skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It is crystal clear that this comment validates the misunderstanding of how bandwidth is priced in the real world and how"

If you don't think AWS bandwidth pricing is something in the real world I don't know what to say :) AWS is now broken out in Amazon financials - worth a look to see what they are raking in and the margins they are getting in the real world :)

"Clear pricing you say? I'll use Corey Quinn (The Duckbill Group [0]) as an example again"

His entire business depends on the fact that AWS pricing is clear and public. For a service like cloudflare (ie, call for pricing / dealing with a salesperson trying to figure out how much they can squeeze you for on upfront or on renewal) this type of service is much harder.

In short, if your bill is too high, you can talk to someone like Corey and they can probably help you bring it down.
I think I’ve heard that before, but how is it higher? From the usual dashboards Scotland has 130 cases per million, while England is at 150/million. The number of cases right now is also stable while the UK overall is going up?
Wew! This looks so cheap and scammy. It's like an ActiveX spyware from 2003, but built right into the browser.
Ha it's still going strong. Now bifurcated between node+next and the rise of Deno.

It won't stop either because the road between between JS client dev and JS server dev is so smooth. Path of least resistance type thing.
What about WSL?
I don’t know how self aware rush hour commuters are about their situation. Also the animation linked does not involve decision making.

Right now a lot of companies are aware of supply chain issues and counter acting them for instance by greater stockpiling which in turn worsens the situation for others.
> For the vaccine rules I've seen, businesses all treat you like a presumed criminal until you prove otherwise

Can't understand for the life of me why people treat COVID hygienic measures like a personal attack. There's a very contagious pathogen around, the basic idea is not transmitting it to others. It's common sense, not a worldwide government conspiracy.
There is also a train congestion in Kazakhstan. A few articles mentioned end of summer 2022, but I guess this was assuming no extra disruptions.
> What I'd like to see is more experimentation with different social and economic models

You should check out the late David Graeber and David Wengrow's latest book The Dawn of Everything. It came out this year. It does a really amazing job of showing how a defining characteristic of many nonindustrial societies was radical experimentation with self-organization models. Something that many feel is lost today in the way we organize ourselves politically
> "All we hear in the news is the lack of congestion on the waterside and we can confirm that, but we are drowning on the landside by long lines and staffing issues at the terminals,”

Boston Dynamics has built droids capable of handling cargo.[1][2][3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iV_hB08Uns

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7v8ZUq16F4

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkv-_LqTeQA

If humans are in short supply and these supply issues are causing companies to lose money, surely every business handling cargo from the ports will line up to buy some BD droids?
> Would you stop with the hysteria?

To quote you:

"projection, plain & simple"
They still need to do Phase 2...I don't where you got your info from, but it's very misleading.
The ingredients in that thing are scary.
What I can't understand is the risk/benefit of firing thousands of unvaccinated medical staff across the US while we're in the middle of a pandemic and already experiencing hospital staff shortages.

Isn't that just exacerbating the problem? Were those unvaccinated medical workers really killing more people than they saved? I honestly don't know but it doesn't feel like we really did the calculus and are instead just shooting from the hip.
I like what Julia is doing but I just dislike the syntax. It seems to resemble ruby, whose syntax I also think is ugly, which to me resembles a modern form of basic.
Indeed. My point was that it’s something also found in other widely used languages, and not a PL/1 pecularity.
> Similarly, there is nothing to prevent a tyrant from arising who will create a system that is horrible in completely novel ways; or some clique gaining power and doing the same. I almost can’t believe Kropotkin doesn’t address this; but I have had the benefit of the history of the 20th Century to draw on, which produced e.g. Animal Farm. The Bolshevik revolution was still more than two decades away when the Conquest of Bread was written, and while Kropotkin did not live to see the formal declaration of the creation of the USSR in 1922, he himself was apparently not impressed by the dictatorial tendencies of the Bolsheviks.

Animal Farm is a critique of authoritarianism generally and Stalinism more specifically. Orwell was in revolutionary Spain, which inspired him to write Homage to Catalonia:

> I had dropped more or less by chance into the only community of any size in Western Europe where political consciousness and disbelief in capitalism were more normal than their opposites. Up here in Aragon one was among tens of thousands of people, mainly though not entirely of working-class origin, all living at the same level and mingling on terms of equality. In theory it was perfect equality, and even in practice it was not far from it. There is a sense in which it would be true to say that one was experiencing a foretaste of Socialism, by which I mean that the prevailing mental atmosphere was that of Socialism. Many of the normal motives of civilized life – snobbishness, money-grubbing, fear of the boss, etc. — had simply ceased to exist. The ordinary class-division of society had disappeared to an extent that is almost unthinkable in the money – tainted air of England; there was no one there except the peasants and ourselves, and no one owned anyone else as his master.

> — George Orwell

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Revolution_of_1936

> I expect that in almost all circumstances the type of anarcho-communism he espouses will eventually lead either to a form of authoritarianism, or to a chaotic state of semi-barbarism in the medium to long term, and to incredible suffering and violence in the short term. That doesn’t mean I disagree with him on principle - I disagree with his analysis of how the type of revolution he outlines, e.g. one based on expropriation, would progress.

Well, the Spanish anarchists were killed by fascists, and the Makhnovists before them were killed by the Bolsheviks (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makhnovshchina).

But people seem to like anarchist ideas and especially direct democracy, so we have things like AANES aka Rojava (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_N...). I gather it's not considered real anarcho-communist or anarcho-syndicalist or anarcho-whatever, but it's definitely influenced by those ideas.
In this case it’s 1tb free every year. They didn’t put the 12 months stipulation on it.
The author could be practicing a superforecasting exercise of coming up with probability estimates and grading them at the end of the year to calibrate, but this author doesn't show his work as to where these estimates come from.

For example:

> In hindsight the 70% prediction was somewhat overconfident, and a prediction of about 45% would have been better

That's a huge post-hoc adjustment, what factors were important? Just because a p70 event does not occur does not mean that it did not warrant a p70 at the time.
> Starting that list with the Volt...

I know it's confusing but Chevy Bolt is not Chevy Volt
If it elicited the same immune response it wouldn't be much of a use though, right ?

Anyway, how do they know the usual but new seasonal flu vaccine is safe ? Can't the same framework apply ?
Tragedy of the Supply Chain?
The "anti-consumerist" in the headline seems like a poor choice of adjective.

Reverend Billy has preached against national- or international-chain stores and their usually-acommpanying local monopolies, and against mindless consumerISM, the practice of trying to buy happiness. He's not against consumers, he's against certain modern mass-market practices.
> 1. Assignment by name. If A and B are structs (not official PL/I terminology), then A + B A = B copies similarly named fields of B to corresponding fields in A.

Do you mean something like with-expressions? See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-refe....
Quote from the article Screw It, Time for Nukes

Perfect Friday night reading before a quick bit of on-line gaming!
Not entirely, certain services are free forever and this reduction is one of them.
There was also a fascinating debate about the admissibility of digitally-enhanced images as evidence. While the media was quick to decry the defense lawyers as disingenuous and their objection trivial, the actual courtroom debate had good arguments on both sides. At the end of the day, the drone footage central to the prosecution's defense was enhanced by software that specifically says it is not to be used for evidentiary purposes, only for investigation.

I'm not trying to comment on any other aspect of his guilt/innocence, just that it was not as cut-and-dry as I thought it was, and as a non-lawyer I found all kinds of interesting learning opportunities while watching the case (propensity character evidence, lesser included offenses, etc). I could see enormous academic value in actually giving the full case (or at least the unedited courtroom highlights) a closer analysis.
It is deer and cats. It mutates between species. This will end if people get tired of the constant fear-mongering.
I read HN and links therein, BBC, and Reason. For big events like the US election I will scan CNN and Fox news to understand what retail coverage looks like, not really to get the news. I get a few newsletters specific to my industry but I generally don't read them unless they happen to be at the top of my inbox when I'm bored.
Given that they're also applying it to Netflix Originals, I don't buy the "contractually obligated" argument. At least for those, it's on them.

And just like I don't buy that argument, I don't buy their service either. I'm not going to pay for an intentionally crippled experience.
Heh.

Recently I had to stand up a quick elixir project and decided to write all queries by hand and not use Ecto.

It was extremely enjoyable writing every query from the start. Just thinking carefully about what columns I needed, and crafting the best joins and where clauses made efficiency baked in from the beginning.

If one is not careful and just be lazy with an ORM you get back all columns all the time - and this is the biggest sin of an ORM. Not to mention sub-optimal where clauses that kill performance.

And the next positive side effect was the amazing speed of the database interactions in the app.

It’s not something I’d do all the time since sometimes you do need the discipline of Ecto, but I say we should write more sql by hand instead of less.
That makes sense. If you're making a connection to a hard glass surface, something has to provide some give.
People like Marshall Sahlins (Graeber's mentor) woudl strongly disagree that leisure like this is recent, in the sense that he believe(d) that pre-agricultural human societies had lots of free time available to (almost) everyone.
The main reason is that a lot of scientific computing depends on ancient libraries written in Fortran or C, and a lot of newer libraries depend on GPUs for their matrix operations so need to be able to make calls to C/C++ modules that run directly to the GPU. This probably isn’t impossible for Java but that was never meant to be it’s niche, it doesn’t compile to machine instructions and prefers portability.
Computer science is overrated.

Computer engineering on the other hand... much more practical ;)
Is this for real or is this a metaphor?
Like the jobs the book Bullshit Jobs referred to, I'd bet most of the cargo in these trucks is bullshit products that will end up in landfills within six months.
I think the target population you are using in your example is way too restricted. You're right but I mean lots of people all around the world are buying shit they don't need.

I'm simultaneously impressed and almost grossed out at how quickly the anti-AAPL crowd on HN pivoted so quickly because just because they decided to add some ports on these shitty machines. Had to make a quick release for the holiday season I guess!
David Graeber, RIP
The Unofficial Guide to (Avoiding) Electrocution
It seems to me a rather random selection of info, the only real insight comes from the Twitter threads quoted.
Yes, or you can use ===, which will check the type as well. I am trying to get in the habit of using === everywhere now.
With Spotify, the music industry is collectively able to extract $120/year from you for your at-home music listening experience. Would they be able to extract more with buying CDs or digital downloads? Or would you spend a similar or smaller amount, and simply consume less?
How to give back as a senior dev?
Hi, this is a bit of a ramble about what to do with the capabilities that i have been gifted with.

I am a senior backend developer with 8 years of experience. Id like to offer my capabilities to a project that aims at improving the 'global situation' in some way.
However i find that most jobs are not aligning well with such goals.
Instead, they are often about maximising revenue or increasing sales.

I want to know where can i find companies or organisations, that can use my capabilities to 'better the world' in any way.
I am currently working in a company that aims to accelerate the scientific process, and i am looking to find similar opportunities.

As an example, in the scientific area i'm thinking of contributing to projects such as arXiv or sciHub or basically any other project that wants to make a change instead of just money.

I suspect that it is not just me, but that there are many talented people around here that could and would contribute to 'improve the world' but are instead working in lucrative jobs around selling some goods.

I think this could should be talked about more, since so many smart, capable people here are just utilised for increasing sales for some company, when we could leverage this resource to better the world?

Thanks for reading.
Yeah, they are basically charging $100/month less than before. If you need less than a TB of bandwidth, this is a good deal since you pay nothing.

Just hope you don't get over a TB, or it's going to be expensive quickly!

For big customers this is not going to make any difference at all.
Another point that is often lost is how mathematical Julia code can look, especially for matrix functions.

Yeh this is superficial, but so are 200 dollar sneakers and they do just fine.

Honestly there is a real pleasure writing code that looks like it could be on the blackboard. The numpy / numba world in Python just feels... not great.
PL/I was also memory safe (unlike C/C++), and on Multics the stack grew up rather than down.

Probably the greatest reliability regression from Multics to Unix was implementing the kernel and user apps in an unsafe language.

(Or, more accurately, using an unsafe compiler/ABI, as there have been memory-safe compilers/runtimes for ANSI C such as Fail-Safe C.)
Ahhh, I see the problem. You just need to be introduced to fanfic!
Worse than that: an appeal to the reader’s sense of humour.
RIP Sondheim, he was a personal hero of mine and an unparalleled force within the small world of musical theatre writing. As an artist he absorbed and perfected the craft of everyone who came before him, and he was an excellent teacher - both directly through his shows but also in mentoring other artists.

If you study his teachings[0][1] about writing musical theatre you'll find a lot of parallels with programming and software (in fact, Sondheim planned to be a mathematician before becoming a composer.)

His three mottos have stood me well, both as a composer and a developer:

"Less is more

Content dictates form

God is in the details

All in the service of clarity, without which nothing else matters"

An absolute master.

[0]: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-iraDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT13&ot...

[1]: There are so many brilliant videos of him explaining his craft - including this: https://youtu.be/NUN_MTChn5M?t=86
Many rush hour commuters do bike, car pool, or use public transportation at least in part to cut down on congestion.
I mean that if we consider humanity as an intelligence, it is clearly in the process of upgrading itself.

Of course it's a bit of a stretch to consider all of humanity as a single intelligence, certainly from our individual vantage points. It doesn't seem conscious or even that smart. But from a different vantage point, especially in time, perhaps it does.

I do have a more-strongly-integrated distributed intelligence in mind (with 'components' that are less autonomous), but perhaps there are other structures that already are intelligent on different scales, that we don't yet recognize. Perhaps it is not us upgrading, but the universe itself.
If you're a member of the largest workforce (service sector) in America, when you go to work every day what say do you actually have in the way things are done? Is there any real democracy happening there? The ideal of democracy has been abstracted away from the personal and lived realities of many people to getting to vote for one of two options for president every 4 years (obviously you can vote in more elections, but whose got time to look into that you got work the next day?)

For many people capitalism is just a reincarnation of feudalism for the industrial age
I swear I’ve read a hundred articles saying “here’s what we should’ve done to prevent this pandemic”. Let’s see if any lessons have been really learned; a new variant is practice for the next virus that comes on the scene. With the testing tech we have now, proper tracing, quarantines, and travel restrictions, could a variant be bottled up?
Isn't that true for any language? Why are you hiring for language skills rather than problem solving aptitude and conceptual fundamentals?
Towering musical theater master Stephen Sondheim dies at 91
> We know that B.1.1.529 is not a “Delta plus” variant. The figure below shows a really long line, with no previous Delta ancestors. So this likely means it mutated over time in one, likely immunocompromised, individual (see my P.S. note at the end of the post).

How does that work ? Virus mutate inside the host until either death or the immune system stops it ? Why is the absence of selective pressure producing a virus more efficient at spreading ?
This is a big part of it. People who are scientists write code that we would think is disgusting and don’t care that much about abstraction outside of mathematical functions. There’s a lot to learn with Java. I helped classmates in my intro to programming class when I went to college, because I already knew how to code, and I have no idea why they picked that language as an introduction language. After weeks people were still struggling because on top of the ideas like loops/variables/control flow now they are having to learn classes.

Python was written with people like scientists in mind. Professionals write fast C libraries and then people who know just enough to get by use python to glue it all together.
> Pretending it is not happening is not an option either, when basic medical services are not available due to overwhelmed healthcare systems.

Then maybe those hospitals should have increased capacity over the last 2 years? Expecting all of what you said because hospitals don’t have capacity is, well… morally and ethically wrong.

> Each new escape variant will require lockdowns, travel restrictions, and new vaccination.

Expecting society to keep doing this forever is madness. It ain’t happening. There is more to life than a myopic fixation on exactly one illness to the detriment of literally everything else. That is a fact that some people seem to be unable to digest.

This ends when enough people get tired of this and stop complying. The experts who keep telling us to be afraid will never say it is safe.
> And, while I agree that mutating an input param is generally a bad idea, that's no excuse for the type system to not be correct.

Yes there is: it's more useful. I don't want to have to write a version of my function for every possible subtype. If I'm not mutating properties, then it's more useful for objects and lists to be covariant. It's not "incorrect" for the type system to do so, that is a deliberate design choice that makes functional patterns easier to express.

This is part of what makes TypeScript so great: they made careful tradeoffs given that they were working off of an existing language. JavaScript doesn't really have immutable objects or lists, but invariance would have caused far more problems than it would have solved.
You really need to stop digging in.
How far does this go? If I am watching a Youtube video of Jenna Marbles, is your claim that I am not really seeing Jenna Marbles, because I am only seeing a pattern of electromagnetic radiation that I falsely attribute to being Jenna Marbles?

Your view strikes me as solipsistic. I have no problem saying Mark Twain was both an author and a character in his own books, and Jenna Marbles is both a human being and a character in her own streams.

In fact, given that Mark Twain the human being is now food for worms, arguably the character in his writings is considerably more real and more alive than the author himself. I would argue that since human lives are ultimately ephemeral, the representations and images of ourselves that we leave behind in the world are potentially more meaningful than our biological bodies ever can be.
Very true. Drs understanding of magnesium is what vitamin D was in the 1990s.

I agree that most supplements are overrated unless you've got a serious health problem. Then they become very useful but it's hard and expensive to figure out what works. A high quality protein with magnesium does wonders as well. Amino acids are required to build a lot of important things in the body.
The GDP change in 2020 for Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland were -2.8%, -0.8%, -2.7% and -2.8%, respectively.

Sweden had no advantage over its neighbors on the economic outcome, and you'd need to cite real data in order to make an argument for mental health. Naïvely assuming a causal relationship with quarantine measures for both without considering positive effects of better health outcomes (and other factors) is fallacious.
The whole article is a ln unreasonably self confident assemblance of either obvious/common sense points or facts grabbed together by other sources (most twitter) with some witty comments.

Not worth reading, except for the tweets embedded.
https://freedomboxfoundation.org/
What is the idea behind using views? I have never used them
If you think mmap is clunky, you really don't want to see how Windows does it.
I'm a self-taught programmer and I've been looking at this curriculum longingly for a while now. I've been working up the courage to quit a cushy but unfulfilling job to study CS full-time (also math and physics, but that's just for fun).

I fell in love with programming after I started working, and have spent the last 7 years automating everything I can in my job. I'm confident in my ability to solve problems, but I'm missing a solid understanding of the fundamentals.

I already have a BS in Materials Engineering, and I have mixed feelings about returning to university. Tuition has doubled since I graduated, and I'm perfectly capable of teaching myself. The authors of teachyourselfcs.com have some strong opinions on CS masters degrees, though I would consider it if I found a topic that really called out to me AFTER I had built those fundamentals.

I have plenty of savings, but I'm worried that my effort will be wasted if it doesn't come with an exclusive piece of paper at the end. Will it be an obstacle, or am I worried over nothing?