skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They are absolutely not complaining about private citizens lambasting them online. It's entrenched monopolies in cooperation with the state itself that work to ruin right-wing (and left-wing in the case of TERFs, Deep Greens, etc.) dissidents' lives and deny their ability to speak. For instance, banks are closing their accounts for opposing the status quo. Banking is so strictly regulated, incestuous, and intertwined with the state that innovation is notoriously difficult; and innovation from an explicitly adversarial entity with no institutional support is nearly impossible.

What's more, if one lives in a red state surrounded by people similar to them on the political spectrum, they'll still have their employers harassed to keep them from holding down a job. It's not their peers "cancelling" them; it's a minority of people with wildly different worldviews from wildly different parts of the country. It's not all that different from swatting.
> Isn't that what adjusting to today's dollars essentially does?

To make it more obvious, a town council spending $1 million on a project is a much bigger undertaking (for them) than a country spending $1 million. It has nothing to do with inflation. I.e. consider it as percentage of GDP.
not on Mac/I/watch/tvOS where much of the core platform API is objective-c (Which swift has first class support for), and C++ (because of poor 90s decisions).

But also missing the point that you can't implement a subclass or what have you in rust, and if every interface you have is C then you have an exercise in mass unsafe code.
I moved to the US from Australia (not entirely my decision -- long story) and I regret it every day.

If I was picking today I'd move to New Zealand.

Optimize your life for happiness instead of money.
The commercial exception is very strange. So I can simply say my product is intended for commercial use only and then ignore the law, regardless of actual end use?

Is this the real reason why "commercial grade" is a thing?
I read somewhere that 400,000 people worked on the Apollo program.
The Kubernetes marketing team has definitely gotten to you. The investment in DevRel is really paying off if people are unironically arguing that you _must_ use K8s or you're wasting money and time.

I'd be very curious to find your proposed cost savings after accounting for those teams of engineers tasked with maintaining a company's K8s clusters. There is no free lunch.
She blinded me with science!
I hacked on the Foxglove sources a few months ago to add support for a visualization I needed, and found the codebase to be top notch. My thanks to the team for the project and for being so helpful on Slack.
Curious if we know for sure that every culture doesn't descend in part from inhabitants of the fertile crescent.
This is how it happened.

At each step of the evolutionary ladder, there
is a confrontation from one species to the
next; A battle of hairy to slightly less hairy
homonids. Two meet on a grassy plain,
their stares communicating that this is the
final straw. You came into our banana
plantation the last time. A thought
reverberating through the millenia. Once
again, two creatures play out their parts,
employing different gifts bestowed upon them
by nature, now to challenge eachother in
mortal combat. One with a slightly
more developed brain, and the other
with slightly more developed muscles.

Partially written with GPT-3.

https://asciinema.org/a/oQBzOj1Q3CTDxc2rwu2hLBT6R
> Having a pretend job would be right up my alley with all my experience in pretending to work.

Nice to meet you here at HN, George Constanza. How is the import/export business going? Are you still into exports or just imports?
Facebook took our election ad money then bulk-deleted our pages
> Thank you for refraining from repeating this absurd hyperbole.

To be fair, I wouldn't quite label it as "absurd", though it is hyperbole. With near-extreme levels of discipline you can write very solid C code - this involves having ~100% MCDC coverage, using sanitizers, static analysis tools, and likely outright banning a few functions. It's doable, especially if your project doesn't have to move fast or has extreme requirements (spaceships).

> Can you guide me to some Rust programs that are smaller than their C counterparts.

Rust has a big standardlib compared to C++ so by default you end up with a lot of "Extra" stuff that helps deal witht hings like unicode, etc. If you drop std and dynamically link your libraries you can drop a lot of space and get down to C levels.

There are a number of examples like this: https://cliffle.com/blog/bare-metal-wasm/

> is the (apparently) enormous size of the development environment relative to a GCC toolchain.

I can't really relate to this. I have a 1TB SSD, 32GB of ram, and an 8 core CPU. My rust build tools are a single command to install and I don't know or care how much space they take up. If you do, I don't really know why, but sure that's a difference maybe.

> All programmers are not created equal no matter what languages they use

While this is true, it doesn't matter practically.

1. We can't restrict who writes C, so even if programmer skill was the kicker, it isn't enforceable.

2. There are lots of projects that invest absolutely incredible amounts of time and money, cutting edge research, into writing safe low level code. Billions are spent on this. And the problem persists. Very very few projects seem to be able to achieve "actually looks safe" C code.

> Memory-safe languages are great but it seems like they just enable people to become far too ambitious in what they think they can take on.

I don't really see how Rust is any different from Python, Java, or anything else in that regard.
Wow. Just wow.

The average comment in HN is braindead retarded. The amount of self assured Dunning-Kruger morons in this forum is ... most of it.

CYA HN
Scientists Create World’s Thinnest Magnet: one-atom-thin
This is one of those headlines where I expected the cases to be a bunch of micro-aggressions that I would not really empathize with.

But no, this is absolutely disgusting.
There is a trap in distributed system design - seeking to scale-up from a single-host perspective. An example - we have apache and want to scale it up, so we put it in a container and generate its configuration so we can run several of them in parallel.

This leads to unnecessarily heavy systems - you do not need a container to host a server socket.

Industry puts algorithms and Big O on a pedestal. Most software projects start as someone building algorithms, with deployment and interactions only getting late attention. This is a bit like building the kitchen and bathroom before laying the foundations.

Algorithm centric design creates mathematically elegant algorithms that move gigabytes of io across the network for every minor transaction. Teams wrap commodity resource schedulers around carefully tuned worker nodes, and discover their performance is awful because the scheduler can’t deal in the domain language of the big picture problem.

I think it is interesting that the culture of Big O interviews and k8s both came out of Google.
Actually, the single highest leverage cost reduction measure is to reduce the raw cost of care, which is 5x higher than peer nations. Once you do that, the 5-10% here and there no longer matters.

If you spend much time in this industry, you’re bound to hear the phrase “bending the cost curve”, because that’s where the primary focus is right now.
Related: https://www.econlib.org/i-believe-the-true-science/
> Musk might have accelerated this through risking his personal wealth when creating SpaceX but this was not a one man effort and people should spend less time attributing these advancements to one person.

You could have erased any person in SpaceX and SpaceX would have happened anyway. Erase Musk, and no SpaceX. Musk was the lynchpin to making it happen. He provided the vision, the impetus, the funding, and the leadership.

That's why he gets (and deserves) the credit.

It's just like Apple. Apple floundered with CEO after CEO, winding up 90 days from bankruptcy. Then Jobs became CEO, and Apple became the richest company in the world.

With the same staff.
Multi Stage Inference for TinyML Devices
Democratic government could very well make the largest and riskiest investments, but I find it hard to believe that they make the most efficient investments.

Government need to get a job done, but they also need to appease voters and play politics to be able to achieve long-term goals. Businesses self-select for efficiency in the long-term, because those that aren't efficient go bankrupt or get overtaken by a more efficient upstart.
Indeed. Chimps will eat gorilla infants. So if the attack was over a scarcity of food resources you'd expect the killed infant to be eaten. This was only observed in 1/2 the encounters...

> Between 2014 and 2018, we observed nine direct interactions between individuals of the Rekambo community and unhabituated gorillas (N=9; see Fig. 1). These events were always peaceful, and occasionally involved co-feeding in fruiting trees (N=2). In 2019 however, we observed two encounters resulting, in both cases, in coalitionary lethal attacks. The first encounter involved a party of 27 chimpanzees and a group of five gorillas. The second involved a party of 27 chimpanzees and a group of seven gorillas (see Table 1, and video clips 1 and 2 in the SA). The first event occurred after a territorial patrol during which the males made a deep incur- sion into a neighbouring chimpanzee territory. The second event happened at the start of a suspected territorial boundary patrol. Both events took place on the outer boundaries of the Rekambo territory (see Fig. 1). The main aggressors in both events were adult male chimpanzees (for details of involvement see Table 1).
The two encounters lasted 52 and 79 min, respectively, involved both contact and non-contact aggressions and coalitionary displays from chimpanzees towards gorillas. The gorillas counter attacked and defended themselves using contact aggressions, displays and threat gestures. During the first encounter the silverback was present for 14 min, whilst in the second encounter the silverback was present for 10 min. The first encounter resulted in one dead gorilla infant and three injured chimpanzees; the second resulted in one dead gorilla infant. While there was no indication of consumption of the dead gorilla infant in the first encounter, the infant in the second encounter was almost entirely consumed by one adult chimpanzee female.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x.pdf
I read this years ago, https://words.motel.is/better-slacking-with-status-emoji-7a1... and installed their emojis on our work server, https://motel.is/slacking-better

You share the link. If they see it good and if not, when you hover emojis it shows the name. When someone sees `:working-head_down_no_interruptions:` they get it.

That and turn off slack notifications. You'll check it when you have time.
Nice. Starting from the easy(ish) one - composability is slowly becoming a solved problem these days or atleast something that can be tacked on via templating (not an ideal or native solution to these tools I agree).

The AST availability is defintely a big one that I cannot align on a decent contract on. At some point in time not all AST transformations are reversible yeah? Heck even a conversion from Parse Tree to AST is often not bidirectional. A lot of AST directed IDEs (even MPS from Jetbrains) end up being very cumbersome when typing-at-scale. I wonder what kind of semantics can be foundational enough that AST generation is simplified for atleast 90% of the cases? Again my interest in this comes from building incremental editors for certain domains so I am definitely looking to learn more.
I'm aware of the difference, but it just means a different probability distribution. COVID's is likely very spikey, i.e. only there for a couple of years until you've successfully vaccinated, which we potentially already have, or until efficient treatment is found. Gun violence is there to stay with you throughout your life until society changes. Good luck.
Meta: Any HN threads where 90% of the comments are "jokes" should just be deleted.
I sometimes think we deserve capitalism. Capitalism is the best solution when you assume people are selfish, immoral, and all-around kind of evil. It's a system to incentive people to work together despite our awful nature.

I certainly don't think it's the best system imaginable given different assumptions or conditions. I hope as the basic needs of more and more people are met, we will be able to come together. I think most evils in the world can be explained by desperation caused by scarcity but some certainly can't.

I'm not sure if we deserve a better system, at least not yet.
There are videos

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93829-x
That's very reasonable. Our company looked over at azure while it wasn't even in the back of our mind some years ago.
In this case the Op was talking about arranging around super charger stations. But yeah.
or if you have a small team that must manage hundreds of these lamps…

i started by simple wrapper around docker 8 or so years ago. over the years we’ve moved to k8s b/c it provided essentially the same api we had home grown. this reduced the LoC and moved the complexity of something like dynamic reverse proxy via nginx downstream into kubernetes ingress abstraction backed by nginx-ingress-controller.
There is a 5th way. Sponsored content. Basically where people pay to have an article written about a particular topic or product.
You don't have to write in the same directory as the original file (and you definitely don't want to overwrite the original file). Original vi (and nvi) keeps the working copy below /var/tmp. If you can't write there, you have bigger problems.

(just be consistent from which host you modify a file from ;-}
It sounds like you might be joking, but no the plastic does not come from carbon removed from the air. We remove it from the ground as oil, turn it in to plastic, ship it overseas in carbon polluting container ships, transport each item to an end customer, and then transport them to the landfill where they will persist for generations.

So no, I am not saying that.
Isn’t this already the case with Macs and their SSDs tied to the disk controller? Add in stacked memory being unreplaceable and impossible to upgrade.

The upgrade path is to throw away the entire machine and buy a new one.
(Pegasus) Spyware hijacks smartphones, threatens journalists (2018)
Extreme Weather Sweeps the World as Natural Disasters Unleash on 3 Continents
so in this view I'll ask (with a nod towards Fermi of course)... just where are all these AIs you speak of?

wouldn't these AIs begin to contact and perhaps battle with each other? certainly it seems to me, there would be some tell-tale sign left over from the expected millions of AIs, right?

now of course, it's impossible to tell what super intelligent AIs would choose to do... but I do feel that an extension of Fermi's paradox would be needed with your comment.
This is hilarious to me, in a really tragic way. It's a shame that this is the status quo for performance for what is probably the most used software type :(
Dexedrine is great for me except for two things. I need to drink a tremendous amount of water and I don’t grind my teeth but I sort of lightly chatter them together. Apart from that it enhances just about everything - memory, focus, ability to socialize, executive function.

The mild oral fixation and water thing is a little annoying, but overall it’s worth it for how much easier it makes a lot of things (including for my family).
Unlike Florida, California leaves the safety of high-rises in owners’ hands
> Because something like VTOL rockets can only be innovated by a private company focused on unit economics and scale economies.

I don't think anyone is proposing that government employees (or politicians) actually design the rockets themselves. The question is, can governments oversee and fund the development of innovations like VTOL rockets? And the answer to that question is "yes"[0].

As for why innovation in that field stopped, and had to be picked up again by private companies, I think it's worth asking whether large companies have undue influence over the sorts of projects that governments choose to pursue.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_DC-X
gists are git repos and can contain multiple files. Since clj supports git deps, you've been able to use them as deps for a long time.

Example gist: https://gist.github.com/puredanger/cbcdd9f54deb7fb7309fdd632...

Run it:
clj -Sdeps '{:deps {a/gist {:git/url "https://gist.github.com/puredanger/cbcdd9f54deb7fb7309fdd632..." :sha "116ac594c922be6ed9d3366f5ac89ed2b0a082f5"}}}' -X foo/bar :name '"Alex"'
Is anyone ever allowed to have money they give away? Or should all money which would be given away instead have been taken by the government as taxes? Even if Bezos paid $200M more in taxes, it isn't clear that he wouldn't have given this $200M away.
> employees that did not take on any risk

You must be kidding that Bezos took any risk... The only risk he had was that he wouldn't continue making money from his well paid Wall Street job. He was already well off when he started raising other people's money to found Amazon. So, no, he didn't take any risk to justify all this money. Only the very deluded think he did anything of great risk. He is an oligarch who exploit others, and doesn't deserve even a fraction of that fortune.
> They want nukes too

No, they want weapons that can project and multiply threat. Nukes are just one way of doing that.
The church calls for people who are gay to basically suppress it and go into a vocation where they can not sin basically. They really don't care if you're gay. The church essentially considers it a fetish. Fetishes aren't a sin. Acting on them are.

Yes yes before the mob gets upset at the faulty logic, I get it. There is several reasons that I'm irreligious now.
> I actually think the most "realistic" approach would be to ban space exploration until climate change is under control.

Talk about cutting off one's nose to spite one's face. If we're going down this road, why not take it all the way:

* Ban climate change research until hunger is under control

* Ban efforts to curb hunger until war is under control

* Ban efforts to stop war until disease is under control
Thanks. I hadn’t even considered Babashka, which I’m quite intrigued by.
Apple has been a particularly notable offender of R2R. Others have been (and will continue to be) following suit.
no... thanks for trying to censor everything though... you sound like Mods on a bad day.
Why should you have any say in how Bezos spends his money? Do you accept when other people tell you how to spend your money?
Salk said: "It's brought me enormous gratification"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk
> neurally linked to an alien probe and gets to experience the life of a person in a civilization that has long since ceased to exist

What exactly about this do you find to be "scientifically impossible"?
These are good points and I'd welcome feedback at https://github.com/clojure/clojure-site/issues
Clearly you need to play more civilization builder games. Grain is the most important asset, without it you can neither feed your people nor sell the excess to your starving neighbors for sweet gold coins.
Isn’t that a native feature in MacOS? I never “lost saves” since years.
Deleting a thread on a tech forum with no substantive discussion about great ape behavior is not "censorship" or "censoring everything"
You can approximate that by simply not using twitter.

You may, however, find that this isn't strong enough-- it's useful to look for people who are highly active on twitter and avoid them in your life generally.
Yep, HA clusters/load balancing has been around for a long time and will get you pretty far even in some pretty large environments. Hell my companies main LOB app is running off a single Microsoft SQL serve(I know, I know, we have a lot of tech debt we're working through atm and it's on the list to set up HA). The longest downtime we've had was when we had to take it down to migrate it to our new hardware cluster and that was because the data transfer took 20 hours over a 1 GB port.
I think you’re misunderstanding something because this isn’t (usually) a way to bypass code review by the team that owns the code.

You want to make it easier to contribute so that people can send a patch and it’s more likely to be useful without too much back-and-forth in code review. Having common tools and coding standards makes that more likely.
I am generally against airbnb as it induces rent-seeking behavior. This is bad for the economy because you are not adding value (in an economic sense). Plus the added dis benefits if increasing rent, reducing housing supply, etc. Ultimately it is a product of cheap money and as soon as the money is no longer cheap, it will be detrimental to airbnb. Sadly, the pandemic has increased our government's addiction to printing money...
> Get a loan from a bank and start a small business

That's the point: Bezos didn't get a loan from a bank, he just raised money from other rich people. He never had even the risk of repaying a bank loan, for Christ's sake! Most people who want to start small business are a much more precarious situation, and that's why they don't start businesses as easily as you want.
Agreed. Fun should not be tolerated. This is a serious place for serious discussions and dour faces. I'm frowning as I pound this out on my keyboard.
Did you believe it was a fair price?

As though the amount of work you were doing and the quality of it matched the amount of "work" you were paying for?
Am I the only person on the planet who drags-and-drops from the location bar into the filesystem (in a folder for a project usually) to create a .webloc file?
Here's what Alexis had to say about it haha: https://twitter.com/alexisohanian/status/1417930918942150671...
Yes, that is my point. This is just another way for people to discriminate against people who aren't "on their team". It is why civil organizations, like the Freemasons, don't allow people to talk about politics or religion. Just personally, I am not sure why other people are interested either.
A modern day analog of the conquest of Neanderthalia by the strange, physically weaker cousins from down under.
Except that the big money IP owners consider piracy and loss of revenue far more important than merely securing their assets. The kinds of software they buy, DRM, copy protection, automatic DMCA takedown of automatically-detected infringing works, doesn't have any applicability to cybersecurity.
The big problem is that they want people to be able to use iPads for 95% of what they use Macs for, but as developers we reside solidly in that 5% of critical functionality. It’s very hard to be productive as a developer on a system as locked down as an iPad. I want Emacs, Git, bash, and the Erlang runtime. That’s all I would need to be happy, but I think we’re a long way off from that on the iPad, if it ever happens at all. I’m not sure they can do it while maintaining their security model either, and they’re not going to give up their security model for anything less than antitrust action.
HN is not strictly a tech form. The goal is what’s interesting, the audience is tech focused but the third ranked link is currently:

Lost world revealed by human, Neanderthal relics washed up on North Sea beaches (sciencemag.org)
226 points by chippy 8 hours ago 81 comments

Yesterday’s top 10 had: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2021-07-20

Restaurant workers quit at record rate (npr.org)
434 points by boulos 1 day ago 907 comments

Baltimore Museum of Art will host an exhibition curated by the museum's guards (artbma.org)
415 points by hampelm 1 day ago 139 comments

MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill (maps.org)
303 points by pmoriarty 1 day ago | 87 comments

My mindfulness practice led me to meltdown (danlawton.substack.com)
480 points by mudita 1 day ago | 539 comments