skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This reminds me of a very different time...

In 1997, then CEO of Sybase Mitchell Kertzman said in an interview with the French trade magazine 01 Informatique:

"Q: When you launched Jaguar CTS, a middleware tool competing with a Microsoft product, you received a rather explicit phone call...
A: It was the Mafia! When I hung up, I realized that I had just received a phone call from the godfather who forbade me to sell drugs on his territory. And you know, Microsoft people behave like the Mafia: they don't have to break your leg, they just have to threaten you."

Source (in French): http://bat8.inria.fr/~lang/hotlist/free/abuse/mafia/kertzman...
I simply love these artists that are so unpretentious. Huge fan of Jonathan Coulton, big nerd and nice guy.

I wonder if Jack Stauber would react the same way.
I think a lot of the difference is just how expansively I see the benefits of things like schools. For instance no matter how poorly they perform relative to international standard they're still essentially free childcare for every person in the US which frees up so many people into the workforce. Just look at how much panic there was over the fact that keeping schools closed or very limited was the best way forward for public health, it really highlights how much work they do just letting more people into the workforce.
I think that it is the right tool.

1. CURL without https seems insufficient nowadays.
2. CURL could be improved by running multiple downloads at once. I'm not sure that curl command line utility could do it, but certainly libcurl.so has this ability, it allows client code to work with multiple connections.
3. Any application having UI could benefit from async: input/output and main task are async by nature. For example, curl might want to show progress/status to a terminal despite of a stalled connection.

So maybe Hyper is too much of a code for a curl, but it is arguable that it is not.
Randomized means that the decision about who receives the drug and who receives the placebo is done randomly. Not that the participants are a random subset of society.

The trial was done on hospitalized patients who obviously have a much higher mortality rate than patients overall. That’s the correct population to be studying, because that is the population that would receive the drug. It is administered intravenously.

None of this is indicative of bias on the results. It is the correct way to do clinical trials.
I’ve had some success speaking with those who don’t believe by stating that my faith is based on subjective personal experience, and therefore it would be unreasonable for me to expect them to believe based upon my testimony alone.

Instead, I only ask that they be open to the idea that the Holy Spirit exists and pay attention if and when they feel His presence in their life.

Coming from apparently very different perspectives, I’m struck by the beautiful symmetry of our approaches. It makes me happy :)
Russia was under Mongol rule for centuries. It didn't prevent them from sending the first man into space.

I highly doubt Mongols have anything to do with that.
Yes, the binary crate determines the behaviour of panics. Libraries do typically not use panics for errors.
Even that paper demonstrates that if you weaken their assumptions about taxi-car occupancy being exactly the same as Uber/Lyft and don't assume that you will have a remote monitor per every 10 cars (unsure why they would include this assumption, even the current Waymo setup doesn't have this), self-driving actually does come out as priced less.

They also don't source their cost for CDV, which is substantially lower than any other number I can find cited in paper. Further, the current regulatory framework includes huge wealth transfers/incentives for car ownership, so it's not a fair comparison. For instance, the $130/yr cost of a parking permit in SF is a huge wealth transfer to car owners as that is substantially below what the market-price would be for that permit.
Just commenting to say that this is a great book, and I would gladly recommend it to anybody wanting a basic overview of western philosophy. I don't know or care if it's the most academically or historically nuanced analysis; I just enjoyed getting a synopsis of different philosophers' lives and ideas.
The headline is a lie, which the article itself acknowledges and tries to rebut with handwaving about feedback effects.
Alongside Smalltalk, INRIA is also a major contributor to Pharo and Squeak, which descend both from the original Smalltalk-80 image.
> MLK was a Republican BTW.

That's quite plausible. I'd expect that most American Southern Blacks (outside the South the parties were quite different and the issue is more complicated) that identified with a major party between the founding of the Republican Party and the Republican Southern Strategy of the late 1960s and beyond, which King was murdered too soon to be influenced by, were Republicans.

The parties of today, despite sharing the same names, aren't ideologically the same parties as when King was alive (or, a fortiori, any earlier time), though.
> with CGI technology being as good as it is, we still cannot be sure nowadays.

CGI is still extremely limited. There is an ever expanding list of things that can be reasonably faked, but high definition turbulent flows for example are not one of them.

Now you personally may simply not know where that line is, but that doesn’t mean nobody does. Which is my point, your personal level of ignorance isn’t universal. Science is still surprisingly accessible, learning and verifying say thermodynamics can give you more confidence about say global warming than simple blind trust.

The same is true of a great many spurious claims from say kickstarts that can’t work as advertised. Which means a slick video on it’s own isn’t enough.

PS: I don’t mean for this as a personal attack, more a suggestion that if you find separating fact from fiction difficult there is a path forward.
Another step towards a terrifying social dystopia.
Don't you see how you're explaining exactly what they're getting at? That intelligence could be an emergent phenomena of smaller, simpler, mechanistic interacting components?

Perhaps you ought to read The Society of Mind by Minsky.
> You want a system where either you pay five figures to reserve a time block, or you don't get to play.

No reason timeslots can't be sold in the minutes, seconds, or even miliseconds on high traffic sites. Five figures assumes a long timeslot.

You could even do "every 100th impression during the timeslot" or so on without doing anything that would offend the user you are replying to.
Containers is becoming the way to build stuff, partly for that reason.

I think any dependency adds a level of burden, but some things are better delegated to library. I think crypto is a good case, btw I think OpenSSL is not the only one lib for TLS with curl.
The title says the minimum wage would be $24 per hour.
Satellite Mega-Constellations Could Create a New Natural Disaster
> Smart-but-lazy employees are interested in efficiency, and will work uncharacteristically hard in order to achieve it.

So if their job could be replaced with simple script....
I believe it to. Anecdotally, my old method for studying while in school was just to handwrite out notes as I read. I would not even go back to review them as the act of simply writing it out by hand was enough to retain it. Typing I feel like is much more autopilot. The amount of times I misspell or write the incorrect word while typing is way higher than anything done by hand.

That said, my handwriting is also atrocious and I would not want to ever have to disseminate something in that form over a nice, typed document.
The section following this quote is good:

The most important principle in rc’s design is that it’s not a macro processor. Input is never scanned more than once by the lexical and syntactic analysis code

And they describe the IFS=/ hole for setuid programs which is a good one.

Oil follows the same principle, which I call static parsing [1], versus the dynamic parsing or undecidable parsing of Bourne shell and all its derivatives like bash.

(A notable difference is that Oil compatible with POSIX, Bourne shell, ksh, and bash, while rc is not.)

I probably got that idea from rc shell without realizing it, as I remember reading this paper more than 10 years ago.

----

I also recently picked up Programming Perl (by Christiansen, foy, Larry Wall), and it points out the same issue with shell multiple times:

In Chapter 20 on security:

Unlike most shell programming languages, which are based on multiple, mysterious substitution passes on each line of the script, Perl uses a more conventional evaluation scheme with fewer hidden snags.

However, this is not entirely true, because there are corners of Perl that have undecidable parsing [2]

I heard Larry Wall say that one of the goals of Perl 6 was to really fix this problem. It doesn’t do dynamic parsing like Perl 5 does.

Also, back in January 2019, I rediscovered a security problem due to dynamic parsing which appears in all Bourne-derived shells (and at least the OpenBSD shell actually patched it, not sure about bash):

http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2019/01/18.html#a-story-about-a...

https://github.com/oilshell/blog-code/tree/master/crazy-old-...

The guy who discovered ShellShock in 2014 wrote a few of the StackOverflow answers there.

----

Plug: tell me what you think of Oil’s syntax :) [3]

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.2/doc/syntactic-concept... and http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/22.html

[2] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2016/10/20.html#appendix-parsin...

[3] https://www.oilshell.org/release/0.8.2/doc/syntax-feelings.h...

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Yeah, with Haswell you could get an i7-4770 for like $320 or a Xeon E3-1245v3 (includes an iGPU) that ran the same clock speed and spec, generally, but was about $270. If you went for the 1241v3 you lost the iGPU and 4 watts of power usage but gain +100mhz base clock.

And that gen of CPUS had low power T-series chips rated at 65w where today it's 35w. The power drop is part of why I'm happy with my SFF setup as the thermals are quite good on 14nm locked CPUs like my 7700.
Even if you pay for premium?
This points to what I was going to say. The whole point of efficiency gains in a company is to pay less for your resources (in this case labor) for a given amount of output. Ideally what we would see, however, is a reduction in prices as a result that more than compensates for the reduction in pay. Thus, across the economy, the general theme would be more output for a given amount of work. I have no idea how that metric tracks, though, but the cheeseburger and shake I guess is one way of asking that question.
I have a lot of experience with WP and WooCommerce so I may be biased but 500 sales a day with 10K visitors a day should be fairly achievable in WordPress/WooCommerce. It can be scaled even more if needed. If you want to worry about business and not tech, forget about shiny things like JAMStack, HeadLess CMS etc. Play with them for hobby on the side but for real business, go with something tested like WooCommerce if that is an option for you.

Shopify can work too if you want to give them more control. Cost wise, I wouldn't say WP/WooCommerce will be cheaper necessarily because you have to factor in costs of servers, maintenance and most important: technical resource/support as/when needed.

However, WP will give you the ability to customize as needed
WooCommerce is very written with an excellent plugin system (some 3rd party plugins can be costly but totally worth it in my opinion). Most importantly, WP and WooCommerce is all yours and you are not vendor locked in as in with Shopify.

WooCommerce = More Power, flexibility but more responsibility.
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That’s a lot of free publicity for one van
Good history.

But, thanks to https://github.com/haskell-beam/beam I no longer need to worry about the COBOL-ness of SQL without giving up the semantics. Finally!
Thank you.

I often use the words startup / business / company interchangeably. I don't know enough about the nomenclature to have strong opinions on it.

Yes, I would like to sell FormCrafts in the next 3 - 5 years. I don't have a strategy for it at the moment.
The issue though is the complete lack of transparency with the major online ad networks. We're relying on the fox to guard the hen house. They get paid whether the click is valid or not. I don't think we should reasonably expect the Google's and Facebook's of the ad world to spend money preventing fraud when that generates less profit overall. Until we start regulating the industry, no ad company is going to spend money to lose money, especially when there's no real repercussions to begin with.
I noticed the "type faster than I can think" phenomenon when I switched to a Kinesis Advantage for the first time and took a significant speed hit. My writing immediately improved because I had more time to choose words before I got to them. When I'm typing normally at 100WPM I am forced to pick words much faster.
You can smooth over clay if you make a mistake, you know. You can also gather a lot of clay beforehand, keep your styli around, and re-use your oven.
I'm not necessarily sure "participation in a group with a view to committing violent acts" needs to describe a thoughtcrime. Even the most liberal societies criminalize conspiring to commit or inciting violence, even if they don't get around to enacting the violence.
I'm an immigration attorney in Winnipeg (Canada). I just want to applaud all the work you are doing. Challenging times!
One problem is that the power to vet/censor particular things may be beneficial in a certain pair of hands but disastrous in another, especially when you're dealing with a platform that has extremely powerful network effects and controls so much of the information flow in society. To reiterate the point of the previous comment, would you feel comfortable if FB came under control of the Saudis while it was engaged in extensive vetting? I would not. Naval says that one test of a good system is whether you can hand the keys over to your adversary and things don't go wrong, which applies well in this case.

Another problem is that vetting (/censorship) is often supported when it's "your side" doing the vetting, but I don't trust that any politically tilted group of individuals will engage in unbiased, non-partisan vetting. FB's staff is of a certain political demographic that differs substantially to the country at large and this will likely sway the decision making away from a fair and balanced outcome.

If FB or Twitter engages in vetting I would like to see it done in a satellite office set up explicitly for that purpose where great effort is made to select individuals without extreme political leanings.
The pro-HCQ people are very clear in saying it needs to be administered early before symptoms are severe and with zinc and azithromycin. When 1/4 of your study population is dying then you are obviously not following the protocol advocated for since you've selected extremely sick people.

I'm undecided on whether HCQ is effective or not, but attempting to discredit it with shitty science is a large part of why people don't "believe science".
Speaking of a Scott Meyers type of book for ADHD people, I've found these:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24201794
- https://adhdpro.xyz/
- https://blog.aaronjy.me/software-development-and-adhd/

I bumped into it while searching for other posts related to ADHD.
Also: japan and west germany were next door to communist (china and east germany) countries. Capitalism appears to work best with competition.
> do we expect more from low-wage employees now than we did then?

Given an example of warehouse workers, and how companies are enacting more and more automated "anti-slacking" restrictions, yeah, I think we are.
You are also implicitly agreeing to have this data harvested by governments, political parties and other nefarious groups that only wish to exploit such data to generate dystopian citizen scorecards, suppress dissent and generally destroy a free society.
> So they started voting for the people responsible for the KKK and Jim Crow laws

No, the people who still supported the KKK and the ideology behind Jim Crow laws switched major parties, if they were associated with a major party, from the Democrats to the Republicans between the late mid-1960s and the mid-1990s, because of disaffection with the Democrats (initially particularly President Johnson) backing civil rights, but also because the Republicans started actively campaigning to their racist interests to leverage their disaffection with the Democrats.

In some cases, the people switching parties were literally the same people who had bolted temporarily from the Democratic Party in the 1940s over Truman's integration policies, but who had come back because they had no other major party to go to, and their own separate party had failed. (Strom Thurmond, the Dixiecrat Presidential candidate in 1948, is a notable, highly-visible example.)

And as this process continued it was self-reinforcing, because the more White supremacists left the Democratic Party for the Republicans, the stronger the Democratic support for the interests White supremacists opposed could be.
Im on board with the docker model here, a proper kubernetes deployment with shared storage will afford you the same fault tolerance vsan/vmotion would
To be fair, most of these are ide complaints, not language complaints.

Much like all development work, language designers are now required to know much more than how to write an effective static compiler, an effective language syntax, and an effective standard library. A working IDE that integrates easily with all mainstream editors, extensions for all mainstream editors, cross-platform compilation for all major environments, a secure and effective dependency manager, a secure and effective build tool, and incremental compilation are all requirements for a language to get off the ground. Honestly, that seems like a big hurdle for one person or even a dedicated team to manage effectively without major funding outside of what is normally present in research grants. Hosting and curation alone for the dependency package system is a costly problem.

Are we as developers painting ourselves into a corner of stagnating pl technology with our expectations that all these things exist in order for us to call a language "good?"
Islam has no issues with good science. On the contrary, the Quran has some verses which encourage enquiry, such as:

"Say: 'Travel through the earth, and reflect on how he [god] started the creation." - 20 Al-'Ankabut.
The H1B system is so unkind. We invite people into our country, only to trap them with a particular employer with the constant threat of losing work authorization. Then we don’t even lay down specific rules on how one can get out of this situation.
It's incorrect to say that algebra was from Arabia or middle-east. Mathematics, science, medicine etc travelled from India to Arabia. During their trade with India, Sanskrit works were translated by arabs. And during their european conquest, these arabic works travelled to europe
> Frankly as a British conservative who grew up in the Reagan/Thatcher days I look at modern US Republicanism with a mix of bemusement and horror, but that's beside the point.

It may be beside the point, but it’s something shared by a lot of us “on the inside” as well.

I grew up surrounded by American conservatives and both US political parties seem like caricatures at this point.
I understand your worry, but could you feel better offering it under a free software license that expressly disclaims warranties of usefulness for any purpose?
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The big gotcha with that is that most government projects have collaborators in academia, NGOs, and/or industry. To a big extent, the public domain mandate doesn't apply if workers outside of the government contribute. Thus manuscripts or code often aren't public domain.

edit: Also publishers constantly "accidentally" claim copyright on public domain works (I'm looking at you, Elsevier). They never accidentally make something open-access.
I have such a long list of things to do that I constantly try to replace them with a simple script.

Why would I want to do a job that can be scripted?
This is indeed a beautiful symmetry. Thanks for adding your perspective.
Are you saying they're going to do this to paid users too, or just free users?
Oh. Never got it as a child, but the Simpsons hat a bit about just that: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H27rfr59RiE
Facebook is radicalising your parents
Completely unregulated free markets lead to extremes like slavery and leaded toys.

Regulatory practices can be abused or coopted (leading to regulatory capture) but that shouldn't mean we shouldn't keep pushing.

Would you frequent a completely unmoderated online forum? We all know how chatroulette turned out...
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The discovery isn't attributed to God, but the existence of the phenomenon. So in your example, God made radium. God made the raw materials to make computers and gave man the intellect to make them.
In California at least, skeptical analysis is in the curriculum from sixth grade onwards. I was under the impression it was there in all states, although I could be mistaken.
> then compressing the H2 to 700 bars consumes 30% of the stored energy, then you must add distribution and transport (and mostly can't use the huge, existing gas transportation infrastructure).

I recall reading somewhere that (in some/many countries) existing gas infrastructure is already specified to tolerate a meaningful (if small) fraction of H2 in the mix and that this fraction isn't currently maxed out, implying that it could be used as a sink for a quite sizable amount of new H2 production capacity as is.

Background: historically the network was designed to tolerate a much higher H2 fraction because the initial gas source was a conversion process from coal that happened to yield a H2 fraction considerably higher than what is currently distributed. So as long as conventional gas use continues you'd have zero storage problem for new H2 production until the existing tolerance limit is maxed out. Only switching to anything close to 100% H2 would be a storage/distribution problem.

Bonus implication: retooling existing infrastructure back to tolerate that old, higher H2 fraction would be considerably (orders of magnitude) easier than building a network for pure H2.

I still share your main view, that there tends to be too much hype for H2. E.g. be wary of people who use an imminent "H2 future" as an argument to abandon all other projects. But that doesn't negate the value of real-life H2 projects at all: chances are we won't satisfy easy H2 use cases any time soon and the things that would make difficult/impossible H2 use cases difficult/impossible shouldn't be used as arguments against production until the easy use cases appear in reach to getting saturated.
Absolutely. But you can't say 'you know'.
There would be increased costs up the whole supply chain -- all passed up to restaurants.
I’ve used AdNauseum for close to a year with no issues, it seems to be pretty good about simulating realistic clicks.
"natural equality of all people"

The vast majority of people everywhere agree with this. It's not exactly enlightenment values anymore.

The issue is with people who think that they're morally superior for holding this view while they label everyone else with extremes.
I am operating on an underlying principle that others may not share, but this could help elucidate why I disagree with many fellow liberals on this front:

I'm trying to solve for how decision making power is allocated without making assumptions about which side is right or wrong. In other words, the argument that "The company must do XYZ because this political cause is simply on the RIGHT side of history!" is not acceptable to me, even though I often personally agree that the cause really _is_ right.