skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is madness. There's no real advice about rewrites in this article. The reality of rewrites is that they often fail, cost a ridiculous amount of time and effort, don't actually fix the original problem and/or bankrupt the company. You can't just wave away those realities with "think about the downsides".

I have participated in a few (small) rewrites that were successful, and this would be my advice: Don't rewrite an entire project at once. Pick off smaller features first, get a feel for what your new approach will be like before you commit to the big stuff. This will often mean you have to migrate from a monolithic architecture to a services architecture first. This means your project will grow in complexity first. If you're confused about why a project first grows in complexity before shrinking, watch "All the little things" by Sandi Metz, it's the greatest programming talk ever recorded. If your rewrite gets stuck after adding all of that complexity, then you've played yourself. Worst thing that can happen is you rewrite your entire project, some users or customers start using the new project, but you've failed to rewrite everything and some chunk of your users are still using the old codebase. Now you've got twice as much code to maintain.

Before you start a rewrite, consider refactoring and rearchitecting the old codebase, there might be a gem in there that just needs some love and attention.

That said there definitely are famous successful rewrites, and I think web application backends are especially suitable for rewrites. Most famous are Twitter and LinkedIn, Twitter going from a relational database backend to a more appropriate fan out message queue based backend allowing them to scale beyond imagination. LinkedIn going from a big rails monolith to super fast node.js microservices reducing their hardware costs a hundred fold if stories are to be believed.
I had honestly assumed after JP ended up nearly dying in a shady Russian "alt therapy" detox facility for his benzo addiction, at least partially due to the all-meat diet his crank daughter developed, the fervency of people suggesting him as some sort of "authority" would die down. Jokes on me I guess.
Why blow it up? Just create something that parallels it, and organize it in a way you think will work better. Then we can decide which one to blow up once we see how it measures up.

Some examples of where this is being done: open-access journals, study pre-registration, requirement to publish source code. No one's saying the old way is banned now, it exists in parallel with all those innovations. Some will stick, others will fizzle out.
Yeah, America’s love affair with stroads is one of the most difficult problems to solve imaginable.

They are extraordinarily useless unless you’re in a car.
Rumor has it that the OLED Switch was supposed to be something like a Switch Pro. However, chip shortage hitting again. Metroid Dread supposedly would have been the big game to take advantage of it. Thus the occasional frame rate drops on the current Switch.
I would guess based on what little I know of human history that it's a human trait but the response bwas focused on immigration to the US
Not your plane, not your rules. Comply with the authority or get off the flight. You’re projecting rights that don’t exist in the situation.
so no alternative one for Firefox? God this is a bad news to me.
They're not talking about paid ads
I mean, I’d assume it was a snake. Not sure what else I’d assume they were talking about.

Also, Google isn’t a person. I wouldn’t expect someone to understand what I’m trying to say if I yelled “site Colin stackoverflow.com fizz buzz” at them either.

The bigger issue is that Google didn’t even interpret “viper” as any form of “viper” at all and instead corrected it to a nonsense word that’s a company name.
Isn't that where the racism came from?
It got him a multi million dollar payout and actually cost united much more money than that. They got bad press from it and surely a decent number of people who will boycott/avoid them from now on.

Simply complying would have kept the status quo.
Another fun Rust one I found was trying to make a macro to do arbitrary levels of `Option` flattening. There's an existing method `Option::flatten`, but it only flattens a single level (i.e. `Option<Option<T>>` to `Option<T>`, which makes sense given you can't really specify return type any differently. I had a hunch that it might be possible to do this by making a trait with a generic type parameter specifying that a given "flattening" is possible, e.g. `Option<Option<Option<T>>` would implement `Flatten<Option<Option<T>>` and `Flatten<Option<T>>`. This did turn out to be possible to specify with a couple of impl blocks; however, the compiler tried to exhaustively enumerate all of the possible implementations of this trait on all levels of `Option` nesting, whereas I had implicitly assumed it would just verify the correctness of the trait bounds that I used in my code. The compiler generated all the implementations of flatten for `Option<T>`, `Option<Option<T>>`, `Option<Option<Option<T>>>`...until it understandably hit a max recursion limit. Since the compiler obviously could not tell that there was no actual end to the implementations, it suggested that I try increasing the recursion limit with a crate-level attribute, and just for fun I followed its suggestions to keep increasing the limit to no avail, after which I took pity on the compiler and stopped forcing it to continue toiling in its Sisyphean endeavor.
Given the large protests against desegregation in schools in Boston Mass, the formation of ethnic gangs in NYC, etc. I'd say you are very wrong.
> I pay for YouTube Premium to avoid ads because I hate ads. But I also like robust economic activity. So, I’m happy to pay a fee instead of seeing ads.

Yep, and I drastically limited watching YouTube on-site because their advertising became untenably invasive. The last straw was when they tried to get me to pay money to back-track how much they made their product suck, rather than actually providing me value over the out-of-box experience a few years prior.
I’m genuinely curious what your source is for the claim that the unvaccinated have a higher chance of spreading COVID? According to this UC Davis/UCSF study [0] both vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals carry similar viral loads. The study found that while vaccinated individuals had fewer symptoms on average, both groups had similar viral loads.

“There was no significant difference in viral load between vaccinated and unvaccinated, or between asymptomatic and symptomatic groups.“

[0] https://www.ucdavis.edu/health/covid-19/news/viral-loads-sim...
It's not called combinatorial growth, it's just superexponential growth.

What OP likely is referring to is Combinatorial explosion: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorial_explosion

Related, one of my goals for my mathematics thesis is to come up with a generating function series that can represent superexponential sequences. Right now, there are no generating functions for any sequences that grow faster than exponential, because the standard series we use, would not converge nomatter the coefficients.

[1] https://oeis.org/wiki/Growth_of_sequences#Superexponential
Might be quite practical if self driving as well. Slower speed hopefully means less processing power required.
I'd bet good money on Oprah at any point in her life beating Joe Rogan at Jeopardy, or a trivia board game. Or a 5k, for that matter.
Why stop there? How about a social credit rating - we can use the digital vaccine passports as baseline existing infrastructure and build on top of that. Then we can really punish the ones who refuse to comply. /s
Exactly. If pulling the episodes is a breach of Rogan's contract with Spotify, then Spotify could be liable. Of course, none of us know what's in that contract.
Not your airport, not your plane. Comply with the public’s will or give up your flight slot.
This caught my eye:

"Facebook as a product doesn’t encourage you to add strangers as friends"

Yes, it does?? I don't do it, but every time I go there, it has a list of people who are either friends of friends or strangers that it's suggesting I add.

Perhaps there are people in the bowels of Facebook that are smitten with the concept of combinatorial explosion and have been thinking for years "any day now..."
This not good?

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I guess I’ll be putting Delta on my “no fly” list. It’s incredible that corporate overlords seek to recreate authoritarian schemes like social credit scores as a cartel.
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It's eye opening once you realize that most interesting ideas are simply iterations or slight improvements on existing ones. Simply releasing a similar product with one additional feature, or at a cheaper price point can excite the right people. In my experience most ideation comes from building a product. Spend enough time in a product space or market and you will naturally come across "interesting" ideas. I put interesting in quotes, because when you are in that space, the idea of iterating on a product may seem obvious or mundane, but if you can execute, and convince the customer, it's anything but.
First Paragraph: "Delta Air Lines (DAL.N) wants the U.S. government to place passengers convicted of on-board disruptions on a national "no-fly" list that would bar them from future travel on any commercial airline, according to a letter seen by Reuters."

Note the key word "convicted" in there. Yes, this about people convicted of things like assaulting crew on an airplane.
I think you mean these are credit card oddities. We have debit cards here as well, and I assume Europeans have credit cards
Yes, if you do something deserving death penalty, it makes sense to also be banned for life from flying. However, if you are alleged to risk life of people on the street because "you can't be bothered [to follow] the basic rules of civility", there is a complex and prolonged process to put you off the street, you have plenty of opportunity for recourse, and you'll unlikely to be taken off the street for life. On the other hand, when it comes to no-fly list, there is no due process and zero recourse.

I find it commendable that you are trying to protect me from unruly passengers on a flight. Do you also want to protect me from unruly people on the street, by locking those who can't be bothered to follow basic rules of civility out of public space for life, or are planes somehow special? I mean, if you just willy-nilly shoot a gun on the street, you'll be banned from the street for shorter than you'd be banned from flying for refusing to wear a mask on the plane. Does that make any sense whatsoever?
What are you even arguing?

It's called proportionate response. Leave voluntarily without issue, or create more havoc and a bigger force will be applied. The limiting principle is your own resistance to authority.
Did you and I read the same article? It's amazing how two people can get two diametrically opposed ideas out of the same source material.
Andrew Kelley literally did a twitch vid this morning covering something inline with the goals of this project... The zig community seems pretty good so I'm sure everyone's efforts will be celebrated (as all community work should)
> A relatively small protest (i.e. not large enough to register on their financials) can create a disproportionate amount of bad press which can exert pressure on a company to act.

I don't see how this different from a 'relatively small protest' in front of a company HQ getting into the traditional press. If your protest is enough to activate the 'hot' algorithm, so be it. That's not manipulating social media, that's just how social media works. Trying to stifle that kind of protest is the same kind of 'censorship' that's being complained about here.

Furthermore, if it's enough to cause a company to act, it's 100% because it's large enough to register on their financials in some form.
United was in the wrong, and they ultimately settled.

> What about putting unruly airport staff on a similar list?

Just don't fly United.
The Rock cares.
Oh cool, I didn't know there had been progress in the MtG UTM to use only mandatory effects.
Was any government involved in any way here?
No. He could have continued distribution the same way he was prior. He also could have self distributed. He didn’t need a distribution platform because Podcasts don’t require it. Just an RSS feed.

He sold out and this is what happens to sellouts.
In a very meta twist of fate, I just heard about this article today on a podcast, and then realized Aaron (from the podcast) is the OP! If anyone wants to get some advice on how to use Twitter like a human being I recommend a listen. It was a great convo: https://share.transistor.fm/s/c854b56e

In the spirit of the post, a thing I did last year is build a minimal video editor (https://getrecut.com) focused almost exclusively on cutting out silence. And then lately I’ve been building a cross-platform version of it with Rust and Electron.

‘Round here a lot of people dislike Electron, and I kinda count myself among that crowd, so it’s been a fun challenge to build an app like this that defies the idea that Electron apps have to be slow. Turns out you can get a lot of performance out of it if you write most of the heavy lifting in native code, pay attention to the algorithms, make things cache-friendly, keep an eye on the profiling and optimize as you go. So far the Electron app is on par with or faster than the native Mac app, which is exciting to see! Hopefully I’ll have something out in the next month or two.
Keep in mind that this is entirely antithetical to the modern conservative approach to constitutional scholarship ("originalism").
Agreed - and this is exactly why the concept of "positive" and "negative" rights exists. If no one is providing you with free access to information, free of charge, that is not an acceptable thing to get violent over. But as has already been misunderstood in this thread, the reverse of that is the positive right: If someone was *preventing* you from accessing information, that would be an acceptable time to get violent.
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Most people aren't influential and it's easier to keep them busy fighting on Twitter rather than silencing them.

So, no one is coming for your speech because you (being everyone here) don't matter enough.
>when force is applied

>the issue is resolved

love how the passive voice always pops up whenever someone tries to justify obvious bullshit
They share common reservations systems, so, it wouldn't surprise me if SABRE or another GDS shares no-fly lists.

I seem to recall that American, United, and Delta all use/implement Sabre in some form or another, and possibly shared a no-fly/ban list...but, my memory is a bit hazy on that.
The GoFundMe Team themselves donated $150 to a criminal who brought a molotov cocktail to a protest to (in his words!) "start fires". [1]

When they fund domestic terrorists, it's fine.

[1] https://twitter.com/antifawatch2/status/1489778959835357189
Does this mean you can directly import C headers in D?
Right, it doesn't, if their point was to doublespeak "why didn't he just comply".
> We’re at a very bad place in American discourse.

Well, the internet connected into a billion+ audience in last 20 years. We didn't have the ability to give a megaphone to every crackpot ~20 years ago. You'd have to physically rally people behind you, literally on the road to get your movement going. Now, Big Tech will gladly serve you that priviledge for a pretty penny off of clicks. And so will the media.

The natural physical filter is no more. It used to sort of self-censor people because they couldn't get a following. Now mainstream media is on the Internet and so are the gullible citizens. Blame the following: Big Tech, Internet Media houses (NYT is constantly full of rage, Fox too), Social Media giants (Twitter, FB, Tiktok, Reddit).

Next wave of understanding will come from in-person social life. It will be the anti-thesis of Metaverse.
This argument is so tired. You’re saying they have the right to censor, so say it.

The counter argument is that censorship is bad in all its forms. It’s one I and many others support.
I like the idea that it's the guests themselves asking for deletion because they no longer want to be associated with him.
I didn't mean to equate the two (violence and rudeness), I was just making the connection that the one leads to escalation of the other. I suspect it's not as if a passenger just runs up to an airline staff member and punches them, a propos of nothing, out of thin air. What I can see as a much more likely scenario is that the staffer acts in a manner the customer doesn't like, the customer curses at them for it, the staffer yells at them, etc. And this can be minimized by offering way more customer service training than it seems like most airlines have. I fly very frequently, weekly usually. And I see and experience absurdly unnecessary rudeness all the time. Another, relatively minor, example from a few weeks ago: when a plane landed, a woman stood up while the seatbelt light was still on. The male flight attendant snarled at her "SIT BACK DOWN, RIGHT DAMN NOW!". Screaming and cursing at customers is not acceptable, and again it doesn't justify escalation, but it certainly creates the breeding ground for it.
I share a similar story to yours. For a while, I used to call Spotify the 'Joe Rogan app' because that's all I ever used the Spotify app for.

It's because of JRE that I discovered this whole new world of podcasting.
I don't think people are saying an airline shouldn't ban but questioning whether they should be put on a federal list managed by the US government. That's a slippery slope.
I think the crux of the issue is that "force" isn't binary. People think you can "force" someone off your premises without injuring them to such an extent.

Is your position that it would not have been possible to remove him (even without his cooperation) without injuring him to this extent?
I’ve ran ZFS on Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD. While I like some of the features it has I wouldn’t run it again on anything that needs decent write speeds. The performance is really sub-par and you need a lot of disks/memory to get over that hurdle.
If I was Dr. Dao, I would have been pissed as hell. But I also would have gotten off the plane. Because this HAS happened to me before - previous flight was cancelled, then got on standby on the next flight, there was a no show, so I was sitting in my seat for at least 5 minutes before the no show showed up and they made me get off the plane.

The Dr. refused a lawful (if highly fucking annoying) request, and then when they tried to force ably remove him, he started screaming. He was not "beaten" or "physically attacked".
In what way does airline travel not count as interstate commerce?
Before 20th century, very few Europeans ever saw anyone of a different race.
Yeah the changes over the last few years make it seem like facebook. hopefully the powers that be will notice and come up with some plan to limit such silly interactions on what should be a professional platform. I reported some overtly political posts on there more than once and nothing ever came of it.
The death of computer ownership.
Given that we all live together and can be carriers and spreaders even if we are not ourselves individually impacted, it should be acceptable that regardless of age a person/family stay isolated or take measures to distance themselves and reduce the chances of inhaling or exhaling a virus. Jointly taking such measures for the greater good - ending the spread of a virus - is not a "taking away of freedom".
I'd much prefer these passengers be put on the official no fly list, if only to force the law suit that will eventually give EVERYONE on the list information on why they are on it, for how long, and a clear process for challenging being incorrectly placed on the list.

Right now if the government thinks you might have maybe been associated with any definition of terrorism you're banned from flying with basically no recourse. The assholes punching people and grabbing butts atleast have clearly committed crimes and shown themselves to be a danger to others in the sky.
Had met my share of engineers who wanted to rewrite everything from scratch into microservices and the reason they gave was ‘well microservices scales and monoliths dont’ - without taking into account the maturity of the existing application, the scale it already operates at and the scale we expect to operate at, the team resources and skills to required to support the rewrite, and the business requirements and goals.
Bills like Patriot Act do have to be re-authorized, and it actually expired in 2020 because Trump threatened to veto. Weirdly, nobody seems to know this, and it seems to be continuing in zombie form, because banks and other institutions still have paperwork citing the Patriot Act. So it’s not enough to require time limits or re-authorization. These bills need built-in self-destruction mechanisms to be rolled back.
Note that "monopoly on violence" theory predates musk saying it by about 100 years
The API already returns 0. The extension uses extrapolation of it's user statistics to estimate.
An important element of civil discourse is in limiting conversation to the content of the argument rather than attacking the person making the argument.
There were enough zeros on the deal that I'd imagine Spotify got rights to do damn-near anything.
No one is losing their flight slot over unruly passenger treatment. The unruly passengers are a vocal minority.
99.99% of ads are useless, by volume.

This is a side-effect of media selling advertising through brokers rather than direct, that these brokers then built tools to track impressions, clicks and sales attributions, and then created a disparity between each level of several orders of magnitude.

When advertisers were paying an order of magnitude more for ad impressions, we needed far fewer ads and those ads tended both to be of higher quality and more topically relevant.

At the current CPM, I routinely get ads which aren't spelling or grammar-checked.
Brainfuck would be more appropriate.
Who the hell has the authority to issue “orders” to a civilian? What is this, medieval Europe?

To make it worse, he paid to be there. If they didn’t want him in the seat, they shouldn’t have sold him a ticket.

He already paid, already received the ticket, and already had his ass in the seat.
Well do note that youtube did a mass privating of unlisted videos a while back. That might be a factor.
Yes it was exclusive, but I wonder if the exclusivity applies for episodes Spotify decides not to host/publish. I would imagine there has to be a usage clause in the exclusivity deal which reverts rights back to Rogan if Spotify doesn't publish the JRE in part or whole.
One of the standouts of my business school education was the recruiting class where our professor spent most of his time drilling in how bad most of the ways that we assess people are, but that you have to learn to manage to cognitive dissonance of it because that's what most places are going to do anyway.
FYI, the word I think you meant to use is 'yoke'

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yoke (definition 3a)
I am sorry but I am lost. If they both have probabilities or amplitudes of 1 would that not lead to a joint probability of 200% in the nonidentical case and 400% in the identical one?