jobs like compilers).
To be fair, I spend the same amount of time on resource management in C++ too (compared to Rust). Unless I'm writing a data structure (happens occasionally) or some explicit resource management layer (texture pool, mesh LOD system, etc), I delegate management/ownership to the system designed to handle it.
> Otherwise, Amazon feels like AliExpress with faster shipping and better English.

I canceled prime some time ago, because I realized I was getting significantly lower quality products than Walmart. Its become a junk store.
I know it's off-topic, but fuck Medium. No, I don't want to join. From now on, I will not click links to Medium!

(I'm tired of deleting their stupid cookies just to read a goddamned blog post.)
I used to think like this, but it isn't true. After riding flats, rat traps, and clipless, I can say with confidence that clipless peddles are more efficient when climbing hills. I don't think it is as much about providing power on the bottom as it is about being able to pull up while going through the top. It especially makes it easier to keep a consistent tension while doing long uphill climbs. Rat traps work too, but I found they would catch on things constantly. That said, I use a pedal which is clipless on one side, and flat on the other. Depending on the situation I might use one side or the other (i.e. I might switch to my flats if I am riding in a busy downtown area where I might have to stop unexpectedly). Good technique will of course help you whether you are using clipless or flats.
There are still stories among the Klamath indians regarding the eruption of Mount Mazama some 7700 years ago: https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/mt_mazama
This is getting too long to respond to all of these. So I will just address your first points:

>1. That you know what time of day you lost weight in.

I have no idea when _fat_ was processed, never my point. I know _exactly_ when my weight diminished. (I feel like I did not make this point very clear before)

>2. That you know you lost weight primarily through your urine.

>You did not control for water weight when testing either of these hypotheses.

It is well understood method to weigh yourself every morning to ensure you aren't measuring water weight loss. Feel free to argue against this standard, it's not my personal belief. I do believe doctors and physical trainers, etc... all use this standard.
I disagree that they've had a good track record.

https://www.martinvigo.com/even-the-lastpass-will-be-stolen-...

https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/836619941805764609

https://twitter.com/taviso/status/843965519371812864

I've seen very few security researchers recommend it, while they will recommend other services.
as someone who has only worked on small teams, i thought this was normal. My current position is leading a small team, but we have interactions with a number of teams inside of FANG companies and it's amazing the limited amount of knowledge and access each position/person has. Most of my engineers can run circles around our partners.

I always thought every engineer should know how to deploy a server, install deps, understand caching, etc and setup an app... turns out, that is apparently not even remotely expected at most companies. I guess the bigger the company the more narrow the skillset required.
This reminds me of the way Meteor was hyped up. Except now with vendor lock-in at the language level.
> Amazon Basics products

haven't had much luck with their Amazon Basics keyboards... went through 2 and then gave up and bought an IBM one...
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-4484/27/7/07...
Someone who has been doing this for years before serverless existed can set up and manage this infrastructure trivially, using almost no time compared to developing the application and the business. It also provides you with security: you know the pitfalls and the problems with hosting these, serverless is another new technology which can go wrong.
I wasn't aware of this. Thank you for bringing it to my attention.
Well, either way you are gonna separate bones from flesh.

But I guess deflected is the right term in this context
Same here, have placed hundreds of orders on Amazon UK in the last few years and have never really had any problems. The rare few times i've had problems then a call to customer support has usually had the issue resolved right away and quite often with a discount voucher for the next shop.
How is amazon a monopoly?

Last time I checked there was a ocean of e-commerce stores on the internet all selling the same stuff
This is really awesome and even if it doesn't "win" is a glimpse of a future where you can build a full scale tech company and nobody needs to know about things like k8s and "service meshes".

This is obviously very early but for doing basic backend stuff there's so many smart things here going on already that it's already 10x better for the use cases they're targeting.

The one thing that didn't get covered in the "Dark in action" video that should have is where do the twilio/slack tokens get stored? I'm sure there's some environment/global variable somewhere UI somewhere but the fact that it's alluded to but never shown is an annoying omission.

If they work on a ton of integrations (which is super annoying work unfortunately) I could see this being a big competitor to Zapier or the whole "glue" type infra work that so many companies deal with. If they take a marketplace approach where people can build "blocks" that are easily shared that would be a big deal. And considering they run the whole stack, monetizing the sharing of blocks would be a cool business model too.
Cheslea can't invoke her fifth amendment right against self-incrimination because she has already been convicted.

If she had been pardoned, that conviction would be null, and her fifth amendment right would apply. She would have a strong legal defence to avoid being thrown in jail.
Latency of Native Functions for Erlang and Elixir (2017)
Thank you. I figured I was probably missing something on that point.
GUI is definitely an open problem in Rust, but to be fair, cross platform GUI is hard. In all of programming, it seems that Qt is about the best that we have when it comes to cross platform GUI, and I don't think most Rust developers care enough about Windows to write and maintain native Windows-only GUI libraries. C# (or I guess F# or any of the other .NET languages) is definitely a better fit for Windows UI programming.
> Your argument there essentially boils down to taste and fear.

I suspect the larger factor may simply be familiarity. It is very rare to see a balanced piece about some programming language - let alone one about two programming languages - where the author has an equal and substantial amount of experience with both and is really able to compare them on their merits.
Oh this has been a thing for quite a while now

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3073117/man-pleads...

Though probably not to the level of detail that you've suggested
One thing I run into after filtering by seller is where Amazon is selling one color or size of a product, but if you change the size or color options, the seller changes.
Go is good at getting things done..until it isn't and you bump your head on the ceiling.

I know Go and Haskell equally well, and I get just as much shit done in Haskell and don't have to be a copy-paste machine sometimes. There are many benefits of Haskell and like-minded languages besides being "beautiful."

Feels like if the Go designers had the sense to include parametric polymorphism and sums (aka proven features from the 70's whose main "downside" is being weird to Go's target audience), it would be a great middleground.
Open-Source Python Apps (free and commercial) generated with automation tools
Rustler is a library for writing Erlang NIFs in safe Rust code
Plenty of people were living on this land before europeans arrived.

Edit: to elaborate, if you asked them who was more evil, you'd get different answers. Trevor Noah has a great section on this in his book about an upbringing in South Africa:

> “The name Hitler does not offend a black South African because Hitler is not the worst thing a black South African can imagine. Every country thinks their history is the most important, and that’s especially true in the West. But if black South Africans could go back in time and kill one person, Cecil Rhodes would come up before Hitler. If people in the Congo could go back in time and kill one person, Belgium’s King Leopold would come way before Hitler. If Native Americans could go back in time and kill one person, it would probably be Christopher Columbus or Andrew Jackson. ”
At least there was injustice highlighted in Dickens.

Shylock the Jew wants a pound of flesh, in any interpretation of the work, teaches you nothing except Shakespeare was just another man of his times, who said words goodly.
So I guess that's where the article author got the "LTE speed". It was probably from some aussie mobile operator's "theoretical maximum speed" number or similar.
>Reliable enough to say "Wind will provide at least this much power, even on a "non-windy" day.

That pretty much means nothing. How close is that guaranteed minimum to the maximum deliverable or expected daily average power?
Thanks for sharing, though Google Translate leaves something to be desired. I'm interested in how the CPP views overseas students since hearing about a small controversy at a southern US university:

https://vanderbilthustler.com/25557/featured/vpr-deletes-res...
I once posted a negative review on their Basics HDMI cable, which had absymal shielding. It went "under review" immediately, and a few days later the review just silently vanished without a trace.
The World's First Floating Dairy Farm
Playing with FFmpeg C Code in Elixir
Cobol: Letters that if put on CV would ensure stable income for greybeard coder
I look at it in a systems way. If it /doesn't/ serve those with any actual wealth to back the currency to use it then the question becomes why would anybody use it? I don't see how it could work at all even without some vague nebulous bogeyman stopping it. It brings to mind the conspiratorial "big Pharma is withholding the cure" thinking while ignoring that selling the cure would make them way more, that the long term treatment is competitive, and a cure effectively monopolizes the whole segment of drugs and treatments. The real reason cures are rare is because they are /hard/.

With large buy in from lesser concentrations of wealth it could be a "peso" at best - something used by lesser wealths to trade to their localized advantage but lacking the power of big movers.
The best way to validate a product idea is to build the product. And even that might not validate the idea itself due to poor execution.

The other surrogate (but faster) options:

- Build a web site and check traction/conversion rates

- Create a believable video from prototypes, show it to target customers and attentively watch face/eyes reactions (don't believe in compliments), look for phrases like "can I buy it?" or at least "can I use it now?"

- Learn how target customers work and try to build a mental mapping of your idea to their workflow. If you idea makes it significantly better (less tools, less time, etc), then maybe you have something real.

- Don't build MVP to validate the idea. They usually suck. In some cases they work, but only for a laser-sharp idea. If you have one, go for MVP.
This is completely off-topic, but thank you for running geocode.xyz! I'm a very satisfied user :)
I was having a conversation the other day with a principle JavaScript engineer who's been in the industry for 20 years. I asked him, "What's the use-case for Node in industry? It's so much slower than other server platforms, which in the age of the cloud translates directly to real expense. Is it only used by startups who need maximum agility?"

His answer was that for larger companies, server costs are orders of magnitude cheaper than payroll. It's often much more valuable for a company to improve their development process than server performance. So high-productivity (and ease of hiring) technologies like Node and Go can end up being a really good business tradeoff in terms of actual dollars, even if they result in double or triple the server costs.
Show HN: Cloud container to maintain PCI compliance
Bacterial co-infection is a risk with viral infections, the problem is that antibiotics have been prescribed as a first line script when it isn't indicated.
exactly. no boundless protection for your capital/investments. you can do all kinds of other investments! but this kind of structure pushes corps to become "walk over dead bodies" evil, and investors not giving a shit.
I’m not generalizing anyone, I’m intentionally describing only my personal experiences. I’m genuinely sorry if I made you feel generalized, and I fully recognize that I stand on the shoulders of giants.

Whether my time is coming or not is irrelevant though, I’m specifically targeting a unique generation that grew up without computers being a normalized aspect of their lives, and ruminating on the implications of that.

I also think the definition of “tech savvy” is a bit loose here, for me it’s that you can figure out how to navigate an interface like say Facebook and perform some task they rarely do (change their password maybe) without additional assistance. It’s a low bar
How about make the penalties so high that lawyers will compete to defect the innocent from frivolous lawsuits. Minimum of 2x legal costs max of 10x legal costs for the truly wtf worthy. Has the advantage of not shutting people out of the legal system.
How do you get all the podcasts audio and data?
for fighting fungal infections

Duh I meant fighting insects. B. thuringiensis has nothing to do with fungi.
Maybe just me, but I feel this thread is just validating everything he’s saying. Literally every comment is an explanation/excuse why you should use Rust or why Rust is better at literally everything.

Disclaimer: I’ve had a “few” beers so I might talking with my ass, but damn...
Exactly what I'd like to tell younger devs and students. You build smaller projects on the side for a bit to familiarize yourself with things until you're ready to start something or something comes along by way of the side projects!
A lot of people not realizing they've pushed potentially sensitive data to the public.
Amazingly the article refrains from providing any numbers for Australia. From the original report:

- 5G: 792mbps

- 4G: 950mbps

https://www.opensignal.com/blog/2019/07/08/5g-boosts-the-max...
I feel this article so hard on so many levels. I've experienced Dante's Enterprise.

BUT, regarding what I feel to be a false equivalency - Is Go truly right for the exact kind of Enterprise Mush that the Author is describing? Go was invented at Google to solve Google problems is the claim in TFA. And yet, Google is famous for having a very high bar for engineering hiring with a strong focus on CS prowess.

So, is the kind of code mush that gets created at Enterprises who put production code written by one-week-of-pluralsight Junior devs headed by analyst-preached-cargo-culting managers - the same as - the Software produced at Google? If not, does Go still fit that former zeitgeist?
Wow this is really interesting, never heard of this kind of cognitive bias
Saudi oil attacks: Why does the US hide oil underground?
I love these stories. I'm a one-person company too: contribsys.com.

My production server stack is Apache + some Ruby CGI scripts, to serve static files and handle billing webhooks. I spend less than an hour per week on devops maintenance.

KISS is the #1 principle when scaling a solo operation.
Sorry about that.

I guess being a long time part of Java eco-system, kind of gets tiring of having outsiders (in general, not referring to you) always mixing up Java with what comes with their PC, as if C would be defined by GCC.

As for the actual question, naturally having value types helps reduce GC pressure. Which on Java's case could be helped by trying out Graal or other JVMs that do better job at escape analysis than Hotspot. Alternatively, although it kind of is cheating, using the language extensions from either Azul or IBM for value types.

In any case, when inline classes (aka value types) arrive, Java can easily do the same as Go here.

JIT and de-optimizations play a role certainly, and are to blame for some performance impact, which can be further improved if a JVM like J9 gets used, given that it allows for PGO across runs.

Finally, while Hotspot has good defaults, tuning all the knobs is a science, even with help of J/Rockit and VisualVM, which opens the door for performance consulting.

The JVMs I mentioned, are targeted at soft real time deployment scenarios, as such they have APIs for low level control of memory management, while also supporting AOT with PGO compilation, thus allowing for low level fine tuning out of reach for the regular Java developers (pure Java SE implementations).
There is a subreddit dedicated to it @ reddit.com/r/floxies. There is a facebook page, which I honestly would not recommend, as it is really toxic.

Popping/clicking joints, and not intense pain just dull/achy. These drugs are known to cause peripheral nephropathy and tendinitis. I actually just read an interesting blog about a guy that is insanely fit, recently was given levaquin with prednisone, and continued to lift. Then, tendon in his arm snapped. He is documenting very well how his body is deteriorating and what new symptoms he is experiencing week to week. I think it would be worth posting on HN, I will send you a link when I find it.

Edit: It appears any flouroquinolone can cause these symptoms, this includes levaquin, cipro, avelox. Also, symptoms can develop after a single pill or 150 pills. It is insanely odd. Taking it with a steroid significantly increases chances of having a very negative reaction.
And does it make enough money to cover the time when it wasn't making money? As in: was the time spent bootstrapping worthwhile? The concept of a one-person company is extremely appealing in its simplicity and apparent lack of risk; however, the devil is in the details.
I've never understood what they really gain from doing this stuff. Most of the time they aren't even direct competitors they're suing.

Do the courts not view this stuff with context of the specific business they are in, in addition to legacy/common uses of the word?
Thank you for the kind words!

> The one thing that didn't get covered in the "Dark in action" video that should have is where do the twilio/slack tokens get stored? I'm sure there's some environment/global variable somewhere UI somewhere but the fact that it's alluded to but never shown is an annoying omission.

We actually just put them in functions. We haven't built a secret UI, and we didn't build global vars because functions do the same thing.

> If they work on a ton of integrations (which is super annoying work unfortunately) I could see this being a big competitor to Zapier or the whole "glue" type infra work that so many companies deal with. If they take a marketplace approach where people can build "blocks" that are easily shared that would be a big deal.

We plan to add a package manager so that packages (which could be wrappers of various APIs) can be shared. So similar to npm, rubygems, cargo, pypi, etc.
Which TV? It has adverts in the system menus?

Also, how did you block it from displaying them? Is it completely offline or maybe you're using a pihole?
What we know to be a copy by common sense, real world interpretation of the word "copy" is not necessarily what copyright law considers to be a "copy" for the purposes of enforcing copyright laws.

Is holding a book up to a half-silvered mirror making a copy of it? Is looking over someone else's shoulder as they read making a copy? Do the activation levels in a person's visual cortex count as a copy?

It may be useful to keep hairs unsplit, forget about the quantum mechanics of copying and focus on the observers. If there are two files with identical content on a filesystem such that only one user is authorized to read them, how many copies exist?

To me, that's two copies in fact, but one copy by copyright law, in that the second real-life copy is not separable from the first for the purposes of commerce. The act of changing the access permissions on the second identical file would be what makes it a copyright-copy, not the act of duplicating the bits.