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>But, it really was something we were terrified of, all through the 70's and 80's

Not me, in the 80s, and I never heard any one talk about it. I mean, I read tons of books, and so the narrative you describe I'm very familiar with. But I never heard anyone in "real life" talk like that, not once.

I'm not sure what you mean by "we are still in that position today" - surely we are not, because if a nuclear weapon goes off there is no reason to launch them all. And it's been proven so many times that nuclear powers do not respond to non-nuclear threats with nukes that it's taken for granted now.
You could say the same thing about the modern stories of Epstein, Qanon, the supposed secret basement in that pizza place etc. Maybe it was just propaganda, or maybe Nero, Caligula and other Roman emperors were a bit sociopathic to say the least and were drawn to more than just abstract political power.
I think it's really not that some programmers do 10x more, but some people with the same job title do a different job. Some engineers take responsibility for product or for ecosystem; some engineers tick off tasks on a list. (Both can be very valid, and bleeding for product quality at a company is definitely not inherently good.)
From an information retrieval perspective, this is embarrassing, and the benchmarks aren’t close to being apples and oranges—it’s more like apples and Mack trucks. The linked benchmark is for a toy data set of 5.6GB, which we all know Redis will store in RAM; yet they don’t say whether they set “index.storage.type: memory” on ElasticSearch (guessing they didn’t).

At the same time, ElasticSearch/Lucene puts considerable effort into analysis at both indexing time and querying time that goes into ranking the search results. RediSearch’s ranking is “user provided”—how does that work exactly? What does that even mean? Ranking is at the heart of information retrieval—of what value is it to allow for 4x more queries to be run on a cluster when the result sets are terrible?

ElasticSearch could be better at scaling up on nodes to handle more query operations on a given cluster. However, if you care about full text search, this won’t do the job.
And network is a synonym for web, distinguished only by usage, not intrinsics.
Kinda like how Amazon acquired CloudEndure, improved the service, and lowered cost by 80%? They really broke that. /s

Full disclosure: I work at AWS. Not on CloudEndure or anything relating to pricing. But come on.
Very succinct summary - with the contrast (from an investor perspective) magnified by the fact that Nvidia has stable management that has delivered over a number of years, compared to Intel's untested CEO and recent history of significant mis-steps.
>Could have been avoided by defining "a good hacker" but that's missing as well :)

Given that it's his site, his forum and his rules, I've always assumed "anything that good hackers would find interesting" loosely correlated to "anything Paul Graham would find interesting."
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I started on C++ back in VS6 days and I wrote tons of it when I was in to game dev and graphics programming - but I would not want to work on those systems and kinds of problems when I can get paid the same to work on higher level stuff - the tooling quality and slow iteration cycle when I'm really stuck on something leads to a lot of stress - I just want low stress dev environment where I focus on solving problems I'm being paid to solve - not problems created by the tools and then having to explain stakeholders why something seemingly simple takes 3x of the estimate. I like environments where I'm confident in my estimates - C# proved to be good in this regard simply because the tooling is there even when I hit a wall and it has a relatively consistent uniformity that makes it easier to navigate unknown territory.
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> Big providers are not reliable either. It's a symetrical problem. If they don't deliver messages, they are not reliable from both sender and recipient PoV.

It's symmetric in the sense that if Alice can't communicate with Bob, then Bob can't communicate with Alice. But network effects break the symmetry. If you have a big provider you can reliably communicate with 99.99% of people. If you have a small provider you can reliably communicate with 95% of people.

*Numbers made up to illustrate the point.
A number of anti-competitive business practices, such as offering delivery for restaurants without telling them.

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23216852
> Every dentist office had 5-6 Xeon chips sold at high margin.

What on earth for? My dentists office has a couple of old Opterons. What were yours using their Xeons for?
My observation around codebases that weren't written with/for unit tests is that they always end up being a monolith that you have to run all of in order to run any of. Having decent code coverage means that it's at least possible to run just that one function that fails on the second Tuesday of the month when that one customer in Albania logs in.
It’s not free to transport and distribute the product though. If the surplus has driven down price, the supplier may also be facing a lack of revenue that means any extra cost on transport is too much to bear, even if they really wish they could donate the discardable surplus.

Additionally they may be able to count the discarded product in a business loss category that yields a better tax write-off or qualifies them for assistance in a way that straight donation doesn’t.

To me your example feels like a Chesterton’s Fence scenario where government involvement is responsible for disincentivizing the common sense option of donating a surplus.
You're right, and that's why I'm genuinely confused by what's going on. Restaurant delivery used to be a healthy market that didn't need to eat up external capital. Now we have a situation where:

- Restaurants say they are paying too much.

- Delivery companies are losing money.

- Customers are paying fees to the sites in addition to the delivery cost we used to pay.

What gives? It seems these can't all be true.
You might enjoy this blog post I wrote: http://kyleprifogle.com/churn-based-programming/
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Tor doesn't work unless normal people usage it. Users need the camouflage normal users provide.
Besides that, I find her to be a horrible writer. I don't get the praise. Have standards dropped this low?
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FOMO? Most of my small business customers that experiment with new tech are simply scared of losing what they have, or envious of competitors who seemingly have more. "My competition is using it so maybe we should too?" is a common phrase heard. Add "delivery services" to the list of failed VC funded tech gambles (see Groupon) that cost small businesses dearly.
You seem to be trying to give me an honest advice, which is nice and I appreciate it, but you don't seem to get the point - you do not have to, and should not, feel ok with everything that happens externally. That's not something that needs fixing. I do not need a cope mechanism. There are real things that I'm dissatisfied with and I have the right to feel this way. I can rationalise it and go to some kind of therapy, but that's not the point. I have enough "terapy" sessions in my job, that's precisely what I'm dissatisfied about. It's a bit annoying and redundant most of the year, but after the pride month you just want to never hear about this topic anymore in your life.

Imagine that someone comes to you and says that you should kneel before some random black people, because that's how you are supposed to react to the BLM narrative.
You might genuiely care about the minorities and still do not agree with the BLM narrative, or just plainly do not see the point of the performances themselves. You might feel very bad about doing this, which is completely natural. There are a lot of reasons why you would not want to do this.
Should you go to a therapy to be able to shame yourself more easily?
All due respect, it feels that someone who suggests something like this would need the therapy more.
Do you believe that the full delivery app fee goes to the delivery worker?
I agree, particularly because this covers a specific narrow case: the directory won't showcase/feature you, but the app still works. That's not what happens in the classic appstore, where a rejection typically means you're dead in the water - or forced through alternative means like AltStore (which is what I was interested in when I clicked the link).
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If restaurants haven't signed up, then how are they getting fees from delivery services?
> If I have a database and some Java or Ruby running on some Linux then why would I care whether it is on x86 or anything else?

Databases, Java, and Ruby, are well-optimised for running on AMD64. Are they all as well-optimised for running on AArch64, for example? I'm not so sure. I still see basic intrinsics being implemented for Java on ARM. I think people may be in for a bit of a shock when they try ARM with some common software.
drivers bringing restaurant food to individual houses doesn't really seem like something that scale helps. More people using the service requires more drivers.
At least in my part of the US, restaurant-provided delivery was only available from a tiny subset of the restaurants currently delivered from by the third-party services. If a cap has an effect of removing the third-party services, I'm not sure why things wouldn't return to the earlier state of limited restaurant choice.
My thoughts on this are that we are in a period of

Low friction to create content => cheap, easy, mass volumes of content

AND no curation based on accuracy, scientific rigor, and truthfulness.

In fact the curation is biased heavily towards content which makes the reader strongly feel something. Outrage, joy, sadness... They acknowledge those feelings by sharing, tweeting, liking, upvoting. All measured by the proxy metric "engagement".

"Engagement" is the enemy in these issues as while it symbolizes usage to a social media company trying to blitz scale, in actuality it symbolizes content that made someone feel a strong emotion and NOT content that is accurate, truthful, and scientific.

Everyone is optimizing for content to go viral in order to get eyeballs on it and that automatically means content skewed to generate outrage, sadness, or joy. And as the competitions heats up, the content has to become even further optimized for feelings generation in order to win out over other similarly skewed content.

This is why social media unintentionally became one of the biggest problems that truth and science has ever faced.
If the slack app store rejected it, how can they still sign up customers for it?

So I guess the slack app store is just a directory, and you can still integrate with slack without being listed in their app store?

The article would be a bit easier to understand if it explained this.
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Yes! Thank you!

I've been saying this for years.

The whole point of testing is make sure you aren't breaking something when you add a feature/refactor/delete old code. Its purpose is to speed up development. Excessive unit testing just creates a brittle test suite, and adds more work without much benefit. It slows you down.

As a Rails dude focused on startups, iterating rapidly and what the user sees is what you care about. Therefore, I focus on integration tests that run the whole stack. That lets me mess with the implementation code without re-writing the test suite. At the same time, it provides regression protection and a good place to start troubleshooting. Plus, Rails already has tests for the "plumbing".

Tests should serve the developer, and speed up the iterative process, not add work to the project b/c of a dogmatic adherence to TDD or unit test all the things design.

Just my (unpopular) opinion.
Thank you for posting an offline alternative!

I'd say the biggest difference is that we handle everything (so that engineers can focus on actual product dev) and also offer white-glove service to all of our customers. For midsized and up, we offer 24/7/365 access to an engineer for any questions or problems with the Usage dashboard.
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Riot uses the platform’s push server unless you’re using the F-Droid version on Android. That version will indeed destroy my battery if I leave it running with my (rather large) account.
It would probably be more aerodynamic the other way round.
"Birds do it, bees do it... even educated fleas do it..."
As someone who has a Slackbot in the Slack App Directory (https://retrochat.xyz) I can see why Slack is hostile. The reason is most likely UX.

On the other hand, I have to command the author for their lead research and a nice blog post. Way to go :)
Not to disagree with your overall point, but Marcuse wrote about plurality as a poor substitute for critical thought in the 60s:

"Now in recalling John Stuart Mill's passage, I drew attention to the premise hidden in this assumption: free and equal discussion can fulfill the function attributed to it only if it is rational expression and development of independent thinking, free from indoctrination, manipulation, extraneous authority. The notion of pluralism and countervailing powers is no substitute for this requirement. One might in theory construct a state in which a multitude of different pressures, interests, and authorities balance each other out and result in a truly general and rational interest. However, such a construction badly fits a society in which powers are and remain unequal and even increase their unequal weight when they run their own course. It fits even worse when the variety of pressures unifies and coagulates into an overwhelming whole, integrating the particular countervailing powers by virtue of an increasing standard of living and an increasing concentration of power."

The instructor's interjections provide a look-in here, but the whole presupposition is that the students have learned and sufficiently refined the capacity for critical thought inside and outside the classroom setting.
Are we pronouncing this Ready-Search, Redis-Search, or Redis-urch? Personally I vote Ready Search but I’m also in the Postgres-Sequel camp :)
In at least some cases ... the prices you see on grubhub may be higher than the actual prices the restaurant is charging. E.g $17.99 vs $14.99
Sorry for the "not free" suggestion, but I use Feedly which I believe supports this use case. They offer shareable "boards" and a card view (among others).
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A fancy name for houseboats?
This is the right move - local restaurants are hurting and, sadly, the internet is a place where big corps with large budgets have leverage over passionate little guys working their butts off.

For those who want to help, I built a chrome extension similar to Honey that shows a local restaurant's direct ordering website as you're about to order from that restaurant thru a third party service. If direct ordering isn't available, it will also show you if that same order is cheaper elsewhere. If you have a favorite local restaurant that accepts direct orders, please help us add them to our system by filling in this form: https://platerapp.app.link/JACVBOFUY7

For those interested in checking out the extension, it can be downloaded here: https://platerapp.app.link/tDSD3mUTY7
(it doesn't collect browsing history or sell personal info or anything of the sort)
One of those brilliantly simple ideas, I'm already in for 10 tickets and have shared it with a bunch of friends.
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I suspect it's also that small restaurants just paid an illegal immigrant in cash to deliver for them which lowered the costs.
My issue with open borders is that everyone seems to come to the most populated places.

It seems kind of insane how everyone crams into the same old cities.

Companies do it because the workers are there, workers do it because the companies are there, and every city just becomes a crowded, unaffordable hellscape.

Is it not possible to build new towns and expand them anymore? There's plenty of land as far as I can tell...
No, it was people from Sunda Islands (now Indonesia) who are also austronesians.
That's the vision :)
Huh! Thanks for chiming in and that's good to know!

Side note, I just want to say that I have mad respect for you always finding a way to stay so positive while continuing to be so heavily involved with the community, even with job changes and all of that stuff going on. You're an absolute role model for how to participate in community management and a godsend for Rust.
That's correct, it doesn't prevent distribution. Also, I believe Slack will show a warning on your app at install time if it is not listed.
they charge the user.
So the restaurants are getting the option of delivery and the increased customer base and advertising... for absolutely no change to themselves? And the customers who use delivery are the ones paying for it? And if they don't want to pay it they can still go straight to the restaurant who will again make the same money? Sounds like a win to absolutely everyone involved.

What is everyone's problem? Why do we want to interfere with this?
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Honest question, how is that anticompetitive?
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This is absolutely one of the key formative stories that helped me to think about systems at light speed scales.

I'm currently at the very early stages of building a science museum and will eventually try to incorporate this story into an exhibit about light speed. This along with "Nanoseconds", foot long pieces of wire like what Grace Hopper handed out, can truly help to bring this topic to life.

I'm also attempting to use this as the basis for a blockchain based "proof of proximity" in which a very high number of round trip encryptions of the previous blocks hash are stored in a bitcoin block. The number of round trips would be high enough that devices even a few hundred feet apart couldn't complete the task before the next block.
What place did all or even many restaurants have delivery of their own?

Only like maybe 5% of the restaurants offered delivery on their own, mostly pizza chains and Chinese places.
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At first sight, the ability to mass DM individuals on Slack, with all the recipients hidden from each other, just sounds wrong.

However, as Slack positions itself as the new email, and once we remember that email has had bcc since forever, this app/feature no longer appears so sinister anymore.
Mises' fans "argue" without any empirical evidence that no plan is the best plan. Pseudo-science in action.
You're allowed, but you will be blacklisted by many services...

I also agree that it shouldn't be a problem if you're not an exit node, but that's the way it works.
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Hi HN! I've been working on this for far too long without sharing. It's still rough in a lot of places but I'd love feedback! <3
I agree with this, I also admit that 95% of the code I write is plumbing code. (There is an art to making your plumbing nice).
Support for micropayments.
AFAIK Github apps work the same way. Additionally, you need to meet a specific number of customers (I think over 200) to apply to be listed in their market.
Yes, but Stanford says the CFR for those under 70 is 0.04%

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v...
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Not realistic.
Honestly, those delivery companies are probably underpaying their employees for delivery. I've worked at a pizza delivery company, and including tips, I earned about $140 a day (inflation adjusted, post-taxes) for delivering pizza all over town. It was certainly not enough to provide for a long-term living, given the vehicle upkeep costs and gas.
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I guess channel messages are more likely to be missed than direct messages. This approach also helps the conversation flow through one person, rather than everyone having to see each response. Interesting idea!
What's wrong with that? If the restaurants are getting the price they want to charge, and if the customers are prepared to pay the higher price, seems everything's OK?

I agree that it's scammy that grubhub etc. is pretending to be the restaurant. But if they made it clear, we are a delivery service giving you access to this restaurant, if you want to order this food you can do so for $17.99, I think everything would be fine with that business model.
I am a fan of open borders, but you can't have any kind of public assistance and open borders.
In NYC I'm guessing most restaurants paid illegal immigrants in cash to deliver for them. Not sure about elsewhere. That lowers the cost a lot versus having a legitimate delivery business with legal workers and taxes.
Are you kidding me? What are these "ostensibly competing libertarian tendencies that currently make up American public politics"?

We have a broken two-party system where both parties abandoned their philosophical beginnings more than 3 decades ago to pursue headlong corporatist and globalist goals, with varying spins depending on what personally benefits party leadership the most. Both parties are working hard to systematically eliminate any real measure of freedom which exists for the average person in the nation, but taking different angles to do so. One party makes direct attacks on the very basis of our Constitution, the other party more subtly manipulates processes to disenfranchise people while acting to prevent them from having secure communications and privacy. Both parties actively support a police state, and both parties are out of touch with the realities of the majority of residents, especially those outside of cities. In neither case would I describe the current system as "ostensibly competing libertarian tendencies."

There are obviously many possible negative consequences and externalities that come from absolute freedom (libertarianism), but the current actions and words of both parties fly in the face of the claim that they are in any way advocating such a position; hidden, blatant, or otherwise.

Also, referring to "1984" as "COINTELPRO agitprop" is so tone deaf that it's nearly daft. George Orwell was a British author, first of all, and COINTELPRO was a domestic operation of the FBI in the US. Secondly, if you were to observe a theme in "1984" and follow it to its logical conclusion, I think it obvious that the books premise and message would be opposed to government operations exactly like COINTELPRO. In fact, 1984 captures the essence of our current situation pretty well to show you the dystopian future that awaits from giving up control to the state combined with technology capable of absolute surveillance.

Your comment reads like something written in a Chinese troll farm to push public opinion in support of Communism.
Something I really like about the Typescript playground is it has lots of examples with documentation and, not to put too fine a point on it, they all compile and run. Obviously this isn't designed for the same use case, but it'd be nice (from my perspective!) to be able to load in some example code that already works and doesn't produce an inscrutable (to a beginner) compile error.

I'm sure this would be a great resource if I did start trying to learn the language though, so thanks for sharing it :)