skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nowhere in the post the author says or even recommends not to build and audience. All he is saying is that it souldn't be your main focus.

> Hacker News is the perfect venue for this piece of content, since people here all wish they could just build something amazing and people would flock to it by default. The author is telling the crowd exactly what they want to hear, while ironically, building his own audience.

What I got from the article is: building an audienc should not be the top priority, the quality of the audience matters more than the size of it and focus on creating valuable content. Again, it never discourages doing it.
Then we should find the optimal point of socio-economic development with regards to co2 emissions? Or is upward mobility impossible to remove from the system?
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But that was exactly why he was so wrong - he thought that the limits to resources was static, and they are not always.
It's not a premature optimisation to use a hashset instead of a list though!
If AOL or MSN had figured out how to monetize these platforms, they would have ruined them anyhow. They would have been lost in a different way.
Are those actually used in the book?

But if needed, the user can write:

(define (1+ x) (+ x 1))
(define (1- x) (- x 1))

Although, I think, add1 and sub1 are more common nowadays.
F# is what you want!
> We have no moral right to say "Nonono, you can't do what we did in the 20th century and live like us!".

Yes, we do. Now that we know what the effects of climate change could be. That being said, we do have a moral duty to help out. Populations tend to grow slower when they become "more advanced", so it might not be the end of the world.
In this case, we're talking about a rural electric cooperative; it has no equity owners. They are controlled democratically by member-owners.
It's difficult to tell these days which images/videos are real and which are computer-generated.
It was a golden age of instant messaging. You could talk to anybody on any network because multiprotocol clients just worked. I basically gave up on instant messaging because every company now digs deeper and deeper moats around their network.
The car. As he says, the car. The goddamned car.

Every time you get into it, hoping that it will start. And not just when it's been sat outside your house for a while. When you stop for petrol (gas), or in the car park after buying food, sitting behind the wheel and hoping it starts again. The restrictions that get placed on you when you just can't rely on the car always starting.

For your life, a mostly-starts car is in theory better than no car, but for mental health it's corrosive. Every plan you make carries the rider "unless the car doesn't start" and you end up restricting where you drive to places that, if you were suddenly carless, you could still get home from. Any time you're outside the safety zone, there is the constant fear "what if it doesn't start?" Being afraid, having that stress, all the time is just mentally corrosive.

If a better job comes up and it's not near public transport, every day is a gamble on being able to get to work, and get home again. Spending your evening worrying about whether you'll be able to get to work in the morning is a horrible way to live; perpetually unable to relax. At least once I simply sold it for scrap and gave up entirely on doing anything that needed a car. Such a relief, but I was in the privileged position of being able to live and work without one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26302019 :))
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> If you want to know how people truly are, become actually poor, filthy, and seem depressed, then you will know their nature.

You don’t need to be homeless to discover that some people lack sympathy. I lack sympathy. It doesn’t mean I’m an asshole. Sympathy isn’t empathy (huge distinction). Some people can’t tell the difference and everyone is just bad (cue the big tears).

This is especially true if you’re a freeloader. I imagine most people are just as honest about freeloaders regardless if they are homeless or supremely wealthy. This problem isn’t mean people, but rather poor self-analysis and playing a victim. Most people don’t want anything to do with that nonsense, which is extremely unsympathetic.
Think that’s a legit take. Agree 100% about reencoding — I’ve only used it for minidlna and mpd.

I’ve also only run openbsd on apus so haven’t experienced the serial port installer issues. Didn’t know that would be an issue for modern linux. Good for others to be aware of if so.

More generally, you’re probably right that x86 doesn’t matter as much now as five years ago or so.
The question here is risk management, in monopolistic markets. The company can be run in high risk mode, under the assumption that if the risk realizes it will just go bankrupt and be bailed out. It wouldn't be bailed out in a competitive market, because competitors would pickup the slack, they would capture the market that was left without a service. In a monopolistic market, a normal bankruptcy would leave the market without a service provider, and thus a bailout is needed.
Nitpick: You're talking about the primary selection, not the clipboard. Those are two different distinct things.
The article was rather a disappointment compared to other articles Etsy has put up on their blog.

It was overall just lackluster and the TL;DR can be entirely summed up as, more than doubled traffic without issue (and no technical insights really).
It's dependent on your use case, but the three examples you've listed here all have a slightly different approach to the market. Stitch (as mentioned in a comment below) is SaaS only. Pipelinewise is open source but as far as I know have no plans to build a company around it. With Meltano, we're aiming to grow the project and community and eventually build a business around it in a similar manner to what GitLab has done. Our docs[0] have more information about our current focus and roadmap if you're curious.

[0] https://meltano.com/docs/#focus
For reference, even rather simple 2 stroke engine powered drones can be made to fly up to 24 hours.
No mention of famine
Where(or when?) was AIM a big thing?

I only knew like 4 people personally who used it. Most people used IRC, MSN, and ICQ, back in the days.
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The "downside" is the time you need to invest to become proficient, which you could have spent on something else.
Most software engineers I've met in the climate science field are either scientific programmers or data scientists. If this is the type of job you like to do I think there are regular position openings in scientific institutions. My knowledge outside academia is limited
Shielded doesn't necessarily mean that they are protected from all losses. Limited liability means that the liability is limited by the investment that was put in: they can lose up to their investment, but no more.
If you want a C-style syntax then ReasonML maybe?
> pessimistic take on a new trend

I don't see how describing reality is a pessimistic take.
I thought the project was obsoleted like last month? Are they reviving it?
Well, it is still the standard, in the same way that Windows XP was still the standard in 2010.
It's actually not even the first time a powered aircraft has flown on Mars. Both Curiosity's and Perseverance's descent stages were powered aircraft that, after releasing the rovers, flew up and away from them in a controlled manner through the air.
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Perhaps because that standard design didn't work out?

Even Switzerland is shutting down nuclear plants and they managed to build the longest railroad tunnel of the world without budget overruns and half a year before due date.
It's obvious that energy sources based on local meteo conditions don't have 24/7 reliability. The question is: how much of that reliability do we need? What would be possible if we did forgo some? Most of our industrial processes are optimized for pure efficiency (optimizing asymptotic behavior with no regard to constants), which is biased towards high-energy, constantly running chains and immense infrastructure. These need reliability. If we optimize for more smaller workloads, which can start/stop depending on local conditions (and power source), then we loose some efficiency in the process but gain a lot in the simplicity of the energy supply chain (which may in the end translate in lower/comparable overall energy consumption).
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Please don't compute speed-up like that.

Old time: 6 minutes (360 seconds).
New time: 1 minute and 50 seconds (110 seconds).
Speed-up calculated by article author: 1-110/360=0.694 (69.4% saved).
Speed-up calculated by me: 360/110=3.27 (3 times faster).

Please calculate it the other way around. It makes great difference when you say you made something 10× faster than when you say you saved 90% of work even if both mean exactly the same thing.

Bruce Dawson has great article about this: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/02/04/what-we-talk-ab...
I can wholeheartedly recommend that film (and Ken Loach's filmns in general). The following review excerpt [1] is telling and heartbreaking:

The stakes of the film are simultaneously huge and small. The Turners don’t need much. Some stability; a steady income, of course; more time would be a dream. Really, though, the most precious thing they have is each other. But there’s no time for that because then there’d be no money.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/movies/sorry-we-missed-yo...
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AIM was big in the late 90’s to early 2000’s. I still had 2 people I talked to on it through 2015 or so.
> You were being very boring

You’re just being personally abusive now for some reason. I've flagged you.
Seconded. I couldn't stand using a touchpad at all until I got a Surface Book 2 for work. It's now the standard to which I hold all other touchpads.
Sandboxed containers.
I don't understand why so many people assume that public transport needs to cover cost with fares. It provides immense public utility, even to the people who don't use it. It makes perfect sense to subsidize it. And it's not like taxes on cars pay for all their externalities.
What you forbid, they will actively seek out. If "violent media" were so bad, Metallica fans would be rife serial killers. It's virtue-signaling, prudish narcissism.
That's fascinating and the only example I've ever seen of a private company being given permission to own and operate their own private reactor for power generation. Cool!
Yeah, weight classes in kids' sports are a terrible idea.

The only exception is in individual combat sports (wrestling or judo, for instance). In those cases, not only is it a safety issue, but the 'penalty' for failing to make weight is just that you have to compete in the next weight class up, not that you or your team are ejected from the competition.

European rowers (and I include British people here) are kind of shocked that the US has lightweight categories at high-school level. I suppose, though, that if people are chasing lucrative scholarships to college lightweight teams that might be an incentive...
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The only question I have is: why ?
Unlike many private universities, rural electric cooperatives are controlled democratically by member-owners. In this case, it was a nested structure: the members were a dozen of local distribution cooperatives. Those distribution cooperatives have households for their member-owners. So, the power to regulate executive salary by households was there.
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I'm the author and wondering if you read the post beyond the headline.

Quotes from the text:

> "But don’t get me wrong. Having an audience is awesome and I love great content."

> "Publishing content online is the best way to become visible so that opportunities can find you."

My point is that churning out content by remixing other people's work for the sake of building an audience is a common procrastination trap. I love when people share first-hand learnings and with my most recent posts, including this one, I'm trying to do just that.

Another quote:

> "Your main priority always should be to do meaningful things, to solve real-world problems, to be the man in the arena. And if you share what you learn along the way, people will start to listen. Write when you have something meaningful to say, and not to stick to some self-imposed writing schedule."
This question pops up quite regularly on HN. I am always giving the same answer. We, HN crowd, presented with a problem tend to reach for a technical solution. Unfortunately, climate change is not an engineering problem, it's a political problem. IT will not solve it. The best we, as engineers, can do is the same as for anyone else - step out of our comport zone and join a climate movement. Extinction Rebellion is my favorite. You can choose your own poison.
> ...the magnesium sacrificial anode cannot be removed...

Get a Rheem Marathon hot water heater and permanently do away with sacrificial anodes.

So much about construction drives me nuts. After sweating bullets over microscopic details of software design to find the balance between durability, longevity, readability, reliability, maintainability, security, etc., it comes as a huge shock to see the lack of attention to detail in most "professional" construction.

On the other hand, most people aren't as bothered as I am about spending so much of a lifetime paying for a good that deteriorates to pretty much nil at the the end of that lifetime.
That's really interesting.

I am against nuclear power but upvoted your comment anyway.
I'm thinking of starting this journey with PureScript. Seems a lot more practical for my use cases and their introductory book is quite good (I'm reading it).
> Average lifetime of those batteries are about 7 years before a full replacement.

The significance of this is a function of our ability to recycle them.
Mid-sized, 8-ton class, capable of launching humans. https://www.rocketlabusa.com/about-us/updates/rocket-lab-unv...
There's almost nowhere in Asia with high fertility anymore. All 21st century population growth will be African, specifically sub-Saharan Africa, where fertility rates are stubbornly holding around 4 to 4.5 births per woman. And the worst countries, like Somalia and Niger, are still well above 6 births per woman, declining by much less than 1 birth per woman per decade.
This ties into covid too. Low paid jobs are more likely...scratch that. Low paid jobs always require physical presence, most often at strange hours not served by public transportation. There are no work-from-home days for tradespeople, for cleaners, for food workers.
The top 7 regions creating refugees are Syria, Venezuela, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Myanmar, Somalia or Democratic Republic of Congo. None of them do so due to overpopulation, or even environmental or ecological crisis. They're all political issues.
What’s the story behind that? You’re right, that’s astounding.
This has been my problem for years now. I'm in the middle of nowhere and I can't count on the thing. I don't know how many times I've been stuck and also almost towed because I couldn't move it. I've luckily managed to avoid it so far but I'd not be able to do much about it if it happened.
Sure i agree, just saying that even WhatsApp ticks that box in some way.
For better or worse, I think Basecamp started this trend. Not necessarily with the content they have created and sold, but with the ideas that get misunderstood. I think it was Jason Fried who said people should be selling their byproducts, which amounts to remixing content, selling what you’ve learned to others. This works and is good practice for some things, but it gets extended into so many other things that we get an “information product” economy where the information is the only product instead of the information being a byproduct of the experience you gained by building something else.
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There exists a great difference in performance between creating a temp table to store the information vs using associative arrays.

And also consider multiple parallel connections in a high traffic database creating so many temp tables :(
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> Similar case with Erlang...

Have you tried Elixir?

I had been doing Ruby for a long time (also Java and Scala before and after that, now Python).

Gave Elixir and Phoenix framework a shot a month ago and it's a breath of fresh air: great language, outstanding tooling.

I've also done a bit of Haskell, OCaml and PureScript within my personal projects. I do miss having a state of the art typing in Elixir, but there is enough in Elixir to keep me happy:

* immutability everywhere

* ridiculously low latencies (not by HFT standards I guess)

* LiveView

* ...many other goodies that come with BEAM

* Tooling

edit: formatting
Old soviet lenses, like the helios, can be lots of fun and fit relatively easily on a mirrorless camera.

The Chinese Holga is also a magnificent piece of plastic.

See Mathieu Stern for inspiration. [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYX22a35sKhA0T6ee7uZfvg
> Here odds are there were only dozens or hundreds of items during dev so nobody noticed it would become slow as balls beyond a few thousand items.

Might be, but this particular issue has been raised by thousands of players and ignored for *years*.
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Sure, but I’d argue that the replacement rate itself is at an unsustainable level.

Climate change and the loss of species and such is one manifestation of overpopulation. Covid-19 could be viewed as another, in my opinion.

Obviously this is all rich coming from an American living in the suburbs (I don’t really see what my alternatives are), but I can’t help but think we can only sustain around a billion people without destroying the planet (speculation).

We live in a golden age of cheap energy and consumption. People get in gasoline powered cars and drive a mile down the road to get a snack. That’s impossible to maintain. Not only do we have overpopulation, but we built unsustainable cities, predicated on infinite cheap energy ($2.50 gas). Electric cars won’t fix this, although they’ll help.
Though I'd say the governments there are fairly secure. The Vietnamese communist party has been in power since 1945, China's since '49 and the Cambodian lot only got kicked out when Pol Pot, after having genocided a third of the population, attacked Vietnam who then invaded and got rid of him, and the new lot have been in power since 1984. Sadly throwing opponents in jail seems to kind of work. This of course predates facebook.
Don't forget that if you accidentally merged your Microsoft account with your old Skype account you could lose all the contacts. I lost several gaming buddies that way when I didn't have alternate contact info.
Yes, TCL seems to be ultra fast in comparison. And it is good to avoid temporary tables when performance is the major criteria
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Nope. It’s a post-mortem paper.
I'm not aware of any. I did just open this issue[0] in the Meltano project to open discussion with the team/community. It could be an interesting iteration on the Singer Spec[1] if we find that users are interested in it and it helps solve some bottleneck challenges.

[0] https://gitlab.com/meltano/meltano/-/issues/2616
[1] https://github.com/singer-io/getting-started/blob/master/doc...
In Facebook for example, in the internal network you can access a lot of machines without authentication (let's say you open a PR to one of their public repo, and this runs in their internal network), and of course the beta of Facebook.
>That's a huge exaggeration. There are several solutions building commercial plants right now that should be good enough. Ambri is one example that was designed from the ground up for grid energy storage.

The largest such example cost $100 million and can run the state grid it's connected to for 7 minutes.
Ultimately it says this:

> If wild game or wild growing mushrooms are consumed in usual amounts, the additional radiation exposure is comparatively low but it can be avoided. Those who wish to reduce their personal exposure should not eat wild game self-hunted or mushrooms self-picked in the most affected areas of Germany.

and

> In Germany it is not permitted to market food with a radiocaesium content of more than 600 becquerel per kilogram.

and

> In the last years values of up to several thousand becquerel per kilogram were measured in wild game and certain edible mushrooms.

So isn't this is just cautionary, rather than a significant health risk?
I don't think it's the suffering per se, it's that suffering gives one a very clear goal or purpose (to make the suffering go away) or responsibility (relieve suffering of loved ones).

Few things provide more satisfaction than the achievement of a goal.

But it's not just a goal, purpose or responsibility that's required, the other key component is the ability or power to work towards the goal. Responsibility without power is a road to miserableness, just ask a middle manager in a poorly structured company.

So stopping global warming is a pretty crappy goal for most teenagers.
It's not clear to me what you want to learn, do you want to learn sockets & client/server development?
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>Bonus points for a C-inspired syntax rather than an abstract-mathematics-inspired syntax

Since functional languages are based on the mathematical idea of function application, this is a weird request. What would a C-style functional language even look like? Most functional languages have syntax for doing a imperative-style sequence of assignments before producing a result. Beyond that, the risk is that C-style code will make the programmer think that the language itself is like C, Java, or other imperative languages - which fundamentally, it wouldn't be.
Something like FFmprovisr:

https://amiaopensource.github.io/ffmprovisr/

https://github.com/amiaopensource/ffmprovisr

(CC Licensed, they accept pull requests.)

---

The ffmpeg subreddit also has some helpful contributors:

https://old.reddit.com/r/ffmpeg/
That moment when you come out of the grocery store and the car doesn't start on the first try...

I'm not in that situation anymore but I can still remember the absolute sinking feeling. And then the overwhelming sense of relief when it started on the second try. I've had my water turned off. I've had my heat turned off. I've scavenged wooden pallets on the side of the road to burn in a wood stove for heat. I've broken the seal on the gas meter so I could turn it on at my most desparate. I escaped those circumstances thanks to family, and church friends. But this article is spot on as to what it's like to poor or poor-ish.
If you just grep the list of articles for "famine", you'll miss the "malnourished children" and "hunger" mentioned in the articles.
So this airship is designed for disaster relief and can cross oceans. How quickly can it cross the Atlantic?