skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the point of contention here is probably what a typical system looks like. I haven't personally had the pleasure of working on a system that's anywhere close to having 100 frontends and 10,000 backends, and I don't have many friends who have, either, so I assume that's an atypical use case. Perhaps I'm wrong there.
Personal opinions inbound...

I agree with this but I really would have 0 use cases for Rust. I am not a systems programmer or really want to be. I prefer product focus and user interfaces.

I would not want to do typical web back end programming with Rust. I think Rust is perfect for the hard work of lower level things but I'm a crazy sucker for a fast feedback cycle loop.

What I personally really want is faster Python/Ruby (Nim/Julia/Crystal) and they should be languages that allow for great interop with the newer lower level languages like Rust and Zig for when the 1% of speed matters.
Agree to a certain extent - executives in such companies need to pay the price on their actions, whether involed directly or via a proxy
Mmm but then I compare it to this.

https://www.pcgamingrace.com/products/glorious-gmmk-pro-75-b...
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I am a new Moonlander user (for ~4 months now) who switched from a Kinesis1/2 after over 10 years of use. The well feels nice for e.g. the "d" column to be deeper than "f", so your longer index finger rests a little more naturally. I don't think it's a significant world-changing advantage, just one of those nice minor design touches.

Honestly the bigger problem was that after 10 years of use, your hand position with any keyboard will cause you to hold it poorly at first with a new one, if the layout is massively different. The first 48 hours with the Moonlander were rough until I found the proper spacing and setup for them...
It's especially heartbreaking when they take that same functionality and lock it behind APIs that most developers can't use.
Mostly agreed, with the exception that if you're construed to have been engaging in tax avoidance -- regardless of whether you are or not -- you'll just as soon be on your own.
Yeah, similar to another comment, autocomplete alone could get WPM way up
Just to address one part in detail, what "layer multiple third party tools" means in practice is: install brew, install gnu-utils, and add the relevant directory to $PATH.

It's fire and forget. I'm quite confident you can do it with ports, or even nix if you really want to.

I know it's subjective, but it doesn't feel like Apple is being "actively hostile" here. It's just configuring your system to be different from the default.

I don't even remember the steps in detail (like what does brew call the gnu utils?) because I did it, once, four years and three laptops ago. I actually did it seven years ago as well, but that laptop was stolen.

Edit: also, I didn't "flock to" OS X, I eagerly bought a G5 as soon as I could afford it, in 2003. I learned Unix on workstations (Sparcs mostly) and my Yggdrasil Linux partition was always a poor substitute in comparison. So when Apple started selling workstations? and they were Macs? Yes please!
I've worked in such places. The reason it is that way is because you will receive a broken description/specification/story of what you are supposed to implement. You have a choice to make when that happens, you either implement it as specified or you reject it because it is broken. The problem is that if you do reject it then it will take about 6 months to get back a specification that is broken in another way and then you have to make the same choice...

So after a few iterations you just say "fuck it" and implement it as specified and then hope that you get a chance to fix it before shipping it (or that it doesn't become your headache later on...).
No the advice is still spot on- acquihires are considered the firesafe scenario he is referring to.
This term kind of reminds me of an "joke" that's usually transmitted orally in my country. I can only assume that the origin of the meme may have something in common. A translation of the joke would be like:

After lunch, the farmer boy tells his mom:

- My belly is stuffed!

His mom replies:

- That's so impolite! This Friday when you have dinner
on the city with your rich uncle, use elegant words like "I'm satisfied".

- Ok, mom.

Friday, after dinner, the boy says:

- My satisfied is stuffed!
Found this old comment about it (of course it had to be a long URL)

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1 is not strictly true.
A nation harbouring actors like this has a duty to intervene or they could be deemed responsible.

For anyone with time on their hands, the "Talinn Manual" has a lot of detail on this:

https://www.kobo.com/ie/en/ebook/tallinn-manual-2-0-on-the-i...
Per Ms. Melinda French, she was uncomfortable with Mr. Gates' meeting with Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Gates, Mr. Bezos, Mr.Facebook, and the rest of the world's richest men are not very moral people. These men are just a figment of capitalism. Do you really think Elon Musk cares about Poverty, Climate change. They all don't and they use women like parasites.
No ISO, no money.
howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com

doesthemailruntoday.com

Are the two I like.
There are still places like that in SF's Chinatown. There's enough customer density to support a walk-in market that doesn't use shopping carts. SF's Chinatown has twice the population density of SF. And a median age of 47, almost 10 years higher than the rest of SF. So there are still old-school Asian grocery stores.

Nijya Market has a number of good Japanese grocery stores in the SF bay area. They're rather expensive, like Whole Foods. Noted for fresh fish and sushi. Also, they have the good Pocky, from Japan, not the made-in-Thailand stuff. Their stores are small supermarkets, with carts and parking.

SF's Chinatown is stuck in the 1950s. Where are the black-glass buildings, the fast forward fashion from Beijing, the automated stores, and the latest parts from Shenzhen? They're in Cupertino, home of Apple, which is 67% Asian and has entire malls of good Asian stores. The big mall across the street from the Apple mothership is a good place to start.
Good start.

I'm not sure it's good enough though. South Korea is investing $450 billion in chip making[1]. TSMC is going to spend $100B[2].

[1] https://www.extremetech.com/computing/322826-south-korea-com... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157384

[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/chip-maker-tsmc-to-invest-...
The Universe being a holographic projection is a legit theory! Do you throw in the kitchen sink into every argument?
To actually go through my comment history to find something to "win" is kind of a low move. So I'm done.
Ok, but you're moving the goalposts a lot.

The government is clearly incentivising long term capital gains here. The nice thing is it's easier than ever to get into a brokerage account and buy sensible funds without paying a lot of fees. Robinhood may have started it, but fidelity and maybe others will let you buy fractional shares in etfs as long as you're putting in at least $1. Mutual funds have let you do fractional shares for a long time too, but minimums are higher and $1,000 to get into a vanguard target date fund might be too much for some people.
That's true, but largely irrelevant.

> Yes, properly limiting permissions is difficult, and there can be bugs, but that's true regardless of what layer the security controls are applied at.
Thanks for the good data, and congrats on your own success. We can’t really get our burn rate below 2%, but it’s also not much higher than 2%. Interesting point to be more conservative in early years, but I don’t think we have that much control on our dial. We live a fairly modest lifestyle, probably own 1/4 of the house we could for example, single POS car is paid off, that sort of thing, but no weird unsustainable FIRE life hacks. So the good news we don’t have to scale our lifestyle down, because we never overdid it, bad news is, we can’t scale our lifestyle down any further realistically unless it means eating at a restaurant zero times a month instead of once or twice a month.
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Croatia is a very special case. The salaries are quoted as "neto" (net), but the taxes are actually quite complicated. There is a so-called "bruto" (gross) figure, which is the formal one (e.g. it's used for employment contracts) and includes taxes - _just not all of them!_ So the actual amount that a company pays for an employee is the unofficial so-called "bruto 2", which includes some taxes that are calculated based on the "bruto" amount, meaning that it taxes the taxes.

The most commonly used salary calculator [0] does a good job of taking all of that into account, so you can clearly see all three actual figures.

[0] https://www.moj-posao.net/Salary-Calculator/
> we've established that your "soul" cannot change the system, it's an observer

That's only one possibility actually. Its very possible if there is some "soul" that it interacts with the system. As we know from QM, measurement changes the measured - there's no way to measure/perceive something without interacting with it in some way. But its possible that a philosophical zombie would actually not have the same perception and would not act the same. They might do most of the same things, but they may not be able to talk about the same kind of perceptual experience with coherent clarity.

> Your brain cannot actually understand anything about its observer

How do you know?

> if you, say, take hard drugs, the state of that system can be different and you may not feel a singular perception point

That's pretty interesting. Does taking enough acid get you there?

> because you have a human ego and your biological brain evolved to think of itself as a single construct with an individual perception

Maybe so, but even knowing that, it doesn't explain how it happens, only that it happens.

> you're still stuck in the mindset that you have a soul that can affect your thoughts

I'm not sure I believe in a soul, but in thinking about this kind of stuff, a soul-like thing does seem a lot more plausible to me than it did before I thought about the phenomenal experience in depth.

> Every combination of everything would have its own "perception" of existence in my philosophy

How does this relate to your thoughts on the brain, where you said the brain evolved to think of itself as a singular being with a singular perception. Surely this doesn't apply to, for example, rocks.

> "I" exist because my brain exists. I cannot not exist because my brain does exists. That state is real. It has to be this way.

I don't think anyone's arguing that you don't exist. Nor is anyone arguing that the phenomenal experience isn't real. The question is how is it created, not whether.

> Your example of you and the chair is poor

Ok.. harsh...

> You are not experiencing the existence of individual parts of your brain or the chair and you as one thing, because your brain does not include that state and therefore the experience cannot be interpreted by a physical thing.

So what evidence is there that such a combination of experience even exists? If no being we can interact with can tell us about that experience, I don't think we can say whether or not it exists.
Think the original idea for releasing this information was to prevent the police from secretly disappearing people, which has happened quite a bit around the world. The police know, if they take someone into custody, that it will be part of the public record for all to see.
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> Coding modern C++ right is the same, that way, as coding Rust: when it compiles, it works.

Works in what way? Serious question. Do you mean "works" as in 1) "doesn't crash/seg/overflow" or 2) "doesn't UB" or 3) "doesn't have race bugs" or 4) "does what the programmer intended"?

I would say from my experience, none are strictly true. I'll hazard you mean to imply the dev knows the language pretty well in order to satisfy "works lvl 1" but you still have veterans running into bugs of the 2-4 variety.

But even to get to (1), C++ requires a ton of domain knowledge. I've been working with C++ intensively for several months and incidentally for years, and I still seg every now and then. Even after using Valgrind, it feels rickety. Meanwhile, I've spent a few dozen weekends on Rust and I just feel way more confidence that my program will "just work" without crashing.

That's all still "level 1 works". When it comes to race conditions and programmer intent making its way into correct code, it's no comparison. Rust is way easier to get my intent into a running program. C++, I still have to lean into logs and debugging, because it just doesn't quite do what I want a non-trivial amount of the time.

It's not a religion. Rust simply is a better experience. I can say that having learned both basically side-by-side.
It's a student run course, so I assume one of the reason they selected VIM is that instructors were proficient in it.

It's also one of the few modal editors out there, and that's a different paradigm students might not have been exposed to. In comparison, Emacs is much more similar to Sublime or VSCode (always insert, functions invoked via shortcuts).
why is it assumed the web ought to be crawleable?
How do you correct the problem of our culture treating the accused poorly?

If you're arrested under false pretenses (just google search "cops planting drugs" to see countless videos), how do we prevent life-long impact of innocent people?
100th percentile shows about 325TB[0], so while it may be able to and users may be doing that, they don't seem to be reporting statistics publicly.

[0]: https://data.syncthing.net/
> "This course is taught in LISP. We'll be spending one class on the peculiarities of our system, but otherwise you're on your own. If you don't learn it, you'll fail."

SCIP (well loved on HN) was designed for as the introductory class for freshpersons who'd never seen a computer before (which was the default case when the course was designed).

The first lecture was about how to program in lisp, using the example of symbolic differentiation. That one lecture was 100% of the introduction to computers and programming: the rest of the semester was spent on computer science.
> when you need to make remote changes to a box

This isn't something you do in CS ever. If you want to learn a technical skill like system administration or git, great. It isn't CS though.
Mostly stare at the logs, seeing about half of the requests going to dead servers and waiting for it all to settle down.
No, they mean 192KB. Because that's how they refer to it literally every other time. Oh, and because it's NOT 196 thousand. 3072*64 = 196608. Which rounds to... 197 thousand. (But is exactly 192KB - or 192KiB if you prefer that sort of thing)
Why are names and pictures published before one even know if the person is guilty? And even if found guilty, why does the media use so much personal information?

In my country it's always anonymous in the media, unless it's a person the media deems as the public having an interest in knowing about (political figure or so).
The best way to prepare for future evolutionary challenges is to stockpile genetic diversity. More genetic diversity means both less of a chance of the entire population being vulnerable in the same way to a new threat, and better chances to reach new local maximas that are two or three hops through rough terrain in the evolutionary search space.

Continually applying harsh selection criteria just homogenizes a population to a local maxima and leaves them vulnerable to future change.
It _is_ enabled by public mugshots though. You can ban public mugshots, but you can't ban "the culture treating the accused poorly".
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There are only a handful of countries that won't accept the US arrest warrants and turn over whoever. A few countries will demand something first, but this means no death penalty, not something that is in anyway a big deal for the other country. It is semi-routine for most countries to capture and turn over criminals within the borders to another country.

That is why people bring up Russia and North Korea. Those are the two most likely countries that wouldn't. There are a few others, but not many.

Even China which in general I wouldn't trust would in this case. If China did an attack like this it would be much more targeted and they wouldn't be looking for ransom money - See the attacks on the Iran nuclear program for example: attack a target that actually matters. (those attacks were probably US or Israel, but it is the type of thing China might do).
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I personally wanted to be able to use underscores instead of braces.
Could well be - my family's variant was: "I have had an elegant sufficiency and if I have any more I'll bust!" which is very much in the same vein!
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The article was doing the wrong value comparison. Nilay claims he has "rural" internet, but he gets 325/25 from his ISP. I don't know many people outside of major metros with that kind of speed, he has a great connection. Starlink isn't valuable for people in his situation, and he shouldn't have implied he has typical rural problems. Starlink is a gamechanger for most rural people (less than 25/5). I technically had a 45/5 connection but it was so unreliable that Starlink has beaten it on reliability and speed.
Minecraft had a mod with Forth support:
https://technicpack.fandom.com/wiki/Forth_language
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this is not an official course; it's taught during January which is a "free" month between semesters. And it was written and run by students, not faculty.
I rarely use Discord these days, but when I need to link something next time, I'll use this service. (Discord still doesn't support hyperlinks.)
There are tradeoffs, yes.

We might weight those tradeoffs differently. That's ok.
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> Also electron require multiple node backend services which each eat memory like crazy (based on electron app I use).

AFAIK Electron requires 1 Node instance (you can disable it for renderer processes and you can have 0 WebWorkers or only WebWorkers with Node.js disabled) which consumes like ~50MB or something like that, which probably accounts for stuff other than Node.js too, if the app you are using require multiple Node processes that use huge amounts of memory they are just badly written.

> Have one, real Multithreaded +, more efficient backend, will reduce memory and offer better performance.

You can't just share Node.js across multiple apps, Tauri just doesn't bundle it at all, which is a whole different story with mostly downsides from my point of view.
I don't have such a defeatist attitude. I think it would contribute overall to lessening the stigma of being accused of a crime. Politicians, cops and the media all have a part to play in this, though.
Selective enforcement of laws to political ends is a hallmark of a police state.

Also the US has the highest prison population per capita.

If it quacks like a duck...
If anything, that feels like an argument in favor of restricting what can be published about arrests and unproven charges in general -- not just the mugshots.
Well, "need" is a funny word. I guess I don't "need" any tabs, or even bookmarks. I could just type URLs all day and have a very pretty browser.

They are things like GHE, monitoring, DNS, our CA. Things I use/change literally every day, some of them I'm in constantly. I don't pin things I don't use all the time.

Multiday tasks are typically research-heavy, closing things is equivalent to "loosing my place". I suppose I could use "bookmark this group of tabs", but it hasn't really mattered when I can just... leave them there until I come back.
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And hopefully more than 0.1% of projects will turn the lint on..
years ago, we asked bit.ly if they could vendor our link shortening and tracking. Turned out we were already a couple multiples larger than them in terms of link processing. our use case is a bit different though. Instead of one link given to many, we tend to be one link given to one recipient. Optimizing this kind of problem is interesting and fun.
Visual Studio has the same problem with C#. By default VS will load all defined analyzers into Roslyn which can execute arbitrary code.

VS warns you with a confirmation dialog that shouldn't just be ignored because "I just want to look and not compile". So, don't open any random .csproj or .sln and assume you are safe.
I avoid browser tabs if possible. I currently have 5 browser windows open, and have hacked userChrome.css to hide the tab bar:

#pageActionButton {
display: none !important;
}
.urlbar-history-dropmarker, .urlbar-history-dropmarker:hover {
display: none !important;
}
#TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; }

I currently have 12 visible windows open. I prefer a spacial interface where I can see and change everything vs. a modal interface of only seeing one task at a time and having to constantly switch between each task/tab.
Sorry, maybe I should've specified _In the United States_
I would pay $500 for this keyboard if I can put it in the dishwasher. Seriously that's my dream keyboard. Mechanical, high quality and washable in the dishwasher or just washable like a dish.
side note - I have some misc content that is http today in 2021 - I feel that the original HTML spec is better than modern web in some ways, therefore I like sticking to http here and there, when I chose, based on first principles
> users interests are so at odds with the service providers

So the real innovation that's needed is a new incentive structure.

I'm sure some site has tried to implement a system where you pay only if you end up in a long term relationship, but that seems hard to enforce once two people have each other's contact details.

Another approach that's been tried is for the government to run the site, on the basis that families are beneficial for society, while profit-seeking monopolies and incompatible silos of users are not efficient.

What I don't think has been tried yet is some sort of federated system, perhaps based on ActivityPub, where different providers all share the same distributed pool of users, and therefore can't lock you into their unreasonable pricing scheme.

The success of Mastodon shows that this service could be offered at scale for people to enjoy at zero cost. Possibly there would be an expectation that if you did find someone you really liked, you would make a donation to the one or two sites that you and your partner's profiles were hosted on, and perhaps give a testimonial at the same time.

I assume the difficulty of implementing this is that people don't want bots spamming them with private messages, nor do they want their profiles to be part of some bulk download which a rogue node tries to get away with.

People are understandably quite sensitive about what they write on dating sites, and who gets to see it, and although the safety of traditional dating sites is probably somewhat illusory, a system for moderating interactions is likely to be harder to implement well in a distributed system, and harder than moderating a microblogging service.