skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you give examples where vendor lock in becomes a problem?

Ideally something practical (as opposed to theoretical) or something from personal experience.

I generally agree but I feel that more details could be useful.
there's a time horizon attached to efficiency that needs to be considered. Sometimes this time horizon is not explicitly examined, but is just assumed.

For the case of a racing car, if the engineers were told to design it with maximum efficiency possible, and it only has to last the race, then yes, why not have it break and fall apart at the end, if doing so means it runs at a very high efficiency?
> Would something similar be possible for Rust

Yes. The `mrustc` alternative implementation doesn't do things like borrow checking, it assumes the source is "correct".

> [skipping typechecking would] allow for fast compilation when necessary or desired?

The real expenses in a "release" compilation pipeline are in the optimisation passes and codegen, so the gains are mostly in avoiding optimisations (debug build) or avoiding codegen entirely (`cargo check`).

For instance on the latest ripgrep head on my machine:

* cargo check takes ~200s user

* cargo build (debug) takes ~300s user

* carbo build --release takes ~900s user
Google Play Music is dead? That's news to me, as I'm still using it and have been for the last several years.
Playing with GossipSub
Gsuite admin interface. (thankfully I don't use it every day)
The killer-app feature for me on VSCode, is the ability to auto save over SSH.

I tried other things like Emacs, in Tramp mode, terrible. Gawd, it’s so terrible. It took me several days to figure out how to set it up. The documentation and examples were poor or non-existent. And when I finally got it to work, I was thoroughly underwhelmed.

I looked for something else, and found VSCode had a feature for SSH. I downloaded the module, connected to my SSH server, and I was operational in a few minutes. The difference between this and Emacs, was night and day.

And VSCode had all the other nice features, like code folding, syntax highlighting, and especially, function definition lookup, which makes it so convenient to work with your functions library.
Just because HK couldn't facilitate it anymore doesn't mean the world will stop buying $260bn worth of goods and services. It would just be 'rerouted'.
Still crushing the rock is an activity you'd not do without the goal to bind co2. If the CO2 equivalent of the energy required for this is higher than the amount of CO2 that can be offset by the rock dust, it becomes a CO2 producing activity in total.

If your energy generation process is CO2 friendly you might simply offset other energy use with this energy and generate a better CO2 balance by this, skipping all the rock crushing.
It's not very efficient to win the race if you have to replace the car every race.
Why would you expect that Apple ARM is going to get close to i9 performance of 16" MBP? Nothing from benchmarks shows that.

All the Apple ARM benchmarks I've seen is that they're competitive with MacBook Air class offerings and not the high performance CPUs.
>(where are the EU nations on this?)

They're silent. It's not their ex-colony and, very sorry to say it like this, but HK isn't worth angering China over.
Jira Server is really hindered by the centralization of its workflow management administration tools. You cannot have "workflow admins" that can change issue type schemes and stuff like that for a subset of projects without giving them full admin rights.

Imagine having a guy in Dev that can fix your workflow so that "Start working" is not hidden in the dropdown menu.
You filleted the quote. He said.

> You met me at the peak of my career when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods.

This is not ego
The sad and frustrating thing is we know how to beat this disease: STAY HOME, wear a mask when you absolutely have to go out, contact tracing. But Americans just won’t do these simple things. They’ve got to go get their nails done, and eat at their restaurants, and walk around flexing their freedom, and by whatever means possible own the libs. Then they wonder why we have so many cases and deaths and can’t open schools without the apocalypse happening. I’m pretty much out of empathy at this point. We are missing out on an entire year because people won’t put a piece of cloth over their face.
And the yin to that yang:
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2019/12/28/moloch-hasnt-won/

Longer series, but the first post does a good job of summarizing Meditations on Moloch.

Somewhat offtopic, try listenig to the original poem on youtube. It's a treat.
I use Gitea and I love it. The network effects and reach of GH are holding people back from discovering / using / contributing to other forges (gitlab, gitea, sourcehut) that are spread over numerous instances. Even just giving a star to show your appreciation for a project or a comment on the issue tracker often requires you to create a new account just for that.

Microsoft with features like these, acquiring NPM etc. and more to come, will be 'the Google of the dev world' (or they already are). Locked-in by the platform and by FOMO we'll be. And Gitea and other such fine works only used in the fringes of software development is my fear.

Big tech is causing big problems, as often discussed on HN. In this domain there are still competitors that can pick up the glove and put up a real fight. Gitlab can, but Gitea could do too. And imho here's how:

Federated forges, by adopting ActivityPub-based ForgeFed protocol [0]. I've searched your issue tracker and see [1] you are already considering adoption of parts of it.

I think federation support will greatly boost the attractiveness of Gitea as an alternative to GH.

PS. I've also heard talk to create federated LinkedIn alternatives.

[0] https://forgefed.peers.community

[1] https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/9045
A good summary. Nonetheless, I like this little gem: "Prolonged contact with the computer turns mathematicians into clerks and vice versa."
Anything louder than "silent" is good, but it need not be nearly as loud as an ICE engine.
I happen to have (collecting dust somewhere...) one of those old Firewire webcams Apple made. It has a physical shutter you can open and close by rotating the front. It's about as beautiful and elegant as it gets.

If Apple still cared about beautiful and elegant products, it could surely find a way to incorporate a miniaturized version of that in a Macbook.
I have similar setup but fully automated with GitHub an travis. I use cloudflare instead of cloudfront to reduce cost as well - https://reisinger.co.uk/posts/s3_hosting/
There are advantages to look-up and look-down depending on the tactic you're employing. It might work well against a radar with a known vulnerability to this type of maneuver, although I'm not sure I would employ it as a general tactic against generic Doppler radars (ignoring kinematic issues here, but they're very much a concern even if the maneuver is both doable and effective).

There are plenty of other ways to skin the cat that I would suggest reaching for before this. We've been fighting with and against Doppler radars for a long time...
Makes sense, but all that is a design trade-off.

If you do it like teams does then you don’t need an activity view and a dedicated threads channel.
Ceph too, would be much cheaper to operate your own server in a traditional server hosting company than AWS.
Archived:

http://archive.is/smovR
Skype. Ever since Microsoft made it that it no longer saves your chats locally, search has become so unusable it's really quite amazing how awful it is. Whenever I need to search text in a thread it does so in the cloud??? And it never finds anything. There are times when I literally have had to manually scroll back several months back in a thread to find what I was looking for. I absolutely hate it.
I'm currently reading The Divide by Jason Hickel, a book that explores the origin and causes of global inequality. This article reminded me of the book's chapter about the enclosure movement in Britain: Families used to just farm and live off the land. The enclosure movement made most of this land the property of the aristocracy, who would then lease it back out to farmers - but they would keep increasing the price of the lease, so the farmers now had to work themselves to death and use every means to increase yield, in order to keep up, and not get replaced by someone else. It was much more efficient than the previous subsistence farming. (And left many thousands without a home or the means to support themselves)
For something that lasted about 9 years, I'd say that was pretty darn good value for money, at least it was in my case. This led me to continue buying Mac's until today, mainly Mac Mini, Macbook Air and Macbook Pro's. None of them have given any issues except the GPU issue on the 2015 MBP, which was sorted out by Apple. I notice that people complain a lot about Apple quality having gone down, but one also has to realize the complexities of their hardware went up quite dramatically, along with their ambitions to change everything now and then (the keyboard flop comes to mind).
Or you can just use free Netlify tier
"But, wealth! If we all work less, we’ll be poorer, right? Because the total cash output of the economy is a (weird, nonlinear) function of the amount of work that gets put in."

In the previous sentence or so, there was talk about margins of healthcare, which have disappeared. These margins don't exist without more work.

Maybe it is rather that we are working with more things with less effort, rather than doing few things well.

Also cash and work have some correlation, but I think there is higher more profound correlation with work and total amount of products such as roads and buildings. Cash rarely stays in bank accounts but circulates and randomly spawns service and concrete products.

Everyone should work, all the time, to leave this a better place than we found it. And there is still much work to do.
Unless your plan is to win that one race and quit.
Any time you want to leave that vendor. If they up their prices greatly, reduce service levels, refuse to give attention to improving service levels.. break a clause in the contract... an so on.
This is interesting! Do you have any more in-depth articles on it? The Pantsir can be a pretty beastly threat...
Agreed, and your wife won't be upset when she discovers all the nailpolish is gone :)
Yes, plus Cloudflare is free for unlimited traffic. I use it in front of App Engine, and I've served 1m pages in a day for $0 because I don't even hit the App Engine free tier limits after Cloudflare's cache takes the traffic.
Photoshop and Illustrator run on Windows. That is what my design department uses. What software do you use that doesn't run on Windows?
I dunno if the SN76489AN is software compatible, but there's a few companies making modern AY-3-8910 (the sound chip in the Master System) equivalents. There's the JFC 95101, and I believe the Filfact KC89C72, though the origin of that one seems quite strange; zero information on the company that makes it or what else they make is out there.
Hey I'm working on an alternative to Jira. If anyone would be willing to try my website I would appreciate it. I'm looking for product market fit and I would love to hear feature requests. Check it out at kanception.io. Or just down vote me if you want :)
That was essentially my conclusion as well. It is quite sad.
All code blocks in rust by examples can be edited and have a play button.
F1 engines used to last only one race, 2 hours max. Now there is a rule that max 4 engines can be used per season, resulting in engine life of 20 hours or so.
Pandemic-related WFH policies spur burnout for 73% of marketers
Whoever is downvoting this - you're being absolutely absurd, this is a basic statement of fact that you can look up on wikipedia.
Thanks I appreciate it, and hope to chat with you on sqwok! It's amazing how much the state of online discussion is being surfaced on HN and elsewhere lately... I don't have all the answers, but I believe we need more options and different perspectives to hopefully open the door to a better state of discussion online. cheers!
I thought the same thing but after witness several times how extremely cruel women gossip can be to a third person (usually another woman) I realized that they just are the same.
You could put it in a lambda function.
It is but you've already stepped down this path the moment you moved away from shared or self hosting.
Yes to that too!
The farmers probably paid the aristocracy before as well under a different name. What prevented the aristocrats to increase it before?
But otoh, this kind of efficiency is probably the reason why washing machines and other household items are now breaking sooner than before ("planned" obsolescence)
Let’s ask women if they want to go back to hand washing garment
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> Yes, plus Cloudflare is free for unlimited traffic.

Subject to fair use (which is fair). https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/88659/how-can...
He thought he had skin in the game, his bonus, and maybe his job, but both of those items were also out of his control, he just didn’t understand that. So much for that PhD.
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Meditations on Moloch made such an impact on me, that I routinely say aloud "Moloch" when I spot circumstances of competition leading to otherwise irrationally bad outcomes. Sort of in a religious way. :)

I went to comments exactly to see if anyone mentioned it already.

BTW. The efficiency (specialization) vs redundancy (genericity) is a kind of jing-jang, fractal thing and is part of how the universe ... dances... I'd say (inspired by Alan Watts lectures). Systems have cycles where they build specilization up until it becomes so fragile and unstable that it blows up and genericity takes over again. I don't know if that's like some law of cybernetics or something.

Similar to how stability on one level of analysis leads to instability in the one above it (well described in Taleb's book).
South Korea Brings Blockchain to Healthcare, but That’s Just the Start
Chart patterns are an essential part of technical analysis.(Head and Shoulders)
For what it's worth, I agree with you. Clojure only weakly holds on to its lisp heritage. I'd liken it to the similarity between C# and C++ (without implying any superiority to either side). Superficially quite similar, some parts near identical, others a complete detour.

With that in mind, however, basing your critique of Clojure on the extent to which it carries the lisp tradition is bizarre. Your criticisms are born of an ignorance of the value proposition Clojure provides, which would not be terribly different even if it had eschewed lisp syntax in favor of something else.

If you actually learned Clojure, there is zero chance you'd be complaining about symbol interning. It's just so ridiculous. You'd probably still think the whole thing is a waste of time, and I'm sure you'd have a big long list of actual, meaningful complaints.

I've seen people criticize TXR for its ugly syntax once or twice here on HN (I pay close attention to lisp posts here), and I thought that was dumb at the time. I'm not interested in learning it but I'm glad you're trying something new. It's a shame to see you stoop to the same level of drive by dismissal.

But whatever. Let's flip each other's bozo bits and move on.
> create a decentralized system that evenly spreads power

That's simply not feasible, because many centralized systems are a lot more effective than decentralized ones. And centralized systems can't be run via a committee or via direct democracy either, so you will always have some people with outsized decision-making power. At least when you reward these actors with wealth (as opposed to raw political influence, as in socialist countries) they can then go and deploy that wealth on pro-social things, like many of wealthiest businesspeople do in the US. Distributism has the right idea, it's just not universally applicable.
> Why does the x close _everything_ and take you back to the dashboard and not just close the current pane?

Well, at least if it did that /consistently/ it would be an improved. It sometimes just closes the current pane as expected.

More generally speaking, to me Azure feels very jarring. There are panes that are logically pretty much the same but have wildly different behaviours (I'm thinking of AzureAD 'subpanes', some of which take over and there's no way of going back to the main AzureAD pane even by scrolling).

There's also the issue of the interface not being updated after changes and of having to switch panes for the change to be effective or even to reload (reboot?) the whole page (I'm thinking of setting up auto-provisioning in AzureAD apps).
Quick search for "corruzione opere pubbliche" revealed this article which links to a study...

https://www.edilportale.com/news/2020/02/normativa/corruzion...
Lecture and drill has been out of vogue for decades. The hot thing is active learning and high-impact practices. And frankly it has the opposite problem of dragging the class down to the slowest common denominator, wasting the opportunity to teach more to the high-achievers.
I feel like it is the same with many hobby clubs at least here in Finland. The average age of members is very high and going up all the time. Somehow younger people are not drawn to local clubs anymore, probably because many communities have moved online.
I always wondered what percentage of apps in production are using Windows images compared to Linux.
Not only is sh so widespread that it won’t die, but my own backlog of sh scripts, code snippets, config, and muscle memory is so deep that I refuse to use anything that doesn’t have good compatibility with sh.

I also hate it. It’s not the worst piece of software I use everyday, but every time I need to do something more complex than completely routine I find myself fiddling much more than I should have to.
Thanks for reminding me of this piece of garbage. Wasn't it called Continuus at some point? If not, that that was even worse than CM Synergy
My experience is that users like to have their network drives and printers mapped for them. They like to not have to think about updates. Business users want consistency. Windows gives them that.
>an ancient Carthaginian demon

This shouldn't bother me but it really does. For a community striving to be less wrong, how does someone write a 47-minute long post about Moloch but not know Moloch?

It doesn't really matter since it's about the metaphor not the actual Moloch, but I guess it's because of where it's posted. Not sure if there's a name for it but there's a phenomena where if you say you care about something, you'll get a lot of flak for it compared to if you never mention it. Kind of like how Google always gets a lot of bad press since they claim to care about X when VCs for example have a much worse record but don't really get mentioned. With lesswrong's reputation, I can't help but be really put off by the inaccuracy.
Costco Citi VISA is down
For "several hours of maintenance." The folks at the back-of-the-card number, 855-378-6467, said "everything is down. you can't use your card and we can't look at your account." ??

Online, their website is up but shows an old balance because I made a payment that was accepted and the actual balance is $0 as registered in the payments history area.

PSA: Don't depend on Citi credit cards being reliable. Have other brands and kinds of cards because Citi doesn't grok high availability or low impact ops maintenance. I hope Costco goes back to AmEx because this is absolutely ludicrous.
Minor clarification: afaik it's impossible to implement Copy such that it would allocate. Unlike Clone, the Copy trait is only a marker trait which doesn't have methods, so you cannot customize its behavior. It will always be a bitwise stack copy.
I've been using git for a decade, and I still have to Google simple tasks. The answers rarely make sense.
Effectively being limited to your local repeater or maybe some local simplex (if you're lucky) gets very old, very fast. Not just because of the people, but there's just not much interesting to do. What I mean is that pushing a button on an off the shelf handheld doesn't require much sophistication. Same for handhelds as for car radios; and anyway car ownership is also less prevalent among young, urban people. Many people I know do carsharing. Can't install stuff there.

Most people want DX (long range) on HF bands, and that mostly requires moderately large antennas (for the non-hams: rule of thumb: ideally λ/2, where λ=100m-10m. smaller is a compromise). It's by far where most of the activity is, and if you can't participate in that, that may lead to a feeling of being left out.

(I say effectively because there are many niche areas that you can cover with handhelds and small antennas, like building a small cross yagi to reach a hamsat. But still, how often do you really do that? How much activity is there, really? Keep in mind for any mode, you need someone to talk to.)

So that leaves going outdoors and operating portable. Summits On The Air (SOTA) is so much fun. But with prep/driving/hiking/setup/teardown/driving/cleanup, that always takes most of a day. Not something you can do for an hour, after work. (And completely infeasible for kids too young to drive.) And you have to carry everything, which limits you to low power gear. Which leads me to...

...my 'best' experience: I was outdoors on some hillpeak, with a 15W portable radio. Had a nice diy antenna, but still couldn't reach most (with SSB anyway). Overheard two older hams running 1.5kW, talking straight over me, ranting that quote "young people just don't know how to listen". Toxic.
I also blame consumers here. Are you willing to pay $100 for a better quality washing machine? Most people are not.
Yes the vocabulary is the absolute killer. He uses a lot of outdated and local (Viennese dialect) words.

I'm reading the book with Duden open in my browser.
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You can have a look at https://ownstats.cloud if you happen to have a AWS account available
"The theoretical basis of alienation within the capitalist mode of production is that the worker invariably loses the ability to determine life and destiny when deprived of the right to think (conceive) of themselves as the director of their own actions; to determine the character of said actions; to define relationships with other people; and to own those items of value from goods and services, produced by their own labour. Although the worker is an autonomous, self-realized human being, as an economic entity this worker is directed to goals and diverted to activities that are dictated by the bourgeoisie—who own the means of production—in order to extract from the worker the maximum amount of surplus value in the course of business competition among industrialists." -- that's Wikipedia on Marx' theory of alienation.

Sounds weirdly similar and weirdly appropriate.
Yeah, because you will just go to the shop buy that Computer Magazine, Issue 10, 1995.

Do you realize the stupidity of asking for such kind of proof, when everyone else on this thread old enough to be working back then has made similar statements?

So now I need to go to the local library and dig through incomplete archives of 70 and 80's programming magazines to make a random dude happy on Internet?!?

I have more productive stuff to do with my time, and to be honest even that Computer Magazine, Issue 10, 1995, page 15 facsmile wouldn't change your mind anyway.