skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be truly one of the cool kids, and not a trend follower at all it is:

"Structured Query Language"

For the super cool who use the one true vendor it is:

"Microsoft Structured Query Language Server"
That's fine, but if you go to https://ocaml.org/ and click the big 'Install OCaml' CTA at the top of the page, it takes you through installing opam, dune, and ocaml-lsp-server. And as per the latest OCaml Survey, it looks like the majority of the community are using opam and dune: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1OZV7WCprDnouU-rIEuw-1lDTeXr...

Do some of the doc pages need to be updated? Yes. Do some universities take a long time to update their course materials? Yes. Does this mean there's no conensus? No.
> In the sense that communism stopped spreading to new countries, perhaps it was a win of sorts.

South Vietnam falling not leading to a cascade of Communism just proved that not only was the war a loss, but the key premise for fighting it in the first place was false.
I've signed up for the major jobs sites, dice, monster, etc. And some smaller ones like cybercoders and talentpair. I indicated I was interested in contract work and my mailbox is full of 20 to 50 emails a day.

A majority are for lower rate jobs, but there's a promising nibble once or twice a week.

Contract to hire seem to be super popular right now, but you're under no obligation to accept their offer. In my experience their offers are less than have the contract rate.

I also ran my own consulting company for a while. Word of mouth was my best way to find work. It seemed like once I finished a job with someone they were happy to tell me about their buddy than needed work done too.

Do prepare for the downtime between jobs. I had dry spells as long as 5 months.
I suppose your free kindergarten through grade 12 education, the water you drink from the municipal water system, the roads that were driven on to deliver a computer that can post to HN directly to your door, the DARPA project that became the Internet, etc. are "robbery, extortion, and slavery" as well. Now that we are all robbing, extorting, and enslaving each other... pay your damn taxes.
Thanks for the answer and stating your background ;)

I see how this is true in general, but aren’t there special cases e.g. within the EU, between the EU and the UK, or when an employee moves country while still being employed, where simpler solutions may exist?
I took a look. It's a very impressive project but it's not what I personally have in mind as a hypercard replacement. I really do like the hybrid code/visual model. I'm one of the few people I know who actually did like the original Xcode/Interface Builder split since it let both parts focus on what they were good for.

I like Hypercard because it made the visual part (the UI) visual, but still gave me the programmer full control of the logic. Here it looks like you're pushing to see how far you can go with no-code.

I'm not sure if any thoughts on this I or anybody on HN would have are helpful for your stated goals of broadening computational literacy.

That said it's a very cool project and best of luck on your research!
"the truth remains that the war is happening between Ukraine and Russia."

Interesting point to illustrate, why wikipedia's articles are not as good as the scientific ones. Because don't you think, this truth is a matter of perspective?

Because to my understanding, a real war between Ukraine and Russia would look a bit different and would have been over long ago.

There are definitely strong elements of a civil war, despite russias covert and open engagement. And with the US and EU involvment on the pro west Ukrainian side - it is complicated geopolitics. Hard to find simple truths there, when all involved sides are engaged with disinformation and propaganda.
If you were importing from HK to EU I'm not aware of many tariffs that would apply on electronics, I guess you just paid VAT and customs duty, and neither is what I'm talking about here.
> Do you know of anything along the lines of what I'm describing here

I'm only aware of organizations that have a business incentive to influence at-scale sensemaking or decisions, so their analysis is private, and their public participation is often unattributable and oriented towards a specific side/outcome. Examples could include Cambridge Analytica, public-private partnerships on semi-automated data analytics for psychological warfare, influence operations and persona management, and PR firms (http://www.techsoc.com/grassroots.html).

As for consumer-accessible data visualization and models for interactions within specific communities, it's the eternal challenge of gamified semantics in any sufficiently-contested online space, with Google search rankings/algo/gaming being one of the most visible battlegrounds. Every meta-observation and subsequent algo/ranking update leads to new outcome (e.g. profit) variability, which changes the live experiment and starts a new iteration of the ongoing game.

The most successful historical examples have been some decentralized combination of human moderation, participant voting and usually-private analytics tools available to moderators. Over time, we've seen the most successful communities move towards increased transparency of manual moderation. Independent, adversarial analytics (e.g. hnrankings or this tool) provide valuable feedback to both users and moderators.

Kialo looks fun, thanks for the pointer. Do you know their business model?

Here's a recent paper on community governance automation:
https://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/graduate/691/spring21/pdf/...

> When online communities desire other forms of government, such as ones that take many members’ opinions into account or that distribute power in non-trivial ways, communities must resort to laborious manual effort. In this paper, we present PolicyKit, a software infrastructure that empowers online community members to concisely author a wide range of governance procedures and automatically carry out those procedures on their home platforms ... We demonstrate the expressivity of PolicyKit through implementations of governance models such as a random jury deliberation, a multi-stage caucus, a reputation system, and a promotion procedure inspired by Wikipedia’s Request for Adminship (RfA) process.
100%. One of the most important elements of executing SOA successfully is where you draw service boundaries. Microservices (as the name implies) encourages you to make your services very small, which often/usually has the effect of drawing very poor service boundaries. Finding the right service boundaries has everything to do with domain design and nothing to do with size.
Yes, non-inclusive spaces are legal. There are still golf clubs in the US that don't allow women. Just last week the top golf club in the US voted to allow women for the first time in its 108 year history. If these male-only spaces are legal I don't see how these female-only spaces would be illegal.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/31...
I worked for a small EU company from the US and what they did was that we all set up a "consulting" company (sole proprietor is fine for minimal paperwork) and sent invoices to them. Then just calculate the rate to cover the normal taxes that you end up paying fully. It's not that great since the burden to file business taxes is definitely a ton more work than W-2.
It’s pretty well accepted that tariffs lead to overall worse outcomes for all parties involved.

Some reasons:

- Someone mentioned price elasticity below. The demand for the product might actually drop because of higher prices from local producers

- Local producers become less competitive, especially if the imported item was not cheaper because of lower labor cost but because of innovation

- The downstream high-value supply chain becomes less competitive if tariffs are applied to an intermediate/low-value product

There is a narrow space in which tariffs might work and that is when they’re temporarily used to shelter local producers from outside competition with the hope that they can quickly build capability and scale of their global peers.
Yeah. What I need from a toaster is that it makes toast. I don't need it to order the bread from Amazon Home Delivery. I even more don't need it to open the house door when the delivery arrives. Just make my toast. And when you're not doing that, just sit there and be a paperweight. That's all I need.
That makes sense,

I guess you can look at the orbit parameters ? I am assuming if the satellites are not yet on station they won't share the exact same plane as those that are in station. They are elevated over few months as they are spread to the right position I believe
Done so, still prefer analog up until things get so small or fragile they can't hold up anymore. As long as the part is still manufactured, you're good.

PCB's? Forget it. E-waste central.
There are literally photo ops in spacex hqs! And a very publicized program dedicated to hiring engineers of color, and women. Whatever you might think of spacex, for the aerospace industry its batshit insane left wing (in this case mostly because of Gwynn Shotwell)
well then it shouldn't be used as main point of your argument
>Micro services and SOA are actually different things, despite sharing similarities.

What would you say the differences are? In my mind, its mostly SOA with the idea that there's no lower bounds on service size. I do agree that people mistake that meaning microservices have an upper bound in size.
SpaceX accepts dogecoin as payment to launch a lunar mission next year
> However, in practice, a remote worker can move anywhere, create a company (in the country where they live), send invoices and get paid.

Many countries will forbid that. Employment is characterized by more than the wording of a contract.
Why do developers need to be tricked?

1. Variations in preferences. Given that every brain is structured a bit differently, and that every person has different backgrounds and experiences, it's reasonable to conclude that different syntax or vocabulary will make things "click" for different people. This is evidenced by the fact that there is more than one programming language in daily use.

2. Cognitive burden. We're all smart enough to learn whatever syntax, framework, or vocabulary is necessary to accomplish a task. But if there is a different way of structuring common tasks that flows better for someone, then choosing that flow over something more traditional frees up that tiny extra bit of mental effort for other tasks. These optimizations accumulate, so even a very smart person can benefit from doing easy things in the easiest way for them. Then, teams benefit on top of that from the reduced communication burden.
Does anyone have the semi-recent long-winded really interesting write up on TSMC & Morris Chang to link here? There was like a 15 page write up on the history, talking about competition with Samsung, & the relationships with Apple over time & all kinds of stuff? Would provide interesting color for this. Edit: ah, here[1]. 6100 words! 22 pages! The Google doc linked has some interesting annotations too.

Reading this coverage of Morris though, this is such an interesting noted advantage:

> 3. Highspeed Railways and Highways: Convenient, high speed transportation enables quick deployment of thousands of technical and manufacturing workers between TSMC’s three hubs -- Hsinchu, Tainan, Taichung -- without these employees needing to relocate their families.

Flexible labor power, enabled by geography, is a hugely interesting note. I've somewhat been thinking of Focault's "Biopower", the management of large groups of people. Having a geography & infrastructure to enable effective deployment & redeployment across a variety of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company's sites is such an interesting mini-example of biopower at work. Seeing it written down as one of 3 competitive advantages is very notable to me, & something that seems like it would be so hard to replicate in any other place.

It's also noteable that Taiwan, having such a high concentration of chip makers, is best able to raise up future workers. There's more of a concentrated intensive pipeline, where the skills can be learned & developed. This is Chang's first noted TSMC advantage:

> Technical Talent: Taiwan boasts a large number of dedicated engineers, technicians and other technical workers, who want to devote themselves to the advanced manufacturing industry (emphasis reflects the slide’s red highlight).

I still have stories of Silicon Valley's emergence being tied to it being a silicon foundry, a place where countless people could learn to make chips at incredibly low costs, had ready access to chip making. Having experience be widely accessible, having democratic access to the technology, is, to me, still something that sticks out as what began this amazing time. I don't think that's nearly as true anywhere, the US or Taiwan, but Taiwan continues to have a deep talent pool, and I worry that the US is unable to re-fill the ranks, unable to stay innovative & competitive, unable to beget as many new upstarts. What interesting players do emerge seem to be swallowed pre-product, which I see as another huge problem.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AMD_Stock/comments/lzfus8/tsmc_at_t...
I think the clear distinction here, is that in absence of a reconstruction effort, you do not have stability, and war continues unabated. Maybe you call it something different or attribute it to different actors, but the true delineation of conflict is a tangible and lasting peace. I think that the US demonstrated its victory as it helped to coordinate and furnish that peace in a manner that supported its own interests at the time.
Dirt is dirt, but you don't spend every hour at home cleaning. There is a point at which reducing pollution is not worth the cost.
Okay, so there is consensus. I guess I was confused. Seems like quite a few people here are confused, though. Seems worth considering!
> Russia and US ULA are flying rockets from 50 years ago with minimal updates.

Old Babushka proverb, if complicated explosion related plumbing is working as intended, best not to completely rework it for sake of changelog.

Minimal updates to the shape, maybe?

But I bet the electronics and manufacturing have seen steady improvements over that time.

SLS does feel quite like a pork barrel, but I understand the funding of it along with the other commercial companies as "more options, less risk", if something grounds the Dragon capsules, having a "home" alternative instead of buying seats on a foreign rocket makes sense.
Or even general blood screenings. I once went to the doctor for depression that was severe enough to affect work and marriage. I was fortunate that the doctor tested for B12 deficiency, a week of methylated b12 supplementation fully fixed my depression which hasn't returned in years.

Turns out there is a genetic component to B12 deficiency, and other family members have been turning up with the same kind of thing.

I wonder how many people get driven into expensive medication and treatment programs for relatively simple to treat vitamin/metabolic disorders.
Yes, prepayment penalties are a thing. But every time this comes up, we see reports of too-good-to-be -true deals that don't have them. See, for example, this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14484615

I also had a friend do exactly what I described, and there was another thread where they only had to make two payments and then could pay off the rest without penalty (and even that was an unspoken gentlemen's agreement with the dealer) -- will find if I get a chance.

The point is, it's simply not warranted to assume as a bedrock of truth that no dealer every makes a confused deal in this respect, as chrisseaton was insisting.
Why is this story flagged? Admittedly, it's not good faith journalism, but still, shouldn't there be a discussion about it?
Apparently I forgot to type the "go away" that was supposed to go between the "acceleration" and "while" in that sentence ^^.
Thats called supply chain financing but of course the biggest company in that space Greensill just went up in flames.
I sincerely doubt most people who are today carrying out ransomware scams were wealthy enough 10 years ago to benefit materially from tax havens haha. If they were, they wouldn't be committing crime today.
Thanks for making this point. If you access your memory sequentially, as Varnish does, great. But if you need to stride across a giant matrix in transposed order, you'll bring your spinning disk backed virtual memory to a halt, as it does a million seeks. To use virtual memory successfully you have to write in-memory algorithms that recognize the non-random-access nature of the memory. If you had simply acknowledged there's a storage system, you wouldn't put out much more effort, if any, to get the same performance. In fact, by pretending it's all RAM, you give up the opportunity to overlap your I/O and do something useful with the time the system would have to spend paging in your data.

Edit: btw, happy and satisfied Varnish user for many years!
Generally: no.

There are cases and/or ways where you can e.g. hire someone under a local contract without owning a local entity, but that doesn't scale much beyond that, and you'd still need to run local payroll somehow, and be locally compliant.

The one big thing the EU solves is mobility: any EU citizen can work freely from anywhere else in the EU. That's a massive hurdle to cross otherwise.

Beyond that, even between EU countries there are absolutely massive differences in labor laws, standards, etc.
VScape: Assessing and Escaping Virtual Call Protections [pdf]
> Ocaml was my first programming language

lmao what. how. like what course of events....

I had several years professional experience, including functional programming, and still found it pretty rough going for a while. And even other professionals have often not even heard of it.
Why psychology isn’t science (2012)
I'm right there with you on RSpec. We're programmers, we think in code, we think in the native primitives of the language. Now you bring in RSpec equality and comparison operators and I have to go look up RSpecs semantics vs just leveraging all my existing Ruby knowledge.

Cucumber otoh is an absolutely amazing tool...in the correct organization. When used as it was designed, ie analysis's working with stakeholders to gather requirements which can then be turned into executable tests for the developers to conform with is amazing. Its when developers start writing cucumber features without talking to anybody else that the whole thing becomes pointless.
Automakers don’t carry much inventory. Issues at any of the suppliers can cause big holdups in production.
I upvoted your first comment because I felt that you were making a valid if controversial point.

But the concept of "handing over" Ukraine really underlines why the rest of the world views Russia as such a threat to world peace.

Ukrainians should decide their own future. It's not Russia's to hand over nor is it America's to take. Sometimes you hear quotes by high ranking Russian military officials and it feels like there is this persistent belief that NATO somehow "stole" Eastern Europe from Russia when the reality was that Eastern Europe fled to NATO to deter Russia after several brutal decades in the Soviet sphere of influence.

Certainly the concept of some countries being good and others being bad is outdated. The West has engaged in more than it's share of evil. But that doesn't justify moral relativism in international affairs. Nor does it allow one country to attempt annexation of another against its will.
It's not calling the police, it's changing the law to something people agree. It's the basis of any society
Thank you for sharing your experience! Unfortunately this wouldn’t work for me since I need to have a permanent employment contract in order to be eligible for the sources of income I usually leverage (research grants).
If you were to buy a car in cash for $40k+, would you really not bother to carry comprehensive insurance on it? Are there really that many people out there where a $40k+ oops just isn't a big deal, just go buy another?

I don't carry comprehensive insurance on my car. I drive a 2000 Honda Accord though, so the KBB value (and what they quoted me for) was only about $1000. I wouldn't carry comprehensive on that. But you bet if I've got $40k+ rolling down the road and in the elements it's going to have some insurance on it.
I think that a point of language is to express ideas. Bullseye.

There are many points to language - quite a porcupine....
1) Correlation is not causation. It could be that the dope mean just coincides with the reduce levels of Hydrogen peroxide.

2) But I explained how it’s an antioxidant , it doesn’t have any antioxidant properties on its own, it just prevents the creation of hydrogen peroxide.

3) It really isn’t much to deduce from the third study.
It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: --
"Though we know we should defeat you,
we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away."

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: --

"We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!"

https://www.poetryloverspage.com/poets/kipling/dane_geld.htm...

We've known for hundreds (thousands?) of years that paying ransom only encourages more demands for ransom in the future. The solution to this is backups and improved security. I know that's expensive. Pay that cost now or continue paying more dane-geld proving over and over again that you are a mark that will pay.

> or, increasingly, to prevent them from being leaked

Why did high-risk data exist in the first place? Maybe stop gathering so much risky data.
Yep they were certainly inspired by a lot of it.

Thinking machines rebellion became the Dark Age of Technology.

No form of AI allowed - no mentats but workarounds such as servitors and machine spirits.

The Tleilaxu/Space Guild became the Mechanicum of Mars - they control all the technology.
Is that Klingon for "shit"?
They'd like to make some margin selling computers. The cheaper base model machines are very competitively priced between manufacturers. Much easier to make your profit on options.
At the end of the bronze age there was a shortage of tin to create the bronze (with copper). This caused the beginning of the iron age as people were looking for alternatives to bronze and once tin was back in the market it was not valuable anymore. The whole process was coincided with falling of civilisations, disruption of trade and general reorganisation of world powers, so expect some of that.
I have the same dimensions / issues finding jeans. Quality control on Levi's isn't fantastic and I'm always frustrated with how wide the leg openings are. Difficult to find any pants that fit well, really. Someone recommended I just buy jeans that roughly fit, and take them to a tailor. Such a game changer! For $12 I can basically get any pair of pairs to fit perfectly.
> Old Babushka proverb, if complicated explosion related plumbing is working as intended, best not to completely rework it for sake of changelog.

Aye, but everyone stuck with that proverb for too long. Then Musk appeared and he doesn't seem to care that his test rockets explode. He revels in it.

To me it's the classic startup vs giant corporation. The bigger you are, the harder it is to change course. And exploding rockets look bad to management. The same reason so many companies are still on IBM mainframes running FORTRAN.

SLS is an insurance policy against SpaceX. But it's being managed by the same old wasteful monopolies as always, plus plenty of government mandated pork.