skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There are good reasons for it, and I'm certain you will gain a better understanding as you gain more experience as a developer.

The people pointing out problems with Rust have more experience as developers in their little fingers than Rust's internet fan club has in their whole bodies combined.

In a mature, intelligent discussion, if you have a point, you make it. On HN, if you have a point, you say "there are reasons; I'm not going to give them; also, you're a newbie".

It's comments like yours that make HN unbearable nowadays.
Sure https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28831243
Ask HN: How to collect information to precise a vague idea of project?
Since I've heared at the T.V. that firewood was the cheapest source of energy in France, I have a project idea: "wood stove and firewood market". It can even be more precise: "a wood stove and firewood market Webapp that connects manufacturers and customers".

But I need to know if people would be interested in paying to use this site, and if lots of people would use it.

I also need to imagine highly-specialized features that would interest manufacturers that they would not find nowhere (and idem for customers), so that my Webapp would have a real added value.

What are the steps to follow to answer those questions?
Could I simply go to their forums and asks them their needs?
It is possible I misread the story. Still:

"Netflix then suspended Field along with two other employees for trying to attend a director-level meeting they weren’t invited to."

That is why I said the tweet was benign and probably just added fuel to the fire. I think I am justified in saying they were suspended for it given the close proximity to the other likely event.
> Closures use pipes instead of any of the existing syntaxes we're used to.

Who is “we”? Pipes are one of the existing closure syntaxes I was used to pre-Rust. And, I mean, I’m probably not alone: lots of current and ex-Rubyists around.
Agreed, Redis is truly wonderful, I've used it extensively as both a cache lookalike and also as primary datasource (as long as your data size/growth is known and manageable on RAM, which is pretty common for many projects and current hosts) and it's always super fast, reliable and easy to work with.
You can only do bitpacking if individual fields of a struct cannot be accessed via reference (or 'borrowed', in Rust terms). While C/C++ includes the 'register' keyword which forbids reference access, Rust does not.
There is a push to remove that
gently remind her that if she doesn't have children, other people will, and they may raise them to have very different views than those she would share with her own children. families of culturally conservative parents also tend toward multiple offspring, with structural support from their communities and traditions, i.e. "go forth, be fruitful and multiply."

for her (and those taking a similar stance) to change the world, in this model, increasingly means changing the minds of other people's children. the odds of prevailing in this battle of value systems only grow worse with time for those who choose to remain "child-free."
2 days a month seems like it could be handled pretty well with an airplane? Like even if the commute were six hours and you had to stay in a hotel, that doesn't seem awful twice a month if the other 28 days you get to live somewhere that makes you happy.
And one that can supply carbon neutral energy also during winters. Which considering amount of global population that requires heating to survive is quite critical.
A very solid article giving a very good technical answer to the question of which should you pick.
It's not as doom and gloom as you might think. Without such a huge wealth gap between the people who work for the downtown industry and tertiary business you might get lucky and have a cultural resurgence as artists, musicians, restauranteurs, local retail, etc etc can afford to live and set up shop downtown again.

People seem to forget that outside of the supermega metro areas the typical downtown/financial districts are basically dead.
Worse, they've got two sets of outraged, unhinged parents to deal with. There's the ones who want no masks and no vaccine mandates for their kids. And there's the ones who want their kids to never, ever be exposed to anyone who isn't vaccinated and isn't wearing a mask. And there is absolutely nothing that the teachers or the school board can do to fix this.

(Note that this is true regardless of what you think of the correctness of either position.)
A new fab would be competing with old fabs that are already amortized/depreciated, and thus have lower capital costs.
> at most you can follow recipes cook book style.

Here I disagree with you pretty strongly. Once someone is comfortable with differentiable programming it's much more obvious how to build and optimize any type of model.

People should be more concerned about when to use derivatives, gradients, hessians, Laplace approximation etc rather than worry about the implementation details of these tools.

Abstraction can also aid depth of understanding. I know plenty of people who can implement backprop, but then don't understand how to estimate parameter uncertainty from the Hessian. The latter is much more important for general model building.
What if Xi has faster hypersonic missiles?
I actually believe 50% is very optimistic. Main reason being we’re talking about a very complex non linear event that is not very well studied and depends on a society that hasn't experienced a default before.

Above could also explain FED's overly protective attitude towards the whole thing.
Very good and hopefully that will make the collective opinion strong enough to force the politicians in Sweden to scale up instead of scaling down the nuclear plants. Instead of lots of stable energy we now have more of wind mills turning big areas of nature into industrial zones which in turn have made the electricity price to become even more expensive.
This reminds me of TAFFI [0], a pinching gesture recognition algorithm that is surprisingly easy to implement with classical computer vision techniques.

[0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/robust-...
I think what op means is this: A graph is mathematically a set of vertices (nodes) and a set of ordered or unordered tuples giving the edges (ties).
Now, sometimes you might have a weight on these edges, for example by specifying some function on the edge set.

However, it is difficult to see how a neural network that includes operations like sum, multiply and tanh, might be modeled this way.
How do you describe a dropout as a graph?

I think the argument is that a graph is not sufficient to describe a NN, so technically speaking a NN is not a graph. It is more. It has edges between x and f(x), but we also need to specify what f(x) is. The mathematical definition of a graph doesn't do that.
This strongly reminds me of The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel) by Herman Hesse[1]. The idea of simplifying and restricting the creative space into a grid, but then assigning abstract value to the grid (e.g. game of life, minesweeper) seems to be a persistent meme in computers.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Glass_Bead_Game
Now we just need distributed crypto identity (open source keybase) so you can maintain identity across platforms, with the ability to transparently sign and verify messages regardless of where they’re persisted. This would allow for message logs to be ETLd while timestamps and provenance is maintained.
You are likely replying to a paid communist shill, or somebody who has been educated by one. Still, you are right.
Well maybe Germans could just vote to freeze their energy prices, like Berliners voted to freeze their rents.

/s
I strongly disagree.

Software engineering has changed dramatically over the past 20 years.

Choosing a non-mainstream uses an innovation token on something that does not contribute business value.

That’s a huge red flag.

Software engineering is now a team sport.

Future maintainability and readability is now orders of magnitude more important than nifty tricks when writing the code.

See http://boringtechnology.club/
Yeah, that was what I was referring to. Trump was correct, Russia will fuck the Euro Poors like it is doing now.

Biden who has dementia has no plan and basically gave Putin the green light.
I always wondered what special genius people saw in Girard.

The observation that people want what each other want is not new and doesn't require philosophical genius to observe -- "keeping up with the Joneses" is what it's called by normal people.

What about "avoiding competition is good so chase blue oceans?" That's certainly a decent fund thesis, sure. Is it a genius one? Certainly seems like the returns come from the application of the maxim and not the maxim itself.

The real insight would've been to propose a fun way out of this "mimetic hell" for society. Girard's observation is that this usually takes violence against a scapegoat -- certainly not a fun way out.
> Seems like something that should be very far down the priority list?

Not entirely. It's a proxy - and a window - on the company culture.
The op gives clear and sound reasons which you dismiss as illogical without any actual argument. Your answer also misses the obvious point of renewables.

I fully agree with the op, no way nuclear is long-term safe and if we poured the trillions that have been poured into nuclear into renewables the world already would be a lot nicer. But renewables are much harder to monopolize so the big players never really wanted to support them.
I'm sorry, maybe it's just me--but none or almost none of these projects have actual plans to build them!

Everything is a wiki stub. Almost all the topics have unanswered questions going back to 2013. Some have a nice top-level "blueprint" looking infographic, and then absolutely zero details about building them.

I'm not sure how to use this project, although given my 40 acres and great desire to DIY, I should be a prime candidate.

Most of the stubs don't even have a summary yet! Let alone details.

If that stuff is there and I missed it, then the website UI is desperately broken.

As a for-instance, can someone find plans to build the LifeTrac6 Cab Frame? That's the very tractor linked here, and I can't see any real details. The linked page and its descendants seem to be a list of ideas that have absolutely no detail expressed.
If redis wasn't single threaded and had a way to do memory management like memcached it would probably be perfect.
Didn’t you do it first?
I don't know why people say Amazon has a bad reputation as an employee.
You have to consider there is a million employees and it most likely depends on department, location, job.
I personally know a couple handful Amazon employees who are all most happy and treated well.
Some of them have previously been at google and they say Amazon is the better employer period.

In some jurisdictions they pay clear above industry standard.

All companies have good and bad aspects, some feel better in a startup , some feel better in a corporate giant.
I'd be down haha - When do we start?
That's simply not true.

That is a laughable case count compared to all the violations just everywhere.

If it would be enforced all of US BigTech would need to be outright banned from the EU until the US fixes its no-go issues like CLOUD Act or that secret FISA court.

That's the one part.

The other part is that also almost no domestic companies comply. More or less every business and all the country governments in the EU breach the GDPR in one or another way (for example by using US BigTech products behind the scenes as all governments do, or simply just collecting personal information without consent labeling it "legitimate interest" like almost every websites does).

All big German media outlets have for example right now a case in court for noncompliance with the GDPR. It will take years in court of course, and than nothing will happen, as every time before.

The same goes for things like "Privacy Shield v3.0" the EU Commission is working on. This new version is obviously illegal for the same reasons as it was the case for v1 and v2. But they don't care. The courts need many years to stop it again. Until then this illegal regulations that obviously violate the GDPR will stay in place.
I'd imagine "how are you different from X" needs to be coming up a lot for you. Have you given this thought? In a space with very mature competitors like Zapier, it's great to have a crisp answer for this.
I quite like Redis as a cache or as an ad hoc locking mechanism accessible from across a cluster, but as a database I will never fully trust it. RDB and AOF seem far too fragile to trust in production, especially in a distributed setting.
Well, it's a private company and it's their infrastructure, their systems and their service. We all may dislike the practice but they have the right to enact their ToS, as long as they act legally in regards to payments, etc.

Discord is seeing a huge spam/bot epidemic with stolen accounts right now, makes sense that they want to get on top of something like that.
I thought it was quite clear: look at people trying to break a system, it highlights flaws in the system.
> as long as they are able to commute to the office when necessary

This is they key right here. Basically you still have to live within a few hours drive of Seattle or Palo Alto, or even less depending on your patience.

Still better than five days a week in the office though!
shoot your shot buddy!
If a VPN isn't sufficient for your threat model, then you need to be using something like Tor, I2P, or Nym.
Still have mine. Used it a handful of times. Mostly worked! I wish they had a similar device to eradicate music from restaurants and cafes.
You can use SGML (on which HTML is/was based) and my LGPL-licensed sgmljs package [1] for that, plus my SGML DTD grammar for HTML5. [2] describes common tasks in preservation of Web content to give you a flavor, but you can customize what SGML does with your markup to death really; in your case, you'll probably want to throw away divs and navs to get clean semantic HTML which you can do using SGML link processes (= pipeline of markup filters and transformations), but you could also convert HTML into canonical markup (eg XML) and use Turing-complete XML processing tools such as XSLT as described in the linked tutorial.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net

[2]: http://sgmljs.net/docs/parsing-html-tutorial/parsing-html-tu...
> You mean they are doing what they are legally required to do by the government? Of course they are.

Well that cut-and-dries it then, I'll be sticking with Android/Linux until Apple puts up a meaningful resistance to government surveillance.
Disclosure: I'm maintainer/author of Pelikan.

I wrote about Pelikan, a unified cache framework, and its relationship to Memcached and Redis in this blog from 2019: https://twitter.github.io/pelikan/2019/why-pelikan.html

Specifically talked about what we would like to change about each.
I was mainly trying to explain why supply side there are a lot more politics/business submits on HN(go to the "new" section) than usual.

And I agree moderators are concerned with other things.
I think there is a significant opportunity for an app or platform that allows me to make helpful introductions in the right context. I am not aware of any that allow me to curate my network and suggest who to connect (and provide a context for the suggested conversation). Please leave a comment if you are aware of one or working on it or contact me via my profile.
They ran the 18 day flight test in September, so not the dead of winter, but also not on the longest summer days:

A solar-powered aircraft has completed an 18-day test flight offering hope it could be used to create internet access for billions of unconnected people around the world...The test flight touched down in Arizona on September 13.

https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/the-americas/2021/10/1...

Phoenix has about 12.5 hours of daylight on Sept 13th. (compared to ~14.5 hours on June 21st, ~10 hours on Dec 21st.
If you hang around here long enough, you get to see people insisting on pretty much anything being a Lisp.
> Would you call the Army Council of the Continuity IRA the government of a country?

Unlike both the ROC and the PRC, they don't actually govern anything in practice, irrespective of whether it is coextensive with their claims. Upthread post claimed the ROC and PRC are both governments of real and separate countries in practice, independent of their overlapping theoretical claims. Doesn't seem a related thing at all to your question.
> I think construction timeframes all due to complex political process and lack of proper experience.

Are you aware that Hinkley Point is build by the EDF a French company...they sure don't lack proper experience but the project is still all OP listed.

Fission is no solution for the crisis.
Depends on whether the launch sites get hit before launching, this part of MAD is well understood. You just need survivability enough for a second strike (or early warning enough to render it moot).
I, for one, welcome newer and better reactor designs.

This doesn't solve the significant issues of fuel enrichment and waste storage and disposal however and we need a much better story for those before fission power has any kind of future (IMHO).
Yes, that was what I struggled with. Who are these people and why do I care how they distribute their apples? I can understand the value of this kind of thing now, but it just frustrated me as a child, and the teachers weren't equipped to handle that frustration without making me the designated laughing stock.
What alternative hypotheses have you considered and dismissed to explain why so many CEOs agree on this approach?
That makes sense, thank you. I'd assume a data engineer at Google somewhere has a small yellow light that goes off whenever someone exceeds those limits, but FAANG infrastructure never fails to disappoint me.
> Would you call the Army Council of the Continuity IRA the government of a country? They claim to be the government of the Irish Republic declared in 1916 and claim the entire island of Ireland as the territory of that state. Claims are very cheap.

Exactly claims are cheap. Hence why the PRC's claim that Taiwan is its territory is so worthless given that it has _never_ controlled it. Also why the ROC's claims to the mainland and Mongolia are so worthless given that they haven't controlled any of that for more than 70 years.

The claims are cheap and meaningless. The reality is that China and Taiwan are two separate countries.
From Wikipedia
> A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing organic molecules originating in ancient photosynthesis[1] A fossil fuel is a fuel formed by natural processes, such as anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, containing organic molecules originating in ancient photosynthesis that release energy in combustion.[2] that release energy in combustion.

So, by this definition, Uranium is not a fossil fuel.
I'm unclear why this statement is unpopular, its factually correct. There is virtually no technology on the planet that can be made without oil.
I remember writing Ada (long ago) and my take was: it's nice to work on existing Ada code, but I thought it was tedious to write new code.

there was also a lot of unchecked conversion under the hood.

(disclaimer: I haven't really paid attention to newer versions of Ada)
By Cal Newport
Let me explain something to you, which you don't seem to understand. The way people's civilization works is like this:

1. people get born
2. people get raised
3. people replenish pool of people with new people
4. people die

if people don't complete your activity on step 3, they failed. It doesn't matter how must $$$ they got. 401k, IRA, SS, savings - they won't deliver you food, change your catheter, or comfort you when you are lonely. If new generation isn't born, the rest doesn't matter. Global warming doesn't matter. Gay marriage doesn't matter. Inequality doesn't matter. Cops wrongfully arresting black people don't matter. You're done, game over. You wasted your life, and didn't do the only thing which actually mattered.
"- 4 straight hours inside a room

- every hour the interviewer changed

- got asked the same questions over and over again"

It's the same in UK, at least they standardised it!
HexstreamSoft is one guy who decided to piss off just about everyone he could in the Lisp community, then his Twitter account got locked and everyone stopped caring.
I haven't read the whole document, so I don't know. They probably tie it into their broader case somewhere.
I don't even want to maintain identity across Discord servers, I certainly don't want to automatically-verifiably maintain identity across completely separate platforms. :(
Thorium is complicated. I'd suggest [1] [2] as a good primer on this issue.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IqcRl849R0

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baQelfQAH54
"Bloomberg noted that India is currently studying possible locations with adequate land, water, and manpower resources. India reportedly said it would provide financial support by fronting half of the capital expenditure needed from 2023, along with tax breaks and other incentives."

India is going to put up half of the capex up front w/tax breaks and incentives. India govt. also going to scout out land for Taiwan.

TSMC will be in Taiwan, China, Japan, US, and India.

https://techhq.com/2021/10/heres-why-a-mega-chip-deal-betwee...
Adventures of a Mathematician brings an unsung scientist back into the light
If I was offered a job with great pay, benefits, and company culture, but all of my programming would need to be done in brainfuck, I'd probably turn it down.
> Future maintainability and readability is now orders of magnitude more important than nifty tricks when writing the code.

Explain npm, then.
In a tech world it is necessary to remember that ideas worth nothing. Well, a good idea may worth $100, a brilliant one $1000 top. Even if you can patent your idea, there is a cost to enforce your patent.

So, "stealing the idea" is an oxymoron, like "led zeppelin".
The Future of Our Storage World Is Autonomous
And water. They need lots and lots of water. And everything has to be ultra clean and to start that way in creation, shipping and in use.
A few reasons:

1. Extremely expensive equipment, both directly related to IC fabrication (e.g., lithography) and indirectly related (e.g., air filtration, water processing, stabilization).

2. A large amount of skilled labor onsite to operate and maintain the complex equipment.

3. Constant supply of resources, including power, water, and sand.
> Advertising is a different beast altogether.

You are correct. Web advertising is long overdue for some trust-busting. But for some reason, antitrust law is rarely enforced.
Same thing with Haskell, in the last month I had a few people argue with me that if a language isn't Haskell, it's not functional programming.
I am an amateur dev (for 25 years), using mostly Python. I was blackmailed by a friend to try Go.

Boilerplate, no exceptions, slices, ... all felt terrible.

And then I started to appreciate the typing and the fact that I had to give some thought about where to actually handle errors.

I know kinda like Go, except for the weird way maps are handled, and the lack of types in errors (compared to Python where it is fantastic).

There are certainly pros and cons (I am not a good enough developer to have advanced thoughts on that) but the cross compilation makes a lot of things easier when deploying self-contained executables.
"I don't hate the Chinese people, I just hate the Chinese government"