skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The textbook in my high school economics class [1] actually devoted a whole chapter to centrally planned economies, covering the methods they used for allocating resources in a fair amount of detail. As an American kid growing up during the cold war, I remember it being one of the more interesting chapters.
Looking at the publisher's website, I see that the current edition of the book no longer includes that chapter.

1. https://www.mheducation.com/highered/product/economy-today-s...
You are thinking of ULA’s Vulcan rocket, and there are indications that their engine reuse plan has been entirely abandoned. Aerojet has modified the Shuttle’s RS-25 engine design to make it explicitly non-reusable (in the hopes of reducing costs).
Why stop there. There's millions of W2 employees who don't even have access to 401ks.
There's all sorts of separate sources of truth in that system: Data that exists in the server, data that exists in your javascript frontend, data that exists as pixel intensities in the screet. At a high level, the virtual DOM exists to arbitrate the non-simultaneity of updates to all of these moving parts. It lets react model its system as a "single source of truth" with a functional "prop-drilling system". It gives react components gravity to a data source it can consider authoritative (separate from the actual DOM which attracts the browser's own sets of sub-applications) which is also separate from the applications sitting on top of your data in the server, etc. etc. etc.
Communism isn't about how resources are distributed, but who controls the means of production.
I don't think so.

Xi does this because he can.

If you can quarantine 1B people in two weeks, that means Xi's power has reached an unbelievable level. He can start a war if he wants to, no one in China can object to that.

Alibaba is nothing but a pawn to him. The fear created by halting of Ant IPO will ensure no other entrepreneurs will publicly challenge the authority as long as Xi is in power.
* Step 3 is probably a bad idea, if any attention is being paid to "the individual people/entity affected".

* Step 4b is a bad idea; it has too great a possibility of re-raising the issue.

* Steps 5, 6, and 7 are completely optional and probably not recommended. If Step 4a worked, keep in mind that the strategy you have got you where you are.

* Given the above, Step 2 is a waste of time.

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Agreed. The unconditional nature of the statement detracts from its message. Had it said: "we see benefits in static types for APIs, and it's working for us - here's why" it would have had some credibility. And provided some insight on why it might work for others too.

Contrast with DHH's articulation on the corecursive podcast [0]. Paraphrasing:

* Dynamic types work for him
* People don't all think the same. So static typing is fine too.

Jeremy Howard made essentially the same point on TWIML AI [1].

The point is there's far more to success than static vs dynamic typing. Personal preferences, team skills, culture, task at hand, nature of domain, commercial imperatives, code base size, and many other things besides all influence choice.

To suggest there's a single, global answer to static vs dynamic - whether for languages or APIs - is a misguided and unhelpful simplification.

[0]: https://corecursive.com/045-david-heinemeier-hansson-softwar...

[1]: https://twimlai.com/whats-next-for-fast-ai-w-jeremy-howard/
What is your ideal solution? Linux seems to have largely won. Will it run on RISC-V?

I wish we had a completely open system of hardware and OS. Is librem making any progress in this space?
https://thefederalist.com/2020/11/13/target-swiftly-bans-boo...
Oh, that's interesting! Didn't know AWS had that ability. Maybe then there are also some SDK functions I don't know about? I wonder why Packer doesn't go this route.

Super tiny downside to your approach: you'll be paying for storage of that instance while shut down, I guess. But that's probably peanuts.
"Not surprising at all."

That Jack Ma said anything at all surprised me. Ma's had always been wholly obsequious, in public at least.

I guessed that Ma's spoke up for one of the reason's I've done so in the past: Ma was done and decided to stop playing. He felt he finally had enough juice to make some kind of a power play. He felt that Truth and Duty were principles worth dying for.

Whatever the reason, I'm sure he now wishes he hadn't.

I'll be doubly surprised if Ma doesn't have an exit strategy. Opting for that seaside villa and teaching poetry to local school kids.
Further somebody posted a screenshot https://twitter.com/beyondreasdoubt/status/13270826648059985...
In what ways could your competition screw you?
For what is worth many dicators had "golden" years. The issue is that at some point you get a bad dictator(or the current one turns bad) and you have to live with him your entire life. Not to mention that even within the golden period you still have freedoms taken away but that's a different story/trade off.
I’d imagine it’s partly due to the view of the public that NASA’s launch tech has regressed since the Apollo program. The Saturn V had crew escape, could deliver 110 tons to leo, and was cheaper per launch than the shuttle. The F1 engine is still considered superior to the shuttle main engines. Pitching new tech when you haven’t matched capabilities from 60 years ago is hard.

Combine this with incumbents looking to keep new entrants out of the market and heritage, and reuse become the operative words
This thread has been really informative, thank you for your comment in particular! This tidbit is fascinating.
Well - it's damage the world "chose" - via lockdowns, fear and hysteria, etc. When I talk about covid with people, I often notice difficulty to distinguish between covid the virus and covid the event (and associated things the world is doing to deal with it). Some seem to insist on attributing fallout like this to being caused by the _virus_ and as something that was never in our control. That is false. Covid doesn't make measles spread. Covid doesn't force people to not get vaccinated for measles. The culture and mitigation society chose to develop around covid caused these things.
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Is there any point in addressing the "mistake" if no one has the need to take responsibility for it?
> macOS unable to open any non-Apple application

Shouldn't it really say:

macOS unwilling to open any non-Apple application

or:

macOS refuses to open any non-Apple application

Saying unable makes it sound like a mistake or accident.
People in strong position stand to gain by apologizing, while people in weak position stand to lose. One must consider one's standing before dabbling.

In my own company I try to apologize every time I screw something up. I know my position is unassailable, and my team members should have trust that their leadership is in touch with reality.

I am also cognizant of the fact that no hired employee has the same level of security, and it troubles me.
> ...each vertical is defectively an independent company...

Not sure if that was a typo or not, but it's pretty funny either way :)
I don’t understand this comment. The syntax provider can be written in any language, and is basically just an abstraction for IDE behavior. Given that the instructions for how the IDE should represent any given code block, user behavior, or reactiveness in the IDE are defined by the language provider, what exactly is lacking for any arbitrary language?

The only thing I can think of is that a given language may not have suitable representation in the IDE, eg a data-flow visual language when most of the IDEs features are centered around text.
> No, that point that you're ignoring in pointing that out is that if they don't depend on these jobs then they're entirely unemployed.

Those jobs don't disappear just because you mandate a living wage.
Don't forget: Real Analysis = generalizable calculus

That was my favorite course.
And got hit by Trump or his successor?
Why aren’t they? Because they can’t be, or because you think they aren’t used in that way?

I’ve been using an iPad for nearly 100% of my work over the past two years (until this summer, just a regular 9.7” iPad), and I know of developers who have been doing the same for at least nine years [1]. And these days it’s even more “general purpose”, being able to develop locally on the iPad with things like Play.js and Pythonista running locally. Blink on iPad even has a local shell built in, and of course pretty much all Android devices can drop to their local root shell too.

I guess you’re going to have to define what you mean by “general purpose computer” because pretty much every definition I find online includes smartphones and tablets [2][3][4]:

> A general purpose computer is built to perform a variety of tasks, including the most frequent computing tasks, in a reasonably efficiently manner. It can store and execute multiple programs in its internal storage. Personal computers such as tablets, smartphones, notebooks and desktops are examples of general purpose computers.

The difference it seems like you’re making is that laptops are general purpose computers because you want to define them that way, and phones/tablets are not, again, because that’s how you want to define it. So please, define what “general purpose” means and why your definition doesn’t match anyone else’s definition?

What do people get out of gatekeeping the most ridiculous things? Any iPad or Android tablet can install generic applications, browse the web, play games and music and video, do word processing, check email, store and retrieve arbitrary data, edit photos, connect to SSH... you know, general purpose computing. So again... what is the point of differentiating?

[1] https://yieldthought.com/post/12239282034/swapped-my-macbook...

[2] https://www.reference.com/world-view/general-purpose-compute...

[3] https://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/general-purpose-comp...

[4] https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zkrr97h/revision/1
> 2. The media, in new and unusual ways, has abandoned the goal of neutrality in reporting.

Which media are we talking about? There have always been left, neutral, and right-leaning media, but in the last four years the neutral media was painted as being biased against the president because they reported the facts. The facts, they're very unflattering. The president has brought the pro wrestling 'heel' character into national politics and reporting on that reality is not bias.

> It's another thing to shut down a Country along the same lines in 2020.

The actual mandated shutdowns were pretty weak and pretty temporary. The real damage to the economy has come from people being rational actors and voluntarily practicing social distancing, resulting in heavily stifled demand. See: Sweden. Famously not mandating lockdowns but their economy suffered nonetheless.
> Tablets are becoming another version of PCs, especially with all the Apple news lately.

That's what Apple wants people to think, but in the real world I'd argue that's highly suspect.

iPads are closer to glorified entertainment consoles than anything else. (They're 100% locked down, just like a video game console. Their compatibility is artificially limited, just like video game consoles. They're sold exactly like video game consoles, on game console lifecycles, with a game-console-like business model and revenue sources). Apple itself seems to agree, Apple claims the iPad is a video game console in their legal fight with Epic when defending Apple's monopoly over the software market.

If anything, it would make slightly more sense to compare iPad sales to Nintendo Switch sales, than to compare iPad sales to Laptop / Desktop PCs.
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Elon Musk says he has tested positive for Covid-19
Ask HN: Other forums like Hacker News?
I was introduced to HN a few years ago in high school. I love the links, discussion, and different viewpoints everyone brings to the community.

Are there any good forums that are similar to HN but with different domains? (Not tech)
Relevant article posted on NPR just today:

FACT CHECK: What's Happening In This Election Is Not Like Florida In 2000

https://www.npr.org/2020/11/13/934190243/fact-check-whats-ha...
GIGO == garbage in, garbage out
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And talking (tweeting) about other unrelated things that make people upset but aren't about your mistake. Diverting attention
My sense is that the article would agree strongly with you here but didn't want to get into that long digression.
That depends on whether you believe free market implies a slightly-but-not-quite tautology definition (the market is whatever the market is the market etc.) or in a more Friedmanite-sense ("Capitalism is a prerequisite but not a guarantee for freedom")
My experience with Uber drivers here in CZ is that they are guys who like to drive.
What prevents one from using this argument with everything? In a sense, I don't disagree, but what sets apart active recognition and embrace of the limitations of an endeavor, and passive resignation to the shortcomings of circumstance, which smells more of indifference from a fatal desire for sleep and forgetfulness?
That would be pretty nice actually. The small classes I had in my late studies almost didn't feel like university.
I made it as far as this quote (which is from the paper) "higher frequency of alcohol consumption was surprisingly associated", which then opened the question as to whether the researchers had pre-determined their results and fit the data to them. Researchers expressing surprise at the results in a study I take as a sign of bias.
There must be some kind of Mandela effect going on since I feel quite sure I was using this in 1998 after Streisand voiced distaste at the South Park episode.
He says he's looking at the last 10,000 years of history, so no. He also makes explicit reference to the French Revolution.
Extremely similar technology to the ZX Microdrive, except the Microdrive seems much more reliable. https://obsoletemedia.org/zx-microdrive/

I had the "QL" version mentioned on that page, which maybe explains why they worked better for me, despite their reputation.

I still have a bunch in a box, and I tried to read them just a few years ago, and they all still worked! I was amazed.
Gas is actually astoundingly clean to burn, especially given how much energy it stores. It's why farmers use huge tanks of it to burn weeds before seeding / forklifts use propane indoors as fuel.

Once you start looking at the emissions incurred by transmission loss, extra "peak" power purchased from states like Nevada and Oregon this stupid fantasy of electric everything solving the world's problems sans dealing with the production side fades quickly.
The scariest thing in this, that all these things happening now in the world again. Even in Europe (I live in Hungary), I can feel all this happening, the false creation of enemies, let it be inner or external. There is always some fight we have to win, airing in the mostly state related media. And one by one every institution is grinded into the system, by small or big changes in the constitution, hinding under other less controversial laws, changes, usually proposed a day or hours before the parliament votes on it. And the only thing I can think about now, is to move out of the country, like a coward.
> Are you talking about black lives matter here?

The trouble is, in each individual case, it's possible to know if 'Black Lives Matter' is meant to be taken at face value, or whether it connotes the (well-documented) Marxist ideology from which it was born, and with which it is often associated.

Authoritarianism comes in many flavors.
Not once they're operating on Mars, according to their TOS agreement!
https://mobile.twitter.com/Bigoleboy420/status/1287132537329...
I thought, these are some interesting thoughts, maybe I will subscribe to their RSS feed.

But there doesn't seem to be one.

I looked at the source of that web page and apparently all the HTML was generated by JavaScript...

Sigh.
Herd immunity is something that happens when you have the majority of the population vaccinated. There's no such thing as natural herd immunity. Hopefully, the Covid19 vaccines will be able to destroy a broader variety of the SARS-CoV2 strains than the flu vaccines can.

Masks are something we will hopefully have learned to wear forever during the cold season, as they will have a measurable impact on deaths not just from seasonal Covid, but from seasonal flu as well. I believe that the majority of the population will internalize this simple hygienic practice from now on, which would be one silver lining for this pandemic. People in East Asia have learned this habit some time ago, and it has served them well.
The NYT has a URL and web page dedicated to russia election hacking: https://www.nytimes.com/news-event/russian-election-hacking
I honestly think (for me, at least) the implied causation is the wrong way round here. When I'm feeling sad, I tend to be unmotivated and liable to spend more time / all day on my phone. When I'm feeling great, I'm generally motivated to go outside / do DIY / read / have a lot less screen time. I initially spent lots of effort trying to reduce my screen time (parental controls, etc) before realising that it was probably an indicator, not a cause!
I mean yes, but also no. I was skeptical that I could get into the game after reading about it, but I played the free demo [1] and got hooked. After "beating" it about 80 hours in I've lost a bit of interest because it seemed a bit more like work than play to really scale things, but the 80 hours of enjoyment was worth it. Might come back to it at some point and try to make a megabase or try some mods.

[1] https://factorio.com/download
Its almost like there is some ulterior motive surrounding COVID for some reason - though damned if I can figure out what it is!
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> think China suffers from a collective inferiority complex?

You couldn't have said it better. But it's much more attributable to the now waning elites, than anybody else.

Those are people who grew up being spoon fed with success for life, and are envious beyond measure of people who got to succeed without paying a dime for party membership.
The "world" didn't "choose", because different parts of the world responded to the pandemic radically differently.

Places that locked down immediately, like Hong Kong, Taiwan, and New Zealand, have mostly prevented spread within their borders, and are not experiencing the same fallout as other nations.

Other parts of the world did partial lockdowns, or mask recommendations, or nothing at all. With both my state and nation leading the charge in new cases per day, I am personally experiencing how that is going...
China's political system is nothing that a good old style capitalistic bust can't take out in a decade or so. The USSR never recovered from the inflationary late 70s. Japan's state-induced credit boom economy never recovered from the early 90s deflationary bust. Dictatorships/state controlled economies are still economies.

As Hyman Minsky would agree - there's only one way to handle volatility, take it in your face. You can't suppress it.
I admit I haven't written an OpenAPI schema myself. But, looking at the docs, I have a hard time imagining that I'd want to do API-driven development with it. Let me explain what I mean by that...

When I start a new project, or a major new feature in an existing project, usually the first thing I do is write out the Protobuf or Cap'n Proto schemas describing the APIs and data structures. Even for internal-facing APIs. APIs are how components talk to each other, and defining the APIs defines which components are responsible for what in a very clear way. Often I find writing out the APIs is actually the easiest, most precise way to communicate a design with my teammates; much better than prose in a design doc.

For this purpose, it's actually pretty important that the schema language be something that's not cumbersome to write. Protobuf and Cap'n Proto feature dedicated schema languages that feel like a programming language. It looks like OpenAPI has you writing schemas themselves in JSON or YAML. Ick.

And once I've written those schemas, I run the code generator and poof, I now have nice, type-safe classes in my programming language of choice implementing my schema. This lets me move a lot faster implementing, being able to use my IDE's auto-complete and whatnot. Does OpenAPI generate code for you? I have worked on projects that use it and didn't have any generated code, so I am assuming not...

I think this is what the article is trying to get at.

(Disclosure: I'm the author of Cap'n Proto; long ago I was the author of Protobuf v2; and I am a (small) investor in Buf because I like what they're doing, but I don't work with them.)
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I love the whole "lost Saturn V engineering" trope. It sounds so good despite being bullshit. Rocket dune and NASA did an extensive knowledge retention project for the F-1 and J-2 engines. NASA also maintains several copies of extant F-1 and F-1A engines. If we approached Rocketdyne tomorrow with a billion dollars they could restart F-1A production. The J-2X is in fact the second stage engine for the SLS stack.

The SSME was selected for the SLS (and Ares V before it) because it had twice the burn hours of the F-1 and the SRBs existed and were a known quantity. The SLS (and Ares V) can reuse more of the Shuttle's infrastructure than an F-1 based design. The SRBs allow for use of smaller first stage tankage and the less powerful SSMEs which allow for reusing Shuttle launchpads which replaced the Saturn launchpads at LC-39.

While the SLS is moving into boondoggle territory the Ares V and SLS designs made economic sense to reuse Shuttle designs and infrastructure. It didn't have anything to do with the myth of lost engineering knowledge.
Apologizing is a good leadership strategy regardless of standing IMO. It shows that you are human which can help one gain and maintain report with fellow workers.

Refusing to apologize has the opposite effect.
Google has had data leaks and hacks, yes. It’s not private unless you own it and control it.

If you send it to Google it is unequivocally not private.
Actually I'm very doubtful that Winnie the Pooh thing was decided by him. Pretty sure that's just decided by lower level censors and Xi himself has no idea that the Pooh controversy even exists.
There is a long history of massive uprisings against the establishment in China. Tiananmen is just the most well known example of something that happens every year. I doubt Xi is ignorant enough to _not_ be afraid, though I agree with you that he probably is very confident as well.

> Xi is clamping down on religion because he can

My source may be dated, but as of 1988 policy making in China was a protracted, incremental process involving negotiation among numerous different groups (central and provincial governments, bureaus and departments)[0]. Things may be more centralized now, but I think it's safe to say that if something is happening in China, it's because multiple government entities at different levels have agreed to it. Who knows what the reason is.

[0] Policy Making in China, Lieberthal 1988