skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
100% agree. To add, even here on HN, pessimism is very much rampant. So many comments here are just about unfairly dumping on an individual or an organization or just pointing out "flaws" by analyzing someones hard work in 10 seconds before writing a comment. I truly believe some of this is due to over-confidence in ones abilities. With the widespread access to knowledge, it is tempting to feel like an expert without actually having any hands-on experience on the topic. Covid has shown that quite amply.

We should celebrate the downfall of so called 'gatekeepers' of knowledge, and average joe's being able to disrupt entrenched players in industries. But at the same time I believe we need to be very humble, and not overvalue knowledge and information over experience and hard-work.
Dell did it differently 10 years ago.
Its d6420/e6430/e6440 support maximum 16G.
correction: https://ziglang.org/download/0.4.0/release-notes.html#Type-B...
I’ll add an alternative answer to the variety you’ve gotten: functional programming is often given a bad name for not really corresponding to the way computers actually work. When you’re writing C, it can feel like the code you’re writing corresponds directly to the actual physical processes and components of the machine.
The more higher level you get, the less you feel that (no Malloc in Java, for example), and functional languages are fully based on a model of computation that isn’t the one we physically have in the real world. This can also lead to speed and memory problems, though I think at this point the compilers for these languages are good enough that this is less of a concern than it may have been.

It’s an interesting example of the Blub paradox [0] as well (Paul Graham’s answer to a similar question, “why doesn’t everyone use Lisp”)

[0] https://wiki.c2.com/?BlubParadox
> You don't think that 600 Ukrainian and western sources only tell one side of the story though?

These sources aren’t exclusively western, e.g. Al Jazeera is based in Qatar.

Another thing, I have some sources outside of the Internets. I personally know a few people who fought the war, and many civilians who fled the war. Their stories match these 600 sources of the English version of Wikipedia.
Require every product to be genuinely UL or ETL listed with traceable certificates in order to be sold in a certain country, or ban them from importation. And then test them; if they fail, revoke certificates until resolved.
point was that for clothing you can avoid returns by trying it on first
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Thanks for pointing out he had to go to court and buy out the original founders to be called a co-founder.

I absolutely agree he has been instrumental to Tesla’s success since he joined as employee number 4 and then took over, but he didn’t start the company and the statement that nobody was interested in or working on electric cars is factually untrue though nobody else managed to bring them to the mass market before Musk.
It will go down if I understood the recent market trends correctly.
The data don't support racism being the causes of the disparate outcomes. That makes it unreasonable to start with the assumption that the "system is racist."

If you want to understand why, I'd encourage you to read Discrimination and Disparities by Thomas Sowell.

Here's one example:

> These various facts might be summarized as examples of racism, so that the causal question is whether racism is either the cause, or one of the major causes, of poverty and other social problems among black Americans today. Many might consider the obvious answer to be "yes." Yet some incontrovertible facts undermine that conclusion. For example, despite the high poverty rate among black Americans in general, the poverty rate among black married couples has been less than 10 percent every year since 1994.

> The poverty rate of married blacks is not only lower than that of blacks as a whole, but in some years has also been lower than that of whites as a whole. In 2016, for example, the poverty rate for blacks was 22 percent, for whites was 11 percent, and for black married couples was 7.5 percent.

> Do racists care whether someone black is married or unmarried? If not, then why do married blacks escape poverty so much more often than other blacks, if racism is the main reason for black poverty? If the continuing effects of past evils such as slavery play a major causal role today, were the ancestors of today's black married couples exempt from slavery and other injuries?

The problem is the language around "systemic racism" cites outcomes as proof of preexisting conditions. That is, it asserts a tautology without presenting causal links, or ruling out other factors as causes.

When you do consider other factors, the detection of systemic racism collapses into one of point-stupidities (bad policies) and fairly ordinary economic forces not subject to racial choice. This is especially so when you start examining things like South Africa during apartheid (which was an example of systemic racism), or America at the turn of the 20th century.

There are a bundle of assumptions rolled up into that term that each merit discussion. If we're going to ever seriously talk about what behaviors and policies we should adopt, we ought to at least get the causes straight rather than leaping to the conclusion that "it" exists.
Indeed, but the race between TSMC and Intel to scale up 200+ MTr/mm^2 processes should benefit us all. Both AMD and Apple have good micro-architectures to produce at TSMC, and Intel is mostly behind on process, so if we can keep that race going maybe we can still have ~2x performance every ~2 years for a while longer. I'm looking to switch laptops and was surprised to find out that after 5 years and as many generations I can be right on track for that performance growth.
Is that about Wikipedia, or more about politics in general?

Another way to put it: is there another source you'd trust more? I'm only familiar with English-language Wikipedia, but from what I've seen, NPOV and other standards mean that the battling factions of editors tend to produce something that does a better job of portraying multiple points of view than most other sources.
Gabe Brown makes money. His neighbor ignores him. What can you do?

It does seem like folks are catching on though. Business can be slow to adapt, especially in agriculture, but farmers are pragmatic. Brown's talks seem well-attended.
I think a lot of this analysis is tautological -- meaning that when you boil it down, you're just saying that things are as you have defined them to be.

For instance, take a Big Five trait such as agreeableness. How do we know that a person is agreeable? Because we define agreeableness in a certain way and then measure the degree to which someone conforms to the definition. If that measurement includes questions such as, "Do others find you easy to get along with?" then of course there's going to be a negative correlation with loneliness, because you've essentially defined it that way.

I am the author of Correlated.org, which commits many different types of statistical errors for humor's sake, so this leaps out at me. By the way, for a surprisingly vast number of things, agreeableness is quite predictive. Food preferences, public policy positions, and even willingness to answer poll questions :)
You're looking at teams like a chat app, but teams is more like a platform that happens to offer a chat feature. Yes, it does chat, but it also does audio/video conferencing, and document sharing, and contact management, and meeting scheduling, and a bunch of other features. And those chats aren't your grandpappy's text-based IRC, they are rich text, with complete archival and full text search, and a graph API to access all of that. On top of that you have the first party add-ons, like Microsoft Viva, which turns it into a blend between a wiki and a social media platform and an e-learning platform. And then you have third party addons, literally hundreds upon hundreds of them, which integrate all kinds of SaaS products right into the teams UI. Frankly it's a miracle teams and slack work as well as they do, given how much they're asked to do.

The reason teams and slack are so much slower than the chat products of old is because they are not the same product category at all. It's like comparing microsoft word to notepad++. Yes, word is clearly an inferior way to quickly edit a plain text file, but obviously anyone complaining about that is missing the point of word.

A fair question to ask is whether we should have platforms like slack and teams. Why are we rebuilding a tiling OS inside of a webpage, and then wrapping that webpage in an electron container, and then complaining that it gobbles up RAM like crazy?
Some more information from the designers here: https://www.arrow.com/en/fiveyearsout/stories/belles-dragon
No, I don’t, but I also don’t really consider him a founder, nor was he the first to have any interest in electric cars (as the OP intimated).
No complaints about previous directors but the organization has really taken off since Cindy Cohn became the executive director.
It must be miserable to use technology with such paranoia.
That's really not the question. Any language that we've all heard of is pretty much by definition a wild success, comparatively. Most languages stay very small.

There are very large first-mover advantages and network effects to programming languages. Programmers want to learn languages existing code is written in; companies want to use languages that lots of programmers already know. Languages that get big for historical reasons tend to stay that way.

Mainstream adoption wasn't the main goal for a lot of functional languages when they were created: the aim was to develop ideas of how programming could be better. The surprising thing, really, is that people write real production in some of these languages, despite how different they are from what most programmers already know. We shouldn't be treating not getting as big as Java as some sort of failure.
These sorts of articles are just terrible journalism.

There are two different programs to help make transport more green. Tax credits for EV, Tesla took advantage of them and so did other companies. These credits clearly had the effect desired by the government of promoting EVs. The benefit went primary to consumers.

Then there are air quality credits that again apply to the whole market and every company has the opportunity to make money on a level playing field. I would think improving air quality is a good thing and they exact type of regulation the left is always in favor of.

SpaceX was private bootstrap and then received a government contract that required them to develop significant advanced spacecraft and launch it 20 times. SpaceX proposal was by far the cheapest and technologically the most advanced. Its not a subsidy its simply a government contract and not an exclusive one. Every single investigation done at NASA or GAO showed that this contract saved the government money.
Here's a thought. When you reach IQ 135 you start becoming "io-bound". But this is a function of the complexity of our society. As our society and technology gets more complicated the "skillcap" will shift upwards, and a higher IQ will be needed for full performance.
That’s true, I think these laws highlight the dangers of substance use. They inform people. We need to do the same for iPhone usage, however, majority of the responsibilities lies on the people - They need to be adept at recognizing the dangers of any addiction and act accordingly.
I've been wanting to build a new desktop with a 5950x ever since it came out, and have been completely unable to find anybody who has it in stock except for scalpers at a 30%+ markup. This is fairly well known information.
Never understood why they don’t just offer RAM at closer-to-market prices instead of giving you a 4GB stick that will get tossed or sit in a drawer unused. Surely they’d rather make $20 on RAM instead of $0? It’s not like they refuse warranty service for unrelated parts because you’ve installed aftermarket RAM. I’d bet they could even get preferential pricing on qty purchases, so in theory it should be cheaper to get RAM / SSD upgrades through the mfg vs aftermarket…
Are authors of these “mandatory vaccine is terrible” not aware that many countries have had mandatory vaccination for things like schools or traveling entry for almost as long as there has been vaccines?
I’d like to do something similar too. I’ve seen many enthusiastic posts on the upwork Twitter account, but every time I’ve tried to look there I’ve seen just very underpaid gigs and some fierce competition from places where cost of living is very low.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about this, just nothing that upwork might be a difficult road, at least until you get enough reputation.

Another possibility is to join things like toptal. It shouldn’t be too difficult, given your experience
Keep in mind that a language like Rust would've been effectively unusable in its current form 25 years ago due to the RAM and CPU requirements by the compiler.

As CPU and RAM increases you can make smarter compilers and generalize things like type inference, bigger compilation units and higher level constructs that rely heavily on compiler optimization for good performance.

Many people think that Rust and C++ are too slow to compile today, imagine what it would've looked like on a Pentium II CPU with 128MiB of RAM!
True, discoverability via docs needs work. But looks like lots of users have picked up the slack there.
Have you tried Upwork?
> Dogecoin is at $0.60. This cryptocurrency was made as a joke. That’s really all you need to know about it.

As I understand it, the dogecoin creator tried to show us how it basically has no value since anyone can create a cryptocoin.

We surely proved him wrong :D.
Except that the modern left that pushes these things is non-theistic (or maybe you mean they are a non-theistic religion?)
Who are you talking to?

I haven't done anything intentionally against gay people
It's actually a "feature." Automakers like to have easily sun-settable, hard to replace parts to quickly remove old cars off the market.

Now, they want to do it even quicker.

DRMed autoparts are a new craze. A tsunami of them is coming in 2021+ cars.

They all now want to do the the John Deere trick. They gave the industry a very bad example to follow.
> Even re-production and communication should be discussed.

I think the most interesting and valuable/useful perspective to discuss this topic from (aside from "the science") is from a human psychology (which is heavily dependent on communication) perspective. Ultimately, actually doing something about climate change (regardless of what the consensus decision of that is) requires political support, and from what we've seen on that front, that seems to be the weakest link within the entire multidimensional problem.

Speaking of human psychology (and communication, and perception of reality), note how quickly moderators were able to memory hole this post - it was on my front page 10 minutes ago, and now it can no longer be found within the first 17 pages of HN. I've seen this phenomenon occur on several occasions over the years, and I don't even check HN all that often, and in each case (of the ones I've noticed) it tends to be particularly controversial topics like this one, where the perspective of the article is "controversial".
Programmers generally pick platforms and not languages. C became popular because of Unix and then Windows. JavaScript came with the browser. PHP came with shared hosting. Go sort of came with the "cloud". Java was made by an OS company, and it got new life with Android. So did Kotlin. Swift is for iOS, etc.

There are exceptions like Python and Ruby, but I think the "default" is that a given language is not popular, and there have been almost no platforms written in functional languages. (anticipating the objection: Lisp isn't functional :) )
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That people still make this asinine argument shows that it has nothing to do with evidence and everything to do with people not liking the person and not wanting to give him credit because they don't like him.
We do tend to maximize device resources in mobile development. The default application type is implemented in native code, battery life is a HUGE consideration, which is really a proxy for CPU, IO, GPU & network efficency and binary size is correlated with how long people keep your app installed. Usually memory usage is very good.

It's just desktop development might as well be legacy development, and the vast majority of people only use their web browser and a few office apps at most. Except games & command line apps, which are also developed in an efficient way, how many apps do you have on your desktop device. Probably barely any compared to your mobile device!

What is being optimized is developer time, productivity and time to market, because if you haven't noticed in the last 15 years, developers have gotten very, very expensive. Inefficent software is purely a business decision. Make something faster than web dev that gets delivered over browsers (flutter is a good candidate) and watch as all new apps all of a sudden become that.
whataboutism?
Python's pattern matching is not the same as Ocaml's. It's a statement, not an expression. But I like your line of thinking. Create a variant of python with ML like features without sacrificing compatibility too much.

An effort in this direction is a transpiler I'm working on. So far it sticks to a strict subset of python3. But I'm open to incorporating ML like features in an incompatible way if there is a compelling argument.

By sticking to a statically typed subset we've already given up some compatibility.
TLDR: Micro services offer a REPL like experience for application architecture.
The way I see it, micro-services are the architectural analogues of functional programming. They let me build pieces of an application similar to a function, including tests and debugging in isolation without the fear of unintentionally messing up data somewhere.
This similarity to functions even extends to how micro services are used, calling their API's with keyword arguments e.g get post name id json etc
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At this point, if you lost money on cryptocurrency, you must be doing something seriously wrong.
My descendants will never need to be preoccupied with proving themselves to anyone, especially people who might otherwise compare them to cancer cells. Praise from others serves no useful or necessary function when they prosper regardless.
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I disagree about the safety tech.

There are some situations where it’s great, but those features make the driver feel a false sense of security. Let the people feel like they’re entirely responsible so they’re more careful.

For example, widening the roads in the suburbs used to seem like a great idea - more space, less accidents, right? But that’s untrue. Narrower streets with trees blocking visibility on the sides are actually safer because the driver is forced to be more aware [1] [2].

Another good example is road markings and street/stop signs. Surely, having street signs and lane markings is safer right? Well, this is early on, but at least on city streets, it appears that’s not true either. [3] [4]

Now, to your point, it does appear that automatic car safety systems do make cars safer right now [5]. But those types of things are pretty new, so I wonder how long it’ll be until they have the same fate as those other safety innovations of the past. Where taking them away will make driving safer because people feel personally responsible, so they drive slower.

[1] https://www.thecalifornian.com/story/news/2015/06/14/studies...

[2] https://www.cnu.org/publicsquare/narrow-streets-are-safest

[3] https://gizmodo.com/this-street-has-no-lanes-signals-or-sign...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/22/world/europe/a-path-to-ro...

[5] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/car-insurance/vehicle-safety-...
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The article is from 2015, but nothing has changed.

Realistically, I think the US University experiment does a good job teaching this with first-hand experience. Giving a kid significant access to money they'll make in the future, surrounded by positive and negative opportunities to spend that money, and no clearly correct path to follow since the answer is dependent on your personal background. That's a recipe for learning to think quickly. Though, it's like pushing the baby bird out of the nest, you might only have one shot to get it right.
And traditional encyclopedias don't require the good will of others?
> the whole "can it be trusted" mainly revolves around political or otherwise controversial topics

IME it's a question for any Wikipedia page. I remember a mathematics professor reviewing a page in their field, saying it omitted key topics and gave prominence, as major figures, to people the reviewer hadn't heard of.

Also, I've experienced that any minor topic can be controversial or political to someone. For a page I'm almost certain you've never heard of, I saw someone create an article in a newsy blog that that supported their made-up claim and cite it in Wikipedia, then cite Wikipedia in the article, and then give interviews to other websites saying the same thing, creating a web if citations. Even after I tracked it down and fixed it - a lot of work to do for free for a low-traffic Wikipedia page - they waited a month and started again. I ran out of time (and trust).
I don’t think that would happen. Firstly, the US government and army (like it or not) has an interest in not falling behind technologically. Additionally, Intel has most of its fabs in the US already. Samsung and TSMC are currently building fabs in the US too. Finally, the US still has a strong tech culture. So I think it would not take long with an increased demand (and higher salaries) for computer engineers to attract a lot of good talent.

I mean, I agree it wouldn’t be good. But back to the 50s? Or even the “Iron Age”? That seems awfully pessimistic.

Like, I get that Intel is not doing great, but it’s only like a handful of years bad, not decades bad
It doesn't matter for this, but it's definitely the case in the hobbyist segment. Look at how many people use Raspberry Pis for things better suited to a microcontroller.
Maybe the real lesson of the whole thread is to require customers to pay in advance with a non-reversible wire transfer, or at least via an escrow service contingent on delivering the goods. Or alternatively, somehow buy insurance against the customer failing to pay.
I wasn't aware of Cindy Cohn - thanks for educating me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cindy_Cohn
Does retrieving and activating the AED trigger an alert to rescue services?
The shift to JIT ("Just In Time") inventory has proven problematic:

"Coronavirus pandemic exposes fatal flaws of the 'just-in-time' economy"

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-02/coronavirus-pandemic-...
It is not a technological issue, but a social one - the incentives to create consumer-friendly software are not good enough so companies settles on the lowest possible denominator.
It will go up if I understood the recent market trends correctly.
What are you talking about. The vast majority of companies use just in time stocking. If you sell x amount of a product that is when you order x amount of each item on the BOM. It has been this way for decades for manufacturing in the usa. There are tax and other liabilities when keeping more than required stocks on hand.
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