skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see the point but I don't agree with the author. If I'm not mistaken that it took more than two years just to build their product and they're still pivoting in a way that they can monetize their users. I'm not actually sure if this delay is caused by your minimalism approach but startups usually need to focus on their core business in order to be able to find the product-market fit.

In an ideal world, we should be focusing only on our core business, not the tooling around the product. OK, you just set up a hook for your error events in your front-end code that lets you collect the errors as events but Sentry is doing much more than that. If it is the only feature that you need, that's OK but the reality is that as your application code grows, you will need many more features for your error tracking.

Eventually, you will need the UIs that lets you understand the context of the user, aggregate multiple events as one exception, send the errors to the relevant people, etc. and you will spend much more time building out these features and the switching cost to a real error tracking tool will be much higher.

The tools such as Sentry and Google Analytics provide an opinionated way to accomplish specific set of tasks for typical use-cases. The advantage is that they have seen many customers, use-cases and edge cases so adopted their product in order to cover them all. You don't need to the same unless it's your core business.
Yeah, some rich people don't get why poor people want to have kids and pollute this planet (according to them). Fortune's list suggests that the median number of kids is 2-3.
>You get it on your hands and then ingest it when you eat. (People don't usually wash their hands after touching a business card.)

I was referring to the parent poster that talked of people putting them in their pockets.

Anyway, ROHS (or lead-free) is a good thing, but it is not like you get lead poisoning (or saturnism) because of the once in your lifetime you touched sometthing contained lead and then - if you eat with your hands - you managed to ingest it:

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

You need to drink from lead or lead soldered tap water or water contaminated by lead to become poisoned by lead.

In the case of the Linux business card the exposed surface that would eventually contain a minimum amount of lead - pre-ROHS soldering tin contained in the common eutectic Sn-Pb alloy 37% lead - is in the below 1 square mm range.

You would nead to actually lick hundreds or thousands of such cards to ingest any meaningful amount of lead.

And lead free soldering tin may contain (in minimal amounts):

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

bismuth and antimony.
This kind of mapping format is also used in the visual novel/mystery adventure series Zero Escape. That series uses it in a somewhat meta way though, in that at some crucial points during the point, you are required to go back and play other routes in the map in order to continue in the current route, in a sort of Escape Room "piece together the different clues" kind of way, only the clues are scattered across different paths in the story.
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Great article. I wish more people would understand minimalism and accept it as company/product culture. Web bloat is ridiculous and worth fighting.
Maybe the physicists who like to geek out on the multiverse would be less happy (after all, they're choosing to study this currently), but other people would be happier because the physicists were forced to work on something that benefitted society at large rather than a select few.

Imagine there was a group of people who liked to meditate all day, every day (preferably at the beach, with a cold beer). Would you seriously argue that society should support these people in that, rather than push them to do something else to earn their keep? Note that meditating wouldn't be illegal, so they could still do it on their own time, they'd just need to have a day job.
This seems kind of backwards to be honest. The crackdown on H1-Bs will definitely have long term negative consequences on US tech economy, not positive consequences. A lot of major progress in tech was possible specifically because it was very easy to get h1-b visas especially for immigrants who came to study in US colleges.

Imo the issue with European immigration system is that it isn't welcoming for permanent immigration. So high skilled people go to Europe, earn some money and then go back home because they are never accepted as equal citizens in most wester European countries (both by law, but even more importantly, by culture).

In US on the other hand, immigrants can settle in much more easily and call it their new home, and become full fledged part of the society both by law and culturally. Especially in areas like SV and New York.

When you look at leadership (i.e. C-titles, VPs, Founders) of a lot of tech companies in SV and New York, first and second generation immigrants are vastly over-represented.

EDIT: also guess what is going to happen if immigration becomes harder? the outsourcing companies will get better and do the job cheaper remotely from India, so even more of the tech work will just get outsourced, meaning there will be even less tech jobs in Europe. You really can't stop the inevitable consequences of the global free market, unless you want to go full protectionist. So acquiring and KEEPING skilled labor through immigration is probably a much smarter long term choice compared to protectionist immigration strategies.
“Secret life of x” is a cliché in book titles/headlines in colloquial/idiomatic English
I’m not aware of any distro that rebrands Rust.

You can see Debian's patches to rustc here: https://sources.debian.org/patches/rustc/1.34.2+dfsg1-1/
Lose or delayed?

I find delayed is probably 10% or more, especially with connecting flights and when weather causes changes. Though I rarely check luggage at all.

But I have never permanently lost a bag.
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This is a pretty normal requirement. I believe what they are saying is that you should not be able to access sensitive customer data by virtue of “just” being a developer, and you should audit who has access to such data and why. And by “touch” they mean unfiltered access, not “you cannot do anything with the database and therefore cannot work”.

This is pretty basic information hygiene, and if you don’t have enough care to implement even that then why should they partner with you? Sounds like a liability waiting to happen.
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I'm surprised to see this author randomly appear! Radford Neal was my professor at the University of Toronto for a course on information theory, CSC310H.
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For some definition of fine =P

The word “Linux” no longer has a singular meaning. And distributions have their own branding.

If someone wants to release DebianRust and DebianCargo that would be perfectly fine and non-confusing. A distribution could also make an agreement to use the Rust/Cargo trademark under some mutually agreeable terms. Likely having to do with no major changes and staying updated.
That’s more of a chicken and egg problem. As you’ve said, if there were no foreign talent availability, prices would have been lot higher. Just look at the USA.

Whether you want to keep that is another thing in itself. From what I see, the availability for large amount of beginners (Not necessarily foreign, see bootcamp) does not affect the market value for experienced programmers at all.
> EASILY! And happily, and stress free. Your kids will get free education, free collage. You will get tons of vacations, 38 hours work week.

Most Europeans can’t afford a house anymore. The fear for a lot is that excess immigration and taking on refugees will break the social welfare you just mentioned.

I actually agree with a lot of your points though and envision a similar future that will be less about borders.

But you wrap it in such a vicious rant I imagine you are alienating people from your idea more than winning them over.
Just as a friendly reminder, I am replying to someone who stated

> The government is elected by the people [...]

And ok, yes. Phrased my answer wrong.

He was elected by the majority of the valid votes (those of the electoral college).

He also was elected by the people chosen by a minority of the total people who bothered voting in a a valid fashion.

So no, the government isn't elected by the people. It is elected by some people, and it can be indirectly elected by a minority of the people who bother to vote in a valid fashion.

Although it is more accurate, it does seem much less readable.
Someone needs to write a sequel to The Third Policeman but with bikes instead of luggage
There's a well-informed comment on Reddit here: https://www.reddit.com/r/baltimore/comments/e2kqla/baltimore...
> Here is my pet theory: many politicians have historically opposed cannabis use because they believed cannabis use makes people lazy and believe widespread use of cannabis could suppress economic productivity.

Or y'know, this:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/eriksherman/2016/03/23/nixons-d...
There's a number of really obvious things for Australia to do. Like not voting in a prime minister who literally brought a lump of coal into parliament and told everyone that it represents the future[1]. We're ideally located for renewable power, we have an abundance of uranium for nuclear. And yet we're one of the worst polluters per capita in the world.

But my comment wasn't about Australia specifically. It was about the general notion which has spread, that planting a bunch of trees will make a meaningful dent on climate change. It won't. It takes 10 minutes and the back of one envelope to do the math to understand that it won't. If you do the math, you'll find that every person on earth must plant 20 trees each year to offset their average Co2 emissions for that year alone, nothing to speak of the 5b people * 100 years debt we must repay to wind back atmospheric Co2. And once fully grown those trees need to be cut down and buried deep underground to contain their carbon content from returning to the cycle.

We must focus our effort towards effective solutions because focusing it on ineffective ones is worse than doing nothing. Afforestation is not an effective solution.

I'm not against afforestation, but at this point we need to run the numbers to figure out whether it makes things better or worse given that rising temperatures mean an increasing number of wildfires that can't be stopped. Wildfires that dump 6 months of an entire nation's Co2 output into the air in the span of a few days.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/global/video/2017/feb/09/scott-m...
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No Apple right?

Be Here Now got Steve to India for a year. A year in India is a long time.

And back he came, and so came Macintosh.

There is a connection. Think different. India can do that to you. Along with blowing your mind.
> until they reached some agreement with Mozilla Foundation

Sounds like a fair and reasonable outcome?
More likely being downvoted because facts go against your ideology.
For those of you who are younger during the second Chechen war in 1999-2000 the Russian army surrounded the city and proceeded to level the whole city with artillery. Primarily to avoid the high losses they took during the first war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1999%E2%80%9...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Grozny_(1994%E2%80%9...
It's odd to talk about EU as one. I can hire from EU countries that are on-par or even cheaper than India (at some skill level).

Yes I am talking about some of Balkans (Serbia, Greece), Baltics (Estonia, Lithuania), Eastern EU (Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania) where the rates can be $20-30 an hour for very decent devs.
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I feel like the expression "turn a blind eye" is overstating things a bit. My understanding is that Mozilla can permit whatever they please with their trademarks. There's no expectation that they should be particularly strict. (Unlike, say, law enforcement, where there is an expectation that they should be strict, and turning a blind eye is a gray area.) Maybe I'm splitting hairs here though.
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Almost, it is actually a degree concatenated with decimal minutes: 39525 -> 39° 52.5'N; 75135 -> 75° 13.5'W
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For ages prior to the LibreOffice fork, OpenOffice in Linux package managers was actually go-ooo
We have no way to know if the response was reasonable or not, because we were not privy to the conversation and we were not given a list of the claimed health benefits, so we can't judge for ourselves of do our own research.

This was an anecdote that looks reasonable to the casual reader, but amounts to emotional propaganda if you pay close attention.

The reality is that there are many credible medical uses of cannabis, for example in helping people avoid much more dangerous drugs that are legal, frequently prescribed by doctors and frequently lethal, such as certain opiates. I would like to know if ginger also helps with that.

As with all substances, there are counter-indications to using cannabis. However, massive empirical data shows that it is overall safer than abusing many other legal substances, for example refined sugar. It receives an undue amount of scrutiny, which is not scientific but of a political nature. And make no mistake, the prohibition started for very concrete political reasons that had nothing to do with public health preoccupations. If the US government was truly concerned with public health, it would provide nationalized healthcare in the same fashion Europe does. And again, there is a massive amount of empirical data supporting this assertion. Let's separate politics and religion from science.
>Is the US also wanting me underneath them by not giving me a work Visa to work FAANG?

Arguably yes based on his comment.

And for the record, you can work for several FAANG companies in the EU. Why not just start working?
Yes, they knowingly engaged in human experimentation. And they should do whatever it takes now to mitigate the damage.
Ha someone on Reddit suggested this. See the thing is, they have my contact info printed on them, so I'm really easy for the police to find after everything is hacked!
It's wasn't self-evident to me or to many millions of people. There's an enormous energy spent in attempting to convince people that they're voting for the wrong political party, that climate change is real, that God does or doesn't exist, by building logical arguments from observable facts.

I rarely see arguments of persuasion rooted in utility coming from honest, clear thinkers. Utility persuasion appears to be more common in politicians and charlatans though (Vote for me because I'll make you and your community feel good about yourself)
.. This would make sense if it worked. There's a fine line between "not-developed-here syndrome" and minimalism-as-you-mention-it.

If you can account for all the problems with the basic functionality the original big library tried to solve, this might work. But, if you're rediscovering all the problems again, and trying to solve them again, it's probably not the best use of your time.

Further, if something is big enough to become a norm (like Disqus for comments) - creating yet another sign-up form for comments has enough friction to discourage at least me from commenting. (And the one on this blog is broken).

I'm not saying your approach is wrong, but there's pros and cons to both, which don't seem to be captured here.
Is there a reference or book you can point to re: decision and information theory?
Spotify are not enabling audio piracy by much because they don't provide an audio stream for songs via their API (beyond a short sample).
Learning != convince. May be some type of pessimism gained through time with people trying to convince you among others what is right. You missed the key words and point of what I said as did the others... the big picture. Goodbye.
This. The culture part. I have worked in US,CA,EU. I felt US was more accepting than any other country. There is a feeling of being part of US society even though you are a temporary worker. There is very less cultural discrimination in the US.

EU,CA are a conservative xenophobic bunch. Many immigrants in Canada who are now citizens still stick their native countries flags on their cars. I have only one question for them, if you like your native country so much, why don't you go back ? If you accepted Canadian citizenship, be like one.
I like that there's an accumulator struct. fsum is nice, but it's ugly to stash everything into a list; it's often prefereable to push terms into an accumulator and get the sum at the end.
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Hey folks, I wrote an article on how to identify key metrics to track and optimize for in the product discovery and adoption funnel. Would love the thoughts of other PMs on how you employ analytics in your day-to-day.

https://medium.com/product-dev-stories/to-build-a-successful-business-measure-the-right-business-metrics-2279b419c16f

This topic has always fascinated me, since qualitative user feedback backed by quantitative evidence makes for a compelling and holistic understanding of how your overall business is doing.

What I try to do?

- Focus on critical areas of the end user journey
- Create accountability in reporting
- Measure and optimize
This is true, but given that I'm creating it, why _not_ use a lead-free process, especially given that lead is known to be very soft and toxic?
Which is just about 1.5x the external height of the fuselage.
Personally Id like to go a step even further. Id like to see the kernel provide some sort of "stddata" descriptor to build robust pipelines like powershell.
U.S. Unclaimed Baggage Center website: https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/

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>This Is a Story About Loss: On losing things, losing people, and finding God at Unclaimed Baggage Center (2015)

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You do need a visa to visit India and likewise, the Indians wanting to work in the EU need visa too.

I don't think there is any talk of visa-free travel for Indian tech workers to the EU.
Is it very bad that https://github.com/thepowersgang/mrustc calls itself a Rust compiler?
Python's license allows patched redistribution without explicit permition. Rust's doesn't.
>Mold is easy to remove from my experience. Just clean the damn thing.

External mold is, mold inside the walls is not. And if you have mold inside the walls then no amount of cleaning outside the walls will fix the situation.
You’re on roughly triple the average household income for Greece. You may have trouble supporting a child in a manner appropriate to someone of your socioeconomic background.

> The average household net-adjusted income in Greece is USD 17, 700 annually. It is considerably lower than the OCED average of USD 33,604.

https://destinationscanner.com/average-salary-in-greece/

> The Gross Domestic Product per capita in Greece was last recorded at 25140.70 US dollars in 2018, when adjusted by purchasing power parity (PPP).
(Roughly €22K)

https://tradingeconomics.com/greece/gdp-per-capita-ppp
This is quite interesting, and I'll be examining your method more closely in the future. A skim of the paper convinces me that there is merit.

The main upside to the Kahan method is that it can be incremental and online. Imagine that one is writing a Prometheus-like metrics client, and keeping a running tally. One cannot reorder the summation, and one cannot take advantage of parallelism. In these cases, a small Kahan accumulator can perform incredibly well.
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There is a difference between a hate group, i.e. a group engaging in hatred and violence, and some institute whose policy ideas you disagree with.

Free speech means other people get to be stupid and say stupid things, and as long as they don't resort to violence, your only recourse is to explain to everybody why they're wrong.
Don't know if you're sarcastic. But high skilled workers would rather leave for other countries or go back home than become illegal immigrants.
Actually the comment is not substantive. Not telling what is the configuration that creates problems, not telling what's wrong about the Redis connection handling, not comparing Redis fork based persistence with the alternative in memory systems have, and so forth, is a exactly the hand waving the OP accuses of doing. Very short not detailed criticisms of systems are actually FUD because in complex systems the devil is in the details.
I read a story once about a fellow in, I believe, St. Louis who devotes all of his energy to rescuing stray dogs. It’s an obsession.

People ask him why he doesn’t apply that energy to helping the homeless instead.

As he says, there are plenty of people tackling that problem (debatable), this is his passion, and I imagine he asks, or should ask, the questioner what they’ve done to help the homeless recently.

Follow your passions.

(Plus, as others have pointed out, this is a personal project and he does this stuff full-time, so yours is a particularly odd complaint.)
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No, because it is very clear that it's not an actual Rust compiler yet, and so is extremely unlikely to generate said confusion.
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> This is pretty basic information hygiene

They would not give us any indication of what they expected.

> I believe what they are saying is that you should not be able to access sensitive customer data by virtue of “just” being a developer, and you should audit who has access to such data and why.

It should be pretty straightforward for them to provide a "here's our initial base minimum requirements guidelines" and work from there.

The parameters they laid out were similar to "anyone who would be capable of running any code on the database should not have access to any data". Every clarifying question about "what about X? what about Y?" was met with basically, "no, that person could exfiltrate the data". Which, yes, anyone who has access to the data could, theoretically, exfiltrate the data.

I showed a demonstration (from laptop) and the guy got really upset that I had 'customer data' on the screen and in my database. It took several minutes of back and forth to explain to him that it was "faked" data.
The number alone is meaningless. Some bugs are UX inconveniences, while others can destroy data, as we saw in this case.

The real problem at these banks is the multitude of systems and datafeeds that impact systems downstream a hundred systems long.

The real solution to these big project failures is, in my experience, the phase deployments. With the first step being retiring old systems and consolidating data repositories to reduce knock-on effects.
Not the commentator, but I say "your game, your rules!"

That said, with the same level of detail I'm brought to mind of the original Xbox Fable game which in my humble opinion had really excellent art direction for its day -- a mixture of cartoon-y, arty, and moody but only only at times, not constantly gloomy like modern games. Consistent lighting and selective contrast in detail.

Actually, even the 360 remake was a step backwards! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gib34dN0zXI
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