skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Their cover-up of the true scale of the problem (lab leak or not) made it hard for politicians in other countries to lock down quickly. It helped it spread intentionally to multiple countries and by then it was too late.

I disagree. The actions from a lot of countries were absolutely lacking, even when they could see how bad it was given both China's data, and Italy, Israel's initial incidents.

China locked down super hard towards late February/mid-March.

During this time there was countless reports about the "ridiculous" and "draconian" lockdowns that occurred in China. The West basically pointed fingers, laughed, and said we'd be fine. And yet they're still not.

> If they were blasting their sirens early in 2021 instead of covering it up we might have had swifter border closures etc.

I agree that even earlier warning would have been good. I just don't see it changing anything. Countries only started to take it seriously when it really started to affect them. They didn't want to risk a political/ financial hit on taking the measures that were needed, and they paid for it.
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At scale software stops being a technology problem and becomes a people problem. And groups of humans don't scale.

We naturally organize into hierarchies of small subgroups with limited interaction boundaries. Each subgroup will adopt slightly different methodologies, have different tooling preferences, will have integration and communication overhead with others, and so on.

This can not be preventend, only mitigated. Which is perfectly fine. The important step is recognizing that software development is really not special [1], and that the limiting factor is the human element. Then you can build your organizational structures around these restrictions.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713139
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Global inequality going down, inequality going down in continental Europe, and Latin America. Inequality increasing in anglosphere.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2018/07/Top-Incomes-768x5...

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/income-inequality-in-lati...

https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality#global-income-i...
Ideas can explicitly not be patented.

"A patent cannot be obtained upon a mere idea or suggestion. The patent is granted upon the new machine, manufacture, etc., as has been said, and not upon the idea or suggestion of the new machine. A complete description of the actual machine or other subject matter for which a patent is sought is required."

https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics
Because leftist used revolutionary terror to achieve their goals as well.

It's not whataboutism if they have a history of doing it.
Yeah, big data these days should be petabytes of data or at most high hundreds of terabytes coupled with very intensive access patterns.
You are leaving out the option of just licensing the patent. If you are lucky they will license it to you for free.
How does FLoC compare to prior forms of tracking? I thought the point of federated learning was to improve privacy by obscuring folks' data amongst a cohort of others, like Tor (or firing squads...)
Or someone else making snarky comments like this in response. Let's not pretend that the problem of people being brainwashed into extreme beliefs and even acting on them inside the various echo chambers of the internet is limited to any particular demographic. It's one of the elephants in this increasingly digital room of ours that achingly needs addressing.
Surely that can be easily waved away in the minds of an ignorant by saying it's just a shiny rock, crashed satellite, ice patch or some other silly nonsense.
you fail to realise that you are the one paying for it in the end - blindly hating innovative companies who make amazing products just because they make too much money for your liking is quite immature
I’m just so glad that the bus analogy has made it to an Ars Technica article. :)
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Paolo has made a great job right there.
In X11, every client is equal.

In Wayland, the compositor has special standing.
For instance, KWin will only allow the currently active window to paste.

There is more information here: https://phabricator.kde.org/T4449#192501
My guess is he was provoked by Amazon taking Parler off their servers.
Sometimes I feel like there are two worlds in IT: the one you encounter on a daily basis, and the one you read about on HN. The only thing consistently "terrible" about both of them is the often expressed lack of humility towards solutions you don't "like", or more often, actually, solutions you don't understand.

Gottfried Leibniz suffered no small amount of flak for his conclusion that the reason the world looks the way it does is because it's already "the best of all possible worlds": you may think you see an improvement, but you lack divine understanding and therefore you don't see how it would actually make things worse.

While this is in my opinion a silly idea, I think most people who work in tech could use a bit of humility influenced by this line of thought: if a solution exists today, and it has yet to be replaced, it's at least possible that it's over all the best solution, and the reason you're not seeing that is because of a lack of understanding.

Of course this is not always true, but if nothing else it would lead to more interesting discussions than those stemming from someone saying "if you're not using Kubernetes you're a moron" and another replying "learn how to sysadmin and you'll realize you don't need Kubernetes in the first place".
That's the scary thing. How many real, core contributors does even something like the Linux kernel have? People who have actually written more than a couple patches that landed and stayed in the kernel. I'd be astounded if it's much more than a hundred.

Most open-source projects have one to maybe five real contributors, outside the drive-by pull requests to fix some bug.
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I’ve often found that these lead to a hoarding exercise rather than a learning one...

I’m sure I have a folder of PFFs somewhere collecting digital dust.
> If they told me it would cure Alzheimer’s, I’d make a mental note to ignore their opinions in future.

Quick thinking has its place, but wouldn't you care why the person believes that? The anecdata about your family history isn't any more credible, if that's all we have to go by.

I think quick think should be addressed with slow think. By thinking speed I'm referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
What a jewel of a comment. One could not ask for a more succinct elucidation of the term "culture war". Truth should never be subsidiary to tribal loyalties. Lies are never noble.

The world would be a better place if we opted for Option C: embrace the truth. And if you must fight "bad guys", fight what makes them bad instead of gaslighting them.
Mass Extinction Event on the Horizon If Marine Life Keeps Fleeing the Equator
This is part of the reason microservices are becoming reasonably popular. They facilitate scaling people. If you think about it one of the biggest projects we have, the military, scales through assembling near-identical pieces structurally (but not functionally, an artillery unit has a totally different role to an infantry unit).
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Languages you must know #4 (FORTH)
FORTH.

One word says it all.

FORTH is a (really) stack-oriented language. It lives and breaths stacks.

FORTH is a small language and is easy to learn. It is centered around "words". There is a set of standard words but you almost immediately learn how to create your own words.

This language is completely dynamic. Every word lives in the dictionary. Your words can overwrite standard words. The "self modifying" aspect of this language is that it enables and encourages you to create "words" that do exactly what you want. A FORTH program is truly unique to the task at hand.

The fundamental "must learn" idea is the "threaded-interpreted language model". Words invoke words which invoke words... it is "kittens all the way down".

"Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation"
by R. G. Loeliger is a must-read book. These ideas don't show up elsewhere.

FORTH can be implemented in 4K (that's kilobytes).

This is a language that "isn't a language". By that I mean it is one of the "clay-like languages, such as Lisp". Language shapes the way you think. Clay-like languages shape themselves to your thoughts.

Most languages suffer from an "impedance mismatch". They are like linking a firehose to a soda straw. Your "problem" has to move to the language. FORTH (and Lisp) simply shape themselves to the problem. They are "clay for the mind".

FORTH is a way of thinking. Indeed, "Thinking Forth" is another must-read book.
(http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/tf-kindle.pdf)

FORTH is a "must know" language.
> Was “meme” a word in use in English in 1997 already?

I would assume so. Susan Blackmore's popular science book on memetics was published in 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meme_Machine
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“Max loan amount you can borrow is cost of attendance determined by the school”
The sub groups are going to be somewhat homogeneous internally. So you will end up with a group who thinks leetcode profeciency is important in hiring and another group who thinks QA experience is more important and another group who thinks diversity is the most important. All those groups think they are right and better than the other groups and they don't work well together.
I won’t review or write for Elsevier and other commercial scientific journals
The federal government is literally letting schools name their price, paying them up front, and then wondering why tuition rates are out of control.
The URL has been screwed up ... this is the right one:

https://media.kuketz.de/blog/messenger-matrix/messenger-matr...
Chaotic Neutral.
You can hardly expect people to talk about all the maintenance they did in their performance review
That's the problem with crazy people, they don't realize their ideas are out of bounds.
We are now seeing the limits of everything, USB2/3, Gb network (pushing beyond increases complexity to a ridicoulus amount), Gflops/W (2 is CPU peak for electronic transistors) and persistence (the most durable drives where made 10 years ago on 50nm).

So now we know that one man can build, host and improve/maintain a product himself with the entire earths population as customers.

This is a short window, before thermodynamics takes charge and ruin the prospects, enjoy it while it lasts!

The first one to do Minecraft without hiring anyone or selling it wins. :P
+1. I’m a paid up user of Email Alchemy, it’s one of those sub-50USD apps that pay for themselves with one job / client, especially where Outlook is ancient and inexplicably still working.
For completeness sake, can we also say:

* There is no evidence that the virus originated with imported frozen seafood.

* There is no evidence that the virus originated with US Army personnel who were present for the Military World Games.

* There is no evidence for the "multiple origins theory" that the Chinese government is currently promoting.

The wet market origin theory would be more plausible to me if not for the fact that SARS-CoV-2 was found all over surfaces there but not in a single live or dead animal. That seems to indicate that it was merely the location of an early superspreader event and not the true origin.
Yes fair enough - sorry for de-railing. Mine would be:

* Bars of soap rather than liquid soap in plastic bottles

* Re-use plastic shopping bags to put waste in rather than buying black-bags

* Pushing for WFH as much as possible (cutting down on a 60-mile round trip each day)

* Keeping my smart phone for 3+ years (I see no need to buy a new one every year). It's always the battery that dies first.

* Keeping old PCs and laptops running for friends and family

* Paying extra to our local council to collect and use our green-waste (food & garden waste)

* Batch cooking + freezing

* LED all the lights

A lot of these are done because of the financial benefit (they just have the added bonus of being "green").
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There's an unstated premise here that the market doesn't force some people's choices on other people. I doubt that that's true - especially when competition is limited.
There are limited alternatives currently, and this discussion contains plausible scenarios by which huge companies could use their power to limit even further those alternatives, and the choice available to us.
Maybe a large US city is less of an ideal than say a medium sized Swiss one...
That's not good. Not good. A question: How often does the 5500XT causes kernel panics. I have been running mine for 4-5 days straight and still have no issues (beyond the xwayland tearing).
Have you tried reading the rest of my comment? Reading may help you in other areas of life as well...
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Health, intelligence and facial symmetry do seem to be linked to the absence of deleterious mutations so yes it may well be that the children of wealthy people benefit, in the farther future. I don't foresee any particular harm, since the standard arguments apply: what starts as luxury eventually becomes accessible to all with the rich having paid the development costs.

Also consider that since the industrial revolution child mortality in the West has declined tremendously (thankfully), so it's possible that our genomes have accumulated mutations presently unknown which will need to be deleted at some point. Better done via gene-editing tech than via the cruelties of natural selection or eugenics.
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> their industry has fewer people earning less than they did 10 years ago

has fewer people and they earn less, not fewer people who earn less.
You tell me how those who do not want independence "benefits unnecessarily" from such. Curious to know what civil liberties those who seek independence are being taken away from them.
You're assuming this is also responsible for the decrease in targeting quality. Apple and Mozilla have implemented similar anti-tracking changes in ITP and ETP without a similar compensatory system like FLoC and GDPR enforcement is slowly moving into gear hence Google's redesigned consent dialog after their latest fine which puts making an ad tracking decision on the front page.

What advertisers have is going away, whether FLoC gets implemented or not, FLoC is Google throwing the advertising industry a bone so they don't get accused of anti-competitive behaviour by implementing rules in their OS and browser businesses that will affect them less due to all their first party users when customer and regulatory pressure forces them into following Apple
Been following this one. Just think it's telling of how medium prio bugs go unsolved for ages in big software projects.
I don't think it would be a hugely wrong to say both ends of the spectrum think they're "outside" of the normal world. Their world has different rules and morals and thus they would be executing along those.

In their world, you're the one who needs to ask if you're crazy agreeing living your life while agreeing to conditions X,Y, and Z.

[amrchair psychology disclosure]
What's the memory usage like? I don't think Electron is a good choice for a program designed to be run in parallel to demanding other programs like games.
I see your point, but I feel like the non tech informed general public will extrapolate that there was intent to institute racial bias.

However, now that we know what the issue is, ongoing inaction is racist.
I guess (and I have no way to verify this, it's really just a guess) that the number of developers that worked on the Windows code base in its 35 year history is in the same order, if not higher.
I'm a junior SWE and doing maintenance or working with legacy software is a big no for me. I realized this is mainly because I can't see the value these jobs would bring to me so I can't motivate myself.

I wonder, what is the motivation for working with these kinds of systems career-wise?
China slaps Alibaba with $2.8B fine in anti-monopoly probe
I'm failing to see how those genuine matters relate to a coup perpetrated by a minority of (privileged) citizens.
Whataboutism doesnt mean that what was brought up is not true, just that it distracts from the original criticism. The classic example is “Soviet Union has problems? Well, look how the US is treating black people.”
I made the point below and agree that there was no intent in making a racist algorithm. However, now that we know it’s inadvertently prejudiced, not fixing it would be racist.
To be fair, similar applies to paid-for books. I can name two Python books that were pretty bad, yet seemed to be popular.
Sure, but that doesn't explain why employers contribute extra to the HSA instead of having salary deductions.

Btw, once you're 65 you can withdraw money for no reason without a penalty, so it's no worse than a traditional IRA. Too bad deposits are taxed in California.
There are a gazillion ways to develop open source. It's more like an ethos than a methodology.
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Get ready for more of this.

If Amazon hadn’t acquiesced to the left wing (eg. by taking down Parker) there would have been an equal likelihood that a left wing extremist would plot an attack.

Even more so, if a would-be terrorist can see data centers as virtually zero-casualty targets.

Not to mention state actors who will have an easier time „nudging“ domestic actors into „standing up for what’s right“ due to the low moral barrier.
1. You can check the suppliers here: https://utopia.de/ratgeber/oekostrom-tarife-vergleich/ Verivox in Germany for example also has the option "öko plus" to check.

2. I think, I have been very unsuccesful at debating. Many people do not want to change or rather trade freedom now against climate fuckup in the future. It is very frustrating. In my opinion, most people still do not have realized that we have to act now and not in 5 years. In Germany, we already have 2°C, climate change is reality. :(

3. Not really.
https://github.com/racket/rhombus-brainstorming
We need to be clear that domestic terrorism in the US is evenly split between pseudo-Islamic extremism and the far right. Terrorist action from the left currently counts for a tiny amount of this violence.
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That's an interesting point to ponder. In France, there are constant calls to spelling reform and such. Of course, spelling and grammar as they are are incredibly annoying and backwards, but anyone with good command of them can read any text as far back as Rabelais (writing around 1510), and even Middle-Age French such as Villehardouin (writing before 1200) is perfectly readable with some effort (I've done it, without having more than 2 courses in Ancient French, back in the 80s -- you at least need to know that there are declensions, with 2 cases, and how they work -- OK, knowing some Latin definitely helps too :) ), it's getting really difficult IMO only with _Les quatre fils Aymon_ ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Four_Sons_of_Aymon ) and prior works (roughly before 1100).
> A far more effective rule would be government backed paid sick leave. That might actually do something to slow the spread of covid.

We did that, it was called PPP and PUA. But many people were "essential workers" or didn't want to quit their jobs just because we were paying them to.
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How about not tracking users period? Billboard ads and street ads are still things advertisers buy even though they cannot track individuals.
Something like a Thinkpad X1 extreme? Or maybe have a look at the P series - I vaguely remember something like the P51s might fit your bill - the modern equiv. They have a better keyboard than any previous macbook, and up to a 4K screen, up to 64Gb RAM. Shame it doesn't have Ryzen like my 8-core X13 has. Should have all the ports. Thinkpads don't have quite the fit and finish that macbooks do - but they come from a different background/purpose - toughness rather than look/feel. However, more recent Thinkpads are looking smarter these days compared to the bricks of yore (which I liked BTW). My X13 has a magnesium under chassis and glass fibre lid.
It's sad you feel as if you have to apologize preemptively for asking a question.

It is a fair enough question, as there is a certain amount of bilateral support for bombing data centers. There are conceivable justifications for it from many points on the political spectrum.

That said, he talks like a right winger, not like a radical environmentalist or a militant communist.
There is an issue with this, but I am not convinced it is as explicitly partisan as you suggest. I do agree that the definition of political extremist has broadened significantly after this recent election.

Here's an example of similar activity with the "Occupy Wallstreet" people. The maladjusted Muslim youth angle is also well known.

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/how-fbi-...

https://theintercept.com/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrori...

https://mises.org/power-market/libertarian-terrorists

>"Former CIA director John Brennan recently singled out libertarians as among the people the government should go after. This is not the first time libertarians have been smeared. In 2009, a federally funded fusion center identified people who supported my presidential campaign, my Campaign for Liberty, or certain Libertarian and Constitution Parties’ candidates as potentially violent extremists."
Why do you think GCP is worse than AWS? I've used GCP and found it quite easy to start with and the managed instances was a breeze to set up and deploy stuff. I've done it for only small businesses and they were happy with the results too and the easy to use console made things easier to navigate. Maybe the trouble with GCP comes with scale?
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This is true, but on the other hand the laws have gotten so outworldly complicated, that bringing in common people is a counterbalance to this.

And I think patent laws and law fights about them, are a circus already without naive common people.

And talking about circus

Far from perfect and
Microservices may help scaling but tend to come with a fixed amount of overhead which makes them more effort at a very low and low scale. They are also perfect as long as you got the overall architecture right and do not have to make cross-cutting changes because this turns a coordinating people in a team to coordinating people across teams problem.
120 liters @ 700kmh = 17.1l per 100km or 13.7 MPG - not bad efficiency considering taking road the distance would be much longer!
Two of the ones in the list are ours :) Thanks Paolo!

Code with Replit - https://codewithrepl.it - a set of coding projects for beginners

Learn Python the Right Way https://learnpythontherightway.com - an adaption of the more famous "Think like a Computer Scientist" which is my favourite introduction to Python - better landing page coming very soon.

Both are "living" books so we are constantly looking for feedback to improve them. Feel free to reach out if you have any!
Please notice macOS usage as development OS. And we’re talking about emacs as main editor. I wonder how macOS usage plots in general for other programming languages. I’m guessing macOS is in front by far compared to anything else. Now what does it mean if you start thinking M1/ARM paired with unprecedented enthusiasm to make all dev languages/tools ARM supported. Intel is in big, big trouble. I don’t care what investors think (intel hangs on the market well so far). From developer’s point of view intel looks almost dead.