skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an apt comparison, but for me it comes down to the complication of the products. I used to be able to just plug in my headphones and they worked. Now it's a constant struggle of bluetooth syncing, connection issues, forgetting to charge the battery. I have multiple pairs of wireless headphones sitting around the house, but I've gone back to $19 wired headphones because I was sick of the headache of dealing with wireless.

I feel this is the same thing with bikes. A mountain bike requires nearly constant work/maintenance. I bet a well maintained bike costs 1/10th the value of the bike/year. And this is without any electronics. Maybe electronics will simply maintenance a bit, but when they inevitably break I'm hosed.

I don't want electronic shifters. I want a simple and reliable bike.

Maybe electronics will eventually be the solution to this, but right now they cause more headache than anything.
The sentence:
'You built a formula 1 race car and tossed the keys to kids'

Suggests he doesn't even comprehend that curl amounts to 'instructions to copy data'
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What recent technological changes mandates reverting labour laws? To me that argument just sounds like throwing some buzzword in front of legislators that are scared of being perceived as obsolete.
I've been in the government contracting space for about six months but those emails look to me to be about the level of competency I'm seeing with many of my colleagues. Spaghetti code with no unit tests and nobody knows how to use a debugger let alone a profiler. Getting irrationally mad at open source devs for making changes as if they were supposed keep the Jira tickets they were working on in mind specifically. Lack of ownership. Finger pointing. This looks quite real to me.
Cantilevers are a pain in the ass to adjust unless you're an octopus. All of the degrees of freedom come loose at the same time with the same bolt: all three rotational axes and the coarse distance to rim are secured by the same nut. They are unemployable to work on, to put it mildly.

I could get on board with linear pull brakes though for the spirit of what you're proposing. Although maybe what you're looking for is a spec series with a really pedestrian (and affordable) component package.
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As you said, those are two incomes, not one, and in this economy and state of things all I can say good luck.

Again, maybe thing is about being brave and just jump in without thinking about possible issues that may never happen...

Regarding eviction, I meant more, that you will be able to have some savings to bridge gap between two jobs or if it gets to unforeseen illness or event. Like what happens if you both lose jobs, or you need take care about your spouse ... (I hope that never happens). But, my only point was that system is adjusted so you are always on the edge (regardless where you are), so you always turning that economic wheel ...

I have few mates they have miscalculated amount they can borrow, forgot to include other expenses, service charges etc. now they really struggling as mortgage is eating most of their salary, they have very little room for any maneuver.
Yeah, there should be a regulation that lets restaurants opt-out, or enforces price transparency on the delivery company's app (must show both original price from the restaurant in addition to final price).
Many comments rush to label this guy as "mentally ill". Being an entitled asshole with misdirected anger is not necessarily a medical condition. And there are plenty of people with actual mental health problems who are not aggressive at all (statistically, mentally ill people are more likely to be victims of violence).

Health issues are a thing that happens to people, and they don't have control over it, which absolves them from responsibility for it. OTOH if the guy making these threats is just pissed off due to his own failures, or even is just a troll making it all up, he should be held responsible for his actions.
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Or macrumors.com for a website about Macintosh computers! They'd surely shut that down since it uses a registered trademark! Oh no wait...
So nordstream 2 is what then?
Love that in the middle of this guy's insane loser rant he casually mentions that he's confined to the united states
What you're really arguing for is a deeper understanding of the universe. Whether the universe is a simulation or not is irrelevant.
There is no one size fits all solution here. In my experience it is sometimes good to start (conceptually) as a monolith and then divide the service into Microservices, eventually. Also depends on the maturity and experience of the team handling the services because micro services do like a different temperament both to develop and to manage.

I'm not from the camp that believes in creating services for every single thing - It's the same camp that believes in starting with distributed databases and then moving in the same direction. I believe in PostgreSQL everything and then moving to distributed only if the application demands ... Wait did I just start another war in here !
Negotiating with Uber, not working for Uber. Uber is a middleman/platform connecting customers with providers, guaranteeing terms of contract to both parties. It works just the same with most IT contracting firms (and the same is true in other sectors too - construction, medical, etc).
Yeah, I agree. There's probably not much they can do about it (and the individual will probably not end up taking any action), but in case he does, it's nice to have a police record of it all.
The article mentions that some AU residents have been able to bypass this ban by linking to tweets of news stories. Has Twitter indicated whether it'll be following the Facebook or Google route? I can only imagine that they will be covered by this regulation too.
This sounds like the result of unscrupulous "boot camps" that are common in countries like India - people are told if they sign up and pay $life_savings they can become a programmer and be hired by "The US Government" or other companies for enormous amounts of money.

A mundane class is offered with impractical advice and they're left with no money, little skills, and spamming the internet trying to get "their contract" - and if it doesn't materialize and they go back to the boot camp to complain the scammers blame it on "curl" - see the haxx.se domain? Clearly a hax0r ruined your chance at a better life.
> Open-source code like curl is inevitable when a society gains internet

Maybe, but there's maybe an alternate universe that doesn't begin with such a dumbass implementation of the web.

"Excuse me everybody, how about we not make it common for clients to describe themselves with a simple plaintext string and not have servers expect to blithely log that same string as if the invention of packet switching predates the invention of lying."

Perhaps ours is the only universe where the grad student who was supposed to utter that missed the bus that day.
> A middle class person might receive $10,000 of UBI, but see their taxes go up $11,000. Meanwhile a broke college student would receive the $10K UBI with $0 tax increase (or maybe a decrease in taxes)

Is that a problem?
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Someone commented but deleted on how they felt laptop CPUs have gotten worse in recent years, using the example of their U series cpu being slower than a much older M series cpu. Since I wrote the comment, posting it here:

The U series are "low power CPUs". They can do a lot more than they could in the past, but the H series are the actual successors to the M series. It's why the 10980HK is still the top performing of Intel's CPUs in a lot of workloads (quite significantly in some cases, we're talking 60% reductions in compile times for large C++ projects, like Chrome): https://youtu.be/pdO4u87UCYI?t=346 , and for that workload even an older 9300H handily wins against their current efficiency flagship in the 1185G7.

You are trading off a lot of power for improvements in power efficiency.
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>There are only limited amounts of land to own, water to drink, desirable places to live ect.

I would agree if we had runaway population growth. However, we get to be wealthy simply because our population growth is going down. The amount of resources accessible to the average person is roughly staying the same or increasing. Urbanization and failure to build more housing is what is causing issues in the housing market. It's not about the availability of resources but rather their perceived value and low interest rates and job opportunities make the perceived value go up.

What's zero sum isn't the economy because productivity improvements happen all the time. What's zero sum is the access to fresh money. There is an inherent imbalance in the financial markets that favors large corporations. The money is arriving in their hands and thus the hands of their owners first, at the expense of those who get the money far later, the workers. This is why Biden wants a stimulus package. He's trying to make it fair for both sides.
> The second thing that is wrong is to respond to the second email by doxxing the author to the public.

What evidence do you have for this?
My bet is on GPT-2 (GPT-3 would probably generate better text). This whole reply just isn't coherent (first it's a defence contract, then it's learning software for kids?).
So either AI generated or someone with some mental illness.
Literally none of the issues the SEC cited when denying earlier ETFs have been addressed, and have in many cases only gotten worse, so, good luck with that.
I think there's too much being conflated to make such a statement.

For example, microservices tend to communicate via strings of bytes (e.g. containing HTTP requests with JSON payloads, or whatever). We could do a similar thing with `void` in C, or `byte[]` in Java, etc.

Languages which support 'separate compilation' only need to recompile modules which have changed; if all of our modules communicate using `void` then only the module containing our change will be recompiled.

It's also easy to share a `void` between modules written in different languages, e.g. using a memory-mapped file, a foreign function interface, etc.

It's also relatively* easy to hook such systems into a network; it introduces headaches regarding disconnection, packet loss, etc. but those are all standard problems with anything networked. The actual logic would work as-is (since all of the required parsing, validation, serialisation, etc. is already there, for shoehorning our data in and out of `void*`).

If these benefits were so clear, I would expect to see compiled applications moving in this direction. Yet instead I see the opposite: stronger, more elaborate contracts between modules (e.g. generic/parametric types, algebraic data types, recursive types, higher-kinded types, existential types, borrow checkers, linear types, dependent types, etc.)
Microservices are hard. Monoliths are hard too. Focus on the product and the customer, build what they need. Architecture is a means to make a successful product.
> The government says the code will initially focus on Google and Facebook, but could be expanded to other tech companies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-56107028
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It was me! Thanks for the tip about M -> H. Sorry I deleted the comment - I wasn't 100% sure about the models (I don't have the laptops near me at the moment and I didn't want to spread misinformation).
Actually yeah a substantial number of my Uber drivers do it as a side gig while doing other things or while driving around. Food delivery was a big one but a lot had businesses and used Uber for extra cashflow.

This was in Montreal, maybe it’s different in the US. Though most of the drivers I talked to there delivered for Lyft too.
There's goes Uber's bottom line.
I never got more hate mail then when I tried doing outreach for my physics group. It did include death threats (I think) it was hard to tell if I was being accused of being part of a modern inquisition that burned people at the stake or should be burned at the stake or both.

It was pretty close to: https://web.archive.org/web/20150506055228/http://www.timecu...

Another good time was when I was running a crypto meetup and we had to call the cops because someone came in naked, the CIA had put chips in their clothes and they had to burn their house down so they weren't homeless but on the run.

Then there was the time I was on the board of a hacker space: https://shitnoisebridgesays.tumblr.com/page/3 it wasn't noise bridge but it had the same vibe.
> No, that is an idea from economics predating the 1970s. Did you mean the 1870s? It predates that.

It really depends on what level of formalism you consider to be the basis of "the idea". I'm referring to the "dividend discount model" (DDM) here, which to me is the first real well defined model of this idea in modern economy. Exposed in early 60s and democratized in the 70s:

"The dividend discount model (DDM) is a method of valuing a company's stock price based on the theory that its stock is worth the sum of all of its future dividend payments, discounted back to their present value."
You can be a part-time worker and still be protected by your employer and paid a minimum wage for your labor.
> Living in a big old house in the country with your family?

This might be exactly situation where you might desperately need to go out to keep sanity, to escape the family.
There’s a plausible-if-untested mechanism - placing a magnetic shield at the L1 lagrange point. This is far enough from earth that the magnetic field wouldn’t need to be exotically powerful to deflect a substantial fraction of the solar wind.
If you've watched any of his YT videos you can understand where he is coming from and he has valid points on why GameStop pivoting could be huge. If a successful pivot doesn't happen, he still believes their legacy business of trading in games is still viable. There are lots of gamers without good enough broadband to download 60GB games and are still on older platforms. The new console rollout was impeded by the pandemic from a supply chain perspective and from people having less disposable income.

Regarding a potential pivot, Ryan Cohen of chewy.com, has influenced the board and already appointed 2-3 senior positions that indicate a digital business formulating. There also were questions why the board/CEO didn't exercise their ability to issue more shares with the price up. One answer/hypothesis was they were not allowed to do so with unreleased significant financial information, like if they took on a new agreement of some kind with another company. Rumors and speculation all over the place but most of it leading to conclusions of GME not going bankrupt soon.
Corollary, it takes truly awful times to appreciate the bad times.
The caricature of HN is indeed a café of webdevs talking shop the whole time
>Regarding the real-estate example, the real estate may be zero-sum but net economic value still increases when a piece of land changes hands from someone who values the property less to someone who values the property more—which is the default expectation underlying any voluntary trade.

It's net negative when the buying party is misinformed and cannot afford the financing for the property he just bought. That's how we got the 2008 crash.
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> C strings, no matter how much people have complained about along decades (often quoting Pascal as a good counter-example!), were simple and versatile and thus could stand all usages without a change in the base principle (so other string types never took off).

Except that there are no string type in C. So talking about C strings is a bit disingenuous. And C has the exact same problems as Ada where people implement their own flavor of string libraries and functions all the time, all incompatible.
What you tend to see, is the difficulty of crossing these network boundaries (which happens anyway) _and_ all the coupling and complexity of a distributed ball of mud.

Getting engineers who don't intuitively understand or maybe even care how to avoid coupling in monoliths to work on a distributed application can result in all the same class of problems plus chains of network calls and all the extra overhead you should be avoiding.

It seems like you tell people to respect the boundaries, and if that fails you can make the wall difficult to climb. The group of people that respect the boundaries whether virtual or not, will continue to respect the boundaries. The others will spend huge amounts of effort and energy getting really good at finding gaps in the wall and/or really good at climbing.
The cognitive dissonance in these reactions is deafening.

Firstly the title "What if we prove them wrong". Of course Lenore means that to be read as 'we' the public but actually Lenore is a Guardian Editor and big media insider.

As the the chaotic way facebook has blocked sites it didn't mean to, that's just because this law's definition of media sites and how to identify them and know you have to pay to link to them is a mess.

On the one hand Lenore is saying Facebook is finding it incredibly hard to block news sites without blocking all sorts of stuff unintentionally, so it's clearly a hard problem facebook is having major problems solving. On the other she's saying blocking news sites was easy and so they should be able to block harmful content easily too. Doh!

It seems it's literally not possible to argue in support of this new law without contradicting yourself, at least I haven't read one yet that doesn't, they're that dumb. Heck I don't even use or like Facebook, I think they're scumbags, but that doesn't mean imposing stupid laws on them or anyone else is ok.
I don't really understand what all the outrage is about. This is like me walking into the local shop and picking up a newspaper that until recently was free. The shopkeeper then informs me that it now costs money, and I put it back on the shelf and walk out. The shopkeeper typically doesn't throw a hissy fit if I do this. Likewise, my son typically doesn't throw a hissy fit when I tell him that he needs to make his papier mache artwork out of the junk mail that get shoved through our post box, instead of the formerly-free newspaper I used to get for the job.

It's not often that I side with Facebook on anything, but this just sounds like a case of Facebook being told that they need to pay if they want to use a resource, and Facebook saying "OK, we won't use that resource".
Really? The kind of language used in that post about defense contracts and "my country" and "dipshit" screams India to you?

Or do you just have a prejudice about India and you wanted to make that point anyway?
This is the correct way to do things but, unfortunately, like I wrote in my other comment, this knowledge only comes after one has gone through a few of these "transformational" changes. I've seen this happen a few times and monolith vs micro services is such a done deal that it's very difficult to argue against so, even with experience, you will always fail if you try and go against the grain :)
Good mechanical disc brakes exist. I have Avid BB-7's on my mountain bike, and there's a lot to be said for the fact that every mom and pop bike shop has cable and housing on hand.

Are they as nice as hydraulics? No, but they're pretty damn good and easy for anybody to maintain. At the level I ride, that's a worthwhile trade off.

I've done brake jobs on my cars and I've done every job there is to do on a bike short of replacing a headset or rebuilding a fork; I don't have a burning need to bleed more brakes.
Looks like Markov chain generated text to me.
Their last major event was 2011 for Texas so they aren't becoming more common. They did act on many recommendations from that event but no one would have predicted a storm of that magnitude. Similar to how the some Southern states suffered a once in 100 if not 1000 year flood in 2009 that has not reoccurred though similar declarations it was going to be common. Lets not even get into the doom and gloom after Katrina followed by the absolute lack of any storms for years.

As in, FUD only ends up defeating arguments because every dire prediction is bound to fail. You get real change by showing people what the benefits are to every day life not based on some biblical level type hysteria.

Texas is one of the leaders in wind and solar so I am not sure where you are coming from other than succumbing to the unfortunately common parroting of facts that don't apply to the situation.

So summary, Texas and the nation need to have a common and joined grid management program but for reasons of providing stability and growth. Don't lead off with telling people they have to have it because of climate change as too many will tune you out and for good reason, the conversation tends to hysterics and theater more than reality.
Because the disease came with lock-downs, economic impact and all sorts of other things that correlate with things that decrease life expectancy.
> I think the real lesson for you is: don't make yourself more vulnerable (e.g. letting her touch you or your stuff) if you decide to try to start a conversation!

I didn't "let" her, she just did it.

I know you mean well and that you probably didn't intend it like this, but this comment comes off as victim blaming quite a bit.

As for the rest: thus far I've never managed to talk random strangers down from these kind of rages; but maybe I just don't have the charm shrug Last time I tried was with my neighbour and he ended up calling the police three times over a four-day period on me. My crime? I kindly asked him to not play his music so loudly all day long at the start of the lockdown (especially at 7am) and not backing down when he tried to shout me away. I had "invaded his home" by knocking on his front door... This isn't a fit of anger, some people are just like this.
>Crucial to their plans was making cheap, tabletop γ-ray detectors that they could install in dozens of sites.

On a related note: there's a citizen science experiment that uses a volunteer-run array of old smartphones with taped over cameras to detect particle showers caused by ultra-high energy cosmic rays.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic-Ray_Extremely_Distribut...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.08351

https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2895
Whoever is right or wrong here..

this seems like a one in a lifetime opportunity for a competitor, with the help of all the rage and momentum, to seize the market and start a mass migration.
> libCurl is great and my life is better for it.

This is not directed at you specifically, but your comment got me wondering how many people contact individuals like Daniel who are behind Open Source projects like this to share positive feedback, or even just to say "Thank you." I know I've not done it anywhere near as much as I should, and I suspect that doing so would help take the edge of what can often feel like a thankless task.

I imagine it's a bit like reviews: people with a bad experience are more likely to leave a review. Perhaps the best way to help people like David is to stop once in a while and thank them for the things they've done.
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Publishing the emails is copyright infringement; I don't think it's any other crime. And good luck trying to get someone for copyright infringement when you're threatening them with “slaughter”.
This is some victim blaming here. The domain is not the website of curl, but the personal blog of curls main developer. Not the same thing.
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