skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They have access to all the world's information.

So? The Kings had access to much more information than they cared about already.

>They can travel across continents in a number of hours for less than two weeks wages.

A big chunk can't even afford to take a couple of sick days off, lest they be fired, or can't afford to retire and work in their late 60s and 70s in shitty jobs like a Walmart greeter - much less travel across continents to have vacations.

>They can push a button on their phone to have gourmet food delivered to their house in under an hour.

The King could do the same, all day, every day, with personal chefs familiar with their preferences, and without fear for the expenses...

>They can press another button on their phone to fetch a personal driver that will deliver them to any destination.

Oh, how Kings would be jealous of the magic of Uber...

Still, are we talking about the poor - for which Uber is an expense they have to consider very well, and days off a luxury, or people above that? Because I don't see many trailer park types visiting Paris or Barcelona...

>If you had to choose between being Louis XVI or Henry VIII and a middle class American in Cleveland, Ohio, what would you choose?

Depends, if the middle class American is also cherry picked to die (e.g. from some stray bullet or robbery gone wrong), I'd pick one of the Kings. As for Kings who didn't die in guillotine, that would be a no brainer. Who wants to be a middle class schmuck in Ohio, as opposed to a King? (I guess the kind of people who overestimate the magic of Uber and food delivery).
I've had professional gigs spanning Ruby, Elixir, JS, C#, F#, and Python. I've found that Ruby is the most enjoyable to work with and has the easiest learning curve. It's a language that doesn't feel pretentious or dysfunctional, and most importantly of all, I can get shit done with it.
No I don't think it's the book / site at all, this title as "one above senior" predates the book by a very long time; I've been looking at job postings and it is pervasive and not at companies that just started using it that way within the last couple years.

The "it's a neutral word so it should be a neutral level" idea is clever but I don't think that's where this word usage comes from. I think it seems like it might have something in common with titles in media companies. What is a "staff writer"? Is that a fairly senior position? I dunno.
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> Note that tiny fractional differences in the median outcome gap will turn into big differences at the left- and right-wards tails of the distribution.

That's true, but the gap is already huge at the median. As a rough approximation, the distribution of outcomes has same variance, but mean is shifted left by 1 sigma.
Google has a profit of ~20 billion dollars per quarter. That is, it has a profit of ~80 billion dollars per year.

There's only so much you can do with money. Their yearly profit (once again, not revenue, profit) is larger than the entire state budget revenue of more than 150 countries (not combined) [1].

So yes. The argument is very valid.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_governmen...
Haskell comes to mind.

In all seriousness, not really. Learning curve doesn't matter for a language that we'll pay your bills for the next twenty years. And once you fully internalize a JVM/.NET-level platform or Scala/C++-level language a lot of that will be reusable in learning others.
The author's website also has an interesting collection of science gadgets - tesla coils etc.

https://www.rmcybernetics.com/science/diy-projects
eBay will now authenticate all trading cards worth $750 or more
You still need to train 1 million architectures though before you can start the search (dataset inflexible)…

I suppose there’s some value in possibly finding radically different networks (though I wonder if it’d fare well in such outlier regions). Perhaps if/since the GNN model is also differentiable you could invert it to maximize some compute/quality trade off point.
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To be fair, Cisco IOS and Apple iOS are not from the same company and aren't really in the same field.
And you also void the warranty...
Most comments about this assumes a poorly designed monolith and a well designed set of microservices. A microservices architecture can be a rats nest too.

I guess what it means is that even if you can build a well modularized system, it will only stay well modularized if you use a network call to enforce it. Well, at least for most companies.

Conceptually, there's nothing keeping you from designing your codebase to work as both microservices or direct calls. I've certainly done it before - each service defined a Java interface, and codegen could hook that up as either a direct call or to route over some kind of layer.
I don’t even know what anyone means by monolith or micro services.

I’m somewhat sure everyone is somewhere in between depending on who you ask.
Afaik it does.
FairPlay is Apple's DRM.
Well, in case if this matters at all. I truly enjoy how you ‘eastdakota and ‘Kentonv engage with this forum - whether things are going well or not, I’ve come to expect a level of honest, direct and transparent dialog from you all. Oh and you are a really good author - truly enjoyed your book.
PPP is designed precisely to allow fair comparisons. The article refers to it as "international dollars". It is important to note it did not refer to USD anywhere: it is talking about $30PPP per day, which in real currency is a wildly variable amount but which buys approximately the same things.

Without understanding the distinction between PPP and USD, it is not possible to fully comprehend the article.
Very interesting. It's not the methanol that's toxic but its metabolites, so the ethanol slows down the liver's metabolism of methanol, stretching it out to the degree that the metabolites do not reach an unsafe concentration?

Also, "The preferred antidote is fomepizole, with ethanol used if this is not available."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methanol_toxicity#Treatment

>Fomepizole is a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme alcohol dehydrogenase, found in the liver. This enzyme plays a key role in the metabolism of ethylene glycol, and of methanol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomepizole
No. The plan is to eliminate testing altogether.

https://edsource.org/2021/university-of-california-sticks-wi...
I hear you, I think I understand what you mean and I definitely want to believe you, but how come this can't be explained in a succinct written documentation, instead of a series of video tutorials by example?

I do realize it's a work of passion done by numerous volunteers, to whom I feel gratitude, but at this point, why can't this be adequately defined, in a written form, in a way that is understandable? To me, the concept of a series of projections of declarative configuration statements onto a final state is not hard to understand in itself; yet, I am somewhat struggling to create and maintain such a configuration without feeling that I am just copypasting bits and pieces from random people.

I guess I just have to bite the apple and spend a few days watching YouTube to see if I reach enlightenment - at this point, I barely understand the function names.
> Have you not encountered classism in Germany?

Anyone who hasn't has to be blind or something. Germany has a highly stratified society besides the N/S/E/W split.
I embarrassingly have the same problem with Linux. Trying to get the same functionality as gcalcli involves vdirsyncer, khal, and a ton of patience.
Oh.... Oh no.

Just kidding: After skimming the article, this looks like necessary progress. I myself (as a layman) had assumed this is already how they did it - although I'm sure there's a lot more to it than that.
At the moment (before the rates get raised), you can get a car loan for 2.3% interest rate for 6 years with good credit. Under $1000 a month for payments. Plenty of Virginia is affordable to live in. It’s achievable working a senior role in a private company there.
In my opinion, the mu-opioid receptor is a more promising target for autism (some forms of ASD anyway)

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28369738/
>I highly, highly doubt that the first AGI is going to be designed by hand by humans

Regular AI isn't even done by hand anymore. We just pick data and learning parameters. At the current state we'd be picking higher and higher categories for learning. At the lowest level we pick data about cats to write something that recognizes cats. At a higher level we pick data about things that recognize things and so on... and so on.

How does extremely high level training data effect the low level accuracy of the AI at the lowest level? I would presume that it would effect it negatively as technically all AI is estimation. So estimations on estimations are less accurate.
All the rubbing alcohol around here is isopropyl alcohol, not ethanol.
That's the stereotype of government promoted by private business like SpaceX, so they can get the funding shifted from NASA to them. But no private business has accomplished in space anything approaching what government has. NASA has been spectacularly successful, orders of magnitude beyond any explorers in human history.

We're talking about just one of many successses on this page.
Well, but we can assume with different probabilities. For sure there are people in every government who would if they could, but the fact that the US has mechanisms to expose this sort of thing and lots of people in individual companies who feel like you and there are still no stories of this, that is evidence that it isn't happening at least not at any sort of scale
Just make sure every step make sense. One or even two or three extra bisect steps is nothing in my kind of projects as long as you get a very specific change.

I guess on AAA game engines where compiles take half an hour it is more of a problem but in my case it takes 30 - 120 seconds depending on project.

(I do have uncompilable WIP steps, and those I am kind of ashamed for but those are so few and so far between that it doesn't matter.)
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I've made money through 2020 and 2021 with oil and uranium too. It offset the losses from my solar stocks.
>If the poorest person in the world has a car, a home, food, and water, are they poor just because other people have much more?

Yes. And we could ask the same for things the poorest medieval peasant had, that a caveman didn't. Would you say the medieval peasant wasn't poor?

>Even if they are, does it really matter?

Yes. We're social animals.

Here's another way to look at it.

Would it be ok if the poorest black person in the world had a car, a home, food, and water, but the poorest white people had much more? If not, why? It would be better than today, no?

Because it's racism? But if the same situation is good if we omit the racial qualifiers (which makes it your example, which you claim we should consider ok), why does it turn bad when the subsets are selected racially?

I'd argue it was already bad even in your original example (when the rich vs poor dichotomy didn't have the race qualifiers). It's just than in one case it's bad as class+race, and the other it's bad just because of class.
> you only have so many inputs and outputs to a simpler system?

Doesn't a function only have so many inputs and outputs too? Scope capturing/global variables aside.
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> Microservice architecture is also inherently designed to lock a customer into very specific tools that make future migration to any other platform a very costly decision in most cases... Thereby locking a customer into platform-specific dependency

Can you elaborate on this? Examples? Thanks!!
Although clunky to implement, EJB had really well thought out concepts, architecture and roles
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>There is a subset of people who don't want to subscribe to a publication but would be happy to pay per-article. All a publication needs to do is say, "Hey, wanna read this? Click here to pay X amount!".

That's exactly what I'm saying.

>I'm not sure why Google/Facebook/advertising even need to enter the conversation here.

Because I like to experiment with business models and because I wanted to show you that established business models don't change that easily.
That would look like a 75%, if you cut off the function keys you get a 65%
Authors article is a 75% board. As the forementioned gmmk pro.
Both reasonably priced, and a with a little tuning and modding very decent boards.
ergo is a whole other rabbithole
How do you feed an oral contraceptive to 2.5M grey squirrels?
Interesting! Similarly, in English we would say that a business was "in the red" if its expenditures exceeded its income. (Or something like that. It's a colloquialism, so it doesn't really have a specific technical meaning.)
Like most safety net items, there is a missing middle that makes too much to qualify for support but needs that support to make ends meet. I was close for most of the pandemic as the household earned just enough to miss most basic support options beyond the food bank but not enough to do more than subsist, which is incredibly depressing. Then all costs are going up so a steeper hill to climb this year barring a raise or new job. My work has great benefits/etc, and before the reorg more opportunity, so it's hard to jump.
IMO poverty will be the normal state of 2/3 of humanity due to technological unemployment. UBI will be successful exactly nowhere except maybe the USA if they manage to keep the status of the dollar as wolrds reserve currency.
I agree its logistically feasible and plus it would have broad support from regular people.

Main issue I can see is swift and devestating interventions from the USA.

Remember, star trek timeline had to go through a century of fascism and war before they could get to post-capitalism. We want post capitalism, not scarcity.
Indeed. The issue I had here was not that there was a joke in a place of solemnity, but that it was an old and low-effort joke that also didn't add to the discussion.
I mean, the primary question is: "Does it meet its use case?"

Now, this does include the uses of the developers working on it throughout its lifestyle, but what makes code 'good' when it comes to a bank's system vs. a SaaS startup vs. a script somebody writes for themselves and themselves alone can be completely different.

Trying to set out concrete rules for what makes something good practice is difficult when it's something as varied as coding.
If you're in a major city, check if they have an existing program. Several of the cities near me with older housing stock do (SF bay area).
that comment is an excellent example of why these articles get flagged rather than debated. They become an incessant Sisyphean slog through every minor detail that has between twisted or cherry picked in ways that really seems intentional on the part of the pro-death anti vax movement in order to prove their narrative at any cost.

210 million America are vaccine as of today. Are you trying to say the number I mentioned in my comment was wrong because I said “few hundred million” instead of “a couple hundred million plus change” when even if it were just “one” hundred million my point would be valid? Quibbling over whether it should be a couple or few when either of them support the point is 100th level nitpicking on the unimportant. Of course the point I made has been ignored because it was valid.

> show up in a trial population of 'only' ~60-70,000 participants

Why are you looking at the number of participants? It’s not relevant to your point there. The number that had covid is needed to answer the question you’re posing.
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Reducing CloudFlare to a CDN is a disservice. They have some amazing services like Bot Management and Workers that make them very appealing. The CDN is just a nice bonus.
I just don't see fragmentation as a problem, nor something that can be solved. Even under AArch64, there's close to a hundred FEAT_XXX bits that can even be different for the same microarchitecture, just the integrator was given an option at hardware instantiation time. The only archs without fragmentation are dead archs that no one cares to make new versions of and evolve. What matters is being able to depend on a standard core set so that your tooling can make sense of your code, but if there's cool optional features tacked on the side that's great too. So far RISC-V has been doing a great job defining that core feature set.
Exactly.

Microservices can solve for some problems, eg: scaling infrastructure in a non-uniform manner or scaling development velocity non-uniformly across many teams.

But there are also tons of other ways to solve these problems. The mistake is in assuming that you need microservices to do x, without really critically thinking about what is actually stoping you from having x right now.

The move to microservices (or any similar kind of rewrite efforts) should be undertaken only when it's painfully obvious that it's needed.
yeah same
In 2022

The settings that protect and help us - A Placebo or awaiting a feature update, but you may be able to pay to make it work with our new "premium" version.

The features that make them money and accept payments - Working at 100% reliability with failovers and redundancy in place.

Congress - How are my investments in Google gaining? I want to retire ASAP so I don't need to listen to all these consumers complaining any more...
Just because Apple has had some bad names doesn't make Sony's names better. Don't compare Sony's naming conventions with iPad, compare them with iPhone, which is significantly easier.

Q: Which iPhone do you have
A: iPhone 12 Pro Max (I choose this one because it's one of the longer iPhone names)

vs

Q: Which Sony headphones do you have
A: MX 4 or something like that. Let me check my Amazon order history. Oh yeah, here it is. The WH-1000XM4

I'd much prefer the iPhone naming convention to what Sony does, and Apple having screwed up the iPad naming doesn't really excuse Sony here.
They told you about these highly classified operations?
I wonder why it even is a setuid binary since there already is a privileged service it interacts with (through DBus). I think we should replace all setuid binaries with a scheme of having a privileged service that acts on the requests of unprivileged processes. With Unix Domain Sockets and SO_PEERCRED the unprivileged process user can be identified (but less info is available than with a setuid binary). This could even work with sudo but the difference is that the privileged service would not spawn a child process of the unprivileged process but rather hand out the stdin/err/out FDs of the spawned privileged process to the unprivileged process (or vice versa, get stdin/err/out FDs from the unprivileged process and set for the spawned privileged process), again this works with Unix Domain Sockets.
This ML stuff is good at recognizing and reproducing patterns, not much else. You get what you put in, but even if you put good stuff in, there is no nuance or flexibility. In the real world you need a lot of flexibility, even for something as simple as driving.

Where ML shines is recognizing cancer, tax evasion and such.
How do you Google them? As a Haskell newbie this was a big problem for me.
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Well we now have a natural experiment, let's see if more innovation comes out of the US or China in the coming years. I'm confident it won't be China, but certainly no guarantees.
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Most of the conversation so far has focused on the development benefits of microservices (decoupling deployments, less coordination between teams, etc). Small teams don't really have this problem, but there are other benefits to microservices. One of the biggest is scaling heterogeneous compute resources.

Suppose, for example, your webapp backend has to do some very expensive ML GPU processing for 1% of your incoming traffic. If you deploy your backend as a monolith, every single one of your backend nodes has to be an expensive GPU node, and as your normal traffic increases, you have to scale using GPU nodes regardless of whether you actually need more GPU compute power for your ML traffic.

If you instead deploy the ML logic as a separate service, it can be hosted on GPU nodes, while the rest of your logic is hosted on much cheaper regular compute nodes, and both can be scaled separately.

Availability is another good example. Suppose you have some API endpoints that are both far more compute intensive than the rest of your app, but also less essential. If you deploy these as a separate service, a traffic surge to the expensive endpoints will slow them down due to resource starvation (at least until autoscaling catches up), but the rest of your app will be unaffected.
Reading articles like that always blows my mind. I can't even imagine how people can come up with exploit chains like that. Congratulations, well deserved bounty!
Also, this (independent deployability) is simply not a feature of microservices. It is a feature of any well architected code base.

I've always worked on monoliths, and I've almost never needed to coordinate a release with anyone. I just merge my branch and deploy. Github and shopify talk about merging and deploying monoliths hundreds of times per day without coordination.

The case where you would need to coordinate a release in a monolith is exactly the same case where you would need to coordinate a release in microservice app. That's the case where your change depends on someone else releasing their change first. It doesn't matter if their change is in a different service, or just in a different module or set of modules in the same application.

Now, most application are not well architected - micorservices or monoliths. In the case of a poorly architected app deploying a monolith is much easier anyway. Just merge all that spaghetti and push one button, vs trying to coordinate the releases of 15 tangled microservices in the proper order.
Oculus Quest helped a bit but got boring after a while. I really need gym environment to push myself.
https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=%3C%24%3E
For example YouTube did the good thing and they introduced YouTube Premium[0] which is ad-free YouTube subscription plus other perks.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/premium
I think my comment still stands. Without extra configuration, there is no way to type the characters directly from an English Keyboard. And most users don't have that configuration setup. Even if you can type in romaji, it still requires the knowledge of what combination of latin characters correspond to to a Katakana character. I don't think you should have to enable international keyboards to access a domain.
> Walk out onto a public street. Ask the first 3 people you come across if they know how to send a debt validation letter. Report back. One should not need to have knowledge with consumer credit laws and regulation to navigate exceptions; it's citizen hostile and a developed economy anti pattern imho. Fail citizen safe.

By that logic, other things that are antipatterns:

* most laws (do you think "the first 3 people you come across" would know the difference between murder and manslaughter?)

* programming APIs (ie. the trope of programmers having to search up usages for basic library functions)

* most basic life tasks (this can be literally anything. even how to cook. if your parents didn't teach you, and you couldn't search on the internet, most people would be toast).
> Or should we spend all of our time making sure your Apple IIc still has security patches for 2022

Microsoft's timilene for OS support is easily 10 to 20 years. Windows XP was released in 2001. It's final ecurity support ended in 2019. 18 years later.

I know, it's hard for modern "programmers" to fathom such a level of commitment.
I've seen dogs eat cat poop, so maybe they're not the target audience. Not sure what it would take to make a dog not eat something.