skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don’t think incompetence is a compelling answer given the current administration.

Really? I see the debacle of Afghanistan as evidence that all recent US administrations are perfectly capable of incompetence – whether Bush or Obama or Trump or Biden. And Iraq before that. No denying that Trump took incompetence to worrying new heights, but I don't think we should therefore dismiss the idea that the other three administrations have also demonstrated it, even though not to quite such an exuberant degree.

And having witnessed the lack of urgency with which the Australian federal government pursued the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, the idea that the Australian government might be incompetent, not just at fighting a pandemic, but also at managing international relations, does not seem implausible. Likewise, many Brits question the competence of the Johnson government – COVID vaccination rollout is one area in which they have done well, but in many other areas (including other aspects of COVID response) their competence is widely questioned.

France is actually the least upset at the UK, because they expect this kind of behaviour from them, especially under Boris Johnson – there is a reason why the phrase "perfidious Albion" is centuries old – but they expected better from Australia and the US.
Please share with me one movie with a complex storyline involving dozens of characters, you know, like in real life, then. I am curious.
Religious groups typically look after their own. Take care of the poor, needy, and disabled. For quite a long time, most US states were essentially religious areas/boundaries, which is why much of New England is seen as quite puritanical to this day.

Go read about the history of Mormons and Utah. The reason the surrounding borders are so weird is because the U.S. gov essentially tried to thwart a larger land grab by the LDS

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_of_Deseret

Their tenants were largely about taking care of each other.

So, in short - there were a lot of welfare states, mostly segregated by religion. As time went on, they mostly morphed into an encompassing welfare state.

Do you disagree? HN is definitely a tough crowd when it comes to ideas of helping the less fortunate it seems. Hopefully your future physical therapists won't charge too much when your ruined backs and wrists are hurting, despite the fact capitalism says "why shouldn't they reap your pains for all they're worth"
That’s the joke. ;) Believe it or not they existed (somewhat).
But if they have been and are doing what is already considered a "bad idea" and the market is totally free with no significant barrier to entry, why haven't they long ago been out-competed by others who do not engage in this bad idea behavior?
> is really treated as a "safe place for cash" from foreign buyers, it can cause prices that are out of whack with the intended purpose of a home as being place to live.

> you're likely going to want to put it into areas that are already supply constrained

These are the primary arguments for building more. Build enough and you will drive prices down, and with it the reputation of Vancouver's housing market as a safe store of value.

Housing can be cheap and not seen as a substantially valuable investment if we simply build to meet demand. Densely of course - something other than 20+ floor apartment buildings would be nice.
> I understand the secrecy piece is important for product security, to surprise and delight customers

When was the last time you were surprised and delighted by an Apple product? I think they make the world's best, and most responsible, products, but surprised by an iPhone upgrade? When was the last time they created a new category?
I’d just go with Amazon managed Prometheus frankly
A short PS: I have had billion dollar companies try to screw me over more than once

From what I have read, this is more the norm than the exception. Small businesses routinely think they have it made in the shade and have won the small business lottery because some big company is interested in them. In reality, it's often much more like "You my bitch."

This is not advice. It's just an observation.
> Log and throw can be a legitimate pattern. It makes sense when the exception travels outside some kind of boundary like module/library boundary. A REST API is an example of boundary and it is normal to log the error but still throw it (to the client). It also may possibly make sense to log additional information available in local scope and throw the error up the stack. It doesn't always make sense to convert the type of the exception to be able to add more information to it.

Of course it's going to correlate with a bug. The whole point of log and throw is to make bugs easier to find!
> He said that he had communicated with customers by typing on an iPad, and that some customers had refused to work with him as a result. When he told his manager, the manager said it was the customers’ right, he said....He was eventually assigned an interpreter. But by that time, he said, upper management viewed him as a complainer and refused to promote him.

Using an iPad/iPhone seems to be the standard Apple policy, but this employee objected.
Who do you think is benefiting from banning this tweet? It is completely mundane, harmless and disinteresting. Threatens nobody. Deleting it just riles people up and upset Mr. Johnson to nobody's gain.

Compare it with a good moderation system, like HN, where a comment gets greyed out by mass opinion, then everyone moves on. Twitter already has a great mechanism to achieve that called "ignoring the stupid tweet".

Banning it was a bad idea. The moderator wasted their time, Mr. Johnson was upset and nobody has come away better off.
You seems to assume that it is possible to design a programming language that doesn’t suck for some people using it. I am pretty sure that is impossible. Just look at the many “X sucks!” mixed with “X is the best!” Posts on HN. A great example is X = Lisp.
Awesome outputs. Is there a way to set our own palettes across the various generators?

And by open source, do you mean the art only or also the code to generate it?
Long time tinc user here. Is this a comparable thing?

https://tinc-vpn.org/
> but sit there, out of gear and just floor it for dozens of seconds at a time.

Revving in neutral is not particularly horrible for a car. Perhaps worse if done cold. The no load situation makes timing on the car easier.

Likely one tank of regular gasoline in a performance engine, and a stop and go to the neighborhood grocery will do more damage.
Totally useless information, since overpopulation will never happen (mainly because as countries evolve and middle class emerges, birth rates plummet.) Even by 2100 population will barely top 10 Bn and will take a millennia to reach 15. [0]

[0] Pew Research: "By 2100, the world's population is projected to reach approximately 10.9 billion, with annual growth of less than 0.1% – a steep decline from the current rate. Between 1950 and today, the world's population grew between 1% and 2% each year, with the number of people rising from 2.5 billion to more than 7.7 billion"
That stat comes from a report that came out in May, using data from before that point. Y'know, back when percent vaccinated was still pretty low...

I vaguely recall seeing it had dropped to 95% a month or two ago, but that was still counting from the beginning of the year and not weighting by percent vaccinated.
This is sort of a reply to several of your comments in this thread about how we could still do all the things we do if money didn't exist. Your point reminds me of something a co-worker once said; he pointed out that "profit" is another name for "inefficiency." That is, in another context or agnostic of value-judgements, the difference between input and output which forms "profit" would be looked at as an inefficiency or defect in any other system.
> Providing an iPad to type messages on is a reasonable accommodation

Doesn't that make communication slower? When I want to buy something, I certainly don't want to start chatting on a tablet to get my point across. It seems like a poor choice of position for that employee.
Factor in Indian Country. Not that simple.
The kind of Sherlock we all need.
I've been looking for the name of this for years. It's everywhere. People focusing only on things they can measure instead of what is important.
Normally in a stack next to the bed, or strewn about in eyeshot, with dog eared pages.
I think you bring up a very good point. I think Slack is now becoming a company-wide water cooler where any grievance, no matter how distant from your own team, can get a spotlight on it.

It's easy to live in a sort of vacuum if your small team is not witness to discrimination/harassment. In a large enough org it is entirely likely that there is an asshole somewhere that you have never encountered, never worked with that is making someone's life miserable.

I am glad these things are being exposed but saddened that it could be happening in the larger company I work at.
I don't know, you still haven't provided me with your definition of "welfare state" that has applied to the USA.

Certain groups choosing to take care of their members is not a welfare state so I'm not too sure what you're getting at there.
These aren’t edgy, they’re basic ignorance.
That would make a good strategy for China if it were true: keep tension high at the SCS to draw US away from Europe; solidify relationship with Europe to develop technology and hedge against Russia.
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https://www.zoho.com/mail/
Just wondering, how do you convert the large office buildings to residential when (at least in much of the US) a bedroom requires a window? A lot of office buildings have a lot more internal space then anything close to a window. It seems like that leads to long narrow shotgun type apartments.
Have you tried Ublock origin?
fuse the future with the past, run desqview/x in the host dos machine and then run x clients in linux.

no networking though. :/
> thankfully downvoting is limited now

How is it limited?
Most North American road infrastructure has been rebuilt over the last century to be automobile-centric. "We" deem that conflict to be acceptable because the alternative is more complicated phasing - most of which results in delays to car traffic (and pedestrians!), and so most places won't accept it. For details, here's [1] a document that outlines the tradeoffs in various different signal phasing designs.

TL;DR is that "we" won't prioritize any road user except the automobile.

[1] https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/fhwahop08024/chapter4....
What do you mean by “we”? Are you a woman? A happy woman keeping house, raising kids, and cruising Hacker News?
It’s not even a good parlor trick for most of the time. And in my experience, either because they either grew up in an environment devoid of anger or self-criticize themselves for getting angry, they’re not very good at dealing with other angry people.

The actual ice-cold operator and the actual happy-go-lucky seems rare. And both seem to have much better anger management. Everyone else comes off as a poser.
> This is one big advantage for using Rust for both backend and frontend, in that you never have to worry about your types getting out of sync.

Of course this is a hack compared to Rust BE and FE, but I’ve been finding that auto-generating Typescript type definitions from a Pydantic (Python) API works pretty nicely. Of course, what’s going on under the hood there is all a lot uglier than a beautiful modern compiler with an expressive modern type system, but it’s cool that it works.
Yggdrasil is not the same as either of these, but it can do similar things.

https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/
Thank you, that's useful context, without having a subscription.

Does it say anything about if his manager had penalized him for some customers not working with him? If management requires him to post the same numbers despite knowing that, I think that's a big problem. Otherwise, I'm not necessarily sold by his story here.

(I'm curious is customers still refused with an interpreter, too. That's also going to slow things down.)
You interpretation seems a big reach to me. The rights being (not) infringed are reproduction and distribution.

Even if we go with "no rights are allegedly being infringed", a claim of "I am authorized for all 0 of these things" isn't actually a false statement.
Yes, 'beg buttons' are awful (as are the 'red-revert' signal designs you allude to).
Shell companies don't change anything. You can buy an aged shell, appoint nominee directors, etc. and it doesn't change the law. If anything, these things will only go to prove your intent to launder money and avoid tax if and when you're caught.

While that's not to say that aged shells, nominee directors, etc. don't serve a purpose for certain people in certain situations, a lot of this stuff is just designed to enrich the service providers through fees and provides very little meaningful value in terms of privacy and protection.

A lot of Russians use offshore structures to protect their assets from the state. Also, Russia has a territorial tax system under which nonresidents are taxed only on their Russian-source income. Many wealthy Russians live overseas, so if you make your money abroad and live abroad, there's nothing inherently illegal about keeping your money abroad if you're a Russian.

Basically, the reasons a Russian would go offshore are a bit different from the reasons an average American would.

Finally, in cases where a Russian was offshore for shady business, you should recognize that the long arm of the Russian authorities isn't that long. The US, on the other hand, can functionally knee-cap financial institutions anywhere in the world for refusing to do what it wants.

As evidence of this, consider that even Chinese banks will comply with US sanctions if they feel there's a risk to their US dollar operations:

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/chinese-bank...
Yandex which is free of charge for custom domain
I don’t think that point of view is contrarian? At least among the more experienced developers. My guesstimate that 80% of problems in software development are created by the software developers themselves.
> but over-buying capacity based on "perceived need that doesn't actually exist" is a trap that also makes the roads less safe and should be regulated

This kind of thinking (all expenditures to account for tail-risk demand scenarios is an evil source of inefficiency that must be eliminated) is making society perilously fragile.

Buying optionality is a great idea and people don’t do it enough.
"she had left Apple after spending several years fighting a decision to reassign her to a role that she said had involved more work for less pay. She said Apple had begun trying to reassign her after she complained that the company’s work on the minerals was not, in some cases, leading to meaningful change in some war-torn countries"

I'm impressed that Apple let her spend "several years" fighting a reassignment. I'm also not very sympathetic to this person though. I've quit a job because I got reorg'd into more work for less pay. It sucks, but I don't think it means my employer is problematic or bad or whatever. The role I had was no longer needed and I didn't like the new position I landed in, so I left. That sounds similar to what happened to this person.
I doubt it, considering UNIX services for Windows was a thing for a long time.
Yes, but that version works only with the tailscale.com server, not a custom one.
Legacy systems are still legacy because nobody ever wanted to pay to replace it. Later on it becomes so old that nobody even knows how to replace it, which adds to the cost - in investigation, and in the replacement not meeting feature-parity, and in cost of failure. Basically, you should fully expect any replacement system to be too expensive and take too long.

So this book is correct that managing the organization is probably the most important part of transitioning a legacy system. Somebody has to trick finance into giving you twice the budget, and product & sales into giving you twice the time, and build an engineering department strong and large enough to do two things: 1) run a legacy system, and 2) build and run a new system that will be way more complex than the old system team can handle - including the moving-saucers-of-tea-between-two-moving-18-wheelers-on-a-plank migrations. It's only once you've got the organization well trained (like a prize Poodle) that you can think about the code.

And I'm not sure if "Future Proof" is tongue-in-cheek, but it should be. Every system should come with a sunset date and a plan to transition to a replacement system. You can't predict the future system, but you can at least estimate how to migrate to a nearly-identical system - the cost, the timing, the reliability, the portability, etc. My favorite sign of an unprepared manager is when I ask them about their plans for when we will eventually transition away from the system, and they reply "Well I hope we don't move away from it, it's costing $X to build!" When what they really mean is, "I'll be long gone by then."
The whitest paint could eliminate the need for air conditioning
I don't know who benefits and I don't purport to know. Maybe he said other things they disliked (e.g., was critical of China or Saudi or Nike) and they were looking for an excuse to ban him. Maybe their moderation system is crap. I don't know.

You were the one who said it was a bad idea. I actually don't think you actually know enough to make that statement, but if it such bad things continue on there, why haven't they been out-competed?
Fredrick Taylor was the one who developed so-called management science and obsessive measurement, paving the way for Deming to popularize a more balanced or holistic approach, ie. akin to actual science.
Love this. Also really unexpected noise :)
Thanks! This seems pretty interesting, I will definitely explore it further.
You've definitely not convinced me that the US was founded as a welfare state.
> Maybe rent a big vehicle when you need it and use a regular size on when you don't.

I buy things specifically so I don’t have to compete with other people during times of scarcity, such as the last 18 months that just happened.

Renting sucks if you do anything regularly or like to put work into improving anything (like your car or house).

I don’t want to live a life of peonage where I don’t own anything and am at the mercy of other people’s resource allocation decisions whenever I want to do anything.
I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks!
I agree with this, but the truth is that you basically are buying a friend who will keep your secrets secret.
Which God are you talking about? Zeus? The Sun God? Plenty to pick from.
FreeTube (freetubeapp.io) implements options for that too, I've found it wonderfully effective to keep me focused.
And this is where the NIMBYs come in; people who bought in years or even decades ago, who want to see prices rise to astronomical levels so they can retire off of their home's equity. Any proposal to do this will absolutely be shot down, until the voting public outnumbers the homeowners - which may never happen, given current voting trends.
Prior to Slack, intra-company communications at Apple have been historically limited. Just being able to ping anyone at an instant is a cultural sea change.
Wait wouldn't that have to be Windows subsystem for UNIX to be consistent with WSL?
When you fly over the United States most is uninhabited and we have the ability to build up density through height. We are even facing a population crises where we don't have enough people to work the jobs that are open now, much less the number of jobs in the next ten years.
Let’s go a few levels deeper and question our consumption culture
I would describe qualified immunity as starkly autocratic, and it was written whole-cloth by the supreme court.
How is the deliverability on this? I've received a lot of spam over this and so i suspect poor deliverability
The UK's system is very simple.
Weight: stone for humans, kg for everything else, unless you're over 60 then it's lb. Or if the human is a newborn then it's always lb. But younger humans measure themselves in kg. But if it's weed then it's oz. But coke is g.
Length: feet and inches for the height of a human, and for the waist/leg/neck measurements. But feet? No, that's just a random number. Distances are metres, unless they're long then they're miles, and if they're at sea they're nautical miles. An aeroplane's altitude is in feet, but your altitude up a mountain is in metres.
Volume is easy. Beer is in pints, so are milk and blood. But water and juice are in litres. Petrol comes in litres, but your consumption of petrol is in miles per gallon.
Energy is btu if you're old fashioned and you're measuring natural gas, otherwise it's kWh, unless it's food then it's kcal. Joules are for science class.
Speed is miles an hour, except at sea when it's knots.

Letting each individual shop decide what measurement of weight to use will work out great.
Thanks for the suggestion. I have seen subspace, but haven't had a chance to explore it deeply. I don't mind deploying and managing my own setup, but since my team is small, I want to limit how much time I have to spend on this in the long run. I have definitely considered running my own setup of barebones WireGuard, but haven't come across an elegant user management solution.
I think therapy is basically paying somebody to listen. Which is a great service if you don’t have anybody really listening to you in your life.
Yes it is. It feels like cosmic coincidence because I lost my father 2 weeks ago.
There’s something in the number of comments here along the lines of either:

a) I’ve been working o a similar thing…

b) Look at this other more mature project that solves the same problem…

There’s nothing wrong with a modern take on an old problem, but a naive take on an old problem that doesn’t either learn from issues with past attempts or offer anything novel…

This is a hard problem; How do you scale with easy quick prototyping and robustness for production quality.

Projects like unreal that solve this well are few and far between, and usually marked for “version 5” or “version 7”, where they’ve gotten past the early stumbling blocks of bad decisions and leaning too heavily towards no-code and complexity.

This is a cute side project; maybe it has something novel to offer (I don’t see it, but perhaps), but it’s very naive, and it’s … a fair way off from something anyone else probably has a use for.
Please point to where I said anything to the contrary.
You mean this?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX
> No. I'm arguing that because laws can be arbitrary, we should err on the side of protecting criminals when difficult decisions around privacy are at play.

I'm probably 'strawmanning' it because your argument is utterly incomprehensible, given that it is entirely inconsistent with the purpose of the law.

The purpose of the law is not to protect the guilty from the legal consequences of things that they have done. You seem to think that it should be. This is utterly baffling. If you don't want people held accountable for crime, then strike those crimes from the criminal codex.
> Avoid keeping types in TypeScript in sync with Rust.

Out of curiosity, did you try auto-generating the typescript types from the Rust types?
Very much like governments demanding people consent to unwanted medical procedures under threat of being banned from work, education, and participation in society. Very dystopian.
We're working on the key distribution trust problem. Stay tuned.