skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For an update: Talking with a legend – interview with Anders Hejlsberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3qf8gRFESU

His brother interviews him. He gets philosophical about some things as he is older and says he will never work at the corporate office again. I enjoy Anders presence, which all great programmers seems to share, which is a certain calmness and reasonableness about code. I really appreciate his contributions over the years.
I also make trips to the store to buy proteins, maybe just not your kind of proteins. I usually get chickpeas, beans, edamame, lentils, etc) and I haven't noticed a change in price.
No matter how much human capital was invested in making targeted ads possible, only very rarely I

There is the issue. "I." You may be one in 100,000. Also there is a trickle-down effect. A brand will spend enough dollars to attract a certain number of fans, then those fans attract others organically. Many will say you "Ads do not work on me," but unless you know exactly why you choose product X or Y, it is difficult to say with confidence.
So, he was shadowbanned?
The articles spends the majority of its time going over:

- the mechanism for the tax write-off, by paying costs for cleanup rather than a fine

- how wealthy the players involved really are

- another mechanism for avoiding tax (transferal of property to a spouse on death avoids capital gains -- I'm not really interested in this one, but the article goes into it)

- yet another mechanism (possibly unilaterally inflating company valuation after the transferal, then selling "for a loss" that perhaps is illegitimate -- remember the damaged rig was not part of the sale)

- how sole-proprietership means the first write-off is a personal tax write-off too (I have no real objection to this)

- how the company has dragged its feet tremendously in actually doing the cleanup (ample detail in the article)

- how the estimate on the extent of the spill was perhaps 20 times too small (according to a government law suit)

- how the Coast Guard had to hire its own contractor to finally install the protective dome

The article definitely has some "look how wealthy these people are, they're not like us" aspects to it, especially in the first quarter or so, but the substance of it is about the triangulation of fire to "push for settlement with a trust for costs (tax write-off), push for that settlement to be based on an estimate that underestimates the true cost, push back on doing any of the actual work". (That being said, and maybe I missed it, but I don't think the article does a good job of explaining how that last part improves their bottom line -- do they get to recoup unspent funds from the trust?)

But I don't see how you're getting to (paraphrasing) "just say you want a wealth tax, instead of this misleading bullshit". Seems like a reasonably good article on "doing bad things and largely getting away with it".
Why can't you just skip it and calculate a median of all the nearby homes and rentals that have transacted on the market over the past x months? That seems more objective than asking people who have no idea what rent is what they'd rent their home for.

I bet if you asked a panel of 1000 homeowners that haven't bought or rented in 10+ years what rent was going for in their cities, they'd undershoot it by 20% or more.
The unions are absolutely more powerful than the executive. That's true of basically every government union. Teacher, cops, road workers, etc. Not just functionally, but politically.

Your hypothesis would have to be based on some type of facts. HOW did those branches screw up policing? What policies did they enact that changed the shape of policing in their cities, and how did those changes "screw things up".

Keeping in mind that crime rates, even today, are at historic lows.
Football fans spending millions on club crypto-tokens
Lua? Tcl?
Standard (read stream nil nil) in a loop has been working rather well. I originally was just using read-line and then for char across line. That isn't hard. Just has been a significant portion of some solutions.

Granted... The solution for some is a four line loop...
It's not a consensus when anyone who objects is fired from academia.
Yes, I am aware of this. I run a Mastodon. I have been running one for several years. And I see a lot more reports from my users of people on Pleromas than on Mastodons or on any other Fediverse server.

The original question was "What makes Pleroma different from for example Mastodon? Why would one choose one over the other?", and "Masto admins are less likely to cut you slack in a dispute if you're on a Pleroma because they see a lot of jerks using Pleromas" is a difference, IMHO.

I can't say I "prefer" Mastodon. It's the server that was there when I decided to start running one. One of my friends switched over from Masto to Misskey and seems to be happy with it but it was a lot of hassle to do the change, more than I'm willing to bother with.
A mix of hold your breath and pray, and google until you find some github issue or stack overflow post that addresses incompatibilities of version x.x.x with OS version y.y.y on architecture z, then download some custom wheel that a person uploaded to their personal PyPi instance.

It's one of the most stressful and least-fun parts of being a developer for me.

I keep reading about NixOS lately, but I haven't done a deep dive into it. Does this seem like something that could be useful for this?

Also, does anyone have any resources for pragmatically working through such things or guidelines to help maintain one's sanity?
Is it?

Hooker offering good time is still quite evil.

Praying on the low instincts of people like simply more pay (even if a lot) -- more pleasure is considered rather evil.

Cam girls praying on low self esteem man.

Isn't it the same? Throwing money at people who will grab it because they are thirsty?

We can argue that Borland developers were underpaid and Borland was evil - because they were used. Again "Is it?".

That is just such complex question that I am not proposing an answer...
Yes -- this is a follow-up investigation into how that bug might have occurred by looking at recent commits to AOSP.
My kids would sooner turn something off than sit through an ad.
The Computerless Computer Company (1991)
the fact you think insurance companies are accountable is laughable. last I checked I never could decide on what insurance provider my employer offered.

I see no difference between private insurance and government run except the government is constantly lambasted for overspending and medicare seems to have the lowest operating costs and payouts to healthcare providers.

which seems to be the exact metric you want.

edit: just move to a public option system and watch shit hit the fan in the market.
It is interesting. I wish you wrote the article
A staggering percentage of Adobe installations in the 90s were pirated, even in the US.
I have heard a different story (but from Kahn's side): that the board did not back him up when he presented his internet strategy. He left after that, arguing that the board did not have the vision.
This story is mid-80s, not later on. I was at Analytica, which made Reflex. It debuted in 1985 and sank, to good notices and dismal sales.

Borland bought the company for less than the VCs had invested, cut the price to $99, advertised it, sold it by mail order, and made it a hit for a couple years.

Several of the key execs at Analytica went to Borland and then to Microsoft; some of them are fairly famous now. I don't know anything about the limos or the lawsuits.

I heard Kahn talk in early 1985, and the Analytica founders made fun of him, for selling his product through mail order when everyone knew you had to go through BusinessLand and ComputerLand.
Ropinirole extends survival by 28 weeks in an ALS clinical trial
Probably could have been awesome, the Windows flavor certainly was; but they dropped Kylix before it got a chance to go anywhere.
Cocaine actually makes you want to do something, so videogames/TikTok/Instagram are worse in this regard.
Off topic: Are the "dual-complex numbers"* used in 2D game engines? They're certainly a part of GA.

The term dual-complex numbers is an unfortunate name for what I'm referring to, which is a 4D number system for representing rigid body motions of 2D space. There is an analogue of SLERP for them for interpolating between rigid body motions. So you would expect the answer to be yes.

Maybe this isn't the right forum for this question.

* - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-complex_number#:~:text=Th....
Agreed, although those aren't present in all states (or even at all exits within states that use them).

Edit: actually... IDK. In some states they're just useless too (you get off the interstate and then you find the business that was on the sign is 10 miles down the road, away from the interstate). At least the "this far to <business>" and "this way to <business>" part on billboards is usually accurate ;)
What a beautiful interview, thanks for sharing.
> The M1 Max uses 120W when stressing GPU and CPU. The GPU by itself uses around 60W.

The article clearly states that it is 120W on the wall. The SoC goes up to 92W. Nowhere it says that the GPU itself uses 60W.

You have also glossed over the fact that the article asserts that the MacBook runs at half of the wattage of an Intel system with a RTX 3080, 120W v. 256W.

> The M1 Max GPU does use 60W and so do many 3060 Mobiles with worse overall performance

A 3060 runs on 60W at the very low end. Usual configurations are 80W and 115W, and the differences in performance between those two are quite noticeable [1].

And again, you seem to focus on gaming, which is fine, but not the target market of a MacBook Pro. Notice that all the games tested are not native, but running on top of Rosetta 2. The M1 Max does great when it comes to video [2], and I would say the same for other workloads [3] [4] that have been, at least historically, where Apple has mostly focused on.

> at almost three times the price

Citation needed. Three times the price of what? The Intel system used in the Anandtech article is $3,149.00 [5], is the MacBook Pro $9,000?

By the way, Nvidia also has pro versions of their GPUs, they don't perform as well in gaming as they do in other tasks, and they really are way more expensive than their consumer counterparts. Are we now going to dismiss a Quadro RTX because it does not do too well running Tomb Raider?

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/rtx3060mobile-multiple-tdp...

[2] https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc...

[3] https://blog.yiningkarlli.com/2021/10/takua-on-m1-max.html

[4] https://austinmann.com/trek/macbook-pro-m1-max-for-photograp...

[5] https://www.adorama.com/msige7611054.html
If they are permanently replacing the old workers that pretty much means they no longer have a job.

So yes. They have been fired. Kellogg has announced that.
Also Android Studio, XCode, all the React builder websites, etc. Basically every GUI platform + IDE has some form of a drag & drop interface builder.

The problem is that outside of the iOS ecosystem, there are too many subtle differences in behavior to really trust the results. And because a lot of software gets worldwide distribution these days, it's economically worth it to squeeze that last bit of performance & user friendliness out of the framework. So most professional programmers learn how to do things programmatically and only use the interface builder if they're doing a quick internal tool.
A free market solution will never work in healthcare because neither side has the ability to say no and walk away when they can't come to an agreement on price.

A consumer cannot price shop and delay an appointment or procedure when it is a matter of life and death.

A hospital or insurance company cannot say no to someone who they are 100% sure will never be able to pay the bill.
With the exception of evolution (which is a very religiously loaded question) and humans not walking on the moon (which is quite an outlier among conspiracy theories) the others are really minority positions - even antivaxx craziness is a minority, though one that causes much real harm.

What evolution and the moon landing have in common is that they (a) are facts about history, which is much easier to rationalize being different, and (b) they have little to no impact in people's lives whichever way they believe.

The vast majority of relevant facts are ones that affect everyday life, where there is either broad agreement (basic physics, social cues etc) or complex disagreement (actual political matters, such as the root causes of poverty, politicians' track records on various issues etc).

And especially looking at day to day political facts, it's very very hard to tell who is lying and who isn't, who is massaging the truth etc. An exception here were Trump's election bold-faced lies, but most political facts are complex and multi-faceted.

Let's take a look at "Russia-gate". We know for sure that there was an FBI investigation, and it found some collusion. But, the FBI is a secret service, notoriously hard to trust, with a history of lying to the public. Also, the amount of Russian interference they found was actually small - direct money investments were small, and "troll farms" are very hard to quantify. But, there still was something, and some Trump associates were actually indicted, which doesn't tend to happen for pure propaganda reasons in general.

So, what should you believe? How close were Trump's toes with Russia? If you vote for Trump next election, will you expect him to collaborate with Russia or actually fan the flames of war?

This is much closer to the vast majority of facts I see in my day to day (note, I am not American, but if I gave examples with Romanian politicians are unlikely to be well known to others).
Luddite is someone who is opposed to new technology, which doesn't apply here as the sentiment isn't about being opposed to the new tech but about the new tech not being taken advantage of.

The software we build today is "vastly" more powerful in the sense that, strictly speaking, you can do more stuff, but it is way less powerful - and often broken - than what it could be, considering what you can see being possible on older hardware and what seems to be done in modern hardware.

Also it isn't really something that happens today, here is a nice (and funny) talk from Joe Armstrong on the topic from almost 8 years ago[0]. Though this sort of sentiment goes way back, e.g. Wirth's classic "Plea for lean software" article from 1995[1].

(Joe's talk is more about the broken part and IMO he misidentifies the issue being about trying to make things fast when the real issue -that he also mentions- is that pretty much nobody knows what is really going on with the system itself)

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

[1] https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf
It's possible that would work, but I'd prefer to try a system that's successfully in use in any other advanced economy, than to gamble on that. Meanwhile, if you can convince some other country to try "be very free market" as an experiment for their healthcare system, please do so, I'd love to see the results.
Sure, "synthetic RSUs", or "double trigger RSUs", or such. But people call them RSUs when discussing the details of their job offers.
I see so many updates for Haskell-related packages all the damn time.
“Worse is better:”

https://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
> An alternative is to go out of business and leave the total cleanup costs to society instead of paid for out of future profits.

I know I'm reading between the lines here a bit, but it seems like that would've been better in this case.

"In 2012, the Coast Guard finally ordered Taylor to install a dome to contain the leak, but three years later, when Taylor Energy settled a lawsuit that forced it to start publicly disclosing more about its efforts, the company had not even finished the design... protective dome, finally installed by a contractor the Coast Guard hired after losing faith in Taylor, contains the leak."

The expenditure ended up being from the Coast Guard hiring another contractor anyways to stop the oil leak. Part of the complaints here are that this trust was set up for the explicit purpose of stopping the oil leak but didn't seem to actually do anything about it. This is less a question of the tax code part of the conversation but more of fraud of whether those business expenses of the trust were actually going towards the oil spill.
ESR's proposal here is basically just another way of spelling Python list comprehensions or Perl 5 map (which is likewise a builtin, with special parsing rules). It's not "new PL territory" by any means.
“It is amazing to me that people don't get this. Government spending of something like 40-50% of GDP over the past few years”

No, it wasn’t:
https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/government-spendi...
Is there something wrong with hiring engineers from a competitor? Should they have had a no-poaching agreement like Apple and Google had a few years ago? That was deemed illegal if I remember correctly.
Hence "if it they can manage it". The tradeoffs you mention is exactly what I mean. GATs/HKTs are really pushing the envelope for the Rust type system, GATs being slightly more tractable and much closer to reality (soon!) than HKTs. But I don't think HKTs are a bridge too far for Rust. Maybe I'm wrong about that. Or GATs will appease the FP crowd enough (and it'll be hard enough) that there won't be enough drive for HKTs.

But I agree you shouldn't be "writing Haskell in Rust".

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2021/08/03/GATs-stabilization-pus...
Yup. There have been warnings about this from the cell network providers for years. Anyone caught with their pants down has certainly been ignoring the problem.
Not everyone is a Kingdom of Nouns purist. Even most OOP proponents that I've spoken with reject Kingdom of Nouns because it's pretty indefensible (in the worst case it leads to banana-gorilla-jungle problems[0] and in the best case it imposes arbitrary and unnatural restrictions on program design). Note also that "modern Java" and "modern C#" and "modern C++" and "modern Python" virtually all reject these kinds of designs and end up looking a lot more like Go with respect to their use of structs/classes.

[0]: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/07/19/you-wanted-banana/
The 3g phaseout arguably makes all those cars more secure.
Technically Delphi could have worked but you'd need to use your own RTL and aside from a few additional language feature, you'd be losing 99% of what Delphi offered anyway.
> [edit] I should expand this. Critical thinking isn't enough. Public debate is the second part. The ability to haul out an idea and flog it mercilessly until there is nothing left of it is how the US wound up with the Constitution it has. Men got together and debated until they all agreed.

> We have a distinct lack of debate in the US, and free speech (especially "hate speech") is sequestered to the backwaters of the internet where it festers, grows, and gets increasingly radical. If we had public debate (not the name-calling propaganda you see in national cable news) many of those ideas would fizzle and die, people would abandon them and move on to other things.

To me, this is THE elephant in the room, that no one can see (naturally, because it isn't there to be seen, like the dog that didn't bark).

Problems that I see (there are surely many more):

- 95%++ of the public would/may need some substantial training in multiple domains (logic, epistemology, psychology/mindfulness, etc) - although, 100% participation is not required, even 5% would be fantastic

- no platform exists for conducting high quality, adequately complex debate (and if one was created, the odds of the founders being "pure" and uncompromisable seem not good)

- this may be not to the advantage of various people in positions of power, so it may not be ~allowed to happen
I actually have a vague memory of the first time I realized that the couple of characters that were appearing before me on the screen were meant to represent a smiley face turned sideways. It was some time in the mid 90s in Boulder, CO. Boulder Valley School District had a program for students to request an account on a System V server that was being hosted up at the University of Colorado campus in the engineering center. A bunch of us had gotten accounts and were exchanging emails with the pine email client. A friend sent me an email that included ":)". Since I was using a terminal program to view emails, I had grown accustomed to seeing various control or syntax characters being printed out for different reasons. I assumed what I was seeing was something like that. Perhaps a control character that was meant to control bold font being accidentally printed out. Eventually, I realized it was a smiley face.
Fascinating and sad story.

Reading that lead me to a Motherboard profile [1], which explained that pressing F7 on the keyboard served up a piece of 'tongues' text. Repeatedly pressing it generated sentences.

And suddenly, all of the comments that he has on HN starting with "God says..." make sense (in a way).

[1]https://www.vice.com/en/article/wnj43x/gods-lonely-programme...
iOS has something called time sensitive notifications which when allowed solve that issue, at least for me.
This reminds me of something a volunteer at our campus observatory told me once while I was in college. I don't recall what we were discussing, but their comment stands out to me today:
"Don't engineer things to work. Engineer things not to fail."

Often at work I see code implementations that "work" in that they usually work but can fail. I'm not a great engineer by any means (I'm actually an economist that stumbled into code), but I believe that one of the reasons I've been able to gain a good reputation at work is specifically because I design with that principle in mind.
Are we getting one of these every day now? They all use the term Web3 unironically, which means in my opinion they’ve already lost.
To underscore how ridiculously rich the rich are in developing countries, one can take a look at country sheets in World Inequality Report 2022 (1)

Adjusted for price level, excluding the top 1%, and focusing on the 90-99% percentile: income in the UK is $117k. That's less than in Chile ($130k), Turkey ($149k), and comparable to Mexico ($99k) or South Africa ($82k). Meanwhile, the bottom 50% in the UK earn 3-10x of what their peers in the aforementioned countries do. And UK is hardly a paragon of equality to begin with

Another sobering fact from the linked report - of the countries where the 90-99th percentile earns surprisingly good bucks - all have a large impoverished underclass: Israel, Chile, South Africa, Mexico, USA, Korea, Russia, Brazil

(1) https://wir2022.wid.world/download/
Okay, and? Again, they both display the same content, and edits made to either one affect the other. I don't know why you think it's relevant that there are (supposedly) "functional differences", sockpuppet.
i made this using pov ray
https://youtu.be/E6RGjxUOI68

i like using code instead of a gui for some 3d stuff
Can you link to any complex designs you've worked on that only use semantic HTML elements and minimal divs/spans? Are you saying that any modern website that uses wrapper divs is from lack of expertise?
For me, it's not a question of terseness -- it's more about communicating intent, and not polluting the scope with incidental variables. Everyone knows what map/filter/reduce do. When reading new code, seeing "map" is better than seeing a for loop: you don't have to think about the underlying iteration at all, you can skip directly to the essence of the transformation. As a side effect of this, when you do see a for loop, you can safely assume that something about the iteration is non-trivial: maybe the loop exits early, for example. I wrote a bit more about this here: https://twitter.com/lukechampine/status/1463715093733122054

btw, by "new PL territory" I mean "reifying a small set of container operations, without supporting user-defined generics," which to my knowledge is not a position taken by any mainstream language.