skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no == there, not that strong of a claim, just "if [A], then more likely [B] than without prior [A]" ...if you have endless time (or a few PhD students you can task to research literature for free) and patience search for studies about "associations between [A] and [B]" dig and dig through things.

I avoid making a stronger claims bc it would require too much work to research it, do it yourself if you want do (dis)confirm, I'm just "throwing a bone here", too lazy to think or research more about it :)...
Seems like you're correct. I unflagged.
For me in the US I went from talking like a lunatic to talking about yesterday’s news. Frustrating to say the least.
> An iPhone or an iPad is just a device for consumption.

Absurd. There are a huge number of tasks for which, if I'm only allowed one device to accomplish it, I'd definitely take an iPad over a laptop. Practically anything involving photography or recording video or audio, for instance. Many sorts of art. Music, depending on the task. If allowed an external keyboard it's better than a laptop for writing in some environments—the decoupled device & keyboard allow for more flexibility in arranging print outs, books, and any other stuff you need.

For some of it an iPhone, even, is better than a laptop or desktop. And it fits in my pocket. A laptop doesn't.

Slab-of-glass type computers are worse at some things than traditional desktops and laptops but wildly better than "normal" computer at a ton of others, especially given space or budget constraints. The statement that tablets and phones are consumption devices to a greater degree than other computers is very wrong and I can't believe it keeps popping up so often, after all this time.

[EDIT] I also object to dividing consumption and creation so neatly. Consumption is part of all sorts of creation tasks. Maybe most. When you look something up on SO has a switch flipped and now you're "consuming" rather than "creating"? If I'm reading a recipe on my tablet is that consumption? What if I'm cooking at the same time? Scanning back through a video on some home improvement project to check my work while I'm working? For that matter, add "basically anything that involves doing things in the real world" to the list of creative activities for which I'd take a phone or tablet to assist me, both as a relevant-media display device and as a tool itself, over a laptop. I use my iPhone a ton just about any time I do actual doing-real-world-stuff work.
Since most candidates are running on a platform of promising more free things, it doesn't seem likely.
I wouldn’t suggest that anybody needs a smart watch in order to meditate. I get a lot of value out of it myself. I enjoy keeping metrics such as heart rate and using reminders and tracking the time I’ve spent meditating. Your mileage may vary.
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I recently listened to a podcast featuring Dr Matt McCarthy, who is an infection diseases physician and ethics professor and who authored the book Superbugs[1].

He did a good job (to a layperson such as myself anyway) of explaining why big pharma don't have much incentive to develop new antibiotics, possible financial interventions that may makes sense, and the alternative treatments that are being developed.

I haven't read the book, but he's done quite a bit of press around it on podcasts, youtube etc. Definitely worth a listen to learn more about the topic.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/42878826-superbugs
Lots of words without much value, just like FP!

Seriously, why is this on the homepage? Doesn't contain anything interesting about FP.
The biggest hurdle in IKEA’s quest to become a tech company might be IKEA itself
Resistance to antibiotics would take us back to 1900, not to the brink of annihilation.

My point isn't to dismiss the problem, just that it would mean things like surgery being much riskier, not massive die offs.
Quantum advantage may not be the perfect term, but it seems to be a better fit than quantum supremacy. The former term conveys a sense that it has a limited scope, while the latter seems to imply that it beats classical across the board, or in the majority of cases, or even just in the ones we care about.

I get that the term quantum supremacy was coined long ago, by people who were most likely not looking at the event with the degree of granularity that our present technologies require. It's just unfortunate that what made sense on a macro level becomes illogical when looking at the minutiae.

Although I suppose this IS fitting in a way, since it parallels quantum mechanics itself.
plasma gasification is very energy intensive but in theory at least it releases more energy than you put in. I think all the operational plants right now still use slightly more energy than they capture. And some of them (like the tiny ones aboard US aircraft carriers) don't even attempt to capture the energy created.
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Sorry I have a bad habit of making a comment and then actually writing it in full. I should stop that.
As examples please see Elizabeth Holmes/Theranos or Adam Neumann/WeWork neither of whom were Eton educated.

I don't think it is an issue just with people educated in certain schools.
It is stateless in that sense. To run your lambda, there needs to be zero things in memory, unlike a traditional express/django/rails or other non-serverless apps.

If your lambda involves persistent storage, your testing might want to wipe or prepopulate the DB with some objects first, but that's not hard and doesn't add complexity, and as mentioned you don't need anything in memory.
Well, the point of the jungle is that we need to form a socialist worker's state. Instead, everyone freaked out about sausages.

He had a quote along the lines of "I aimed for the heart and hit the stomach"

edit:
> "I aimed for the public's heart," Sinclair later wrote, "and by accident hit it in the stomach."
I've had a $10 LCD sketchboard (think Etch-a-Sketch) for a few weeks now, and I like it a lot. I find myself jotting stuff on it surprisingly often. It's responsive and has a tactile feel not unlike that of writing on a blackboard. And the ImageMagick Whiteboard script [1] works well with photos of it, making for nicely digitized notes in black-and-white.

[1]: http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/whiteboard/index.php
Fantastic talk! Key engineering takeaways from The TANDBERG Way - principles for effective product development that built TANDBERG to be acquired by Cisco for $3.3bn:

- Embrace chaos. Continuously observer and adapt, because you can't plan far ahead in a complex world.
- Celebrate the whole organisation, not individuals or teams. Celebrate when things are tough (before launch), not after launch.
- Engineering and sales focused. Aim for 90% "productives" vs 10% "non-productives".
- Beware the Observer Effect: observing knowledge work disturbs it. Coders are more likely to add code than delete code while being observed, or to just think for 30 minutes.
- Introduce slack (as in free time, not the chat app) to do things right. You can't be agile and responsive without slack.
- Communication over documentation. Make the customer pay for documentation.
- Beware the Sinclair Effect. Don't talk about upcoming products, or people won't buy what you have on offer.
- Focus on execution. Ban innovation hackathons. When your ability to innovate exceeds your ability to execute, focus only on execution.
- No time writing or detailed cost control. Specify working hours and holiday times and then let the employees take care of it.

Full list of principles @ 51:00. Book recommendations @ 18:58.
>It tells us how many years of productivity we owe.

That's not accurate though. We can pay off the debt tomorrow and skip the years of productivity. It really is an apples to oranges comparison. The debt isn't denominated in productivity. It's denominated in dollars that the government can create for "free". Of course there are knock on effects of creating enough dollars to zero out the debt, but it's not equivalent to the entire country working for years.
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Climate Change Burnout. I don’t flag articles on CC but I’ve been tempted to. There’s a new one every two days and they all say basically the same thing. Regardless of one’s political views, the onslaught of constant alarm can be exhausting. The people who don’t think it’s a problem are not going to be convinced by the 215th news article published this year.
Wealth is what you own.

Jeff Bezos is not owning much money. Warren Buffet id not owning money. Neither is Bill Gates. Money is just one asset you can own and most people hold very little of it.
The headline doesn't really match the story. I don't doubt the likelihood that Facebook engaged in these sorts of things, but from the headline I expected a laundry list of complaints and at least anecdotes to support them. Instead there's only two vague accusation without support that Facebook discouraged influencers from Snap, and suppressed Snap content from trending.
Allegedly there were isolated precursors before the Netherlands, namely in Toulouse. Granted it really took off in the Netherlands. It seems the concept was invented independantly serveral times.

http://blog.yalebooks.com/2015/08/11/the-worlds-first-corpor...

https://qz.com/219270/bazacle/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazacle_Milling_Company

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03044...
To me this was a story! It was an unusual reaction, caused by a drug that is available over the counter and we may have used, and can be treated with a simple antidote.

It had a beginning, a middle, and a happy ending. And it contained useful information about not using too much of this stuff, or use it for too long.
Fun fact: Facebook's old headquarters (between Page Mill Rd and California Ave) was located on top of a superfund site. After FB moved to Menlo Park, Stanford built a faculty housing development there. They claim that they have done adequate retrofitting so that it poses no risk to residents, but I know some professors in the sciences who decided against living there after reading the environmental disclosures.

Also, if Stanford did this retrofitting, that implies that maybe FB did not do enough when they were there?

The housing disclosures have more info on the contamination and retrofitting: https://universityterrace.stanford.edu/disclosures
This article compares the internet with the invention of the printing press and lays out the pros and cons before coming down solidly on the con side. However, we generally agree that the printing press was very good for society in the long run and the author fails to address the question as to why it's different this time around.
this has nothing to do with how Big Pharma develops drugs...
When interest rates are lower than inflation you're not spending money on interest.
What's rational for the individual is not always well aligned with what's rational for the society.
Why would I want DOOM running on a 148x64 LCD Canon printer screen?

Because I can - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPWi5yJK3zo
Lambda is 5 year old technology. This is like arguing in 2011 that startups shouldn’t use EC2, because it’s “risky”.
> I resisted Steve Jobs's snow job in 1989 or 1990

Could someone illuminate what this was about?
I'm not seeing any reasonable evidence of a consensus that this even is a problem. Let alone that there is no other solution than to run from it.

There's no fix for criminal activity on the internet (objectively worse than non-free code) and yet I don't think anyone (RMS included) is proposing to sever the connections just to make sure they don't accidentally encounter such activity. The more radical comparison would be "bad stuff" in society and completely isolating yourself from it.
I mean if there are no other intelligent civilizations (yet) in the universe — which seems highly unlikely based on the numbers, then we have an obligation to seed the universe with ourselves and propagate other species through genetic enhancement and grooming.

We might be the progenitors of other intelligent species who might look back at us fondly and remember our shepherding.

Again highly unlikely, but a good point that we should not kill ourselves beforehand.
Ah, nuts! I had no idea Norwegian was struggling. I have a long-haul flight booked with them for Christmas :(
Isn't FP simply too esoteric to ever become properly mainstream?
And you expecting it to be read straight shows yours.
I consider FP to just be one of the tools in my programming toolbox. And apply it where it will fit best. Because not every problem should be solved with FP, nor with OOP for that matter.

Though it is sometimes educational to apply only a single solution to all problems. Just to see how far you can stretch the usefulness of the tool.

A nice talk about where (and where not) to apply FP is this talk by Gary Bernhardt: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/boundaries
That's a lot of HN though, you'll see people talk about tangentially related things to the main topic, and never address the linked topic.

I've learned to accept it as is, and not to worry about it too much.
It doesn't work in Firefox for Mac either.

It does in Chrome.
There are still technologies that work like X10 did today, a lot more reliably. Insteon and Z-Wave are both still very solid RF-based home automation platforms. Plenty of IP cameras come without the default assumption of cloud use, though it's ideal to VLAN off anything that you aren't super confident in the security of.
I've found https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa to be super useful for simple Lambda deployments. It's only for python, but I am pretty sure you have other solutions for node, ruby...
Evolution? Animals having mechanisms to reward frequent sexual interactions would survive longer/better...
But they're so expensive and small compared to a blackboard. Another commenter got a 4 foot x 6 foot blackboard, it was probably a few hundred dollars (plus the cost of chalk) and will last for decades. A 50' Microsoft Surface Hub, that's ~2 1/3 foot x ~3 1/2 foot, is ~$9,000 and will be lucky if it lasts 10 years.

There are cheaper large touchscreens but they won't use capacitive sensing which is what makes the Microsoft Surface "snappy."
Readline is distributed only under GPLv3 nowadays. I worked on some software licensed only under GPLv2, where some authors are no longer available. GPLv2 and GPLv3 aren't compatible.
You can correct somebody without name calling.
My use case was a prototype for an iOS app I had in beta testing. It had a tiny but globally distributed user base, and serverless was a fun thing to learn on top of being relatively quick to set up. I'm sure if I had wanted to, some dynamic DNS and a small machine in my house would've sufficed. But hey--that's future decreases in cost. :)
Long _natural_ lifetimes are a fundamentally at odds with evolutionary progress. The lifespan of a species is directly related to how quickly that species can iterate generationally. Fewer generations mean less natural selection, which means a less evolved life form. Also, if the organisms don't die off fast enough, they end up competing with their own offspring for resources.

That said, I would imagine that once most life forms get to the point that they are able to extend their lifespans with technology, they probably always do. They just don't evolve anymore...
It's probably too vague a claim to prove or disprove. They could amend this sentence. Different companies have different impacts on software freedom that I'd be hard-pressed to compare.

However, consider Microsoft Office, which is widely used, and has some network effects. If a friend uses an iPhone, that does not really impact me (where I live). In contrast, Microsoft even has impact on people who would consider not to use their products. I'd also bet that there are far more Microsoft Office users than iPhone users. Windows also has huge network effects.

I agree with you though. The iPhone is a big offender in that it does not really allows you to run any code you could otherwise run on it, the only supported way of installing apps is incompatible with the GPL and Apple controls what you run on your Apple device (which some people find it's a feature).
The issue of the application artifact size is definitely real and it blocks some NLP/ML workloads for sure. Consider that a today problem that isn't hard in Lambda.

But we've 100% got customers doing near realtime streaming analytics in complicated pipelines feeding off of things like Kinesis Data Streams. This FINRA example is one datapoint: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/finra-data-val... and this Thompson Reuters one: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/thomson-reuter...

These are nontrivial and business critical workloads.

Thanks, - Chris Munns - AWS - Serverless - https://twitter.com/chrismunns

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Missosoup i see you making changes to your comment and it greatly changes the tone/context. i won't adjust my own reply in suit but leave it as it was for your original comments on this.
> acted against the USA's interests"

acted against the USA Government's interests

These are two very different things.
You're correct that he complained about that, but the point was supposed to be about the exploitation and abuse of laborers.
Careful! The Smalltalk people are going to jump in here and start talking about how message passing between lightweight processes is the best way to write efficient programs.
If you have spare capacity on a server you can probably squeeze in such functionality at no extra cost.
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> We have no option but to build a new circuit and we don’t want that.

That's true, you never want to rebuild the circuit. But it strikes me that the idea that this is avoidable falls into at least two of the Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing[1], namely "The Network Is Reliable" and "Topology Doesn't Change".

If we instead assume that the network isn't reliable, and topology does change, then instead of eliminating unreliable nodes and being conservative with changes to the topology, we would focus on reducing the costs of rebuilding a circuit so that network unreliability and topology changes aren't disastrous.

But it sounds like the Tor team has instead decided to bolster these assumptions, to make them less of assumptions; trying to make the network as reliable as possible and trying to make the topology change as little as possible.

I don't mean this to be a harsh criticism of the Tor team. I'm an outsider, and beyond an uncompromising privacy constraint, I don't know all the constraints Tor was built under. I'm sure the tradeoffs made by the Tor team make sense within the context of their constraints. Obviously, the Tor network works well enough to have a large user base, so they have provided a good-enough solution.

But I wonder if changes could be made to Tor's design in the future which would allow quicker adding and removing nodes, and handle network reliability issues better, so that Tor would be faster.

One possibility which stands out to me is to pool circuits and load-balance between them, so that if a circuit begins to have issues, you still are connected along other circuits while you build a new circuit to replace the unreliable one. This possibly would run into issues where correlate could correlate traffic from different circuits to unmask clients, so you'd have to be careful, but I'm not sure these problems would be insurmountable.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacies_of_distributed_compu...
Concluding that something is not a learned skill because it comes easy to some is illogical. Human upbringing consist of a lot of social interaction (at least when done right), it is only fair that some people actually get good at it.

Anyway, I should probably have disclaimed my first comment more loudly: it's anecdotal. For me smalltalk is absolutely a learned skill. I used to suck at it, now I can get by, and it took a lot of conscious effort on my part. YMMV
Saves time and money by writing and executing less code + S3 is optimized for this task, so it will always perform better than an ad hoc serverless function.
Styling an anchor as a block element has never violated the spec, and HTML5 deliberately added support for wrapping anchors around block elements because people had been doing that anyway, even though the browser wasn't required to make it work as intended (but it now is).
Correction: any MacOS user is affected by Apple's decision not to update bash.
For now, but that could easily change if they have some bad quarters coming up. I’m bearish.
> But that's misleading. The federal government itself owns more than a quarter of U.S. debt, money the government essentially owes itself. It’s an accounting entry. As an asset and a liability, it effectively cancels out.

Well, no. These bonds are held in the Social Security Trust Fund, and while yes in one sense they are both an asset and a liability, they are also funding a future liability (although not all of it). So you can cancel them out against the future liability or the current one, but not both.

(As to Social Security being underfunded, I had an econ professor explain Social Security could be fully funded immediately if the Treasury could just issue a new class of bonds which cost a penny and are redeemed for a trillion dollars in ten years, and sell them to the Trust Fund.)
It's not "can't solve" in the sense of abstract computation, but rather "can't solve" in the sense of "you couldn't build facebook in the brainfuck language."
OTOH, if I go to a store and they're still using that sort of system I also think "here's a place that used to innovate, but gave up about 20 years ago"
You can get 98% of the benefits of FP with 0% of the category theory.
Weird, there is no paywall message or anything to indicate that's the problem. Usually, there's a dialog/popover or similar.
Working for certain branches of the government has made me extremely cynical towards taxes. Just like most non-profit's main goal should be to put themselves out of business, many government programs should have methods of scaling back when objectives are met. I've seen buildings full of people that accomplish nothing but asking for more money.
>We need to break their grip on the desktop/server/laptop market.

I'm curious as to why you think this "needs" to happen?

I have my own reasons, for example, openness of ISA and IP from up top at the browser all the way down to the firmware on the chip; however, I'm curious to hear yours.
> It's usually the case that spending goes up at the same time, but it doesn't have to go up.

I just know I read a lot of headlines about how government programs are underfunded. I feel like the base of a lot of Democratic candidate campaigns is about wanting to spend more money for people who need it (impoverished people, etc.)
I own a Vizio, I think an E Series, 3 or 4 years back the thing received an 'update' and bricked the tv for nearly 48 hours. There was nothing I could do with the TV until Vizio sent out a patch. I never connected it to a network again after that. Just another 'feature' to smart tv's...
If you avoid storing images, is there any other items you could be liable for?
In theory, the debt could also be "monetized", meaning converting it to cash via the fed. That should also lead to inflation, but that may be politically easier than raising taxes.