skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think another important point is that the compiler is a fork of the OCaml compiler. That means that to contribute/maintain the compiler, you need to know OCaml. This is probably going to stay this way for a very long time, since the speed of the compiler is important.

Important to the maintainers, absolutely -- but not directly important to users of course: it's firmly the goal that you don't need to know any OCaml to use ReScript (and I think it's mostly true by now).

> What's not helping is that the people around Reason never really said "it's dead, move on to OCaml or Rescript". The pages for things like Reason Native, Esy, ReasonML are still up.

I assume they'd say they're not dead. I think Jord Walke, for example, didn't want to break his commitment to existing users using it for native projects, so put in effort to help people switch to a JSOO-based Reason (I haven't followed that story, so not sure how that turned out). I think that's good behaviour.

They certainly have a far smaller community than before though, because most people went to either ReScript or OCaml, or kept a foot in both communities for different uses (and no doubt some left entirely).
Robots Take over Italy’s Vineyards as Wineries Struggle with Worker Shortages
The internet (for the last few years) is both a megaphone for shouting the narrative of the ruling class, and a funnel for collecting information about every other class.
Prices are only allowed to go down, it’s what the gods of consumerism have promised.
AFAICT pretty much all home ISPs don't offer persistent delegations. Mine changes with every power outage plus a few other times a year. You can upgrade to their "business plan" and pay 4x as much for 1/2 the bandwidth to get a persistent delegation of a /48, but "Having more than one device on the internet" shouldn't require a business plan these days, and so the choice is NAT66 or having all the issues that that RIPE publication calls out.
Yeah it's not even true that FB is paying a premium. A thread full of people complaining about misinformation happily posting inaccurate information about Facebook.

Go look at levels.fyi. Facebook pays close to market for senior engineers (~450k), more or less in line with companies like Uber, Robinhood, Twitter, Pinterest, LinkedIn, etc. In fact, Facebook doesn't even crack the top 5 on levels for senior SWE comp so this idea that they have to overpay to recruit is clearly false. If anything, if you hang out on Blind, people will pick FB over other companies precisely because it's perceived as having a stronger engineering brand than those other companies.

I think Facebook executive team is full of liars but there are also these weird PR games in play. Uber had a woman complain about not getting a jacket in her size, Google gave Andy Rubin 10 figure bonuses after he credibly raped a report, had scandals with Vic Gundrota/Kelly Ellis, etc. yet Google is still a relatively well perceived company but Uber/TK are mysognistic/sexist companies.

Google got caught literally forwarding private user data to the government without warrants, nobody cares (except Glenn Greenwald I guess).

Sergey Brin and Steve Jobs got caught explicitly and literally illegally colluding to suppress wages but nobody cares.

Google execs were caught lying multiple times w.r.t them building weaponized AI for drones for the DoD in the Maven scandal and that largely washed over.

Eric Schmidt sends out email after email to Google employees to contribute to his SuperPAC and nobody cares. Google builds Dragonfly to censor Chinese political opponents and nobody really cares.

Facebook is an unethical company but companies like Google have objectively far worse scandalds but don't become the media targets. There are weird groupthink/PR plays at work here and it plays out even on Hacker News where accuracy takes a backseat to narrative building.
If you feel like your behind when looking at these other comments (like I did), this tells you the (woefully low) averages as well as how much you should have saved at each age.

https://www.sofi.com/learn/content/average-retirement-saving...
Did you look at the source of the programs where Python was competitive?

Python basically using C types and GMP to write C in Python...
This isn't new. This is clickbait. This announcement was made months ago but they reposted it today to get people to react the way you reacted.
> They can quit whenever they want.

At a steep economic cost. Should the EU be using its economic clout to meddle in the internal affairs of member states?

> wanting in historical accuracy.

I was making a suggestion ("why can't X be Y"), not a statement about current or historical fact. That things are or were a certain way, does not mean they should continue to be so.
What Is 'Hepeating?'
I suppose it depends how you learn! For some it is likely better to do what you suggested and start with what's current and then work backwards - but for me I needed to know why certain limitations were in place, and that required me to start at the beginning and work forwards.

As a newer developer this is a problem I've had with computing in general - a lot of newer languages, web frameworks, etc. are solving problems that I only understand through seeing what came before me. For example - why should I care about memory ownership if I've never tried to write a large-scale C program?
Q1 will be R2 minus one thing: storage fees.
Yes. And honestly, he probably should be, using the precautionary principle? I don't think there's great data showing that people infected with the ancestral variant have good immunity to Delta. Certainly, a lot of people who'd had the ancestral variant were re-infected with Beta, when there were big outbreaks of that in South America.
Spending could go up, absent an increased demand, if lower supply raised prices
B2 is nice but horrendously slow.
Users get a say in which apps they purchase. I've no idea what people are whining about saying cancelling app subscriptions is hard. Never ran into this, and if I ever do, worst case credit card chargeback would put the unscrupulous vendor in its place. It's not Apple's job to hold my hand.
Not sure why you think this. I work for a major organization and we have made sure to pay close attention to the outcomes of behavioral interviews when we evaluate candidates from Facebook, as we do from other organization with major reputational/ethical stains. Colleagues I speak to are increasingly doing this as well.
Yeah, and you can take an interactive course version of it on Chessable

https://www.chessable.com/the-woodpecker-method/course/10582...

And most of the Chessable courses can be "woodpeckered" through the interface.
> I use a wired mouse with a 1000hz polling rate on an M1 Macbook Pro with vsync disabled system wide; it only actually disables vsync if you use an external monitor and close the lid of the MacBook

Are you using a >120Hz Monitor or don't you care about the occasional tearing?
Land owners having more freedom to profitably use their land doesn't really seem like redistribution to me..
> I would have said "why bother" until this happened to us.

Aah, the good ole "one customer is unhappy, let's waste a week of time on this" approach to IT management. Takes guts to tell such customers "here's your refund, now piss off", but it is the right thing to do.
The grid appears suddenly, but strips of atoms keep piling on like those magnet ball toys, and it looks like it grows too big for its containment.

Maybe it grows slower as it gains more surface?
that's about as useful as trying to fight global warming by keeping your fridge door open all the time.
I was randomly thinking about this the other day, and trying to think of things in English that have many words for the same thing (or variants of that thing).

I didn't think on it long, but only came up a few things: sex, genitalia, faeces and cannabis.
Mind elaborating on who "lots of people" are?
But that requires that the journalist knows what the right conclusions are. They're skeptical about other peoples' claims; they're not nearly skeptical enough about their own positions.
You can also use washable towels to pat dry.
We do actually make payroll and have a solid runway. What my salary cut does is: a) signal the investor and the team that I'm serious about this venture, b) increase my equity and c) increase our runway by a couple of months.

As I've noted in a top-level comment, my intended message about focus gets a bit muddled without me giving the proper context. I'll add an update to my post with some context.
NGL, I have no clue what this article is saying.

Does this mean that people who were approved for remote work will be forced to come back into the office? Or that people who are supposed to come into the office Jan 2022 will continue to have to come into the office in Jan 2022 (i.e., no change).
>Meh, maybe it's the Republicans who have the right idea on trusting the news media here vs. the Democrats.

Given the percentage of Republicans that believe the 2020 election was actually stolen, how do you justify this view? Are the outlets that Republicans DO trust providing more reputable news, or are they spewing complete nonsense that is far more wrong than the mainstream news media? Every piece of evidence I've seen points to this rather than Republicans being right.
> that's it.

That can't possible be it. There must be some consequence to increasing the supply of money. I don't admit to knowing what that consequence is but there is no way the story is, "we make more money. the end"
I recently wrote a python script to handle serial communication and uploading of a bare metal binary to my RPi3, this saves me so much time debugging now that I don't need to swap SD cards continually. Excellent tool.
I dont know dude, I work in an enormous company that you 've heard of, and it's impossible for me to imagine how to extract code out. I can't do it, except if I get remote access and film my screen while scrolling.

Anything else is found quickly. I certainly wouldn't even dream of someone extracting the repo.
It's hardly surprising that people change over time.

What surprises me is the extent to which I have become like my father, as I have aged. When I was 20, I despised my father.

I haven't adopted my father's political or social attitudes; but I'm pretty horrified at the extent to which I've become like him in my personal attitudes and dealings.
> So; competition states, if their solution is genuinely better, companies will use it. Actually, this is false; companies don't give a shit about their users.

The users are part of the market too.

A lot of people use direct withdrawal from a checking account to pay their mortgage. Because the mortgage lender doesn't have the same incentive as a subscription service to make it hard to cancel.

So you do that for your mortgage, but would you do it for a subscription service you might want to cancel? Heck no. People use credit cards for that. Then if the service won't cancel your subscription you have a last resort the ability to dispute the charge with the credit card company.

Apple makes it even easier but charges even more.

But the choice is really important. Imagine if Apple was taking 30% of your mortgage payment and the bank had to pass that cost on to you. Even the 3% charged by credit card companies would be tens of dollars a month, for an ability to cancel which in that case isn't worth its cost.

So people will choose based on what kind of business it is. If Netflix demands that you use ACH, people will balk. If Apple is providing enough value over the alternatives to justify their fees, people will demand it. And in some cases maybe they are -- customers might demand it for super scummy services they know they'd otherwise have trouble cancelling. So in open competition, the users demand it where it's needed. In the other cases it's not worth the cost.
Besides a few manufacturers (Toyota for example) changing their ways, as long as it's cheap to produce products and ship them half way across the world. The status quo will never change.

Most US industries will be given significant bail outs from Main Street, while Main Street itself is left to fend for themselves on meager public support pillars (if they even manage to get through to a person that is able to help them).

I think COVID-19 was a test of our global supply chain and we have failed. If a virus mutates and is even slightly worse than COVID-19, then we are truly fucked.
> But ditching my FB account entirely means I'd lose access to dozens of people I wouldn't have a great way of contacting otherwise.

That used to be a fear of mine, but after deleting my account I’ve found it to be a core feature. It forces me to be intentional with my relationships; if I want to stay in touch with someone I have to make the effort. Otherwise, the relationship is likely more parasocial than actively rewarding, and I’m consciously ok focusing my energies on the people I currently want in my life to the exclusion of those relationships that have slipped into parasocial territory.
You’re missing a 365 in there.
So from what I understand this is basically a website where you can charge for premium podcast, I'm sure you post a link to your premium podcast at least a few of us would subscribe.

I actually think this could be really cool, but it also feels like it might already be a saturated space since it can be easier to make your podcast free but then just ask for support on patreon.
If you know your opponent is much worse than you, then chess can still be fun because you dare to play stupid moves. Open with Nh3 and then continue stupid development (don't leave obvious blunders). Or otherwise don't make your known best move until the game is more even. Or spot your opponent the queen from the start. Lots of ways to even out a game when you are better.

When you are worse though, you have to depend on your opponent doing the above. And then you have to depend on the continuing until finally you are so much better than even you can win.
>It's a great 0->1 language and great at simple glue, but eventually you hit a wall and have to keep investing larger and larger amounts of people or computing resources to get continued returns...

If you're a millionaire by that time, or have a strong established business, then it doesn't matter, it's a nice problem to have. Have your engineers have a go at it.

See: Dropbox, Disqus, AirBnB, and others...

And if you're not, then going from 0->100 in 2 years instead of 0->1 in a few months with Python wasn't worth it anyway (and you also don't have enough customers/users to make use of those 100x improvement).
> And even worse: most of them don’t give a shit about the reputation of FB.

They don't have to care. They just shouldn't be surprised if I refuse to hire them because I was able to find them on Facebook/Instagram. Likewise, if they worked for Facebook I won't hire them. They're tainted. LOL
A great demonstration of the power of selecting which stories to cover is in Democracy Now versus nearly everything else. A DN listener hears about tons of labor action and protests that don't make it to other news sources (or, if they do at all, are waaaaay down in a tiny column near the end), so would have a very different idea about e.g. how active (and, perhaps, how useful) labor unions are, while someone with other sources may only hear about one or two major protests and one or two major strikes per year. DN also keeps up with coverage of protests in particular, where other outlets mention them only infrequently, such that a consumer of the latter might think they fizzle out or fail much sooner than they actually do.

I dunno which is more "accurate" or "true", but it's a great example of how deciding what counts as noteworthy news is itself a very powerful editorial force. Where other outlets (even NPR and such) are setting aside news-coverage time to promote blockbuster films(!), the DN version of that would be promoting a documentary about indigenous-peoples issues or climate change or something. Totally different view of the world, just because of what the outlet deems worth covering.
There's a tax on inventory in warehouses. The government wants JIT too
Yeah, just log out! That'll force them to pay attention!
/s

This idea could not possibly be more worthless. Delete your account if you don't like Facebook. Otherwise stop crying about it
I was thinking in terms of Amdahls and Brooks law. Of course zero is an edge case, but in my experience the best designs in terms of quality (not number of features) come from individual work. You can not scale this part out.
Visual Studio removes that space automatically when you use it to manage dependencies. It's quite annoying.
People interested in economics and earning more than 150k are increasingly not on Facebook much, if at all. The Economist actually has a much more targeted audience. FB caters to the lowest common denominator.
Depends on how you define a single point. Single point doesn't mean 1 cause, it means at some point in the chain, there is a non-redundant component that when it fails the system stops. The fact FB could remove 100% of their capacity from the backbone is a SPoF if they don't have a redundant backbone completely separated from the configuration system used to control the primary.

I won't pretend to know the details of FB's infrastructure, and I'm sure there was a cascade of problems that made the outage harder to fix, but it sounds like years of separate teams building on top of other layers that were "guaranteed" to be online finally collapsed into a spectacular fireball.
I mean, yes, if you know Ruby. If you as a founder know Python, just use Django. They're sister frameworks.
Easier to compare but more expensive and more difficult to guess how much to bid, is probably not what customers are asking for.
How is that not a single point of failure? The failure was the one bad configuration.
Or you could just say "I'm looking at my future, and I'm thinking I could grow more by joining a different team." And then just drop "working from home" as something that impacts your quality of life, and you're good. This is a sellers market.
Yes, but I've never needed to before - ever. So I went to the first Home Depot, expecting everything to be there as usual. At that point I did start looking at other stores on my phone. No one store had everything I needed. I purchased a few things at every store I visited because those things were only available at that one store.
Trying to reinforce my comment?

Removing a whole toolset of configurability because one tool was causing trivial issues is practical? And you have evidence of jubilant hordes prostrating themselves in gratitude for this benevolence? Where are they? Did they all get disappeared along with this post?

This mentality goes down well-known paths.

Autoplay forever, whether anyone wants it or not!
One piece of advice I hear a lot is "review your games", but how do you actually do that without a stronger player? I'd sometimes use an engine and it'll point out moves I hadn't considered before, but without understanding the plan or positional ideas behind them, I often find this pretty opaque.
Last I've checked (a year or two ago) PyTorch support for TPU's were atrocious. Have they gotten any better?
Nobody expects a BGP issue. It's main weapon is surprise.

But, more seriously, nobody plans for BGP failures, BGP is a single system, with a distributed database across the internet, so there's no redundancy for it, and to add it up, it's nearly completely invisible, most people don't even know it's there.
Many BASICs had GC to clean up strings -- even on rinky-dink 8-bit micros.
The firm I currently work for (in the 4 digits employee size) has pushed theirs back to Mar-2022.

Many recruiter emails I have received are pushing "100% remote" - for how long I can't say as I don't answer them, but it feels like RTO is becoming more in the minority.
Why would you need placebo control for such study? You need placebo studies to isolate the effect, not for measuring the effect.
Anyone have any tips for someone who's a bit interested in chess but is a complete beginner? As in, I know how the pieces move but I couldn't win a game against a blindfolded dachshund puppy. My ELO would be negative (I'd be so improbably bad that it breaks mathematics). It's just not clear where to start.
Ask HN: Is FB Down Again?
> the infection causes antibodies to each of the envelope proteins.

That's interesting, I was not aware of that there was always antibodies to all envelope proteins. Do you have links to more information on the topic?

How does this work when some of the envelope proteins are common, ones that occur in other non-viral sources?
P0 has already been built: https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
You are right, I missed that. This does mean there's an impact on folks making above the Roth income limit but below $400k. Updated the post, thanks
Not at all. The idea that punishment = crime would imply that imprisonment is morally equivalent to kidnapping, or that a fine is morally equivalent to robbery. I don’t subscribe
Time Constrained Person
Yes, single family zoning is an unfair redistribution from people renting apartments to home owners.
Yev from Backblaze here -> that maintenance window doesn't shut down the B2 Service each Thursday for two hours. We have lots of companies like Kanopy and Cloudspot that use us as an origin store without issue!
> not everyone has the same comfort level asking for PTO.

I don’t get it - some would be comfortable and thus would enjoy more PTO

> bad managers can abuse

That’s an issue of bad managers more than PTO policy
I completely disagree with your assessment. No one is trying to silence people for saying "poor people are worth less than me, taxes are inherently evil, non-whites are probably illegals, and abortion is murder". I'm using the most offensive stereotypes to make the point that no one is even trying to ban those ideas.

The concern is the spread of lies known to be generated by bad actors, and how to handle it. Does "more truth" win against "lies"? Or should we try to limit facebook groups and twitter feeds that say Biden lost the election against all facts and evidence, when we see millions of people believe it just because it feels right to them?

It's not an easy problem, and doesn't seem to have any easy solution.
> Except I'd say that a major problem with annuities is one of bargaining power and purchaser sophistication, similar to why employer-based health insurance plans are better deals then open market plans even after Obamacare reforms.

Health insurance, like life insurance and annuities, is pretty efficient already with low single digit profit margins.

Average annual employer sponsored insurance is $7,675 for single PPO coverage in 2019:

https://www.kff.org/report-section/ehbs-2019-summary-of-find...

And average lowest cost monthly gold premium on healthcare.gov is $516 ($6k annual) in 2019:

https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/average-ma...

> Annuity return rates suck relative to pensions and especially stock market returns (ignoring potential long-term risk).

Ignoring the main risk of an investment certainly makes it cheaper. That is what we have been discussing these past few comments. Once those risks are taken into account, by legislation like PPA 2006, the time shifting of costs into the future becomes more difficult and is one big reason why DB pensions are not tenable.

Although, at this point, I would argue an even bigger reason is that they simply have been obviated (same for annuities by insurance companies). Why pay an insurance company a cut of your investment returns when you can get rock bottom expense ratios on target date funds from Vanguard or buy VOO? That is what all these DB pension fund managers and insurance companies are doing anyway. Same reason why whole life insurance is a scam. All of these products have been automated and their middlemen bypassed.
Sounds good! Thanks for the response (I found using flex box really appropriate in similar situations).
Bowing to investors, Microsoft will make its devices easier to fix