skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you start from "democratically elected governments exist to make the world a better place," then you're going to end up somewhere wrong. Even in the best of times, democratically elected governments exist to give the majority power over the minority. This is considered an improvement over other forms of government, where often a minority had power over a majority and treated them poorly.

There are actually some "fundamental distinctions" between government and business. For example, most governments (democratic or not) are slow, monolithic, and effectively immortal. Since governments have tax and police authority, they can survive bad periods, including those caused by their own errors, for longer periods of time. Most businesses do not have tax and police authority and must face the market test on a daily basis. The businesses that fail the test typically die and new businesses replace them.
> Personally though I can't stand the conversation view in Riot, the spacing between the nickname, the avatar and the text feels just wrong

Does https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk/pull/4531 look any better? O:-)

> The one thing I'm waiting for is rooms where participants are hidden, so that you actually get closer to a pubsub system.

This is surprisingly hard (if you don't know what users are in a room, how do you know what servers to send messages to?) but we can provide at least a cosmetic solution (have the server filter out members below a given power level when relaying to the client). https://github.com/vector-im/riot-web/issues/6417 is the bug to upvote :)
This is not an essay, this is a bunch of anecdotes.

So projects that worked reasonably well and developed very fast, or even just somehow fast, are presented. Everybody agrees that's good and a success and better than if they were done slower; but so what?

Some are great major engineering projects, but in the context of extreme speed there is a world between a few weeks or even months, and more than 5 years, even if you compare the 5 years in question to project that are a parody in the other direction (yeah, a train project that is planned for 37 years looks ridiculous, but again so what? is it really because diva engineers want to spend all their careers doing "perfect" stuff and reject any deadline they are presented? doubtful)

Also, some are successful, but controversial (JS...); some I don't even know what to think about (is growing the population of a city by 22% in a year good?); some are just the work of geniuses.

And this is a mix of major physical infrastructure/engineering projects, projects for mass produced physical goods, and random software projects. Then suddenly the discussion focuses on physical infrastructure, ignoring all the other kind without even stating why.

This is also hard to contrast with the original article, because we don't know how many of them were mainly date driven. Probably not so much, in the sense that it would be retarded to insist on delivering something that cost a shitload of money to build at a completely arbitrary date without enough concern about the quality.

Too finish: some insane major infrastructure projects have been successful in the modern age: what comes to mind is for example the LHC, yes it took quite some time but it is probably somewhat more difficult to design than a random consumer electronic gadget? (is the story of the iPod that much spectacular? I found it quite common...)
I don't understand your point. We're not talking about physical things, we're talking about software. Software is always changing, morphing, adopting, and growing user bases. It's what's amazing about it compared to hardware. My 2012 MBP runs the latest OS from approximately 8 years later, and with it a whole new slew of features and additions that both Apple and the rest of the world have brought it. Why be stuck in the past?
it get's worse: often the same PE that's doing the leveraged buy-out is also financing it, at preferential terms and itnerest rates. see: Sears.
Many people confuse absence of evidence (of insecurity) with evidence of absence (of insecurity). Just look at the SARS-CoV-2 reporting in January and February, where every major media outlet copied stories about how the flu is much worse and that we should really be worrying about the flu. It was patently ridiculous to be making such assertions as the only thing certain at the time was the depth of our uncertainty.

The dilemma is that equating absence of evidence with evidence of absence is actually a good long-term strategy in our day-to-day lives. Without this strategy we'd be paralyzed by our own ignorance; particularly, paradoxically, those aware of their ignorance. It's a meta-skill to be able to identify when the heuristic should be discarded in favor of more rigorous analytical thinking. A capacity for analytical thinking isn't sufficient by itself, thus making such an error in judgement doesn't necessarily imply an absence of strong analytical thinking skills. (At least, that's what I tell myself ;)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia

What you're describing happens, but it's not rampant. Paranoia isn't lizard people, it's simply ascribing blame out of fear where it may not exist.
I think the GP is referring to the use of "energy" vs. "power". Watts are the latter.
It's still managed by Waterfront Toronto, the goal is still for it to be pre-planned in a smart way.
However, I didn't see much in Sidewalk Labs that was so innovative. You talk of "without prioritizing road" but there was still zero dollar allocated for any kind of transit project, 2.5 years into it. Not that it's all Google's fault, but really for me lack of concrete plans for transit in development showed me it wasn't serious.
Easier to generate it locally, which people in both China and the Netherlands do.
How can you say it was going to be a shadow of its original goals if was unable to scope creep.
I still mostly buy clothes at Eddie Bauer online - while there is a hit and miss occasionally, they have mostly consistent quality and sizing, and it’s easy to pass on inferior items by reading reviews. Easy return policy also makes it risk-free. They also have constant sales.
Right, that works. I think that setup does not scale well for large teams or if you are not able to run all your services locally due to resource constraints
"Would you pay extra for the water park" at the end of a fun day is a proxy for "did you appreciate/receive value from this thing you just finished enjoying?"

Whereas, on a random Tuesday, announcing: "Want to come to the water park? PAY US MORE MONEY." Is a proxy for "we're taking something away from your admission ticket and trying to backdoor a new charge".
100% buy in is right.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disagree_and_commit for a list of successful organizations that have adopted a principle meaning that and why they did it.
I think they should have capitalized 6m to 6M and said 1.5 gigawatts of power, not energy. Then it seems to be accurate to me.
Do they have a plugin for Firefox? No way that strategy works without plugins for other browsers. —- I hope they succeed.
It's an incredible milestone and I'm sure that it'll convince a lot of privacy-aware people to join Matrix who'll invite even more other people.
> If you have two independent services, why would you even think to build them as a monolith? Probably not a good idea to build your corp wiki software in the same monolith as your payroll system.

I'm trying to understand the integration approach as well, but looking at the example of an eCommerce system provided:

> There are usually fewer SCSs than microservices. A logical system such as an e-commerce shop might have 5 to 25 SCSs i.e. for billing, order processing etc. An e-commerce shop might have 100s of microservices.

My guess is that in a monolith, you would have billing and order processing in the same monolith, whereas here they are separate systems.
..probably, unless by accident. They lose when a defendant shows up because they're not prepared to win a contested case.
6G - 1TB/s
> Such an order wouldn't be legally binding outside of federally controlled facilities

The executive branch has broad quarantine authorities when it determines such measures are necessary to control communicable disease under the Public Health Service Act, and they have been applied with mandatory force outside of federally controlled facilities (mostly in regard to international travelers) in the COVID-19 emergency.
xemacs, microemacs, memacs, etc have tried new directions in different ways.

ultimately, emacs improved because of them.
Observational Study of Hydroxychloroquine in Covid-19 finds no benefit
That's the issue. I'm all for condos in Toronto but the issue is lack of medium density, you either own your home and your lawn in the middle of downtown (which is now a multi-million dollar home) or you live in a condo tower of 30 floors. No in-between.
I thought the regret would be diabetes and heart disease.
> For me ideally, I'd have two docker style images, one production, one test/development that just adds the dev resources to the production image.

Clarification question: do you mean two images in total?

Perhaps you are saying that would cover all 15 Rails apps?
This is like saying a game runs at 0.1fps because it took a couple seconds to load at the start.

This is initial load time. Printing likely account for <1% of the actual time, the rest being initializing the program
To be fair a 10% interest rate for debt sold in the last 2-3 years was kind of absurd, even for many junk bonds (of course I'm talking about the pre-virus situation).
I wonder how much usage of solar water heaters exists in these countries. It's a dead simple technology that works amazingly well in sunny areas, and saves tons of electricity when deployed at scale.
spacemacs layers system is clunky and yet another layer of configuration abstraction ontop of an already versatile configuration system.
Hmmmm... so wouldn't you agree that a percentage of keys would be decryptable by iterating over all encrypted files of all accounts using password dumps? Seems like a good way to decrypt maybe 10%. Still sounds like a major problem, though.. not at the individual level, but at the systems level.
The advantage of following is that you get to cherry-pick what features actually got traction and skip over a lot of rat holes.
Evidence suggests that the Russians were dropping $400k a month on trolls. That's a lot of commissions on Fiverr or FurAffinity, and still plenty left over to pay east european IT contractor rates. Or hell, just steal enough existing avatars and assume that 80% will get taken down fast.
Cereals – a 10,000-bot IoT botnet that seems to have just downloaded anime
Is there a Python SDK that supports encryption well yet? I have a simple command line script to send a message to a Matrix room. About three months ago I tried to add encryption, but apparently the old matrix-python-sdk is deprecated in favor of matrix-nio, but encryption support in the latter was very marginal still.
Re copyright, what would you prefer? Alternatively, what would you even do with the copyright to your fixes and additions to GNU emacs?
That's not a bug with hooks, but almost a complete misunderstanding of how hooks work (*on the part of anyone who writes that code thinking it will behave otherwise). Hooks are effectively instantiated on a specific component instance. Calling useState multiple times like this is multiple instances of useState, whether or not it's wrapped in another function.

And I'd like to be very clear that I strongly advise against cutting through layers with context because I wholeheartedly agree with your assessment there. You can plumb down those handles explicitly through props and enforce they're provided in a type system.
There's a YC startup called Culdesac I've been following that's doing something interesting around city design.

I'm not sure 'smart city' would be the right phrase for it, but they seem pretty cool.

https://culdesac.com/
I don't study this academically so don't have any good sources offhand. But the history of union busting has a long history in this country. In the 1890s steel workers tried to unionize and strike and Andrew Carnergie sent in the Pinkerton's (private precursor to today's FBI) to spy on the unions and break up strikes. They'd do this violently and many people got killed.

Today it's less physically violent, but if you get a job as a floor worker at a big company like Walmart, you've got mandatory videos about how terrible unions are. And yes, you will be fired if the word 'union' comes out your mouth on company property.
I don't know about "more" government, but "less" government is also not the solution. The real solution is a "better" government, and that's a very layered problem.

Either way, we pay a lot more for a very subpar health ecosystem compared to the rest of the world.
> Windows is not Linux and GCC is not msvc++

That does not mean anything. Linux can be whatever people with enough free time want it to be. It's 100% possible to imagine a Linux-based system with a Windows-like userspace and pacing. Hell, technically you could just ship the Linux kernel, an init system, Wine and live in an almost windows-y world - even cl.exe works under wine.

> Why are you posting comments on a thread about C++ and the problems created by ABI if you are oblivious to this?

Because it's an entirely self-inflicted problem, caused by putting toolchains (among two thousand other things) in distros.

Again, why do people have no trouble shipping Rust which has zero ABI guarantees to ten year old Ubuntus and C++ couldn't ? The answer is, it totally can if you just let it and let go of shipping dev packages in distros, instead relying on C++-specific package managers such as conan or vcpkg for your dependencies.

I build my own software with latest versions of clang, Qt, boost and have no trouble distributing it to fairly old distros.

> Because it is, and at many levels.

yes, I'm asking about what could be, not what is ?
Don't worry, Time Magazine will declare "The Essential Worker" as Person of the Year 2020, and that will make up for all the minimum wage and unsafe working conditions.
What makes Emacs attractive to me is that it's a programming environment which you can modify on the fly. At least, that's what I have read, I've never actually done it myself.

Visual Studio Code, the editor that I use daily, is based on Javascript (Typescript) but I have yet to see a page by Microsoft explaining to me that I can quickly whip up a script and execute it in my editor. From what I understand you need to create an extension and I think that takes a bit of setup.

A spiritual successor to Emacs could be an extensible editor based on a language which you can interpret on the fly, modifying your environment as you go along. That's what would make Emacs more attractive to me, along with modern keybindings like arrow keys...
By the way, I'm working on a long and meticulous essay/rant which argues that we're reaping the whirlwind of Kuhnian post-modernism with the COVID-19 situation, and the consequences will be absolutely devastating for science in the long term. If anyone knows a magazine publisher who would go for such a controversial and possibly-wrong piece, they would be welcome to distribute it for free (and exclusively for one month). Contact my username at the normal place.
>Half-Life 3

I'm not sure they even worked on it, have they?
Toronto (as a region) is getting about 100 000 new residents every year. It's hard to say that supply and demand isn't working because really, there is SO MUCH DEMAND, supply can hardly catchup.
Montreal still has a decent cost of living for housing and guess what, that's because their demand is lower (harder for non-French speaking people to establish themselves there)
Don't take me wrong, I am a big fun of serverless. We use it in production too. But I also think it does not cover a large percentage of the deployment spectrum, at least for a few years. And serverless can also benefit from tools like Okteto
This is a slick website!!

I wanted to filter the waze data and ran into a problem. I was trying to filter anything that wasn't a weather hazard and wasn't before 2020. Any combination of filters and orders I tried brought up some results from those exclusions.
You mean Big Insurance Big Pharma ? Because I think most businesses , big and small, would benefit from a universal medicare type solution. One less thing to worry about for them and presumably government funded/single payer/ yada yada. It seems to me the whole theory that government programs need to be "paid for" is out the window as the Fed has 6T on their balances sheets and Congress has instructed the Treasury to spend 1.5 or 2T on C19 relief by printing treasury securities(that the Fed can buy if needbe). So its not about how can we fund universal health care ( and also a more dignified Social security retirement system [leave that for another thread]) its about the will to freaking do it and stand up to Big Pharma, Big Medicine, and Big Insurance lobbies.
How is memory consumption going? I'm waiting for improvement in this area or a stable release of Dendrite [0] (hoping it has a reasonable memory usage).

0: https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite
In little people law, such as, debt collection, landlord tenant, family law, some bankruptcy/creditor issues, it usually doesn't take much effort to disrupt the volume practitioners.

The volume-based attorneys often exclusively practice in one area and rarely face an attorney. The few times I defended people, it really threw a monkey wrench into the process.

Unfortunately, there is no money in being a white knight in most areas of little people law.
My dad doesn't speak / understand english well. He did manual labor for the past 3 decades (pretty much since having me). For the past year (at 55 years old), he has been learning coding from a javascript book that I've been writing every day every though he didn't understand much. He asks questions and commits to doing problems from the book every day. He updates his progress on notion every day, 7 days a week.

https://www.notion.so/songz/26617ff591e44d4f9c376950e7449819...

Its been a year and he went through a few notebooks of practice problems back to back. He now catches bugs in my book and proofreads my lesson exercises. He can understand my code and give me feedback. His perseverance and dedication to my content is the greatest gift I can ever receive from anyone.
Can it run OK under Windows 8 or 8.1?
EV drivers are used to charging up their cars at home, without making any additional stops. /smug
Fraud in debt collection is rampant. Yes, there are legitimate debtors, but you can't assume than some one who is being sued legitimately owes the debt. Even without fraud, many debt collectors illegally harass the debtors, knowing they can't afford a lawyer to defend themselves.
> Hmm, so I'd say the vast majority of people are not familiar with cognitive biases or logical fallacies at all.

But would you say that applies to the userbase of HN?

> My point was it's probably such a protected/strong part of thought because long ago those rules were generally really useful for survival. Overriding them now is possible but takes a lot of work.

Agreed, but if no one is even willing to acknowledge the existence of the phenomenon, what should one do?
Imperial Report 13 Replication study: Estimating European CVOID-19 infections
Yes indeed. I'm not buying it isn't patched in some way before it's pushed to any app stores. Especially with all the noise beforehand about how it operates and the involvement of GCHQ/NCSC in development.

Edit: some digging. NHSX is run by Matthew Gould. Former Israel diplomat and tied via UK-Israel technology hub to NICE (Neptune Intelligence Computer Engineering) Ltd which is a former Israeli army surveillance and data security company among other functions.

So basically a hotpot of reasons not to install this thing.
I feel like this is anything but shocking and the wrong takeaway? The source, as I understand it, is just where the person is living. It doesn't distinguish from people who worked from home, worked because they were essential, or those who have been going out socially.

66% of the people in the hospital are people who normally live at home. What percent of the normal population lives at home - 90%?
I've not been excited about 3G, and I was only lukewarm about 4G, because 4G was meant to be something for laptops (still ended up in phones tho). But I am very excited about 5G - it's fundamentally different way if interconnecting stations is really cool. If it's half as good as the promise we will all see annoyances like super slow internet in dense areas or huge ping gone, and remote locations would get a huge step up from 4G. That's why I'm not upgrading my phone to something without 5G.
I might agree, but the root post in the thread as linked by OP is literally someone complaining that Emacs doesn't have rounded buttons. (And no it was not posted on April 1, even though that's a sensible question to ask.) And there are other less trivial UX concerns about Emacs that are somewhat more legitimate, even for a tty app.
And no actual timings eh? My emacs starts up within 3 seconds. 2 seconds of that is it reopening all the files from my last session and arranging them on screen, saving me quite a few more seconds of doing it manually.

> my #1 goal would be to beat Vim on startup time

You have some weird priorities

> Stallman is too far out of touch ... but even with active users of Emacs

FUD! He monitors the emacs bugs list. Also I just 2 days ago got a response from him personally regarding emacs. Note: personally.

No credibility for you, sunshine.
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My goal is more to 'compete with' /newest

Oh! That makes an awful lot of sense, thanks. I wonder if you'd have got less confused feedback if you'd described it like that initially, I think a lot of the commentators (including me) somewhat misunderstood what you're trying to do.
What you like has little to do with luxury, and in many cases is actually anti-parallel to luxury.

I like my comfortable cotton tank top and my mom's mac and cheese but neither of them are luxury goods.

In fact since a lot of luxury is actually about signaling, if it's too comfortable / has high utility, it might actually lose status.
For store of value, that's fine. You don't need fast transactions. It's way more convenient than gold and real-state.
> Lync is still Lync

mmm.. I know what you're saying but the change to Teams from a VOIP perspective substantially changed some of the under-the-hood stuff. They stood up a facade to offer luke-warm integration from SfB/Lync IP phones (authentication and basic calling, but that's about it). AFAIK this wasn't just a breaking change but a re-arch of some of the backend. Point being, they may be evolutions but the move to Teams is not just a new front-end. Substantial evolution has happened since we first installed server stacks to support Lync, even though we still see Lync fingerprints and junk dna everywhere.
As long term GDP growth rates decline due to demographics, an economy becomes less able to service debt. In order to keep systemic risk constant, use of leverage should decrease, not increase. Something doesn't add up.
Your post started with "Elon knows", which implies you can read minds, so as long as your arguments stem from knowing the inner thoughts and assumptions of someone else, it's a rickety foundation to say the least.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/dominicdudley/2020/04/28/abu-dh... Abu Dhabi just secured a bid for a 2GW solar plant at a record 1.35 dollar cents per KWH.