skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are not the only one debugging large apps. How does the wider world of programming debug stuff without actions and reducers?

It’s crazy how the Redux people either always appeal to authority (‘my app is bigger than yours’) or can’t say anything more than ‘I just like it’.

And to play the rhetorical game, what happens when you have hundreds of thousands of lines of insane Redux code where you have lost all sense of the state tree and need to mentally cordon off one single piece of it to not go insane? Kind of like how libraries like this are already doing it.

So here is my challenge to you. Spec out an app that you believe can only be solved with Redux at scale (or rather, highlight the areas of the app that absolutely benefit from Redux, but please provide as detailed a spec as you can if you have the time, or care for that matter). I’d love to hear about this incredible web app.
New Zealand is/was similar. Then in 2019 White Island erupted and killed 22 people and injured a similar number. The injuries have been truely horrific. Skin grafts alone came to a quarter of a million square centimetres of skin for victims.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Whakaari_/_White_Island...

https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/health/118741979/whakaari--wh...
Reading comments https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/ma4mwl/the_absolu... it sounds like he ran into a kernel panic, maybe because cosmic radiation messed with their full disk encryption because they went cheap on the ecc ram, and then he got discouraged, he probably asked management for the resources to rewrite the whole system from scratch, they said no, and then he sat on his hands collecting paychecks for two years until the thing he knew would happen finally happened. How else can you explain an MSP not having a copy of their zone file? That's their core business. It's also no secret in the MSP world how frequently these DNS servers get hacked. I read about it all the time. Especially on Reddit where you can just sense the pervasive fear. So you'd think that'd give a sysadmin a moment's pause to think, OK, have I scp'd my zone file in case that happens to me?
Obviously, but 14x?
Damn, I’ve been an NFSN customer for over a decade, and I didn’t know about this. I would be pleased about it, except that they’ve chosen poorly with the orgs they donate to. SPLC in particular is an ideologically possessed organization which doesn’t fight for justice; rather, it fights to silence those who disagree with their preferred dogma.

This makes me really sad, because otherwise NFSN is a really great outfit.
A few questions I would ask:

- Do you have confidence that you'll be able to continue working from wherever you move to?

- Are you looking at a house or a condo? (It's generally easier to rent an apartment than a house.)

- What are your motivations to buy? There's plenty out there on the financial side. Some of it is even reasonably accurate. However, IMO you should probably be thinking more about whether you want stability and the ability to customize a home or are you wanting to maintain a degree of flexibility if you decide to move somewhere else in a few years?

- Do you know the area(s) you're thinking of moving to? If not, it may make sense to rent for a while while you decide if that's where you really want to be.
Well, yes and no.

Let me start by saying generally I'm 100% with you. I'm a huge fan of capitalism and I think that to get the best of both worlds you need people who demand accountability and action from their government. My view is usually capitalism isn't to blame, lack of the will of the people is.

With that being said, SpaceX is where it is today by partnering with the government for contracts, which helped it build out and develop. I view this as a good thing - government can and should bootstrap companies and industries like this. It's good! SpaceX wouldn't be where it is today if the path forward was just, uh, figure it out... being able to win contracts to deliver value for NASA and the government was/is instrumental to its success and from here it can go on to do additional work for other countries or in the private sector. This means employment for Americans and lots of money spent to push the frontiers of science and space development.

Unfortunately, it seems so much of this has become politicized to the point that it's nonsensical. Depending on who you ask, Elon is a capitalist pig, or a communist getting free hand-outs from the government. It's so stupid.

I think in this case it was a win-win all around.
http://archive.is/nEEiF
I need to work again for about 10 years and then be FI.
>Thanks to its reusable, low-cost Falcon 9 rocket,

Is the Falcon 9 really low-cost or maybe is it that NASA and the American government is indirectly subsidizing the company by overpaying for their launch contracts?

Rocket technology hasn't really changed in decades. Reusability is not a panacea. It increases complexity, decreases safety and much of the cost savings are mitigated by the fact that you have to carry extra fuel for the return back (thereby cutting into the amount of payload you can carry). The space shuttle was reusable and yet, it is generally seen as a disappointment (and I don't believe for a second SpaceX engineers are better than NASA engineers).
1.8 Million to study is not "freaking out".
> Money going into government hands isn't exactly the same as redistributing it down the ladder, though

Because of corruption?
What's the difference if the parents leave a house or leave an investment account that's equal in value to the house?

That investment account will throw off enough returns to pay the rent and then some in most markets, so they're still paying rent to a landlord; they just have a lot more spending money than someone starting from scratch.
> takes me to weather.com I am displeased.

Likewise, but with Google's own search, not safari.
It's not what you thinking. They use this https://www.c-lockinc.com/researchers/products/greenfeed-lar...
> You're conflating different things now: simplicity vs familiarity.

we're talking about humans, you cannot not conflate them.

> When talking about simplicity people generally compare all languages as if one has little or no familiarity with them.

that's a philosophically pointless exercice. Things have to be assessed in their actual, real-world context to bear any relevance !
In Germany, the contents are written on the back of the box.
Winning a suit is one thing - collecting damages is something else.
If I put an ad on there, but nobody clicks it, how is that still relevant?

Anecdata, but the rate at which I google something that I basically want to search on Wikipedia but then don't click through to Wikipedia has got to be about 50%. WP doesn't monetize their site, so maybe not the best example?

I guess this could also be indicative of how people use Google (the search engine proper) now. You need some sort of data(phone number, address, trivia fact), and Alphabet has already scraped the relevant site to pipe in that data.
One approach is to get a sample of code from the domain you want to inhabit, preferably including some from the very people you want to work with, and learn the subset of the language they use.
That's definitely a tendency that you'd expect when sites are engineered for engagement and everybody starts out at google. I guess it also means google completely controls the experience of most people on the internet.
> Is that like asking what stocks to invest in

Yes, pretty much. We are definitely in an asset price bubble but "the [housing] market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" (with apologies to Keynes).

The strategy I have successfully pursued in two cross-USA moves: find a not-too-expensive house in a neighborhood that has some kind of long term value, whatever that means (good schools? close to nature? cultural opportunities?). Remote work is great, but try to be within commutable distance of non remote opportunities in your field as a hedge against future change.

That way, even if the market plunges in absolute terms by the time you need to move again, relative value should hold up? Hopefully?
I mean if he works for a FAANG there’s a good chance he is a millionaire, but not from his YouTube.
2/3rds of my Google searches are:

* current time [city]

* [city] weather

* [city] covid
You cannot really have static binary on modern linux with contemporary glibc.

Unless you intend to break services NSS, that is. Even golang runtime checks for NSS config before ignoring glibc.
> Nice of you to leave off the only remaining sentence in that paragraph:

> (Some of these features are work in progress)

I left it off because it doesn't change anything when talking about the announced goals ?

> But seriously, there's nothing inconsistent here. All the major headings on that page are about distro-agnostic app distribution, build environments, and portability. The fact that flatpak has mechanisms for sandboxing that go largely unused on flathub doesn't mean that flatpak misrepresented itself as secure.

https://docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/sandbox-permissions.html

> One of Flatpak’s main goals is to increase the security of desktop systems by isolating applications from one another. This is achieved using sandboxing and means that, by default, applications that are run with Flatpak have extremely limited access to the host environment.

how can it be written more clearly ?

hell, the first press release has "security first" as headline:

https://flatpak.org/press/2016-06-21-flatpak-released/
What’s a Gadgetbahn?
And what I don't understand is how they can afford these teams off YouTube wages. My only guess is they've figured out how to make non-platform money off their brand (like musicians playing concerts), but for many of them it's quite non-obvious. You can only sell so many t-shirts...
"For reference only" stickers are way easier than cal inspection stickers, you don't have to update them every year.

- AS9100 certified engineering shop.
CEO of Linear here. Happy to answer questions.

We have quite bunch of startups and larger growth companies using us, anything from 3 to 500 engineers, with 100 or 20,000 issues.
Linear is modeled around our experiences building software at Coinbase, Uber, Airbnb etc, from early to late stage and what we see is a modern way to develop software.

We have support for roadmaps, projects, cycles (sprints), custom views, multiple teams, backlogs, list/kanban, and robust search and filtering. Lot more about the features here: https://docs.linear.app/

Linear is also offline first app so all the interactions are instant, which especially key for keyboard shortcuts.
Then that portion of the crowd have to make their own decisions. As I said, uncertainty should also be communicated. How exactly do the authorities handle the issue of long term side effects? Presumably they base their decision on some kind of reasoning?
Thanks for this comment. It would be quite useful to read a more detailed write up extending from your second paragraph here.
That's the post where RMS says "sexual offender" is not the right term for Epstein, and suggests "serial-rapist" instead.

He was right. In fact, Epstein himself declared "I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an “offender.” It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel."
https://nypost.com/2011/02/25/billionaire-jeffrey-epstein-im...
Google provides instant answers for most medical queries, calculations, celebrities, sports, news, weather, how-tos, definitions, reviews, map, shopping, images, etc. Most people don't search outside of queries that google can answer from their own sources frequently so this seems plausible.
I Crunched the Microsoft online documentation
Thats all i have to say
Yev here -> re: fixing the issue - we removed the offending code from the logged in web pages. Rest assured that we have are taking this very seriously internally and we will continue to investigate and provide updates as we have them.
> Reusability is not a panacea. It increases complexity, decreases safety and much of the cost savings are mitigated by the fact that you have to carry extra fuel for the return back (thereby cutting into the amount of payload you can carry).

All evidence points against this. Sure, but you left out the fact that the entire booster comes back to earth. This is absurd.
If Google ever started including copy-pasteable code from Stack Overflow, I might never follow a link from Google again.

Which I think says a lot about how Google is used now. I don't use Google to find web pages, I use it to find an answer to a pressing question. When I'm looking for something to read, I go to a content aggregator like HN or Reddit.

Of course this isn't sustainable. If Google is just presenting other sites' data "for" them, and thus depriving them of traffic and revenue, eventually there won't be any incentive to create the content Google is scraping. Long term, this seems self-defeating for Google, just as its ruinous to the sites they scrape.
what choice do they have, though?
Kirsty Nathoo on Growing Y Combinator
There are complexity limits past which we can't really build or extend applications short of big rewrites. I guess we can describe this in terms of economics but I feel it's not doing the issue justice. And it's often better to spend the complexity budget on domain problems.
I can see some kind of argument that logograms are easier to parse than an alphabet because you can communicate more information in a smaller space, but that's only true if you already committed the thousands (!) of logograms to memory in the first place. This is no trivial task!

The question is if it's worth putting a 5+ year barrier in front of people in order to become fluent in a written language that maybe, possibly, might be "faster" once you are fluent. For native speakers, perhaps that's worth the effort (although there are plenty who argue otherwise). For second-language speakers, I think the answer is almost certainly no.

So bringing it back to Go. Perhaps Go seems more difficult and slow to people who already invested the years required to become fluent with something like C++. I doubt that, but I guess it's possible. But Go isn't designed for that case. It's designed as a second language that any programmer can learn quickly and become reasonably productive in.

If you have a company with 1000 programmers who all know different languages, and you want to start creating good software right now, would you standardize on the language that all 1000 programmers can learn in a couple of weeks, or the language that 100 programmers know inside out and the other 900 are going to spend a year figuring out?
The civil courts are pretty useless if your adversary has no funds and nothing to lose.
Strategic industries are never left to markets. Each big geopolitical power has their own.

Consider chip manufacturing. Why just not let TSMC and Samsung do their thing? Why the US government intervenes and tries to skew the markets.
Exactly. The renters are in a really bad situation as well. There's no way most of the people who couldn't or didn't pay rent for a year are going to have $20,000 to pay back rent, even if there's a judgement against them.
Author here if anyone has questions about vintage IBM integrated circuits :-)
Half of my Googles are literally just using Google as a calculator.
I watch a lot of what I would call "blue-collar" YouTubers. Woodworkers, machinists, makers, electrical hobbyists, etc. When they talk about their income, all of them say that their Youtube ad revenue pays next to nothing. Some of them make a decent living via Patreon or have other ways that for their followers to support them (e.g., selling project plans).

I can say with 100% confidence that none of them went to film school.
It's enough of a seller's market that OP will almost certainly have to rent at/near their destination while house hunting. Last time I moved, it was 6 months of rental while going to open houses every weekend.
Right, I'm not taking at face value the claim that Japan is somehow more prone to these fires.
I'd say so, yes
WFM, Maybe you need uBlock Origin
Those all use alphabets or syllabaries, so it's just a matter of learning a small new set of symbols.
That last "Our Core Work" paragraph is hilarious and straight from 1996. The special mention that Savannah gets makes it double hilarious, since it's the worst code repository software ever created and was already stale in 2001.

If you want FSF to be some sort of "by hackers, for hackers" thing: sure, go for it. If you want anything more: lolno. The FSF is Free Software's worst enemy.
Social Attention: a modest prototype in shared presence (Interconnected)
I think that time was "a while ago" and they're still running because the US doesn't actually care that much about virtual monopolies.
Why did GPLv3 force the embedded Linux community to drop GNU?
Vastly increasing the housing stock by massively building upwards would knock down big city housing costs, but those who currently own real estate will fight that and vote out anyone promoting such a solution. NIMBY. It's a shame, but it is democracy in action. The people who would benefit from lower rental costs need to get out and vote in politicians who will solve the "rent is too damn high!" problem.
My guess is that you're part of an unprofitable long tail. Why optimize for your use case when they can capture customers that bring more money with far less effort?

I wager that most people don't perceive a decline in search results quality. At least not to an extent where they'd notice and switch to using Bing.
A very useful read because the author is brutally honest.

For me, while financially independent, I must have something that gets me out of bed every day - give me too much open-ended time and I wither.

I suspect that a lot of introspection is valuable in order to successfully navigate the withdrawal from typical society.
http://archive.is/3jf0b
Are you suggesting that a web hosting provider is going to open a labor camp? If not, what exactly are you suggesting?
Any body wanting to port the fast float parser in java too ?
https://github.com/fastfloat/fast_float

Lemire's really has made a huge contribution to computer science
Yev here with a brief update on the fix that was pushed out - we removed the offending code from the logged in web pages. We will continue to investigate and provide updates as we have them.
Diodes don't work based on inductance.
I feel like anytime a hobbyist says a Pi is the solution to your IoT or cloud problem, it's because they enjoy fiddling with the errors and getting it work. When it does, I'm sure it's rewarding, but a lot of people have other hobbies that they'd rather spend time on.

It's like telling someone who complains about video game DLC to go skiing. Yes, you might enjoy skiing, but skiing isn't a drop in replacement for the person complaining.
Even with regards to maintaining a degree of flexibility, it might be worth considering if you actually do lose money on closing costs + taxes + value loss than you will on rent, even for a short term. Half or more of every mortgage payment is invested in an asset, 0% of every rent payment is.
Short Version:

- LeanFIRE in 2015 (~30Kish USD annual spend)

- first couple years were great, in the third year cracks started to show

- they and their partner's goals were no longer aligned and they ended up splitting

- OP was diagnosed with a genetic condition that changed their expenses and lifestyle

- Ended up getting a job again at the end, but while "retired" their net worth actually increased by 20%
> the zero-click search problem is likely to rise even more

I have a hard time seeing this as a problem.
Who said it did? Building the tunnel will improve their margins by reducing costs in the long-term though.
I use DDG as my default engine on my phone, and about 50% of the time I have to re-search on Google with g! because I'm not finding what I'm looking for.

That's not to say the results on Google aren't getting worse, because they are, but DDG still has a long way to go.
I always get a kick out of people who think they’re financially independent with such a small stash. Outside some regions with relatively extreme living conditions (e.g. undeveloped and underdeveloped countries), the amount he retired with was never going to be enough to sustain even minor shocks and last the rest of his life.

He had a minor shock (breakup) and a major shock (health condition) and realized this error early enough to have time to correct. Not everyone who follows the “leanFIRE” approach is they fortunate.
If Slashdot gets banned from HN, it will be a sad day.
Hi Philip-J-Fry, thanks for reading and responding! I really appreciate it. I actually totally agree with you—my original title for this piece was actually, "If You Can't Afford to Do It for Free, Don't Be a Creator." (Editors suggested a new title so I deferred, but you can see a trace of it at the URL.)

The problem is, more and more people are turning to this as a viable source of income. In the piece, I reference the tragic death of Mocha, who turned to Bilibili to stream when he had nowhere to work (https://www.inkstonenews.com/society/aching-hopelessness-nob...).

There's some more evidence—say, people trying to calculate how much TikTok engagement they'll need to stream to get Christmas gifts (https://twitter.com/robyncaplan/status/1328432778942312449). That, plus the survey that more children want to become a vlogger when they grow up (https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/american-kids-would-...), is why I wrote the piece.

Of course, dream jobs change as people grow up and figure out feasibility, so I'm not too concerned about that. Plus, I have no intention to squish anyone's dreams, but I was hoping for this piece to do two things:

1. Paint a clearer picture of the economics of platforms, and that—for most people—it's generally a terrible way to make money.
2. Encourage media, platforms, and other creators to share more data and facts, instead of another, "This high schooler made $1 million in 5 weeks on Snapchat." https://people.com/human-interest/snapchat-high-school-senio...

This is an old story. People will know the odds of starting a band and becoming a rock star, and still do it. So I just want to make sure people go all-in on it with deliberation, and that the most marginalized people don't turn to it when they most need it.

Williamdclt put it well: "Well, it's not that simple is it. For decades actors, musicians and artists have been complaining that they have to live in misery to pursue their art and fighting for better conditions, it's not like they've always been OK with the status quo."

If platforms do have an opportunity to better distribute the income for creative work, I think it's worth collective action from creators to put pressure on them to do it. If that means changing the algorithm to spotlight more people's videos, which means the popular videos effectively cross-subsidize them (like a record label would back in the day), I would think it's worth trying.

I did not expect so many comments on this entry, so I'll do my best to contribute—but yours was at the top so I figured I'd start here! Thanks again.
Move Zig for great justice!
Coronaviruses are not really novel, about 15% of common colds are caused by 4 different strains that are endemic in humans.
The US govt isn't the only customer though, if I'm not mistaken they're paying the market price just as everyone else? Sure they subsidise launch prices by creating a market, but they do that for all companies, right? SpaceX doesn't win all contracts.
1. It doesn't, at least for me in Chrome with no extensions.

2. See the guidelines:

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.
FI == Financial Independence
Thanks! Seems like Firefox unfortunately not that good a supporting animations as Safari or Chrome. Need to take in to account when make updates on the homepage