skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> World War I was a significant turning point in the political, cultural, economic, and social climate of the world.

Prior to WWI, Western Europeans saw themselves as the God-ordained masters of the world. They carved up Asia(including China and Africa into zones of influence. They were typically the senior military partners in any alliance they entered into.

After the horrors of WWI, it was over. WWII was just the final chapter of WWI. Now, Instead of being the senior military partners, they would be the junior partners (see NATO and the Warsaw Pact). They would lose their colonies. They would at best, be one region of the world among many in terms of global power.
Found a non-paywalled version of the paper.
https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/about-dev.illinoisstate.edu/di...

I would guess this is the controversial part of the paper.

"Further, we find that attractive individuals are more likely to identify with the Republican Party and more likely to be conservative. "
Haha! I've had this exact same experience where one such bad customer became apologetic (especially when the found that alternative apps were bad) and stopped complaining.
Any examples of such contracts?
I can easily imagine majority of the developers trying to solve trivial serialization and locking issues on their own (which RDBMS provide) and failing spectacularly!

Heck, I don't need to imagine, I have seen it time and time again.
This is explicitly NASA's strategy, and it is the correct one. NASA wants to be pushing the bleeding edge of possibility in space, and prefers to contract out the "everyday" stuff or orbital flight, in order focus on deep space missions.
I just want to draw attention to how much more compelling these movie descriptions are then the bylines netflix gives to them. I can never take those descriptions seriously or use them to make a choice about whether a movie sounds interesting.
I remember Pear and to be honest, at the time, in The northern UK and with merchandising practices then, it was a little difficult to know whether to not it was actually a new Apple computer or not.... I was only browsing, but I do recall it appearing very much to be marketed beside Apples as another of the same....
I read somewhere that it is difficult to get money out of China if you set up a business there, BMW/VW have been denied withdrawal of funds from China since 2016.

At that rate, China seems like a pretty poor place to put your money. Doesn't matter if their domestic technological pace is impressive.

Can anyone honestly think that in 10 years, they would trust the CCP enough to buy property or invest there?
There's the production cluster then there's the development environments one of which happens to be the staging branch but it is not different in configuration from any web-1234 feature or bugfix branch. It doesn't add anything in costs as I doubt we could use a smaller machine (or is it two machines? can't remember but doesn't matter) than the current one just because we allow one less env... I thought this is what virtualization and all that was about?? And I absolutely can't see how could we drop the environment for feature branches -- not only QA is necessary but also if you want to talk to a stakeholder, how are you going to?
Of course the point was that one can use simple and crude solutions, or effective and sophisticated ones. Another example would be that in Russian rocket engines pumps tend to be put on the same axis as the turbine, so frequencies of turbine and pumps are the same and some of them can be non-optimal. In American tradition one uses gears, which makes both turbine and pumps (more) optimal, for the cost of gear mechanism. Practice shows that both approaches can work, but, just as with vertical assembly, which requires a tall building or a vertical transportation of a rocket, some ways look simpler than others. Simpler not necessarily better - but in rocket assembly it's probably cheaper to do it horizontally.
Ouch! That must have hurt. I totally get that when someone has 0 or only a handful of customers, trying to service one that's showing interest (but being demanding) feels like the natural thing to do.

But more often than not, the end outcome isn't favourable.

A friend of mine serviced an early user of his app during the early days with free customisations. That same user came back asking for more custom features, while being on the FREE plan, and threatened to write a 1 star review if they didn't. Toxic.
There are redundancies build into the NPCI system. There is more than one data center, etc.
Yep, if there's no service/support contract I'm not doing customer service/support. Then it's simply minimum time billed and normal/after hours/emergency billing rates and definitions for what is considered an emergency (how much prior notice, how much time to respond). Very typical SLA stuff.
> Eh that’s a novel, but it looks like you are definitely equivocating the two sides.

> No one candidate or party will ever represent you and your beliefs fully. You have to pick based on certain issues, identity, affinity or fear.

Kind of think you missed the point... (and didn't read what I wrote, at least in full). The point is that each of the two parties are manipulating riling people up to vote "against" someone else. That's dangerous, less effective, and will lead to the destruction of our society if continued.

I think if one steps back and considers their value system they're able to make more reasonable decisions. Truth be told, neither party represents me because both parties are looking to take away my liberty. They have to. The whole point is to "get the other side". Even the policies are inconsistent: "guns aren't safe, we shouldn't teach about firearms in schools" or "We shouldn't be forced to vaccinate because we own our bodies, but abortions should be illegal"

It's a false dichotomy. I don't have to pick which side I fall on based on certain issues, no one does. It's a choice to compromise for the "least evil". If we instead were inspired and focused on what we wanted, we'd decimate both parties and reconstitute them. I sense no one is fully happy, the deal we are making is the deal with the devil.
Virtually everything is "ripe for fraud" if your definition includes "is theoretically assailable by the US president, directly or by appointee."
Thanks, I did that now. I hate all the screenshots on my desktop.
Two main factors.

First, plants lose about half the energy because of spectrum. There's lots of other losses (e.g. light falling on parts of the plant other than chloroplasts) but they apply to artificial light, too. And then, plants use only about 10% of the mid-day energy after all of these losses, because of saturation effects, but more the rest of the day-- we'll call it like 25% here. So that 50% factor and 25% factors multiplied are what you can try to exceed == 12.5%.

Cheap solar panels are about 15% efficient. So you're not going to beat direct sunlight by much.
> these apps have found its users even among those who have never used a computer in their life

The only internet connected device these users have are the cheap smartphones and within the phone perhaps only complex apps that they are familiar with is messaging (apart from entertainment and 'selfie' related ones).

So any other authentication mechanism (email or others) would see the usage plummet.
It's interesting seeing how humans are deciding to forgo one of the most innate patterns of life itself, passing their own genes via these phenomenons. It's almost as if it's a 'invisible hand' regulating the population by cornering people to prefer an achievable amount of pleasure (retire early, travel, etc) by trading it for not having offspring. This also relates to all the news about the rise of 'despair deaths'. No jobs, no way to ensure offspring a quality life, therefore game over for those genes. It is a big claim that these communities don't have kids, I would want more evidence of that before jumping to conclusions but if that's the case it's pretty crazy to read about.
This is the point though -- society itself is a sick system (in the https://kottke.org/10/06/creating-a-sick-system sense) -- being kept in a perpetual state of crisis makes us unable to fight against the injustices being constantly perpetuated around us. And unlike a job or relationship, even if we fully realize what's happening, we're powerless to leave.
WWI destroyed all the wealth created by the industrial revolution och tog be replaced by fiat currency and ever growing government power.

It was an end to the Humanities golden age of freedom.
This sounds reasonable, but I'm not sure it's all the explanation.

The EU is far more fragmented at a government level, but chip&pin cards where much more common than in the US far earlier.

Likewise, mobile communication was far better in Europe 20 years ago than it was in the US (all of Europe had GSM while the US was insanely fragmented).

And the EU was able to push the open banking directive with relative ease while the US still seems to have nothing comparable.

So it seems to me there's something else in play that explains your observation.
What kind of content do you watch on TikTok?
Stage early and stage often; if a single-but-syntactically-valid typo will break your build then you should only be a commit away from something that works.
> It’s fertile ground for conspiracy theories to grow.

Or religions.
This Spotify integration was a game-changer for me. It can be a bit buggy but being able to skip songs via keyboard shortcut without switching windows is real nice. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shyykose...
My wife has been selling NIOSH-approved KN95 [1] masks to folks in the US for the past few months. First she tried to supply them directly to hospitals but ran into a harrowing amount of red tape. Then she listed them on eBay but got banned for “price gouging” despite listing at a lower rate than many of the approved sellers. Now she’s just selling the remaining inventory directly, and completely deterred from trying anything like this again because of all of the obstacles through this process.

Here’s her site FWIW ($128 for a box of 50, $2.56 unit price):
https://www.wesupplyppe.com/product-page/KN95-2

[1] https://coronavirus.health.ok.gov/kn95s
That helmet is Greek. It was a placeholder. There's a pretty good GH issue[0] for creating the new one.

[0]: https://github.com/romefrontend/rome/issues/1
It gives the CIA deniability and obscurity

Every third thing you hear about the CIA is made up on the spot, makes it hard to know what's true, that's just the way the CIA likes it.
The resolution is not done at the client end, but in NPCI, while processing the transaction. So this is nothing like DNS.
I was not sure how to say "having the right mind". I didn't say the right brain, because that is what determines "innate ability". But the brain has plasticity, so then the mind must also be flexible and can be prepared to understand new stuff.

So, "having the right mind" can also mean "prepared mind" having the right mental tools to understand and apply knowledge to new problems. I do not know the right words for describing "the right mind" in context of learning. But, intellectual competence is also partially determined by the innate ability of people to observe things and make connections which is not a given.
As far as I understand the $600 was for people who were on unemployment, so they had no job to go to.
Wow! I've been trying to put my thoughts about this into a blog post, but it would have ended up (or will end up) almost exactly like yours (except I didn't know about "Worse is Better"). Great to see someone with such similar ideas!
No, but many of these probably are professional workstations at workplaces, that people aren’t going to be using for entertainment.
> Why would you code something that complex to simulate stuff that game engines are already capable of?

Because game engines are for games. They fake a lot of stuff in their models.

The brilliance of humans is their ability to turn airports into Excel spreadsheets.

This bit of the thread is interesting - "The increasingly blurry boundary between games and life".

I'd say elections are going a bit this way, along with a lot of other stuff.
I regularly encounter people relying on voice-to-text to search or browser. especially people like cab drivers, but also various others who don't have the no- hands restriction.

It's not the kind of people I would expect to comment here, though.
Thank you for sharing this. Very impressed with this transparency by the switch operator.
I couldn't tell how reliable this switch operator itself is. Is there statistics reported from the perspective of the payment initiator? (consumer-side app/service provider)
GFW has been all layer for a long time, including actively re-probing and connecting back to a server from random (really, virtually any CN IP space).

HTTPS is somewhat secure, but subject to MITM. Most Chinese forks of browsers ignore certificate errors and allow everything through.
Ohhh, I remember that now! God the PIC16 is such a cursed architecture.
> "Can" is not the same as "will".

Well, you don't know. Therefore you must act as if "can" = "will". Otherwise, you're playing Russian roulette.

> draconic hard lockdown

Travelling ban is not a draconic hard lockdown; in fact it'd allow the country to function mostly as normal. Draconic lockdown would be shutting down all non-essential services (what Norway did in March) and even more drastic measures that other countries used (curfew, home confinement, you're allowed to go out only with a concrete purpose and not "too far away" from your apartment... like it was in France for a while.).
The x86 encoding is fairly simple as there are only four kind of opcodes:

* one byte with implicit operands, for example LOOP or RET or ADD AX,imm

* one byte shortcut encoding with registers in bits 0-2 of the only opcode byte, these are 16-bit instruction only: INC/DEC, PUSH/POP, XCHG AX,rr (these instructions are also available as 2-byte encodings)

* two byte with one register and one register/memory operand, both encoded in the second byte (bits 3-5 and 0-2/6-7, with bit 0 of the first byte determining the size and bit 1 of the first byte determining if the source is the register or the register/memory operand)

* two byte with a single register/memory operand, in which case bits 3-5 of the second byte are part of the opcode

Prefixes and immediate operands complicate things a bit but that's it. It's refreshingly simple compared to the 386 and later.

An interesting tidbit is that registers are ordered AX/CX/DX/BX in the instruction set encoding because their function roughly matches AF/BC/DE/HL in the 8080 (BX comes last because like HL it can be used to address memory, even though the encoding of memory operands is completely different on the 8086)
It's keeping people employed, so yes?
I would actually venture to say that the way they are usually perused, they increase the risk!

Common approach is to just plaster the codebase with "if feature_flag(x)", so you complicate dozens of files/modules/functions, make them harder to reason about and debug. And cleaning it up is commonly a mess.

Another approach is to duplicate code which frequently leaves one branch untested.

FWIW, I do like feature flags, but as a solution for a different problem: long-lived feature branches (forks) of the master. And even then the complexity they introduce is sometimes a burden, but overall it's worth it over alternative approaches.

And sure, you can start implementing stuff iteratively, in small chunks and perusing feature flags to hide bits of unfinished user flow, but the benefits you are getting there are from the former (iterative, small changes), rather than from feature flags. It is still no substitution for testing in a prod-like environment, at the very least that you are not breaking any of the integration places which are not covered by tests (and integration and system tests are slow, which always puts a boundary on how many you can have).
Is it not inherently part of that animal pattern to only procreate until the resources become a limitation? Maybe the Wachowskis were wrong, and humanity isn’t a disease that keeps spreading and growing.
Bad customers provide value early on, because they basically do free QA.

Also early there is not enough data to know who are the bad customers or who customers who are having real problems, they all look the same.

The best way to deal with them is just to be honest: "This is not on our roadmap, yes we know issues exists. Here is link to issues forum"

Public issues forum helps a lot, because if issue doesn't have upvotes or comments, they can reason that chances for developers getting to it is nearly zero.

Especially for anything below non pure enterprise 100k+ per customer, there is no way team can address even 2% of issues if there is even hint of PMF.

Even for massive companies like Atlassian and Unity there are public feature requests that have thousands of upvotes and they just don't do them because it is not on the roadmap.
How did that all end with your friend? Was he able to fire him?
>So any other authentication mechanism (email or others) would see the usage plummet.

True, but Security > Friction; especially when it comes to hard earned wealth in a poor country like ours, where even daily wage earners use UPI now, especially because of COVID-19 induced lockdowns(COVID-19 themed UPI frauds for OTP are also increasing at the alarming rate for the same reason).

More over email is Federated, not owned by any single entity, I can run my own email infrastructure with minimal expenditure if needed. But for phone number itself I have to depend upon a Monopoly, Duopoly or an Oligarchy at best who if needed can screw me up if they want at anytime.
You aren't the gatekeeper of what can and can't be considered interesting.

FWIW, your comment above (about standards) was also mildly interesting to me. I hadn't really given the phrase much thought.

There was no need to be rude about it though.
Not paying off old debt hurts the economy. So maybe paying it off doesn't help it, but it reverses the damage.
I wish I could push this post higher - I have worked a few customer service positions (tutor while in university, cashier at a little natural foods store) and I found both of those positions really flexed my social skills and have made my life much easier in myriad ways (job interviews, to pick a big one.)
I suspect it’s the same quality of thought that can’t fathom that a test could have a bug.

Implementing a flag takes fewer lines of code than the feature, and so while the odds are very high that the bug will be within a feature, there is a non zero chance that the bug is in the flag.

A bug might break a new feature. It might break the old behavior. It may turn the system into a latch (you can launch it darkly, turn it on, and then not be able to turn it off).

And then you can break the system while retiring the flag and making the new path permanent.
Have you ever worked for a company that doesn't have staging or feature flags? It sucks.
> topic-centric, lasting conversations

Discourse, Flarum, Talkyard (which I'm developing).

GitHub's new Discussions feature?

Lemmy? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy, "Building a federated alternative to reddit in rust" (how does it matter that it's a reddit alternative? it can still be topic-centric etc?)
To be fair to you, northern France, like the UK, will have many more grey and cloudy days than it will clear blue skies so in the main your imagination is probably right more often than not.
Welcome to web development, where change has been the only constant since—checks notes—the early 90s!

My way of coping with the appearance of yet another new-and-hyped thing, is to not complain and resist, nor to try to immediately learn the thing, but rather the much easier task of learning the why of the thing. Equipped with this knowledge, I can grok the JS ecosystem as a whole, and make better choices when it's time to choose a tool.

I do agree it's super exciting to see Sebastian McKenzie launch out with something new. I think I understand the why of this, and wish him every success!
The plane has airfilters and everyone wears a mask. You are also supposed to be careful and wash your hands.
HomePod is not exactly a cheap device.
I have both installed on this phone and that does not appear to be the case
United States' brand has been damaged by our own doing. Specifically, the executives that paid off the politicians whose job was to ensure a level playing field in terms of trade. I am really convinced of the following, open for critiques:

US Executives paid off politicians who then allowed trade deficit to pile up, we saw one of the biggest wealth transfers in the history of mankind - Some 30 trillion dollars of growth in China. Whatever was returned then went into American executives' who made sure that the median wages were as low as possible (paid off politicians again) which lead to massive wealth inequality here domestically.

I think the people to blame are not executives. These are the wolves. The real assholes of America are the politicians, both left and right, who put their own interest before public's. Infrastructure, education, building the nation to be capable to compete was put aside, instead they promoted consumerism, big-fat American dream and laughed off to their multimillion dollar estates.

You make a good point about rule of law - yes, it is in favor of big corp. Not for medium and small businesses. Italy has some ridiculous % of GDP coming from companies less than 50 employees. I forgot what that % is, but it is like 50% or more.

This is what America could have been. A powerhouse of innovation, extremely motivated workforce, excellent education system and health system, virtually no poverty and infrastructure could be unlike any other nation.

Living here in Silicon Valley, it feels like a crumbling place ridden with crime, feces and homeless people everywhere.
Depressing.
I also found them unbelievable so I did some quick tests with a couple of large projects that I'm working on, currently using Rollup. From these, I'd say their benchmarks are completely accurate.
>appeal to people who make the sort of things end users want

> lowers the bar for mere mortals such as myself to do package development

That's a powerful combination. I've been close to contributing to Python packages a few times, but the overhead is pretty high. At this point, I also feel like it would be a waste of effort not to write stuff in Julia instead.

> Julia will someday eat Python for scientific computing

It's well on the way. Julia users have a reputation for being evangelists. Heck, I made a convert even before I actually started using Julia in earnest: my labmate had a problem he couldn't solve in his favorite language, and I encouraged him to try Julia -- it turned out great!
There’s no such thing as a tech expert anymore
Don't disagree that an open business climate is optimal, but when a foreign power is using business to undermine our country, that puts our optimal business climate at risk.
and managed it terribly, and shut it down to the disappointment of many.

MSFT is a much better business, and have the cash to back a long strategy imho.
Does anyone know if they'll ever release the models for GPT-3 so we can train/re-train then ourselves? Or is GPT-3 so general that it doesn't need retraining?
UPI is growing at an incredible rate.

One important reason for the growth is the explosive increase in 4G connectivity in the last 4 years, which has data usage on mobile see a compound average growth of 93% to become the highest in the world at 11.2 GB per user / month. The rates are almost laughably cheap, at around 0.20 USD/GB.

COVID has also driven more recent growth because people don't want to handle cash.
Hallmark of terrible management to put their own ego into the equation.
Think of if7 as low-hanging fruit: if people who enjoy text adventures can't be bothered to play guess-the-verb, who can?