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I gotta say I really enjoy these blogs. This and the Go one are really well done. Stylistically I love the look and the art is great too!

Then the content is enjoyable, and the length of the posts seems just about right too.

Where do I subscribe?

Also, technically speaking, having shipped Erlang a few times in 3 different products (although all of them were between 2000 and 2010), that I've had the least amount of trouble developing them the REPL experience is (was?) awesome with all the Emacs integration. The ability to basically shell into a remote node and poke around live was extremely handy.

People didn't like the binary logging but it seems systemd forced it down their throats anyway later. Also, I provided really easy tools to read the logs using the runtime, so they didn't care much in the long run.

It was really easy to write pipe drivers for programs written in Haskell, Python and C++. I even used the Java integration back then.

OTP was like a dream come true, and when you're building out an SNMP MIB, MNesia made that so stupidly easy - I couldn't believe how much faster I was going than the folks trying to plug into NetSNMP.

I wish I was still working on that project sometimes. It was my favorite.
Delayed Bonding (2015)
Strategies for Overcoming Objections in Sales
Just an anecdote, but I know someone who had an Ideapad gaming model and while it seemed solid brand new, a year or so in it started falling apart and by year two it was looking ragged just from normal usage, mostly at home on a desk or a lap (so no wear from travel or being knocked around in a bag).

The issue seems to be less with structural design and particular choice of plastics that cause them to not hold up to wear.
Isn't that to say it adds a model that you can't see? It's just an invisible element on the page? If it's not being rendered, what are you seeing? If it is being rendered, what are the shaders? Camera? Etc that webgl solve? Or are these not essential complexity?
Perhaps, but that's an entirely different claim from the one made in the article (that Erlang can prevent such bugs).
First, you are talking about the rights of an end user to use an app. That's different. I'm talking about the rights of a developer to distribute an app built against these libraries and APIs. The FSF says that if you did this with GPL libraries and APIs, this would require your app to also be available under a GPL compatible license.

Furthermore, whether you paid for a thing is not relevant. What matters is whether the license conditions are satisfied. You can pay for a boxed copy of Red Hat Linux, but that doesn't absolve you of the responsibilities under the GPL.

And finally, licensed Apple intellectual property is absolutely contained within the binary of your iOS application.
Or shave head like I do.
Just to provide another perspective: I use org as a notetaking-and-todo app, and BeOrg just really doesn't work that well for me AT ALL.

I've given up on true iOS access to my org files except for must-do situations, and then I just use Editorial or Byword or some other iOS editor pointed to my Org folder in Dropbox. For capture on the go, I mostly use built-in notes and reminders on the phone and just port the data over later.
In adversarial systems, the successes of the other party can be seen as a relative loss, even if everyone benefits.

At a friends workplace, the union recently fought management and prevented a prevent work from home policy from being implemented. This was something that both the workers wanted and management wanted, but the union saw it as leverage to push for other demands.
This is just an ad for Max, lol.
I think you are being downvoted because of the word « communist » which is exaggerating.

But anyway there is some truth in what you say but I’ll would rephrase « centralized power » as « political will + state controlled company ».

You probably need this to be operated by a state controlled company because as much as I trust nuclear power, I’d never trust plants managed with a profit driven company. There must be unlimited warranties in case things goes wrong. But that is far from communism. You just can’t allow scenarios such as the power plant going bankrupt while being operated or maintenance costs being reduced to pay bonuses.

A lot of liberal countries have state controlled electricity providers. In France we even have multiple energy companies but just one is state controlled.
Yeah I guess this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac_large_numbers_hypothesis and it has a Wikipedia page and stuff; the encyclopedia cites a 1973 Dirac journal article on the topic, https://www.jstor.org/stable/78591 for example.

None of my introductory university physics education mentioned this stuff so I' not really clear on whether it's well-known, unimportant, or something else. I just happened to be reading a big collection of this science fiction author's nonfiction work and that one claim stood out to me as kind of bizarre (G is going ... down?!) and always wondered what the deal was.
It's not entirely regulatory capture. Progress in science requires the ability to understand and accept that new information can arrive that invalidates prior decisions. In the political sphere, this is known as a "flip-flop" and is sadly considered to be a poor trait by a good chunk of the public. So long as governments represent the public, and a cross section of the general public thinks that flip-flopping is a bad thing, I don't think it's possible to have decisions driven by the best available science.

Side note: even scientists get things wrong. Businesses thrive on certainty, so some level of damping of changes in regulatory direction is required. Finding the right balance is, however, not something humans have done as well as we need to just yet.
> and I'm not super convinced it's great for building web apps.

It boils down to the complexity that it saves you from. Webapps eventually grow to need caches and queues. That means external infrastructure dependencies on things like RabbitMQ, Kafka, Redis, Elasticsearch, etc. That also means managing the lifecycle of this infrastructure in your application and building robust systems to do maintenance, etc and not fail.

Erlang provides enough of the basic building blocks to trivially implement these features on BEAM in code, as I'm sure you already know. Then all you're doing is message passing with Erlang.

That's the secret sauce. The language features itself don't make it any better at solving the webapp problem than say Rails, etc...it's all of the ancillary problems of scaling webapps that are solved by everything just being code running on BEAM.
OneNote would appeal to me if it had the sort of "go find all my todos across this notebook" feature that OrgMode provides via the org-agenda.

AS is, I've never found it super useful. j
Yes, and unfortunately dozens of service dogs. This admin is incredibly inhumane and incompetent.
The original was Dijkstra's "Go To Statement Considered Harmful". Many considered that title unnecessarily provocative, but it ended up creating a new CS/programming meme.

Now, I see "Considered Harmful" as just a concise way of alluding to that style of article, basically saying "here are the not-well-known downsides of a commonly-used thing". Many "Considered Harmful" articles do not live up to that promise, but I think this one does.

Another title meme: "Zen and the Art of ...".
So taxation is a free market competition for global corporations.
Nope. This entire shoe is not offered in Men's Allbirds at all, and it's the one I was asked to find:

https://www.allbirds.com/products/womens-tree-breezers

It's a shoe shape called "Flats" that only exists in Women's, it comes in colors that are totally unlike their Men's shoe shapes and colors in the closest (it's not very close) equivalent offered:

https://www.allbirds.com/products/mens-wool-loungers-tamalpa...

This is pervasive and industry-wide, but I'm still surprised that Allbirds fell prey to it. I would have expected better of them, based on their marketing and general love from buyers. Oh well.
So, if a company can't afford to enable "nast[iness]", they "should tank"? I am trying to take everyone's argument at face value, but yours doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
The claim was it prevents Heisenbugs.
Putting it on us electing them is doing us too much credit. You can elect someone and then have them do things you didnt expect and disapprove of. Australians are clamouring for more oppression.
I’m based in Tokyo and have spent the past few months going down the rabbit hole of indoor air quality. It started out of concern for the health of our four-year old - lots of time indoors on account of the pandemic, etc.

We have HEPA filters in every room now and portable CO2, PM2.5, VOC monitors, etc for keeping an eye on things. As others have stated, however, this does nothing to address the VOC issue and so I am very keen to take the additional step of installing an Energy Recovery Ventilator or Heat Recovery Ventilator, as you suggest.

If anyone here has Japan or Tokyo-specific information on manufacturers, suitable systems and/or contractors capable of doing the work, I for one would certainly be grateful to hear it!
Good intentions means nothing. Most people have good intentions but that doesn't prevent them from abusing power, lying and causing damages intentionally and unintentionally.
Look up "Hanford Site".
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It's kind of ironic to attack NPR for allegedly not producing a well thought out argument on the topic, but then proceeding barely talk about what was presented in the show, and instead attacking the presentation (harpsichord music?), the listener demographic, 'elite aristocrats' and so on.

He mostly just sounds offended by what was said because by no means was there a 'trashing'.

Personally I don't think there is much justification for these JS Mill type arguments. They're based on a sort of pre-Darwinian worldview where individuals voluntary with rational mind engage in free-speech to reach enlightenment.

I think that's not a scientifically tenable position today. It makes more sense to think of communication as a network, people as vectors in it that exist to spread ideas. Dawkins of course was a proponent of this but even earlier Jung summed it up as "people don't have ideas, ideas have people'.

Free speech doesn't produce 'true' ideas, it produces fit(!) ideas and that really takes the principle off a pedestal where it doesn't belong. I'd argue for a systems-thinking based approach. Don't think of free-speech policy from a standpoint of individual rights outwards, but start with the health of public discourse.
If the coworker rats you out for violating their policy, since you're now suggesting they just violate the policy because it's hard to enforce, then you are fired.
Masks Turn Democrats in Favor of School Choice
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> hit your head intentionally

wow I know the sport is infamous for this but intentionally? How is that neccessary?
Turkish Pentagon: Erdogan breaks ground on crescent-shaped defense complex
This might bring back some flashback memories for you :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDruBwysYoc
Took down Ubiquiti’s website and remote access to controllers - seems they don’t have any multi-AZ redundancy :/

https://status.ui.com/incidents/2081dgx5sfk7
cockroachdb implements subtransactions and I don't think any of these issues apply to cockroach's implementation.
the title should read - "Show HN: A small key-value database" -- without the double quotes.
If you were trying to use charitable giving as a measure of morality, you’d have to somehow control for the collection plate effect which is more about response to peer pressure than morality.
Even gaming channels like LTT talk about this a bit.

The major benefit of high-DPI displays isn't for gaming or graphics, it's for text. Once you're used to decent resolution and scaling, reading on anything else looks like a blurry mess.
This doesn’t really answer your question, but I think people interested in this question would like the book Opt Art. It introduces a number of techniques for using constraint solvers to arrange lines such that they look like a source image.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691164069/op...
The key gap in this argument is the blank slate which I'll define to be everyone has the same type of intelligence and same level.

1. Type of intelligence. This piece drove by the functional versus procedural roadblock. Most developers don't like and don't grok functional programming.

2. Level of intelligence. Systems programming and concurrency is not for the faint of heart. When I was a TA in college the threading topics were the ones that challenged the students the most.

The functional versus procedural mental capacity is very real and most developers have to fight with functional programming mentally. One cannot just ignore this decades long struggle of functional people bullying us in the procedural camp. One just has to search HK news here for functional programming and most comment sections will have this debate.

Amdahl's law can be stated as make the common case fast. Functional programming is not the common case for the human mind.
> Those in favor of mobile nuclear power for the battlefield claim it will provide nearly unlimited, low-carbon energy without the need for vulnerable supply convoys.

Imagine the situation we would be in if the US military had been using nuclear power supplies at (formerly) our bases in Afghanistan.

I’m a fan of nuclear power but battlefields are the last place I want to see it.
Iirc Apple ate the credit card fees on their cut which meant they earned a few pennies if you only bought one somg at a time.
Ha ha! What the hell! This is revolutionary if true!
> That being said, im not sure i follow the fallacy part. I’m guessing you mean that people who use fragility are doing it shut down discussion. I tend to use it to highlight that there’s a set of people with whom I won’t speak freely for fear of hurting them because their are sensitive. I don’t do this out of nobleness to not harm, i do it to avoid negative emotions from them.

> In a way I am fragile as well.

Yes, you've nailed it. By "fallacy" I mean "an unsound argument", because if I were to think that the person I'm arguing with is "fragile" - that would mean that I have already accepted my position as the correct position, and that the people I'm educating simply aren't able to accept my truth because it would damage their ego.

Arguing with people without ever hearing their side is a great way to become obtuse.

When, during that line of thinking, would I ever ask, "Could I possibly be the one who is wrong? Is there more to this story than just my side?"
How many reactor-years of accident-plagued operations have they had? USS Thresher and USS Scorpion both sank with all hands lost.
Look's like some fun stuff in the first issue! But this "dilemma" is easy isn't it?

> There is widespread agreement that coercive force may be used to prevent people from seriously and wrongfully harming others. But what about when those others are non-human animals?

Just take it to extremes:

If one person had their finger on a button to instantaneously destroy the entire remaining Amazon rainforests, and killing them were the only way of preventing it, then surely it's clear that we'd all have a moral duty to kill them? No one person's life is worth that much eternal extinction.
Haha this is cute the author has now changed it to have the quotes. I think they misunderstood, but,--hello!-- my suggestion to the author is check out the shownew page and see the format of the submissions there and alter the title to reflect those. then it will show up on the shownew page and could hit the show page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/shownew
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If you like plotter art, Anders Hof aka "Inconvergent" does some nice work (and sells plotter prints)

https://img.inconvergent.net/plot/
This rewards men who shot people in the past and thus became eligible for this program.
I used to have a Sony laptop like this, where NumLock turned the uiojkl keys into 456123, so you could use them (along with 789 above them) as a number pad. It was a clever design and I wish more laptops offered it.
> That price is per person, not total. The highest total I've heard so far is going to cost that company $108k a month, for a development tool.

Lol yes, I know. My point was the cost of meatware is 3 orders of magnitude greater than the software, and likely less at scale.

$100k/mo would mean 5,000 devs. I highly doubt a company with overheads near/in excess of a billion dollars/year is going to sweat a $1m expense for core infra like Docker.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive comments? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28375312 is much more important but this is also not cool.
The video is at the bottom of the page, once you turn on third party frames (or just youtube frames).
I get away with a thinkpad chrome book I got for $700 with similar ryzen 5 and 8 gigs runs app my stuff including docker and android studio.
Didn't know about that acronym!

Yeah i think the point that they don't have a problem policing speech everywhere else kind of points out that this is just another excuse (or value add minimally).

The online places that the less tech savvy majority have is shrinking.
Agree this is a persuasion piece not straight journalism, but in the author’s defense, the article was originally published under a CC license, and he could have no idea it was posted on this website.
I don't know if you really need extraordinarily strong evidence for perpetual motion. Just plausible evidence for every aspect of physics which must be changed because of it. If you forget to consider existing experimental evidence for, say, conservation of momentum and just quietly assume it doesn't hold or fail to notice the impact on it, that wouldn't be rigorous. But if you show that all such experiments were done with error greater than what's needed for your perpetual motion, it should be fine.
There's also this: Review of Manned Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Program https://nuke.fas.org/space/anp-gao1963.pdf [pdf]
As a developer it sucks. As a consumer it's great.
Actually I’m talking about windows server. Do you have any guides? Because when I try to open the docker GUI it kicks everyone out.
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Certainly it has been their purview, but to some of our representatives they place themselves on some sort of moral high ground in trying to impose increasingly larger taxes on those who have more simply because they have more. There is no argument that they are doing it, I don't understand why especially given the government's incredible inability to responsibly manage it.
Reading through Microsoft's responses to feedback about the slowness is depressing: "XAML is just like that". Between that and Casey's interaction over WT's performance, is it any wonder software keeps getting slower and fatter? The developers a big important IT company like Microsoft is hiring don't really have any knowledge, experience, or give-a-damn in the realm of making things not suck.
As it is now, yes. :)
You may want to amend your original statement "Of course we can. Everybody that isn't somehow colorblind can reliably distinguish between a basic number of colors [...]" then, because clearly that's not the case as you state yourself.
Yep, “RPP” one of those positive illusions that the naive cling to, while the sociopathic leverage its rhetoric to advance up the ladder. Or to impress the status quo onto new entrants of the social hierarchy.

It’s a very scary thing to live in the real world.
Annnd -4, and -1 on another comment that I don't think even is controversial, and aligns with views that most on HN typically hold on speech.
Right, but the key is "you must do X" vs "later, and only if you want, you can optionally layer on X". Users of StreamLit disinterested in programming noise have a lot fewer framework-mandated operational burdens than Panel because the smart defaults are smart. In contrast, anyone using Panel has do a lot more practically + conceptually to get a minimally reasonable result. That's the difference between 1-2 people in a team/org being successful, vs most.

Though again, I'm not a zealot: the StreamLit starting point is still too high in my experience for most teams, so both are wrong. For most people, the default should be no Python, at most SQL or whatever DB lang, and optionally drop down to Python for some cool bits. Ironically, I just got off a call a few hours ago where this exact issue makes us excited about starting with StreamLit, yet we're also already scheduling tools to replace it with something more realistic for 10X+ wider enterprise adoption.
Absolutely worth it. Top 3 books I’ve ever read on web design
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar like this. It's not what the site is for.

The GP comment wasn't substantive either but the idea, when replying, is to move further away from hell, not jump into it.

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i dont see evidence of the contrary
When people try to insult me, sometimes instead of 'taking the insult & emotion in' ("personally")…
I purposely hallucinate their words as text like closed captions.
I wonder if people would have the same sentiment if it had been a newly introduced language that the major browsers overnight agreed to all include as alternative to CSS. Now I feel like CSS keeps getting more complicated, but if there was a shiny new thing supported by all browsers, I would probably feel different.
I think what you're using as a positive signal is actually a negative signal. If people ask you for help and >50% of the responses aren't "here is a link to a doc/previous discussion" then you are a bus factor 1. Also, this can all be done with a ping on jira or your ticket manager and easily be seen.
TBH,I rather have a paid consumer review site than a free one. A free one is not trustworthy by definition, they'll be looking to make money off sponsorships and advertising, which IMO is directly at odds with the service being provided.
It's an idea that's easy to dismiss as yet another journal (do we really need so many specialized journals when online, gold access journals scale so well) - possibly full of quackery - but seeing that Peter Singer (a timeless ethics scholar) as founder and editorial board makes me want to keep an eye on this space.
I was confused enough by the word subtransactions to ask DDG for help. This discussion is #1 and #3 is https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14445799.pdf which is a more direct overview of where subtransactions are at. The paper's title Transactions Design For Databases With High Performance and Availability isn't desperately helpful, but the tabular isolation, concurrency and atomicity survey is.

EDIT :

the very first reference in the above paper A Critique of ANSI isolation levels, which is from 1995 and I have only just started with but looks like important reading, is here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...
As I understand it it's not about the value but that first a rule is applied to all elements and then a new rule overwrites the previous rule for some element, the last one in that example.

To quote the article referenced in the article: "I call this technique disabling selector since the li:last-child selector disables the previous selector's rule."

So the 10px margin for the last element is a disabling selector.
That's not ironic, it could be revolutionary for this algorithm and ML in general.