skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, it seems like the parent thinks that if it weren't for capitalism no one would need to work for their food, shelter, healthcare, etc. When in reality "in order to have basic necessities one must labor" is a natural law and capitalism seeks to minimize the amount of labor required to achieve that decent quality of life. Further, the parent describes himself as participating in capitalism precisely because it is the easiest way to achieve his "decent quality of life".

This seems like the fundamental misunderstanding that anti-capitalists make--everyone wants to minimize the labor required to achieve a decent quality of life, but anti-capitalists uniquely (seem to) believe that capitalism is the reason we have to labor in the first place.
Miniserve: Cross-platform tool to serve files via HTTP
The tweet: «#CCP made fighting #COVID-19 plan B. Only to be executed if Plan A – covering it up – fails. Those are the actions of paranoid cowards. They neither deserve my respect nor gratitude #ChinaLiedPeopleDied»

That is QAnon-class.
Also "High coupling between components" is, a lot of times, GOOD.

The more everything in the pipeline know about each other, the easiest is to code it and the FASTEST will be.

You can say any performance gains is possible when you exploit this facts. And the more "abstract/invisible" everything is the more impossible is to make it so.
> I can no longer concieve of writing software without using test driven development.

But apparently writes without testing the writing.

> I can no longer conceive of…

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/personal-incredulity
Why Southern California is a new EV mecca
Mine:

o task 1 [not started]

/ task 2 [started]

x nested task A

o nested task B

+ task 3 [blocked, e.g. on hearing back from somebody]

x task 4 [done]
http://web.mit.edu/nelsonr/www/Repenning%3DSterman_CMR_su01_...

I've posted this here before, though got no comments. But yes, firefighter/arsonists get more promotions and kudos than careful thinkers who don't bother setting fires to fight.

EDIT:

One past discussion here (2015): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8940820
> Anyway, the US voter is weird; they think all sorts of professions are overpaid. Why should a bunch of nerds sitting at a desk make six figures?

But oddly enough not PE teachers, who tend to be the highest paid public employees in the state -- https://247wallst.com/special-report/2020/09/21/these-are-th...
The laws of physics have a lot of "dirtpile scale" parameters. When spacetime curvature (presence of mass) is measurable, Newtonian mechanics stops working. When the action integral is comparable to the Plank constant, classical probabilities do not work. When the Reynolds number goes beyond a threshold, laminar models of liquids do not work.

You are factually wrong about your quantum mechanics claims. (1) The idea that quantum mechanics stops working at some mesoscopic scale is extremely popular among (respected) sceptics of quantum computing. (2) The most well known example of a quantum thought experiment, the Schrödinger cat, is about quantum mechanics (seemingly) not working at macroscopic scale (only last year was there a good theory explanation of the paradox https://pirsa.org/20010099 ) (3) Decoherence is the thing causing fights between proponents of different formalizations of Quantum mechanics and this would be a very stringent test of that process. There are plenty more ideas that would get tested with this experiment.

Also, I think you misunderstood my examples. None of the examples I gave in last post were considered absurd, rather all of them were fine measurements that were necessary in order to believe the theory when going into a new parameter regime. With your attitude we would have never found general relativity (of course throwing a bigger rock on the moon will follow Newton's law) or quasi crystals (of course only regular repetition can make a crystal) or prions (of course proteins do not reproduce).

If you are arguing that this money right now would be better spent on global warming mitigation, then I would probably agree. But that is a relative, not an absolute statement like yours.
Depends on price for sure. In Chicago where a new single family home is 1.5 million dollars, better believe its brick.

Where I live in Indiana an average single family home is like 200k. No one is paying 50k for brick on that, so vinyl siding you go.
The historical accuracy of medieval city-builder video games
> Who exactly is it that is supposed to be looking out for us?

I mean... if Greenspan has been the chairman of the Federal Reserve then almost his entire career has been focused on disempowering you and keeping you in your place.

Why would helping and empowering tax payers be something anyone in government would ever want, you'd lose your slave class if they could actually build wealth and be in control of their own destiny.

Much better keeping them living paycheck to paycheck and scooping off the cream then chip away at their savings while you're at it to keep those from stacking too high too.
Wait a second, I never hear about police officers being fired for abusing license plate/id lookups....
Thanks for confirming
For all what it's worth: yes. The larger the cloud, the larger the motivation for enemies to attack it. And in this case, the enemy is China (and, for European companies, also the US/FVEY alliance) - all of which have already been caught multiple times doing industrial espionage.

Core company secrets belong on premises of the company owning the secret, not in a cloud where it is fair game for security services and criminals of all kinds and nations.
Once you have kids the calculation changes, at least for me.

I could retire comfortably in a few years, but my earning power is at it's peak. Every extra year I work provides significant extra resources for my family, to help the girls afford their first houses and get a good start in life when they graduate. I'll probably work another 5 years beyond what I'd probably do if it was purely about self-interest for myself and my wife.

I'm lucky that I enjoy my work, so it's not a massive sacrifice, but I do enjoy my leisure activities more. I'm really looking forward to being able to go somewhere interesting in the world with the missus and just stay there for 6 months. Also I'm a Brit here in the UK so health care is just not really an issue.
The advantage TypeScript has for front-end over something that compiles to JS is that you pretty much know what your code will compile to: with a few exceptions, you just strip out the type annotations. Knowing this, you can accurately predict things like performance.

In contrast, a compiles-to-JS language can produce code that behaves unexpectedly in its non-functional requirements, and in the worst cases crashes where it shouldn't. That will be less of an issue as compilers get better, and WASM should help a lot, but in the current ecosystem TypeScript produces more predictably good results.
> What a drag to think of treating your fellow man like that all the time.

You asked him to think about it. Slipping and falling could cause a life-changing injury that no amount of money can undo, so I’m glad he knew how to advocate for his clients.
I wonder why EA need this when modern console (except Nintendo Switch) are all x86.
Hi,

Author of V and Gitly here.

Gitly is currently in alpha, and works more like an example/documentation of the V web framework and V ORM.

You can't even sign in at the moment.

It will be launched this month. We're actually going to switch to Gitly CI, since Github Actions has been really slow for us.
Those are per-month, I assume. Subscriptions are all the rage in software these days.
Given how often I see people in public (stores, elevators, restaurants) using their phones on either speakerphone or having video calls, allowing this on airplanes seems destined to make an already awful experience (at least for those of us in the cheap seats) even worse.

Personally, I don’t fly that often, and I like being forced to be disconnected for a few hours. If I’m flying for business, that’s often some of my most productive time.
Wouldn't a successful cover up necessitate fighting it? Maybe with insufficient resources to avoid attracting attention, but you couldn't let the virus rage.
A 15-20 hours a week job sounds quite pleasant. I wouldn't mind working 3-4 hours a day. I would mind 8-10 hours though.
Ah yes, very cool. Similar to Udacity Self Driving Course!
The problem is space doesn’t belong to anyone in particular. Who’s going to enforce it? I suppose the UN could, but, unfortunately, it’s completely powerless.
You're right - "egregiously" was excessive. Sorry about that bit and thanks for the open-minded reply. That is rare in cases like this so I appreciate it.
> I think this is too strong of a definition because then everything is a monolith.

Yes... exactly. More things are monoliths than we want to admit.

> We need a definition of what it means for two services to communicate while being “uncoupled”

Take a dead simple example: an application server that talks to an in-house video encoding micro-service

Even if that video encoding service only has a single really well designed endpoint, there's STILL coupling between the application server and the video encoding service.

Just because we've replaced a method call with an HTTP request doesn't mean things aren't coupled anymore.

Sure -- you may be able to deploy certain changes to your video encoding service without changing your application service. However, you need to be keenly aware of what changes are compatible with existing application servers and which are not and that adds complexity and cognitive load. Maybe it's worth it in some cases. In many cases, it's not.
Businesses launched by solo founders are more successful
The conclusion of this study contradicts the usual VC mantra about the number of funders needed to succeed.
It took the author of this article six attempts before she described these people as homeless, either she has a fantastic command of the English language, or is so incredibly woke that she never wants to offend anyone. I know this article was more about the invasiveness of technology, but this was my takeaway from it
"anti-capitalist" - how does one become an "anti-capitalist" when it's abundantly clear that, even though it's not a perfect system, it's the best system there is? It's the system that facilitates competition, social progress, scientific advancements etc etc

I'm thinking "anti-capitalist" attitude is usually a result of the poor decisions in early adulthood (decisions regarding education, reproduction, career, social circles). When these choices don't pay off, failure to recognize that and self-correct early enough builds resentment. Since the system doesn't reward poor decisions (works as designed) it's very common to shift the blame from yourself (your incapability to adjust, adapt, improvise, and overcome) onto the system and characterize it as "exploitative"
You mean like zk proofs?
I don't think a monolith is defined by coupling. I think it's defined by being a single deployment of custom code covering many domains/including many kinds of functionalities, rather than many deployments.

Your definition of uncoupled makes some sense. It's a good starting place at the very least.
Yes, definitely. This isn't meant to argue that those limits are anywhere nearby.

The significance of the argument is that once everyone accepts that a seemingly-unstoppable exponential growth trend can be halted by far-off limit A, you can start to have productive discussions about whether it can also be halted by more relevant limits B and C. Sometimes the hard part is just getting past the point that an exponential trend ever need stop for any reason.
I thought the same thing, but OTOH most of them have screens set on raise-to-wake so you can't sneak a peek at the time anyhow.
Isn't space complexity for a list with cached count (size) property "c" still O(n + c) ~ O(n)?
So you’re suggesting they can find better paying and more rewarding work elsewhere and they choose not to do so? That seems very unlikely for a self interested sociopath…
The software industry does a very good job on-boarding people into this career. I don’t know if the same kind of support exists in hardware, for example. If there’s a glut of graduates and a shortage in industry, it could be argued that those industries have archaic processes that don’t build up entry level into those positions (zero training, you are either top of your class, or not, good luck).

Even though we are edging towards serious gatekeeping with Leetcode, overall, we are still one of the most generous industries in society.
somewhat unrelated but came across the Embedded TL recently, mostly for use on very small CPU, not exactly the same functionality but might be useful elsewhere as well

https://www.etlcpp.com/
> we'd have to ring the "office manager" (ex-SAS)

I'm not sure what's the fetish with the SAS, but I apparently know more people who where in the or with strong ties to the SAS than regular British folks... OTOH, after knowing some actual members of various special forces for 2 decades: If they saw action, they don't brag. They are usually shy to admit anything even if it is not classified. Or the other way around: Those advertised as "ex-SAS" (or navy seals or french foreign legion, your choice) usually ain't.
The STL is meant to solve a fairly general class of problems. It isn’t optimized for a number of use cases, and frankly some of the design and nomenclature is terrible.
Targeted ads is surveillance.
That is exactly the point I am making with my (facetious) comment. We measure it because a mismatch from the very much exected result would be monumentally important, even if improbable.
Yeah, I had one in Canada too. I think we were making forms for insurance companies to onboard new clients more quickly? But the forms were fillable pdfs, which I then had to scrape the data out of in order to feed it to the app. Why not use normal web forms? I don't know, I was fired before I found out. They owe me $200 or so in back pay to this day.
This is so lovely!
Another user posted a comment suggesting something like

Launch YC S21 - Batch thread #3

Would that be clear enough? We may end up with something like that.
I would argue being obese is far worse for your health than most, if not all, "street drugs"
> the US government will let him serve his sentence in an Australian prison.

It did seem logical that the US would try to offer the minimum assurances necessary to satisfy the British judges.

One hypothetical that came to mind, though, was whether Biden could grant a pre-emptive commutation of his sentence. My understanding is that a president can issue a full pardon to someone who has not yet been indicted (let alone sentenced), but I'm not sure if there is a case of a president trying to commute a sentence that hasn't been issued yet.

This would seem to allow various philosophical questions to arise, such as issuing a commutation of "half" the sentence, before discovering that the sentence issued is "life imprisonment". Also, what would happen if a president stated that the sentence should be reduced by 10 years, but the commutee only ended up being given an 8 year sentence? Would the government then owe the commutee compensation for 2 years of unlawful (albeit notional) imprisonment?

Anyway, perhaps the best place to look for precedents here is a state governor pre-emptively granting a commutation of a death sentence to a defendant in a court case who had somehow won the sympathy of the public (possibly with an election coming up). I don't know if that has ever happened though.
Malbolge has been considered theoretically impossible to program for a longer time; a Lisp interpreter in Malbolge is a big breakthrough in Malbolge's history which proves that in reality, Malbolge isn't really "impossible" :) - hence I wouldn't call it a clickbait. Also, the title you proposed is exactly 45 bytes too long, so I couldn't submit it.

In fact, many relatively credible places I've seen, like my national-language Wikipedia use the word "impossible" - I just want to break the myth :).

BTW: In the rules, I can only see "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important." - I don't think my submissions breaks this rule (please let me know if it does!). To adress the other point, the original title/name is in the README (and it's MalbolgeLisp v1.1, or the repo name, as you wish - malbolge-lisp), not in the Github description. I felt like it's not descriptive enough and might be misleading (since you could interpret it as a malbolge interpeter _in_ lisp).
Not sure where you got that idea but I definitely don't think all immigrants coming here are rich, I'm a huge advocate for more poorer/low skilled immigration. I've outlined in a bunch of other comments why exactly but for them if their life struggling in the US is better than where they left and they are voluntarily here to give themselves and their children a better life it's good with me and a huge benefit to the USA.
Yes, true - many societies are using this configuration for hundreds of years.

My issue is not based on morality, but on the fact that we as humans are capable of reflecting on our existence. And that each of our lives is determined by a large amount of luck.

I could be born smart, ill, rich, poor and so on. Does some accidental property give me more rights and opportunities than others? My western net worth would allow me to retire right now in many parts of the world - but did I earn this privilege? Of course not, it was pure accident.

My issue is that people take a huge amount of lucky accidents as a justification of all kinds of power grabs and entitlements. And capitalism just has the potential to magnify this effect - e.g. by letting the "smart" and "lucky" control the "less smart" and "less lucky" and call it all "natural" and without alternative.
for (x in [6,1,6,2,6,3]) {
console.log(x);
}

Please run this in your browser console and tell me if it iterates over the elements of the array.
This podcast episode[1] is about exactly this, scaling live chat to a few 100k users, on a small number of machines in a real word scenario where the users are all signing on in a short time span to live screen a film and chat about it.

[1] https://thinkingelixir.com/podcast-episodes/057-scaling-live...
This is a bigger thing on reddit it seems, where I assume more readers are teenagers with little/no income.
Why does this RPG developer make absurd, punishing games? Revenge
Can we?

As Churchill said, democracy is the worst form of government -- except for all the others which have been tried. Similarly, capitalism is the worst form of economics -- except for all the others which have been tried. I mean, it's obvious to an external observer that a prisoner's dilemma, sub-optimal Nash equilibrium, or other coordination problem can best be solved by all sides cooperating. But the reason they're called dilemmas and problems is that there's no clear way for participants in the system to solve them.

It's not like anyone actually likes the system. But no one has (nor could be trusted to use) the power to coordinate an action of the sort that could end it. This is just the state of the world right now, we opened Pandora's box with web technology and pulled out the undesirable factoid "It's lucrative to run individual profiling and sell ads." Society has a limited ability to push an agenda against incentives; pushing past tech giant privacy invasion and attention abuse is not something we are capable of doing right now.

I think the only thing that can be hoped to change this equilibrium is to change the playing field. Change technology, improving adblockers, anti-tracking tools, and encryption. Educate kids and those willing to listen about the harms of advertising. The current generations of adult Americans grew up with roadside, TV, and radio ads, they view web ads as an extension of that and don't think about the privacy implications of that, but a kid who grows up in the Internet era aware that their activity is tracked and profiled (unless they use particular encryption tech and VPNs) will have a very different attitude, and perhaps eventually this abuse will be unprofitable.
We are cheating our eyes and brains with 3D goggles.

Don't you think you are too enthusiastic saying 3D facial authentication cannot be fooled?
> This is true for Vue and Javascript.

This is not true for javascript at all.

for (x in [6,1,6,2,6,3]) {
console.log(x);
}

Please run this in any javascript runtime.
The CCP isn't the only source of information about what is happening in China.

China is not North Korea. There is a large foreign presence in China. Wuhan is a large city (between Moscow and Seoul in population) with many foreigners present there for business. The US, the UK, France, and South Korea maintain diplomatic offices in Wuhan.

That's a lot of non-Chinese observers who could see first hand what is happening in Wuhan and report back to their home countries.
"an esoteric programming language designed to be as difficult to program in as possible"

As difficult to program in as possible?

It seems like it would be easy to make a language that is even more difficult to program in.

For example, instead of storing only ternary numbers in memory, each subsequent memory address could store a number in a different base.

Also, instead of having a static lookup table for the encryption, it could create a table based on its own program representation instead, resulting in a different lookup table for every program (while remaining deterministic).

Speaking of determinism, all sorts of non-determinism could of course be easily added to the language, making it even harder to program.

Naturally, all sorts of complex mathematical operations could be used instead of simple arithmetic operations as well... etc..

I'm sure it wouldn't be difficult for any creative programmer to tweak this language in many other ways to make it harder to program.

In fact, after a certain language complexity is reached, I'm not sure how one would judge that one "extremely difficult" language is actually harder to program in than another, making the claim that a given language is "as difficult to program as possible" hard to prove.
from your perspective, what are the differences?
If they are just looking to sell things to make money without regard to quality, then they're probably right. People underestimate how large of a market that is.
> A valid reason to turn devices into flight safe mode anyway is simply to save a bit of battery.

A better reason is when "roaming abroad", I've already seen (too late) my phone connecting to some third-party country tower and even using some data. And the few Kbs have been very expensive ...