skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Many see Gates, Dorsey, Ellison, etc as CEOs with certain traits, like nerdy, charming, well-spoken, funny/outspoken/brash, etc, but I don't think they assume they are evil.

I’m really from the other side of the world, then ;) Gates’ 1998 hearings made him look extremely bad; the modern Gates is charming, but so charming it’s made up (people are used to PR stunts, teenage now distinguish ads hiding as memes very quickly, same goes for any PR stunt); Dorsey is seen as quite evil for those who know him in my circles, rather like a Taliban in his last congressional hearing, reminding of Bin Laden: https://media-vanityfair-com.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/media.va...

I reckon beautiful hair can have a lot of impact on perception. Philosophers have long hair. I’ve also read somewhere that we intuitively estimate people’s intelligence to the size of the displayed forehead (Some Slavic haircuts with hair down, have negative prejudices associated), and maybe a part of your point about Zuckerberg’s haircut is doesn’t display a large enough forehead.

Superficial, but masses have collective behaviors.
> basically native running computation at edge is a really cool concept

What are some real world use cases for this? I'm surprised the Cloudflare product team is prioritizing working on WASM module support instead of like... querying from a database through a way other than `fetch()`.
The person I replied to was explicitly talking about people who already have a desktop computer setup at home. I guess for a few of them that desktop might be used by a partner or children during the day, but in the vast majority of cases it would sit idle.
I think GPL software can be USED for any purpose, but has restrictions on redistribution.

Many of these other "open source" licenses have restrictions on who can use and how the software can be used. They're basically created out of fear to prevent competition.
> armchair engineers who think they're gonna solve this better than billion dollar companies

There are 2 types of armchair engineers.

The ones who sneer and say, "If they just <x> then it would be fixed because I know best" Those people are bores.

There are others who are just tossing ideas around: partly for amusement and partly because they enjoy thinking, "What would I do in this situation ...?"

I haven't seen too many bores in this thread.

I don't think this latter group _seriously_ thinks they know better than experts, and I have found the various ideas and counterarguments interesting to read.
You gotta stick the state somewhere. OO isn't the panacea it was sold as, but it's worked out pretty well for a lot of software.

Still, this quote is hilarious:

"Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California."
--Edsger Dijkstra
Microsoft Is in Exclusive Talks to Acquire Discord
Part of me wonders if the idea is not so much that the one excavator is trying to free the ship, but rather that the digging is exploratory to understand more about how the ship is stuck and test whether excavation is a practical solution.
Sqrt() is a subscription service if you want more than 2 decimal points
Are there other indications that there isn't more equipment involved? Usually photos for "news" content are very carefully composed/cropped/selected for impact, not factual event reporting.
My father drove a '95 F-150 for years that had the dual tanks. Shortly after highschool I got in accident that ended up totaling my vehicle and got a couple months I was using his truck (he runs an Auto repair shop from a garage behind the house so he almost always had something available to drive) and I ended up using it to go out on a date with someone I had met at work.

I noticed on the way to pick them up that the truck was running on empty in the main tank but I checked and the aux tank was full. Then I remembered the first time my dad let the tank run down and start sputtering down the road and decided to keep going on the empty tank.

Make it to pick them up and start heading down the highway(where we were it was a good 3-4 miles to the nearest gas station) and then the truck finally started to sputter. I proceed to play along with it pretending to panic for a good 20 seconds and then I turned and saw the look on their face and couldn't help but start laughing. Switched to the aux tank and when the truck started running again I turned and and the look I was getting indicated I was being mentally murdered. Then they punched the crap outta my arm and started laughing and calling me not so nice things.

Ended up being an awesome night out with someone I'd end up being friends with for a long time. It's weird how this kind of random conversation in an unrelated internet post can drag you way back down memory lane.
Here's my idea. I'm not an engineer.

First, hook up several tugboats. Second, put a couple of big ships on each side of the Ever Given, maybe a couple miles out. At the count of 3, the big ships haul ass towards the middle. It creates a huge wave that floats the Ever Given up away from the sand, and the tugboats pull it out.

It might be slightly dangerous.
An embedded DB with an optional network protocol, but without raft, replication, etc, seems "normal" to me. Raima used to be popular in the 90's and was pretty much that. It's still less to manage than MySql or Postgres.
and... and... what?
The thing you are still missing is that no matter how you set your alarms, by the time you respond the disk can still be completely full.
Why? ...because Joe Armstrong is some random cynical nobody without a leg to stand on? :raised_eyebrow_emoji:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Armstrong_(programmer)
This is honestly such a disappointment. I used to appreciate your thoughts on a lot of issues and particularly loved that you were in the intersection of haskell and harry potter fanfic.

Venkatesh Rao is generally contentless and writes long winded tracts that don't actually make any kind of coherent argument for what they're saying.

Do you really think Stallman's long history of sexual harassment is because he was too gosh-darned oblivious to realize he shouldn't be doing that?
This isn't exactly "Oh he maintained eye-contact for half a second too long and the thought police are after him" territory jfc.
This is the raw tape from a piece ABC did, it did air but edited down a bunch. It's only rare because the site it's on requires Silverlight! Funny how that happens.

I've got a bunch more raw ABC tapes uploaded like Frank Zappa talking about Larry Flynt, 2 hours of b-roll of E3 1995, and an Atari Car Chase simulator being demonstrated to police in Miami.
Years ago I worked as a research assistant for a university. One day, my boss (a professor) pulled me aside for an impromptu meeting. "I have $5000 left in a research grant I need to spend this week or else it's gone forever – do you have any ideas of what I should spend it on?"

Unfortunately I couldn't think of much. I suggested maybe we buy some more computers with it but I'm sure he'd already thought of that himself. I don't know what he ended up doing, but I'm sure he'd have decided to buy something with it rather than just losing it entirely.
> You just write code

Except you need to do it in a totally new paradigm (serverless) where you can't require any `npm` packages and you can't query your database unless it's over the `fetch()` API.
Why? Out of malice and ignorance? No other country in the world ramped up masks immediately. People put too much stock in the presidency, a position held for 8 years max, and too little stock in the massive systems decades, or hundreds+ years old with incredible inertia that are really responsible for 90% of what happens in the world.
I see that you tried to look for a calculator app for iPad (no, there is still no built-in one).
Surely there’s one somewhere else in the province. Who cares what it might cost to buy and truck there?
Thanks, this added extra insight for me
>How do you destroy a 1300 ft ship with 20k+ TEUs of cargo on it?

A smaller less stuck ship or barge you don't care very much about full of explosives.

And you don't need to destroy the whole thing, just shred and distribute the part that's in the canal enough that it's no longer an impediment to navigation. Sure you might be left with 30 big chunks but 30 big chunks can be picked up with conventional marine construction equipment. If the bulbous bow is still buried in the sand then whatever, you don't care.

We're talking about a Mont-Blanc sized explosion here. Definitively messy but with modern engineering I think you could whip up a directed blast that ensures the task is accomplished without unnecessarily digging a hole or some other dumb side effect.
Really?

Literally no person, anywhere, regardless of background, history, technical capability, history with free software, networking or speaking ability, is capable of acting as ambassador for the Free Software movment in the same capacity? Only RMS?

You realize he's a mortal human, right? Because if your premise is that no one else can ever be worthy to replace him, your conclusion must be that the movement will die with him.
Hey, that's an incredible amount of force, it's too risky, not to mention it will impact the local ecosystem, and uh, stuff!
Because of the non-trivial risk of holing the hull and sinking the thing?
>You're basically asking to build a port in the middle of the egyptian desert.

No. Helicopters. 10 helis, 1 container/sortie, 10 sorties/hour = 10000 containers in 5 days.
The author gives some technical information in this Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple2/comments/mbrh2f/playing_vide...
Is Obama Black?
Rutgers says all students must be vaccinated before returning to campus in fall
Well no matter what side the excavators are on they can get to the blockage..
It's not about eliminating state it's about hiding it. OOP hides state, which means mutability is often shared and hidden.
But your first part of the paragraph (that "nearly" applied to) was the US government. Yet you seem to think the fault lies with the media and the Democratic Party. Who had control of the Senate in 2020? Who was in the WH in 2020? Who ran the CDC, and the COVID efforts? All GOP, all Trump appointees. He gets no pass because the pharma companies had been looking at mRNA vaccines for quite a while. We are very fortunate.
The Open Notebook: The story behind the best science stories
It's not an av issue, at least not on my machine.
Maybe I'm just a sub-optimal code monkey, but a lot of what TFA advocates for seems bananas. Most egregious was separating function names from the opening bracket for their arguments.

I don't want to start a fight about that, but I do want to draw attention to the paradox that the "optimal" readability is so jarring to read.
I very rarely have more info on things i write that start with "For me it seems" ;-) Sorry.

By the way the relationship between weirdness and bullying is not my core point, even if i am implying that bullying is a common cause of "social maladjustment" as dragonwriter calls it and warn parents to not idealise and make cute ("little geek") signs of serious social problems. Please do not set that as equal with geekiness in general.

My core point is that i consider the implication that there is some entity that intentionally constructs stereotypes, actively promotes their fitness towards fields of research and thereby drives women and normies out a completely ridiculous conspiracy theory. Instead it seems likely to me that weird boys took a very over-proportional interest in computer science because it matches a lot of the other things they had going on in life. I am sorry that i can not cite any studies that measure the resonance effects between weirdness, bullying, social maladjustment, neuroatypicalities, geekness, disabilities, preferred selection of toys, especially electronics and video games, friends and interests at child age, gender and the later chosen field of study.
If Apple Arcade is any indication, it's very clear they don't understand video games.
There are now cars where the heated seats are a subscription service.
https://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2020/07/bmw-wants-to-tur...
Is it possible someone is blocking the canal on purpose? For some geopolitical reason maybe.
Document, train so others can pick up where you’ve left off, and then skip town.

If something gets lost in progress, it’s not your fault, it’s your company’s fault for not making sure there was coverage.
No. It's about not needing a car. Also, as many mentioned here: in Europe and U.K. you have less dense areas or small towns where you have everything you need there. While in some places in US you might only get groceries in a 30 min drive to Walmart. Changing a 30 min car drive to a 45 min bus ride doesn't solve the problem.
Fyi... the previous submission 2 years ago attracted 380 comments and the top comment says Joe Armstrong changed his mind on some of it. Apparently, the original blog post is actually dated 2000 and not 2019.

HN's "past" link: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Why%20OO%20Sucks%20by%20Joe%20...
I’m thinking a complex series of pulleys and chains set up and attached to the Great Pyramids of Giza and then like a tooth tied to a string and door - attach the chains to some of Elon’s rockets and pull that ship loose.
Yes, and if the average user really needs it from time to time, they can use + several times.
If everyone around you says "do you smell onion?" then reevaluate
Fantastic job - this is probably the only time I've seen a "code replacing humans" tool and thought "this could actually work".

I think a lot of commenters here are not quite getting the use case for these kind of summaries. As I see it, it's not that an automatic summary is more accurate, or more complete, than an investigation by a human engineer - it's that the summary lets you resolve issues much faster and with less of a requirement to remember obscure implementation details.
okay, got it. So that's totally infeasible. what if we "only" had to fire it into the nearby Suez Gulf?
Plus: free bridge!
Superstition: "A belief, practice, or rite irrationally maintained by ignorance of the laws of nature or by faith in magic or chance."

Islam passes with flying colors because it isn't superstitious.
So was the "ass and dick pic" the ship apparently drew via location tracker, that was posted on Vice, proven to be a hoax?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkdjzb/cargo-ship-suez-canal...

Because if this is real, it puts "accident" in a whole new context for me...
We will build a 100% free software virtual-RMS. We have the technology.
This is all thanks to ABC archiving everything, not an employee saving a tape. However that does happen sometimes at other networks.

ABC and WGBH/PBS are some of the better ones you can find almost full digitized archives of online. Other broadcasters like NBC didn't save tapes until 1980 (multiple Late Night with Letterman episode masters being lost as an example). CNN is another somewhat bad one, they literally threw all the masters to their theme music in the dumpster, but an employee saved them all. They have an internal archive of tapes as well as the "CNN Collection" but it's spotty.
A good explanation of what's involved in fixing the situation by gCaptain (video - 25m)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqLcplXYHdA
and sometimes CSVs sent by mail on a set frequency (by a bot i'm guessing?)
I think the problem is that you do not need 100% of your budget every year, but getting it back when you do need it is much harder than keeping it in the first place.

Definite case of misaligned incentives.
Because it's not https.
I mean, OO isn't impervious to this: "Where is the factory to create this object?" "Where are the factorIES that create this object???" "Where is the service to perform this action on this object?" "Where is the manager that coordinates these objects????"

This can be solved with some knowledge of DDD (for example) which applies to both paradigms.
It always amuses me how much specialists in one field think that their expert status is transferable to other fields.
It adds 12 days to their journey to go around
> 10 helis, 20tons each, 10 sorties/hour = 200k ton in 5 days.

Among the many problems with this calculation is that shipping containers can't be freely subdivided and recombined, and can have a loaded weight over 30 tons.

EDIT: And to address the crossing edit:

> 10 helis, 1 container/sortie, 10 sorties/hour = 10000 containers in 5 days.

...and the heaviest-lift helicopters can't lift 30 tons.
Hah that would be incredible. Build something so long that a small child in China steps on it and WHOOSH out goes the ship thousands and thousands of miles away! We'll use the peak of Mt. Everest as the fulcrum!
Regardless, removing cargo and/or dredging around the ship is gonna be tons (literally) less work (literally).
>you're advocating unnecessary force.

I don't think this was the intent of the comment you're replying to. Personally, I interpreted their position as exactly the opposite: they're very anti-unnecessary force, and frustrated that we can't implement a compassionate system to deal with the problems at hand.

> when faced with a "crazy" person, it'd be better to control your own fears and realize that that person is quite unlikely to be a threat to you. control yourself, not others, and default to compassion and humility under uncertainty.

As a woman, I appreciate the empathy here, but question the logic. I cannot "control" the fact that I have breasts. The multiple times I've been agressively groped by homeless men has been entirely out of my control. The threats of assault I've received when ignoring catcalls were also out of my control (and luckily the homeless man who charged at me and threatened to stab me was held back by a good samaritan, because I assure you, that situation was entirely out of my control.)

Homeless people are harmless 99% of the time. But when you pass 100 homeless people every day, that 1% genuinely does matter.
Alan Turing Honored as the Face of the UK's New 50-Pound Bank Note
They might also be short on people they trust with doing that job.
This is all great insight. Thank you so much!
I’ve always wondered what something like this costs and who is responsible for paying the bill?
I think it takes 5-6 weeks.
From TFA:

Shipping experts said that if the canal can't be cleared in the next 24 to 48 hours, vessels plying routes between Europe and Asia may be forced to divert around Africa — adding up to 12 days to the journey.
World’s largest dredging boat: Queen of The Netherlands
The site redirects you to https.

EDIT: Firefox redirects to https.
Better than my idea which was to bomb it and then clean up the pieces.
What history, exactly, is being preserved? If I fix a bug before I commit, then I’m okay. If I commit the bug, then commit the fix, then squash, all locally on my own machine before I push anything, I’m “lying”?

You don’t want the ability to edit your own mistakes before showing them to other people, even if you find them before you push?

Fossil is not capturing my pre-commit keystrokes, so I can write code and delete it without turning it into a ‘transaction’. Is that lying?

What’s sacred about my local branch before I push? In practice, nobody rebases things in public branches except by accident or to fix big mistakes. Rebase is almost entirely a local pre-push workflow. Why should I be preserving my local pre-push history, and why are you calling that “project history”?

If “project history” is so sacred that all commits should be declared immutable, how do you suggest fixing accidents like someone checking in SSH keys? Is it impossible to fix security accidents in Fossil? If so, is that good?

Why is the word “lying” being used instead of saying something like “the project’s history of transactions is being changed”? Do you think the phrasing is not intentional? Do you believe it’s good faith to accuse tool writers and tool users of being deceitful for just using a tool the way it’s designed? Do you believe the write up on rebase is impartial?
> Using some old numbers for concrete pours in Ireland (2016 era) per cubic metre, that's 7.5 million Euro worth of concrete.

A sister comment mentioned 400$ million per hour worth of trades being blocked by this, so the cost of this would probably recouped by the time the order is cleared.
Same here. Dug in a little and found that it's using a self-signed certificate. From an e-commerce site I might be worried, with this one I'm assuming the site is making a political statement about the centralization of control of trust on the internet.
Smalltalk Documentation
Is there a current Smalltalk implementation with decent documentation? I have tried most of them (including the commercial versions) and the documentation of non standard parts, such as graphics, is miserable. If you know of one, let me know.

I have learned quite a few programming languages, and have to say that the current Smalltalk documentation is among the worst. Available Smalltalks and good documentation don't seem to go together.

It is sad to say that the only decent Smalltalks with documentation that I have tried only run on Windows 3.1/DOS! They are Visual Works 1.0B and many versions of Visual Smalltalk, both of which I run @ 2.9 GHz.
A Mi-26 should be able to do it. Unloading a container ship with a heavy-lift helicopter is probably cost-prohibitive though ;-}
The canal is only so deep and so wide. Build a caisson across the canal that is maybe 3m higher than the banks, and pump water into it.

I write software and have no experience doing what I'm suggesting.
This calculation only gives the amount of power needed to cancel gravity. It's the minimum power needed to move it up, even if that's just a millimeter.

If you actually want to accelerate it upward to any meaningful speed, you'd need even more power.
You could unload it using crane ships, and just leave the containers in heaps on the bank of the river, but it could take weeks because that thing is filled to the brink. Any way you look at it there's not an easy solution in sight.
I don't think that's correct. I curled it just to make sure and wasn't met with a redirect.

Edit: Ah, firefox redirects you to https. I'm using chrome.
This reads like someone using functional arguments to disparage OO. It also sounds like someone who hasn't written enough OO to understand its benefits.
Ask HN: Getting into Software Development from a Philosophy Background
Hello HN,
I'm asking this question to help a friend. Her situation is that she's located in Eastern Europe and finished a bachelor's degree in Philosophy. Although she really enjoyed the subject as expected she finds herself unable to find a job in anything but sales/customer support which she doesn't like at all. Her current job is as a data annotator in a very small AI startup.

Through that job, she came into brief contact with Python and found out that she's interested in programming. She had a taste of using fast.ai to use some pre-trained models for the wow factor and started training on online platforms to learn the basics of coding. However, she gets very discouraged by the fact that she doesn't see a possibility of being able to ever get into Software development professionally because all companies in Europe require a cs degree to hire you. Also the company she is working in is not willing to invest time and effort to help her grow in that regard, since that's not why they hired her . Finally she's not in the financial situation to pursue another bachelor's at this point in her life.

Ideally she would like to do a master's degree or some kind of bootcamp to get her foot in the door.

Has anyone been in a similar situation, coming from a non STEM background? What would you suggest?
The creator could transfer the copyright to an irrevocable trust with the mandate of distributing royalties to the NFT smart contract.
same alternative there always has been: functional programming

no, it won't make coding any better

yes, we'll keep hearing about it forever
I wonder, could you liquify the soil around the buried part of the ship by pumping air into the surrounding areas?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_liquefaction