skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hello, that's a good point! We should always point out pedophilia where it's hiding. However, from previous readings and from following the linked sources of that Wikipedia article, i don't think that Foucault was a pedophile. He did (like many other thinkers of the time) sign a petition defending someone who didn't deserve it, but it's easy to judge in retrospect as the precise context of the case was not publicly known at the time of the petition. But nowhere could i read him arguing for pedophilia or suggesting he himself engaged in such abhorrent behavior.
Something like native F# ?
Sometimes 2000 years ago. I was admiring this quarter scale multiplication algorithm on an eight bit system that used tables of squares and a clever formula to beat my fastest shift and add approach and was blown away to find out that it was known in Babylonian times.
All the business knowledge is in Basecamp as that's where all the "work planning" is done. If you want to find out how a specific feature works, or how the decisions were made for that, go find the project in Basecamp, it'll be archived if it's shipped but it's still searchable.

For new dev setup/infrastructure stuff we use a github Wiki and the new starters point out issues in that for us - their first tasks are to update it if they find issues or missing info because it forces them to go and dig around to find the knowledge islands - they're the best people for it because it's who we want to solve the problem for.

Admittedly we've got a small company and a nice tight tech stack but there's still tribal knowledge in 2-3 people's heads and distilling that out to the team is a slow process of pair programming and explanation.
CGI was the first Serverless technology. Then PHP did it even better.
There is nothing in the world which is not compromised "in some way".
100% agree. Even tough i work at F500 company our team acts like a startup. With server less we don’t need to hire expensive devops and shell out millions for expensive k8s clusters. I am pretty sure it’s the future for most of us.
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I don’t know if recoil in horror but yes, I do like that it’s hard to get to the Internet in my kindle. My brain is not thinking of using it for anything else other than reading. Sometimes even having a big library is distracting so I keep only a few books in there
Fair point. So what's your evaluation of the real value of education?

I don't see how I can answer your questions in a short comment because they depend very much on individual circumstances. E.g. nowadays you have to be able to read to make informed decisions. But with the rise of text to speech synthesis, and information available as videos and memes, there is no need to receive a formal education to be informed.

Then again, how valuable is analytical and critical thinking? That depends on the democracy. If people live in an established democracy with established institutions, they just have to choose the outcome, i.e. where the government is going to spend money. Then no further education is needed.

In general, the value of education follows supply and demand and depends on the environment. If you were the only educated person among cavemen, then your education is worth the world because you can make all the difference. On the other hand, if you are the proverbial philosophy major working at a fast food restaurant, what's the value of that education?
> A Bitcoin-based economy would not suffer from this problem.

Yes, it would no doubt suffer from the worse problem of deflationary episodes:

* https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/why-the...

* https://archive.fo/FWKcL

* https://www.vox.com/2014/7/16/5900297/case-against-gold-stan...

We've been here before with the gold standard and it does not work very well.
"The officials briefed The Associated Press on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive intelligence sources."...

Translation: The spooks made it up.
Distilled water tastes amazing to me.
Small and even medium sized businesses dont really have C-level employeees. They might have titles that sound like that - but they dont sit on a different floor where mere mortal workers security passes are not permissioned to travel.
> It has worked pretty well for the last 2,500 years with voters possessing extremely questionable education.

Early democracies often restricted the right to vote to specific parts of the population.

Also if anything has become clear in the last 5 years it’s that educated people are much less likely to be deceived by false populist promises.
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I've spent a lot of money on Audible (and have a subscription) and part of the reason is because I can return books if they wind up being awful or are simply poorly produced (tin-sounding audio, awful narrator, clipped audio, etc.)
Something that works now and will continue to work for years without changing any code.

To turn this on its head, if I'm creating a new product now, why invest time into an API where by the time the product would be ready with WebGL, instead I chose WebGPU, so now have the risks:

- The API is still years away from mainstream.
- Doesn't solve anything for my use case that wouldn't be solved with WebGL.
- Is too buggy to use on most configurations.
- Isn't supported by X hardware or Y OS.
- Has security issues that make browsers disable it for years.
- The code has to be regularly updated/maintained/fixed when browsers update.
- Performance could be lower for low end systems.
- Even if everything worked, it's a lot more work to do everything (e.g. VULKAN).
- To beat webGL, you have to optimise specifically for mobile/desktop/amd/nvidia/etc
- The documentation is poor.
- It's impossible to hire an expert in webGPU.
- It's very expensive to test every combination of GPU/OS/driver so you have no confidence it is working correctly.

Most rendering code should abstract to many APIs anyway, so not starting with a webgl version would be quite insane.
Don't you think we could be manufacturing more useful (and maybe less polluting) items? If commercial goods had the durability of military equipment and the same kind of public financing, i believe locally-produced durable products could be competitive with cheap imported quasi-slave-produced products.
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Being able to regurgitate a memorized dynamic programming solution during an interview is already a pretty subjective signal which does not take into account the candidate's history or experience. I personally think that the real signal leetcode style interview provides is confirming that the candidate has a good work ethic and sticktuitiveness.
As one of the 99%.

What are some of these problems exactly, that me and my extremely large toolkit of cool things I can curl from Github can't solve?

Because I'm not a genius.

But I'm real good at stapling together some useful crap.
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> but they dont sit on a different floor where mere mortal workers security passes are not permissioned to travel.

Why is that a requirement to be "really C-level"?
> I was too young to use Google when it first got started, but according to many, in the beginning, Google had better or more accurate search results.

I'm old enough to remember when Google came, and the main difference was this:

With Google you did not have to flip through 3 pages of completely unrelated search results; that were paid for. Google used to display advertisements on the right as well, i.e. not among the regular search results.

This made Google so much better (and more popular) then their competition.
Thanks, I learned about Websub today. I love reading about all the "relatively new" web standards around decentralization.

If I understood correctly, one has to publish their topic so that others can sub through this hub ?
Or can I use this hub with any publisher ?

Edit : after thinkin about it more, it could be that you publish for every change.
The hub then validates the topic URL has changed to send an update.
That makes sense, thank you for your honesty
Its not an election issue in one of those countries, and in the other it is ... I doubt you even need to take a public stand on exactly what your position is on the issue to run for office.
> You can never be the 'true owner' of any land in England. All land is technically owned by the Crown.

Functionally speaking, is that any different to any other comparable country?
Serverless as a term mixed up with FaaS. In 2022, Serverless is more general as it can be defined anything that autoscales to infinity and scales to zero when not used and pay per use. Amazon DynamoDB is also serverless in that sense for example.
I work at a company you’ve all heard of that prides itself as a place where everyone writes and everyone reads. A lot.

I’m an individual contributor. In theory, my job is to build stuff, which - again, in theory - involves writing code, debugging, solving deep technical problems, and so on. Unfortunately, due to the culture of writing and reading I spend most of my time mired in documents. Every breath we take produces a wall of text that must be reviewed and commented on. At this point it’s been about three weeks since I’ve written code.

Not every question deserves the dreaded one-pager. Not every potential code change must be foreshadowed by an exhaustive treatment in a peer reviewed design doc. Not every potential failure mode must be imagined and written up in detail, including all hypothetical gory details.

And don’t you dare protest! You’ll be labeled not a team player, poor communicator, a lone wolf. You’ll get a negative performance rating in the next cycle and then “managed out” for non-compliance with prevailing culture.

Oh, performance reviews are a special kind of joy. For a few weeks each year the economy of writing traffics mostly in documents written by employees who must openly brag about work they did over the past year. It’s a kind of literary hunger games in a corporate setting.

Oh, and this Kafkaesque machine has feelings too. It’s weird about “tone”: disagree with someone’s writing and they see a personal attack. Sickly sweet praise is the name of the game, whereas legitimate critique of another’s writing must be circumspect and formed such that it cannot be “taken the wrong way” or else!

I’m so done.
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> information has simply gone from scarce to too abundant

no, the signal to noise ratio has gone from sufficient to far too low
I found a qmlcompiler folder at https://github.com/qt/qtdeclarative/tree/dev/src/qmlcompiler, but I don't know if it's the compiler itself or bindings. I can't find qmlsc in GitHub qt or qtproject though.
I feel the need to plug the Haskell Foundation https://haskell.foundation/. It’s where these sorts of discussions are happening today.
Out of curiosity, why did Macintosh fall behind in the late 80s?

Why didn't they charge ahead and achieve dominance in the 90s?
> As AB producers, we're supposed to get 40% if we host our AB exclusively in Audible, or 25% if we go 'wide' and use other retailers.

This should be absolutely illegal.
> My understanding is that the legal link was created by the Emergencies Act. The government believes that it will be able to calm the situation faster if they can track and cut off the flow of money.

They created a power of themselves, out of expedience, but there still doesn't seem to be any justification or grounds for it according to the basic principles of the Canadian legal order, except it formally comes from the PM, and he has cops.

They created a false legal reality (grave danger of violence to Canada and its people), which isn't objectively observable, to justify a power to solve that false reality, where in fact they are using it for something else (forcing people to move parked trucks).

They could have just arrested all the truckers for a variety of traffic laws or public-order laws (honking, noise), and then moved the trucks one by one. Instead, Emergency powers...

As my administrative and fiscal law professor taught us, after listing for two weeks all the principles which can be used to craft a law (not Canadian law school, European) :

There's one very old legal principle left, according to which laws are sometimes made, wrongly, but well, that's the real world for you : "I'mma the state, I do it because I can, or I'mma gonna crush you".
this one triggered the post, although I've seen a few before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30367943
In other words, a distinction without a difference.
Yeah, you see that's where I don't think it's "people who care about UX" who gravitate to Mac. Maybe 10 years ago, sure, when Apple font rendering was massively superior to anything else on the market and people would put up with endless crap with the corporate monster in order to not see ugly fonts. But these days, I'm not so sure.

The people who actually really care about UX want to dremel their stuff because the little tiny discrepencies annoy them (like you).

The people who flock to Mac these days are plain consumers. They want to be protected from the intricacies, have something that "looks good" without having to decide what "looking good" actually involves, or making any decisions about it. The average Mac user these days sees Apple as a brand that says something about their good taste.

and yes, I completely agree that you have to dremel your Linux install to get it looking good. But that's half the fun :)
>>So, the thing is, I'd argue a focus on outcome with good technical skills to deliver it, makes you the 1% developer.

I didn't read the article the same way as many here did - my take was that he was talking about the 99% of developers who don't need the newest/leading-edge technologies because they are not solving for those problems (massive scaling for example), because the business they are working with/for simply will never need to worrying about that.

I didn't take it to mean that some of those same developers solving those '99%' problems, are not individually top 1% developers - you can be a top 1% developer imo, and still used tried-and-tested technology that is consider 'old' or boring.

Using the right tools, does not make one a top 1% developer; a top 1% developer will shine no matter what tools that need to use; they just use them better.
I think your comment will likely be underappreciated, but this is really the most comprehensive take on understanding the ecosystem.

Conversely, the default state of things where ACX is effectively targeting the "leftovers" that nobody else thought was profitable enough, also represents an opportunity for product marketing. To those authors who have no other choice but ACX, ideally you'd want them to feel like this is a positive for them, a saving grace, a friend helping you out when nobody else would... rather than like say, a loan shark offering usurious terms and a threat to break your kneecaps after you've tried other banks and couldn't get a business loan. Picking an interpretation is really just about a point of view, so the PR/marketing folks better get out there and start spinning the other way (which to be fair, I think there IS a legitimate friendly take here, and IMO I don't think Audible is really the loan shark in this analogy).

For now, the net result is not dissimilar from Uber and its drivers. Uber PR will harp on flexibility and extra side income opportunities that wouldn't be possible without Uber, while detractors will harp on the low earnings potential factoring in vehicle maintenance or the ever present contractor vs employee debate. No matter which side you believe more, the net result is that drivers don't have much leverage and aren't getting a particularly generous deal by any means... So it goes for authors and narrators on ACX too, I think.
> Judging the benefit of education only on the financial bottomline is bound to underestimate its real value.

In the article he mentions that he gets this type of criticism on his book, despite the fact that he spent chapters on these exact kind of questions. Painstakingly including those things is what the whole thing is about.

And now he gets the criticism despite putting that in the article!
Are you (or anyone else reading this) by any chance looking to hire a generalist right now? I do development, graphic design, web design, writing, marketing, and a bunch of other stuff.

If this sounds interesting, please share your contact info, or drop me an email (address in profile)!
But did Von Neumann also lead us towards a security nightmare? Code is data is very powerful but also a Pandora's box from a security perspective.
I've found architects to be extremely hard to find (both software and security). A good architect needs both wide technical experience (even if they have specialities) and great communication and documentation skills. Attention to detail and also big picture thinking.

It's not that hard to find architects, but it's insanely hard to find good ones. Although, that probably applies to pretty much any role.
You could have some sort of reproducible-builds escrow organisations; for eg release your code to them, they would do a build and publicly sign hashes of the build they produced.
> When the supermarket offers a discount, they don't then turn to their providers and say "since we sold this at a discount,

Yes, they do actually. They organize sales and have temporary reduced prices sold to customers and paid to suppliers. That’s why some cereals go on sale and others don’t. It’s not like they decide to take a loss only on Kelloggs cereal. The discount is because they pay less to manufacturers.

Similarly for audible, the contract stipulates this. So I think it would be wrong if Audible unilaterally decided to not pay authors. But they didn’t do that, they have a contract, signed by authors that lets them put books on sale and pay less.
> Domain-Driven Design

> It's not exactly rocket-science either

I'd imagine that occasionally "rocket science" is exactly what it is!
Did they make the decision to kill those people?
This is excellent news.
For years it was the only major browser with no WebGL 2 support : Chrome and Firefox support WebGl 2 since 2017 ...
Most WebGL libraries have WebGL 1 fallbacks only to make apps run on Safari.
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I've recently installed https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhe... in middle+right click mode, and now miss it everywhere I don't have it (Reader Mode, PDFs, etc.). Unfortunately development looks a bit inactive, and there's no option for locking scrolling into vertical-only if you begin a scroll by dragging vertically.
This is the exact problem I'm trying to solve with my startup https://GainKnowHow.com .

I think we have been structuring documentation ineffectively for a while. GainKnowHow structures knowledge by prerequisites in a Knowledge Web, which I think is the best way to figure out how something works.

My goal is to let you "program" your organization through skills in a Knowledge Web that represents how your organization runs. You can write tests to see if employees actually understand their skills and there are change management features that tell the relevant employees when a skill has changed through skill diffs.

Here's an example of how to train your software engineers https://gainknowhow.com/software-companies.html
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"I did my job well, everything was running smoothly."

Too smoothly. We got 20% layoffs for doing a good job! Cost savings.
Since this design is inherited from iDevices, my guess is they never bothered to optimize this command since software on a battery-powered device would almost never need to issue it. It should be something they can improve in firmware.
Not sure how either of those would be critically impacted by a 1-2 second data loss in a power failure.
"we're a family but if you don't do well enough gtfo"
Out of the box rails provides Modules, Concerns, Engines and Gems as mechanisms to package by feature.

If you want to back that up with static types Ruby > 3.0 provides that out of the box too.

What is it you think it's lacking?
Not that they decided it does, but generally that they all had to in order to stay profitable. Part of this is due to the othwr commenter's suggested goal that the rise in rates be significant enough to demotivate rich people.

Here is some research on commercial properties, which would in theory be more competitive than residential. It shows that 80-90% of any tax increase is covered by an increase in rent.
https://mitcre.mit.edu/news/blog/can-landlords-really-pass-h...

And of course many landlord resources say to just build it in.

"The best way to protect yourself from taking a hit is to plan ahead. Plan for a tax increase every single year and adjust your rents accordingly. Build the tax increase into your rent and allow for future rent increases. A planned annual rent increase will allow you to stay ahead of tax increases instead of being caught off guard and behind."

https://commonsenselandlording.com/property-taxes-rental-pro...
> anything that autoscales to infinity and scales to zero when not used and pay per use

Ah, you mean grid/utility computing. But as you point out that's broader than FaaS.
Sounds like you need a Logitech MX Master 3 Mouse. The scrollwheel click is software and button controllable (uses an electromagnet I think)
People with broad technical knowledge ( from system programming / asm to Javascript/browser stuff, networking, algorithms, etc). And if they don't know everything ( which is ok), I expect them to want to learn what they don't know. It's also ok if they're not experts everywhere (broad vs deep) , but having a good understanding of how software systems from first principes makes solving lots of problems much easier. It also allows them to help other people.

These people are invaluable, but are very hard to come by.
And that’s a good thing, because it gives publishers incentive to put out quality products. I’m convinced almost anything originating on Twitter is knee jerk alarmism.

People need to understand that the people making these tweets have incentive to create outrage for more exposure/followers.
“Introducing Audiblegate” - Maybe I’m jaded, but you JUST KNOW they were hoping someone like The Verge would eat that up as a headline and link their Tweet in the ensuing article.

Amazon has done some really shady stuff in their lifetime, but cmon.
Isn't Julia trying to be the language you propose?
Agreed, feels like directed incompetence. If the errors were in the other direction, I wonder how quickly Amazon would direct focus to it.
The structure of reddit really works well for preventing shilling from being a fatal problem. Namespaces moderated by genuine enthsuasists gain more users, and even if they are infiltrated, there is this constant evaluation of subreddits and posts by subscriber numbers and upvotes. It's a darwinian ecosystem with constant speciation and competition among subreddits.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5 - see video about convergence
Wouldn't that make countries like the USA and Canada extremely far apart because they are both large countries? The distance you would get is the distance from Hawaii to somewhere on the northeastern edge of Nunavut/Newfoundland/Labrador
Yes, also because then it feels less like you're committing to buying N books per month from a particular vendor.
For my team, it is Github + Slack + Google Drive. Most of the ongoing discussion/planning is on slack which we try to maximize by adding each activity we can there including screenshots of imp conversations, ideas and decisions made. We store all the work including creative output and more structured plans/data on company-wide shared Google Drive. Github stores all the code base and product documentation.
I don't think Purism gets enough credit in this article. They've dumped a lot of time, money, and effort into developing Phosh and other tools that make this possible.
Looking at the Apple support forums, the world is full of complaints about all sorts of malfunctions (which may or may not be related).