skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's suppressed. Who hasn't heard about viral load at this point? It's just poorly understood.
Enviably close to Tahoe, too.
This part...

> for the high frame-rate, heavy animations this puts a lot of pressure on CPU and memory

...does seem to suggest that the "garbage multiplier" effect of immutability is an ill fit for applications that also create a lot of garbage naturally. Note that this is about as close to an apples-to-apples comparison as we're likely to get - the same application implemented two different ways - so it's not the application's innate object-lifetime characteristics that are the problem. That's an implementation artifact.

The question is: how many applications are likely to hit this same limit? Is this a rare case, or is it common? If it's common, it is indeed an indictment of the "immutable" approach. Otherwise, not so much.
I didn’t navigate the paywall but may have the gist from the comments.

One thing that i don’t see mentioned is that this route can help people that have a criminal record get back in the game. I took over running a small consulting firm for a bit over ten years and aside from the DoD and one bank, nobody ever asked for background checks of our employees.
Proof could even include some examples of stories that were quashed, or other examples of abuse. I don't think they necessarily need to out themselves to make a stronger case.
>today blue collar workers can afford riches undreamt-of in the 1970s.

All the luxury you could dream of, as long as you don't dream of a home or medical care.
At first blush, I might guess "a tech backwater" would be easier to find leads. A tech hub will have so much noise and competition for those leads, even if the leads are more plentiful.
Yeah, but they still managed to get some things wrong. Or maybe just imply something other than they meant.

I'm no expert in Rome, but I found tons of things that screamed this can't be right (in the article).
For those who are in the PortableApps ecosystem, I maintain a build of Marktext here:

https://github.com/jgonyea/Mark-Text-Portable
Sometimes I get downvoted for mentioning this on HN - but somewhere I read the facile seeming comment that the reason we underestimate the impact of medical errors is because there is no billing or procedure code for "oops, killed the patient".

I briefly worked for a health insurer, and got the impression that everything revolves around the standard codes. And HEDIS and NCQA and stuff.
Does Vivaldi deserve a mention here alongside Brave?
It's not just about the jobs. There are enormous economies of scale to living in cities. Distances travelled are shorter, stores do higher turnover(meaning fewer of them per capita), and multi-family housing is cheaper to heat & maintain to name a few. Urbanization is one of the most tested ways of making people richer.

The problem historically has been the distribution of that additional wealth. It's common to see cycles of increasing rent seeking, followed by de-urbanization/migration, and then a gradual return to cities.
Amazon must redo Bessemer union election, orders labor board official
100% agree with this. The FIRE movement (or the equivalent before it gained this name) was about average people using frugality, investing, sensible leverage, and luck to get ahead and (semi) retire much earlier than usual. It has since suffered an influx (at least in popular online circles) of high earners scoffing at the idea that anyone could achieve financial independence with a frugal lifestyle. This despite the trivial mathematics proving it is indeed very possible for average earners, perhaps even more so recently given the bull markets.

I've worked with some very intelligent, brilliant people, who simply cannot comprehend how their own financial spending is foolish, or more likely, know this and choose to play ignorance. I've always found it fairly bizarre, almost like an addiction. It's fascinating how some people can be so skilled in one domain, but so lacking in self-control, especially when obtaining said skill requires enormous self-control in the first place.
If this were a standard we stuck by any number of famous instances of gross misconduct would remain unknown to us.
>We don't have slaves anymore. At least not in Western societies.

The US still explicitly allows slavery in its constitution, actually, so that's incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...

It is absolutely not a coincidence that immediately after the passage of the 13th amendment, the incarceration of people of color skyrocketed following the passage of numerous racially-targeted "black codes". It's also not a coincidence that the majority of the current incarcerated population are people of color, it's a direct legacy of that system. Sure, you can't explicitly write racially targeted laws anymore, but applying an ounce of critical theory shows how the laws can be enforced along racial lines.

>And to fix that, we need more active suppression of speech, surely?

Note that no one actually suggested this as the solution.

It's always very telling that when someone of privilege is told that society has not, actually, been equitable in its supposed ideals (in this case free speech) the first reaction is always, "So instead you want to oppress and censor me??" instead of attempting to engage with the idea that maybe we should be structuring things so they're not oppressing anyone.

The best explanation I've seen of this phenomenon is that when someone has lived in an privileged and elevated position for their whole life, any calls for equity seem like an attack on your position.
Peter's Digital Photo History (1984–1993)
In the US, IIUC, the IRS won't let you (employer, employee) do that.
Log-Structured Protocols in Delos,a platform for building on a replicated log
They should have left Celeron as the low-end SKU. Then they could use Pentium again nowadays. Core was a sensible branding to emphasize the fact that they were multicore when it was a new feature, but now that's old hat.

Now is actually a decent time for a naming scheme change, right? Apparently Golden Cove is supposed to be a bit of a jump.
According to the papers, candidate ghosting has been happening more and more often. With such a senior, high-paid position as that, it doesn't really apply, but I can't help but feel a bit of schadenfreude at employers lamenting ghosting candidates, after themselves being the ghosting party so routinely.
I mean sure, you can absolutely retain your own docker repository, your own NPM repository, etc and then configure them in your Dockerfile before installing packages. Pretty much every technical problem has a technical solution, but it's more effort that "just" fully pinning your versions.
This makes no sense. A company like Stripe has in-house recruiters.

An external recruiter would never tell a candidate they referred they were hired without hearing it from the company first - as they’d be burned too many times by setting people up for disappointment, and it would destroy their reputation with the employer.
Not the same, but somewhat similar to op's predicament: I interviewed at an eCommerce company for a role that I was very suited for. Went through the loop, got positive feedback, was told I'd been chosen as the candidate, and a week later--boom, "the business decided to table the job req".

It's really taxing on applicants when the inner turmoil of a company affects job postings. A company should not post a job role only to revoke it at the final step. You shouldn't be withdrawing a req after candidates begin interviewing.

It was an expensive (time-wise) lesson for me. I really admired this company until I had my chain yanked twice with them.
I do miss the days when every teenager who "knows computers" was thought to be more technically competent than adults with 10 years of industry experience and every small business and sole proprietor in existence was looking for a 100% custom website design and was willing to pay an 8th grader rather than a web design firm. Such were the early 00s / my teen years.
Autonomous Flying Wind Turbines Can Generate Energy at Nearly Half the Cost
'Squeezed' Light Can Give Nano-Imaging a Much Needed Boost
I do a limited form of this with C/C++ projects that take forever to compile, with many conditional breakpoints that alter control flow to my liking that I then "solidify" into actual code when I have it looking like I want.
I always put some “wrap ups” in my interview. Logical points where, when they stall or give a terrible answer, you can ask, “is there anything else?”, let them say something else, and just say, “Thanks! I think that’s a great place to stop, is there anything you’d like to ask me?”. I practice saying it with a smile, and don’t diverge from the script. Makes it much easier to end bad interviews.
Raw materials are not abundant everywhere, so globalization is here to stay (even if that means that regional wars will be fought to secure supply of these materials).

Maybe the value of the materials traded will erode since we will value tech and virtual “materials” higher and higher, but the actual flows of physical materials cannot go back to where they were 50 years ago, unless a global war erupts and the global standard of living and population goes to hell.
That’s definitely and decidedly not the end-goal. Most people don’t retire entirely, they just switch to work that’s more interesting to them, on their own terms. Maybe fewer hours.

But I’ve never heard anyone proposing that nobody should ever work again — you still need to work for long enough to build up a big portfolio. Maybe you can choose to just work 20 hr weeks for your entire 40-yr career… or 60 hour weeks for 15 years, then retire early. But the idea is that if people could consume much less, then we could build a better economy that supports everyone needing to work less in a lifetime.
How would one optimize for immutability in this case, other than turning it back into mutability behind the scenes? I've certainly seem some code written in an "immutable" style where it was pretty clear that the intent was for one data structure to be a mutation of another, just called something else because the language required it. That case might be easy to optimize ... but the general case?
Elon? Is that the guy who moved to Texas to dodge taxes and regulations? Who’s expanding industry in one of the states with the least environmentally friendly laws in the nation? You know, a state where rolling coal is considered a pastime?

Yeah no thanks. I sold my Tesla shares after he took a cheap shot at Bernie Sanders (funny how he never took a shot at Donald Trump, weird huh)…
I fantasize about a future where we have enough CPU and memory that we can waste them on nice stuff like immutable data structures and software rendering.
Incredible how Reagan also caused the same problems in countries like Canada where wages are flat and housing is more expensive than the US! Damn you Republicans!
I take it you are not from around here. People in this area are masters of flowery noncommittal. For example, you might ask somebody if they are interested in doing something and they say "Wow that sounds like a great idea." Translation: not interested.

In reading through your experience, they did not seem to give you a firm offer. Sadly this is kind of typical around here though I really wish it wasn't. I have had to translate the SFspeak to foreign companies doing business here several times who were just as confused as you.
Think about this: without any proof or name to back the claim, the only purpose the post serves is to (possibly) slander a person.

As a bystander you have no way of knowing who is right. There is a huge disparity between the person being slandered and the person trying to post slander.

The person being slandered can't defend themselves due to either volume of it or just impossibility of proving you haven't done something.

On the other hand person posting slander can quickly create multiple usernames and crate a lot of "content" looking like a discussion.

An exception could be a criminal case (when it might be ok to both stay anonymous and not have a proof, because of an important reason like public safety). But even in such case Police or whatever other official will try to confirm the claim in some way.

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emodendroket: I can't respond because I am being throttled by HN (for apparently posting low value content).

Again: how do you know these are actually separate people? Without any real name on it there is no way for you to know.

Do you think trolls haven't thought about it?
Is it impossible for folks to imagine that some local biomes might gain biodiversity as a result of climate change?

Alaska might be one of those places. Perhaps Siberia as well.
Are you sure about the short-lived allocations being a problem for the collector? My understanding of modern generational garbage collectors was that they performed quite well with short-lived garbage. Not as well as not creating the garbage in the first place, of course, but not so badly as to be a problem in most cases.
We're certainly making progress towards that goal.

Used be that people worked until they died. We chose to believe in silly fantasies like heaven as motivation to keep working, because eternal paradise would come after death.

Then we started creating schemes like social security, but those were planned such that the age you could start collecting was within a few years of the average age of death. You'd still work most of your life and then maybe have a few years of feeble freedom.

Now life expectancies have increased and people are even retiring earlier because we have secure ways to save and invest that plebs in our past never had. But most people still have to backload their freedom after they've lost most of the vitality of their youth.

One interesting question in my mind, is whether there is a causation between the belief in the afterlife and the amount of retirement people take in this life. Is the freedom to experience more years free from drudgery causing a decline in the need to believe in heaven, or is the decline in the belief in heaven causing people to check out of drudgery while they can and enjoy at least part of the only life we know we get to experience?
Carbon monoxide keychain detector.
Redis as a Primary Database
It doesn't work well everywhere and there isn't a way to customize its selection of divs e.g. see this thread itself https://rssproxy-v1.migor.org/?url=https:%2F%2Fnews.ycombina...
I would use it if it was in the Arch repo. I do not have the patience and the adequate hardware to build it in a frequent basis and ignoring all trust issues I do not have the patience sort through issues present on random builds.
Funny, because I feel that simple tasks that would take minutes in my machine are now a dev adventure with docker.

And I mean funny. I suspect it is different mindsets. And I personally like that both seem to be thriving.
This is obvious because? We certainly have the wealth for it.
I just think it’s sometimes used when it shouldn’t be.
Yes, but we know why these are screwed up. And it's not because of foreign workers.

For medical care: 1970s style medical care is basically outlawed today, and there's lots of regulation. Eg if you want to open a new hospital, the existing hospital in your area that you would compete with have veto rights, and use them. See eg https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/02/09/considerations-on-cost... or look for 'Certificate of Need' in https://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/04/highlights-from-the-co...

For housing: see eg https://www.mercatus.org/publications/monetary-policy/shut-o...

Basically, building houses used to be legal in the 1970s. Now it's illegal in many parts of the US.
std::cout::write(myInt,": ",something," - ",otherthing," - ",etc,'\n');

Possible with preprocessor.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/29/world/omicron-varian...

This should work.
Both my professional experience, and public examples would seem to suggest that's the norm. Example, here's the official postgres Dockerfile: https://github.com/docker-library/postgres/blob/3bb48045b4dc....

Do you work in an environment that maintains custom copies of every dependency in company managed repos? If so, my experience suggests your the outlier, not the people running apt, npm, etc inside their Dockerfiles.
Another possibility is that many more people come forward, making it less and less plausible that it's baseless slander.
Immutability is a drag if you create lots and lots of referenced state because, e.g., you want to hold on to many snapshots of past state.

Immutability done right need not be much worse than mutability.

For example, jq's internal value representation is immutable in appearance:

- mutations yield new values,

- but when the value being "mutated" has only one extant reference then mutation is done in-place,

- while when the value being "mutated" has more than one extant reference then mutation is done by copy-on-write.

If you manage to always have extra references, then "immutable mutation" gets expensive.

If you manage hold on to old references for a long time, then "immutable mutation" gets even more expensive.

In a run-time with a GC not based on reference counting you do have to GC all the intermediate garbage.

Immutable data structures really lend themselves well to reference counting GCs because you can't have cycles in immutable data.
> Twitter is not run by Jack Dorsey, nor that other companies are run by their CEOs. Companies are run by boards.

FB (Meta?) is run by its CEO. He controls the board. This is rare, of course (and perhaps unique for a company of this size and powe).
Dirtier and Secreter: People's cognitive dissonance would flare way up if you shared convincing evidence that the OECD or the similar bodies fake their self-employment data.
Windows
Linux
Android based on Linux
macOS (based on FreeBSD)
iOS also based on BSD

So, mostly three. Especially considering the BSDs' wide server presence.
This sounds like typical tech infighting, sadly. We shouldn't normalize this stuff, but we do. I really hope more companies hold their leaders to a governing, conscious culture that they actually follow themselves.
The Psychology of Human Misjudgement - Charlie Munger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqzcCfUglws
I would agree that Twitter transitioning to a DAO owned by its users might turn out great.

Going a bit on this tangent: one problem with a DAO for Twitter is that the tools for DAO management are still in their infancy, and in practice it means that a centralized administration holds the keys to power in existing DAOs. E.g. the administrators of the main Discord channels, the mods of the main Reddit channels, etc, have the ability to control the narrative by deciding what messages are made prominent, and which ones are censored, in community discussions.
That's sad. Sorry that happened to you. I hope you guys are still moving forward and building.
Not sure how "rich" people feel trading a single family home on a quarter acre for a 800 sq ft 2-bedroom house. I've lived in plenty of dense urban cities in developing countries and they live that way because they can't afford better, not because it's ideal.
The Astronomical Librarian
Can’t help but remark that Twitter isn’t a great platform for expressing non trivial ideas. To make this post, he had to basically screenshot another write up in order to make it fit the character limit
I've always kept my usage of Nix language to a minimum and found it to be a joy every time. But it's no wonder you'd have trouble on something that humongous. Why did it get so large?
Now we need to turn all the glowing and actions into labeled data and run in through a deep neural network
musicbee is pretty good
There have always been Kochs and Soroses.

What’s new post 1960 is:

1. Massive increase in the college-educated.

2. Women getting educated and entering the workforce in large numbers.
Totally agree, it kind of sucks to have to do this. But this is sadly the world we live in. People like the Collison's and Stripe have immense power to ruin people and companies, and there are a lot of ruined bodies in their wake. So there is zero chance myself or anyone will do anything publicly.

Hard to give proof on this, so I understand how everything needs to get taken with a grain of salt. The only thing I can say is to talk (or just email) any fintech company founder in the states and I'm 100% sure they will privately agree with what I've posted.
I'd be the first to admit that you are basically correct, I dislike a vast majority of broadway musicals. There are some musical movies I like and things like Book of Mormon which I'm not sure if it's considered broadway. I find Le Misrables to be okay.

But I would still have to say, amongst all the broadway that I don't like, Hamilton sticks out to me as especially weird, like one of those 90s educational videos where people would rap when they clearly just shouldn't be.

Anyway, to each their own. More power to you if you like it. Something about it really bugs me though.
Ive seen this stated a lot and I'd be interested in where this idea comes from/ where it's been validated. I don't know if there's studies or something like that but I think it'd be useful to the conversation to add how we know that. Thanks
Musk and his brother rented an office space and slept on the couch there.
Definitely a weird time to try and claim that neither Facebook or Google got ahead by any sort of collusion.
This paper by the European Central Bank has a very in-depth discussion of the definition of currency collapse in section three [1], including three proposed definitions, two of which are given as mathematical formulae.

It specifically does not require permanence for any of the definitions, there's even an entire subsection on the varying degrees of persistence of various currency collapses.

Interestingly, from a first glance, it would also appear that most of the bitcoin collapses linked above fit the definitions in the paper, or iow, are just that, collapses.

[1] https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp1226.pdf
Relying on escape sequences is a serious footgun risk as there's always going to be some weird scenario that can be exploited against you, such as alternative ways to escape backticks that quietly gets enabled when some unexpected incident forces you to rebuild your MySQL Server instance.

When you're bringing in strings from outside, there's no such thing as being too paranoid. White-listing of permitted characters is the only safe approach. (And if you think your whitelist might ever need contain any kind of quote-mark, backtick or backslash, then you're wrong. Your table/identifier names are stupid and must change.)
Sure that's going to happen, but think about it from the other side. If a good employee leaves for greener pastures and wants to come back later, well, they already know the work and the team. Wouldn't you want to rehire some one if you were in that position? Even if they leave again down the line it's not like you spent a lot of time or energy getting them up to speed, they were already ready from round #1.
Cache warming at Netflix: Leveraging EBS for moving petabytes of data
What's the easiest way to deploy a docker container to a VM? Preferably without ten layers of cloud provider interconnected services or expensive and complex kubernetes layers? I just want to send a container and get back an IP address I can send some traffic to the exposed port(s).
Who’s sacrificing children? Is this more Trumpy projection?
That makes sense. I think the real issue isn't Docker vs Nix, it is that some package managers are almost impossible to use to build reproducible images. I worked with debootstrap 10+ years ago trying to script reproducible builds and found it exceeding hard. Gentoo made it almost trivial (Google used it for ChromeOS so perhaps they felt similar). I will look into Nix.

It appears that with the proper package manager support, Docker would be fine?

I come from a hardware background and seem to be a lot more paranoid than most software folks. I would struggle to trust a build where so much is not pinned.