skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think writing on the internet is not a problem. It's easy to build a blog from a static site generator. There are tons of them these days.

IMO the actual problem is you want to interact with the people reading what you write.

Without a commenting system, the writing/publishing platform loses a lot of its potential value.

The other problem like other people mentioned is discovery.

Let's take YouTube for an example.

In theory you can make videos and publish them on your own self-hosted website.

But if you post the videos to youtube, you get a bigger chance of people finding out about you.

So, if you want to empower a distributed network of personal websites, you also need a powerful "indexing" engine that continuously fetches and catalogues all the new content being published by all these people for easy discovery.

The other problem is discontinuity between discovery mode and consumption mode.

On YouTube, when you find a video you like, you still see related or recommended videos on the side.

If you have a video index that tries to work like YouTube but redirects to different websites where videos are actually hosted, you get this discontinuity where, once the user visits the actual website where the content is hosted, they are no longer discovering new things on the indexing service.
Well, in this case, it was clear that the choice was between Communism and military totalitarist regime/falangism/Fascism:

There was a failed coup by the PSOE and left-leaning political groups in 1934: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_of_1934

They failed and the next two years were a sequence of minor scale violent events that ended in a war in 1936. Of course, the coup by the military forces is not justified, but the caotic situation made them choose what they thought was the "lesser of two evils".
Oh, sure, because if you hang around here and are any good at programming, surely you can afford your own blood boy. Right.
> I do enjoy this though: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/

Thanks! You just gave me my new favorite news source.
I had a job like this 20 years ago and I did learn important lessons - mainly how to spot toxic work environments and people. These days, in pretty much any part of the world, one can get a job as a programmer in a matter of days. My company is now handing out $100k in deferred comp (stock, not even options, vesting in 3 years, with a performance-based multiplier of up to 3x) to key devs despite being a large company with a $30bn topline that, until quite recently, considered programmers an expendable commodity. Well, not anymore -- covid accelerated shift to 'fully digital' business processes and companies are struggling to find devs in all the western world.
There are many circumstances in which it's not.

- Remotely accessing a system (terminal or GUI).
- An overloaded system (GUI response is ... inconsisstent)
- Remotely accessing a system from a touch-based device. An increasingly common scenario.
- Walking someone through a process (text is unambiguous).
- Repeated operations (something that has to be done multiple times, in multiple directories, on an ongoing basis, on a scheduled basis, reliably, consistently, provably, with documentation and debuggability).

Additionally, the scrollbar seems to be increasingly unpopular. I'm on record as not being happy about this.

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/0hgfswmoti3fi5zgftjecq (HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21356511)
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23463279
It’s usually number 1 on these lists but definitely deserves it!
In the... Right? :P
EDIT: removed NSFHN comment.

i stand by my previous post

oh yeah, and memory-safety is well defined, even de-facto. this is why some 20 mainstream PLs are memory-safe and Go is not (admittedly of course much more so than C).
That stuff is only interesting if you find it interesting.

I like the idea of an undersea utopia, but I don't think I'd enjoy the reality of funding and developing it enough to want to spend my fortune on it. It sounds like a lot of work and more than a full time job, you can't just throw $100M at your cause and expect it to be done in a way that meets your vision, you need to be there to oversee and guide it and make sure your money is being spent wisely. (a good example is Disney's EPCOT -- Disney's vision was to make it a real living city, after his death it was turned into just another theme park)

A home in the Mediterranean and a yacht sound much more inviting, not to mention less risky than living in an undersea habitat that I just built.
Noam Chomsky described the NYT and WP as "establishment" newspapers, representing the left and right leaning sides of the establishment.

WSJ is fine for business news if you don't look at the editorial page, which has been the case for decades.

USA Today was "TV that you can wrap fish in."
Coronavirus almost certainly didn't come from a lab leak, top scientists argue
I am sorry to hear about your grandmother.

I would assume the drone would move me and then we would finally have a bidet/toilet combo to fix the rest.

I don't mean that drones will be able to fix every problem, just that they will be one component in helping older people stay mobile and reduce the care necessary.
Can the hardware be used for better gaming too?
No they don't? Most people in tech don't live/work in SV, or even the United States. Even for those that do work in SV, most aren't working for FAANG or elsewhere for comparable comp.
Amazon will sell you the current issue of a newspaper or magazine in Kindle format. You can get today’s New York Times for a dollar. Not as nice as a day pass to the site, but it’s one option.

Kindle books can be updated with the publisher’s changes. Would be interesting if the single NYT issue purchase would be updated throughout the day. That would make it as useful as a day pass.
> limits on production of those same resources (eg food, energy) will in turn impose limits on population growth.

Historically greater food and resource output could help you grow fast (particularly by intention), but for a long while now population growth is negatively correlated with production on the global scale. The 1st world is high production, the 3rd world is not, and all the while hunger and lack of infrastructure seems to be no deterrent to the fertility rate. Child mortality rate might also compel some to have more children.

If one were interested in stops on population growth, access to contraceptives and eliminating poverty would probably be the most powerful way short of a State policy to punish excess births.
The flaw here isn't in God's omnipotence. It's in the nonsensical question formulation.

I can make up whatever words I want and put them in a syntactically correct structure, but that doesn't mean the sentence means anything.

"Can God tell a true lie?"

No, of course not, not because God isn't omnipotent, but because it's a nonsense question. There can no more be true lies than four-sided triangles or objects that are immovable in the face of an irresistible force.

The flaw is in the question.
Makes perfect sense. I remember going to an amusement park or fair with my family and being given a small amount of money or tokens to spend. I'd enjoy myself, but I would be thinking about how to stretch out the tokens I had to maximize my experience.

Few will have the patience for that when you're an adult. And especially when we're talking about pennies per article, for potentially a lot of articles.
Man say whatever you want. I am feeling lonely working at home too. You can't focus on your family while working but colleagues aren't there too.

A lot of time I feel the need to talk about work but there is no one to talk to. It's hard to ping a colleague for some chit-chat.
The Flintstones was in effect an animated remake of popular live-action TV series The Honeymooners, with the stone-age setting as just an added quirky facade to get easy jokes out of. It was, needless to say, never meant as an actual reference to any actual stone-age.

Compare this to, say, Dinosaurs, which (while in many ways similar to The Flintstones) had actual references to contemporary events and phenomena.
The Problem of Evil concerns this universe.

Why is there suffering in this universe? Why is this universe imperfect?

The possibility that another universe could be better actually argues against god being omnipotent, perfectly benevolent, or omniscient.

The standard answer from theists is that this is "the best of all possible worlds" -- a position that Voltaire satirized in Candide.
Sure, but if there was such a thing as adblock for the physical world, able to get rid of freeway billboards, USA Today's "hybrid babies" front page (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usatoday-hybrid-babies-ad-...), etc, it would be extremely popular.
No worries - there’s a lot there, but I’ve been happy with the variety.

Some others that I forgot are the 538 podcast, Bari Weiss, and the new Joe Lonsdale YouTube channel.
Looking forward to a world free of religion, it can't come soon enough.
People with Mastodon accounts for instance can follow accounts on your WriteFreely instance.

This is powered by the ActivityPub protocol, a W3C recommendation.
>However I don’t think obesity and diabetes are rampant among people who eat 2000 calories and exercise 30 minutes per day

And this is where the issue gets complicated. Why do people eat more than 2000 calories / day and exercise less. Are they lazy and stupid, or is there something deeper.

Personally, I think the most compelling argument appears to be that high insulin levels hijack the hypothalamus through hormonal disregulation. The hypothalamus of these insulin resistant people drives them to over eat and expend less energy because it thinks they are underfed.

This model suggests severely restricting carbohydrate in order to drive down insulin levels.
Naive question, not trying to lead somewhere.

Back in the day we'd do a ./configure && make install on some server and we'd be up and running to kick the tires.

It's been a long time since I have done this - my career went off in other directions - and so I am curious if web app authors are providing automatic serverless deploy plans that are just as easy to run as that ./configure experience from much earlier.

(I know configure scripts still exist, but they are largely satisfied by OS providers for users like me)
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I’m a hobbyist programmer who has worked in various finance jobs and is now working in investment banking. I would love to use programming in finance but I have to say it’s come in handy very little.
My experience has been that doctors don't actually even bother to recommend lifestyle change, they just vaguely cast aspersions on my lifestyle based on my weight and blood pressure, and that's the end of it.
I agree; what I am trying to say; is there is no excuse for God. People have spent centuries making excuses most of them much smarter people than me.
In a 21st century context it seems apparent that Gods possible excuses for creating a universe that mandates suffering are running out.
It's a little hard to care when there's such a vast difference between being "in space" vs being in orbit.

I hope we accomplish more of the latter.
It’s difficult in today’s environment to align with Trump on some FP issues w/o caveats but his first FP speech to the AEI at Georgetown (I think, it’s on c-span somewhere) was filled with him calling them and the neocons a bunch of losers who got us into dumb wars and how he probably wouldn’t hire any of them.

The left mostly focused on his “take the oil” comments, not his “get out” statements. Pretty much everyone in Obama’s cabinet and staff is on record saying he screwed up not doing more (boots on the ground) to take out Assad.

For all of Trump’s ranting on NATO, I really question the EU’s wanting us to do something about Putin, Ukraine, Syria, etc while shutting their nukes and building gas pipelines to Russia.
I'd probably rather have my kids play a creative game like Minecraft on a tablet than TV. I'd rather have them watch Pokémon on TV than YouTube Kids on the tablets.

TV is entirely passive. Games on the iPad are at least interactive, though games are not all created equal.

I have some concerns that touching glass all the time will be damaging for kids, as much as if not more than the lack of mental stimulation or social growth or physical activity. But I also think that encouraging creative play (lots of building with different materials), playing outside, role-playing and even being "bored" to invent new games and new play is highly beneficial. Reading and even trying to make up stories is also good.

The worst part of screen time is that it crowds out so many other beneficial activities, but I'm not convinced that it's horrible as a "treat" alongside those activities. It's probably better than zero stimulation or interaction at all.
If you happen to have a relevant source for this information the Wikipedia entry could use a citation for that statement in the introductory paragraph. Unfortunately personal experience and observation is not sufficient.
To be fair, the Bulgarians (and Macedonians) haven't done much killings since the two balkan wars before ww1. They tend to co-exist mostly peacefully with their neighbors, especially the last 15 years.

The serbians have been the ones trying to kill almost every other ethnicity around them. They are the bad guys of the region, yet they tend to claim victimhood the most (from NATO, to Croatians in WW2, to XXX ethnicity...).
Agreed, the only people I know of that subscribe to multiple publications do it for professional reasons. I only subscribe to WSJ and it's more pricey than others but worth it. I get all the major stories.
> You don’t need a moratorium on something that makes no economic sense

Something can be generally economically unfavorable but cheaper in select applications. For example while petroleum is generally way too expensive to be used for grid scale electricity production, it is used for over 60% of Hawaii's electricity production because it is relatively easy to transport by ship over long distances, and thus in that specific case is the most economical option.
Awesome. Feeling nostalgia now :-D
Startup founding teams are not a meritocracy. So it's not uncommon to see someone who is functionally a junior developer become the company's CTO because they were the only founder who knew how to code.

I've also seen CEO's appoint what I can only describe technical yes-men to this position. eg: "I have a product described in this 20 slide power point. No real mockups or anything. Can I launch in 6 months?" - The first person to tell them yes got the job.
The reverse is also possible: https://youtube.com/v/ar9WRwCiSr0?t=17m
This is a beautiful way to put it. Contemporary Advaita provides many pointers, one of which is to observe your choices and try to find a force independent of observable causality chains.

Unpacking what we call “free will” in this way is a really sobering experience, leading to automatic compassion for everyone.
They're also leaving international money on the table. I would never get a paper version of a US newspaper, but now with digital papers, I would love to read some articles from US papers. I just don't want to have to pick a single one, especially because many of them are local.
I don't think that was the point. Rather, it's that many rookies, including bright graduates, think "meh, I can run this SQL script without making a backup first."
It is omnipotent turtles all the way down, though. "Matter and the laws of physics" is "turtles" just as much as "God" is "turtles."

Choosing to believe the turtles are impersonal doesn't alleviate the problem of the turtles.
> rural market exists, but is quite small — as you can easily see from the revenue of the 3-4 established providers in the field

The existing providers suck. There are plenty of villas, chalets, et cetera in places where Starlink would be the winning offering. These may not represent a large number of people. But they do represent a lot of dollars.

This is before tapping the moving target market, e.g. yachts, planes, backpackers, et cetera.
That one really stood out to me as well. All of the early Cyberpunk I remember reading seemed noir as hell. But maybe Cyberpunk has become such a big tent that "original" Cyberpunk needs a new name.
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Are you talking about short term frequency stability on the grid? This was provided by large rotating mass of conventional generators, but today that stability can be provided far better by batteries. The Hornsdale Power Reserve in Australia (that thing Elon Musk has built) made a killing off FCAS, which doesn't require more than a fraction of an hour of battery capacity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve
hence the research pass. I could actually see that as valuable for a subset of people if it were searchable. I find the historical value of news generally higher than the current value but of course that's not why people read the paper. I might be inclined to subscribe to the times if I could read contemporaneous perspectives of historical periods I'm interested in. as it is, I sometimes feel like Chesterton, who snarkily opined he would be impressed if the news could get the past right, to say nothing of their guesses about the future.

even so I think there's a need for deeply reported careful work...and that takes money. archives might work. I also like the git diff idea in a sibling comment.
Just wanted to chime in here with a book suggestion : "The Problem if Pain" by C.S. Lewis.

Tackles this problem from a christian apologista perspective. Its about as intellectual an analysis as you are going to get on this subject matter. I personally don't agree with 100% of it, but Lewis always presents arguments I never would have considered otherwise. Worth a read.

Also, listening to scientists and engineers discuss issues of morality (e.g. this comments section) is always a painful experience. The analytical mind is not often applied appropriately to matters of philosophy. At least thats my impression.
I had always heard Jewish Americans eat Chinese food and see a movie on Christmas.
"A stupid person can make only certain, limited types of errors; the mistakes open to a clever fellow are far broader. But to the one who knows how smart he is compared to everyone else, the possibilities for true idiocy are boundless."
It is beyond the limits of science. The experiment to determine an optimal food pyramid has too many confounding variables and the experiements necessary to validate them would probably not pass an IRB and cost hundreds of billions of dollars.
unfortunately I couldn't find the methodology, but it's very important to realize that self reported data is fraught with many many issues.

In many communist countries religion (or at least freedom to choose from foreign or other religions) is suppressed. People which might have been religious do not become, and those that are might not tell the truth.

Similarly in religious nations I'm sure we'd get a far lower "religious" rate if you went through a set of beliefs for each religion and see what things they actually practice.

Eg: church attendance most weeks, prayer, reading the bible, taking communion, monogamy/marriage, etc... I'm sure if you go down that checklist the number of people who say they're "Christian" for whatever reason, would actually sharply decline when we consider their actual life practices.

to make a HN analogy I can put CEO on my linkedin profile, but unless I incorporate something, sell something, hire people, build a business etc. am I really the CEO of anything the way that people interpret when they hear "CEO" ?
The Gates Foundation has done a lot to save lives and reduce suffering in developing countries. It's a bit tone-deaf to knock him on that point, and also pretty myopic. The US does not exist in a vacuum, and having third world countries develop faster because they're not getting hammered by easily preventable diseases actually can benefit the US. The people who are alive today (or maybe their descendants) might be buying products and services from the US down the road.
https://archive.is/RcmME
It's silly to standardise on a technology. Standardise on the output definitions: accessibility, performance, ergonomics, compatibility.

In construction a standard isn't "use this make of hammer". It's "achieve this effect".
> If I am called chief executive officer but cannot behave like a chief or take executive decisions, the only part of the role left is officer, which means being in the office.

Haha brilliant :-). Love seeing this in Financial Times
Really, really confused about your take on documentation. 9/10 you have documentation in the form of a pkgdown site with examples, parameter definitions, change log, articles, etc.

Here’s a good example: https://dplyr.tidyverse.org

Equally confused about your take on the community. R community is sort of a perfect example of an inclusive community actively trying to include everyone with organizations like “rladies” for women in tech.
USA today is not quality
> Cloud SQL isn’t terrible, but at least the Postgres version is one of the weaker managed Postgres offerings out there. And their whole observability stack (Logging/Monitoring/Tracing/Error Reporting) is legit terrible compared to competing products. Compared to other products I’ve used in the space, Cloud Logging is unbelievably worse than Sumo Logic, Cloud Metrics soooo much worse than Grafana+Prometheus, Cloud Tracing way worse than offerings from Datadog or New Relic, Cloud Error Reporting is ridiculously far behind Sentry, etc.

To be fair, AWS CloudWatch is even worse.
The fact that there isn't price transparency into all procedures at all facilities is a true market failure. Facilities are incentivized to to maintain opaque pricing so they can gouge.

My advise is to respond to the bill and let them know you'll only willing to pay $200 and that's all you can afford. Negotiations with these predatory billers go a long way.
There was a moment in the 90s where a lot of good news media met the criteria you list. I think that anchored us on unrealistic cultural expectations.
> Wii emulating GameCube

No need for this, it's natively supported and runs game cube games (and with the right setup, GC homebrew)
One of the factions can be worse without the other being perfect.

All my grandparents were pro-Franco (some more openly than others). I have done my own research and I have concluded that no, they were the baddies. Of course the other side were not all angels. They never are.

> ended more than 80 years ago

The problem is that that conflict from 80 years ago had ramifications that continue to exist today, even present in our Constitution.
You mean like the Srebrenica massacre? Oh wait, that was Srpska forces.
> Until you have 2-3 years experience under your belt, you're just not that attractive to employers; and your competition for those lower-level positions is fierce.

I don't agree, especially in today's market where I see companies snapping up junior level devs that can actually code. And importantly, if you're working in a place where you are getting 0 mentorship and/or growth opportunities, it is all a net negative for you in any case.