skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely agree some of the "using erlang libraries in Elixir" guides on the internet are 10/10 confusing. It'll be good to have this as a resource on Google in the future! I spent quite awhile figuring out how to implement a SSL TCP server, with PSK and only a subset of cipher suites... a good long while.

Also related, I really like the `active` (GenServer example in this post) socket approach because then you're just writing a TCP server that acts like any erlang message provider. Of course there's some difficulties related to that but it makes the code very straightforward to understand and manage.
Lack of screenshots is a recurring failure of projects that use a Github readme as a website.
An overcollateralised loan is equivalent to a swap (a type of derivative). Swaps have their uses, and are used in finance, but they don't provide financing. The point is if blockchain technology can't be used to do financing, and it definitely can't, just don't call it the "future of finance", because it is not. It can't perform the basic function of finance, which is financing.
Nicely observed. This has more to do with how people think than how the world works; which means that no step of the hype train here needs to be connected to reality in any way. The product doesn't have to even exist to benefit from hype; that's how religions and dancing plagues happen.
Honestly that's my take on it: piracy is a matter of accessibility.

As a marketer, I can even see the benefits of "free distribution of content" to people that wouldn't buy it anyway, and you're still building your brand on those people - they will, eventually down the line, buy your IP if they had good experiences with it.

I became a GTA fan thanks to it, and to modding, when started to be able to afford games I bought into the series.

If I haven't developed the emotional relationship with the game, nowadays I wouldn't care less about it.
I moved this blog from Medium, here
My understanding is that the newer residential super-slender residential towers in New York are largely unoccupied, even though their units have been sold. Buyers are using them as investments.

These particular towers are the architectural equivalent of cryptocurrency: valuable solely for their wastefulness.
So I keep seeing things about Netflix so I felt I might comment. Netflix is in a profoundly evil field. They work to manipulate people through media. They are not the only company, of course, but they are egregious.

For example, Netflix infamously pulled Hasan Minhaj’s episode on Saudi Arabia from Saudi Arabian Netflix in exchange for allowing Orange is the New Black to stay. They want to, for lack of better words, morally corrupt societies and they do not care if that means more injustice and political suppression.

Their leadership has stated one of their intentions was to promote things from western culture in other countries in order to change the culture and society there. This is blatantly cultural imperialism and an extension of US soft power projection.

The media has that addictive quality of captivating masses. I see Netflix as like a tobacco or Juul company — profoundly damaging for the groups of people they seek to captivate. And maybe a comparison to an oil company is apt; Netflix certainly pollutes in terms of the minds and behaviors of people. Time and focus and cognition spent watching their shows pushed by their algorithms entrenches their position in a world where they do not care for their negative externalities.
Forever Stable Branch
Yes. This was never pure ONS data. It was always processed/massaged/tampered with.

Although horrifyingly it did allow you to gauge the Westminster mindset and understand what Draconian measures they were planning to introduce sightly ahead of time because the data would have to reflect this when lord Boris got up on the podium...
Hacker culture actually has a strong writing tradition. In the 90s it was zines, now its blogs.
What's the relation between L1 sharding and L2 off-chain solutions? If sharding will be implemented will the L2 solutions still be necessary? Is L2 just something to help in the meantime until the harder to implement sharding is working or both will be used on top of eachother to help scalabilty?
>tl;dr: Use a static site generator.

Most People that use WordPress are not develoeprs or technical people. Find similar product with a WYSIWYG GUI , theme , plugins, cheap hosting, no bullshit licensing or breaking backwards compatibility and promote it to people or whoever hosts this blogs.

I think you are suggesting someone to replace his IDE with notepad since you can build application with notepad and gcc directly.
Just like a programming language, in fact.
I really can't agree with this more. My university gives >$2e6/year to Microsoft alone. I'd much rather it gave >$2e6/year to providing jobs for locally employed people, rather than buying someone another yacht.
I can't even handle my projector for gaming, let alone work.
Nah, I worked for a pair of 20-somethings that taped out a chip on a shuttle run in 6 months. Gpcpu asic, totally from scratch architecture.
It takes few days for one to create migration tool that uses SQL files using shell only (for example PoweShell being a serious language is awesome for this).

I did that on number of projects and it works like a charm. I can create any type of ad hoc workflow developer needs. For example most of them want functions/types/sprocs recreated each time on each migration which is trivial to do in shell. Some of the devs had really wired but useful wishes that I was able to trivially easy do. Afterall, its just executing sql scripts 1 by 1, optionally with transaction started before that.

Nobody ever used down migrations so not sure why people still do that.

Shell is mandatory because I may want to do any number of things around migrations that require feedback from it (for example installing DLL files on Sql Server server or forcing backup just before migration).
To be fair, I referred to it as "similarly disliked." From a technical sense I'm less afraid of malicious plugins destroying my business like I might be with WP.

My stance is if I'm doing X, my preference is to find software or a platform that does X but not X, Y and Z.
Great article.

Introducing privatization into networks and expecting solving the centralized government laziness by markets ia a bit naive since on networks you won't have competition. You are only introducing a market of 1 monopolistic player. At that point thr outcome is the same - the uncompeted excess profits being eaten by a corrupt government or by a monopoly company.

If you want competition on networks then compete with other countries, not within your country.

Easier said than done in political systems with 'bosses' with only 4 year stakes and no long term ownership. But at least it's evident that privatizing networks is not the way to go.
For instance in Finland Azure/AWS/GCP are seen as a superior alternative against anything local/European and we’ve started to move our govermental and healthcare infra into these cloud providers.
I understand (and am prone to) this line of thinking, and found it most prevalent when I was doing a lot of consulting. The problem is you also start to see ALL time as money and thinking opportunity cost of everything: playing with your kids, going for a walk, doing absolutely nothing. I found it really stressful and unhealthy and it took years to break this habit.
I had the same thoughts and then it was confirmed how insane this setup is part way through:

“At the time of writing, the Citus distributed database cluster adopted by the team on Azure is HA-enabled for high availability and has 12 worker nodes with a combined total of 192 vCores, ~1.5 TB of memory, and 24 TB of storage. (The Citus coordinator node has 64 vCores, 256 GB of memory, and 1 TB of storage.)”

That’s beyond overkill for something that as you say could be generated statically a couple of times a day.
What businesses do people take for granted, because they're too “common”
ThousandIsland is worth checking out as well:
https://github.com/mtrudel/thousand_island
> We discipline our lives by the time on the clock.

That which moves in sync with the constituent parts of a clock is itself a piece of the clock. I've always found it a (mildly) disturbing notion that many clockwork pieces come in human shapes.
>I just wonder how did he afford all this equipment.

Living in the US comes with certain advantages like some of the lowest consumer prices in the West including HW equipment being dirt cheap on the second hand market plus houses being big enough for space for such hobbies along with the biggest take home pays yielding some of the highest purchasing power in the West, a formula tough to replicate anywhere else.

At least compared to where I live now in Europe, such hobbies would definitely be unaffordable for me monetary and real-estate wise, which is also a monetary issue at the end of the day.

I was looking on an interesting blog about buying certain older ThinkPads or older multi-core server chips for $50 used for building a cheap home lab, and when I checked, super exited, on my local second hand market, such machines or chips were fetching north of €250 and that was before the chip shortage broke the market. That's just one anecdote, but you get the point.
You could build it out of dissimilar materials to optimize the total cost.

Lower levels out of concrete, then going up, steel, then aluminum and finally composite for the spire.

The problem is exponential in nature.
absolutely believe this 100%. and even if isn't publicly funded, under capitalism wage laborers are shorted when they get paid a wage and their code becomes the private property of a capitalist. so yeah, i agree with your framing 100%.

my question was more: what is the short laundry list of the exact developments/research that allowed Zeloof's garage-size/at-home chip-making?
I don't think the analysis is good here. If we want the most efficient writing language (written representation of some information), that could be emoji. You can't beat this: I ♥ . Three characters and can be translated (by reader) to almost any language without knowing target language letters and grammar.

[edit]: looks like HN doesn't allow U+2615 (hot beverage) character.
I came here to say exactly this. Is there a reason why they didn’t do it? I couldn’t figure it out from the article.
The People in Intimate Relationships with AI Chatbots
The Spacing Effect
If network time were bid on at time of usage, would that begin to move things in the right direction?
I've been reading Joe Armstrong's thesis[0] for a little while and I continue to find a deeper appreciation for erlang and the OTP application OS they built. It's amazing how many concepts from telecom systems directly apply to the type of web systems we're building today. I still find the erlang syntax slightly jarring, but the thesis is really helping me understand the why.

[0] - https://erlang.org/download/armstrong_thesis_2003.pdf
> Microsoft

> Ban FAANG

I know exactly what you mean, but is that what we're doing now? Including Microsoft in FAANG but not changing the acronym?
Well Singapore also has privatized subways (though recently one of the operators has been re-nationalized) so we will see what happens as a "natural experiment"
I’m currently reading 4000 Weeks (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54785515-four-thousand-w...), which is something as interesting as a time management book that starts with a chapter quite similar to this article - explaining how time is a social construct and that you’ll probably fail if you just try to get more things done.
I really like some of the viewpoints and perspectives, but I found the material pretty thin and not worthy of an entire book. It's a dozen short blog entries stretched into several hundred pages of text. I recommend it as "skim in a few sittings" vs. read.
It’s called self discipline! When I am working and focused on something I ignore everything else… no mails, no massages no notifications!
The "basic math" here is straightforward:

100 tonnes of carbon in fuel. 50 are captured, 50 go to the atmosphere. If more than 50 tonnes originally came from the atmosphere recently, then the net flow to the atmosphere is negative.

There may be other issues with carbon capture (its expensive, doesn't necessarily prevent other pollutants, can be part of a greenwashing scheme). But snark about math isn't useful, especially when you are wrong.
The main use case of generics is generic containers, and the two most popular generic containers - lists and maps - have always been part of the language (including their built-in generic functions). So in most cases, in a typical web project, you could indeed get away without generics entirely. Only in a few cases you'd be forced to use codegen/reflection/duplication - when you have to use complex algorithms which lists/maps can't satisfy. However, the Go team and the community had always been open to the idea of adding generics to the language (the official FAQ already in 2013 talked about potentially adding generics in the future), they just weren't sure how to implement them properly without overcomplicating the language (which is advertized as being simple), and generics can easily add a ton of complexity. So the introduction of generics was postponed because there were other more important features to iron out, considering that slices/maps already covered most cases. I think the breakthrough happened with the realization that code is more often read than written, so it's OK to make the language a little more complex for a library's author, most users won't see a considerable increase in complexity.
60 hours in any _individual_ week, but cannot exceed 48 hr/week on average (normally over 17 weeks to be exact, but this isn't fixed).

So your 60 hour week needs to be offset by, for example, a 36 hour week at some point. Unless you opted yourself out, or you work in one of industries where it doesn't apply.

However, it doesn't appear Austria has the opt-out at all.
Working on something that feels like it makes a difference can be very rewarding. But my experience is that if it really makes a difference (how do you measure that is probably a book by itself), it is never easy.

For the last 15 years I have worked on things that I felt needed doing. Others agreed. Even though our teams achieve something worthwhile it can often feel deeply frustrating. The challenges of financing something new, that doesn’t fit the box of how it is normally done, at some useful scale, is hard. I don’t want to do anything else, but sometimes it is very frustrating.

In the end, I think there is so much one can work on that really makes a difference in “the story of humanity” as you call it, that there really is no need to take a job that goes against ideals you may hold. Healthcare, energy systems, data for better governance, food tech, Ed tech, the list goes on. There will be something interesting to work on I am certain.
If the lines are somewhat blurred, you can understand my initial confusion, not being “in the WP ecosystem” myself.
Agreed.

> Perhaps a faint idea of drones deliveries, balloon weather projects, AR/VR tech, failed chat apps, quantum something, and a lot of PR.

This line dismisses the huge achievements in quantum engineering as "quantum something" and, just for example, ignores other high profile breakthroughs like AlphaGo and AlphaFold. I'd also say that many of the profound inventions invented at Bell Labs would not be fully appreciated until decades later, and will be the same case with today's research.
"Maximum weekly working hours - GOV.UK" https://www.gov.uk/maximum-weekly-working-hours

As far as I'm aware this came from the EU Working Time Directive so it's been law for a long time.
If one looks a century back: AT&T, Xerox, IBM ... those were opportunities we can romanticize in hindsight looking back at the glowing examples of Bell Labs, PARC etc.
Today's Big Tech is unrivaled in its unique position to fund R&D.

To put it on the talent's shoulder to decide against it ...? One can hope for individual cases but it is futile as Big Tech has fundamentally tilted the playing field not only on things like information flow but also on talent pool in their favor.
From a system's POV at some point this of course gets stuck.

For example Musk tries to outpace this with his "rate of innovation" concept which on surface seems like a refreshing idea but is running on an outdated and collapsing hardware ("actual existing globalization") resulting in absurd numbers on the BBI like $243B. Leaving aside the forgone "sign-changing" and hefty "printing" by the central processors, initiated manually by a curious circle of people with access who decided it was a good idea.
I use Fira Code. Mainly because it allows you to chose ligatures if for some reason there are default ones you don't like (I really enjoy ligatures when writing code). Sadly, that works only on application level, not OS, so not all IDEs support choosing stylistic sets: https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/wiki/How-to-enable-stylis...
Give them a Wordpress site (on a VPN) that generates a static site.
The contrast on these screens is so low, I'd love to get little e-ink screens on the sports watches. Right now, especially in mixed-sunlight dappled forest kind of backgrounds, you really need to take a hard look at the screen to read anything, which isn't safe if you are trail running or mountain biking or something similar.

Please watch makers, put a little eink-style screen on a watch! Even if it looks like 1st Generation Kindle screens, and is only black/white, it will still be an upgrade!
I used one for maybe a week at work a few years ago. Aimed it at my cubicle wall.

Pros:

- It was fun to try.

- It sparked a conversation or two.

Cons:

- The size didn't really help; I'd say it got in the way more than anything. I had to scan more real estate to find what I was looking for.

- It was more washed out than my monitors; lower contrast. Probably a function of the projector, the settings, the lighting, and me not knowing what I was doing. It would surely be better in a dark environment.

- It was tricky to keep in focus. Any movement would make the projection fuzzy.

It was a fun experiment, but the novelty wore off pretty quickly and I went back to monitors.
Selective bias.. ugh.. why are you beating yourself up. All else equal, objective, analytical, and focused approach to a problem is going to generate better results.
New Nuclear Power Plants Are Unlikely to Stop the Climate Crisis
For anyone wanting to undertake analysis like this, a fairly common choice of text for comparing languages is the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It is translated into a staggering number of languages.

See https://www.ohchr.org/en/udhr/pages/introduction.aspx
> I hope we don't hear later that he went to work for FAANG. One the saddest things about Big Tech is how they take young talent away from innovative, potentially competing enterprises and into busy work internal projects just because they can.

yes i hope Zeloof (or someone else young, enthusiastic and social media adept like him) turns into the Marcin Jakubowski [1] or Dave Hakkens [2] of semi-conductors.

in this exciting still-early open source digital paradigm, a new type of leadership is required with a massive focus on horizontal knowledge production and transmission, a focus on a multitude of pedagogical styles, as well as a deep foundational belief in the abilities of our fellow humans (since it's easy and common to either believe we are 1) over-special or 2) dumb, as our schools are stuck in this reward/punishment paradigm which both 1) over-estimates a small number of students' skills because of advantages they gained outside of school (were you born with wealthy parents/community who had time and money to encourage/support you), or 2) which forces you into straightjacketed, (pedagogically) un-diverse, un-tailored learning journeys that make you take steps too quickly (a way to filter out as many working class people as possible except for a select few, by design)).

[1] Marcin Jakubowski: Open-sourced blueprints for civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEMkvT0DEk

[2] Precious Plastic Universe: a big bang for plastic recycling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Os7dREQ00l4
Have those newer platforms been audited to the same extent as WordPress? Even if the core of any new CMS is “more secure”, it’ll be faced with the exact same problems the moment it grows big enough that third-party developers begin to release add-ons.
No, I just found out about them.
I think you need to view it through the lens of a person from when it was made. Consider that it was the first structure to be built by engineers, not architects (that’s revolutionary) and it gave a top-down view of the city, something never possible before.

We take all of this for granted much like we take most of modern life for granted. But the Eiffel Tower marked the beginning of modernism. Look at a lot of visual art from that era - it features the Eiffel Tower for instance. It was a shocking structure for its time.

It was the beginning of the mechanical and Industrial Age. Just fascinating.
Or walk right on past the gym. Once you're outside and walking, going inside to walk on the gym's machine isn't an improvement.

Running might be different, depending on your local streets.
I am firmly against privatisation of essential services such education, healthcare, public transportation, etc. Not everything can operate under such conditions to everyone's benefit. Pretty straightforward stuff, imho
> A thousand dollars is an achievable amount of money for a smart kid in a poor family

This is a by-the-book example of privilege.

And even if a poor "kid" has the combination of ability and luck to obtain $1K most poor people would spend such money on basic needs like food, clothing and house repairs than a hobby. And that would be the most reasonable choice.
I don't understand why the operation of the line wasn't tied to performance along certain metrics, like "percentage of cars at overcrowding", customer satisfaction, etc. Annual review, Drop below acceptable threshold on any of these metrics and it triggers a rebidding process and someone else gets to run the line.
Nobody here is denying his skill and motivation.
Fucking white people and their... shuffles deck, pulls card ... methods of timekeeping.

Out of all things, the author picked time to pick on. Time is one of the few physical things that are objective and real and still can be quite directly experienced by all humans regardless of cultural context or biases.

Nonsense article.
Yeah no argument generics are very useful! But still, it's a bit of a clickbait headline -- Go isn't getting faster, it's just getting more ergonomic to write fast code. :-)
Yes I saw that internally at Google in early days of Go, people often said that Go is going to replace either Java, or C++, depending on context. So I felt like it's going to take a niche somewhere in between those two..
“They” (political leaders) choose to limit salaries, and if a problem is urgent enough, they can somehow find a way pay more. It is just politics. Paying more today increases cash spend today, and that looks bad for them come election time.
It can of course be wrong. But it is hubris to think that these ideas are new and haven't themselves been discussed and challenged in the moral philosophy community.
I love my eBike but the biggest scam about them are the proprietary batteries. Imagine if there weren't AA, AA D, and C batteries but every electrical device you purchased had it's own battery shape and size at marked up prices that you had to purchase from that manufacturer. I would love to buy a second battery to extend my range but I refuse to pay $700 for a battery that only fits on my bike. The company that standardizes batteries will do well I think, because I can't be the alone one who wants this.