skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Personally (As in: This explicitly reflects my experiences and I have no idea is anyone else feels this way) I am worried that we are getting far too abstracted and I am unhappy with the fact that despite the power of our hardware increasing exponentially everything is running slower and slower and taking up massive chunks of memory for simple functions.

E: Also, C can be run anywhere. ANYWHERE. It can run on home computers and consoles from the 80's! I like that fact.
While we're on Germany, why is it common practice in the German press to specify the age of any person in a print article? Even when it is irrelevant to the content of the article?
Title should be "If you don't work on software product, you’re not writing code, you’re solving business problems with code".
I feel like much of this century's computer folk wisdom is just taking "The Tao of Programming" and translating it into modern corporate jargon.

s/Novice/Junior Dev/, s/Master/Senior Dev/
> It'll never happen. It's just not profitable.

I see, thank you for the dose of realism. That makes sense, there's no financial incentive in providing Internet to rural areas.

(I'd argue that there is long-term economic incentive for regional prosperity, not necessarily profitable for a company though.)

> The government needs to step in and declare Internet access a utility.

Totally agree, and a good argument for it. Internet access is (becoming) fundamental to communication, education, labor market, and myriad other social functions - everyone deserves access to it, as much as water and electricity. The current situation is unfair for people in rural areas, especially children "without internet access (even on phones)". They're cut off from a wealth of information that people in cities take for granted.
Thank you for the explanation. The original article is certainly not paywalled in my jurisdiction, hence the consternation, at using an alternative source.
YC says don't do betas. If you are going to be big, why would you handicap yourself at the gate with an artificial barrier to entry?
Or, to shift perspective, we are also in a class-war position of a general strike.
>it’s good for your character, it’s tough love, and so on

it's funny how so few people recognize the real effects of capitalist ideology. realize that these exact words (deployed by many many conservatives/puritans/weberites/libertarians/etc) aren't business-y words - they're emotional, affective, human, whatever. if you've ever looked at someone you're not in business with them and judged them as lazy, of poor character because they don't have money, etc then realize that you've been transformed from an empathetic human being into an organ (not just a proponent since by judging you enforce/enact) of capital.

the ultimate result is that capitalism has a deep effect on how we feel and relate to each other exactly through this kind of rhetoric whose sole purpose is to preserve power and wealth.

even right now people are reading my comment and completely dismissing it, presuming i'm just some facile sjw.
The testing policy in most countries is to increase the number of tests over time. How is that consistent? consistent would be testing a random sample of size n every day without changing n.
Humour doesn't scale. It's probably fine amongst your group of sympathetic homogenous friends, but not at scale.

What you think is funny is undoubtedly misleading, harmful or possibly dangerous to someone else out there somewhere.

And best case scenario and it's not harmful? You're still probably about 10% as funny and clever as you think you are.

No thanks.
If your application is stateless following your definition then it's trivial to break the monolith down to microservices that focus on a bounded contexts while sharing a common db. This is a very well known microservices pattern.

https://microservices.io/patterns/data/shared-database.html
Hoh! I spend most of my time figuring out pipenv (not my design choice!) .
Are we really patting people on the back for cutting their own pay to allow employees to be paid more? That's how economics work: if you want to pay X then you have to find that money somewhere.
If you're using Go and need to optimize to get rid of allocations. Why are you using go?
You didn't understand what the person you replied to said, and he's right.

Medicare is NOT good insurance. Its reimbursement rates for hospitals is lower than their costs, and it doesn't fully cover people, it only covers 80%.

Like the person you replied to said: Most people on Medicare need to buy supplemental private insurance - it's called Medicare Advantage, and it may be government funded.

We need good insurance, and Medicare is NOT good insurance.
"What I've been hearing on the internet..."

Good grief
you can use JSON or YAML if you like more structure. Markdown has good editor support, so using it as source for videos means video sources render nicely in GitHub, for example.

Also, if you don't like ![](), you can just use stage directions with brackets. The equivalent script will be :

(image: london.jpg)

Welcome to London

---

(image: berlin.jpg)

Welcome to Berlin
When I was asking "should we really give them credit," I was referring specifically to the imaginary world in which they had perfect information.

I agree that we should give insurance companies credit for the value they accidentally create in the world that we live in -- so long as we keep in mind that the value creation was predicated on their inability to find & leverage information.

However, going forward in a world of increasingly available information, do you think it is a good idea to rely on their inability to find & leverage information? I sure don't.
> tourists

assuming the insistence on folding to be a sign of nyc-ness,
is your take on pizza so nyc-centric that it is a local cuisine of the tri-borough area?
People are more confused than ever, I think it is a good call
The answer is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22719660
you can easily replace auto-generated voice with your own, or a professional recording in Video Puppet scripts. Just add
(audio: file.wav) to your scene.
"Bad idea" vs. "Good idea" seems too restrictive to me. I think there are pros and cons to it and the sum total of those pros and cons may be different depending on your circumstances, finances, and personal beliefs. There are some people who need economic relief now and not a moment later. Giving money to 'the people' can help with this but also carries long term consequences like inflation of the currency. Not to mention, the range of people getting money may be too broad - for example, I'll be receiving a check but I don't think I need it at all. Creating a more restrictive or specific criteria for the delivery of this relief though would likely become somewhat of a bureaucratic nightmare and would inevitably slow things down. We've had similar stimulus packages in the past and whether they were effective in their goals is up for debate.

https://taxfoundation.org/did-2001-tax-rebate-checks-stimula...

https://www.thebalance.com/bush-economic-stimulus-package-33...
Warren needs to give his employees a raise.
Yes and no - but perhaps mostly no. Let me explain, please.

Coal was a fraction of market share. It was on its way out regardless. However, a lower oil price increases consumption across the board. Thus it wouldn't take much increase for oil's aggregate pollution to exceed oil + coal.

Yes maybe on a per kilowatt basis oil is better than coal. But given the usage of oil, that is the scale, the price drop triggered increases in consumption could in fact cover and then exceed the gain from less coal.
>>We’re programmers, so writing code is what we do, is it not ? As the title suggests, our job is a bit more complicated than stroking keys on a keyboard in front of a screen all day.

I don't know what it is about the tech industry but it really seems to think highly of itself and is constantly self congratulatory.
Or if you already run dsnmasq you can:

- uncomment this in your dnsmasq.conf:

addn-hosts=/etc/banner_add_hosts

- put this in a file in /etc/cron.daily:

wget -O /etc/banner_add_hosts 'https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext'
I read about this guy here one month ago. Some commenters were claiming that he is doing it for PR.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22441129

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22441354
Testing isn't part of the model at all, it operates only on the true numbers of susceptible/infected/recovered. Testing only gives you an idea of what those might be.
Isn't that where we are now? Choose your desired behavior seems equivalent to "here's billing alerts and AWS API, good luck".

Someone could build a cost circuit break lambda function fairly easily. Wire a billing alert to the lambda, use AWS API to terminate all EC2 instances (or other resources). Someone could open source that fairly easily.

I think it's about reasonable defaults. You can recommend that customers configure their accounts with the behaviors they choose, but clearly many aren't using the tools they currently have. So we have these horror stories.

I will mention that I don't think deleting resources is a good default behavior as that can cause data loss (itself a potentially business ending event). But people are certainly able to evaluate their own risk and can implement that with the tools that exist today.
At this point the conversation turns completely useless where we all tell ourselves that no benchmark matters.

Only they do. The Bionic chips are ridiculously performant, and are bound to have a much wider range with even moderate cooling.
But we are talking about a bachelor here; for a master or phd I see that point... For a bachelor... not so much. Besides parties with my peers and catching up with sleep in lectures during the bachelor, it got interesting after the bachelor exactly because of what you mention.
It's a good counterpoint; high-speed games like platformers and FPS are only really possible with a computer. Lots of other game types have analog analogs, though.

Pinball is certainly a precursor to video games; there's other low-impact games of manual dexterity like ring toss/bocce/..., darts/target shooting. Choose your own adventure books/pencil and paper role-playing/wargames obviously predate computer gaming -- the computer just runs a timer maybe and acts as the gamemaster.

People have been playing various forms of puzzle solitaire with cards for years; Bejewelled or whatever could be done with a custom deck. Minesweeper is not different in kind from the old logic game Mastermind. Even something like Tetris seems new, but I think is similar fundamentally to a tabletop game like Boggle: randomized input + a timer to find solutions -- the geometrical nature of Tetris is kinda just an implementation detail.

But I would venture that the number of problems that are only quantitatively different -- i.e., faster -- because of computers utterly dwarfs the number that are qualitatively different, or even impossible without them.
‘I Will Not Apologize for My Needs’
They'll be back next year
No, contrarian is a good description of the problem. We see a lot of posters complaining loudly about problems they never had or tools they never used. Some appear to simply enjoy arguing for the sake of it.
April 1 is an annual holiday for me. I unplug from the internet* and try to avoid hearing of these jokes completely. They used to be funny, but now companies are just trying too hard. It’s a great excuse for a detox.

* I still use the Internet for my job, but Apple isn’t pulling any pranks on their developer documentation.
The abyss is still near. This isn’t, in any way shape or form, over by a long shot.
They could say they were tracking their citizens well-being
Just remove the second nameserver from the config. In my experience you can just leave the second DNS server field blank on most (all?) devices.
they recommend leaving it on because then all your dns queries go to google and no one else by default--their "private dns" defaults to the very unprivate google dns servers.
I totally disagree, and I have the exact opposite reaction. Markdown is something tons of people know already. I literally just glanced over the article and felt I could generate a "narrated PowerPoint", which seems like the main purpose of this, extremely quickly. Why would I want to learn a completely new language because there are some trivially minor syntax oddities with using Markdown?

The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Measuring the network forwarding performance on Linux
The First Computers—History and Architecture edited by Rojas and Hashagen
The usage spike is very very rarely worth the cost. That’s a pipe dream the cloud providers sell to cover up the fact that these scenarios are sweet sweet profit for them and nothing more. There are very few businesses where making more money is just a matter of throwing some more compute at it.

Nearly every customer (i.e. all of them with a budget) would make use of circuit breakers and it would make Amazon absolutely $0 while costing them untold amounts. Are you really surprised Amazon hasn’t implemented them?
Priorities. It's great to say everyone should use masks, they do help somewhat even if they're not perfect, but supply was too limited. It's getting better, but health-care professionals are still having to wear PPE too long or reuse it or go without. They're terrified, and not without reason; a lot of them have already been infected. We need to prioritize getting enough masks to them, then to other vulnerable people, and finally to the general populace.

Compare it to a different kind of mask in a different kind of war - the kind that one would use to protect against chemical-warfare agents. Or doses of antidote. Sure, everyone would be safer if they had these things, but if there are fewer of them than there are people then by what reasoning should they not go first to those on the front lines? It's a simple effect-maximization problem, with a solution that benefits even those who don't get the gear.
The ad I saw was for a one month free trial. Maybe that's the source of confusion.
My issue with such simulations, and I am no expert, is that they encode a lot of unproven assumptions about the nature of money, the effect of money printing, etc. If those assumptions are wrong, then the simulations reinforce those erroneous assumptions in the minds of those who run the simulation.

I would like to have control of a currency in a popular MMORPG to run experiments.
Downvotes, really? Dont ever change HN
Someone (Matt Levine??) on Bloomberg said that "Russia and Saudi Arabia seem to have accepted that periodically bankrupting US fracking operations is a cost of business". Periodically - because US oil extraction is done by many firms in a country with strong bankruptcy law, and after 2 or 3 years SA and RU will stop dumping, prices will rise, and they'll spring right up again (barring some drastic change in world oil consumption.) So it's more like Don'tlose-don'tlose-losetemporarily.
Didn't you hear? Fun was cancelled.

In my opinion we need fun more than ever, but resurrecting fun will require someone who is willing to stand up to the people who believe that everything must be serious.
Takeaways from this and other people’s experiences in the comments (apart from making sure such mistakes don’t happen in the first place):

• Providers should let users set hard spending limits.

• Providers should offer a channel for investigating and waiving charges for honest mistakes if reported soon enough.

• Perhaps you should sign up with throwaway billing details so you can continue on another account till you sort it out. Morally and legally unsound but probably the better alternative to “killing your startup” I guess.
In the US, small businesses (<= 500 employees) can get loans (among other things). Any portion of it can be forgiven, depending on how the funds are used.

https://www.npr.org/2020/03/26/821457551/whats-inside-the-se...

> Forgivable loans: There is $350 billion allocated for the Small Business Administration to provide loans of up to $10 million per business. Any portion of that loan used to maintain payroll, keep workers on the books or pay for rent, mortgage and existing debt could be forgiven, provided workers stay employed through the end of June.
Functions as Queries – SwayDB
I get around this in GCP by having a script that spins up a brand new project whenever I want to play around with stuff. When I am done playing around with things, I have a 2nd script that deletes the project and thus all the associated resources that are in use in that project.
> it's not accurate to say we know nothing at all

No one is saying this. We do know things about viruses in general, but again, don't have enough data about this particular one to say anything for sure.
You might be right. But on the other hand, how up-to-date is a typical epidemiologist on molecular biology? Maybe a molecular and cell biologist has better insights and intuition about the mechanisms a virus uses to enter a cell.
I developed something similar[1] last summer.

[1] https://jump.yaddu.pw
Excellent math. For those who aren't so comfortable with the mathematical notation, the point of this comment was that the log of the cases per capita is the same as the log of just the cases, plus a constant offset. This constant offset is present in the linked chart, but is visually compressed - you don't really notice it that much. So if you look at the chart and see how the lines do/don't line up on top of one another, that's partly due to the constant offset.
Oh wow, does lightsail come with postgres? Is it like a PaaS on top of AWS? Also TPS means transactions per second
Why would you not be able to have ad hoc conversations or events in an online environment?

For example video chats or text chats or audio chats or VR chats.

Honestly when people make statements like the one you made, it makes me suspect they actually don't understand the internet.
Our Political System Is Hostile to Real Reform
I started learning C at the start of this year by going through K&R and Understanding and Using C Pointers. I will likely pick this is up, it looks good and I really like No Starch Press books.

Does anyone have pointers on where to start with actual embedded programming? I have a couple Arduinos and RPis laying around, but I'm wondering if there are more 'real' ways to do it.
The profiling and tooling integration of Intellij with Java has probably been the biggest thing keeping me from using another ecosystem for my personal hacking
Good point - I think they are on a 6 hour average delay from what I've seen. An area for improvement it would seem for sure.
You have a point, maybe he's in the job he's best at, he's worth double that to the organization so he's effectively donating $800k/yr, and that's the optimal amount to give to charity given his preferences. If so, no foul.

When I was a student I gave on the order of $100 per year.

Anyway I feel sorry for you because you attack people instead of ideas, that must be really draining.
A Half Sarcastic Scheme for Saving the Economy
Do you use Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS? (Firefox does so by default if you live in the US, see network settings at the bottom of about:preferences) It can't resolve archive.is because 1.1.1.1 doesn't support ECS.
(That cover art really made me chuckle.)
Probably worth reading Bryan Caplan's The Case Against Education for some insight on why.
A guide to the SwiftUI layout system – Part 2
Quantel was another company producing digital hardware specifically for TV effects: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ma_jeU50rY&t=5m32s

My favourite part is 14:30 onwards.
Is that not the point of the 5 eyes?

As long as other countries spy on our citizens, and share the data with our government, there is no problem!
To follow up, yes, it does. But because iPadOS doesn’t support all the swipe gestures on my first generation Magic Trackpad that my Mac does—notably scrolling—I’m disconnecting it. If I’m going to have to touch the screen to scroll, why have the cursor?
Almost everyone I know who has run a business (myself included) has made similar sacrifices. This is not that rare. This guy seems to serially try to generate PR by making himself out to be a selfless CEO. In doing so, he is implying that most other CEOs/business owners are bad people.
Yes, and given that an Intel PC is a valid build target for almost every language and we pay were paying by the word in job classifieds, we almost went broke before we realized we had to throw them out too.

But after initial turbulence, life has gotten much simpler (and dare I say quiet) for our HR since we moved to using the stock job profiles shipped with the platforms we buy.
What occupation, I wonder, was the person who coined that joke? Compare:

"It is not possible to justify the life of any genuine professional mathematician on the ground of the 'utility' of his work." (G. H. Hardy, 1940)
The real benefit Gmail has over most other email solutions, including Outlook, is labels for emails which are like virtual mailboxes. Almost all IMAP-based solutions I've seen don't attempt to solve this problem, which is why people keep using Gmail. If something like this was automated through Dovecot, people would be much more likely to host there own email.
Glad I was wrong! Hopefully this can be certified and implemented in all kinds of sterilization devices ASAP.

Thank you for the link.
Taken to the extreme, we have the "environmentalists" in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Mars" series.
Everyone involved includes those who put forth the capital to start businesses. The profit goes to them eventually via the stock market.

Individuals won't put up millions or billions to start large companies without a reason.

"models" remove human motivations and will never be realistic.

It's why Socialism and Communism are perfect on paper... but fail spectacularly in real life.
A simple test to know when you need to follow another leader
yeah, I was looking for something more than a single analyst's note here.
> All you have to do is change "comedy duo" to "coworker pair" and "jokes" to "explanation of architecture."

But that doesn't work, because it requires changing the meaning/imagery of the metaphor beyond what regular people would recognize. You know, what actually happened in the situation of the original post.

Yes, I can change "straight man" to "spaceship" and "jokes" to "launch into space", but it'd be almost as nonsensical.

> By the way, have you tried just looking up the word "metaphor?"

Yes. Note you misunderstand the definition you quoted. Let me say it once more, then we're done: the CONTEXT of a metaphor is not ITS LITERAL MEANING, so quit yapping about literalness. Context matters. "Straight man" doesn't have the required context, "devil's advocate" does.

I don't expect you to acknowledge what I'm saying. At this point I must assume your ego won't let you budge an inch. Have a nice day! (which is not a metaphor, by the way).