skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all. The majority of the profit of new-feudal companies come from a dominant position on the market. Same as rent-seeking when you own 80% of a city.

The cost of the work required to provide those services is marginal - as clearly proven by the big profit margins.

Oh and those "free" services are paid by selling your privacy.
Not every office is the same. We have busy days and not so busy days.
I am biased as I am building a SaaS that take an opposite stance: https://windmill.dev

We should not reinvent programming languages. They have been expertly crafted to be the most powerful and expressive abstractions. Specializing them into DSL is counter-productive: specialized DSLs lack all the nice features of mainstream PL that have been iterated on for many more manhours that could ever be sunk into any startup's DSL. I would argue that the best of both worlds are embedded DSL, but the best embedded DSL are simple libraries that do not require staged meta-programming. Of course, normal libraries provide no-lock in so it has less commercial values.

Most of the benefits of those so called no-code or low-code platform is not in the coding abstraction but in the platforming aspect that makes it easy to deploy and integrate your apps with secrets, schedule and permissions. This is exactly the minimalist approach taken by windmill.
...You'd have a beautiful meadow, which would attract wildlife, which would shit in your meadow.

Go ahead and let the cat shit in your meadow, everyone's happier that way.
Only solution is to leave GS
I didn’t say neither, but I know why they exist. Basically, I said these (containers, binpacking, load-balancing, proxying, name spacing, isolation, etc) are all realizations and solutions to problems that one needs to solve when autonomically managing any distributed system that is being shared among multiple distributed applications, each using their own deployment model.

You don’t need to use k8s. But if you want scalability and manageability, you have to solve the same kind of problems it tries to solve, because ultimately resources aren’t infinite. Of course, this will always depend on the size of your (multiple) service(s).
New York City grew by 700,000 people between 2010 and 2020, while the metro area grew by 1.15 million. I’m not sure where you’re getting the declining figures from?
https://engineering.fb.com/2019/06/06/data-center-engineerin...
Obviously, that was not in fact 50 years ago.
Can you point out the racism for me?
I think generally I want to keep much of my lawn unmowed. But the large number of ticks and kids / pets that wander through, make me somewhat hesitant. I think I'll compromise on leaving an area unmowed and if anyone complains I will put a border around it and call it a "pollinator garden"
This is true, of course, but modern commercial displays typically do have modern hdmi and hdcp specs so it shouldn’t be an issue.

Even 12 year old NEC p-series (used at airports, usually) have hdcp.
> the current status quo is a natural evolution of the prior status quo.

Indeed, unfortunately.

> I think potential crowd funding is possible - a movie is crowd funded with no expectation of profit from the funders (they only get a ticket/copy of the movie for their backing dollar).

This is a pipe dream. A few amateur movies managed to get funding this way, but that's about as far as you can go. Movies cost a lot. And even if the cast agrees to work for no money, there's still equipment, and sets, and all the people responsible for those, and editing, and music, and about a million other things.

> I don't like a state-sponsored funding model, mainly due to the ability for the state then to manipulate the movie against the artistic vision.

There's also corruption and lack of transparency. France and Russia both subsidise movies heavily, and the results are ... mixed. In Russia award-winning directors and producers are still looking for sponsors to fund their movies because state money goes to some truly awful shit.
The article you're commenting on is literally about one group's attempt to measure and tell the thing you say will never be measured or told.
> but none of them would lift a finger, even in a basic case like 'I really need a heart to heart right now!

I need hearth to hearth right now is not really basic case. It is quite ask and it is OK to truthfully answer that you are busy. Basic case is "I need to borrow a tool sometimes next week" or "I need help with X, if youbcan please tell me when it suits you".

And quite a lot of very sociable people with a lot of friends will in fact respond to these.
I am based in the UK and I cut the "grass" every 6 weeks in the spring and summer. I have severe hay fever and I only mow the grass after a good bout of rain, otherwise I get quite a severe reaction. My neighbor does religiously mow every week in the spring and summer season.

I have found my green carpet to be a lot more drought resistant than my neighbours perfect lawn, and the biodiversity attracts more bees, toads and other insects. However, I appreciate many would class the biodiversity as weeds (moss, clover dandelion, daisies).
You’re probably in a country in the UPU.
With custom userchrome currently slated for getting axed, what I want most from Mozilla right now is a built in way to:

1. Hide the unnecessarily huge sidebar header (allowing addons to show their own arbitrary fully custom sidebars separate from the official sidebar system could also work)

2. Hide the default tab bar

I currently run a vertical tab setup with Sidebery that looks great with custom userchrome, but the release that kills userchrome will make it too much of a mess to bother with a redundant tab bar and ugly space stealing sidebar header.

Additionally, an “adaptive” theme that pulls colors from the OS like Sublime Text’s adaptive theme does would be greatly welcome. While it’s nice that Firefox comes with a dark theme (and that there are plenty of third party dark themes), it’s irritating that it’s always a different shade than the rest of the OS — both the background colors (which change dynamically with wallpaper-adaptive appearance enabled) and accent colors (which is user specified on both macOS and Windows and soon on Linux with GNOME too).
So almost no understanding at all, only shallow memories created by the need to pass exams?
(author here) That's very much an instance of this idea! I mentioned LLVM in the post, and I asked for some history of that idea in the comments for the previous article: https://lobste.rs/s/o3rjb0/internet_was_designed_with_narrow...

As mentioned in the intro, the idea relates to networking, operating systems, language design, compilers, and distributed systems.
I've run fully remote teams for several years now and have worked remotely for 15 years of my career. There are some other things to consider as well, especially for people in this company.

Remote as an option doesn't work well for the remoters. They will be passed up on opportunities for career growth. The people who didn't show up when the CEO demanded it should strongly consider finding a place that is more remote friendly -- especially if their manager isn't one of the people who refused to go in.

There are a lot of unique challenges that come with fostering all remote teams. It would be easy to put the remoters on the back burner if I had a group of devs I saw face to face every day. That will be especially true for people working at a company that harbors active hostility towards those people who refuse to come into the office.
hard to say how many people still taking them seriously. Anyone who has been paying attention certainly does not. CDC flip-flopped many times, changed the definition of 'vaccine', admitted the 6 foot social distance number was arbitrary, etc.
That's inspirational. If you don't mind. What is your process. I would like to do the same. I don't mind eating Ramen for 1 year.
> It made writing code and debugging code more annoying (everything shows up with "0 references" in VS because...it's all behind DI magic).

VS shows all references for code, even if the code is called through DI. If you highlight a method call or a property and press CTRL+F12, you will actually jump to implementation.

>It falls in the same bucket as most of those other OOP/SOLID/design-pattern principles - half-decent situational guidelines for software that morphed into what amounts to 'holy covenants' that must be strictly applied at all turns.

I actually dislike GoF patterns, SOLID, Uncle Bob principles and OOP in general, but DI in .NET is quite decent now. Maybe your experience is from old .NET Framework.

What language have you moved on?
Yes, at least a bit, because the people in IT are the ones that need to make sure the thing runs and that there are backups. Having Devs that don't have a clue about this getting managers to push this garbage on IT makes their life miserable. They are the ones that have run in the middle of the night because some containers aren't running. Not the dev that used some fancy command to deploy it.
> // where tf does this come from?

Just hover over it, and you'll find out. Or Ctrl+click to navigate to its implementation, possibly decompiling from IL if the source is not available.

> use std::option::Option::

C# can accomplish similar effect through using alias directive.
What Advice Would Women in Tech Give Their Past Selves?
Or the primary market players form a near monopsony, and this is a PR piece to try to keep it that way.

Any time someone is complaining about a shortage of ‘skill x’, it’s almost always a shortage of ‘folks who will put up with me and get through my hiring process for $y dollars with skill x’.

Some small exceptions of course in truly chaotic or difficult times, but it holds pretty solid as a rule.
I’m really excited about this idea and if we prove it out we could gradually power larger and larger craft this way.

Eventually we could build lasers in the Centauri system to let us also slow down as we approach.
> What would be your solution to make companies from collecting your personal data without your consent?

I don’t have a solution to the drug problem either. But a “solution” that makes things worse for people is not a “solution”. The first goal of government should be “do no harm”.
When they say 'hiring' college graduates they mean interns. Because they do pay interns (rather well I might add). It's not the same as churn of permanent employees.
Not the commenter you replied to, but I think my personality is such that I chat casually with my in-group and am a perfectionist with communication with outsiders. Back when I worked in-person, I had daily informal communication with lots of teammates as well as my boss. Since I got a new remote job during the pandemic, I tend to only reach out to those I work most closely with (just a couple of people). Certainly there's nothing actually stopping me from opening a new Teams message to my boss or other teammates and saying "hey, how's life?", but in practice, I don't. It's almost as if most of my team are now "outsiders" who I'm very deliberate messaging, rather than the in-group who I feel comfortable bantering with. It's something I'm aware of and am working on, but I definitely don't have the same level of intra-team communication now as I had pre-pandemic.
Do you feel the same way about body odor?
You should have done more homework since you are an adult and still mix up “lose” and “loose”
Have you heard of freetube[1] ?

I find the experience way better than vanilla youtube in a browser. It allows to remove all youtube annonyances (autoplay, comments, suggestions, ads, in video ads, and more) and tweak a number of things.

Only a couple downside for me, the playlist support is a bit shaky and once in while a video will fail to load or start and requires closing and reopening the window.

[1]: https://freetubeapp.io/
Once you hit 18 it is all down hill.
> As far as I can tell, there is really only a mechanism for over reporting (e.g. died with covid instead of died of COVID).

The "mechanism" for under-reporting is the SOP when someone dies: unless they were already in a hospital or otherwise being monitored (e.g., being considered a victim of a crime), there's a decent chance that they won't be tested for anything. AFAIK, most municipalities don't even require a police or medical report for a presumed natural death.
It is not the point of the article that actual conflicts between ethnicities should be reframed as something other than what they are; it's that their journalists have to describe the animus between Serbs and Bosniaks directly, and not roll the whole thing up into "an ethnic conflict". They're not avoiding the concept of ethnicity, just the generalizing, overly-broad (for their purposes) term.
Yeah, I think the author may be mixing up recommendations for dedup vs non-dedup. The solution is always to not enable dedup, it's a niche feature that's not worthwhile outside of very specific scenarios.
I can understand it. So many tools are developer hostile, we can only take so much.
My lawn (that I love) is not a mono culture.

The parts I planted are dominated by the grass I planted (fescu? sp?) but the invasive flowering weeds are encroaching and I am happy to see them.

Biggest influence is foot fall. High traffic areas are very different from low traffic areas.

I imagine my lawnmower is like a herbivore eating the tops.

I have experimented with letting it grow. Gets dominated by dock and long grasses generally
Perhaps they're fertilizing and you're not.
Right, it's signals and the whole communication process between nodes that's the issue, and the only thing in Godot that causes me to pull my hair out.

So much in Godot falls magically into place when you try, and then you have to send a piece of info from one object to another, and the official standard methods to do so look like an outrageous clunky hack.
it can't be. the cable has to be stateful for this to work. even if it's one bit that simply tells the device it is connected.
Not for PRC.
Oh, I was just thinking of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_city, which describes nearly all cities for the past ten thousand years, though less so for the last 5% of that time.
Not sure, I really think we are in the first inning of wfh & further transitions.
End of year thoughts on consolidating stuff (2021)
We actually need "Just Code" tooling.

The No Code movements shines a light on how bad we let things become for programmers (and aspiring ones). Building a modern full-stack website these days involves a lot of knowledge, everything from docker to react, to how to use github, npm, vscode, the command line, etc.

No Code/Low Code recognizes that most of that is "accidental complexity", and removes it. In a sense, it really lets you focus on the actual program (the "essential complexity"), in a way that "real" coding does not.

The problem with No Code is that "code" is actually important, by which I mean functions and types and values. Things that are composable and decomposable - you can look under the covers and there's more code, or you can combine two things together to make a bigger thing. That's as opposed to "wizards", which many (not all) No Code tools are.

We can remove the accidental complexity without removing the code though. I've been referring to this idea as "Just Code", and there's a bunch of tools out there which fit the bill: Darklang (disclaimer: I work on this), Glitch, and Repl.it are the ones I know best.
> Most social connections are around an activity like playing board games or running . No one wants to just hang out and talk without discussing jobs and salaries.

Think in major cities like NYC, LA, San Fran, London are like this. In some places in Seattle and Portland in some groups you will find more people like that ones your were hanging out in India. However, this is one of biggest problem of USA. People live to work, where else in Europe (or in India it seems also), people work to live. Think what you find in India is also true in many places in Europe. Especially in smaller cities.
Labor creates. Always has, and always will.

That capitalist check-writer? They can't do. That's why they hire.
I don't see the original comment saying anything's wrong with it. It's an older way of doing things, sure, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I actually quite like the way it's done.
Or maybe, not everything is about power, and nicely tended to lawns look nice enough to the majority of the neighborhood families, such that they want that enforcement
For me it’s the forcing of an unnecessary decision.

It’s like there are cat people and dog people. If companies forced people to own a dog, or own a cat there will be lots of conflict.

I don’t want to see companies become tribal, but a company that tries to make me come into the office for random reasons will make me really angry and frustrated and probably make me seek out a non-stupid company.

Stupid because if remote works for me and I’m highly productive, forcing me to come into an office to do the same thing is inefficient.
> "your eye" has public merit, credentials, arguments.

I'm not convinced Wikipedia has that either.
Some things it gets factually correct, granted. The subjectivity that is selected by wikipedia editors to characterize, is always in question.
So these are tiny and cheap so you stagger the launches so they can relay their data back to earth. Each one could be within a few 1000km of the next one.
Because I regularly speak to my dad who loves Russian television.

PS: I now live in Britain.
> What's changed: automation creating value automatically, different from rent-seeking.

Nothing new. Industrialization in the 19th century was all about automation and created both poverty and inequality for factory workers.
But how much does the insurance cost? Are you positive this insurance, over the years, is cheaper than what you would have paid Miele directly?
Considering the pandemic response plunged 100 million people into poverty, many of those excess deaths could be from our response, not the virus.
> Most of the benefits of those so called no-code or low-code platform is not in the coding abstraction but in the platforming aspect that makes it easy to deploy

Exactly!

This is what the "serverless" model was supposed to solve but that got hype cycled into something else.

Now the same thing is happening with nocode.

I like the idea behind windmill but I would prefer writing the code in my own ide and checking it into git. Is this possible?
What makes you say it's corporate greed, rather than a very strong consumer preference for the cheapest price? In the mask-price-race-to-the-bottom, US factories aren't competitive due to wage and environmental regs.
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I think you are mistaking things because I didn't even mention growth.

You're also saying that just because the US and China have done better than Europe, that means that QE has not had a measurable effect on the job market?

I'm sorry, but it looks to me as if you're strawmanning becasue your reply is barely adjacent to the points I was trying to make.
The list of things you have to toggle in about:config to have sane defaults is mindboggling and librewolf offers this out of the box.

And instead of the bad UX about:config page, every tweak is in a configuration text file and you can easily override them.
What I want from Firefox is a mode, even hidden behind about:config, even by a combination of settings, that results in 0 network traffic upon start and all traffic is associated with my UI interactions.

Even with telemetry off, all kinds of information about my browsing behavior from the myriad connections it makes upon start and exit can be gleaned. Certificate chain updates, etc can be delayed until a secure connection is requested by me.

The amount of unsolicited and virtually uncontrollable network traffic from macOS, Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Suite, etc is bad enough, I expect more from Mozilla that never stops marketing its privacy features.

I believe I have the right to control when and for what purpose the computer and software that I own communicates with third parties.
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Is a SAFE between rounds ( seed and A) possible and does it make sense?
Before going about a blocking potential people who are in fact interested in your content/service (which you can't know if they are or not based on the country), did you do the bare minimum to secure your server against attackers from any other location, namely changed from the default password and disabled password login?

Your approach to security has a number of issues. First, you don't know if someone is actually interested in your thing or not based on the location. They could be visiting China, could still be able to speak English or any other reason. Secondly, the mapping of Location <> IP Address is not as guaranteed as you seem to think. Plenty of IPs get flagged as Chinese while not being in China, and vice-versa is true as well. Just because some 3rd party says a host/client is in a specific location doesn't make that true.

Edit: Seems the commentator I replied to now have added "just personal stuff and a private forum" to their comment which was not there before, so most of my point is moot now, as I assumed at least semi-public content/service, not private.
Imagine building a project with someone. You are planning on monetizing this project by accepting payments in cryptocurrency. You would want to distribute the earnings fairly in between yourselves. Partnerly.co helps you do this. It is an app that helps you create a smart contract on the blockchain that can distribute the collected payments between two (or more) parties in a predetermined split ratio.

I wanted to build Partnerly to learn more about Solidity and Smart Contracts. I have also shared my learnings at www.partnerly.co/learn.
again, in the nyc market, it was fine, if not very good.

most drivers i spoke to seemed to like the medallions as they offered some long term investment potential and a sort of seniority reward. there was of course big capital at play, but drivers could have complained to the tlc... what can they do now? file a support ticket?
If anyone else is confused by some of the years in the article, I have submitted the following to The Independent:

Subject: Inaccuracy in article on Mavis Beacon

The article at https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/mavis-beac... states that The Software Toolworks was "founded in 1990." I believe this to be a mistake; it does not make sense in the context of the article discussing things that they did in 1986 and 1987. Wikipedia tells me that The Software Toolworks was founded in 1980.
Sounds like a good way to get everyone there infected.
I am more interested in how they are planning to fit in all the apparatus in a probe that small and especially how they plan to send a usable signal back to Earth.