skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was younger I would have been less happy, but I was lucky enough to grow up near Boston, went to school in Boston, and have a software career in Boston, so all of my friends and family live around here and I never needed work to have a social life.

TBQH I think a lot of young people no longer know how to make friends outside of the rigid structures of school and work. All of the old structures of church and community fell without something to take its place, and for whatever reason it's progressive to discount prioritizing traditional values like family over career. If I hadn't grown up in Boston I probably would have stuck around where ever my family was located. I think the pandemic is forcing people to analyze their own lives and many are discovering things they don't like about themselves and their choices. Hanging out on social media all day is unhealthy and is not a replacement for true friends and family.
TikTok and the New American Capitalism
I mean, more likely to be primed by a name of a guy in the town then randomly selecting a low prevalence name that happens to ALSO be the name of the guy in the town.

It’s not that the marginal probability of using a known name is high, it’s that for a fact the name used IS a known name that makes it suspect.
I used to have a therapist who's pretty queer. She had a shaved head, tattoos, knew about kinky local things and some about lesbian stuff.

She mentioned this and I had to tell her it's also something else. She was surprised she hadn't heard of the other meaning before.
Yes, in some way. But sole complaints are simply not hurting FB. How many of the people complaining would've used Instagram otherwise or even go as far as closing their account? I doubt the can even zoom in their Dashboard far enough to see the impact.

The real problem here is that for a single account, you're far more dependent on Instagram than Instagram is on you.
There's zero good evidence it was him. There hasn't been good evidence for anyone named, so far. Him living kind of close to someone with the last name Nakamoto (it was actually more than two blocks away, I believe) is not good evidence whatsoever, and there's some specific circumstantial evidence to suggest they were different people. No, no smoking gun to disprove it, but no good case has ever been made.
And article says Hal was "the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi Nakamoto." That is too coincidental. Probably he sent it to himself as a test and to start the ball rolling with more forum users sending coins.
There is a huge difference between what I was responding to...

> The size of the climate disaster, and the urgent need for radical changes in the global economy, simply can't be overstated right now.

...and your take, which I fully agree with:

> "Science" (...) finding that we are causing the climate to change into something that is less favorable to humans than our current climate is abundantly clear to anyone
Why is it miserable?
> reason it never took off in a serious way is because it combines all the downsides of dynamic typing with the downsides of static typing. Types are meant to document code. Without the annotations, you can't look at code and know what is going on.

Type annotations aren't for me, they're for the compiler and the IDE.
If I wan't to know whats going on inside a variable, I cmd+hover over it.
I work at Instagram and there's literally zero chance of this happening. I work on the backend, so I know the kind of tools or logging we do. If in the chance this happens remotely, like 1 in a million chance, the employee will be fired like instantly.

I can't believe a random tweet with a screenshot is on front page of HN with 500+ upvotes.
Also the timing of his death and satoshi presence...
I did it for about 10 years, as the only one officially remote in the team, ending now.

It worked OK, but part of the trick was that I was very senior, and the rest of the team was split across several time zones with me sitting basically in the middle. Another part was everyone knew I was remote because the team was far from where I lived, not because I wanted to WFH per se.

That's also the case with some senior people in adjacent teams: the people who are truly "core" get to live where they want, or at least that's been my experience over the last 20-ish years.

I definitely wouldn't advise it as a career strategy, mostly for the reason you cite.
Presumably once schools open again this is less of an issue for ~9 months of the year, right?
Open plan offices worked great; it’s just that the promotors of it were lying about why they were doing it.

The main point of an open plan office is to reduce the cost of said office. That’s it. Everything else is about trying to find a nice, polite fiction about productivity and communication.
Here's the interesting part to me:

> The PilBox kernel provides an interface to the Android Java runtime environment. To the PicoLisp code it looks like a remote database, where Java objects are mapped to PicoLisp DB objects, and Java functions and methods are executed via remote procedure calls.

It seems like that would cause a decent performance penalty. Is this for serious development, or just a way to play with lisp on Android?
>most "historical" land use differences that can be attributed to the automobile are recent, because the US did not even fully embrace the automobile until after the war

No disrepsect, but did any country? Trains were used extensively, but the double-whammy of automobiles and airplanes did do a number on the attractiveness of trains.

>And most rural towns today even have dead or dying Main Streets caused by the huge shift towards automobile dependent big box stores.

Mmm. I feel that's a case of "correlation != causation."

- The decades-long export of jobs (avoidable or not) depleted available capital in the community. With little money and work, supporting businesses (mostly those in town centers) greatly struggled, and many folded.

- Big box stores use economies of scale to undercut Main Street prices, which further accelerates the collapse of small business. Dollar General is an interesting example, where they (in my view) have tried to fill the gaps these collapses left.

- Big box stores are inherently large, so good luck finding a tract of land big enough in a rural downtown. If a rural community has a bus line, I'd wager good money that the Walmart has a stop.

>This sounds like the rhetoric around gun rights, where any amount of regulation on guns becomes an absolute seizure of the right to have any gun.

Gun rights are constitutionally protected, whereas no law says "the right to own vehicles, being necessary for the operation of a free society, shall not be infringed." Some people really, really love the law if it makes them feel more secure (and that's okay). Also, bear (heh) in mind gun rhetoric in today's age is manufactured for political purposes.

>Cars don't have to be dominant to be available and usable.

Agreed. If cars are less optimal than other transportation modes, people will chose otherwise. But in the vast majority of the USA, except for commuting, cars enable more liberty than trains at lower levels of efficiency. Not the worst thing, in my opinion.
This is most definitely against Facebook's internal policies. Therefore, the employee "exceeded access rights" on a protected computer system, by doing something they clearly were not allowed to do. That is a violation of the CFAA (Computer Fraud and Abuse Act), which is a federal felony. Further, the person that actually has possession of the account is likely guilty of either bribery or "honest services fraud" [1] for inducing an employee to break the law in exchange for money or other enticements.

[1] https://werksmanjackson.com/blog/what-is-honest-services-fra...
I used to rinse my nose with tap water. Then this story came to my attention abut 2 years ago and I've never done it since.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/rare-brain-...
By way of explanation:

Your body accumulates a store of vitamin D in the liver, which it rations out into your bloodstream over time. When you ingest or produce vitamin D, your liver buffers the amount that ends up in your blood, which does two things. 1) saves for a rainy day (literally and figuratively) 2) protects you from vitamin d toxicity over the short term. Which I’m told is quite nasty.

With a doctor’s supervision you can take large doses of vitamin d for a short time and your liver will soak it up. How fast your blood levels rise tells the doctor about how much more you need in the tank and/or if you are having absorption problems. They taper you off quickly as you approach a healthy blood level.
What username?
> What's the benefit of coding a visual diagram over drawing it?

TLDR: You want to communicate abstract relationships with a picture. How the picture is drawn usually isn't as important.

For example, say you want to visualize a graph (the nodes and edges kind). You would like to tell the computer:

1. Here's the definition of my graph.

2. Draw it in a clear, visually appealing way.

Point 2 encompasses things like spacing, layout, color, etc. I would much prefer an algorithm to make those decisions for me, assuming it's decent. They're boring implementation detail.

That said, imo Go is a poor choice for specifying such abstract relationships because of its verbosity. I'd rather use dot directly, or a more concise DSL.
I think media and finance had it very early. Here is a story with picture of old newsrooms. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-newsroom-rush-of-...

What strikes me is the high level of communication and coordination across individualS required to do that work. This seems to be the quality that newsrooms and trading floors are optimized for.
I am still surprised by how many early startups have offices.

After seeing it burn two different startups I was at, I am baffled why they burn money to have offices in a big city when money is tight (or they should be acting like it, rather than assuming they will always get another round at favorable terms)

When you are stable and profitable, having an office isn't that big of a deal. When you are burning money and looking down a cliff, maybe a $25k+ / mo expense is better spent hiring someone. Plus you can ethically pay people under market and both sides are happy (employee cuts their expenses by 50%+, you cut your payroll by 25%). Your employees will be happier, you get to pay them less, no need to buy desks, you can scale your business infinitely and you get rid of likely your biggest expense.

Startups could even spend a tiny fraction on improving their employee's offices. $1k yearly home office stipend would be huge for an employee, but a drop in the bucket compared to $1k / employee / month office expense.

VC funding causes people to make dumb decisions.
I am a counterpoint myself, I don't consider myself a particularly experienced programmer, but I rarely encounter type errors, most of them are semantic or logic errors.

I'm faster at finding and solving the issues with languages I know best (not surprisingly) regardless of their static or dynamic nature.

Experience, in my case, is knowing where to look, being able to quickly parse an error message, from the compiler, the linter or the runtime, but most of all knowing the code base at heart.

When I confront a code base that is new for me, I feel lost, whatever paradigm has been used.

I simply don't know where to put my hands before I spent time reading and analyzing it.

The time required to understand it depends exclusively on the complexity of the project.

There hasn't been a single time where types have helped me (more than being able to grep the function signature) or their absence slowed me down.
Zero? Definitely more than zero. In fact you’ll find papers if you try that put the probability higher than anyone other than Nick S. But it doesn’t really matter in the end in my opinion. The whole point was to not have a godhead.
> Does the code get the package to the right address on it's own

Within a group of typically about five houses.

It varies a little with population density.
Python as a Full-Spectrum Language
Easily googled.
> Why do random fb employees even have this capability?

Assuming that's what happened here, its because to them it is pure coincidence that the market values these database entries at all.

Like sure, at this point they know it means a lot to people and inspires many other people and can effect entire markets that they are unaware of, but from their perspective it isn't "god mode" its "lol ok, wanna hit up sushi for lunch later?"
Look, memory synchronization is hard. Some operations might take a decade to achieve consistency.
For me it's mainly a function of the "effective space ratio" [nkids / homesize]
> Pichai said that Google is "reconfiguring" its office spaces to accommodate what he called "on-sites" — presumably, days where employees, who mostly work from home, gather in the office.

I love it when the corporate speak isn't even intelligible to the business press.
Totally agree. I imagine work politics will take over and people will be more or less forced to come back into office. To be fair, I think it’s a big part of work culture that will be very hard to formulate in virtual settings.
> How could that be what you meant? You laid out 2 options, and your corrected option 2 is the same as your option 1.

I don't get what you're saying. My "corrected" option 2 means that consciousness is a spectrum, that consciousness is not a binary property. A human is more conscious than a chicken, which is more conscious than an insect, which is more conscious than a bacterium, which is not conscious at all.
1. Spoken like someone who has been lucky. Before I was a dev, I worked less profitable jobs. I was no where near the poverty line, but life is expensive and you can only reduce expenses to a point. Sure, you can probably ease the burden by spending less, but at a certain point spending less means living an ascetic life, free from any frivolous pleasures.

The term financial freedom doesn't just mean "making more than you spend". Above a certain income level you get the freedom to splurge. Being able to sit at a restaurant with a friend and not always choose the cheapest option is financial freedom. You can't get that by belt-tightening.

2. Risk isn't the same for everyone. it is fundamentally easier for certain people to take risks. If you make $200k per year, you can probably afford to gamble a little. But what if you only have a couple of hundred dollars to spend after rent and bills every month? Sure there are occasionally successful people who come from nothing, but starting a business or pivoting careers is much easier when you already have money.
Better to put anything as nonfiction as fiction at this rate!
The problem is corona - our social spaces are not "wrong" per se, they are rather unsafe to visit in times where about half the US population and a sizable chunk of every other country's population except Spain and Italy claim that mask mandates are restricting their freedom.
I'm not defining consciousness like that. I defined consciousness (rather vaguely, but in line with the common usage) as having internal experiences, like an inner voice or qualia. I am then asserting that (disregarding spiritual ideas) it is obvious that sperm cells don't have this kind of consciousness, while 5 year old children do have it (and at least some animals as well!).

My point is that panpsychism seems to me to be using definitions to try to hide away the fact that it can't actually answer the questions of consciousness that we are really interested in any more than brain-based theories can.
The desire for a strong type system in Erlang/Elixir for me is more about tooling. Getting the types leads to better tools and that will lead to a better developer experience.
If most people drive smaller cars, and we reduce speed limits further, I would think we'd be at a similar rate of highway death/injury (which is already too high) if not maybe even lower.

Then again, I don't design cars, and wouldn't know.
No, the Haskell job was in a large financial service firm with a huge investment in Haskell. Many people on the team were even experienced with GHC compiler engineering. The code base was very large and cross-org.

All the other jobs have been in large ecommerce firms, again with large codebases cutting across the org, and separate pockets of “small project” development here and there.

I also have many years of experience in C and C++, both of which are solid. I especially like writing systems in C because it’s easy to make it module oriented, and static typing doesn’t need to have anything to do with concept or domain modeling, yet you still can occasionally sprinkle it in with simple structs. I like C++ without classes or exceptions, but the language outgrew that way of using it.

The best approach I ever saw to using Haskell at scale was to severely disallow any complex type system feature, like even disallowing lensing or custom type classes. Just ruthlessly stick only to basic language features and module oriented design. When you make your own data structures, never generalize them to inherit functionality through type classing, rather always rotely splay out a new module of all the functions and behaviors for operating on that data structure. Do not seek to endow it with any type of compositional behavior besides very basic plain function composition (eg no monadic behaviors).
I wonder about this. As carbon we are now emitting must have been at one point in atmosphere? And at that point there was some sort of equilibrium. So could we really push it all to atmosphere again? And would that really lead to loop-back?
Surprising that it doesn't go on to mention Charing Cross Road - it was putting Charing Cross Road through that was largely the death knell to the slums and crime of the area.
No, you just turn them off. It's a big photodiode.

However, what's quite common is that renewable energy is not sold at the spot price but instead at a "strike price" agreed at time of construction, which gives the stability to finance the project. So asking a plant to turn off their grid input will invoke a penalty clause for "curtailment". This is more common with wind turbines.
This forget (at least) three factors:

- Repetitive manual labor is prone to failure. If failure is expansive and automated task could be better just for the additional safety.

- Once it's automatized the frequency at which the task is done can be increased.

- Once something is automatized, other things become easier to automatized.
Maybe yes maybe no. It depends on what the updates are.
Seems like these articles never clarify if they're talking about clothed or partially unclothed exposure. Hard to imagine much vit d being generated in the little bit of face and hand skin area exposed to sunlight by a normal clothed configuration.
It's not very difficult to offer apocalyptic pronouncements like this; it's nice though if they can be accompanied by some hard evidence which has preferably not been cherry picked to fit an agenda.
A psychologist rethinking human emotion
Well then I'm sure you'll put in a ticket on Monday and have this investigated.
I believe you once he get his account back.
I've been very satisfied with Barman. I considered a variety of backup options including replication. Barman is a good alternative to replication if you can tolerate a small mount of downtime while you restore. For us, it takes less than 15 minutes to provision a new VM and restore from Barman. I’m ok with that downtime because it simplifies operations by eliminating the need to operate a secondary database sever and manage replication.

Also, Barman offers point-in time recovery (PITR).

Lastly, we do a nightly logical dump which gets uploaded to a bucket (located at another cloud service).
The fixed costs of this are a problem, as the usual approach requires platinum electrodes.
Pasta, Wine and Inflatable Pools: How Amazon Conquered Italy in the Pandemic
Something like that does exist for Google account access problems - you can pay a few dollars (which also ties you to a presumably-authenticated credit card, and so helps authenticate you to Google) for an expedited response.
It seems like you are comparing his vision with your own ultimate preference.
Remote first has to be the culture for it to work. GitLab is pretty good at this. We have worked hard at our little 20 person consultancy to have a nice remote work culture. It takes effort and sticking to enabling remote first.
Google definitely did this - somewhat famously with that billboard campaign which made the national news - but that trend started much earlier at Microsoft (Bill Gates apparently loves puzzles).
And I assume you can have open circuits on generators (from nuclear or other) -- there'd be somewhat less inductive drag on the generator, but I assume that's not a requirement for operation, esp. at low power. (Though I assume you don't want to short/shunt all your power unless you really want to heat something up...)
Seems like you could at least be doing inertial storage by pumping water uphill or lifting huge cement blocks so you can harvest that potential energy later.
I've never seen anyone say they did open plan because it was cheap, they just say "improved collaboration, more open space environment" etc. Of course the main motivation is likely to reduce cost, but I haven't seen people say that explicitly.

So I think that the propaganda in favor for open space offices really sped up their adoption. If Google now produces a lot of propaganda in favor of this hybrid wfh model then it will likely also help speed up adoption, although the main reason to do it would be to save office space costs and not the propaganda blurbs we will see.
> Maybe if you used your handle for commerce and someone stole it & attempted to sell the same product.

That would be an example -- but certainly not the only imaginable one -- of reliance and detriment, both of which are necessary elements of fraud.
I see "free social interactions" as neither a benefit nor something that can only be obtained on-site.

These "free social interactions" are often just distractions - taking you out of your context, making it difficult for you to be productive.

That's why I love remote + Slack. Slack is async. I can finish what I'm doing before addressing messages there. On-site, people rarely if ever warn of their intention to come talk to you - they just walk up and start talking.
Like stock options for employees?
People do choose aliases by odd relations like this.
Thingifying the World
First time I'm hearing about soyoustart. I've been under the assumption that Linode's instances are the cheapest ones, but the one you linked is <1/2 the price of Linode's equivalent!

Can you share your experience with using soyoustart?
Number of people who use lightning network and don’t know how to use a terminal is probably less than 10.
Alternatively, if I were starting a business tomorrow, I'd start out with Heroku or a normal VPS (Linode) depending on the budget and requirements, and only switch to AWS when it made economic sense to invest in that setup.
This actually has tradition, see the Irix and POSIX environment subsystems of earlier WinNTs. I think the current approach by Microsoft owes to the developments in the OS and virtualization tech space both in hardware + software over the past 20 years. Otherwise, if Linux were equally dominant in the dev/server space, we could've seen a revivial of the subsystem feature. Which would have been pretty cool, from an implementation POV, in its own way.