skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Neither practice is superior per se. Let's both admit that.

There's nothing wrong with wanting to pick the parts yourself. But that comes at a cost and that was my original point that you responded to. Rails makes these decisions for you.

Elixir and Phoenix have taken a different approach, and there's nothing wrong with that. But let's not pretend that Phoenix is "as productive" as Rails. It isn't by choice. I disagree with that choice, but it's not my choice to make.

> Generating boilerplate is pretty easy. But how many tools out there can scan your code and tell you "this looks like Devise's boilerplate with exceptions in files A and B on lines 123 to 150 and 201 to 217"?

Rails can reverse just about every generator that it ships with. I'm guessing it's more difficult in Phoenix because the generators append stuff into contexts instead of generating new files maybe?

> and the Phoenix team cares more about building something that is "dogmatically perfect" (which you're correlating with quality)

>> And you have spoken with the Phoenix team. And they told you this. Exactly this? No. They don't do that.

>> There have been a number of discussions on ElixirForum about this and various important figures of the maintainers' teams have openly said that they aren't aiming to make the language and its stack more popular; they want to make useful tech

What? I feel like you're in agreement and disagreeing with me simultaneously here?

> Are you claiming that Rails' way is factually superior to learn?

No, I'm claiming that Rails is easier to learn and use because of the philosophy of its creators and maintainers. ActiveRecord is easier to use than Ecto. Reversible generators is an easier interface than "just undo it with git". Running a rails command for installing ActiveStorage is easier than building it yourself. ActiveJob is easier than wiring up Oban (not much easier, but still). Getting an end-to-end test framework out of the box is easier than hunting down elixir libraries and trying to bring them to the party.

Rails cares deeply about the developer experience. I think Phoenix does as well, but they focus on different things (LiveView).
Sorry but using tilde to mean approximately is extremely common. Most people don't know who to get the double tilda symbol. It's obvious that the author wasn't suggesting negative time.
> Snow Crash’s prose is richer.

Do you have any relatives in Afghanistan?

Just a caress, but it might as well be a two-handed blow from Satan's electric ax handle.
The following is a good write up of how to do it and then I just set up a cron job on my Linux box to do it every 48 hours:

https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/aoq9yj/reddit_...
Yes yes.
This is the one. :)
I was pretty psyched for the Catch 22 adaptation, but that was terrible. A big part of the books narrative is how every chapter is out of order. It starts in the middle, and ends at the end, but the story progresses by revealing future and past events as you go through it. I watched the first episode of the adaptation, saw perfectly linear story telling, immediately lost interest and never bothered with the rest. Which is a shame, because it was big budget and had a great cast. But it hasn’t left me with much faith that weirder books should expect decent screen adaptations.
That's interesting, mind elaborating on this? How is the next version of Arc going to help with pagination? Is this a memory limit thing?
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I don't think it's tortured. I think it's a reasonable reading of Wisconsin statutes. Maybe you're torturing your reading of the decision. Or maybe I'm a shill. Any readers that stumble onto this sub-thread will just have to figure it out for themselves, and I suggest they read the opinion because it speaks for itself.
Hard to see this as indicative of anything other than covid19.
> did you know that insanely high salaries of a select few is one of the reasons that directly or indirectly leads to income and wealth inequalities in the world, one of the biggest problems of our generation?

Yes, but it's not the engineers and other well-paid workers that are the problem. They are still workers - they get paid for wealth produced. It's the insanely high incomes - which are mostly not salaries, BTW, but capital gains - of the top management and owners where all the money (that would otherwise have stayed in the pockets of those who actually earned it) goes.

Europe patches it up by taxing the entire top half of the scale more, and redistributing it to the bottom half - but it's still a hack, and it still has substantial wealth inequality as a result.
I loved Anathem, one of the few books I can say I absolutely devoured.

Reamde on the other hand...
If you want even cooler try overmind:

https://overmindjs.org

But Recoil is slightly different, designed to be “component first” essentially. Not global. It’s how my own personal mobx based library works. But this one likely has concurrent mode baked in.
The Interesting History Behind the 3-Key Control-Alt-Delete Combination
From the last comment:

> we talked about this on an IRC channel, and Akaricchi opened this issue as a joke.
Agree. If they play it like “Mad Max: Fury Road”, it has the potential to be a masterpiece.
Altered Carbon was disappointing trash. In the end, it was just a sitcom with a cyberpunk backdrop.
> not just because they choose not to progress

To a computer, what's the difference? Instructions are instructions.
Ask HN: Where do you get your news?
People here on HN always seem to post interesting blog posts, news articles, and reddit posts. Curious to know where people get their news:
- Standard media (NYT, WSJ...)?
- Forums (Reddit, HN...)?
- Blogs
Do's and Don'ts while building Distributed Transactions in Microservices
https://www.talentica.com/blogs/distributed-transactions-are-not-micro-services/
I am (geniunely) struggling to parse/interpret the comment, and I've tried for a while... any elaboration/explanation would be appreciated :-/
How far into Anathem did you make it? Anathem has a glacial beginning - the introduction is perhaps 200 pages long. But once you've survived that and the plot starts, it's quite compelling and pays off the glacial introduction. That said, it took me three tries to make it through the introduction. World building a society of mathematician-monks on another planet is tough going indeed.
Do you feel the same way about bodily autonomy when people choose to do hard labour?
any tips or where one would get best practice for configuring/setting up/using knockd?

I wrote up how having a server on the internet is scary now (http://redgreenrepeat.com/2020/03/20/why-you-should-secure-y...) and how to protect it (http://redgreenrepeat.com/2020/04/10/how-to-secure-your-serv...)

One thing I didn't get into more was port knocking/knockd as there were not many resources for it.

I'd love to learn more about how you have used knockd.
>Productivity has fallen off a cliff among everyone I've asked

You're not asking but I'm here to tell you that productivity has skyrocketed for me & those that I work directly with.
I marked my card as damaged, and when it was replaced I refused to give them the new details...
Nuclear is one of the few technologies that has a negative learning curve. As we improve designs, it seems to get more expensive rather than less.

There was a brief window in the 1970s where US nuclear construction projects were finishing on time. But the utility industry had planned for waaaaay too much new capacity. So when all the construction projects with poor execution, that struggled to complete and therefore came in way over budget, finally came online in the early 80s, they were financial disasters in a scale that nearly bankrupted several utilities.

Since then, utilities lost their appetite. And there's basically no way for us to replace the 400 or so reactors in the world that eMate nearing end of life.

However, I'm not sure we will need nuclear. With how cheap wind and solar are getting, far faster than anybody anticipated, we have finally found the technologies that may some day provide energy "too cheap to meter." However, like nuclear they are not dispatchable (except for some designs in France), so if we want to power a grid we either need to overbuild capacity by quite a bit, or use energy storage. There's a cost trade off for the two that depends on how cheap storage gets, and how cheap extra capacity is, and how cheap transmission is from an area with different weather that day. (For example, one can imagine building 2x of panel capacity over the amount of inverter capacity on a solar install, so that even on cloudy days you can chug along at near full energy output... it all depends on the cost trade offs.)

And as fast an solar is getting cheap, far beyond expectations, so is lithium ion storage. And there are many chemistries with high specific energies (and thus unsuitable for vehicles), that we are just now dipping our toes into.

Nuclear would be a nice tool to have, if it was competitive with other technologies, but it's going to be decades before it can prove itself and establish a positive track record for deployment. Utilities have been burned too many times by financial dumpster fires.
I would think that if you are going to disparage it, you would at least give one example of why it's unnecessary.
I'll see your Snow Crash opening chapter and raise you an Excession.
Anathem was the last passable novel before Neal Stephenson started writing "stories" around a sci-fi concept, rather than writing stories. A throwback to Zodiac, perhaps. Snow Crash and Diamond Age were his best works.
I've been working on a rock climbing card game! We hope to kickstart it sometime later in the year. https://five15game.com

I've also been making excessive amounts of bread!
For what it's worth, when I first started Anathem, it was a slog and I put it down a little ways in. A few years later I tried it again and absolutely loved it. If you're a Stephenson fan, don't cross it off the list just yet.
Several people who worked on the show are on the Pennsylvania Film Industry Association Board, and it was filmed in and around Pittsburgh. Maybe that had something to do with it.

That said I believe I read an article suggesting that Netflix plans to not film in Atlanta because of a variety of conservative laws passed in the state of Georgia. That was post the 2018 filming of Mindhunter season 2, but it may affect future shows and films.
I don't think the existence of SAP is particularly relevant to a monopoly that exists because of statute. Although I don't live in such a state, I know there are places in the US where all the liquor stores are government run.
If someone intercepts the traffic to my server, they could see the knock sequence and re-use it. Is there any way to get knockd to use a google authenticator-like sequence of port knocks?
I thought so too, but it says every word like ambulance, police car, tree, or whatever I'm drawing.. So they recorded all those words?
interesting - would this be an effective way to block portscanners?
Mindhunter not Mindhunters fyi
Thanks for pointing out. I was not aware of that guideline.
Nobody cares about the halting problem from a specific standpoint. If it's algebraically guaranteed to halt, it halts. When it halts is entirely meaningless for purposes of the halting problem.

But the thing is, it isn't algebraically guaranteed either - we still don't know if an odd perfect number exists. (I'm not sure where the "Definitely. Somewhere in 10^300 range." is coming from. There's nothing definite about the existence, only constraints that need to be satisfied if it exists)
What part of Altered Carbon struck you as a comedy?
You buy Acrobat DC the impacted product because you’re using it as more than a reader. OCR image to text (laying the text invisibly within the pdf as metadata behind the image) is a common use case. Slim down a bloated pdf eg that came out of a scanner driver. Properly redact sensitive information (legal, govt, journalism context).

The software is flawed even beyond security issues but for creating or editing PDF files there is not much competition. (There is some and I’ve used that too and it’s mostly worse. It’s a hard problem apparently.)
We have a very reliable baseline number on how many people die per day. It’s completely reasonable to assume that all deaths in excess of that number are, directly or indirectly, caused by Covid.
Origami.
So I read Snow Crash years ago and loved it (although endings aren't Stephenson's strong suit) but I'm not sure how well this will hold up today on screen.

Cyberpunk was thinly-veiled xenophobia about the Japanese and this was really the zeitgeist of the 1980s. Granted the ideas of virtual reality, what we now know as the Internet (to be fair, the Internet already existed in the 1980s in nascent form) and personal enhancement were fairly new ideas at the time but we're now living in that future and it is of course nothing like the dystopia predicted.

It's really no coincidence that the heyday for all this was the 1980s (Blade Runner, Neuromancer and so on). I wouldn't be surprised if this is what the project is stuck on: interpreting and translating this story to the small screen in a modern way.
Maybe. And maybe it's just a simple, single category message board :)
I liked the first season, but the second season was absolute garbage.
I don't know about its efficacy, but my favorite means of mass energy storage is a gravity battery: literally stacking heavy blocks in a huge tower, which are raised and lowered based on energy demands by automated cranes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Vault
As reported by The Daily Wire, so clearly no chance of confirmation bias...
I'm not sure if this impacts your scenario, but the "calorie" commonly used in nutrition is actually a "kcal", or a thousand calories as used by physicists. Most confusing term for units ever.
1. Of course not! The mental state of someone at a given moment should not be allowed to be used as an excuse to end his/her life forever

2. Also no, because multiple times chronic illness is related to lifestyle and can be fixed or at least improved a lot. Laziness and lack of willpower (even because of suffering) is not an excuse to be legally allowed and assisted in death

3. The same as above.

4. Also the same! Giving up of life doesn't need to be assisted, anyway. But definitely the state should not in ANY circumstance incentive suicide.
Both are direct quotes from Snow Crash, illustrating the prose comment.
> My only apprehension is that the director will try to relieve the absurdity by making it comedic, when the best way to handle it is to just have it be openly ridiculous without apologizing for it.

The Fifth Element did this _excellently_, and yet there hasn't been a similarly themed movie since AFAIK.
Wow. I feel like this is a bit of the pot calling the kettle black, at this point. I delete all of my comments, popular and hated. Equally. I don't pick and choose. There's a 48 hour clock on it. No one cares about a conversation 48 hours later on Reddit... No one cares 12 hours later, really. But if you want to think I'm a "dick", because I only give someone 48 hours to have my opinion on Reddit, well I'm old enough to live through that =) message boards don't have to be as permanent as they want them to be.
I work in AAA. I'm talking lower level things like picking which "type" of GPU memory to allocate, access to specific registers in shaders, etc. PC didn't have real async compute capabilities until DX12, for example.

On the CPU side yeah it's 100% just a normal computer but nothing will be interrupting your threads. I think Windows 10 tries to do in it's new game mode too.

Sorry for assuming the link was the PS5 one. I have a UDN account and their login setup sometimes just dumps me to their homepage, so I made the assumption that it was the same video that I had seen everywhere else.
"Safe from Density"
Is there so little to report that taking the average growth of his wealth for the last 5 years and extrapolating for the next 5 is worthy news? This is an absolutely worthless prediction. How can this be journalism?
It doesn't matter if the cost is subsidized
Young, healthy people are getting sick from Covid-19
The "Optical Pumps" that repeater the spans are the biggest constraint. See:

https://www.popsci.com/google-fastest-internet-cable-atlanti...

Also keep in a mind that fiber itself is theoretically unlimited bandwidth wise. So as the transmission gear on each end that lights the fiber improves so does the available bandwidth each fiber pair can't provide. The other issue is that the cable plant itself has a limited life as well generally around 20 years although that number has gone up recently to 25 or so years. So anything that's fiber not lit for the majority of that 25 year life span is potentially money wasted.
Except for the workers, paid predominantly minimum wage or near it, who effectively have no choice.
In fairness, though, the halting problem doesn't care if you can predict if SOME programs halt... you have to predict if ALL programs halt.
I'm not sure that's the problem. I stayed in a mixed-use development in Southern California and the people who lived there straight up didn't visit any of the commercial space. I don't think mixed-use really works on a local scale without the crossover.

If the commercial space had even one store that people wanted, like a Trader Joes, it could have worked.
AFAIK, Apple claims that iMessage is E2E encrypted. Meaning as long as you don’t use iCloud backups you are “safe”
Microsoft opens up coronavirus threat data to the public
‘Microsoft is making the threat intelligence it’s collected on coronavirus-related hacking campaigns public, the company announced Thursday.

‘“As a security intelligence community, we are stronger when we share information that offers a more complete view of attackers’ shifting techniques,” the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a blog post.[0] “This more complete view enables us all to be more proactive in protecting, detecting, and defending against attacks.”‘

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/2020/05/14/open-sour...
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It fits a pattern of great books that overdo some sort of theoretical exposition. I think I skimmed or skipped a good chunk of

The language stuff in snow crash (actually I may have read it all I can't remember, but I thought it went on a bit)

The conspiracy stuff in Foucault's pendulum

The Talmud stuff in Unsong

I enjoyed all of these a lot though, especially snow crash and unsong
Diamond age was glorious (although I think possibly Stephenson's worst ratio of beginning:ending quality), but I adore Cryptonomicon.
Or maybe, because you need a handle here to apply for YC to begin with (or did the last time I looked), it's part of their funnel and business model.

And maybe, because they launch YC companies here and let them advertise job openings here, it's part of their business model.
French romp but Sci-fi
What do people here think the actual chance of a war with China is, in the next 10-15 years?

I have no idea personally, but the thought of it scares the shit out of me.
Next dream job can be in an HTTP header
Working on Delegate (https://www.delegatehq.com/), a process management app for founders and managers. Django / DRF backend with Vue.js in front running on Kubernetes--awesome stack.
Twitch is launching an advisory council that includes top streamers
> Trading fees. If the house takes a cut of 0.1% on every transaction, then on average those who trade more lose more money.

If you trade derivatives, fees can be very low (because these are highly-leveraged products but if you are smart you know you shouldn't take any leverage). This can save substantial money if you trade frequently.

> Risk/reward tradeoff. If you buy deep out-of-the-money options, you might have a 5% chance of profitability, but expected return of $0 (neither positive nor negative). 95% of the time you lose $X, and 5% of the time you make $19X. If traders are pursuing riskier strategies, you'd expect most of them to lose money.

There is more to trading than predicting the direction of a stock/currency. You can provide liquidity and arbitrage a stock and its derivatives. Having traded for a while, arbitrage opportunities do exist; though sometimes you might have to be patient and cut off trading until an opportunity arise. This can be quite a time (like a year with no trading opportunity) and will require a lot of self-control.
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HBO Go, HBO Max, HBO Now. How many HBOs do we need?
No, we do not. Because every. single. other. thing. in society has changed in the past three months. We have evidence of people refusing to call emergency services due to fear of contracting covid. We have evidence of an increase in death that _can't_ be attributed to covid. There is really no comparison between now and last year at this time. Literally everything is different.
Something bugged me about her during her 2019 UN climate action summit speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMrtLsQbaok

She delvers a "how dare you..." line at the beginning that gets a good round of applause. Then she continues with her speech. Maybe I'm armchair QB-ing it, but she should have called out the audience for clapping. They're clapping for what she's saying, but as world leaders, it's their failure she's pointing out.
"create astroturfing content to farm coins." - this is reddit already
Not quite, but close. “tf32” is 18 bits, but with the same 10 bits of exponent that fp32 has. It’s the range of fp32 with the precision of fp16. It’s a shame to see such unoriginality in new number representations. I’d much rather see Posit hardware acceleration: https://web.stanford.edu/class/ee380/Abstracts/170201-slides...
I use fwknop[0] on my servers. It does single-packet authorization rather than straight port knocking, which solves the replay issue.

[0] https://www.cipherdyne.org/fwknop/
I enjoyed the whole of the Baroque Cycle as well.
The concern was about the superiority of Japanese technology and corporate structure; it's not xenophobic in the sense that they represent a corrupting force, it was concern for a potentially dominating force.

It's not unlike the British being concerned about the rise of the American Empire; it's not xenophobia so much as it is fear of losing.
Westworld is one of my favorite shows as well. (Have you seen Person of Interest? Same director, similar themes later on around S3-4)

I think you're right, that westworld doesn't have a lot of superfluous details - but the degree of plot complexity required to make use of all the details it contains has led some critics to call it convoluted.

On the other hand, the Lord of the Rings trilogy - the movies are full to bursting with strange details that never make any difference to the story. Bilbo's birthday party is one immediate example - there's a bare minimum needed to establish some characters, and then on top of that are details just there for the sake of themselves.