skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine the actual reality is that they care but also want to get paid. And everything else you said.
My first thought when reading this description was that step one is to make a local copy, get a development environment setup where you can toy around, see how things fit together. The 'stupid'er the setup (like using plain old files instead of a database), the easier that actually gets (apt install apache2 php; rsync da:files /var/www). Wouldn't that have helped solve this particularly important but untouchable file?
I can't remember what the name of the forum was, that was almost 20 years ago. But this guy had written some deeply, deeply opinionated and explicit essays on his views and they were quite inappropriate. He was fairly prolific too. It's so weird to think back on how easy it was to just read his stuff and know who he was.
I think his point was that "the old days" were decentralised (e.g email, IRC networks, sites), but today lots of people use centralised Twitter/Facebook/YouTube/Discord instead.
The Current State of Surveillance
Less interdepency is absolutely the key to everything.

But... isn't the easiest way to show that there is little interdepency to put them in separate files that don't import from each other?
It's certainly a difficult cost/benefit analysis, preserving the lives of the elderly, at the expense of quality of life for a younger generation, versus the opposite. The effects are, as you said, probably not measurable, and so the calculus is near-impossible. However, the answer has seemingly been to not even try, and to "stop covid" at all costs, laying waste to any holistic arguments that perhaps prioritizing societal wellbeing was a better route than declaring war against a virus.

In my opinion, the vast majority of the world lost its cool in the pandemic, and in our panic, we may have made mistakes. Or maybe not. The long term results remain to be seen. Certainly, however, we as a society did not act with a level head and think things through rationally before acting.
Why are you tired of the React ecosystem?
My biggest source of "being exposed" has been due to the car I drive being unique, which in turn causes people to post pictures of it online, where corrupt local cops who are part of those forums end up posting my name and address online for people to stalk or try to steal the car/rob me/whatever. Do you have any tips for combating this besides getting rid of the car entirely? Keep in mind the operators of these forums do not care who their users dox, and always win any lawsuits/DMCA/etc filed against them (similar to kiwifarms).
AOL had a gateway to the internet in like 1994, at that point the main barrier to access was the cost, not the difficulty.
when I worked for big corp, the reason we were told in engineering for getting $1,000 laptops was that it wasn't fair to accounting, HR, etc for us to have better machines. In the past people from these departments complained quite a bit.

The official reason (which was BS) was "to simplify IT's job by only having to support one model"
Grossly misinformed post. 4TB (compressed) per shard may be what you're thinking of?
I understand your frustration, but my friend, this kind of rhetoric is neither true nor helpful in us solving real problems.
On a recent version of Windows , to be precise.

Microsoft used to be far less abusive than this. You installed it and it would just stay silent. I think things changed starting around Windows 8, then got much worse with 10, and the trend continues with 11.
> And yet there is scant evidence hospitals ever were at risk.

What? Omicron absolutely crushed U.S. hospitals -- with some having to set up temporary emergency rooms in their parking structures. Many U.S. hospitals had to put off essential procedures and ran out of practically _everything_ (syringes, saline products, blood, etc.) during the last wave.
Mander is strongly recommended reading.

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television

https://www.worldcat.org/title/four-arguments-for-the-elimin...

https://archive.org/search.php?query=mander+Four+arguments+f...

http://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=F119513A778FC924D7ED96B4...
An important piece of context missing from the article is the size of their team. LinkedIn shows 0 employees and their about page lists the two cofounders so I assume they have a team of 2. It's odd that the article talks about the problems with large codebases and multiple people working on a codebase when it doesn't look like they have those problems. With only 2 people, of course they can ship like that.
> Pre-live environments are never at parity with production

Same with your laptops... and this is only true if you make it that way. Using things like Docker containers eliminates some of the problem with this too.

> There’s always a queue

This has never been a problem for any of the teams I've been on (teams as large as ~80 people). Almost never do they "not want your code on there too". Eventually it's all got to run together anyway.

> Releases are too large

This has nothing to do with how many environments you have, and everything to do with your release practices. We try to do a release per week at a minimum, but have done multiple releases in a single day as well.

> Poor ownership of changes

Code ownership is a bad practice anyway. It allows people to throw their hands up and claim they're not responsible for a given part of the system. A down system is everyone's problem.

> People mistakenly let process replace accountability

Again - nothing to do with your environments here, just bad development practices.
A person in my family had to delay a major procedure too, but the excuse was that it "wasn't safe" like they were being done a favor :/
Objective-C is an attempt to bring SmallTalk/Actor to C programming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21833331

I haven't yet tried to tweak a Swift macOS program, but in OS X era you could inject extra message handlers (object "methods") to a binary executable at runtime.

So I don't know how well this year's Swift relates to a SmallTalk model.
Einstein versus the Physical Review
I'm not familiar with SvelteKit.

Can you provide more details about this? In what way is it a downgrade?
> kids are glued to their phones anyway.

In many places this was actively encouraged during the last two years. Virtually every other activity was banished. Playgrounds, schools, extracurricular activities, pools, museums, you name it... closed. In many places you literally couldn't go outside without some kind of government issued hall-pass.

We absolutely, shamefully fucked over kids the last two years. And so many people cheered it on despite kids being the lowest risk group out there.
Call the system's default file chooser via an xdg-desktop-portal protocol (FileChooser). Could be Nautilus, could be KDialog.

No longer will we have to hardcode specific toolkit dialogs!
Where’s Wikileaks when you need it?

Oh, right.
Yet HTML5 isn't a first class citizen on Apple's most popular operating system, nor is USB-C even on Apple's current best selling product.
> We only merge code that is ready to go live

Cool story, but you don't _know_ if its ready until after.

Look, staging environments are not great, for the reasons described. But just killing staging and having done with it isn't the answer either. You need to _know_ when your service is fucked or not performing correctly.

The only way that this kind of deployment is practical _at scale_ is to have comprehensive end-to-end testing constantly running on prod. This was the only real way we could be sure that our service was fully working within acceptable parameters. We ran captured real life queries constantly in a random order, at a random time (caching can give you a false sense of security, go on, ask me how I know)

At no point is monitoring strategy discussed.

Unless you know how your service is supposed to behave, and you can describe that state using metrics, your system isn't monitored. Logging is too shit, slow and expensive to get meaningful near realtime results. Some companies expend billions taming logs into metrics. don't do that, make metrics first.

> You’ll reduce cost and complexity in your infrastructure

I mean possibly, but you'll need to spend a lot more on making sure that your backups work. I have had a rule for a while that all instances must be younger than a month in prod. This means that you should be able to re-build _from scratch_ all instances and datastores. Instances are trivial to rebuild, databases should also be, but often arn't. If you're going to fuck around an find out in prod, then you need good well practised recovery procedures

> If we ever have an issue in production, we always roll forward.

I mean that cute and all, but not being able to back out means that you're fucked, you might not think you're fucked, but that's because you've not been fucked yet.

its like the old addage, there are two states of system admin: Those who are about to have data loss, and those who have had data loss.
...or they lacked the resources and infrastructure to accurately assess students as nobody had been prepared to move the entire public education system online for an extended period of time.
The screen recording they posted also includes that banner…
> It's not "companies" as a whole. It's a small department who comes up with these ideas

Ah yes, the "one bad nerd-apple" hypothesis.
I see, so they only had to give EU users a choice up to (and including) Windows 7 https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/eu-resolves-microsof...
Other than the tone you have it exactly right. There is, depending on the study, a 3-10% pay yet unexplained pay gap — it always shows up. If it was actually 0% +/- error you would expect to see women as a group making more sometimes once all the explained parts are controlled for.

However, people take “explained” to mean “it’s fine, we don’t have to do anything” when instead it’s actually the stuff we know we should be targeting.

* Men on average work higher paying jobs, male dominated fields are on average higher paying.

* Men on average hold higher titled positions in a given field, the glass ceiling is a thing, and women have a harder time becoming managers and directors.

* Women have fewer years of of experience on average because of childcare.

This is all stuff we need to work on because “controlling” for all this stuff and then forgetting about it makes it seem like it’s totally fine that 99 men and 1 woman are senior SWEs as long as the 1 woman makes the same pay.
> as hospitals where overwhelmed.

Nobody seemed to mind very much during all those other years:

https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:ov...

https://www.google.com/search?q=intitle:hospitals+intitle:%2...
I tore my puff jacket on a door handle. They refilled, patched, stitched it back up.
> If we ever have an issue in production, we always roll forward.

What does it mean to roll forward?
I find IDEs work better with multiple files (i.e. navigation around if you want to have several windows open at the same time), but agree that’s not so well defined.
>> people were actively undermining them pretty much from day one.

> As they should.

And we can thank those people for giving us one of the worse outcomes.

> I didn't sign up for two years of this nonsense.

Hate to break it to you, but that's just not how the world works. You don't get to chose if you participate or not.
I'm sure this won't have come as a surprise to anyone once it went viral

It's always the few that ruin it for the many.

Personally there is no way I would have made this public knowledge if I were in his shoes.
Yes, these kinds of marketing tactics are disgusting and despicable, but the broader issue is why does Github facilitate them by making user emails discoverable? There are tools like github-email [1], which allow you to:

> Retrieve a GitHub user's email even if it's not public. Pulls info from Github user, NPM, activity commits, owned repo commit activity.

Why does Github have so many ways to exfiltrate a user's email address?

[1]https://github.com/paulirish/github-email
Ask HN: Guide of the Current Crypto Developments
Hello! Does anybody know any nice blogpost that contains a summary of the current development of crypto and dapps? Any opinion on ICOs and their underlying value? Thanks :)
It's so incredible to see this today as only yesterday I have played this with some friends: https://thornygames.com/pages/sign
It is board game based on a stripped down rendition of the story of NSL, I really recommend it as it is simple but it makes for a game experience which is pleasantly unusual.
No one said the job is to scale. It has to scale with code base complexity otherwise it's useless.
Because it's what comes on the computer they bought from the store and because they don't know enough to do any different? Most people aren't tech experts. They buy a computer to do stuff and they follow the instructions in front of them or maybe ask someone they know for help.
But are extreme authoritarians when it comes to personal behavior.
Ok but using px instead of rem is already getting it wrong. See https://every-layout.dev/rudiments/units/
so.. in that case it means computer belings to MS even if I paid full price?
"and deeply believe the future will be truly bleak"

There has likely never been a period in human history where people en masse have felt otherwise. That said here's a three step program that shifted me away from depression/pessimism towards ambivalence with a hint of optimism:

1) Mild well-calibrated paranoia. You should spend sometime contemplating preventative measures against reasonable threats.

2) Buy insurance when applicable.

3) Know that whatever your 10-top doomsday list consists of it's likely none of it will happen in your lifetime or devastate your life. It's usually something else in your (our collective) blindspot. Because of that 20 years from now your child's top 10 list will likely be different and we'll have yet another generation of hand-wringers (I was no better).

"there is no escape from climate change."

I live less than 100 meters from the Pacific Ocean. What is more likely ? that sea-level rise will take my home or that I lose my home in a lawsuit, tsunami, earthquake, etc. The answer is "who cares (on a personal level) I have umbrella insurance".

"there is no escape from climate change."

Increase tree population and decrease human population ? The latter half may already be happening. We have a diverse food supply in the U.S. and we have desalination technology so we should be able to escape famine at least. You should qualify "escape". People live in Alaska and Phoenix despite a climate where life expectancy under direct exposure is measured in hours at times. Last I checked the people there can escape by moving elsewhere or turning on their HVAC. I am not trying to downplay this, there are times in the past where I thought wild fires would destroy my home and famine in poorer countries is a very real possibility.
What social structures penalize men who want to be the primary care giver?
I dunno why this is downvoted. I know several people who intentionally isolated their kids for at least a year. These kids couldn't even go outside...

Instead of telling people to remain calm, these fucking "experts" intentionally scared the living daylights out of people. And for many people in my particularly liberal region, they took it all to heart and went well above and beyond what these "experts" were demanding.
100 Years of Dehumanizing Opioid Users Must End
Have been using i3 for maybe 10 years now; it's at the very core of my daily computing experience.

Regolith running application search looks useful -- nice project.
I’ve been watching this Youtube channel for a few months, and this is the first “breakout” video he’s had. Apparently a lot of people still remember Miniscribe, and use lots of negative adjectives to describe them!
You sometimes can. Maybe for any legacy code base someone could, but I have tried and failed on more than one occasion. Some people’s thought process is just perversely different to mine and I keep feeling, oh, this is the layer where that happens, but no every time I have an aha moment I am disillusioned.
Seems to have fooled almost everyone about building Twitter and now it is a so-called 'addictive' digital drugs platform for venting your outrage on to one another.

Now since he left, he is doing the same thing but for crypto.

The grift continues.
If you asked me what OpenBB is, I would've said "forum software written in php"
Imagine that all your files have been helpfully encrypted --- for your security, of course --- with a key that is bound to that account you can no longer use.

I'm not sure if this is possible or the default now on Windows, but it's common for mobile devices.
I just like this phrase from the Usenet comments in the first link:

> Their code has the implicit assumption that all elliptic problems have homogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions!
Nope, it didn't. You're straight up lying.
Just waiting with bated breath to find out!
Show HN: A CLI tool that analyzes with PMD and posts findings as GitHub comments
There were none of these when I was in high school only a few years ago, and they still aren't a thing from the high schoolers I know.

The system is still the same - every day you miss the assignment is one fewer grade, except for some, where you automatically get zero. You cannot retake an exam without cause.

It's just selection bias.
> Not only has the filter now been removed, but the new entrants have been encouraged (through algorithms which promote divisive content) to produce and consume harmful content because it increases "engagement".

I agreed with this until I started seeing more information about how much divisive content there is on whatsapp, which isn’t algorithmic or driven by anything other than people, similar to old email forward chains.

We don’t like the algorithmic feeds and everything else because they’re a big mirror that just reflects back how humans act, and we don’t like what we see. The algorithms themselves aren’t the problem IMO.
I agree and should've phrased it better - there's a second hand market, but it would be significantly larger since the kids clothes get more damaged than adult.
I am not implying that. The expectation was that there would be a pandemic and that, unfortunately, a lot of people would die. The idea was to avoid preventable deaths stemming from an overwhelmed healthcare system. It then somehow turned into full blown moral panic, attempting to minimize deaths from infections at almost any cost - something that we never did, and still do not do, with any other disease.
There's the famous Feynman method i.e. Study hard, Teach it to others, Identify the gaps in your own knowledge, and Simplify/Synthesize.

But people often also forget that there is another method associated with Feynman aka The Feynman Algorithm (which was outlined by his colleague Murray Gell-Mann, a noble prize winning physicist himself). This method goes as follows:

1. Write down the problem.
2. Think real hard.
3. Write the solution.

Not to discount or discredit anything (or anyone) here but we must understand that Feynman was no average person and that his advice on anything related to learning or problem-solving must be viewed through an optics that adequately adjusts for his intellect as well.
When you try to mix human morbidity and mortality with market economics, basically you just piss everyone off. I mean, if I want to be crass about it, I could ask you who's life you value more - your father or your son, your aunt or your niece? And how much money are you willing to pay to extend the life of any of these people. We are hesitant to ask these questions for good reason.
I think it’s talking about the messaging app named Slack.
Hmm, this wasn't true for me. I just did a fresh install of Windows 11 Pro, and I wasn't required to have a Microsoft account...I did however install from a Windows 11 N source, and updated the license to my Education key shortly after installation.
> my content was directly vacuumed and inserted into a spammy full of advertising website

For all its faults, this is something I have no shame invoking DMCA for. You still own the copyright on your writing even if you publish it for free online.
All good advice, but do you also have a rule where our DBs have to be less than a month old in prod? Doesn't look very practical if your DB has >100s of TBs
Thanks for posting this. Decided to install it as a package and give it a try, so far I'm quite impressed.
> In some countries it worked, in others it didn't.

You cannot say this for certain. It will take much calmer heads before anybody can say these restrictions were worth their incredible costs.

> Both occured independently. There are however plenty of plausible arguments to make for lockdowns being causal on mental health though.

Kids were not allowed to go to school for more than a year. You don't need any research to suggest that isn't good for kids. Seriously. Claiming these lockdowns and restrictions didn't have a significant impact on children is being willfully ignorant.
Having the whole project actually in one project is critical. I think some of these “best practices” are actually very useful when applied with caution. But you sometimes need to break the rules. Everything should be optimized for developer convenience. Convenience in deployment. Convenience in debugging. Convenience in refactoring. Only do what HN and FAANG says is “right” when you need to.
All of their “problems” with staging are fixable bathwater that doesn't require baby ejection.

I avoid staging for solo projects but it does feel a bit dirty.

For team work or complex solo projects (such as anything commercial) I would never!

On the cloud it is too easy to stage.

To the point where I have teared down and recreated staging environment to save a bit of money at times because it is so easy to bring back.

The article says to me their not using modern devops practices.

It is rare a tech practice “hot take” post is on the money, and this post follows the rule not the exception.

Have a staging environment!

Just the work / thinking / tech debt payoff to make one is worth it for other reasons: including to streamline your deployment processes both human and in code.
Woah. I've never before heard of a case of the magic smoke leaving a device and it still working afterwards.
While the fountain clocks use atoms that fall slowly in a chamber, the optical clocks use ions (a single ion or more ions) or neutral atoms (usually a relatively large number disposed regularly in a so-called lattice) which are trapped in fixed positions in vacuum, using various combinations of lasers and electromagnetic fields.

So the control over the ions or atoms is even more advanced than in fountains, because they stay fixed (except for thermal vibrations) like in a solid, even if they are widely spaced in vacuum.

The reason why a real solid is not used is that the atoms or ions are too near one from the other in a solid, and their interactions modify the atomic resonance frequencies.

When a kind of artificial solid is made, where the atoms or ions stay in vacuum, in fixed positions, but which are much more widely separated than in a natural solid, the interactions between the atoms or ions can be minimized. Because the atoms or ions are cooled to very low temperatures, their movements are reduced to relatively slow vibrations, so there are no large frequency deviations caused by the Doppler effect, like when the atoms or ions are free to move in a gas.
Hacker culture is alive and well, but you aren't going to find it on Twitter. They even call HN "the orange site". Because orange = bad, got it? Unless you're code golfing, there's simply no way to "hack" or talk about anything worthwhile in 140 characters anyway.