skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't disagree with the sentiment - but I still think the app is poorly tuned if it's been allowed to accrue this much complexity in the relatively non-essential UX that we all interact with through the web. My point is that the complexity of FB's landing page is unmaintainable and misaligned with business goals - if we view those goals to be about data collection and not actually running a social network then the misalignment is actually worse.
But when you change employers you risk losing access to your healthcare. Whereas if government pays for the health system you can maintain continuity of care, which can be essential to treat various psychiatric and medical conditions. Imagine if, because you got a new job, your lease on an apartment were canceled and you had to go find a new place to live? That's what our healthcare system is like and it's maddening.
> stgit works so much more fluidly and fits great with my mental model of how I want git to behave

Would you mind expanding upon this? I'm really curious.

Have you tried Pijul too?
Welcome to the Bay Area, don't dress provocatively....

It really annoys me that victim blaming isn't taboo for property crimes.
I think something like the automotive market would be a huge step, you can buy a part from Ford or GM and even if it’s something that need programming you can pay a small fee ($40 per VIN valid for 2 years for GM) and program it yourself with any J2534 compliant VCI, you can also pay to access technical info like wiring diagrams and TSBs however if you want to repair an electronic device you have to resort to fake/ stolen/ refurbished parts pirated schematics and shady software tools.
My issue with this is the assumption that women want longer lengths.

Maybe that was the driving force in the 1980s when this piece was published and debated, where women were communicating with a smaller group of women about sexual pleasure and optimizations.

But this seems very inaccurate and tone deaf to read now.
I just finished binge-watching all five of your videos on better programming tools, and I must say, it just blew my mind. Thank you for making them.

I've been maintaining my own notes on the kind of tools I'd like to have, with hopes to maybe implement them one day, and your videos covered more than half of my list, while also showing tons of brilliant ideas that never occurred to me. I'm very happy to see that the pain points I identified in my programming work aren't just my imagination.

Also, on a more abstract level, I love your approach to programming dilemmas, and it's the first time I saw it articulated explicitly: when there are two strong, conflicting views, you do a pros/cons analysis on both, and try to find a new approach that captures all the benefits, while addressing all the drawbacks.

I've sent you an e-mail a while ago, let me know if it got through :). I'll be happy to provide all kinds of feedback on the ideas you described in your videos, and I'd love to bounce the remaining part of my list off you, if you're interested :).

> today I finally had something to contribute

That's a first-class contribution. I think you should post the link to your site as a HN submission, using title "Show HN: Ideas for better programming tools" ("Show HN" being a marker that you're submitting your own work).
Thanks, I’ll fix that. Is everything just shrunk? Cause from my laptop/ipad it’s generally fine. You can temporarily fix this by pinching to zoom if you like.
> I know for me the moment uBlock Origin no longer works as well as it does on Chrome is the moment I go Firefox full time.

Hasn't that been the case for a while now?
> One thing that randomly sticks in my head is he said the Ethiopians were there most beautiful people in the world because they drank so much coffee, but beyond Ethiopia the land is uninhabitable because of all the flying snakes.

Maybe a thirdhand accounts of the flying snake (?)

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/reptiles/facts/fl...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16aGSx9gFO4
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and then this happen https://twitter.com/pragmaticandy/status/1168916144121634818...
Roughly in the same order of magnitude, depending on the implementation.

Light-years away from zero-copy serialization formats.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_data-serializati...

Random example: https://google.github.io/flatbuffers/md__benchmarks.html

Speed is not everything: being able to self-describe data structures (without the data) enables generation of parsers, documentation and tests.

Streaming support also matters.
As someone who went through German academia at a very high level, with a top PhD, early and lasting grant success, top-tier publications and a multidisciplinary network, but who still could not land a Professorship in Germany but had to leave the country for it, I can tell you, it is not too pessimistic what ___luigi writes.

Hierarchy is everything in academia, especially in Germany. The only way to tenure is to have someone up there already who is willing to pull many strings for you.
'Extra Extra Read All About it!' from anon newspaper kid standing on the street-corner ~100+ years ago (probably older).
I don’t think is a paradox, is a standard “make or buy” decision which is different based on your company’s size and growth phase.
I think point guy tried to make is, that ton of big companies, that would/could benefit from in-house solution still go for full cloud based one without thinking about alternatives.
If it makes you feel better, it's now flagged here, too.

The reputations of media outlets, social or otherwise, are to be protected at all costs.
Not just the food chain but the natural environment as well. Animals can migrate (theoretically, if they have somewhere to migrate to), but trees that sprouted in the right climate a hundred years ago might be in the wrong climate now. And animals that depend on those forests are going to be in trouble if they aren't healthy.

When changes happen on timescales that are slower than forests and ecosystems can naturally grow and spread that's not such a problem because you at least have a mostly-stable ecosystem at any given point in time.
> When we use the word 'program' in computing, we pretty much always mean 'a program for a (previously or implicitly defined) computational model', I don't see in what sense this is comparable to 'program clocks', which are basically timers/alarm clocks, if I understand that paragraph correctly.

It seems that a "program clock" was a clock that you could, more or less in the modern sense, program; you could put a plan into it, and then it would carry out the plan. Like those electromechanical outlet timers that you can set to turn on your floor lamps at certain times of day when you're not home. The "program" for those is the little slidy things around the dial that define when to turn the light on or off.

In the same way, a computer program is a plan that you can put into a computer, thus programming the computer to carry out the program. That concept isn't just comparable to that of the program you put into a program clock; it's identical, though there are some things the program clock can't do.
The article itself says they traded with Yemen and even that is south of the tropic of cancer. Also doesn't take the world being a certain shape for this to occur.
I think have higher standards for obviousness than you.

My comment did not indicate that I don't understand footnotes, not here nor in books, that was something you read in. In fact, my comment indicated facility with the subject. A person unfamiliar with footnotes wouldn't even know to call them footnotes, and a person unfamiliar with how they are used on HN would not say "(a) I disagree with how they are used and (b) because links are highlighted to stand out they are not a distraction". What I just wrote there is obvious to me, why not to you?

nobody knows at the beginning of a comment whether later in the comment conventions are going to be bucked, and I highly doubt in a 4 line comment whether inline links or footnoted links are going to make a difference to audience size, i mean seriously!
If the fact givers go away then you're not giving them much of an option, right?

People are predictable. If you can manipulate facts then you can control output. Hence the societal importace of getting real fact-givers again.

The whole "we feel justified lying about the benefits of X and Y because it gets a desired result" only works if you can keep it a secret. Which they won't be able to regarding 2020.
> That is a very cynical view. You assume Mozilla will give up their one huge advantage over Chrome (ie a browser where actual privacy is somewhat possible), you assume they will go about it in a round-about way.

Yes? It would be the... third or fourth, I can't remember anymore, mass extinction event for extensions, and be consistent with previous instances of sidelining functionality before killing it (say, tab groups, which were native functionality, then moved to an extension, and then completely killed off in one of the aforementioned extinction waves). Previous behavior is an excellent reason to be cynical.

> And you assume that nobody will fork it to keep webRequest. This seems strange as Firefox is itself a fork of Netscape create because the dominant browser was horrible to use.

I guess someone will, but they'll always lag, and accrue security flaws and bugs and missing features (ex. pale moon) since modern web standards helpfully move too fast to keep up with unless you're huge and/or making only the most minor of changes (and even then, really; icecat failing to keep up is a reasonable argument that it's impractical).
Sending poor kids to college is the best way to close the wealth gap, which is exactly what they are trying to do. I'm not sure what other solutions you are advocating for.
A bit of a weird article coming from a VC heavily invested in SaaS providers
I presume jsedn is your library [0]? I was heretofore unaware of EDN, but it looks like a very clean fit for our needs. I will examine this more in depth, thank you.

[0]: https://github.com/shaunxcode/jsedn
If you look into my other comments, I've always stated there was reason to leave the network the moment it became privately-owned. I also never expected Andrew to do the right thing as an operator. I also never defended his gross abuse of power after the network was in his hands.

I was trying to find the actual events because there's no indication this was planned, as opposed to what people are saying.

If you're fine with articles misrepresenting reality to further the idea that someone intentionally set out to do something bad, that's okay. I'm not. There is enough evidence that Libera Chat would be the preferred network and that Andrew is doing an absolute whack job of running the network afterwards, they didn't need to omit facts and imply Andrew was the driving force for the incorporation.

This discussion happened before the hostile takeover of channels. The fact the hostile takeover of channels happened doesn't affect whether or not the network takeover was intentional or not, and doesn't affect whether the transition could have been easier after finding out the community didn't own it had they not confronted Andrew as a thief first, despicable human being second.
Surprised to see nobody has yet mentioned Zach Holman's blog: https://zachholman.com/
The paradox is that if the coworking space were the cloud, it would just grow with you, and easily house a 50k-strong company, while you'd be paying the same (high) rate per employee.

Why would this happen? Because what the company builds is a large and growing money-making contraption right inside the coworking space, also using parts of the building for critical functions, and the door is intentionally kept small. The only way to move that contraption is to dismantle it and reassamble in a much cheaper, purpose-built hangar, rebuilding some of the critical parts along the way. During all that time, the contraption would stop making money.

That's the beauty of AWS business model: it's a no-brainer for a startup to use it, but the startup grows, more financially efficient infrastructure options become unattainable because of the very high cost of the move. This is the best-executed vendor lock-in I know.
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No offense, but that's the most BS sounding pitch i've ever heard.

You're fixing the garbage-in, garbage-out problem? Have you also invented strong AI and solved the halting problem?

Edit: you should replace your website with the first page of your language reference pdf. That's a better pitch and more interesting than anything you've written here.
The opportunity cost is staggering. Not just of the people that do the work, but the cost of focus and top-level priorities over the years it takes to do the work.

Everybody loves to cite DropBox here. The greater arc of DropBox is their product stalled, they lost the enterprise of their market to Box, and they found themselves a commodity in a commodity market. Heck, maybe they'll go back to Amazon if they keep doing things like this: https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dropbox-s3/

But that's not all. It takes a top-level directive to repatriate an entire SaaS. That's at the cost of other top-level projects. It's wild to me that any company that has significant fuel left in the tank would buy back single-digit COGS percentages instead of investing in product that could add double-digit growth for several years at scale.
It's a black box from an outside perspective, but generally I imagine it's factors such as appearing political or the sort of thing that would be reported in mainstream media (both of which are somewhat discouraged by site guidelines), or being repetitive (there have been a number of articles discussed recently on this topic).

This is not a new issue. Here's a discussion on the subject:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13857086
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Title is a bit misleading. It was the Phoenicians who circumnavigated Africa, but the trip was sponsored by the Egyptians. Egyptian and Phoenician civilizations were not the same, and the Phoenicians were the master sailers/travellers of the mediterranean at that time, whereas the Egyptians were known for other accomplishments (such as growing wheat, central administration).
With the location of modern NVME slots, you can't even exceed 500MB/s without a controller rate limiting due to heat.
Not that I'm doubting you, I'm just trying to understand this claim. Can you explain the motivation behind exporting at a loss? If the argument is that there's too much timber supply driving down prices to the point that some of the inventory is sold at a loss, wouldn't it make more sense to just cut less trees?
I have to typically impress in my first line support guys that “if you don’t want people to think your job is simple, then you shouldn’t assume the same of them”

Heck I get people that think MY job is just clicking next on installers, there are entire swaths of things we do that others simply aren’t aware of because it’s transparent to them. I even had one lady question how much I made based on that very assumption. (She’s not a very nice person in general anyway)
Except that the new interfaces don't stop an extension from recording all of your activity, they only break blockers.
Except it was never misinformation. It's always been not only plausible, but the null hypothesis given the location of the lab, the nature of research there, and the early cases along the train line.

When Jack banned zerohedge for their article, there were other reasons than "misinformation". Only he and his masters know those reasons.
Same for

> it's always upper middle class people bitching about the SAT's

in the first place. This is a mainstream reddit tier comment.
Very grateful to Eric Carle and his contribution to the world.

Alan Kay said "People who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.". Makes me think that people who are really serious about writing books for children, should do their own illustrations.
I hate how it feels like there's such a "collective narrative" for everything now days with the internet.

Whenever I talk to people about recent news stories in real life it feels like everyone is just repeating talking points they read online.

Its like we've been absorbed into the internet consciousness and talking to a person is like talking to "the internet brain".
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When people feel insecure they're soon going to ask for their liberties to be removed. Every politician knows that, and fueling that feel is the best recipe to create a soft dictatorship with public approval.
This is similar to ABBA songs: Superficially, they seem very simple, but they are quite complex internally, and when something is repeated, then it is often repeated in a slightly different way.
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The industrial revolution was as much a product of economics as technology. If wages for lower-class workers hadn't been nearly so high, the technology might have come and gone without making much of a ripple.

The reason why the industrial revolution happened in the UK as it did is disputed by historians.

I would argue that high wage, while important as an incentive for industrial development, isn't a fundamental reason why the industrial revolution happens.

Why? Because the very idea of deliberate invention and continuous improvement must occur to a potential inventor. Otherwise, no invention will occur at all despite continual pressure and despite available low hanging fruits.

Once we have the idea, we can now invent as a whole category of deliberate activity. Only then can incentive drives what gets invented and don't.

Steam-powered machines were known to the Romans, and seen as a stupid novelty.

Steam engine in the Hellenistic period were nothing but toys. They can't do useful work.
You don't even have to break the law.

Hacker News and the software engineering industry has a decent influence in the world, as we can't (yet) be automated away and it takes years to become proficient.

If we as an industry collectively agree that X is bad and refuse to work on it, X will be significantly disrupted, as their only option might to be offering more money (to get someone to defect and renege on the promise) than they can afford or that makes sense with their economics.

Creepy adtech could die tomorrow if people refuse to work on it. The same applies to this Citizen crap.
> Since most of the world will be suffering from over aging and from a lack of births, these migrants will be dearly needed.

Needed for what exactly? Wouldn't this keep the value of human labor low and thus slow down automation?
Crime is a non-issue in the US. The problem here is a feeling of general helplessness: there are many disturbing trends and quality of life is clearly falling for many, but it's things like crappy infrastructure that never gets repaired, schools implementing dumb policies, growth in bureaucracy in nearly every facet in life, stagnant wages and declining employment in traditional fields, etc. The symptoms are obvious but the causes are complex and viable cures require cooperation on a scale most now consider unrealistic.

But staying informed feels like it helps, even though it generally doesn't. And in the particular case of crime, that's a situation where the actions of individuals could at least in theory make a difference. The benefits to the community of identifying a stolen bike are trivial, and even then you're very unlikely to ever actually do it, but one can fantasize about heroically saving the day and helping your neighbor and that fantasy scratches the itch we all have to be part of something greater. And if you can find a whole bunch of people who all want to do their part and help, maybe there's hope that the bigger issues aren't so intractable after all.

Unfortunately the problem will only get worse until the nation finds a healthy way to deal with the despair. God only knows when or if that'll happen though.
In all Western and Northern Europe (except UK and Switzerland), 50K for a junior position sounds about right. It’s around 25K in Southern Europe, and probably less in Eastern Europe.
sure, can happen to anyone. Still easier to shunt massive amounts of data between aws regions via amazons pipes than it is to do it yourself.
If you want to get level with the user in that video, turn on Screen Curtain on your iPhone and try to use it. Very, very humbling experience as an iOS dev.

Here's how to turn it on: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201443
This solution looks ugly, but i don't think its "wrong". The point of fizzbuzz is to check they can write any trivial program. It works, its a pass.
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This should be fixed now!
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The infra was on-prem, so it was planned in advance and ops folks who had on-call rotations every day etc & that was rented out by the hour to the game teams (a chargeback model).

The salaries and hardware cost was paid for even if the games had a bust.

The period where it worked well, the games had boom-bust in somewhat controlled fashion where farmville -> cityville -> frontierville -> fishville etc, the traffic would move around rather than die down entirely.

The world turned mobile-heavy and that whole pipeline fell apart while they were restructuring into mobile games (words with friends etc), when the hardware had to be sold or the payments would start to hurt.
I'm not defending the system, I was trying to point out the absurdity of the parent's statement.

To your point, the affordable health care act addressed the issue with not being able to get insurance due to preexisting conditions. In the US you're required to have healthcare insurance. You can buy it yourself, get it through your employer, or, assuming you qualify, get it from the government.
Does anyone know other "full-stack web" language attempts?
Vigilantism gets innocent people killed. Cops not showing up, and not investigating, has nothing to do with "rules of engagement," (law enforcement is not working in a war zone), but is just plain incompetence or refusal to do ones job on behalf of the SPD. That being said, the picture non-US residents get from US law enforcement is basically incompetent neglect of duty anyway.
I think self driving will catch on for special roads or lanes that are automatic only. Mostly on long highways that are mostly straight.
RoboCop comes to mind, which is ironic since the movie was obviously a parody. Also, isn't this what reality shows like Cops were about?

There is a large market for morbidity.
The progressive tech bubble gets all of its money elsewhere from ads. Theyre the ones making the calls, doesn't matter how progressive Facebook is
>one type, you have to be standing on for the machine to operate so that you are in a safe location when it starts

Of course, the weakness of a system like this being if middle management is demanding unachievable timelines and/or people in the shop are willing to cut corners, someone can leave a box of heavy stuff on the pressure pad to "save time." Absolutely right that all these systems need to be resilient to operator tiredness etc
While Goodnight Moon is everyone's favorite, there is something about "The Little Island" by Margaret Wise Brown that captured me as a parent. I loved reading this story out loud. The writing is poetic and flows off the tongue. The story has some nuance, that to this day I'm still not sure I fully grasp. This is my favorite book to give as a gift to new parents.
No this is not code - this is configuration. Many places actually save CODE into the DB and then load it at runtime for, say, ETL jobs. It's not an easy problem.
> CentOS seemed to mainly backport security fixes to older versions, so often flags or features of commands don't apply.

In fairness, that's kind of the point of CentOS et al.
If it were purely about money, they would not be axing legacy admissions.