skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Simple state libraries are great for simple web apps, not for massive, enterprise-level applications. As someone who regularly investigates alternatives to redux, it still sits at the top of state management.

These intro how-to comparisons don’t do redux justice because being simple to use is not the stated goal of redux. Large scale, maintainable, and traceable code is the primary goal of redux. When you allow anything to update your state with zero form of traceability, you’ll start to see the cracks in these simple designs.

Are these new state management libraries easy to use? Sure, but what happens when you have tens of thousands (even hundreds of thousands) of lines of code to deal with and then add major refactoring objectives in the pipeline?

Like others have mentioned, if you are using redux for a simple to-do app, then its design principles are probably not as valuable.

It’s like thinking about time complexity for algorithms, at a small enough N, even slow algorithms can compete, but as you increase N, some algorithms become untenable.
If the seaweed is a pure win, then I agree with this. I just think a deeper understanding is also worthwhile.
Home automation is really not particularly novel. Quoting Wikipedia:

>In 1975, the first general purpose home automation network technology, X10, was developed. It is a communication protocol for electronic devices. It primarily uses electric power transmission wiring for signalling and control, where the signals involve brief radio frequency bursts of digital data, and remains the most widely available.[4] By 1978, X10 products included a 16 channel command console, a lamp module, and an appliance module. Soon after came the wall switch module and the first X10 timer.

Of course electronics have progressed immensely in 45 years, so we can now do a lot more with a lot less.

I still feel like very little has change in practice though. I find myself actively avoiding "smart" equipment, both because it's overpriced and a bit of a pain to use in my experience. They all have their own software stack, their own apps (which are often cloud-based instead of running locally, adding all sorts of privacy issues) etc...

On top of that you never know when the company is going to go under or stop supporting your device, leaving you with a not-so-smart device in the best case, or a useless plastic brick in the worst.
TAKE IT AND RUN!
Yeah... reading it in further detail, he applies current across his head between the mastoid processes. I thought it was local stimulation between two surface electrodes under the ear. A quick look at the literature shows that the targeted structures are too deep for an approach like that, so they have to go across the head.

Style points for bravery, I guess, but I certainly wouldn't want to pump over a milliamp of direct current right underneath the squishy mass of goo that contains my conscious self. Especially not with an uncontrolled source like a battery - any sort of stimulator really ought to be current limited.

A milliamp is an awful lot, IEC 60601 specifies a 0.1 mA patient leakage current and I'm pretty sure they weren't expecting even that small leakage current to be applied to the head.

It's still cool, but yeah, nobody try this at home.
Limiting yourself to women 13 to 26 years younger than yourself is going to be a problem. Most women aren't even going to consider having children until they're in their late 20s at the earliest. In practice, you've narrowed your range to perhaps 3 or 4 year age gap... and of women who are willing to date more than a decade their senior. You're looking for somebody who could potentially have a lot of ambition, but wants instead to spend their 20s raising kids.

There's nothing wrong with that, and it's not that it doesn't exist. It's just that it sounds to me like it could easily raise red flags, and scare off a lot of women from an already narrow pool you've defined. If you were to raise your age limit just to 35 you might have more luck.
I have a few 'smart' things in my house. One is my living room mood lights, but that's a combination of a simple RF plug relay switch on the one hand, and an ikea (also RF?) spot system, no internet required.

The other thing is my thermostat, where it's mainly convenience to control it remotely via my phone. I'm not comfortable with it, it has a dongle directly in my router giving the company behind it access to it and its data. I mean the charts are convenient, but I think the whole thing could be made offline as well. Anyway, that one has a simple screen (LED light matrix?) and touch buttons so anyone can adjust the temperature until the next time block, making just the unit without the app as useful as the old dial thermostat it replaced.

Final 'smart' thing I have is my wifi router, which I can manage via my phone; a big improvement over the old router/modem which had a very 2000's looking web interface.
I think this was at its peak when basically every computer had only USB 2.0 ports. You pretty much could plug in anything to anything, so long as it fit. Not to say there were no issues -- USB 1.1 hubs, cable length limits -- but they were so incredibly minor compared to today.

USB 3 introduced blue plugs, complicating things slightly but still everything basically worked, and if something was operating slower than expected it was at least obvious by the color.

Then 3.1 and USB-C came out, and apparently USB-IF lots its collective mind. Now you have you pay attention to see if your ports, cables and devices are "USB 3.0" or "USB 3.1 gen 1" or "USB 3.2 Gen 1" or "Superspeed" or "Superspeed 5Gbps".. (Btw, trick question: all of those are the same thing).
I don't know. I already have them (shell, shell utils, Python, Go, jq, JS, Ansible, etc).

I do what you mentioned all day, every day. I don't like the idea of "a more general product" because that's the power of the tools I use, they are small tools designed to do one or a few things only, but I can chain them together to do complex things. And if one of my small tools doesn't work for a particular task, I can swap it out with or write another small tool.

With your "CSV-like" example, I'd probably do something like grep with a regex to check a line and see if it has more than $x commas, and if it does process the line, if it doesn't ignore it and move on to the next.

I am about to head to a meeting, but something like this:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/249071/check-if-a-s...
Yeah, it's not like you have any choice when such an offer comes from the divine being Erdogan. He has absolute power on anything and everything, like deciding who's gonna be the next rector of a top university or assigning his son in law as the minister of economy etc.

Source: I used to live in Turkey until I decided I can't take this shit anymore and immigrated to Western Europe.
Are there other examples of MFFAM that already exist in the world?

Taxes on cigarettes that fund anti-smoking campaigns.

Taxes on soft drinks that fund anti-obesity campaigns.

There are many others.

In general, they called "sin taxes," and the money is very often earmarked to eliminate the source of those taxes.
Intranet?
Running an Always-On Desktop with Shells
>You're moving the goal post. At first your claim was that Minsky should have known the women were coerced because otherwise they wouldn't have had sex with him. Now that I've refuted your claim, you shifted your position to, paraphrased, "he's a criminal because what he did offends my moral compass".

I didn't shift my claim in the least, you attempted to imply that prostitution is legal. I pointed out that regardless of the fact you're wrong, and it isn't legal, it's disgusting. No goal post was moved, you just keep doubling down on something that is both morally reprehensible AND illegal.

>That's not a valid definition of "sex trafficking", which requires an individual to be exploited and/or coerced to perform sexual acts. We don't know whether Minsky had reason to presume that the women were exploited and/or coerced, and we don't know whether Minsky had reason to presume that the women were minors.

Except it doesn't. In fact the law states the exact opposite of your claim. You're batting 0 trying to defend sexual predators here.

https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2012/787.06

>(g) For commercial sexual activity in which any child under the age of 18 is involved commits a felony of the first degree, punishable by imprisonment for a term of years not exceeding life, or as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. In a prosecution under this paragraph in which the defendant had a reasonable opportunity to observe the person who was subject to human trafficking, the state need not prove that the defendant knew that the person had not attained the age of 18 years.
Sun started the dynamic library fetish. Unix never used dynamic libs prior to that.

If you actually took the time to study plan 9 you would understand the architecture and why dynamic libs are not necessary. The idea is to move that logic into another program where it can run in its own namespace, in isolation. You then use pipes or 9p to communicate between them.
Basically Wile E. Coyote running in the air.
There's all sorts of designs which benefit from being parametrically constrained but need complex curvature. Enclosures for instance. It's so useful to be able to do both in one environment.
What financial incentive is there for drug companies to ever cure anything when instead they can just develop drugs that alleviate symptoms, which you must then purchase in-perpetuity?
Sorry I didn't mean to say that atmospheric methane has not increased. It definitely has, as other commenters have pointed out. However, I contend that most of this increase is likely from other factors. Melting of the polar ice caps, factory emissions, etc.
That's what it must be then, a cultivar that's quite different from its origins.
There are lights in our home that are simply hard to get to, especially in certain cirumstances. I could probably rig up a physical switch with some extension cords (potentially dangerous) or rewire the house (expensive and messy) or I could use a wifi bulb or switch.

And once that was the case, it just made sense to have others for convenience, too. For instance, we can turn off almost every regularly-used light at the same time now when we go to bed. The remaining ones are lights we only turn on for a short time anyhow, so they don't get left on.
Rocket League and root cause misattribution
Are you really making the claim that a simple doorbell switch has higher environmental impact than a Ring doorbell?
I always wondered this:

If you are an external consultant (with no prior knowledge of the company's systems/processes/hierarchies) brought in to "fight" a particular fire, how do quickly get ramped up to a level of knowledge where you can analyze the root cause of/recommend a fix for a particular "fire"?
I think about scala a bit because the second biggest chess website (lichess) is open source and written in play framework/scala. Was interested in learning some scala to help contribute since I play on the site so often

Wonder if they've run into these issues with the language though
Some of my extended family raise longhorns in Texas for tax dodge ("working farm") and social validation reasons. They are definitely obese, redneck Americans who chew tobacco and are months away from their latest stroke, heart attack, and/or cancer.
FBI Warns That Deepfakes Will Be Used Increasingly in Foreign Influence Ops
https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...

Among other examples:

“When I was a teen freshman, I went to a buffet lunch at an Indian restaurant in Central Square with a graduate student friend and others from the AI lab. I don’t know if he and I were the last two left, but at a table with only the two of us, Richard Stallman told me of his misery and that he’d kill himself if I didn’t go out with him.
I felt bad for him and also uncomfortable and manipulated. I did not like being put in that position — suddenly responsible for an “important” man. What had I done to get into this situation? I decided I could not be responsible for his living or dying, and would have to accept him killing himself. I declined further contact.
He was not a man of his word or he’d be long dead.”
—Betsy S., Bachelor’s in Management Science, ’85

His social cluelessness is legendary--no one really disputes it. Why it wouldn't be true toward women as well, I have no idea.

I'm sure you will find a way to dismiss this, but there are plenty of stories out there if you look.
I would be willing to compromise if at least there was a widely adopted set of standard protocols that I could use to interface these devices with my own favourite controller.

Instead it's a mish-mash of bespoke proprietary smartphone apps that have terrible security and privacy practices.
Interesting point. I have also been thinking about how LPWANs could, in theory, be used to exfiltrate data from consumer devices without anyone noticing.
I mean, it would be trivial to hide a tiny Sigfox / LoRa transmitter in kitchen appliances, washing machines, televisions, cars or whatever and claim that you need information like location and how the devices are used for "market research".

It feels like it should be illegal, but I'm not sure if it is or if there are loopholes. Do you, by chance, know of any actual consumer products with covert Sigfox / LoRa transmitters?
I had the misfortune to let my self get sucked into an argument which required me to comb through the California laws on this topic. The laws seemed to me to be a reasonable attempt at a balance.
This is exciting! As a person that has begun writing my own JIRA client (frustrated with JIRA Cloud performance compared to JIRA Server and frankly anything else), I welcome this alternative :)

One little nitpick: something about the video on the homepage makes it look weird - very sharp (non-antialiased) while downscaled: https://i.imgur.com/bNWJAIE.png
I think people will one day demand higher pay for desk jobs over outdoor work. Looking back on my early life, the hard outdoor work was incredibly valuable to me. Desk jobs sometimes were soul-sucking, depression inducing. Not always and my dev work now is desk work that doesn't suck.

Now, outdoor work with a high injury rate is a different story.
Yes. I had an ancient system where the holders of domain knowledge kept either dying or retiring, one by one. I was frantic, but nobody listened to me. The system began to fail on the day I announced my departure. I would later find that one of the previous architects had reached out to my manager to offer assistance, but this was never made known to us. It wouldn't have even cost anything.

Anything but pride, I guess.
The Microsoft Apple II CP/M-Compatible Z-80 SoftCard
"The Z-80 SoftCard is a plug-in Apple II processor card developed by Microsoft to turn the computer into a CP/M system based upon the Zilog Z80 central processing unit (CPU). Becoming the most popular CP/M platform and Microsoft's top revenue source for 1980, it was eventually renamed the Microsoft SoftCard, and was succeeded by Microsoft's Premium Softcard IIe for the Apple IIe."
That's a strawman and a half.

World-improving journalism follows a Pareto distribution where 90% of non-submarine hard-hitting journalism is done by 10% of the journalists and the rest just exist to peddle influence. The industry has been under pressure for a long time due to the death of print media, and substack just represents the 10% cutting the fat.

Good riddance. Learn to code.
Interestingly only about 1/4 of today's emissions are directly caused by all agriculture according to NASA[0]. A decent chuck of modern emissions are caused by other human activities.

> Across the study years, wetlands contributed 30 percent of global methane emissions, with oil, gas, and coal activities accounting for 20 percent. Agriculture, including enteric fermentation and manure management, made up 24 percent of emissions, and landfills comprised 11 percent. Sixty-four percent of emissions came from tropical regions of South America, Asia, and Africa, with temperate regions accounting for 32 percent and the Arctic contributing 4 percent.

[0] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146978/methane-emis...
A couple of years ago, a serial offender food producer was raided, multiple times. 600+ undocumented workers were found, and all spoke of management knowing their status.

The workers were detained, deported, and so on.

After several raids, not so much as a misdemeanor was levied against a single person, nor a fine to the company in general.
"Flatpak fixes that issue by providing consistent builds for every distribution" - aka https://xkcd.com/927/ "Standards"

I get the point of flatpak and I see its value. Personally I just don't need yet another channel through which I need to get stuff. Ubuntu has already obnoxiously fragmented [1], this is just another fragmentation I don't want

[1] chunky@mills:~$ erl

Command 'erl' not found, but can be installed with:

sudo snap install erlang # version 22.3.4.1, or
sudo apt install erlang-base # version 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1
There may be no incentive for the farmer but plenty of incentive for the scientist, the government and the philanthropist.

My conclusions is that GHG from cattle is simply not as big of a deal as the environmentalists would make it seem. Another comment mentions that decaying grass also releases methane so I'm not even sure if there are any accurate numbers on the true effect of livestock on emissions.
See also:

"Other computers—including some lower-priced home machines—featured CP/M capability as an add-on option, although it often required extra hardware to make it possible to run. In fact, way back in 1980, Microsoft’s very first hardware product was the Z80 SoftCard for the Apple II. Users could plug the card into their Apple II computer to give it a Z80 CPU that could run popular CP/M productivity applications."

- https://www.howtogeek.com/718124/what-was-cpm-and-why-did-it...
There is no fundamental need to get energy from fossil fuels specifically, we just have to work at getting replacements for all scenarios.

Nutrition is an entirely different thing. First of all, it is a very fundamental cultural and personal thing. Meat and dairy products have an important nutritional value, which isn't easily replaced, especially not by local foods in many regions. And except for the fossil fuels used in farming (both for meat and plant production), it is carbon-neutral. The problem with it are rather matters of scale and over consumption, so yes, the idea to just reduce meat consumption sounds like a very good idea overall.
What if we built simpler systems that are less prone to security issues, without the cpre assumption that we can 'just patch it up' whenever after it's shipped off?
There is no such thing as a functional programming language
What is 100 active tasks? Is the size of the backlog + working on tasks?
If deep domain knowledge paid off on Youtube people like Ben Eater would be a millionaire from Youtube at this point[0], his videos are so cool and great at explaining computing. Or Clickspring, the guy who made the Antikythera Mechanism [1]. But honestly even for me being a software engineer and someone who considers himself interested in this sort of stuff, I look at these pages sometimes out of wonder but I often end up watching comedy videos and stuff like that on Youtube. The algorithm recommends it, and I watch.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/eaterbc
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML4tw_UzqZE&list=PLZioPDnFPN...
The Venn diagram of IoT devices with reasonable default security and IoT devices that are not proprietary does not overlap at all.

Apple makes IoT devices with reasonable default security, but they're also as proprietary as proprietary gets.
A lot of the problems with Scala echo many of the problems that people used to write about Perl codebases minus specific language quirks like typing and objects. The problem with complex, rich languages is that it doesn't guarantee anything about the wisdom of programmers to pick, choose, and abuse from the features that wouldn't be easily legible to future maintainers.

Somehow Scala has a lot of the issues that I feared would have impacted Typescript by now (yet hasn't) so I'd be interested in comparing and contrast why Typescript isn't perceived as having the kinds of issues Scala does when on paper they sound similar in features and technical challenges.

Having worked on a lot of legacy codebases both creating and inheriting I'm quite interested in practices that balance rapidly prototyping and deploying systems and gracefully degrading when projects lose people and funding. It seems tragic to see so much of the work of our lives thrown away so fast.
> First of all, there are places where a central grid don’t exists. You can think about Africa, but also some rural areas of US.

I'm guessing those areas in the US are more wilderness than "rural." The US has been working on rural electrification for more than 80 years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_Electrification_Act. According to that article, 90% of farm homes were already electrified 62 years ago.
> You know what requires a lot more metals?

I believe the argument is about the refining process and the chemical waste it creates, which is substantially higher when trying to extract 99.99% pure copper, zinc, gold, silver and other industrial elements which are converted into electronics. I'm a hobbyist fan of silver and know just the basics - refining for 99.99% pure silver looks like making crack to my eyes. :) Breaking Bad level chemicals.

I'm to understand the act of creating and "washing" circuit boards also uses a large amount of caustic chemicals, as does the attempted recycling/recovery (to basically eat away the coatings to expose the reclaimable metals). Refining for purity has a high environmental cost to get it from ore -> 99.99% and to reuse/recycle it, I speculate much higher than iron ore (train tracks, etc.) require/use.
Let's assume there is causality. So what? I have the impression people are just bow realizing that every drug comes with a piece of paper, that includes all known, and in a lot of cases potentially deadly, side effects. But nobody stops taking Asperin, paracetamol and other things.

All that was achieved by extensive media coverage of AZ was, that authorities and doctors are kind of obliged to announce every issue with it. And that these issues are just plain overblown. And again hyped by media.
Smallpdf+1.25.0+Crack
Ok, now try to sell an electric car to someone who makes 10K/y or less.

People just won't have cars.
I'm a bit confused about the situation... you've been building software, that they need to run their business for free for two years? It sounds to me like you hold all the cards here. If you don't sell it then they have to pay you an ongoing income or rebuild the software from scratch? Do you know how many customers they plan to obtain over the next couple of years? I'm guessing they plan to acquire enough that it's going to be worth their while to spend the money up front. Either that or they've determined there's a huge risk in them not having control of the software (i.e. you could just shut it down on a whim and destroy their business)

Either way... you seem to hold all the cards. What do you want out of the deal? You say you believe in them... why not ask to come on board and get a sizeable share of the company?
I have never understood why deflation is bad. The money I earn becomes worth more over time? GREAT! I would settle for money that just keeps its value over time. The only side deflation is bad for is the government that uses inflation as a tax.